Thoughtless for the Day

(Since some of you are not going to believe me when I tell you this, I've posted the video below) CNN's Paula Zahn hosted a panel discussion on the rights of Atheists but somehow forgot to invite any actual Atheists. Watch and weep for the future of journalism:

Where do you start? "I think they need to shut up?" Imagine if the topic had been about the rights of Blacks, or women, or even midgets for that matter? Even the most stone-hearted dipshit wouldn't be dumb enough to go on national TV and say "I think these midgets need to shut their squeaky little voices up." And you damn well know why. The next day there'd be a tiny picket line, no doubt organized by the Lollipop Guild, on the sidewalk outside of CNN. Where are the Atheist protesters? Look, I know that we're seven percent of the population, at best, but you'd think we could at least scrape together an angry mob. Just once in my life I'd like to hurl a brick in the name of godlessness.

About the best we atheist could seem to manage was to bombard Debbie Schlussel (Debbie sure looks a lot different on TV than she does on her web site) with emails. This sudden influx of attention must've somehow damaged the logic centers of Debbie's brain, causing her to write one of the most incoherent pieces I've seen since the last time I read anything by Michelle Malkin. Basically, Ms. Schlussel makes the argument that Atheists are future Muslim extremists because... well, because she must be on the pipe: I can't think of any other reason why someone would say something that asinine. The mighty P.Z. Meyers does an excellent job of dissecting Debbie's "logic" here.

By the way, Karen Hunter, the woman who said that Atheist believe in nothing and should just shut up is a teacher at Hunter College (no, she's not also the college's founder). Why not drop an email to Jennifer J. Raab, President of Hunter College, and let her know how you feel about her college having a bigoted, backwoods dumpsterfucker on their staff. Or, better yet, call her at (212)772-4242. and demand that Ms. Hunter be educated about the contributions that godless Americans have made to this great land of ours.

Getting back to the Christian News Network...

Apparently, CNN must've taken some heat over Paula Zahn's Atheist segment because, instead of re-airing the piece on Thursday night, they announced that they would instead be showing an interview with Richard Dawkins.

And then Anna Nicole Smith died and all other news disappeared. Sure we were all entertained when Zsa Zsa Gabor's faux-Prince husband held a press conference to announce the he was the father of Smith's baby girl (despite having sued the makers of Viagra five years ago, claiming that their product made him impotent), but should this really overshadow the news from the Scooter Libby trial that Dick Cheney and Karl Rove may have instructed Scooter to "get the message out" about Valerie Plame identity as a CIA agent? Why in fuck's name are we getting hourly reports about Smith's autopsy, yet hearing almost nothing about how the Pentagon undercut the intelligence community during the selling of the Iraq War? I duuno, maybe if Doug Feith had bigger tits (or, at least a pair of balls) the media might have given this story some more play.

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By the way, the Dawkins interview will now air on CNN on Monday February 12th (Darwin Day). Unless, of course, Tawny Kitaen dies.