There’s one, and only one, thing I like about “Joe” the “Plumber,” and that’s people mocking him.
CNN anchor Rick Sanchez brings the goods in this commentary on “Joe” and his douchebaggery.
I think the stopwatch is reading 14:59 right about now.
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Attention, CNN: this is not “Breaking News”
Although it’s becoming less and less clear to me exactly why I am doing this, I still jump over to CNN.com several times a day to see what’s happening (or what they think, in their now tragically questionable judgment, is worth identifying as “happening”). Probably because it’s the first item in the predefined News bookmark menu in Safari, which (again, for reasons I can no longer understand) I have left unaltered in my bookmarks bar.
I think things may have finally gone too far today though. When I got to the page I was greeted with this giant “Breaking News” banner:
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Wow. Really? Lame Duck Bush giving a rousing endorsement to his party’s nominee? No friggin’ way! Please. How about “Breaking News: We’re Totally Irrelevant!” There you go. Now that’s a news flash. (For themselves, at least.)