I misread the headline - thought the interview was with former National Security Advisor Zdzislaw Beksinski.

/it'd be scarily effective

I'm a physic.

I can predict people's movements.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Wait...the Stairway to Lenin guy?

Oh wow, I actually caught some of "Anderson" while I was channel flipping (home sick from work). He's putting off globe-hopping with CNN and in shows like The Mole to do this shiat?

It's a shame. Cooper could have been the Cronkite of his generation, but instead he's turned into Maury Povtch.

/always suspected that Connie Chung makes Maury go through a de-con shower when he comes home at night.

More cheap programming to fill the 500 channel universe. Turn the television off and do something useful.

aearra: More cheap programming to fill the 500 channel universe. Turn the television off and do something useful.

Yeah, like complain on a website!

Cooper has been getting progressively more retarded lately. I think they're trying to bring in the retarded masses with Fox news style programming. Their goddamn morning show almost turned me into a serial talking head murderer.

bigpeeler: They're all media whores. Wave enough cash and they bend right over.

In his case, he doesn't need the cash.

Having said that, I'd do his mom, and she's used to having people bend over for her:

It is generally a good idea to stay far away from people who claim to be psychics or who can talk to the dead etc... Many are fakers but the ones who are not faking can be very bad for your karma.

Dwight_Yeast: Cooper could have been the Cronkite of his generation, but instead he's turned into Maury Povtch.

Hell, Jerry Springer could have been the Cronkite of his generation, but instead he's turned into Jerry Springer.

rev. dave: It is generally a good idea to stay far away from people who claim to be psychics or who can talk to the dead etc... Many are fakers but the ones who are not faking can be very bad for your karma.

I agree, I went to a non-faker in Cassadaga, FL once ... dude was the real thing but afterwards I decided it's nothing I want to mess around with.

I heard this advertised on the radio on the ride home, but since I don't have cable I won't be watching it. But I did have to wonder how many churches/mosques/synagogues he would be visiting.

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Hell, Jerry Springer could have been the Cronkite of his generation, but instead he's turned into Jerry Springer.

No, Springer could have been the Dennis Kusinich of his generation if he hadn't bounced checks off hookers.

I can't watch the guy. He was a game show host and before that he hosted the overnight news (ABC I think?) where he cracked jokes to the cameramen and threw crap at them a la Letterman.

Hey Anderson!

Quasar: Anderson let me down. I hear a commercial for his show "TV is dominated by the loudest, angriest voices. We want to bring something positive and talk about issues that matter. My guest next week - Snooki."

I have given up on CNN all together.

/I don't give a shiat if you are selling your CD Robin Meade, STFU and read news.

Richard Dawkins on psychic addiction. (new window)

Orson Welles debunks psychics/fortune tellers/etc., explains cold readings. (new window)

If you're gullible enough to believe a psychic, you deserve to lose every penny you invest in one. It's the oldest racket there is and no reasonable person should take it seriously.

Didn't see the show, but read the article. It wasn't about psychics so much as people throwing thousands of dollars at psychics. Not much different than gambling addiction or some other event where people throw their good sense out the window and end up short lots of $'s because of it. I don't really see the topic being that bad, not much different than hosting James Randi or some other reputable source to bust the whole psychic scam.

It's not like he was foisting Sylvia Brown on an audience and claiming that she had some sort of legitimate gift (I'm looking at you -Montel)

FTFA: Lassez, a French-Canadian actress turned self-help guru lamented. "This is really a very serious problem, and it's the only addiction that really isn't recognized, and it's hilarious!

Oh for the love of God... what a farking coont.

It's not a serious problem, it's just you drumming your own...well...drum.

And it's not the only "addiction" that isn't recognized. A - People are addicted to plenty of things that aren't really recognized as addiction by government agencies and B - Science has shown that you can be addicted to anything in a psychological way, so in away, it's recognized too.

And if it's a serious problem then it's not hilarious. Jeez Canada, why did you unleash this shebeast upon the world?

Yeah, I decided to check it out for the first time.

Guess what? I won't be checking it out ever again.

You see me now a veteran of a thousand psychic wars
I've been living on the edge so long
Where the winds of limbo roar
And I'm young enough to look at
And far too old to see
All the scars are on the inside
I'm not sure if there's anything left of me

Don't let these shakes go on
It's time we had a break from it
It's time we had some leave
We've been living in the flames
We've been eating up our brains
Oh, please don't let theses shakes go on

You ask me why I'm weary, why I can't speak to you
You blame me for my silence
Say it's time I changed and grew
But the war's still going on dear
And there's no end that I know
And I can't say if we're ever...
I can't say if we're ever gonna to be free

Don't let these shakes go on
It's time we had a break from it
It's time we had some leave
We've been living in the flames
We've been eating out our brains
Oh, please don't let theses shakes go on

You see me now a veteran of a thousand psychic wars
My energy's spent at last
And my armor is destroyed
I have used up all my weapons and I'm helpless and bereaved
Wounds are all I'm made of
Did I hear you say that this is victory?

Don't let these shakes go on
It's time we had a break from it
Send me to the rear
Where the tides of madness swell
And been sliding into hell
Oh, please don't let shakes go on
Don't let these shakes go on
Don't let these shakes go on

-Blue Oyster Cult "Veteran of the Psychic Wars"

Sid_6.7: Apos: I spy with my third eye

A Salubri! Kill it!

NERD!

This is what happens when you take on a network, Daytime TV show. People just don't want to much to think or worry about while they're home unemployed and they don't want anything controversial on the TV while they're home taking care of their kids.

I am disappoint, America.

offmymeds:
You see me now a veteran of a thousand psychic wars
I've been living on the edge so long
Where the winds of limbo roar
And I'm young enough to look at
And far too old to see
All the scars are on the inside
I'm not sure if there's anything left of me
...
-Blue Oyster Cult "Veteran of the Psychic Wars"


You see me now a veteran of a thousand SIGINT wars
I've sittin' on this rack so long
That my ass is getting sore
And I'm young enough to listen
And far too old to hear
All that static makes you insane
I'm not sure if there's a target on this freq

-dittybopper "Veteran of the SIGINT Wars"

It's part of my greatest hits compilation, along with other familiar tunes like:

"If I took my headsets,
threw 'em all over the bay
would it satisfy your bleedin' mind,
would you think this boy's insane
I know it's only Morse Code, but I like it...."

"Ever since I was an E-2,
I copied in these halls
From [censored] down to [censored]
I must have heard them all
but I ain't heard nothin' like him,
in any shift or mode,
that deaf dumb and blind op
sure sends some mean Morse code"

To get your copy, send $9.99 via radio on 7.845 MHz today!

/Plus $4 shipping and handling
//Please allow 6 to 8 eons for delivery.

bigpeeler: They're all media whores. Wave enough cash and they bend right over.

Aww, I thought I was still in the Vanessa Hudgens thread. So disappointed right now.

I am also addicted. =(

rev. dave: It is generally a good idea to stay far away from people who claim to be psychics or who can talk to the dead etc... Many are fakers but the ones who are not faking can be very bad for your karma.

Wait, you're saying you can't talk to the dead? I do it all the time.

Obviously they don't talk back, they're dead. And also generally somewhere else, as I don't live in a graveyard.

TravisBickle62: I agree, I went to a non-faker in Cassadaga, FL once ... dude was the real thing but afterwards I decided it's nothing I want to mess around with.

Yeah, nice try, guy, but no one's that gullible and simultaneously smart enough to operate a keyboard and a web browser.

That Motherfarking Gingerbear: Sid_6.7: Apos: I spy with my third eye

A Salubri! Kill it!

NERD!

Well, I'm glad I didn't go with my comment about the navigators needing to stay on the ship, then.

"Psychic Addiction" is an absurd concept, and a very real one. I'll spare y'all the CSB but there are some very smart people out there who are paradoxically also huge suckers and spend good money on this. Believers aren't all dummies, in spite of what you might think. It's very weird.

Adam Corolla said it best: Daytime TV is the way it is because the smart people are all at work.

bigpeeler: dittybopper: bigpeeler: They're all media whores. Wave enough cash and they bend right over.

In his case, he doesn't need the cash.

Having said that, I'd do his mom, and she's used to having people bend over for her:

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Wow! That was impressive how you tied all of that in together. :-)

Nah. I'd rate it as Fark average, at best.