Odds And Ends Wednesday

It looks like the American people are finally starting to realize that FauxNews is merely a mouthpiece for the corrupt and incompetent Bush Regime and its apologists in Congress:

Slackers at Fox News Channel, you’re on notice! Your boss is not pleased. Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes is on the warpath following his network’s recent ratings slump, and he won’t hesitate to clean house to turn things around.

So far during the second quarter, the No. 1 cable news channel’s primetime schedule has dropped 22% in its core 25-54 demo and 8% in total viewers. The first quarter was even worse.

Chief rival CNN has also dipped in recent weeks, but less dramatically, off 18% in the demo and 2% in total viewers.

Meanwhile, another member of the Bush Administration is set to enter a guilty plea stemming from the Abramoff Scandal. More please.

And finally, your tax dollars at work:

Your tax dollars are being used to fund a misinformation campaign about Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth.

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works issued a press release headlined “AP Incorrectly Claims Scientists Praise Gore’s Movie.” It doesn’t substantiate the claim. The AP contacted 100 climate scientists, including noted “climate skeptics,” and of the 19 that had seen the movie, all commended its accuracy.

The Committee release faulted the AP for not cherry-picking the handful of scientists around the world who make a living questioning the scientific consensus on global warming. For example, an Australian scientist named Bob Carter told an obscure Canadian paper that Gore’s arguments are “so weak that they are pathetic.” How could the AP exclude this kind of incisive analysis?

The GOP-controlled Senate apparently has so little to do when it comes to actual legislating that it has to make up stuff to do. What a bunch of pricks.

BTW, I'm going to go see Al's movie on Friday and I'll let you know what I think. The critics seem to like it.