michael

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Fox & Friends call shenanigans on Obama...for his beer choice?!? (AOL TV)

Aug 3rd 2009 9:39AM I am done with this blog. You back doored your way into this story. Network news (post Cronkrite) uses this trick as does the Times on occasion. We cannot possibly cover the story but we can cover the coverage of the story.

Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.

And the comments are just pure drivel.

I thought the comments from the faux dust storm created from Alaska's First Quitter who got her panties in a wad (and the national media attention she desperately craves) were completely banal. These comments are just so moronic.

Why the hell does anyone pay attention to 24 hour cable networks? Why? They are all filled with Howard Beales. All of these networks would make Paddy Chayefsky blush with shame.

We have enough real problems to contend with in our society without these faux, non-sensical problems including the bailout money to AIG, GM, and Chrysler that we are never ever going to see again (that money was poured down a hole), the demand to continue bailing out auto dealers (what do you think Cash for Clunkers is?), and the FACT that roughly 30% of all Americans lack access to affordable health insurance (Medicare and Medicaid represent socialized medicine). Let's not pay attention to those real, and pressing public policy issues.

Instead let's focus on the current president's decision to drink a Budweiser. A decision that 55% of beer drinking Americans make because Budweiser despite its now Belgian ownership remains the best selling beer in America.

All of you are dumb.

Venture Brothers creators accept cult following - Comic-Con Report (AOL TV)

Jul 26th 2009 7:37PM The single funniest show on television. That said, the show's central conceit explains why the show has not gained mass appeal. All the characters are failures.

While Publik and Hammer mine this conceit for all its worth and then some, most people do not find it humorous. Never mind the pop references.

The show requires too much of its audience in a way that Family Guy, the Simpsons, and South Park refuse to require.

Who is the most trusted newscaster on TV? (AOL TV)

Jul 24th 2009 3:41PM Who is the most trusted newscaster on TV? I vote none of them because none of them know what in the hell they are talking about unlike Walter Cronkite. Brian Williams is a very nice person but he could not explain Britain's involvement in the Middle East. He simply does not know anything beyond what is on his TelePrompTer or what he learned in school.

Rescue Me: Clean (AOL TV)

Jul 22nd 2009 1:58PM Lou: Do you think I am fat? I mean fatter?
Needles: Yes

Lou had some great lines in the episode.

Callie Thorne's portrayal of Sheila is nothing of brilliant. The explanation for each pill was so chilling especially compared to the scene where she tells the documentarian that she blames Tommy for her husband's death.

When Damion dies, Sheila will be a basket case.

Review: 2009 Nissan Frontier continues to blaze the small truck trail (Autoblog)

Jul 21st 2009 9:34AM How can you call this a small truck? The Mazda B2000/Ford Rangers (1972-1985) were small trucks. This thing is positively leviathan. I would not mind owning an actual small truck, but this oversize beast does not meet the small truck criteria though. How about this instead:

http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/11/mahindra-appalachian-diesel-pickup-arrives-in-us-next-year-dies/

And it comes in diesel. Sold? At least it is a small truck.

STUDY: Raising national speed limit has resulted in 12,500 deaths (Autoblog)

Jul 21st 2009 9:22AM I am calling shenanigans on your post. Instead of relying on an article written by a writer, who if they took statistics, was given less than A, you should have linked to the initial statistics. When discussing research, never, ever rely on the article. Always, always link to the research report because roughly 99.9% of all journalist do not understand statistics let alone solid research design.

Did the researchers use logit regression? A t-test? I am erring on the side of "too sophisticated of analysis for us."

The first clue these researchers produce junk research: they have a sampling frame error. They only collect data from 1995, when the speed limit law was changed. Oops.

To understand whether an event such as changing the speed limit had any effect on an outcome such as automobile deaths, you must collect data BEFORE and AFTER the event.

Then, analysize the data around the event. Logit regression is the proper analysis, but a t-test would have sufficed.

And the person who created this post, and could not call shenanigans on this junk research: STOP! You are causing more harm than good by promulgating such slip shod research.

This research is just flat out awful and the researchers are either lazy at best or incompetent at worse. I am not surprised some baffled by b*llsh*t writer at US Snooze and Lose Report passed this junk along. The creator of this post must know better. Where are your critical thinking skills?

Here's a better story to discuss: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/technology/21distracted.html?pagewanted=all

TV Squad Ten: Emmy categories we desperately need (AOL TV)

Jul 20th 2009 12:54PM 9. Best News Screamer (aka the Howard Beale Lifetime Achievement Award): Jim Cramer gets a lifetime achievement recognition for this much needed award.

Also, the guy who portrays Larry the Cable Guy is born and raised in that southern state of Kansas. Yet another example of a Yankee carpet bagger trying to make his way off the backs of fine, up standing southerners.

Scenes We Love: Boiler Room (Cinematical)

Jul 12th 2009 10:54AM Yup. Affleck cannot carry Baldwin's jock. The scene from Glengary Glen ross is vastly superior to Affleck's 4 minutes of screen time.

As to the overall story arch and character, go watch Wall Street, which this movie desperately wants to be. Unfortunately, it ends up being an extremely pale imitation.

You will be a better human being for watching Glengary Glen ross and Wall Street.

Does Heroes need more lesbians? (AOL TV)

Jul 6th 2009 8:18PM Save the lesbian cheerleader, save the world
I think you mean, "Save the lesbian cheerleader, save the show.

TV 101: How ESPN controls the world and what the other networks can learn from it (AOL TV)

Jul 3rd 2009 12:34PM Zilp: The game is also called soccer in Australia and New Zealnd. Why are jackasses like this guy not banned from commenting?

As to the observation that ESPN will some how makes us all soccer fans, what about Arena Football League? The network bought a stake in the league, beamed the games in prime time, showed highlights on Sports Center, ran scores on the ticker, and even had those two insufferable ass clowns, Mike & Mike, talk about it nonstop. What happened?

A year later, the Arena Football League suspended operations. Now, what was the logic of the argument regarding ESPN and SOCCER?