Al Gore Brainwashed Idiot of the Week Award...

...goes to MSNBC's Contessa Brewer, for her claim that the record setting blizzards pounding the Northeast United States this week are evidence of more "global warming", or something like that.  Seriously, you have to see it to believe it.

Keith Olberman Agonisties

Poor Keith Olberman.  Ok, wait, let me back up.  Keith Olberman can kiss my burnt orange Texas a**.  He epitomizes everything that is bad about the political left in America:  hopelessly ignorant yet cocksure; consistently wrong yet condescending; unable to make the simplest argument based on logic or facts yet smarmy and dismissive when engaging anyone who disagrees; completely unaccomplished in any real-world endeavor yet self-justified in lecturing others.

For exhibiting such a horrid set of personal behaviors, he is of course awarded an hour-long, prime time show on cable television's most biased "news" channel, just as similar oafs like Janeane Garafalo and Al Franken were initially given their own radio talk shows on the now-bankrupt and deceased Air America.  The American left always awards the dimmest bulbs among them - that's how Al Gore became Pope of the Church of Global Warming, after all.

And as always happens when the American left puts one of its most pathological dimwits on full display to the public in the media, the ratings go to hell.  It happened with Air America, it happened with Chris Matthews, who currently hosts the single lowest-rated prime time show on any cable "news" network, it has happened with every leftist radio talk show host who has ever been given a national stage, and it is now happening to Keith Olberman, Rachel Maddow and the rest of the uniformly left-wing prime time contingent at MSNBC. 

It has been obvious for years now that MSNBC cannot hope to compete in any meaningful way with Fox News - Fox now out-draws MSNBC consistently by about a 4 to 1 margin in both total audience and the 18-49 demographic that is so critical to advertisers - so obvious in fact that no one even really bothers to list Fox among MSNBC's ratings rivals anymore, choosing to focus instead on the race for a very distant second place between MSNBC, CNN and even CNN Headline News.  It has been widely reported this week that MSNBC's uniformly leftist prime time lineup has now fallen behind a more balanced CNNHN, an incredible feat of incompetent management rivaled in modern times only by CNN's dramatic fall from grace, and Toyota's quality control process.

Friday Morning State of Play

Biggest story of the day:  the White House has instructed the Justice Department to find another venue for the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial.  Seems New York Mayor Bloomberg, who initially supported the idiotic decision to try KSM in lower Manhattan, has figured out how many NY small businesses would be killed by two years of ultra-high security and the media frenzy it would produce.  Gee, what a freaking brain surgeon this guy is.

My prediction:  KSM will never stand trial in a U.S. civilian court.  Gitmo will never be closed.  The congress will stop both from taking place.

Megan McCain says Sarah Palin could win the presidency in 2012. She's not crazy.  I'll be writing more on this subject over the weekend.

George Will tells you why Sam Alito was right and the President was wrong about the Court's decision to allow limited corporate contributions to issue-related political advertising.  I know it's shocking this President could be wrong, of course...

Want to Know What Obamatons Really Think?

Read this piece by New Yorker commun...er, columnist Hendrik Hertzberg (pictured at left with his date, the lovely Ms. Frankenstein):

One Year: Beware of Sudden Downdrafts

Read some key exerpts after the break...