What Country Do I Live In? Part 1004

CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 just did a feature on the latest effort to destroy biological science by eradicating it among the youth. With Cooper on vacation, the show was guest hosted by a pleasant enough telebimbo, whose journalistic chops were really on display tonight. Some amphibian from the Family Research Council was booked to debate a representative of Citizens United for the Separation of Church and State. I could complain about the fact that Ms. Pastel Suit Sans Shoulder Pads treated evolution and "intelligent design theory" with equal credence ("intelligent design theory" is the name that creationists use in public settings rather than "creationism" because as long as you don't say "God," who's to say whether or not the intelligent design or its intelligent designer is a religious concept---even though the term "creationism" was already invented for that precise purpose). I could complain about the fact that the creationist got an open floor for the explicit purpose of asserting and defending the truth of "intelligent design." But to complain would be petty.

Really, what I want is for any "journalist" who asks a question like "Aren't you just associating 'intelligent design theory' with 'creationism' in order to discredit it?" or "So why aren't you open to alternative scientific theories?" to secure her pretty, telegenic self a crippling FCC indecency fine. These are public airwaves, and people are watching with their families, for Chrissake.