CNN must be stopped. Just when you think they can't get any dumber, they reach levels of dumbness that can't be described with human language. If this shit keeps up, I'm going to have to start painting murals or doing interpretive dances to convey how head-explodingly inept these clowns are.

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Speaking of dubious honors from institutions that are considerably less prestigious now than they were a couple decades ago…

Crazy people, in my experience, never respond well to being told they're crazy*…

Glenn Beck went on another one of his they're out to get me paranoid rants today, and he even included the impersonation of him on last Thursday's Saturday Night Live Weekend Update special.

Beck said, "Don't think that what happened to Sarah Palin didn't go through my mind when I saw my character on Saturday Night Live."

Believe me, I didn't for a moment not think that. I'm one-hundred percent certain his brain weasels were all over that one.

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^{* Us narcissists, on the other hand, will accept any opportunity to get talked about.}

Yesterday — while discusses the likelihood of all of us being instantaneously vaporized by the massive energy output of nuclear weapons — White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs fielded a question from a reporter who asked about the White House's "strategery" in keeping us all safe.

Ah, it's good to laugh sometimes…

There seems to be some confusion in the YouTube comments concerning the origins of the word "stratetgery"…

It's a stephen colbert word… not SNL. (joeben81)

It's not a "Saturday Night Live word." SNL used it in a skit because then candidate Bush actually said it during the debate that they were parodying. (ChunAsperEndao)

Oddly enough, for the first time in the history of ever, YouTube commenters have turned out to look dumb, because Gibbs was totally right. It's an SNL word…

The word "strategery" was coined for a Saturday Night Live sketch, written by James Downey, airing October 7, 2000, which satirized the performances of George W. Bush and Al Gore, two candidates for President of the United States, during the first presidential debate for election year 2000. Comedian Will Ferrell played Bush and used the word "strategery"…

However…

After the 2000 presidential election, people inside the Bush White House reportedly began using the term as a joke, and it later grew to become a term of art among them meaning oversight of any activity by Bush's political consultants. Bush's strategists also came to be known within the White House as "The Department of Strategery" or the "Strategery Group."

A February 9, 2001, transcript of a CNN interview attributes George Bush using the term, presumably as an intentional nod to the comedy sketch.

Alright, now that we've tackled that incredibly important issue, I think we can all sleep a little more soundly tonight, safe in the knowledge that we know where a made-up word got made-up.

In an attempt to cause as much cognitive dissonance amongst viewers as possible, last night Saturday Night Live premiered its new half-hour, prime-time, Thursday evening version of Weekend Update starring former cast member Amy Poehler. (I was completely sober, and it still gave me a moment's pause to reflect on the nature of objective reality and the holographic nature of the universe.)

Anyway, the fake news stuff is pretty much just as funny — or not funny — as you'd expect it to be, but it did open with a sketch worth watching about how Congress did Joe Wilson wrong — which still ends with "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night" (???)…

"I don't know if you know this about me, but I'm not known for any other things. Nothing!"

Perfect.

You know, watching Sen. Al Franken up there on the TV screen at a Supreme Court confirmation hearing, I thought I was getting kind of a deja vu-y kind of vibe.

And then Matt Tobey sent me this…

Weird!

But, no. That's not it.

Oh, wait! This is it…

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