The Frank "Ferret Face" Burns Of The Week Award

Now I have used a liberal icon a few times to roast liberal icons, with this name I'm ready to roast a conservative. As you may or may not remember Major Frank Burns was a pompous republican ass. Well there are a few of them and a couple of them raised their heads high enough for me to notice them and give them their own award.

Senator William "I want to be LOVED like John McCain" Frist:
For his truly irrational and racist reaction to the Dubai Ports World buyout of the British company P&O. It had nothing to do with port security and it was just an excuse for Bill Frist to gather some of that sweet media coverage that other "courageous" Republicans get when they "stand-up" to President Bush.

Frist gave the following statement earlier last week;

"If the administration cannot delay this process, I plan on introducing legislation to ensure that the deal is placed on hold until this decision gets a more thorough review."
"I'm not against foreign ownership," said Frist, "but my main concern is national security."

He was speaking to reporters in Long Beach, Calif., where Frist was doing a fact-finding tour on port security and immigration issues. This type of trip is also known as a preliminary campaign stop to test the waters for a run for President.
He states that he is not against foreign ownership of ports, well then it must be the possible owners, because he had no complaints about the ownership by a company from Shoe Bomber Richard Reed's homeland. HHMMMMM
While I realize that there were Republicans and Conservatives who said more outrageous things about this situation, Senator Frist, should know better. His stand is pure politics and it needs to be called what it is.
That is all.

The Michael "Meathead" Stivic Of The Week Award

This one has only one nominee:

The Admissions Department at Yale University.

Why you ask?

Let's try this one on for size. From the New Criterion Blog ARMAVIRUMQUE:

What "caliber" (interesting choice of word) are we talking about here? Well, Hashemi al-Haw Haw, whose primary objective while in the employ of the Taliban was to justify the dynamiting of some 1000-year-old statues of the Buddha in Kabul, Afghanistan, has "a fourth-grade education and a high-school equivalency degree." There you have it. Probably makes Scutch the Quarterback look like Cicero by comparison.

Wow. There's that Ivy League edumacation fer ya.
But it isn't really all that hard, remember those statues were religious icons after all.
This story is also found over at Opinion Journal.
This is a major WTF moment.

Olympics As Metaphor

No not in the old "Good Vs. Evil", "US Vs. Them", "Spy Vs. Spy" ways, no I mean in a new way, a way that involves the coverage of the Games and the "Networks of NBC".

If you spent any time watching the games during Prime Time, first congratulations there weren't very many of you. But Secondly and most IMPORTANTLY you would have been very confused if you watched after looking at a globe. Because the globe would have told you that Turin Italy was hours ahead of us Time Zone wise, but not in NBC TIME!!
Bob Costas and his co-hosts talked to the viewers like they didn't already know the results. They embargoed video to any other network, but not the results. So what you ask? Well it was just an example of a big network's arrogance. There is only us, we are your only source for Olympic results, we will tell you who won, when we feel like it.
I mean was there really any reason to have the prime time show run until midnight each night?
Although had it been any shorter, there would have been more than 10 commercials per segment, because it appears that NBC sold every minute to someone and had to jam them all in.

So what is my point?
Good question?
The networks are failing to present the world in their own special little lefty way, because there are choices; from other networks, the internet and talk radio. The world view that the big city/blue city networks is being countered daily and truthfully.
They lost the race, but they are still waiting to tell us the results. It may take a while, we have to wait for the Russian judge to get out of the men's room.