Michele and De Doc are both discussing Pixar’s rejection of Disney and the implosion caused by Michael Eisner. Says Doc:

It is time, and high time, and past time, that Eisner leave the Walt Disney Company… and that the firm be governed and managed by people who understand the legacy, the artistic and cultural treasures that Walt Disney left us.

Now, I’m no Disney shareholder, but I know Disney is getting terrible when the best thing I could actually allow my nieces to watch on their TV channel is House of Mouse. They really don’t make those skit cartoons like they used to any more. Opera and classical soundtracks in the background have given way to, er, I really don’t know any more.

Oh how the face of children’s entertainment has changed, definitely for the better, but sometimes I have my doubts. Though I don’t want to be the Coulterette and point the finger at the self-esteem, political correctness, and liberal movements in television. Surely I do not want to show my nieces the classic Warner Brothers cartoons that were dripping with racist epithets (think: African pygmies with bones through their noses, wearing white gloves, and singing hymns). At least not yet.

To bury those works in the past, away from memory for fear of them being “offensive” is dangerous. They too, provide a cultural heritage in the development of America as a society. Want to know why the characters in Doug seem to have been colored by a five year old with a box of sixty-four crayons? The ugly, offensive past serves as a marker for the way things used to be, and judgment of the present and the direction for the future still relies on the past as a factor.

Looking for fair and balanced television programming? Don’t look to the news. Until most of the outlets actually admit their biases regarding their reporting I always watch them with a sneer on my face. Informative, yes. Sometimes mistaken? Well, that’s how journalism can be.

If you want fair and balanced programming look no further than the Sci Fi channel. Of late their programming is beginning to lean more to the other side of the Atlantic. It has a certain European feel to it, but if there is one show that is holding that station together, it’s Stargate SG-1. It’s been around longer the President Bush has been, but I have seen in many episodes where the so-called Bush Doctrine was applied. General Hammond, Colonel O’Neill and the rest of the team are no surrender monkeys. Jingoistic? Not quite, but it really bleeds present-day Americanism, and I love it.

Of course, it has its own show dedicated to the overthinking folks, who search for the most complicated answer to everything: Tuesday: Declassified. I’m in no way ashamed to say that this show among the other conspiracy-type shows on SciFi are perfect for the moonbat crowd.

Shows for the people who love America in all the different ways that they think they do. That sounds like fair and balanced to me.

I may be hard on Food Network’s choice of primetime shows, but nothing beats their new station IDs. Creative, but not in a Post-Modern way. If some station IDs of other channels feel like the “HOT! DOG!” campaign that Keanu Reeves proposed in Sweet November, those of FoodTV provide quite the antithesis, if not in concept, in ambiance.

Think of that ear of corn getting stripped while kinky music and catcalls are being played in the background.

Think of that particular station ID where some lady is singing “Are you hungry,” while a montage of scenes from different shows are playing.

And then, think: cheese.

Makes you hungry just watching their ads, No?