Battered wife leaves abusive husband at Fox

Looks like the crypt keeper has finally decided to leave Hannity and Colmes. Alan Colmes announced he plans to terminate his 12 year partnership with Sean Hannity at the end of this year.

Kinda surprised it took 12 years for Colmes to get tired of being walked on.

Hannity and Colmes was largely a show that argued semantics while still rocking the blatant conservative bias so loved by most of the Fox News Channel. Bare with me here.

By having the "liberal" voice on the show, Fox was able to say "Look! Look! We're fair and balanced!"

Unfortunately, in head to head confrontation, Alan Colmes is about as intimidating as an paraplegic infant — and argues with about that much authority.

My new favorite ad is for Jeff Schmidt Cadillac.

"You've worked hard all your life. You've finally arrived. Nothing says success like an Escalade.... Up to $18,000 off!"

Embrace the absurdity.

Team of rivals

Politico's reporting today that Clinton is expected to accept Obama's offer for Secretary of State. I'm a bit worried, but also optimistic.

In the primaries, Clinton had no problem slamming Obama for saying he would meet with Iranian leaders without preconditions. That's big points against. I will never understand why anybody could be opposed to meeting with anyone. It's the equivalent of the biggest baddest jock on the street being afraid to meet with the skinny goth kid. What threat could they possibly pose? What negative outcome could possibly come from talking? God only knows.

Now, there are a few issues with Ahmadinejad in particular. With Iranian elections coming up this summer, perhaps it would be prudent to avoid looking too buddy buddy with the conservative leader. His main competition hails from the more moderate branch of Iranian politics and would be a much easier guy to deal with. By speaking with Ahmadinejad, we would, in a way, be legitimizing his position and possibly strengthening his support from otherwise moderate Iranians.

Slow news day

"3-year-old nearly falls off cliff while taking a picture"

Yes, that is seriously the news on msnbc right now... a 3 year-old not quite falling off a cliff... right... slow news day I guess.

No I Can't

Ok, I know it's been a while, and this is going to mark a bit of a shift in this blog. Instead of the periodic long entries, I'm going to work towards several shorter entries. Enjoy.

MSNBC has gone off the deep end. The network used to be the news network I could turn to for balanced coverage and a variety of viewpoints. What the hell happened?

While sitting here, hammering away on a story for The Student, Contessa Brewer just let me know that I can order a video documentary on Barack Obama called "Yes We Can". Ummm... yeah... that's some honest journalism right there.

But that's really just the tip of the iceburg. How about that primetime lineup? Keith Olbermann? Rachel Maddow? Chris Matthews? Are you kidding me?

Now, don't get me wrong, all these characters, short maybe of Olbermann, have a legitimate place as news commentators. However, to put them all back to back on primetime TV is nothing less than obsurd.