Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Turducken Eve

For your pre-Give-thanks-for-native-help-by-delivering-smallpox-blankets Day pleasure: I'm neither surprised nor saddened by Sarah Palin's Alaska second-week ratings and demo reports (from HollywoodReporter.com).

Sarah Palin's Alaska fell 40% on Sunday night to 3 million viewers.


Not many were in the key adult demo either. Only 885,000 viewers were ages 18-49, dropping 44% from last week.


In fact, the median age of the show is 57 -- that's 15 years older than TLC's average.


I do not <heart> Skeletor. I mean Michael Chertoff.


After last month's plot to send bombs from Yemen to the United States aboard a cargo plane, former U.S. Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff's whiskerless visage was ubiquitous on cable news. Solemnly warning that the nation needed stronger security procedures, Chertoff patiently repeated his talking points on ABC News's "World News Tonight", "Fox and Friends", CNBC's "Squawk Box" and Bloomberg TV.


Almost unmentioned in these appearances: Chertoff has a lot to gain financially if some of these measures are adopted. Between his private consulting firm, The Chertoff Group, and seats on the boards of giant defense and security firms, he sits at the heart of the giant security nexus created in the wake of 9/11, in effect creating a shadow homeland security agency.


Chertoff launched his firm just days after President Barack Obama took office, eventually recruiting at least 11 top officials from the Department of Homeland Security, as well as former CIA director General Michael Hayden and other top military brass and security officials.

Yeah, that seems about right.

 

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