I'm gonna warn you: If you're not already soaking in a bathtub full of water and plugged-in radios after reading yesterday's report that Fox News was the most watched cable network last week, you will be after reading this…

Our newest survey looking at perceptions of ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News finds Fox as the only one that more people say they trust than distrust. 49% say they trust it to 37% who do not…

74% of Republicans trust Fox News, but no more than 23% trust any of the other four sources… [A] majority [of Democrats] trust all of ABC, CBS, CNN, and NBC while only 30% have faith in Fox News.

Please pass me the cyanide-laced Ebola bullets when you're finished with them, please. Why, yes, thank you. I would like a side of rusty wire noose.

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^{* I feel that I should make a distinction between different types of make-believe news. I speak here of fake news masquerading as real news, as opposed to real news masquerading fake news.}

Aay! May! Zing!

Matt Drudge somehow Drudged up a nice long chunk of excerpt from Sarah Palin's soon-to-be-released book Ecce Sarah: Why I Am So America. And — please allow me to tell you what I I am going to tell you — it does not disappoint. Not at all.

It reads like the best Sarah Palin fan fiction any Sarah Palin fan ever fictioned. Except this Sarah Palin fan is the biggest Sarah Palin fan of all: Sarah Palin (and ghostwriter)!

Check out this part where Sarah magnanimously deigns to get interviewed by dowdy loser Katie Couric…

"Katie really likes you," she said to me one day. "she's a working mom and admires you as a working mom. She has teenage daughter like you. She just relates to you," Nicolle said. "believe me, I know her very well. I’ve worked with her."…

Nicolle went on to explain that Katie really needed a career boost. "She just has such low self-esteem," Nicolle said. She added that Katie was going through a tough time. "She just feels she can’t trust anybody."

I was thinking, And this has to do with John McCain's campaign how?

Nicolle said. "She wants you to like her."

Hearing all that, I almost started to feel sorry for her. Katie had tried to make a bold move from lively morning gal to serious anchor, but the new assignment wasn't going very well.

Don't do it, Sarah! Don't go in that room! She has a question about newspapers! Aaaaaaaahhh!!!

Oh my God! The drama! The intrigue! The betrayal! I'm on the edge of my seat over this very real-sounding, not at all soap-opera-ish account of how things probably actually happened in the real world.

CBS News reported earlier this evening that Walter Cronkite died in his home at age 92.

Hats off to a great news man who inspired the term the "sloppy cronkite".

In honor of The Television & Radio Correspondents Appreciate Fortnight, we present to you fourteen of our favorite Daily Show interviews with media personalities…

14. Rachel Maddow

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Sorry to make the blog so serious lately, but there's something I feel the need to take care of.

A little while ago, I posted a blisteringly enlightening argument against a Barack Hussein Obama presidency.

In the interest of fairness, I've decided to highlight this counter-argument in favor of "the new energy, the new face, the new ideas" as opposed to "experience based on many many years in the Senate"…

Wow, that's a pretty good point that Sarah Palin makes there. And she obviously feels really strongly about it, because she's made the same point at least one other time…

"I have quite a few people who are giving us information about the record of Obama and Biden, and at the end of the day, though, it is — it's so clear, again, what those choices are. Either new ideas, new energy and reform of Washington, DC, or more of the same."

I think it shows a lot of character on Palin's part to put partisan politics aside and make such a strong argument in favor of Obama.

Oh! Here's why living in the proximity of Russia means anything at all concerning foreign policy experience…

And so eloquently put.

What exactly does this remind me of?

That's it!

Update: Turns out I'm not the genius I thought I was. Only about 700 billion other people made the comparison before me.