Shepard Cooper

Posted on June 24, 2007 by nuke
shep.jpgIt was a tough week for the metrosexual twins of cable TV news.

Fox News Channel’s Shepard Smith gave pointers to the Chicago Fox affiliate, and left them with these pearls of wisdom:

“I’m not here to talk to you about journalism,” one witness recalled him saying. “I’m here to talk to you about good TV.” source

At CNN {cue James Earl Jones} , Anderson Cooper flunked Middle East geography with this flashy graphic: source

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Should somebody tell him?

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20 Responses to “Shepard Cooper”

  1. Bonz, on June 24th, 2007 at 6:57 pm Said:

    “Some assumed he was there as an emissary of the diabolical Joel Cheatwood, who recently signed on at Fox News Channel as vice president of development.”

    Cheatwood was vice president of news at WMAQ in Chicago when the decision was made to give Jerry Springer a commentary slot on the 10pm broadcast. Both principal anchors resigned. Springer lasted two broadcasts and Cheatwood was fired. We were a Nielsen family during that period. I wrote in the comments in the Nielsen booklet “Get rid of Cheatwood” How he continues to be hired is beyond me.

  2. no2liberals, on June 24th, 2007 at 7:24 pm Said:

    So…has anyone notified Baby Assad that his country has been conquered by Afghanistan?
    /henh

  3. Bonz, on June 24th, 2007 at 7:35 pm Said:

    Look at the bright side. Afghanistan is no longer land-locked. The old Phoenician ports are theirs !

  4. no2liberals, on June 24th, 2007 at 7:51 pm Said:

    Henh, so will the Afghans now fight Greece and Turkey for Cyprus?
    The Afghan Navy…what a concept!

  5. Blog @ MoreWhat.com » Blog Archive » MoreWhat Matters: Today’s Blog List, on June 24th, 2007 at 8:07 pm Said:

    [...] Shepard Cooper « Nuke’s NEWS & VIEWS [...]

  6. SwampWoman, on June 24th, 2007 at 8:34 pm Said:

    The return of the amnesty monster!

  7. SwampWoman, on June 24th, 2007 at 8:49 pm Said:

    I’ve got a crush on Fred Thompson’s Politics. Ooooh, I like dat one.

  8. SwampWoman, on June 24th, 2007 at 9:14 pm Said:

    The disease has been with humans since before we were human. Our hominid ancestors almost certainly suffered from malaria. The parasite and the mosquito are both ancient creatures—the dinosaurs might have had malaria—and this longevity has allowed the disease ample time to exploit the vulnerabilities of an immune system. And not just ours. Mice, birds, porcupines, lemurs, monkeys, and apes catch their own forms of malaria. Bats and snakes and flying squirrels have malaria.

    Few civilizations, in all of history, have escaped the disease. Some Egyptian mummies have signs of malaria. Hippocrates documented the distinct stages of the illness; Alexander the Great likely died of it, leading to the unraveling of the Greek Empire. Malaria may have stopped the armies of both Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan.

    The disease’s name comes from the Italian mal’aria, meaning “bad air”; in Rome, where malaria raged for centuries, it was commonly believed that swamp fumes produced the illness. At least four popes died of it. It may have killed Dante, the Italian poet. George Washington suffered from malaria, as did Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant. In the late 1800s, malaria was so bad in Washington, D.C., that one prominent physician lobbied—unsuccessfully—to erect a gigantic wire screen around the city. A million Union Army casualties in the U.S. Civil War are attributed to malaria, and in the Pacific theater of World War II casualties from the disease exceeded those from combat. Some scientists believe that one out of every two people who have ever lived have died of malaria.

    Bedlam in the blood: Malaria, from the July 2007 National Geographic.

    Another reason to be concerned about uncontrolled immigration, particularly in the southern states. Gawd knows we can’t drain a stagnant breeding ground for mosquitos anymore because it is “wetland”. Hell, yeah, it’s wetland, that’s why we wanna drain it.

  9. no2liberals, on June 24th, 2007 at 9:36 pm Said:

    I like that Frankenstein video…henh.

    As for the National Geographic, I don’t believe their research.
    Alexander the Great was killed by an arrow wound he received in India, and never recovered, and died in Iraq.
    I also doubt it killed Attila or Genghis, not that they may not have been afflicted with it, at one time or another. In Old England, malaria was called ‘ague.’ Chaucer made reference to it many times.

  10. Bonz, on June 24th, 2007 at 9:47 pm Said:

    One of the reasons the government took the summer off was because Philly, not to mention Washington DC were hotbeds for Yellow fever. Politicians went home, to earn a living for one and to escape the plague of mosquito borne diseases in the cities

  11. SwampWoman, on June 24th, 2007 at 11:22 pm Said:

    I did something today that I haven’t done in years…I took an old sling blade out of storage and attacked the weeds along the fence line and ditches instead of using something that required gasoline and nylon string. It took a little while for my body to remember the rhythm in the swing, swing, swing of the blade. The blade itself was rusty from long storage/disuse and badly needed sharpening. It had a tendency to bounce off of the woodier-stemmed weeds instead of slicing cleanly through.

    Bicyclists stopped and watched me momentarily as I cut the weeds from around the mailbox post up at the road, and one told me that she did not know that you could cut grass without a mower or a weedwhacker, and it was the first time she had ever seen it done.

    As the bicyclists continued on, the hypnotic rhythm of the swing was broken, and I became aware of the ache in my back, blisters on my hands, and my clothes soaked through with sweat. I decided that a couple of hours of weed cutting for today was enough. As I walked back up the driveway, I thought about the people who did not know that grass could be cut without power equipment.

    Childhood for poverty-stricken rural kids in my generation consisted of labor in the garden which was spaded and not plowed or roto-tillered, planting seeds, chopping weeds, and harvesting and then helping with the canning process, as well as taking care of the livestock, mowing the grass (without power mowers), milking, churning butter, painting fences, and doing whatever else there was that needed to be done. My mother had an old treadle sewing machine which is where clothes came from, and hair cuts were done outside with a pair of scissors.

    I remember coming home from school, opening the refrigerator for a glass of Kool-Aid, and a decapitated hog head would be staring at me from the refrigerator shelf, waiting to be made into head cheese or scrapple. Wild greens, fish, squirrel, wild rabbit and poached deer kept us going when money was really tight (always) and the garden had failed.

    How much life has changed since then. We truly are blessed to be living in a time of such abundance.

  12. no2liberals, on June 24th, 2007 at 11:27 pm Said:

    Swampie…she likes them fried taters…and mustard on biscuits…unhmmph.

  13. no2liberals, on June 24th, 2007 at 11:32 pm Said:

    I did all that stuff on my Mammaw’s farm, and then some. We always had a big Hog Killing Party on the first Saturday when the first cold front came in. Bacteria grows on hogs like wildfire, if the temp is above 40 degrees.
    We did have two plow mules for the garden, though. We would go armadillo hunting at dusk in the pea patch, or else those armored critters would ruin most, and eat a bunch. Wrung many a chicken’s neck and plucked them for dinner, too.

  14. no2liberals, on June 24th, 2007 at 11:33 pm Said:

    VDH.
    /nuff said

  15. SwampWoman, on June 24th, 2007 at 11:58 pm Said:

    Yep on the hog killin’, but I was never there for that because I got all upset that they were killin’ my hawgs. The killin’ part was the man job for the chickens, too.

  16. SwampWoman, on June 25th, 2007 at 12:04 am Said:

    VDH sees things clearly, as usual. People that want you dead are not going to be talked out of it.

  17. SwampWoman, on June 25th, 2007 at 12:06 am Said:

    I do like them fried taters, and chili on cornbread.

  18. no2liberals, on June 25th, 2007 at 12:08 am Said:

    Was watching the Jihad show that was banned on pbs, it’s on FNC, but I can’t hang.
    Night.

  19. SwampWoman, on June 25th, 2007 at 12:24 am Said:

    Aaagh, I forgot about that! Goodnight, then, I need to go to sleep myself. I was avoiding it because I have to go to work Monday.

  20. SwampWoman, on June 25th, 2007 at 12:27 am Said:

    Elizabeth Edwards declares support for gay marriage.

    Jane Edwards?

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