Posted 6:15 PM by Gene

And somehow tonight I am forced to remember Brian Williams. We forget since his cynical ploy he has been America's leading seller of denture adhesives almost without a break. We suspect one reason he appears on SNL every other month and Leno even more often (or so it seems) and discloses his stupid iPod playlists is to "humanize" him, perhaps a tacit recognition that some members of the audience may remember the ploy too. We can't get that angry at such a seemingly good guy; but what he did was very bad -- and very good for HIM, which is why we should NEVER forget it.

P. S. Someone with the Tea Party came up with a list of nightly-news sponsors from last September, we gather as the networks were doing their usual thorough investigative job -- on the Tea Party; and while there's only one instance of denture adhesives in here it sounds like a sad, tired lot, as we might expect when the network news' audience is close to collecting Social Security, the sort of sponsors who phone the ads in -- as they all do, so they don't have to know what they're sponsoring.

P. P. S. And ED MURROW, and JIMMY FALLON, and 30 ROCK, and....AND THE AUDIENCE IS STILL AGED 62.