Ah, the USA. Let’s celebrate their own celebration of ignorance and stupidity. How these people get on television is anyone’s guess. WEE mean, Australia has its own crass and appalling TV journalists, commentators and entertainers (Kyle Sandilands anyone?) but the US really takes the cake in promoting the truly sub-intelligent and moronic to celebrity prominence.

News Ltd, has found some commentators and journalists worse than their own to pick on for once…

‘Serial killer’ for approving camel cull “Launched air strikes against camels” Anchor is serious The Punch: A bit too far?PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has been labelled a serial killer on US TV for approving the culling of feral camels.Erin Burnett, an anchor on American financial news channel CNBC, launched a verbal attack targetting Rudd following his government’s decision to spend $A19 million to cull feral camels in the outback.

via Kevin Rudd called a ‘serial killer’ on CNBC | TV | News.com.au.

These people are really stupid and so dumb transparent -  you can bet if John Howard had made this decision it wouldn’t have rated a mention.

But their real stupidity is that they have sat and barracked for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for the last few years and simply cannot see the offensive irony of calling the cull of camels in the outback ‘genocide’.

These people represent a portion of the American establishment that is sick, sick, sick. They are so out of touch with any kind of reality that it really is not worth talking about their outlandish behaviour and hateful, bile filled speech. They are so tired and dull. Let’s just hope they go away.

Plurk This Post Buzz This Post Delicious Digg This Post Ping This Post Reddit Stumble This Post

WEE have very much been enjoying the election episodes of the West Wing over the last few weeks. WEE have to admit that after the beginning of the second season WEE lost a little bit of interest in the West Wing.

Part of it was to do with the plot and part of it was to do with the fact that the Nine Network kept you up to almost midnight to get a fix of West Wing. WEE are pleased that the series has moved across to the ABC and that you can watch the series ad free and over two episodes per evening. That is all very civilised.

Even better, WEE are finding the episodes surrounding the presidential election most interesting and compelling. The series really does feel back to form and next week’s bombshell of Leo dying should be one not to miss. [more]

The cast is performing well, despite the sad loss of John Spencer (Leo McGarry), whose character makes a posthumous exit (WEE think) next week.

WEE wait in anticipation of the outcome of the ‘presidential election’ and suspect that Santo will win, although perhaps the writers would enjoy the challenge of writing a republican white house? Although we suspect they wouldn’t be able to top the antics of the actual current incumbent!

Yes, WEE know we could get on the web and find out what happens but WEE like suspense, so no comments on the outcome of the election please!

So, if you haven’t had a look at the West Wing for a while, have a look again next week.

Plurk This Post Buzz This Post Delicious Digg This Post Ping This Post Reddit Stumble This Post

Well the story of the building of the longest water pipeline in the world was thankfully Gerard Henderson free this week. In fact there were no obvious blunders on the ‘balance’ front. This only makes last week episode even worse, because it is really obvious why Henderson was there. Because the story involved a Labor Premier.

The state of executives at the ABC is to be condemned, as they are clearly afraid of criticism from Howard and his ilk that they have compromised editorial independence and so now ruin programs with this inane solution to ‘balance’ to protect them from the next barrage of Coalition criticism.

WEE stand by our view that it really is a sad state of affairs and reflects poorly on the ABC and their Australian documentary programming. Perhaps the first episode is better described as “deconstructing Australia”… or at the very least, “deconstructing the ABC”.

Plurk This Post Buzz This Post Delicious Digg This Post Ping This Post Reddit Stumble This Post

While we share it with some rather bizarre other WEEs at least you can look us up in an on-line dictionary.

Worst Episode Ever (television series) – What does WEE stand for? Acronyms and abbreviations by the Free Online Dictionary

WEE Definition:
WEE Western Equine Encephalitis
WEE Woody’s EMAIL Essentials (email list)
WEE Worst Episode Ever (television series)

Plurk This Post Buzz This Post Delicious Digg This Post Ping This Post Reddit Stumble This Post

[youtube]fq27hPAO51U[/youtube]

Not bad at all…

Plurk This Post Buzz This Post Delicious Digg This Post Ping This Post Reddit Stumble This Post

Whatever was going on, it’s reassuring to see such a good interviewer as Parky lose the plot–yes, WEE are all human in TV land.

There has been a bit of press generated, with Parky trying to defend his performance and blame it all on Meg. Meg of course has retaliated saying that Parky is rude.

What actually happened is that the whole show was pretty boring and ordinary. First up was some rags to riches Irish bloke who is now on East Enders telling jokes and dragging out the normal cliches about his mother and father that you get with these types. Nothing amazing here, Parky didn’t even have to drag it out of this guy with some cleverly disguised question. This bloke was just gushing about his early life of poverty.

Then there were some loser fashion types, who I didn’t really listen to. And in between all of this some dorky kid who’d done something in New York or on Broadway or something was singing some pretty ordinary croony type songs.

And then came poor old Meg Ryan. There was no energy on the set. And most of us had lost interest in the show. Parky didn’t like the film and wanted to have a bit of a fight about it. Ryan doesn’t like interviews at the best of times. Bad mixture.

Unfortunately, it all smacked of an old bloke who felt his sensibility had been affronted by a film, and as he also happened to be interviewing one of the actors on the film he felt he was in a position to take advantage of it and at the same time, WEE suppose, he thought it might be a good way to liven up his show. Bad idea.

But really, no harm done. Not a great episode of Parky. Him and the producers have useful reminder not to be complacent, and let’s face it, everyone has their bad days. It’s just not that many of us have ours broadcast across the world.

Plurk This Post Buzz This Post Delicious Digg This Post Ping This Post Reddit Stumble This Post