I know that brain-dead cable news polls are an old story ... but really, could a comedy writer have dreamed up a better parody of a question?
In actual Headline News news, Time Warner Cable has begun carrying the Comcast-produced local "Newsmakers" program in Kansas City. It airs at :55 every hour on HLN. Yours truly has sat in the replica Oval Office at the Truman Library and been quizzed by Mike Shanin for this interstitial.
Although I love to see Jon Stewart, or you, or anybody, make fun of the cable news networks' idiocy, this is one case where I think the question is valid. Having a big ol' chunk of your privates cut off for no good reason ain't no joke. Most people wrongly think it's medical necessity, but it's actually ritualistic mutilation. An increasing number of Americans agree, but still, I'd be curious to know what the results of that poll were.
But really, I hope CNN Headline News was actually *giving* people some info about the subject before doing the poll. And hopefully accurate info, not the usual gibberish about how circumcision supposedly prevents disease. If the question was just asked out of the nowhere, randomly, then that IS idiocy.
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Posted by: Ike Hull | June 17, 2006 at 10:14 PM