Evening Edition

• Its late, you're drunk, you're on the way home... you turn the corner and who do you see? BATMAN. How the hell do you explain to the insurance company that you were drunk driving and crashed into THE BATMOBILE? I'm sure the guy was thinking, "What the hell did they put in my beer???"
  
• Get it straight, Marcia from Desperate Housewives... not a lesbian. Patty Bouvier from The Simpsons... lesbian.
  
• This pisses me off:
  I'm not the number one Bush supporter in the world. I may not respect him as a person, but I respect the office. The Belgians are selling Bush urinal targets. My feeling is, nobody messes with our President but us. These Belgians have done nothing to make the world a better place. What has their contribution been? Waffles? Sprouts? Dr. Evil? These douchebags and the French can defend themselves the next time someone bends them over and has their way with them.
  
  
• Fred Powers: International Buffoon Of Mystery. We saw him on TV last night for 3 minutes being chased around by a Police Drill Sergeant at the Police Academy, yelling at him. No type of context, no type of journalistic merit. His actual piece was interesting, it was about Police recruits' final night of training. But after the piece ran, out came the screaming and guns. Yes, it was good TV, but was it news? What did we accomplish by seeing him run around shooting a paintball gun? It was funny, thats about it.

  Meanwhile, I interviewed a civil rights legend, Rep. John Lewis and the new face of the democratic party, Senator Barak Obama. Neither of which made it to air beyond a 20 second story. These are men who have an unbelievable burden thrust upon them. Imagine having the hopes and dreams of not only a political party, but also a race on your shoulders. Lewis marched with MLK, was beaten by police while marching for black voting rights in the '60s. He did it to bring a bright future for people like Obama, who is the only black Senator. While shooting the story, I saw the titans of the civil rights struggle file in past me at Rep. Lewis' Birthday Ceremony... I guess if they had a drill sergeant chasing them with a paintball gun, it would've gotten more than 20 seconds of air time. They face unbelievable challenges, and have a compelling story. But we didn't have time to tell it, because Fred Powers needed time to run around getting shot with paintballs and get yelled at.