Cuppacafe

Man, do I totally love it when Stewart pulls out the ugly stick to beat down on Faux News...Truthfully, this skets starts to lose steam for me around the 7+ minute mark (and you'll see why), but it is still loads of wicked fun.

Whadaya have to say to that Bernie?

The Perfessor

By now you've all heard how the ex-Governatrix (over) reacted to the Valentine's Day episode of The Family Guy, well, as it turns out, the actress (Andrea Fay Friedman) who voiced "Ellen" — the character who was depicted as having Down syndrome — actually does have Down syndrome herself.

Friedman recently responded to Palin's comments on Fox by saying:

My name is Andrea Fay Friedman. I was born with Down syndrome. I played the role of Ellen on the "Extra Large Medium" episode of Family Guy that was broadcast on Valentine's day. Although they gave me red hair on the show, I am really a blonde. I also wore a red wig for my role in " Smudge" but I was a blonde in "Life Goes On". I guess former Governor Palin does not have a sense of humor. I thought the line "I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska" was very funny. I think the word is "sarcasm".

Friedman then continued her comments by taking the opportunity to deliver her own little Gibb's-slap to Alaska's ex-Governatrix by saying:

In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life. My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes.

Yeah, we were pretty hysterical over it as well.

The Perfessor

Yesterday, we gave you the first two parts of this interview, here is part three.

Here is what I find interesting about this interview:

1) That O'Reilly (a newsman?) feels that the opinion of a comedian (and fake newsman) is somehow relevant.
2) That Stewart managed to elicit a laugh from a member of the crew.
3) Do you notice that O'Reilly seems more interested in asking questions than in actually getting answers.

Still, in a throw down between these two men, I'm still on Jon's side. He informs me and makes me laugh; O'Reilly just frightens me. (If you want to see the entire interview you can do that too.)

The Perfessor

So, you might have heard, Sarah Palin is now a commentator on Fox News. Ya gotta wonder how that’s gonna turn out (and will she quit halfway through her contact).

Still, all of the news these days isn’t goofy silliness, there was this thing that happened in Haiti:

Until Dick Cavett comes back on the air, I’ll stick with Jon Stewart.

The Perfessor

Just curious, why is it when Barack & Michelle Obama fist-bump they are labeled Muslim terrorists. by Fox News..

But when (former) President GW Bush fist-bumps Santa, it was OK?

Don’t you just love those lovable rascals at Fox?

The Perfessor

If you were to (only) listen to Fox News (or the propaganda that spews forth from the Republican party) you would believe that...

“The reason that the public option is so controversial is, it's a government-run health option. So if you can't get health care anywhere else, this is the idea, that you could get it from this government-offered plan, which of course would be paid for by the taxpayers.”

However, that may not quite be the entire truth (if it is even remotely true at all). Apparently the reality of it all is that the public option would be available, as just one option among several other private options, to people who are shopping for health insurance coverage, and apparently any of those 30-or-so million consumers could buy into it. exception of the fact that it will be:

a). not for profit, and b). accountable to the government (as opposed to to shareholders), the public option will have to behave exactly like a private insurance company--financed and stabilized by consumer premiums, without any subsidy from the federal government.

Still, you would think that if something that has the support of 70% of the public how could it be considered controversial? The answer, of course, is that it’s probably because a minority of elected officials have charged that it's the seed for a single payer system.

The Perfessor