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Great moments in slutty ingratiatory PR gibberish. And they wonder why people call em' media whores. Some guy named Jeff Bieber insults the intelligence of everyone who ever lived in Baltimore and pretty much anyone, almost anywhere else, even remotely functionally literate, alive or dead.

"We were looking for a fresh, different voice that we could build a franchise around," says executive producer Jeff Bieber, 50, comparing Carlson to legendary social critic and humorist H.L. Mencken (1880-1956).

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Carlson's father, Richard, was head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in the early '90s. The younger Carlson has never given money to PBS, but says its acclaimed documentary series Frontline made him a true believer.

Nov. 12, 2003
For PBS, Tucker Carlson the right guy for new series
By Gail Shister, Philadelphia Inquirer

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Axis of the Golden Spurs ~ and other highlights from the Harpers Index:
(heads up via: TalkLeft)

October 2003

Percentage of Americans who will save less than $100 on their 2006 federal taxes as a result of this year's tax cut: 88

Average amount these Americans will save: $4

Year in which House Republicans thrice rejected an amendment to upgrade the U.S. electrical grid: 2001

Number of Virginia Republican Party officials fined this year for eavesdropping on Democratic Party conference calls: 3

Years after the Watergate break-in that deputy campaign director Jeb Magruder admitted hearing President Nixon order it: 30

Year in which Donald Rumsfeld gave Saddam Hussein a pair of golden spurs: 1983

Sept 2003

Price of the oil-field supplies sold to Iraq by two Halliburton subsidiaries during Cheney's tenure: $73,000,000

Amount Pat Robertson has invested in Liberian gold mining: $8,000,000

Estimated number of soccer balls the U.S. government sent Iraq this summer to help "bring life back to normal": 60,000

Amount New Zealand's Fire Service spent this year on a TV campaign against cooking while drunk: $201,300

Maximum number of miles that Ford's most fuel-efficient 2003 car can drive on a gallon of gas: 36

Maximum number its 1912 Model T could: 35

Percentage of the bombs dropped on Iraq this year that were not precision-guided: 32

Average age at which an American believes that adulthood begins: 26

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Huh?

Using that Biblical method of determining adultery by coitus consequently means determining marriage by coitus. By pointing out the biological impossibility of coitus for homosexuals together, the decision unwittingly indicated that "same sex marriages" are equally impossible.

It also (unwittingly) shows that polygamy is very possible, indeed. History's first recorded "adultery" word and adultery-determined-by-coitus commandment were written by Moses, who married two wives!

Yeah, I know what ya mean. I knew a guy named Coitus. He was from New Jersey. Always telling everyone else what to do. But I don't think he spelled his name like that.