The media revolving door swings shut on Behar, Hasselbeck and Curry

Real men can watch “The View.” Being the consummate real man, I can watch whatever I want and cuddle a teddy bear while I do it. There is nothing wrong with “The View,” and I occasionally do enjoy a few minutes with it, usually in the company of my wife, the Lovely Marie.

All of the recent media hubbub over Barbara Walters’ little midday coven has me very intrigued. I typically agree with Joy, and I still think she is a redheaded pile of ignorance. This is how an algebra teacher feels when he sees the right answer on the bottom line and each step in the process is an incoherent mess. Joy has fabulous laugh lines and I know her standup routine must be a complete scream.

Then there is Elizabeth. I will say this much about Ms. Hasselbeck, she reads the daily conservative talking point fax with complete accuracy and passion. If only I could read Carl Roves darkest fantasies with a straight face, but no tears over missed opportunities. The beautiful Elizabeth is said to be a whiz at design and many entrepreneurial ventures. I guess it must be pretty easy when the country’s richest and most powerful corporations and the top 1% are solidly on your side. Hasselbeck may be going to CNN and, to be perfectly honest, I am overjoyed. I hope they give her hurricane duty. Yes. I want to see Elizabeth Hasselbeck tied to a tree on the Mississippi Gulf coast while winds pick up to 90 mph. NOTE TO E. H.: be sure to keep that broom in the motel room closet.

Ann Curry is leaving NBC. I love the peacock and it is a darned shame that they seem unable to set aside an incomprehensible grudge and just let Ann go. Curry is far too serious for indifferent and uninformed audience. That NBC can not pull off the firing that should be a slam-dunk is a testimony to the corporation’s increasing irrelevancy. Anyway, Ann Curry may be going to the new American version of Al Jazeera. That’s just too cool and I sincerely wish her well. Curry has a touch for the international beat and she would be an asset. MEMO TO A.  J.: Ol’ Lyncho is still looking for work. I would be the perfect curmudgeon for your new network. And I promise to lose that ugly 10 pounds if you take a (very small and reasonable) chance on me!

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter Vs. Free Speech | The American Conservative

Rod Dreher posts on the latest offense against the First Amendment protection of free speech. The City of Philadelphia, Pa. is using taxpayer money to investigate a local publication for running a story on being white in the city of brotherly love.

What if there were a white mayor who didn’t like a magazine article by a black writer in which black Philadelphians said unpleasant things about white Philadelphians, and then the mayor urged the Human Rights Commission to investigate the magazine and the writer for offending against racial sensitivity? It would be so outrageous that it’s actually unthinkable. But here we are with Mayor Nutter.

Read it all here.

Michael Nutter Vs. Free Speech | The American Conservative.

Memo to GOP: Don’t mess with the Prez

Since the departure of the not-very-beloved dictator Hugo Chavez, North Korea seems intent on filling the international need for comic relief.Yes, I know they can get nasty with the neighbors directly south, and the ruling family has invoked untold hardship on the ordinary starving North Korean. Perhaps it is possible that they might nuke the USA back to the Stone Age.The gravity of the situation is obvious and the instability of the leadership is duly observed.

Perhaps American Republicans feel a sincere need to offer advice on foreign affairs, or it might just be that they are not satisfied with the slow methodical undoing of America that is the natural consequence of GOP economic policy, but I wish they would think twice before encouraging President Obama to get tougher on North Korea.Have they ever heard of drones? This is the President that took out Osama. I’m just saying that, if you keep taunting the Commander-in-Chief, he might bomb North Korea back to the Stone Age. You might not think that is such a bad thing, and the worst part of me really wants to agree with you, but we both know better. Let’s try something completely different. How about being sensible? It might work and could even become a pattern.