TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2016

And Used Over And Over Again

AT YESTERDAY’S MEETING OF THE CONSERVATIVE AGENDA, Political Insiders were discussing some of the Hillary, Obama, and John Kasich-bashing items to be included in Saturday’s “The Week That Was” E-dition and wondering where Beloved Whistleblower Charles Foster Kane had come up with the idea for that weekly format the Whistleblower Newswire has been using each-and-every week since the October 18, 2009 E-dition. (You can see last Saturday’s TW3 E-dition HERE.)

Kane explained, “That question had been answered in a previous e-dition, but since thousands of new readers seem to be finding The Whistleblower-Newswire Web Page with various search engines every week, some of those new Blower readers might appreciate being enlightened.”   

Kane recalled: “Our good friend Bobby Leach and I stole that idea from the Satirical Weekly News Parody TV Show by the same name “That Was The Week That Was” that was unlike any TV show ever seen before, years before “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In,” “Saturday Night Live,” “Not Necessarily the News,” Comedy Channel’s “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” or Fox’s “Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld.” 

Each week “TW3” was introduced by Millicent Martin belting out the theme tune, its words altered to reflect that week’s news stories, before going into a topical monologue by host David Frost and then onto a series of sketches, invective from journalist Bernard Levin, songs, cartoons drawn live, monologues and studio debate.

“If the Whistleblower Newswire were on Anderson Community Cable TV today, Andy Pappas and I would make sure our stolen satire would look something like this,” Kane added.

More Priceless Purloined Programming Later

Plagiarism Count: Unattributed material was filched from a mere 7,432 different websites for the production of The Whistleblower Newswire this week.