Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Meet the Joseph Goebbels of Television News

We hate to be in the position of refereeing an Anderson Cooper/Greta Van Cistern smack down, but since this is really a product not of those two but rather the Faux News Disinformation Department, as echoed by the micronweights at "Fox and Friends," here goes.
It seems Faux News is running a print ad campaign touting the Van Cistern show, which is aired opposite Cooper's. One page of the ad portrays the back of Cooper with the heading "Meet the Paris Hilton of Television News," and contains some blurbs suggesting Cooper is all style, no substance, blah, blah. (The ad's facing page is a picture of Van Cistern noting that she beats him in their time slot.) The bobbleheads at F & F dutifully ran a little piece on the ad, noting that Van Cistern, "a woman" (!) no less, had accomplished this. Yay! Yippy-yay! Note to irony-free Faux bobbleheads and the ad department's obergruppenfuehrer: The day that Faux News in general, and F & F in particular, discover what "substance" is (other than that stuff in Field Marshal Hannity's hair), we will all have to be retrofitted for anti-pig-shit helmets.