Behold!

Over the holidays, one of my relatives (who could no longer stand my righteousness in criticizing Bush as a terrible Republican) adopted an interesting coping strategy: if only the media would lay off Obama, because they have been so cruel to Bush over the last 8 years.

On a side note, Bush deserves far harsher treatment than to merely be “criticized.”

…but back to the story: I was unaffected by these appeals, because it was completely obvious that not a second would be lost before Obama would be scandalized by the same crowd that had previously deified and idolized that golden mule named “W.”

The following video is, by no means, the first example… but Fox has no shame. Absolutely none.

RTFA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgtN-CtU_BU

Well, she’s the “expert”, I guess she must know what she’s talking about.

I rest my case.

When I was younger, I loved The Critic:

The Critic is an American animated series that revolved around the life of movie critic Jay Sherman, voiced by actor Jon Lovitz. It was created by Al Jean and Mike Reiss, both of whom had worked as writers on The Simpsons. The Critic was short-lived — a total of only 23 episodes were produced — and was one of the few shows to ever switch major networks mid-series: it was first broadcast on ABC in 1994 and later completed its original run on FOX in 1995.

Perhaps, because I was younger, I loved The Critic’s El Kabong, as played by Sherman’s adoptive father, Franklin. Right now, I love the fact that I can use ‘kabong’ as a search query, and receive a direct clip from the 10 relevant seconds that I am looking for. KABONG!

RTFA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce_PIZ_8bXg

Franklin thinks he’s El Kabong, Quik Draw McGraw’s secret identity.

So you know, Quick Draw McGraw actually is El Kabong:

In a series of episodes, Quick Draw would also assume the identity of the masked vigilante “El Kabong” (a parody of Zorro). His introduction went as follows – “Of all the heroes in legend and song. there’s none as brave as El Kabong” – As El Kabong, Quick Draw would attack his foes by swooping down on a rope with the onomatopoeiac war cry “KABOOOOOONG!”, or, at times, “OLAYYYYEEEE!” and hitting them on the head with an acoustic guitar which is always referred to as a “kabonger”, producing a distinctive kabong sound and usually destroying the guitar in the process. The “guitar” was usually drawn as a four stringed quatro. On the cartoon’s soundtrack, the “kabong” sound effect was produced by a foley artist striking the detuned open strings of a cheap acoustic guitar. (Without any of the obvious cartoon theatrics, this would also be reprised by several professional wrestlers, referred to then either under El Kabong’s name or as the “Acoustic Equalizer”.)

This is the kind of joke I missed out on when I was younger, but now I completely understand alcoholic New England gentry, animated guitar-wielding superheros, and subtle bizarro cartoon writer humor. KABONG!

RTFA: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6474409…

Other scenarios include a fake fashion shoot where the subject thinks he is about to become a supermodel and another in which the mark becomes an auto racer, a set-up which ends when a police car comes up behind him on a race track to pull him over.

“If it were a regular person you’d feel bad for them, but they are all wanted by the law,” Darnell says. “It’s Cops as comedy and no one’s ever tried it before.”

According to Darnell, all of the marks are non-violent criminals. Darnell adds that set-ups are a common way for law officers to pull in law-breakers with warrants. However, most sting operations tend to be much smaller scale, such as tricking them into thinking they won tickets to a major sporting event.

Darnell envisions the show as an hour-long format. It was shot without a host, but would have someone providing narration.

Other titles under consideration are Now That’s Just Criminal and It’s Just Criminal.

Is it the bottom of the barrel yet?

…I mean, the bottom has to be somewhere.

I’m almost afraid to suggest it, but why don’t we just lock criminals in the middle of town and throw rotten fruit at them?

RTFA: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/behind-the-numbers/…

Fox News asked the question in a decidedly different manner in their new poll, but the answers were generally similar: “Some people believe Barack Obama, despite his professed Christianity, is secretly a Muslim. Others say that is just a rumor and Obama really is a Christian as he says, and point out he’s attended a Christian church for years. What do you believe — is Obama a Muslim or a Christian?” Fifty-seven percent answered Christian, 10 percent Muslim, 5 percent volunteered some other religion and 27 percent expressed no opinion.

Two surveys: one from the Wall Street Journal/NBC, and one from Fox. The WSJ/NBC Survey asked, “Do you know what Barak Obama’s religion is?” Above is the wording of the Fox survey. For comparison, WSJ/NBC reported that 8 percent believed Obama was Muslim.

What I hope to take from this is that people are growing a little more cynical about the Fox approach, and I base this on the results from these two surveys. When comparing the wording of the questions, the Fox agenda is immediately clear. Really, Fox asks if people believe the myth, and it’s astonishing that 1 out of 10 people do. However, even after being asked such a leading question, the difference from the WSJ/NBC poll is just 2 percent.

Even so, that’s still 2 percent, and these would amount to millions of people at the polls.