Thursday, August 20, 2009

Rise and Shine --- Recut, cut and recut

Good Morning and welcome to the final Thursday of this week!

Don Hewitt, the creator of the television show '60 Minutes,' died yesterday.
There were many tributes written about the producer, including this one.
Hewitt rarely appeared on television, leaving the work to the talking heads like Walter Cronkite, Morley Safer and the rest.
There will be undoubtedly a lot of tributes and such about Hewitt in the next few days, especially since his death comes so soon after Cronkite's.
What Hewitt started in 1968 as a way to get national news into the local home has now been bastardized to the extent we have no less than four 24-hour news stations beaming to us from the great beyond.
We are inundated with news. We now know far more about Michael Jackson's burial than we really should. We get hammered over the head by the Octomom, by economic news, by nonsense put out there to fill time.
We even have a manipulation of the news.
For instance, a few nights ago U.S. Rep. Barney Frank held one of those town hall meetings to talk about health care.
Some wacko started spouting off about Nazis and held up a photo of President Obama dressed to look like Hitler. Frank shot down the woman's statement and then put her in her place, much like many more officials should be able to do.
Then the tape was recut by one network to make it appear Frank was tongue-lashing everybody.
So, if you really believe everything said on this network READ THIS.
Then watch this:

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