Reader Poll: Worse headline, CNN or FoxNews
There is no chance that either of these headlines is an accident. I am not sure what this trend toward using words like this is, but I really don’t like it. I long ago stopped believing that FoxNews and CNN gave a crap about the news, but this just seems ridiculous. Leave this sort of crap to the NY Post.
Anyway, which headline is worse, CNN or Fox:
CNN
FOX
Category: Politics
I think the Fox headline is pretty funny, but if CNN would have changed the wording a little more, I think they would have won the better headline award. CNN should have put up “Pee Wee Herman plays with himself for a comeback”, or something like that.
CNN is worse. In any case where CNN is involved, it is the default answer. CNN is always worse than any other source. Pravda, perhaps, excluded.
What’s wrong with Herman making a comeback? I mean considering what he did is minor in the long run. Also a lot of us enjoyed watching his show back in the 80s. Let him have his second chance.
Sporkster; I like Pee Wee, but in the cotext of the story, I was doing a word play on his play for CNN, okay? I just may, if you want me to say, he can come out and play.
Fair enough.
“I mean considering what he did is minor in the long run.”
His first brush with the law was about him beating his bishop in an adult porn theater in the presence of other adults… Disgusting, but NIMBY, so I could care less.
Could be wrong, but I think handjob got busted with kiddy porn on his second encounter with Johny Law. If so (I could be wrong), the chicken choker deserves obscurity.
There’s no validity to the kiddie porn.
He was arrested for spanking the monkey in public.
On the scale of horrible things to do, this one is probably last on that list if it is even on there.
I can think of several politicians that have done worse and are lauded as the next best thing since sliced bread.
Society tends to focus on the absolute tiniest of issues, when there are so many more issues that are going to ruin their lives and they just ignore them. It makes no sense.
FOX wins the funny award on this one.
Agree with EJ – FOX is definitely the worse headline. That kind of thing should belong in Playboy.
EJ,
You’re right about the kiddy porn:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4653913
updated 2:41 p.m. ET, Mon., April 5, 2004
When he was arrested in 1991 for indecent exposure at an adult movie theater, the star of Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure and Pee-Wee’s Playhouse became a popular punch line. A decade later, no one was laughing when he was arrested again, charged with possession of child pornography. But his lawyer determined that a tape seized in another case had been mistakenly included in the evidence against Reubens, and soon a plea bargain was in the works. Last month, the child pornography charge was dropped, with Rubens pleading guilty to a charge of obscenity instead. Now, in a television first, the man best known as Pee-Wee Herman tells a side of the story you haven’t heard — his side.
Wow, I missed the follow up there, I knew he had been hit for it….Actually, I hope he sued the hell out of somebody for that one, because a kiddie porn charge isn’t something you live down easily.
“Could be wrong, but I think handjob got busted with kiddy porn on his second encounter with Johny Law. If so (I could be wrong), the chicken choker deserves obscurity.”
For the record, I freely admit to being wrong about my speculation, should have done better research. No denying it, I stepped on my dick.