Those whacky subversives at Kontraband have served up another delicious FOX News satire, very much in the spirit of an earlier offering by our colleagues at Last Days of a Great City. And yet, is it fair to have a laugh at the expense of a news product® so perfectly suited to our times? It’s been years since the French theorists successfully deconstructed the pabulum/non-pabulum binary. We’d be ungrateful if we didn’t admit we felt lighter on our feet, much better able to tolerate hours of shopping.
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Posted by: Cackety Dishwitz | June 16, 2007 at 11:26 AM