New Rule: when you are a preening, smug, self-referential, talentless, unfunny hack whose one remaining schtick is to bash America wherever possible and “Bush is dumb” jokes, who plays the perpetual victim for being fired from one show because

A. the show sucked

and

2. you’re guests were vapid, out of their depth, uninformed and stridently obscene, leftist and inappropriate re: the content you debated

and

III. you offended what remained of your audience, yet you frame it as a “free speech” issue, ooh, you’re a ginormous asshole.

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CBS said Wednesday it is cancelling the Wednesday edition of “60 Minutes,” insisting the decision was made because of poor ratings and not last fall’s ill-fated story about President Bush’s military service. Dan Rather, the newsmagazine’s lead correspondent, will contribute stories to the Sunday edition of “60 Minutes,” said CBS Chairman Leslie Moonves. “This was a ratings call, not a content call,” Moonves said Wednesday.

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Well, HuffPo has been good for one thing. I never realized Jim “the Lamps are on but nobody’s home” -ley was a raving nutball.

He never was much of a sportsreader, an avocation that requires only that you have television hair and speak without a lisp. You don’t even have to be marginally literate, since an earpiece not only instructs you on what to say, but how to say it.

Having failed as a sportsreader, I guess he’s trying his hand at punditry. Risky move when he’s so used to mouthing the writings and opinions of others. Come to think of it, most lefty pundits do just that, taking marching orders from the ravingest rabid lambs of the fringe leftwingnutroots.

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