Not that it really matters all that much, since CNN’s ratings are generally in the same range as reruns of “She’s the Sheriff” and “Pink Lady and Jeff” but CNN has dropped this little turd bomb:

From Media Bistro: (Hat Tip to ES over at Free Conservatives)

No More Talk Radio Hosts on CNN?

Exclusive: TVNewser has learned, and a CNN spokesperson confirms, that in his morning editorial meeting today, CNN/U.S. president Jon Klein asked his show producers to avoid booking talk radio hosts. “Complex issues require world class reporting,” Klein is quoted as saying, adding that talk radio hosts too often add to the noise, and that what they say is “all too predictable.”

One of CNN’s longtime show hosts, Lou Dobbs, hosts a daily radio show. A few political contributors also host radio shows including Bill Bennett and Roland Martin. They are presumably not affected by this.

You cannot help but wonder who will fill those guest slots. I assume calls have already gone out to to the SEIU, the New Black Panther Party and that Kim Jong-il’s Twitter account has been buzzed over the opening.

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Well, the early numbers are in and it would appear that most Americans were more interested reading about the mating rituals of the Monarch Butterfly than in watching the ABC/Obama Kevorkian Care Telethon. (Win a free pacemaker if you are under 100 years old!)

The 98-pound weakling rating number was a mere 1.1. You could have a C-SPAN Booknotes show with John Kerry reciting the Boston telephone book get a better rating than that. And that is with the TV’s sound set at 10.

So, maybe there is a little hope out there in the hinterlands and flyover country. Just a little.

From The Live Feed: (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin)

President Obama’s town hall meeting on health care delivered a sickly rating Wednesday evening.

The one-hour ABC News special “Primetime: Questions for the President: Prescription for America” (4.7 million viewers, 1.1 preliminary adults 18-49 rating) had the fewest viewers in the 10 p.m. hour. The special tied some 8 p.m. comedy repeats as the lowest-rated program on a major broadcast network.

Best comment on this from AlohaGuy:

Just a guess, but I’ll bet more people watched Katie Couric get her colonoscopy…more interesting and less crap.

True dat.

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The MSM, the Obama administration and the Democrats have now made their marriage official.

Nevermind that there are three to this ceremony of wedded, leftist bliss. This is the 21st century and marriage can mean anything to anybody at anytime, anyplace.

Now, will Obama sit on a golden, royal throne while Charlie Gibson and the ABC production team kneel, bow and curtsey to Dear Leader?

From the Drudge Report: (Hat Tip Michelle Malkin)

ABC TURNS PROGRAMMING OVER TO OBAMA; NEWS TO BE ANCHORED FROM INSIDE WHITE HOUSE
Tue Jun 16 2009 08:45:10 ET

On the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to push government run health care — a move that has ignited an ethical firestorm!

Highlights on the agenda:

ABCNEWS anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver WORLD NEWS from the Blue Room of the White House.

The network plans a primetime special — ‘Prescription for America’ — originating from the East Room, exclude opposing voices on the debate.

The RNC fired off a letter last night to ABC News. One of the money lines:

In the absence of opposition, I am concerned this event will become a glorified infomercial to promote the Democrat agenda. If that is the case, this primetime infomercial should be paid for out of the DNC coffers. President Obama does not hold a monopoly on health care reform ideas or on free airtime.

No, but he holds a monopoly on many things right now and the outright government ownership of outlets like ABC is not far behind, as their ratings continue to sag and the inevitable “bailout” comes their way. The only difference here is that unlike GM or Chrysler, the media CEO’s will not need to be fired, since they are dutifully pumping out the White House’s propaganda without having their fingers being stepped on.

Part of the ABC response:

“ABCNEWS alone will select those who will be in the audience asking questions of the president. Like any programs we broadcast, ABC News will have complete editorial control. To suggest otherwise is quite unfair to both our journalists and our audience.”

To paraphrase Mark Twain, there are lies, damn lies and then there is the media.

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Caleb Howe over at Red State (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin) has a rather disturbing, if hardly surprising and fairly long article on some rather outrageous ads that may have been running on the History Channel’s website.

Many kudos to Mr. Howe for doing some great investigative reporting that is so foreign to the Obama Stenographers Society, formerly known as the mainstream media. As his journey to find the true source of these disgusting ads led him all the way to South Africa.

Above Image: Not my best work, but I banged it out in 5 minutes and besides, the numbers speak for themselves.

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Q: What do you get when combine a horse’s ass, a malcontent lesbian and a horny gaggle of Caligula’s Roman slaves?

A: The White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.

This stopped-up toilet of an event should have been rated X for eXXXtra revolting, as some of the bathroom “jokes” that passed for “humor” were about 100 times more noisome than my cat’s litter pan is at this very moment.

For those of you in Rio Obama, that means it stunk worse than Jerrold Nadler after two hours at a Taco Bell all-you-can-eat buffet.

Aside from the lame jokes that Obama tried to pass off as enlightened speech, we had some odd freak that I doubt 95% of the country has ever even heard of, spouting the usual checklist of Leftist hate speech:

1) Rush Limbaugh is a traitor. Check
2) Rush Limbaugh is a terrorist (calling him the 20th hijacker). Check.
3) Wishing Rush Limbaugh dead (of kidney disease). Check.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what passes for “funny” in today’s Leftist culture. Three jokes about Rush Limbaugh. Now I know why the comedy writers went on strike. Their “R” and “L” keys kept breaking off from overuse.

And who in Sam Hill is Wanda Sykes? That sounds like a Z-grade porn name, not one a “cool” comedian would use. Then again, she could be moonlighting as the former for all that I know.

As for reaction, Robert Gibbs, the lobotomized Howdy Doody White House Press Secretary had this to offer: (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin)

In his daily briefing Monday, Robert Gibbs distanced the president from comedian Wanda Sykes’ joke comparing Rush Limbaugh to a 9/11 hijacker at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.

“I don’t know how the guests get booked,” Gibbs said, adding that he hadn’t “talked specifically” with Obama about Sykes’ crack.

“I think there are a lot of topics that are better left for serious reflection rather than comedy. I think there’s no doubt 9/11 is part of that,” Gibbs continued.

Gibbs seems not to be with the program, as according to The Hill (Hat Tip: The Weekly Standard)

President Obama gave [Sykes] a thumbs up.

“He told me I did a great job,” Sykes said. “The first lady said the same thing. I got a well done from the president, I’m on cloud nine.”

Doug Powers had better lines. Some gems:

“If you’re wondering why the president is in a good mood, it’s because he’s glad to be finished with his annual physical. During his colonoscopy doctors removed two benign polyps and the White House Press Corps.”

“This isn’t the first time Barack Obama has denied any knowledge of a New York City buzz – the first being the time he smoked a joint with William Ayers at ’21.’”

“In closing, I’d like to say thank you to the man who is responsible for all this. I’d like to, but George Soros isn’t here tonight. They don’t let George and Barack in the same room anymore because the last time they did, Joe Biden got tangled up in the puppet strings.”

Now, here is some real comedy at the same event a few years ago:

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Here is an amazing find.

A cartoon made some 50 years ago that is so dead on when it comes to people falling for snake-oil salesman, class warfare, curtailing of free speech and how this country has been dragged down to the brink by the Left, it is chilling.

Hat tip to ColonialMarine0431 at Free Conservatives for posting this.

A couple of things stand out:

1) The use of the suffix “ISM” as the elixir of Utopia. Sheer genius there.
2) Near the very end of the cartoon, when the salesman is chased away, he passes in front of a shining city on a hill. Cannot help but think of Reagan there.

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Well, it seems that between endlessly discussing the potential Kangaroo Trials of Bush administration lawyers that might well be in the offing, as well as their sick obsession with the Palins and of course, the Chocolate Speedway Lover (this Hilton freak, who no one with a functioning brain had ever heard of), one network decided to set that aside for a few minutes and instead go into a deeply moving and involving segment that was devoted to, of all things, paper cutouts of Barack and Michelle Obama. (Collect them all!) I am sure they are covered in the Porkulus Bill anyway).

While some of the anchors seemed to think that the likenesses were not very accurate, it seems to me that these cutouts hit the nail on the head, since the recent foreign policy directions of the administration make Obama out to be a Paper Kitten. And thugs and dictators worldwide have taken notice.

From Newsbusters.org:

On Thursday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Julie Chen made an important news announcement: “Well, the latest Obama paper dolls are out and we have got them right here to check them out.” Chen went on to explain that the collectible books of paper cut outs of Barack and Michelle Obama: “…came out when — during the whole campaign…And then now this is the inaugural.”

Chen later asked: “Do we think that this looks like Barack and Michelle?” Co-host Maggie Rodriguez responded: “Absolutely not. Not even a little bit.” Early Show medical correspondent Jennifer Ashton was also on set, and chimed in: “No, he [Obama] looks so much better in person.” Rodriguez then added: “Not even a little bit, it’s not their faces. Those are not their faces.” Chen explained: “It’s more Michelle than — it’s not Barack’s face, but it’s more Michelle. Because I think they have her eyebrows down.”

After a detailed discussion of the dolls’ likeness to the Obamas, co-host Harry Smith proudly exclaimed: “Well, I’m very excited to get my collectible campaign edition, so.”

Is the Biden collection far behind? And will it be made of recycled paper? You know, sort of like the Veep’s speeches.

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