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Okay, I think I heard someone say that MSNBC had hired a new anchor.  Is that true?  MSNBC is the radical left-wing network that thought they could make themselves immensely popular by countering what they saw as Fox News' pandering to the right.  What they never seem to realize is that Fox is successful because they do what no other news organization in the country does: they actually present two sides, they actually present the reality that there is a conservative viewpoint in this country.  Fox's success was realizing that Americans identify as conservative over liberal by a 2 to 1 margin.  So, actually letting a conservative viewpoint be heard was a good idea.

MSNBC's failure comes in that they are merely trying to radicalize what is already available on every other network: left-wing biased news coverage.  People get left-wing garbage from NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, NPR, CNN, they get it from all the major print media, they get it from every direction they turn.  So MSNBC doesn't have a corner on the market when it comes to liberal news coverage.  Now, they do seem to be developing a pretty strong corner on crazy.  That's why I'm wondering how long it will be until they sweep down and pick up Randi Rhodes to be a host.

For those who don't know, Randi Rhodes is a shrill and harsh left wing radio commentator.  She became famous not too long ago for falling down drunk, and knocking her teeth out, and then claiming she'd been mugged.  Undoubtedly it was one of those radical right wingers who did it.  The reason I think that Rhodes will be picked up by MSNBC soon is because she has the exact temperament, attitude and tolerance of differing perspectives that liberals at the network certainly strive for.  She demonstrated that just recently. This must have been her audition segment for MSNBC.  She started ranting against God (a must for all progressive-minded liberals) in the context of blasting Rick Santorum's belief in the sanctity of life:

It's a gift! God gives you a gift of a rape baby, that's what God gives you. Uh - God also gives people cancer - I wonder if Rick Santorum thinks that uh, you know, uh, uh, uh, cancer is given by God and AIDS is given by God - or, in your case, a shocking lack of empathy is given by God. Or in my case - you know, ridiculously acute bronchitis was given to me by God! It's to show me how tough I am! It's to show me just exactly how many steroids I can take before I want to bump your eyes out! Oh my God, look on the bright side rape victims! It was given to you by a man, therefore it must be a gift! It's a gift!

We have a guest that I am hoping to have on this week who I will be interested to hear what she has to say about this rant.  She's a woman who just found out not long ago that she was a product of rape.  She had been adopted and never knew the circumstances of her situation until she met her birth mother and was told.  Randi's uber-tolerant leftist position is that it should have been totally legal for this woman's mom to murder her in the womb.  Because of anything she did?  Nope.  For the sins of the father, Randi says, it's okay to kill the baby.  Is that the direction we really want to go?  It's just intellectual and moral vapidity.  Not to mention that I'm sure Randi is totally opposed to the death penalty for rapists.  Think about that for a second.  The man who rapes the woman shouldn't be executed, according to Randi.  But the innocent child?  No problem.  There's the left.

And if that stupidity wasn't enough to earn her a spot on MSNBC, her later rant against Rush Limbaugh surely was:

RHODES: Being repulsive and impotent is a great birth control system! Either that or having a lot of money and sending women to discreet doctors, you know, so that you never have children is good birth control for him! I have a funny feeling - I have a sick feeling that after four wives and no children that there's been an abortion or two and he knows that the kind of woman he's attracted to is some shallow bitch that will do it for money and will promise never to reproduce with him - and will go, you know, dutifully, off to the clinic and - and to the discreet doctor? And this is what he thinks all women are about because these are the ones that are attracted to him!

I believe on the left, this is how they define tolerance, open-mindedness, and respect for all views and perspectives.  Look for her on MSNBC soon.