A Twuck? A Wedding?

I started my day the way I often do, watching Fox News. Lauren Green came on to do a news update, and I got the impression that she might be... well, drunk. She was doing a story about a police chase and twice referred to the vehicle being chased as a "twuck." In fact, she also seems to refer to the "dwiver," and says that the "twuck" was going the "wong way."

No word on the possibility that the guy who stole the truck was "wascally."

Then, at the end of her bit, she went back to the weatherman for details on the "wedding," as she said at first. You can click the pic for about 45 seconds of video.

Lauren was really having a rough morning. Maybe she was channeling Barbara Walters.

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Reason 45,792 To Love Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman is actually willing to publicly snub the Hollywood left a little bit by admitting that she doesn't agree with the political message of Stephen Spielberg's relativist flick Munich:

Portman tells US magazine Entertainment Weekly: "(I don't) agree with half of what's in Munich, but political film-making is about putting something out there that people aren't going to like."

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Batman Vs. Osama

The good news: Batman is going after Osama bin Ladin. The better news... it's a Frank Miller story:

Miller, who has already inked his way through 120 pages of the 200-page opus, told a recent comic book convention that the novel was an unashamed "piece of propaganda" in which Batman "kicks al-Qaeda's ass".

The driving force behind the work, Miller said, was "an explosion from my gut reaction of what's happening now".

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Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Gay Cowboys

The great Willie Nelson's sense of humor is still in tact:

"Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly (Fond of Each Other)" may be the first gay cowboy song by a major recording artist. But it was written long before this year's Oscar-nominated "Brokeback Mountain" made gay cowboys a hot topic.

Available exclusively through iTunes, the song features choppy Tex-Mex style guitar runs and Nelson's deadpan delivery of lines like, "What did you think all them saddles and boots was about?" and "Inside every cowboy there's a lady who'd love to slip out."

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How About Some More Offensive Cartoons?

Good stuff from Cracked Magazine. (I have to admit that I didn't know Cracked was still around. I always kinda thought of Cracked as a poor-man's Mad. Nonetheless, the cartoons they've come up with are actually very funny. Hat tip to Hud for this stuff. On a more serious (way more serious) note, the protests about the cartoons in Muslim countries are getting worse and worse. Yesterday, an eight year old boy was killed when a protestor randomly fired a gun and the bullet struck him in the face. Chill out, people. They're cartoons. Get over it. By the way, liberals... remind me again why Christians are the really dangerous, nutty ones and Muslims are the poor, oppressed victims of Western culture?? I seem to have forgotten the details on that particular bit of PC BS.

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Who Said That? Could It Be..... SATAN??!?

Good idea: Putting a quote from the Bible as the message on your church sign. Bad idea: Quoting Satan. The Burr in the Burgh has this one:

The sign in front of the United Church of Christ congregation in Limerick, PA read: "If only thou wilt worship me, then all will be thine" (Luke 4:7).

Sounds pious, eh? Until you notice that the person who speaks those words in the Gospel is SATAN.

Oops. Better change that sign.

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Thomas Sowell And The Media

Thomas Sowell, as he often does, has succinctly and eloquently put the Cheney hunting accident story in a nutshell:

The accidental shooting of Harry Whittington, while he was on a hunting trip with Dick Cheney, has nothing to do with government policy or the Vice President's official duties but the mainstream media have gone ballistic over it nevertheless.

They are also angry that the news was not given to them more quickly, which prevented it from becoming the feeding frenzy of the Sunday television talk shows. Whether this delay was deliberate or otherwise, it is being called a "cover-up" in the media, as if there were some crime to cover up...

The media love to wrap themselves in the mantle of "the public's right to know" but there is no such dedication to that right when it goes against the journalists' own prejudices...

The "public's right to know" apparently extends only to such things as will not cause the public to reach conclusions different from those of the liberal media...

Read the whole thing. It's outstanding. Which is no surprise; it's Sowell. Hat tip to Cube for that story.

By the way, the Gun Toting Liberal has some interesting observations (as usual) about the Cheney story. Not saying I necessarily agree or disagree with what he's saying... I'm just saying it's interesting.

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