February 03, 2006

Charlie's Show Prep #39

• Sheikh Yussef al-Qaradawi called for an "international day of anger" today to protest Muhammad cartoons.

• Patrick Fitzgerald hasn't refuses to devulge if he'll accuse Scooter Libby or any White House official of outing Valarie Plame as a CIA agent. He's just focusing on proving Libby lied to investigators and a grand jury. This has turned into the Martha Stewart trial where Libby will be accused of lying about crimes the prosecution can't prove.

• Intelligence agency leaders want the sources of sensational intel leaks to be found and prosecuted.

• Tim Cuprisin actually defends the over-coverage of Bob Woodruff's and Doug Vogt's war injuries:
  

  There's a simple reason behind the disparity: The anchor of a network newscast is known to millions of people who tune in nightly - in ABC's case, about 9 million.

  An injured soldier or firefighter or police officer is known to family and friends and neighbors.

  ...

  The national news media usually needs more of a hook to tell a story, either a unique personal story or a big name to give a face to the faceless thousands.

  That's where Woodruff comes in. After all, such a high-profile wounding in a roadside bombing helps remind us of the thousands of Americans who have been wounded in Iraq.

  
  Yeah right. The media got all teary-eyed over Woodruff and Vogt because they care about the troops. Give me a break. If the MSM really cared they'd cover more of the positive things happening in Iraq instead of counting bodies. There's not lack of material. Here's a good place to start. The fact is the MSM is a narcissistic tribe who circles the wagon around their own.

• Someone stuffed a deer down a manhole.

• A naked man in Wittenberg, WI attacked two cars. The cars won, but with permanent scarring.

• Elle Macpherson was voted as Australia's hottest babe ever. Good choice.

• Epiphanny Prince scored 113 points in a high school game. Too bad she isn't going to play for the Badgers. They could use her.