President-elect Barack Obama has offered the job of Surgeon General to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the CNN Medical correspondent for CNN.
So CMR was wondering what other talking heads could be additions to the Obama White House and predicting how that would go.
Sanjay Gupta – Surgeon General – As Surgeon General Gupta continues his demands for a “fat tax” and when that fails he starts rounding up fat people and placing them in camps “for their own good.” Soon, Gupta discovers there are too many fat people for so few camps and Gitmo is reopened. This, of course, ends with the tragedy of the fat people feeling they’re not being fed enough and turning cannibalistic on the guards and the Surgeon General himself who reportedly tasted like goat.
Bill O’Reilly – CIA Chief – Terrorism plummets in America mostly due to O’Reilly’s extremely casual rules regarding torture. Law enforcement is encouraged to torture anyone who’s not giving them “straight talk.” The ACLU disbands and goes into hiding. Dennis Miller guest stars when he’s out of work.
Glenn Beck – Drug Czar? – Because of a sordid past the guy really knows his drugs. He amazingly cleans up the entire country of all drug sources, especially those coming in from Mexico. After he ensures that drug dealers are put in prison for life he then cries and tells stories about his childhood.
Keith Olbermann – Mental Health Czar. In short, lunacy skyrockets nationwide. Seeks to have “conservativism” labeled a mental disorder which precludes them the right to vote. His initiative fails after the Senate vote ties and Joe Biden enters the Senate to break the vote but mistakenly votes the wrong way after boring the Senate with a story that started with, “When I was growing up in Scranton, Pennsylvania…”
Larry King -Department of Aging. King misconstrues his job and seeks funding to start cloning himself for parts so he can prevent aging and live forever. After a few unsuccessful runs, scientists create several Larry Kings who they keep in the lab, but soon all the scientists quit or jump out windows claiming they just can’t listen to all those stupid questions anymore. The other Larry Kings escape, start their own cable shows boring the country six out of seven nights a week, marry, and divorce several times.
Joe Scarborough – Ambassador to UN. If Scarborough can get along with all those lunatics at MSNBC he can get along with anybody.
Anderson Cooper: FCC. In his first month Cooper fines his own show for that unfortunate Kathy Griffin episode and mistakenly bankrupts CNN.
George Stephanopoulos is offered a Cabinet position but decides he’s more useful to the Administration as a biased mouthpiece on ABC.
January 8, 2009 at 4:19 am
I know you guys love to talk about media bias quite a bit, and perhaps rightly so. But you guys do know that the media can not be perfectly unbiased, right? That such a thing is intrinsically impossible?
~cmpt
January 8, 2009 at 11:58 am
No. Pat and I only have IQ’s of 34 and 46 respectively.
January 8, 2009 at 12:41 pm
What did that first comment have to do with this post? Half the people mentioned were on the right.
Funny stuff, though I think you meant to write FCC for Cooper.
January 8, 2009 at 1:15 pm
I’m really concerned about what policy shift is going to be coming our way through this. There is no reason for the Surgeon General to have “star power.” Or rather, there is no reason for the SG to have star power UNLESS you are looking for a reassuring face to lend credibility to a radical enough change that the public will be uncomfortable. Needless to say, I will watch with interest.
January 8, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Cranky, Thanks for the heads up. I corrected it.
Fun, I didn’t think of that but I’ll admit. Now, I’m worried.
January 8, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Matthew,
K… Just checking.
Cranky,
What did your comment have to do with my comment? Why would I care if the people mentioned are on the right or the left? I simply wanted to point out that there is no media without bias. I don’t care what type of bias it is.
I made the comment because Matthew and Patrick do a lot of posts on media bias, such as this one, and I was wondering what they were hoping for.
~cmpt
January 8, 2009 at 2:37 pm
The post wasn’t about media bias. It was just a humorous post. That’s what my comment meant.
January 8, 2009 at 3:11 pm
BHO should give Megyn Kelly a cabinet position because she’s attractive.
January 8, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Sorry, LarryD… nobody is allowed to be more attractive than Obama himself.
January 8, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Matthew, maybe we should just be glad that Mr. Obama was not in enough of a bipartisan spirit to name Dr. Phil instead?
Seriously, I’ll be watching that office like a hawk. I think we are definitely seeing how embryonic stem cell research will be getting sold… after all, it’s Dr. Gupta! If he says that we need ESCR it’s only for the best. If they get really ambitious it might be assisted suicide too. This appointment is definitely setting off my radar. Something is up here.
Here’s the website for the SG’s office, for easy access:
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/