Hmmm... news and porn. I wonder from where they could have gotten such an innovative idea.

weden's state broadcaster SVT on Monday faced ridicule for mistakenly showing a porn movie in the background of a news broadcast over the weekend.

Viewers of a 5-minute news update at midnight Saturday could see explicit scenes from a Czech porn movie on a TV screen behind news anchor Peter Dahlgren.

The monitor -- one of many on the wall of a control room visible behind the studio -- normally shows other news channels during broadcasts.

But staffers who earlier in the evening had watched a sports event on cable channel Canal Plus -- which often shows X-rated films after midnight -- had forgotten to switch it back, said news director Per Yng.

"This is highly embarrassing and unfortunate," Yng said. "It must not happen again. At least until sweeps."

Okay, I added in that last line.

Thanks again to Confederate Yankee.

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I think this is a good thing. Yes, they still took the picture. But they caption it to explain the staging that occurred-- providing that "context" they usually say they want to provide, but usually don't, at least when such "context" hurts their terrorist allies.

he shell is huge, bigger than the young boy pushed forward to stand reluctantly next to it while we get our cameras out and record the scene for posterity.

It's still a good question whether or not pictures like this should be taken at all. If the Hezbollywood set designers are going to create a false scene, should journalists take a picture of the staged scene at all?

But at least it's admitted here, and that's progress.

Someone seems to have shamed them into cleaning up their act.

Thanks to Confederate Yankee.

Related: In more Will Wonders Never Cease News, the New York Times admits that British anti-hate laws have not silenced Islamist calls for murder. [Link to LGF, not the NYT.]

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I've got a different take.

The very fact they now have to argue they're more accurate is, well, pretty big.

Before it was just assumed. Blogs were simply dismissed.

Now they have to do "studies" and write arguments to convince people they're more accurate.

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All you babies are gonna be wearin' Giuliani-plated diapers.

Difficult times demand of us difficult choices. From where I sit, it doesnÂ’t appear that endorsing someone who strictly adheres to orthodox Catholicism will necessarily get the job done that needs to be done, to defeat the larger and more ominous forces that are threatening our nation, Western Civilization and, yes, our faith. Can you show me the conservative Christian/Catholic candidate who is electable (yes, that matters) and who would take a strong enough stand in favor or America, and in opposition to appeasement? The ideal does not exist.

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We know this man, Giuliani, and he is a man-in-full. I would rather have one faulty, imperfect man-in-full in office, (one who is willing to be unpopular, if that’s what it takes) and dealing with our devils, than a dozen “more perfect and palatable” types who either can’t get elected or are too distracted by the demands of “the base” to do what needs doing.

Again, all of my Giuliani support is premised upon the assumption he is not a moron, and will walk back several very liberal cats as he "has a conversation with the people of America" on a, I don't know, "listening tour" or something.

If he doesn't, well, he's cooked, and this is all just a lot of nonsense.

But I think he will. If John Kerry can vote for the deaths of American servicemen in a war he is viscerally (secretly) opposed to in order to preserve his electability, I think Rudy Giuliani can manage to "evolve" in his position on partial-birth abortion, the constitutionality and constitutional necessity of Roe v. Wade, and gay marriage.

Via Heh.

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On videoblogging itself, plus Tucker Carlson on Dancing With The Stars (?) and Green Helmet Guy and a brief name-check of Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey.

No Ace-love on the last. Just a suggestion you Google.

Damnit.

Thanks to CraigC, who asks "Who knew she was a fox?"

Allah just cried a little.

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This is your so-called "medicine"? Removing one penis instead of just attaching it end-to-end to the other one?

500 years of "science" and they're still the same butchers they were during the Middle Ages.

The 24-year-old man from the northern state of Uttar Pradesh admitted himself to a New Delhi hospital this week with an extremely rare medical condition called penile duplication or diphallus, the Times of India said.

"Two fully functional penes is unheard of even in medical literature. In the more common form of diphallus, one organ is rudimentary," the newspaper quoted a surgeon as saying.

The surgery was expected to be challenging as both organs were well-formed and full blood supply to the retained penis had to be ensured to allow it to function normally, he added.

I don't care who you are, that's hot.

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There are about 100 such reported cases of diphallus around the world and it is known to occur among one in 5.5 million men, the newspaper said.

Such a shame. Seems like the perfect man for this woman, who says she has two vaginas:

You get used to all the questions, and I'm not really shy about it. Every once in a while I'll tell a guy and he'll say, "No way! I have two penises!" That would be fantastic.

It would be fantastic. Sadly, it is not to be. If only I had been more on top of things, I could have gotten these two together. I blame myself.

On a related note, I was just at a party where someone was talking about a guy in college who had two, uhhh, squeakholes, and used to display them as a kind of party trick.

I'm not kidding, and I don't think they were either. And it wasn't a friend of a friend deal; they knew this guy, and saw the Dual Exhaust Ports upclose and personal.

Thanks to the Malcontent, who has the video of George Takei's bit on the Shatner roast. He thinks it was the best part of the (pretty lame) night; I don't know. A lot of very hack, can-see-it-coming-a-mile away jokes, and they weren't helped by his... painfully... slow... delivery.

The best roast was of Jerry Stiller, because most everybody ripped Ben Stiller and Janeane Garofalo. The jokes are all the same -- whore, homo, fat, drunk, druggie, old, etc. -- but one sort of joke is an evergreen I love. The "You have no career, who are you?" joke, which was frequently deployed during the Jerry Stiller roast. That one always gets me.

Best joke of the night: Jeffrey Ross saying, "Gene Siskel was going to review Ben Stiller's & Janeane Garofalo's Mystery Men, but he took the coward's way out."

Funny, because it's true.

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If you want. (No Bill stuff.)

On the other hand, not only is JeffB. a total pussy, and not only did he strongly recommend Shatner's album Has Been before admitting, when confronted, Common People is the only unabiguously strong track on it, but he's also apparently stopped reading the site much or at least he doesn't comment much, so he's totally fair game.

Re: Bill: I know a lot of you don't like Bill, but the agreement I've made is that I would discourage out-of-the-blue attacks on him, and he would refrain from commenting here, or at least not stirring things up himself.

So, if y'll could rein it in on the Bill slams, it would be copacetic.

One More Thing: Andrew, can you shoot me an email?

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As I've previous speculated, snakes are just doing this to create buzz for the movie, which they consider their very own Brokeback Mountain.

With, alas, similar results to gays' attempts to make Brokeback a hit... although Frank rich will soon be informing us that Snakes on a Plane has a "very high per-theater take" in "Red State parts of the country" where "there aren't many snakes visible in public, kissing."

A brief recap of the indident with the copperhead is here.

I find the term "copperhead" to be racially insensitive, by the way, being half Irish.

Thanks to English Bill.

Update: Snakes on a Plane logo miraculously appears on piece of toast, being autioned on eBay.

Current bid: $128.50.

A story about it is here.

Thanks to CindyM.

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All ah with the video.

Thanks to JD to tipping me to the basic story and wondering on my behalf what exactly St. Andrew of the Nervous Exhaustion Sanitarium Holiday might have to say about it.

Update: Stolen from Allah's link, See-Dub explains Britain's weird censorship rules, and why you'll not be getting any further concrete information about this case for a while.

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Jason Alexander just finished. He didn't seem very funny, but I came in late.

Allah: Here's an okay part. Artie Lang, 40 minutes in.

"Lisa Lampenelli, you're an overweight, annoying female comic. You're seven horrible movies away from being Jeneane Garofalo.

"A lot of people might say, why hit Jeneane? She's not here to defend herself. And the answer is simple. I've met Jeneane and she's an [explitive adjective] [explitive genital]."

It's somewhere on the Funny-True continuum.

About :56 in is a good montage of Shatner's "singing" efforts.

Next up, Andy Dick reads a Kirk/Spock slash story. Humorous.

You know, watching Shatner's singing, I find it difficult to come to any other conclusion than that he's actually insane.

Yes, I know it's all an ironic goof when he does it now.

But it wasn't then. He meant it.

He's a lunatic. There is no other way to explain this stuff.

Patton Oswald is going into what the name "Shatner" sounds like. You know what the name "Patton Oswald" sounds like? "Not funny." This is one of those comedians who has a career owing only to his liberal politics. David Cross is liberal and obnoxious and nasty, but he is, actually, often pretty funny.

I have never laughed a single time at Patton Oswald. He should be dripping flop-sweat all the time, but he's somehow convinced himself he's funny, so projects the easy confidence of a veteran comic. But-- no laughs.

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