CNN suckage

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Jesus. I just wanted to document this 60 seconds of complete non-news stupidity of morning anchors covering this really difficult story, "It's warm". As some of you know I often watch cable news as background as I work by myself. This bold dialogue took place on Friday morning and I'm sure it will mark a high point in the channel's history. From their official transcript.

MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning. I'm Miles O'Brien.
Warm weather in cold country. We're watching the temperature go in an unexpected direction.

What is going on here? A little hot in here.

It was nearly 60 degrees in Buffalo yesterday. Yes, Buffalo, the land of spicy wings and deep snow banks, if you catch my drift. Even the Great White North is not so white. In Ontario, record-breaking temperatures there.

And in the Southeast this morning, rolling thunder. A summer- like storm spurning tornado warnings as we speak. This shot coming to you from WBRC in Birmingham, Alabama.

Yikes, Auntie Em. The calendar and the country seem inside out. It is summer in January.

Carol Costello outside overlooking Central Park. It's in the mid 40s, due to get up in the mid 50s, which is about 10 degrees shy of what it should be in New York City today.

Carol, good morning.

CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: I'm telling you, yikes, Auntie Em is definitely right, because take a look at the weather. It' sunny, but there's fog. And I'm out here without a coat, and it is January in New York City.

Yesterday we went up to 61 degrees. There were people outside in shorts.

There are two schools of thought. Some people say, oh, don't talk about the warm weather because you're going to jinx it and it's going to end. And then there's a second school of thought, what's happening? Because, you know, when something unusual lasts for so long, you just start to wonder.

And as you said, Miles, it's bizarrely warm in many parts of the country. Let's take a look at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, right now.

It is 45 degrees at, what, 9:00 a.m. Eastern in the morning, 45 degrees. Their expected high is 60 degrees.

In Baltimore, we have another tower cam shot of that because Baltimore shares in our warmth, is basking in our warmth, 41 degrees right now. Foggy there, too. But they are expecting a high of 56 degrees.

And you mentioned Ontario, Miles. Well, Ontario, this is supposed to be the coldest month, January. They had a really nasty December, but in January there were people outside in shorts because in parts of Ontario, Toronto, it was 48 degrees.

So we ask our expert Chad Myers, what is going on here?

A year ago they said that American Morning was directed at an IQ level of 120, higher than any other morning TV news show. It's possible. If you watch any other morning TV news show, you find happy grinning morons giving you happy grinning morning news with entertaining guests and hardly any news content whatsoever. I can't watch those shows in the morning, because I experience the side effect of nausea and vomiting.

I just about lost it as I watched the above 60 seconds. It's not the sort of thing that should make one lose it, but I've been so annoyed for so long that by the time she repeated that final question, "what is going on here?" I could only yell back at the TV "You're the goddamn news, you find out and you tell us! That's your fucking job!!"

At this point I turned to Fox News, which is my practice when CNN is being moronic, and they were talking about Iran's nuclear program. So yeah, the highest IQ morning show these days is the typically-shallow, sensational and righty Fox.