Media Musings, Take 4

You don't need a weatherman to know how much a bigot blows. Check out the Las Vegas weather guy fired for his "slip" regarding Martin Luther King Day.

"KTNV-TV, Channel 13, fired weekend weather anchor Rob Blair on Sunday, a day after he made an on-air racial slur about Martin Luther King Jr.

"Jim Prather, vice president and general manager of KTNV, said Blair 'stumbled' during a weather update ... but added that "this kind of incident is not acceptable under any circumstances, and I'm truly sorry that this event occurred.'

"Blair was delivering the extended forecast when he said, 'For tomorrow, 60 degrees, Martin Luther Coon King Jr. Day, gonna see some temperatures in the mid-60s.' About 20 minutes later, Blair told viewers at the ABC affiliate, 'Apparently I accidentally said Martin Luther Kong Jr., which I apologize about -- slip of the tongue.'"

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For something completely fun: Stroll down memory lane with this treasure trove of the Great American (and Increasingly Extinct) Advertising Jingle.

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The American Leftist reviews another of those Oops! stories -- this time the strange and sad tale of a poster child for the Iraq invasion whose account of rape and torture under Saddam's reign proved as fictitious as compassionate conservatism.

Just to preempt any pro-war blubbering that Saddam's rule was, indeed, marked by torture and mass murder: No one is disputing that. But it sure doesn't speak well for mainstream journalism or the Bush Administration when their prime examples are fake. This time, the egg yolk in on the face of The Washington Post and Paul Wolfowitz, who, no doubt, could use it for hair gel.