The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

Every time a sportswriter or talking head criticizes Manti Te'o for being gullible, I have to laugh. Who was it again that bought into and reported the story over and over again to millions of people without doing an ounce of research? Rumor has it that ESPN has a fake girlfriend of its own - her name is journalism. Tim Tebow has been demoted to a friend with benefits.

Joe Muto - the former "Fox News Mole," who had been fired by the network after he posted some rather secretive information about it on the Internet, just recently had the following to say about the cable-news channel for whom he used to work: "The people at Fox are not stupid. They know when they have Dick Morris or one of these other pundits on predicting a landslide victory for Romney, the people behind the scenes know that it's all bluster. They know that this is sort of an entertainment. They know that a lot of these people are just hucksters ... we producers know that this is all a farce. The reason we don't step in and give a reality check to our audience is because that's terrible for ratings." As I've been saying since the network's inception, they are about as fair and balanced as Paula Abdul was stable and sober while a judge on American Idol . The cable-news channel should alter their slogan from "We report. You decide...

I've read and heard many people state that those who believe the claims made in "The Da Vinci Code" are extremely gullible. Most of these people are firm believers in Christianity. Let's look at this from a non-biased perspective, shall we? Who's more gullible? One who believes that a male got married to a woman, had children with her and his lineage is still alive and well today or one who believes that a man resided in his mother whom never had intercourse, that this man was perfect every day of his life, that he sacrificed himself for the world's wrong doings and that he rose from the dead three days after his death? Looking at it from a non-biased perspective, how can one possibly say that the former is more gullible than the latter?