"Television has its uses," Mr.Sorry, Dennis.MetzSmith added. "Me personally, I'm like an alcoholic. If I get started, I'll watch it all the time, and it's just a bad thing for me. Especially TV news. It's too emotional."
He then told me you can't believe anything you hear on the network news in any case. He said he learned that on talk radio, from Dennis Prager: "If you have to stop one thing in your life, he says, stop television news."
The next morning, I called Mr. Prager and reached him at an airport in the Midwest, where he was on a book tour. "It's good you checked with me," he said, "because I have never said, 'Everything you hear on the news is a lie.'"
Mr. Prager told me he does believe CBS, NBC and ABC all have a liberal slant and that he had criticized Mr. Rather for his interview with Saddam Hussein: "I thought he prostituted himself by asking serious questions of a tyrant."
"If [Mr.MetzSmith] had said, 'Dennis Prager says it's a waste of time to watch the evening news,'" said Mr. Prager, "he would be right."
In the heat of the moment, I may have mischaracterized your position on television news somewhat, but I am fairly confident that I never said that YOU said:'Everything you hear on the news is a lie.'Not sure where THAT came from, unless it was a PARAPHRASE of what Alex Ben Block thought that I said about you.I intended to say what YOU said:'Dennis Prager says it's a waste of time to watch the evening news.'I guess that I will have to work on my CLARITY! :o)
The implication is that you said it, but he doesn't actually SAY that you said it.
This is a strange way of writing to say the least.
Unfortunately, I wasn't planning to do a completed video of this freep. Due to the low light, most of it didn't come out very well, and I have a horribly busy month. Let's just say I have to move in the next month or two, and since housing options are miserably bad, I'm having a very stressful time of it :-(.
Expect me to be back to normal by January or thereabouts :-(.
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