Sick Sad Week: The Confession of John Mark Karr, Ford Motors Slashes Production, and Snakes on a Plane

The Best of the Worst of the Week that Ended August 20, 2006

What Would They Have Done If Intelligent Life From Another Planet Had Landed?

The American media. The single most dependable entity in American society today. Comforting. Steadfast. Predictable. Was there anyone in America-except for Ann Coulter and others who spend hours and hours trying to convince you the conglomerate-owned American media is liberal-who didn't know exactly what the top story would be the day a judge ruled that President Bush's NSA domestic spying program was illegal AND the confessed killer of JonBenet Ramsey was found? ABC, CBS and NBC came through their trial with flying colors. Each one led off with the JonBenet Ramsey killer confession story.

Never mind that John Mark Karr was saying he first picked up JonBenet Ramsey from school (she was on Christmas vacation), and never mind that he claimed that he had drugged her (no drugs were found in her system), and never mind that he said JonBenet's death was an accident (seemingly impossible unless the six year old had given consent to play some sort of bizarre S&M game with him), and never mind that Karr's wife says he was with her in Alabama the day of the murder. Apparently, there are enough pieces of evidence we haven't yet been made privy to that was enough to convince every single television news organization of Karr's guilt and therefore justify making it not just the top story on the network broadcasts, but pretty much the only story on the 24 hour channels. Heck, Dan Abrams even returned to the anchor desk from his new managerial position to cover the story, so you know it was important.

As for that other story, the one which begins the path to the Supreme Court where the very same justices who either appointed Bush President or whom he appointed as Justice will rule that his spying program is, in fact, the single most constitutional action any President has ever undertaken...well, at least the most liberal of all the American news bureaus-CBS-covered it in detail. They almost gave a full minute of coverage to it the NSA spying program being declared unconstitutional.