Feeding Frenzy: The Finale
Sue Lowden, the Republican frontrunner for Nevada’s Senate seat, declared that to bring down health care costs, patients should barter with their doctors. She stood by her comments, specifically proposing live chickens as a way to pay the doctor. FYI: Assuming you have prime-quality chickens, it would take 157,540 chickens to pay for a heart transplant.
Amazingly, she sounds even stupider in real life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9o8lVWWDac&feature=player_embedded
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The Vatican tried to downplay their sex abuse crisis by claiming that only five percent of clergymen were involved in sexual abuse cases. Well, then, it’s no big deal: if the Vatican’s numbers say that only one in twenty priests are child predators, then we have nothing to worry about…
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As long as we’re on the topic of the Vatican’s sex abuse, goddamn: http://thisishistorictimes.com/2010/04/this-is-my-body/
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In response to rising suicide rates, an army officer ordered his troops not to commit suicide. What a brilliant solution—how has nobody thought to do this before?
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Covering the eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano, CNN anchor Rick Sanchez mentioned that he was surprised that there was a volcano in Iceland—he thought that it was too cold for a volcano to exist.
During his coverage of the earthquake in Chile, Sanchez demanded that an expert convert “nine meters [to] English,” then claimed that a 27-foot drop in a part of Chile would generate a 27-foot wave that would hit Hawaii. During that same show, he repeatedly confused Hawaii and the Galapagos.
Rick Sanchez proves that in this country, stupidity is no obstacle to success. In fact, considering the caliber of the American viewing public, it probably helps him.