i've decided maybe this blog should be called "catherine hates everything" or "catherine is a really angry person" or "catherine's insane rants that take place in the morning before she fully ingests her cup of coffee." yeah. i realized that maybe if someone were to read this who doesn't know me might think i'm an irrational pissy bitch. and the people who read this and do know me might confirm that point of view.

but i can't help it. there is so much to be angry about! for example. cbs has decided not to run the winner of the moveon.org anti-bush ad campaign during the superbowl, even though moveon.org has the funds to pay for the 30-second spot. this is ludicrous. i can understand if the ad were a hate-fueled rant comparing bush to the nazis, which apparently some of the entries were. but this one was a pretty good, polished and i thought moving entry. subtle, also, and didn't address the war in iraq but instead the massive deficit and how future generations will have to pay it off. but cbs, who if you will remember was the lame-ass station who decided not to air an apparently critical series about the reagans due to conservative pressure, says, in what is also a lame-ass defense:

"Viacom's CBS today rejected a request from liberal group MoveOn to air a 30-second anti-President Bush ad during the Super Bowl, saying the spot violated the network's policy against running issue advocacy advertising.
A CBS spokesman said the decision against broadcasting the spot had nothing to do with either the Super Bowl or the ad's specific issue but was because the network has had a long-term policy not to air issue ads anywhere on the network."

which is completely lame-ass because cbs IS AIRING ISSUES AD DURING THE SUPERBOWL. anti-smoking ads. anti-drug ads from the white house (ie "terrorists use drugs and if you buy them you caused september 11" campaign).

anyway the only good i can see in this is that it will increase the visibility of moveon.org and the ad even more than it would have otherwise.

GRR!