June 20, 2007
Who needs the network news?
Joe Sherlock rants about Dan Rather and makes a good point about the irrelevance of the networks' news shows.
Last week, Dan 'Has-Been' Rather sounded off about his replacement, Katie Couric. Puffed up his withered morgue-skin chest and beat it with arthritis-gnarled fists as he attempted a wheezy, blustery bellow, he did. And muttered about the Sad State of the Evening News. And cursed the night.
Who the #@&*! cares?! The only people who watch the evening news these days are really old people. In nursing homes. Or on dialysis machines. Or drooling all over their wheelchair tray. They think Katie is "cute" and looks kinda like that nurse who comes around bearing a tray full of suppositories. "Just lay on your side and breathe through your mouth, sweetie, while I get this thing in ya."
The only time I watch the evening news is when I'm trying to take a nap and having trouble falling asleep. Unless Larry King is on, of course. Zzzzzzzzzzz.
As for Dan Rather, he's probably mouth-breathing and laying on his side right this minute.
He's right, you know. I can't remember the last time I watched the evening news on any of the three broadcast networks, and I'm a news junkie. The amount of good reporting available on the web makes the half-hour ABC-CBS-NBC shows completely unnecessary.
"Withered morgue-skin chest ..."
That's funny the second time you read it. Although Joe deserves a smack for the visual of wrinkly Rather rolling over for his medicine.
Blech.
Posted by Mike Lief at June 20, 2007 11:09 PM
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