Chris Penningroth’s Weltanschauung

    Apparently Anderson Cooper (Host of Anderson Cooper 360^o on CNN) has joined the other side in the war on terror.  Showing American troops about to get sniped ranks up there with al Jazeera showing Americans getting beheaded on their websites.

    If you’re not for us, you’re against us.  I’d appreciate it if Cooper would resign now and take up a job where he would be of no further help to anyone’s cause. 

    I would in fact like fries with that, Mr Cooper, but I’ll be watching to make sure you don’t spit on them.   

    I’ve got Lou Dobbs’ running in the background.  His show tonight is titled The War on the Middle Class.  In his opening, he stated Congress has declared war on the middle class in America.  

    Notes to Mr Dobbs:  1)  You don’t know what war is if you think anyone besides al Qa’ida is at war with the American middle class or any other American.  2)  Congress doesn’t declare war anymore (last time Congress declared war was 8 Dec 1941).  3)  I’m pretty sure you can’t decide someone else has declared war.   4)  If you’re concerned about the plight of the American middle class, you might try taking on banks that give out what amount to predatory loans and try to convince ordinary folks that excessive credit is bad; then get them to start saving instead of spending. 

    I’ve never been very impressed with Lou Dobbs.  Maybe it would be even more accurate to say I’ve rarely been impressed by Lou Dobbs.   CNN has gotten a little bit better in my view since they got rid of Eason Jordan.  Axing Dobbs would go even further to make that network more palatable to me.
 

    I caught a few minutes of Fox News Watch this morning.  In the segment where the topic was whether or not journalists ought to be allowed by their corporate employees to donate to political campaigns, I caught a comment that raised my hackles.  Neil Gabler, while siding on the half that believed journalists should not be allowed to donate, by way of explanation said that journalists "Are a Priesthood, a priesthood of truth. . . ."

    ?

    Even if journalists got everything regarding a story correct 50% or even more than 90% of the time, referring to them as a priesthood of truth is patently ludicrous.  I would agree with "A Priesthood of Fact-publishers," although even that would be a stretch. 

    I’m going to start referring to fighter pilots as "A Priesthood of Peace."  It makes as much sense. 

    Megyn Kendall was just interviewing Ann Coulter on Big Story Primetime.  (Caution:  Second link not recommended for my left-of-center friends.  You must lean at least this far right to view Ann’s blog:   _ _ _ _ _ —> _ _ _ _ _ _ ).

    I still think Roger Ailes needs to get Rudi Bahktiar more air time. 

    Personally, if I’m ever in Iraq again, and a bad guy throws a small spherical explosive in my direction, I’ll alert all in the area by yelling "EVERYONE GET DOWN!!! A ‘COULTER’!!!"

    In any case, it was fun to watch.  They don’t call it the "Fox" News Channel for nothing, you know!

    Some of my left-of-political-center friends are surprised
when they find out I like to watch Fox News whenever I can, partly because it’s
often not available in the countries in which I’ve lived.  I usually quip
"It’s nice to run the right filters once in awhile instead of having to
constantly run the left filters."  

    The most recent and annoying item I’ve had to
filter:  The rumor I heard on Fox News yesterday that claimed there was a
law being passed through the Iranian parliament that would require Jews and
Christians to wear a badge, after the manner Jews, Gypsies, and others were
forced to self-identify in Nazi Germany and Nazi-occupied countries. 
Apparently, the law in question was designed to encourage women to wear chador, or
clothes that reveal little feminine beauty, almost as drastic as a burqua. 
I’m certainly not a fan of this move, as the world would then be denied the
sight of lovlies such as Rudi Bahktiar (the former CNN Headline News anchoress
who recently moved over to Fox News).  The point is, I’m already irritated
enough with Iran’s
facist wannabe that I don’t need to hear fictitious proof.  Enough said.