America hates policy, loves drivel

In news sure to surprise exactly no one, ABC's special on President Obama's health-care town hall meeting which aired last night was watched by what amounts to zero people (roughly). The Live Feed brings us the grim statistics:

The one-hour ABC News special "Primetime: Questions for the President: Prescription for America" (4.7 million viewers, 1.1 preliminary adults 18-49 rating) had the fewest viewers in the 10 p.m. hour. The special tied some 8 p.m. comedy repeats as the lowest-rated program on a major broadcast network.

So essentially, Americans can't be bothered to tune in for a Q&A with the leader of the free world about something that will undoubtedly affect their future, but 10.6 million made the time to tune in to watch two morons get divorced. This is usually where I would say something sanctimonious about weeping for America's future, but I didn't watch either. What was I doing last night? I'm not telling.*






*Your mom, obviously.


via The Live Feed

This is not a post about Jeff and Karen Plus Seven

If you visit other tv blogs today you'll probably see coverage about two random people who aren't really celebrities doing something or another. Apparently children are involved. But we're not going to cover that garbage at bambat, because we aren't a real news source. Instead, we bring you content you will get at no other blog... Pictures of Megan Fox on a motorcycle:


What? What's that? Oh...

Why isn't it airing on Lifetime?

You don't know this yet, but your fragile liberal sensibilities were offended by the insinuation I made in the headline. Keep reading to find out why:

The Travel Channel is pounding the pavement to find a few bad motorists.

Cabler has picked up reality competish "The Streets of America: The Search for America's Worst Driver."

Based on an international format that has sold to more than a dozen territories, show puts bad drivers through a series of challenges to find the worst of the bunch.

First of all, fuck you Variety, because I know for a fact that neither "cabler" or "competish" are words. This isn't twitter, you're supposed to be a real magazine. Second of all, this is possibly the worst idea for a tv show I have ever heard. And I've watched True Blood. Yes, let's take people who should not be driving in the first place and encourage them to drive even more poorly in order to win cash and prizes! Hey, why not add alcohol to the mix while we're at it? After all, there aren't consequences for that in this country either - just ask Donte Stallworth (wow, that couldn't have been timed better). Oh, and if you don't understand why I chose that banner pic, you shouldn't be reading this blog.

via Variety