The Talking Heads on cable TV are uniformly ridiculous as CNN and MSNBC ape the formulaic antics of the Faux News personalities. Tom Tomorrow provides delicious satire with Action McNews' Biff, The Talking Head host in colloquy with The Belligerent Neo-Con and The Ineffecutal Moderate. The giveaway as to Biff's identity is his transitional phrase before moving on to a new segment: "First, these messages" as the commercial for some inane household appliance follows. This blogger gets his news from Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show" as Stewart eviscerates the on-camera talent of Faux News, CNN, and MSNBC. It's all a joke (that is no longer very funny). If this is (fair & balanced) empty-head news media, so be it.
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Sunday Talking About Stuff Show
By Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)
[Dan Perkins is an editorial cartoonist better known by the pen name "Tom Tomorrow". His weekly comic strip, "This Modern World," which comments on current events from a strong liberal perspective, appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the U.S., as well as on Daily Kos. The strip debuted in 1990 in SF Weekly. Perkins, a long time resident of Brooklyn, New York, currently lives in Connecticut. He received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in both 1998 and 2002. When he is not working on projects related to his comic strip, Perkins writes a daily political weblog, also entitled "This Modern World," which he began in December 2001. Earlier this year, Dan Perkins, pen name Tom Tomorrow, was named the winner of the 2013 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning.]
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