It’s so hard to keep up with the latest fiasco.

Um, is it me or is there no link to “this video(!!!)” that she references?

Also, Cucumber Queen? I know it’s County Fair season and all, but… urp!

Laura’s no mere angry white woman.

Is she a militant white woman? In your face, Michelle Obama!!

Kathleen’s looking surprisingly un-photoshopped these days.

I suspect it’s one of Harry Shearer’s Found Objects
The one I saw was titled “Don’t come in my ear” I watched a bit of it, got very very bored.

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/found-objects-laura-ingraham/3082314605

Sure, make ME do the work then just cut my legs off. Fine.

I watched the video, and sadly, it’s not really that big of a deal. She was relatively “cool” given the relative fuck-wittery going on around her.

Yeah, that video is nothing remarkable. Did Ingraham lose her show, though? That would be a positive development.

I like to think that her staff was deliberately sabotaging her show.

She didn’t entertainingly blow up like Billo, but she seems somewhat of a Prima Donna. Say, what’s the corollary to “the bigger they are, the nicer they are”?

I also liked, “he’s hovering at me!”

Laura Ingraham is indisputably a witless shrieking harpy, but I think this video shows that, for a conservative, she is very professional and very cool under pressure and has lots of class.

The video has its amusing moments, but, what with O’Reilly setting the bar so low, Laura Ingraham just cannot crawl under it.

I think Sadly, No just jumped the shark.

How big is the cucumber?

Added an embedded video. The ‘Bryan’ she keeps mentioning ought to be ol’ Bryan Preston, formerly Malkin’s second banana at HotAir.

Ingraham can be my wingman* anytime.

*Best of all: I don’t have to make that “wingwoman.”

I don’t understand, is she – oh!
OHHHHH….. oh my.
Should we start calling her Larry?

WE’LL DO IT LIVE

Sure, make ME do the work then just cut my legs off. Fine.

This is what happens when you taunt the Doctor Missus about beer, PeeJ.

Hoosier X, nice judgement there, but I think the whole point of the post is that Kathleen Parker chose to title her post “Laura, The Cucumber Queen”. Jeez.

What’s this about the single unmarried Laura Ingraham adopting a child?

Haven’t we been lectured by the rightwing puderatti for decades about the evils of single women rearing children?

Doesn’t this make Laura a selfish hedonist who wants what she wants regardless of what is best for society?

I can’t keep my rightwing fruitbats and their unusual lifestyles in order anymore.

-GSD

This is what happens when you taunt the Doctor Missus about beer, PeeJ.

You can get him some better legs anyway, perhaps glow-in-the-dark and RoundUp Ready.

You can get him some better legs anyway, perhaps glow-in-the-dark and RoundUp Ready.

I was thinking more along the lines of fins. Haven’t you always wanted to be a merman, PeeJ?

I could also work on some cloven hoofs, if you’d rather head that direction.

Betcha didn’t know I’m the one in the beginning with the curling iron.

Whoa, there Kathy!

Why not Ice Queen? Or Frosty Mug Queen? Or Cold As The Rockies Queen?

Instead, you chose Cucumber Queen.

Thanks for teh ghey nickname I’ll never live down, you stupid fucking idiot.

Rick Santorum and I will have to get together and commiserate.

You know, if you were looking for a good post to wrap up the Week O’Crazy, Star Parker’s latest bigotry on parade might do the trick. The title says it all:

Gays in the military: What would George Washington think?

I think you can see where this is going.

There is a better Ingraham clip that Harry Shearer obtained (taken from her radio show). During the commercial breaks, Ingraham mercilessly mocks a guest who had the audacity to admit she had never heard Ingraham’s show.

Here’s part of the transcript (found on DU):

Dr: Yeah, I’m so sorry I’ve never listened to your show, but I’ve never listened to any show, so.

LI: That’s the way to endear yourself to hosts, tell ’em you never listen to the show. Here we come.

She seems like a delightful person to work with.

How are you, how are you on the culture?

Uh…I just swung up a leg over top of it and here I am.

Gerald, yeah, we need to find THAT clip.

Laura’s staff checks the guest’s Web site during the break (what was that about doing your homework?) and they find – A MAYA ANGELOU QUOTE – and immediately assume she’s a stinking liberal.

Let me see …

On Laura Ingraham amd Maya Angelou:

This link is my blog, but to skip to the link I linked to (Jesus’ General), go here

Laura, ZOMG there’s a strange little Mexy immigrant man in my tele-promptor.
Make him go away. hmmmph.

She was a lot more pleasant before John McCain introduced her to me…

Merman? I don’t know what to think. I mean, I’m gay – I despise fish. But… nah. I’ll just go with the cloven hooves, please. And hairy legs. You could satyrize me!1one!!1

LI: How do you, how do you…you’ve never heard a radio show? How are you, how are you on the culture? You gotta listen to radio, you can’t, you can’t-

LI: That’s the way to endear yourself to hosts, tell ‘em you never listen to the show. Here we come.

Republican talk radio: Lend? No, no – fuck you – you owe us those fucking ears.

(I am the broadcaster! I outrank you!)

I did hear that clip where Ingram was giving the business to her guest (I think Crooks and Liars had it at one point). That was definitely a shitty performance on her part. She simply could not grasp the concept that there are people out there who don’t give a fuck about her – who have like shit to do during the day that doesn’t involve listening to AM radio. And I believe her guest was a conservative too.

She simply could not grasp the concept that there are people out there who don’t give a fuck about her – who have like shit to do during the day that doesn’t involve listening to AM radio.

Typically, we call these people “employed,” but I think “non-loser” is more fair.

I can’t believe that y’all think she was cool. She was seething with self-importance, bitching about everything, and just generally a terrible person to be around. Or am I missing something?

And yes, that might possibly be a former man.

She seems like a chronic complainer. I bet when she dies we get a thousand tributes on her humanity and kindness to the little people.

I can’t speak for anybody else, but I didn’t think she was cool. I just think it’s a non-issue because she was a typical selfish, self-absorbed, clueless conservative. The Bill O’Reilly meltdown was funnier than hell. Laura’s little harpyfest was typical.

And it sounds like she’s bordering on dementia, what with the hoverer and the Hispanic man (it made me think of the bug with Christina Aguilera’s head that Cartman kept seeing on South Park) and I just don’t think we should be drawing attention to her mental illness.

Um. I listen to Pandora all day…

mikey

And yes, that might possibly be a former man.

No self-respecting transsexual would go out looking that butch.

And yeah – in respect to the ‘cool’ thing, she was pretty much flinging shit at everyone around her, getting increasingly angry with people doing their jobs (ear prompts etc), and just generally being a huge asshole.

I think characterizing her as ‘cool’ only works if you accept the idea that this kind of behavior is acceptable or inevitable if you are a (woman/TV host/reactionary); I don’t think it is in any case, and while I don’t expect much out of a right-wing asshole, it’s a little much to bully your subordinates like that.

On the other hand, she had a succession of bad days on camera. I actually can’t recall a single instance of my behaving that horribly since I cleared puberty, but hey, who knows.

What channels, mikey?

Did you notice she complains that the word “the” is misspelled on the TelePrompTer?

Don’t you mean “Teh” teleprompter, DR?

LI: Really? Well, here’s a word to the wise-before you’re going on a show with five million listeners, go online and listen to it … Do some homework.

She’s got a lot of nerve to expect GUESTS to do homework on HER SHOW. Can you imagine a real journalist like Bill Moyers or Amy Goodman saying that to someone?

what happens to a personality I never watch, on a show I never watch, is usually not very important to me.

But given your excellent comments, I’m intrigued enough to ask:

1) Is Kathleen Parker blissfully ignorant of all internet traditions in her use of “cucumber queen” for Ingraham, or is she actually calling Ingraham one knowing what it means?

2) Is Laura Ingraham actually an unwed mother as someone upthread says?

LI: Really? Well, here’s a word to the wise-before you’re going on a show with five million listeners, go online and listen to it … Do some homework.

Um, who asked whom to be on this show?

She was engaged to Dinesh D’Souza???

Someone slept with Dinesh D’Souza???

Okay, Teh Internets tell me that he also dated Ann Coulter. My god, that’s one helluva circle to be sleeping around in. We need a diagram of Wingnut Fucking, folks. The kind with circles and arrow and broken lines.

Strange that the D’Souzaphone seems to be partial to the women who look like they could be/used to be men.

David Brock was part of the circle, and he talks about hanging out with Ann Coulter in one of his books. Very enlightening.

I can’t stand Laura, but I’ve got to say as someone who has produced a lot of these types of shows (not for Fox) she was well within her rights to complain and was actually very cool about it. It’s clear her producer, director and floor manager were letting her hang out there to dry. It’s her producer’s job to prep her properly, keep her on schedule with the rundown, make sure edits are done to scripts, and cue her without distracting her. Fail on all counts. Her director wasn’t counting her down properly and her floor manager wasn’t cueing her to the right cameras and bringing her guests in on time. Live TV is a team sport, and everybody has to be playing the same game. I give her a lot of credit, the moreso because she’s a Republican git and they’re harder to train.

Re: Pandora Channels.

I made a Boston/Journey/Benatar/Heart/Springsteen/REO/The Babys/Tom Petty channel, a 90s Alterno (Soundgarden, STP, Punkins, Bush, Candlebox, PJ, Offspring, Greenday, Rancid etc.) channel, a southern rock (Skynyrd, Molly, Marshall Tucker, .38 Special, Allmans etc.), and I’m working on a Punk Channel and a Power Ballads channel.

I love that damn thing, and I screw around with it constantly. The best music invention since mp3s…

mikey

I like Pandora a lot, but it comes up a little short when I just have one group or song on at a time. It starts to repeat after a few hours. I listen to it at work, so sometimes I don’t have time to change it.

But I love the fact that it finds songs that I have heard but had no idea who performed them.

There’s a great new/alt/indie/whatever station I’ve been listening to lately.
Their “last month’s faves” list (cause it’s easy to copy and paste)
Just Like Honey ~ The Jesus and Mary Chain 4th of July ~ X Life On Mars? ~ David Bowie So Far Away ~ Love Is All Aretha Sing One for Me ~ Cat Power Many Shades of Black ~ The Raconteurs Passenger ~ Iggy Pop Muscle n’ Flo ~ Menomena Welfare Bread ~ King Khan & the Shrines Autumn Sweater ~ Yo La Tengo Because Her Beauty is Raw & Wild ~ Jonathan Richman Who Cares What the Question Is? ~ Band of Bees July! July! ~ The Decemberists Radio, Radio ~ Elvis Costello Armagideon Time ~ The Clash

opbmusic.org

Ahh, this hour’s playlist. Never heard of most of them. Gotta love that.

Orphans – Beck feat. Cat Power
Is it Any Wonder – Keane (Under the Iron Sea)
The Bush Is Burning – Corey Harris (Daily Bread)
Colette – Orchestra Baobab (Made In Dakar)
The Bones of You – Elbow (The Seldom Seen Kid)
House Up on the Hill – Ian Moore (To Be Loved)
Bruce Cockburn (You’ve Never Seen)
The Point – The Wherewithals (Burnin’ Bridges EP)
No Baby I – Old 97’s (Blame It On Gravity)
Saint Judas – Natalie Merchant (Motherland)
Are Animals – Au (PDX Pop Now! 2008)
In the Summertime – Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter (Gentleness of Nothing EP)
Get Better – Mates of State (re-arrange us)
There’s a Reason – A.A. Bondy (American Hearts)
Get Back Temptation – Ollabelle (Ollabelle)

Jersey Tomato, that’s true, but that seems like what one would expect from Fox. It’s like Jonah Goldberg complaining that people don’t think conservatives are hip. He’s right, but what do you expect?

cucumbers are for wimps.

eggplants are training tools for beginners.

I think those clipsmake it hard to tell how she’s doing. If her staff is as incompetent as she amkes them out, she stayed pretty cool.

But, if her staff was doing its job then she was just being a straight up bitch.

Who knows. I wouldn’t put it past Fox to give her shit for a staff and I wouldn’t put it past anyone to complain no matter what’s going on.

Who the fuck cares? She sucks no matter how you slice it. I do love the ‘how are you on the culture’ bit though, as if you’retotally clueless if you don’t listen to the radio.

I think not listening to the radio gives me advantage, myself.

I stick planets up my ass, losers!

JT: “It’s clear her producer, director and floor manager were letting her hang out there to dry.”

It’s called Karma. You get what you pay for.

Did I hear Venus squeak?

Seriously, give it up, fags.

I put God up my ass.

Damn, Uterus, beat me in a photo finish.

hey, what are you doing later, after infinity is over?

I’ve worked a lot in TV, and one important consideration with these types of videos is that, if you’re on the production staff, there are only two types of outtakes that you save: hilarious shit to be edited together into a blooper reel for the on-air talent you like, and embarrassing and unflattering shit of people you don’t like to be stored away for a rainy day.

These types of videos only leak out because the folks working with the likes of O’Reilly and Ingraham don’t like them.

I stick planets up my ass, losers!

The one time “looser” might be an acceptable typo.

My mom would say “Cool as a Cucumber” after feeling my forehead for fever when I wanted to stay home from school. Now I say it to my daughter in similar circs. Also, “Hot as a Rocket!” when the forehead is hot.

Sadly, these phrases are now considered sexual innuendos, thanks to the vulgar internet. Or is it the google?

It’s called Karma. You get what you pay for. — The Reality Based Dave

Sadly, No. That’s not what’s called karma.

There’s a great new/alt/indie/whatever station I’ve been listening to lately.

The other night The Girl and The Son-in-Law were over to the house for dinner. The Spouse likes to put the “Classic Rock” station on the big-ass TV/sound-surround deal. At one point someone, I don’t know, Allman Bros. or the Byrds, comes up and TSIL, reading the subtitles onscreen, sez, “AOR — what’s that?” And the old, old man and I gently explained to Teh Children all about Album Oriented Rock, and how actual radio stations used to actually play long version and even live version cuts from LPs to expose their audiences to something other than corporate-commerical 2.53-minute Top 40 or whatever. I don’t think they understood the concept. Fuck I’m old.

Another possibility is that her staff dislike her SO MUCH that they are sabotaging her mercilessly.

Pumpkins and eggplants? Pshaw!

Don’t CUM IN MY EAR!

MizNicky, remember when “underground” and “FM” were always uttered together? And they’d play whole sides or even whole albums ’bout every night? And I can’t speak for you but I remember in college being all excited and getting baked ‘cuz tonight they were gonna play the new Floyd album or whatever. Good times indeed.

“jesus, god in heaven…”

Yeah. Cool as ice…

Sadly, these phrases are now considered sexual innuendos, thanks to the vulgar internet. Or is it the google?

Terry Pratchett – I think it was Terry Pratchett – once said something along the lines that because of the Victorians’ preoccupation with hot monkey lovin’ and the unwillingness to admit the copious existence thereof, it was imposible to speak a sentence in English and not stumble across a euphamism for the vagina. I paraphrase, of course, because it’s that time of the evening if you know what I’m talking about and I think you do.

A friend keeps trying to sell me on the Pandora, but it doesn’t whip the iPod. I’ve got too much musical loves that wreck the logarhythm, like David Allen Coe and Swamp Dogg and the Hoosier Hot Shots. And it insists on playing Sun era Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis above all others, and I know most folks think that’s how it should be, I simply disagree.

Whipped
Creamed
Or
Jest not lest Thou
be mocked in just desserts

Matt. You have to educate it. Thumbs down those things and it will go farther afield. Thumbs up the shit you like, just don’t thumbs up TOO much shit that sounds the same or you’ll end up with homoginized crap.

By adding bands and songs and thumbing specific crap, you can keep perfecting the channel. And you gotta give it LOTS of seeds to work with, to keep down the repetitivity.

I love my ipod, but I don’t use it at my office because if I did, every day, it would get redundant even with my five thousand songs…

mikeyh

You wanna hear something pitiful, mikey? I read that and instantly thought, “Christ, that’s a lot of work just to listen to music.” And then I berated myself for blowing out my ambition with all the weed I’ve smoked in the past 10 years. And then I remembered I was always this goddamn lazy. That’s the pitiful part.

What’s the big deal? It seems like a prety yummy recipe.

http://www.gorebelfitness.com/page/page/5793775.htm

Cucumber Queen

1 cucumber
1 small onion, cut into thin slices, about 1/4
pinch of salt
1 teaspoon rice wine vinegar
1/2 teaspoon honey
1 teaspoon fresh dill, chopped finely
pinch of pepper
1 tablespoon minced green bell pepper
1 tablespoon alfalfa sprouts
dash of paprika
1. Slice the cucumber in half lengthwise into thin strips. In a bowl, combine it with the onion. Stir in remaining ingredients except sprouts and paprika.
2. Serve on toasted bread triangles or use as a filling for a sandwich. Top with alfalfa sprouts and dash of paprika. Yields 2 servings.

The pictures confused me though. Are you supposed to contort your body like that while you’re preparing the dish?

Yeah. Down wit’ dat, mi amigo.

When I get stoned, I just sit here and try to remember what I have in the kitch to eat. Then I go to sleep.

The rest of the time I’m just lazy. Ok, sure, I know I’m no petite flower, but it’s a wonder I’m not HUGE….

mikey

PeeJ: Oh yes indeed. I remember the summer I was packing up to leave for college. Radio stations in these parts had only recently quit signing off the air at sundown, and late one night the DJ played the entirety of the Who’s “Tommy.” On clear nights down here in teh Southland I could pick up WLS in Chicago — the way coolest — they played the whole second side of “Abbey Road” once. Yes, there are kids on my lawn, and now I must go yell at them.

That’s what happens to women who kiss up to conservative men. They get sabotaged.
At least no one called her a c**t.

In re: The Cucumber Queen recipe. You forgot the gherkins.

MzNicky, I remember getting WLS in Ottumwa, Iowa. My partner just said he listened to WLS every Friday and Saturday night in Mason City. Jeez, I’d forgotten all about that.

Candy: We couldn’t always pick it up down here. If the skies were clear and the stars were out and I held my little plastic radio just so, maybe. It was a lifeline.

I remember when K101 played Dobie Grey’s “Drift Away” over and over again for fifteen hours. ’73 or ’74.

They never said why they did it, or even said anything about it. The next day they were back to normal…

mikey

MzNicky: Yeah, I always had to wait until dark. The P. says they had to wait for some other local station to sign off and when it faded away WLS would come in real clear. He said they’d listen until 3 or 4 in the morning.

mikey – the P. says KROC in Rochester MN played Mickey by Toni Basil over and over trying to get a million callers to call in and beg them to stop. I would have been one of those callers had I been there. He says he would have been 100 of those callers.

This is weird. I’ve never co-commented before.

He got to DJ on a Mason City station when he was but a teen. It lead him to do quite a bit of acting and voice work, which he still does now and then. He left radio though because you couldn’t make a living at it unless you did a lot of sales. He hated sales.

The P. says they had to wait for some other local station to sign off and when it faded away WLS would come in real clear.

YES!! Exactly — I’d forgotten about that. I used to stay awake in the dark late into the night too just to listen to WLS. It must have been AM — I don’t think I had anything that picked up FM radio til I was almost out of college.

Yep, it was AM.

These kids today. No “In Concert”, no “Midnight Special.” Poor kids. I guess they can play on my lawn for a while.

In the “she’s a snarling primadonna” versus “her staff puts up with her but loathes her” debate, I’m leaning toward c), all of the above. Um, Laura honey, 5 million listeners or no, radio is NOT cutting-edge “on the culture” & hasn’t been since the ’90s. Does she think Milli Vanilli is a talented new “pop” band too?

Flaming out on somebody you or your staff have invited to appear on your show for not “doing their homework” by checking it out – especially when they cite being too busy doing a REAL JOB – shows a serious taste/class deficit – I bet that guest is just itching to come back on her show after such idiocy.

Are there any FOX face-pimps who aren’t even bigger knobs off-air than they are once the light goes on?

No “Shindig,” no “Hullabaloo,” no “Soul Train.” Well, I’m about geezered-out now.

No “Lloyd Thaxton,” no “American Bandstand,” no Mike Douglas show with John and Yoko as guest hosts, no Dick Cavett –okay, I’m done, really.

We’ve were talking about American Bandstand and poor old Dick Clark just now. I never thought he’d get old. I guess there’s no hope for us mere mortals.

No “Hee-Haw”. I’m serious. There was a time when country music was seen as something far too gauche, too “redneck” for even your small-towner, at least where I grew up. There was no way in hell my mother was gonna let me in the beer joints to see any live bands, which were thin on the ground in Northeast Mississippi anyway and that goes double for country bands. “Hee-Haw” was the only place where you could actually see the singers you heard on the radio. See how it’s done. Plus, Junior Samples was funny as hell, mainly because if you were country enough, you knew at least five guys just like him. Is “Austin City Limits” still on the air?

My Saturdays until I was 13 or so, and then my folks bought a satellite dish like every upwardly mobile cracker in the ’80s and we watched nothing but baseball. Play, fish or hunt all day, and then come in for supper, usually around five. Six o’clock it’s “Hee-Haw” on Channel 9, then over to the PBS channel for a full series of “Doctor Who” followed by an abreviated “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” and the aforementioned “Austin City Limits”. Then, the local news followed by “Mid-South Wrestling” and “Soul Train”. The night’s capped off with a half-hour of CNN, the sign-off, the National Anthem, and Young Matt T. is asleep by one or so if he doesn’t stay up to read, which he generally does, either way to the sounds of an all-night truckers’ country radio show from a station in Tuscaloosa I could only pick up past midnight. Explains almost everything, a friend of mine said.

That’s what’s wrong with country music today. I thought it was the sludgy production, trite songwriting, and increasingly dull rhythm sections. “Hee-Haw” went off the air in ’93, when Garth Brooks and Billy Ray Cyrus and Faith Hill were all the hoo-hah. Factor in that and maybe five years for the lack of “Hee Haw” to filter through and remind Nashville not to get too big for its britches, and crap like Big & Rich makes perfect sense.

Y’all, Darius Rucker has a Top 30 country song. I wish I could hate it, but honestly, it’s just too boring. Feh.

I remember watching Hee Haw, Matt T. No country fans in our household – Gram liked jazz and big band, mom liked rock, and Gramps didn’t really get into any music – but my grandparents got a kick out of Junior Samples and I used to really like the whole “Doom, despair and agony on me” thing. Good times!

BR549

The P. says Austin City Limits is still on.

Doom, despair! for Matt T.

I couldn’t find the original Hee Haw version for some reason, but I did get the clip of a cute little cover of it by a band I love with all my heart.

Candy,

My personal favorite bit of “Hee Haw”, with added Conway Twitty. The twenty-somethings I work with think I’m making this shit up.

Thanks for that, Matt! Now I can go to bed with a big ol’ smile on my face!

I really love this new handle Is it too offensive to start using regularly?

WLS and similar stations were the origin of the phrase/name Clear Channel. All the stations on their frequency turned off and the turned up. I can remeber getting KOKC out of Oklahoma City and WLS at my grandparents in Philip SD35 years ago.

Not a single “Animal House” Mrs. Wormer mention in the thread.

I’m disappointed.

Also, it looks like Faux is a complete cockup, organizationally. Funny, really. I’d be a bit put out if nobody told me who my guests were. Of course, I’d probably ask somebody well before go time, but you’d think that with all the money they toss at that channel, they could hire some competent people.

Ha, ha.

/Nelson.

Ahh, Hee Haw. I have been known to bust into “Doom, despair, etc.” and/or “Ptttphh, you was gone” myself at very little provocation. The response varies drastically according to the age of those in earshot, from a mildly amused “Where the hell did that come from” to plain ol’ “WTF are you doing?”

And Matt, country started sucking long before ’93. As soon as they decided to make and market it as pop, damn the torpedoes and any shred of authenticity, the headstone was cut. My general rule of thumb has been “Hank Sr. good. Hank Jr. bad.” for a looooong time now. Now that the only difference between Britney or the Asscrack Boys and whatever is now called “Country” is the occasional presence of pedal steel, just so the rubes know who to drop their cash on, I feel just fine ignoring all of the above.

Oh for the King Biscuit Flower Hour late nights on WNEW, or maybe Allison Steele…

Lawn. Off it.

I think that Billy Ray Cyrus is one the best country singers out there!

Universe Uterus said,

I really love this new handle Is it too offensive to start using regularly?

Dude, that name is just wrong. You’ve got to change it.

As soon as they decided to make and market it as pop, damn the torpedoes and any shred of authenticity, the headstone was cut. My general rule of thumb has been “Hank Sr. good. Hank Jr. bad.” for a looooong time now.

Well, that’s a bad rule of thumb to have, frankly. Up until ’86 or so when he started buying his own bullshit too much, Bocephus’s output is pretty goddamn awesome. The guy could play damn near anything, had a killer band, a redneck wail second only to The Killer himself, and wrote him some damn fine country songs. Dig up “Hank Williams Jr. & Friends”. Seriously, you’re missing out. Nothing past ’86, though.

And country’s been marketed as pop since Ray Price and Eddy Arnold and Patsy Cline (and that’s probably being generous; Hank Sr. had no problems about his songs being pop hits), so attempts at widespread acceptance is nothing new. What is new is the total elimination of any redneck or blues/R&B influence in the music. What the record companies realized was they were never gonna sell Middle America on scary crackers like Johnny Paycheck or Steve Earle singing horrifyingly depressing songs. Luckily, the South has plenty of suburbs and that’s where they went. Figured out that white people really wanted to hear pale, boring music that wasn’t as mopey as mainstream rock radio. And thus, Dierks Benedict. Oh, well.

As “losing it” videos go, yeah, that one was fairly weak, but it gave a good idea of how amateur Faux News really is.

My favorite moment: When Laura at the beginning couldn’t understand why she was doing a “Breaking news…er…I mean this just in” intro and realized that it was old news about Obama and asked, “Is this the Fox News way of doing things?”

Perfect honesty captured for eternity…

Matt T @ 14:03

Dierks Benedict

I think you mean Dierks Bentley. And while I laughed my ass off at Hee Haw many a time, remember that Kenny Rogers (yes, the chicken man hisself) showed up many times.

I’m saddened (no) to agree with Jersey Tomato: Ingraham is detestable, but she clearly knows format — talk radio is pure format, in many ways, especially on the wingnut side. So the show’s team is either incompetent, demoralised, hates her, or all of the above. That it leaked, as ‘Me’ said upthread, suggests demoralised hatred.

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