I'm listening to talk radio on Sirius/XM and suddenly I hear this commercial for something called the "Judith Regan Show." Here's Judith Regan, telling us why we need to give her a listen:
"Everyone lies nowadays. Lawyers lie. Spokespeople lie. Politicians lie. Well, that's why you need the Judith Regan show. This is the Guantanamo Bay of Talk shows. We rip people apart, we shred them, we get to the truth."
Ugh, come on. "The Guantanamo Bay of Talk Shows?" How about "the North Korean Prison of Talk Shows?" As we approach the 8th anniversary of 9/11, perhaps she should call her show so exciting, so hot, so attention-grabbing that it's "the brutal terrorist attack of talk shows."
Judith Regan is actually equating asking tough questions to- what? Applying electrodes to fingers and testicles? Threatening to rape the subject's minor family members? Waterboarding?
I'll be polite and say that Judith Regan is just being clueless and classless here. It would be just as easy to say she's being oblivious to the harsh reality of what went on down in Gitmo during the last Administration. It would be just as easy to say that Judith Regan apparently thinks that there's something valuable about torture because it "gets answers." Because I don't know Judith Regan and I like to give people the benefit of the doubt.
Because, seriously- the alternative is that Judith Regan thinks it's fricking AWESOME that we tortured suspects, and she's doing the next best thing on her show, because gosh darn it, we the listeners deserve the "truth."
Here's the truth, and I'm being polite: Judith Regan is, at best, an idiot who agreed to sign off on a really, really horrible ad idea. If these ads stay on, she moves beyond "idiot" into the category of "cold-blooded, soulless moron." I'll just have to wait and see.
The Judith Regan who was screwing Bernie Kerick while he as married and she was pimping his book? The Judith Regan who was going to publish OJ Simpson's "fictional" murder confession? The Judith Regan who used to be a producer of Geraldo Rivera's talk show? Pardon me if I don't consider her a paragon of honesty and integrity.
ReplyDeleteIf it is THAT Judith Regan, I would tend to think that she'd fall nicely in the latter category.
ReplyDelete"Judith Regan is actually equating asking tough questions to- what? Applying electrodes to fingers and testicles? Threatening to rape the subject's minor family members? Waterboarding?"
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, those first two things are not examples of what goes on at Gitmo, they happened at a place called Abu Grabe. They happened (officially, seems weird, but it's what the Army said) Because a bunch of Psychotic Psickheads Who Should Not Have Been In The Army got bored, and that is whatPsychotic Psickheads Who Should Not Be In The Army do when Bored. I would appreciate if you would clear this up somehow.