WSOC talked to parents this morning about budget cuts that CMS will vote on today. None of the parents want teachers to be laid off. But none of them offered to pay higher taxes either.

Flipping over to Fox News Rising, it seems that the drought is back. And guess what? There is a chance of snow for next week. That means, buy your bread today. Mark Mathis was supposed to talk about the ecomony, but the reporter from New York could not be found. Thank you for small blessings. But I can’t wait for the Friday Dance Party.

Jon Wilson was hanging out with a bunch of Pittsburgh Steelers fans this morning. At least he’s still representing for the loser Panthers in his No. 48 jersey. Who is number 48?

So, one little boy is a huge fan, yelling that the Steelers will win. Wilson said, “This kid is obnoxious.” Mathis replied, “Well, you should love him then.”

Those two are going to fight one day. On air, I hope.

CBS’s The Early Show always seems to be a day late and a story short. Today’s guest: Ted Haggard. He was all over the morning news yesterday! Let’s move on.

The California woman who had eight babies this week already has six kids. She’s filed for bankruptcy and lives with her mother. I’m guessing she’s not going to get a free trip to Disney World.

The Today show pretty much laughed at former governor Rob Blagojevich. They basically said his closing argument was the same thing he’d said during his media blitz, which started on Today.

One state senator said: “We have this thing called impeachment and it’s bleeping great and we used it in the right way.” That was pretty funny.

Creepy moment of the morning: Merdith rubbed down Al Roker’s head and then said they both felt moist. I threw up in my mouth a little bit.

Good Morning America is sampling a bacon explosion. It was invented in Kansas City and it’s just pork on top of pork. There’s sausage wrapped in the bacon. People actually eat this heart attack on a plate? There are 5,000 calories and 500 grams of fat in this meat roll. As if the bacon explosion wasn’t enough, now they have Paula “I love butter” Deen’s kids on the show. Bacon wrapped chicken breast and sausage potato salad.

“Haven’t we’ve been getting people fit for weeks?” Sam Champion asked.

Extreme texting: some kids can text so much that their phone bills are more than 70 pages. 35,000 texts a month? That’s just crazy. The average that teens text a month is more than 1,000 texts. One girl sent more than 35,000 text messages per month. They are texting during homework, during TV time, during dinner. It’s not as if these kids don’t do other stuff. But the parents should be slapped because one kid had a $750 texting bill before they switched to an unlimited plan. They should’ve taken the phone away.

Text speak is getting into kids school work. Now texting is a second language?

MSNBC is reporting that President Obama wants the Steelers to win the Super Bowl. Wow. And I thought he was cool.

CNN is reporting that Paris and America are fighting over cheese. Come on people, eat a cheeseburger and call it a day.

Zoos are facing major budget cuts; does that mean that PETA was right all this time? What happens if a zoo closes? Where do you send a lion? To the pound? Back to Africa?

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In this new daily series, writer Cheris Hodges watches an ass-load of local and national TV morning shows and reports on the resulting crap.

Fox News Rising anchors Mark Mathis and Anna creep me out with their fist bumps early in the morning. I bet they don’t like each other off screen.

Harbor Baptist Church is mad this morning because the zoning board approved a halfway house to be built near the church. Come on?! What would Jesus do?

With today being a slower news day, there are extra long weather reports. It’s rainy and foggy. It’s not getting better.

WSOC-TV is still boring, but it was pretty funny that police and emergency crews were racing up and down I-85 looking for an accident.

In today’s grossest story, a 62-year old man is facing 200 sex charges for touching and molesting little girls. I guess he was too cheap for Hush Hush or a crack whore.

CATS ridership is up. Interesting.

MSNBC Morning Joe says that people aren’t willing to take $5,000 for the landing on the Hudson River. And guess what? It’s a Charlotte salesman who said, “I don’t know how much it’s going to cost for my emotional distress.”
Great job, greedy people. MSNBC anchor says everyone give him the finger.
“You should be dead,” he railed. Ouch.

On CNN, Citibank has finally done the right thing with our money and didn’t buy a private jet. Great, but can we — the broke workers — get the change from that?

Back to WSOC, a local library system throws the book at a teen for late fees. The thing is, the books were his mother’s who died in a car accident. Nice, Randolph County Library System. They canceled the fines … heartless bastards.

A security officer used a TASER on a burglary suspect at an apartment complex on Central Avenue. What is he? A future CMPD officer?

A man wanted in South Carolina and North Carolina for shooting, robbing and a host of other crimes was caught in downtown Atlanta yesterday. If you’re going to run, go west!

Fox News Rising, it’s coming up on 6:30 a.m. and we said something good about Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools. That’s just mean and funny.

The make-up snow day for CMS, according to FNR, is Feb. 16. That sucks, considering a lot of kids were in D.C. that day anyway, and there wasn’t a snow day used last year.

The Today Show is focusing on America on Ice and the octuplets born in California.

Ice is moving though the South and East, but Charlotte is lucky. We’ve been spared. Kentucky, not so much. Ice-covered trees are falling and cars are sliding across the roads. But Al Roker said Charlotte is fine. The storm is moving north. (He didn’t actually say “Charlotte,” but you get it.)

On Good Morning America, a 93-year-old man froze to death because the power company installed a limiting device on his meter. No one knows if he knew how to reset it or knew if it was installed. The Bay City, Mich., man was behind on his bill. Neighbors are pissed. With the temperatures dropping below zero, the man was found on the floor wrapped in blankets and wearing four layers of clothes. There were ice crystals on his kitchen sink. Very sad.

GMA is depressing. Now they’re talking about a murder/suicide in L.A. A father killed his five kids, his wife and himself after he and his wife lost their jobs. I’m changing the channel.

The Early Show says Starbucks will no longer brew decaf in the afternoon. Why brew it at all?

Jessica Simpson is in the news. (It really must be a slow news day.) Her pictures at a chili-cooking contest sparked much debate on the Internet. Now, for whatever reason it’s on TV. Shoot me now.

Though SportsCenter isn’t morning news, file this under WTF:
The Charlotte Bobcats beat the Los Angeles Lakers in double overtime, in L.A.
They’re going to win the Super . . .oops, wrong sport.

HLN is questioning how government regulators at the SEC missed a $50 billion ponzi scheme. I’m wondering that, too. Now there is a rash of Mini Madoffs who are getting caught because the market is failing. Jimmy Buffett says: “You never know who’s swimming naked until the tide comes in.”

On the Today show, the hosts are having a snowball fight and Al Roker hit Merideth pretty hard, but as he tried to deliver the weather, he was pounded off-camera with snow balls. Grow up people! LOL.

Mr. Mom is coming up in the final hour of the Today show, I think I’m going to stick around and watch.

Mr. Mom deals with fathers who are out of work and are now stay-at-home dads. Spencer, the focus of the story, was a Lehman Brothers broker. His wife found a job after his layoff and he didn’t. But NBC’s decision to play the Notorious B.I.G.’s “Big Poppa” in the report was a bit much.

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