With all that is happening in the world, Fox thinks THIS is important!

I'm surprised this story was on Fox and not on NPR (or locally on KUOW).  It is amazing to me how much of their programming they devote to food.  All that gushing about how one of their regulars hosted Martha Stewart, and what a delightful guest she was.  I wonder if they'd gush over the social grace of celebrity diners like Gary Ridgway or Slobodan Milosevic, too?

I've given up posting to this list or anywhere else about NPR because it's so hopeless. Every day just brings a torrent of cute, frivolous, misleading and just plain bad reporting.  I haven't been able to replace it entirely, but every time I listen, I get fed up and have to shut it off earlier.


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From: Steven McCabe < blue_meanie_9@yahoo.com >
Date: Mar 9, 2006 10:27 PM
Subject: [progressive] With all that is happening in the world, Fox thinks THIS is important!
To: "K. B." < KICKINGBIRD4@yahoo.com >

Fox News Grills Gonzales: "Are You, Sir, A Pie A La Mode Man?"

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has a central role in some very important issues: the domestic spying program, the Patriot Act, and violations by the FBI and DOJ lawyers .

Today, Fox News still found time to question Gonzales on an equally important subject — pies. Watch it:

(Quicktime Video )

Transcript:

E.D. HILL: Ok. And finally, we were talking about this state pies. I don't believe Texas has one. Florida is changing from key lime to pecan pie –

STEVE DOOCY: Yeah, maybe, it's a big debate.

HILL: Now shouldn't Texas lay claim to the pecan pie?

GONZALES: Oh, I'll tell you, I've eaten some great — both key lime pie and pecan pie in Texas.

DOOCY: Are you a – if I can ask you a personal question – are you, sir, a pie a la mode man, do you prefer ice cream on the top or do you prefer whipped cream?

GONZALES: I'm not a whipped cream fan. I like good old blue bell vanilla ice cream from Texas.

HILL: The best. Ok, well, there's an answer — thank you.

DOOCY: Alberto Gonzales, the attorney general of the United States and a confessed pie lover. http://www.thinkprogress.org/