Remember when CNN didn’t stand for hopelessly incompetent lies told straightfaced to the camera by Kristian Amanpour, but rather “Corruption, Nausea, and Nonsense?”

Michelle Malkin (yes, I know, but she’s on it, so…) has got a more advanced description of last night’s shenanigans than is floating around elsewhere.

Sticking a campaign activist into the debate is only a taste of what happens with CNN when a Clinton’s available.  Scandal after tasteless, tacky, tawdry, puerile scandal.And, besides the fact that she’s so class-less as to abuse her Secret Service detail, this is why I, who am pretty much going to stay home on next election night, will instead crawl naked over broken glass in order to vote against another eight years of Clinton-managed scandal-of-the-week.

Pakistani-style democracy, that is…

I have only one thing to say:  until the Administrators get the balls to back teachers up for flunking students who cheat, we’re teaching students that our standards are hypocritical blah-blah bullshit, and that the rules are a game meant to be played, rather than observed.

Nuff said.

The Mist,  if you watch the sort of movies I do, is a must see, if you can stomach two very specific facts:

1. It’s a horror movie that pulls no punches whatsoever.
2. The director respects his audience sufficiently to gut-punch them repeatedly throughout the film.

GOOD FLICK.  But not an easy flick.  I can think of several people off the top of my head who need to *not* see it.  But if you can handle a horror movie that takes off the kid gloves early, and gets really rough with its audience, this is definitely worth your time.

And as a side note, spoilers count in this one, so I’m not saying anything.

FuturePundit’s up with the latest:  apparently, scientists’ opinions now actually count, as opposed to, say, earlier CEO speculations.

Doesn’t break a lot of ground, obviously, since it’s a “4th estate once again vaguely catching up” article, but the discussion’s good.

Everybody knows that China’s economy, just like Russia’s is badly overstated.  But by… FORTY PERCENT??

It’s actually possible that this sort of news will help the reformers:  after all, WoC very rightly points out that a lot of what’s holding China back isn’t technological (they’re smart and they learn fast), but a culture that consistently seems to under-rate what our businesspeople call “best practices.”  And you can’t get any of that without encouraging transparency, etc.

Hat tip:  Winds of Change

Which is odd, because, last I checked, Kristol ain’t exactly Gen-X…

Anyway, here’s the post, which, predictably enough, involves Tom Brokaw looking stupid.

Just in case y’all didn’t believe me in my earlier post on the “Bhutto Bandwagon,” here’s her niece in the LA Times, warning of the same phenomenon.  A quick sample from Paragraph Two:

Perhaps the most bizarre part of this circus has been the hijacking of the democratic cause by my aunt, the twice-disgraced former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto. While she was hashing out a deal to share power with Gen. Pervez Musharraf last month, she repeatedly insisted that without her, democracy in Pakistan would be a lost cause.

And then it gets into the seamy details.  Of course, CNN will, as usual, laud her as South Asia’s Savior… but remember, CNN doesn’t know its ass from a hole in the ground.  (The gal who cut a deal with Musharraf is now cited as an “opposition leader.”  Yeah, right.  “Opposition leaders” don’t float around as part of an international jet-set funded by most of a billion dollars stolen from the state they used to run, into the ground, that is.)