Sorry, Katie, You Lost Me When You Said "Rush Limbaugh"

I've had no strong feelings one way or the other about Katie Couric taking over the anchor desk on the CBS Evening News. I've been brand-loyal to ABC for about 20 years now, and I watch CNN about 5 hours a day, so it's not like I'm looking around for some new news.

But tonight, by accident, the TV ended up on CBS at 6:30pm, so what the hell, I'll give it a shot. For the first 10 minutes, it wasn't bad. But then, in the name of "free speech", CBS handed the camera over to Rush Limbaugh, who went on for over a minute about how people like me who disagree with the president's national security policies are secretly in bed with the terrorists and hate America. We're not just wrong, mind you — we want the terrorists to win.

OK then. If CBS has no better way to exercise it's "free speech" than this, I'm perfectly free not to watch their show. And I won't. Ever again. Desert island ever again. And I will tell anyone who listens not to watch either. When the evening news turns into an exercise in character assassination on behalf of a wingnut who's a serial liar and bigot — that I can do without.

Update: Looks like I'm not alone. Good.

Weak

Apparently having nothing to say about its own record, the Republican National Committee has put up a site called America Weakly, which is, in its totality, a bunch of literally made-up stories from a year in the future about what they think might happen when they lose control of the House this November. Give me a break.

First of all, there is nothing here about gangs of roving Young Democrats terrorizing the exclusive country clubs in suburban Maryland, which anyone will tell you is item #1 on the Democratic agenda.

And second, this story? "D.C. Traffic Cam, 10:45 a.m. Very Congested: Influx of new federal workers continues to jam highways." Yeah, right. Heaven help us, and those who commute up I-395, if the Defeatocrats start hiring more postal workers again. We'll be doomed, I tell you, doomed!