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Mr. Klein is the president of CNN.

" Mr. Klein specifically cited the criticism that the comedian Jon Stewart leveled at "Crossfire" when he was a guest on the program during the presidential campaign. Mr. Stewart said that ranting partisan political shows on cable were "hurting America."

Mr. Klein said last night, "I agree wholeheartedly with Jon Stewart's overall premise." He said he believed that especially after the terror attacks on 9/11, viewers are interested in information, not opinion."

This is from one of my favourite columns from the San Francisco Chronicle. Canada goes to hell Don't worry. They're just jealous.

One phrase, referring to George bush, really jumped out at me from this article

In four short years he has turned our country from a prosperous nation at peace into a desperately indebted nation at war

This is a wicked column from the SF Chron

So then, the vicious hurricanes can't possibly be God's wrath, because Florida is Jeb Bush Country and everyone knows all Bushes are blessed WASP Mafioso with first-class seats on the glory train to salvation, and therefore the storms can only be explained by that other barely tolerable thing the Bible set really hates trying to comprehend: science. [...] But wait. That can't be right. It can't be science because the storms can't be in any way related to climate change or global warming, because as Bush policy has shown, nature is a merely a huge, exploitable sandbox for the rich and global warming is a big fat liberal myth and the Kyoto Treaty is a pathetic joke despite all those reams of international, world-class scientific evidence to the contrary. So, you know, screw science.

The Rude Pundit is my new 2nd favourite US Political blog. Nothing can beat the sheer genius of Fafblog "The world's only source of Fafblog", but this comes close.

This snippet is the start of a rant which gets much, much worse...

What Edwards Should Say (Rude Version): If, at tonight's "debate", when Edwards is asked, "How do you believe your career as a trial lawyer affects your approach to government?", he doesn't answer, "What the fuck kind of question is that, Gwen? What the fuck are you implying? Holy fuck, have you even looked at the cases I've tried? Doesn't the press do any actual goddamn research on, say, Lexis-Nexis or even fuckin' Google? Or maybe my fuckin' book? My legal career was based on helping individuals dicked over by the very kind of corporate and government culture this evil motherfucker across this stupid ass table has fostered. And don't you fuckin' gimme that stroke victim smirk, Dick, or I'll come across and start shovin' aluminum tubes up your ass, all 60,000 of 'em, one anodized tube at a goddamn time.

The full text is below.

btw, if the rude pundit happens to come accross this, I'll take down the full text if you want.

I was listening to The Current this morning, and they were talking about the environmentalist who said that the next war would not be fought over terrorism, or territory, but over natural resources, all I could think was "Wasn't the last one?"

For all of you that live in Canada. Today's the day to vote. I'm not going to tell you to vote for, however I highly suggest not voting for Liars or or Fascists

The whole Mess o' Potamia is tolerable if spoken about in metaphor. It reduces the utter absurdities to jokes. In the spirit of Post 44, I give you the hypothetical motorcycle.

Thanks Nick!

I always enjoy a good speech. To me, it seems like the idea of a good speech is one that is more highly prized in Canada than most places. I could go on and on about what constitutes a good intelligent speech, but This speech by Al Gore fits all the criteria. Even if you don't agree with the content, he makes a good case for it.