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Slow Ride!
Interesting data point:
58 COVID-19 tests were administered to Utah Jazz players, staff and some beat writers covering the team in Oklahoma City, where Utah was to play the Thunder in a game that was called off moments before tipoff. All 58 of those tests were completed and analyzed for results by late Thursday.
https://apnews.com/7adbd02d3930454f42adb11e8dcaa34b
Meanwhile docs in hotspots seeing patients exhibiting symptoms with suspected contacts have neither access to any such tests or even information about where to request them.
https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/WhereAreTheTests?src=hashtag_click
@ 2
We’re not told which test was used. Since the CDC’s initial test was unreliable (and the first tests in China had sensitivity in the 70% range, also not good) there are a lot of companies developing their own assays.
Swiss firm Roche was just granted FDA approval for its version.
There could have been a not-yet-approved test performed. Rich guys who own sports teams sometimes are also guys who serve on boards of major pharmaceutical firms.
Don’t interpret this as a defense. I see your point. But “unofficial” testing done on a product in the final approval phases but not yet released for public use is a plausible explanation for the NBA access to tests not available generally.
Rapepublicans: Average low income voter burning through vacation and sick leave watching kids while schools are closed and facing layoff gets no assistance. They should have planned.
Multi-billion dollar industries with multiple corporate jets, corporate island resort suites, and million dollar quarterly bonus checks gets massive free pile of taxpayer bailout money. Who could have planned?
Your “not-defense” explanation is to posit a violation of federal statutes in the middle of a sweeping public crisis on the part of a regulated corporation being ordered by a corporate officer.
I know. You really don’t realize how incredibly fucking stupid you look when you do this. But you should.
PS: the Miller family owns restaurants, movie theaters, and television stations. So will you now claim that some “rich guy pal” put his board position at stake and risked massive civil fines “to help a friend out”? Guess what? Roche can receive subpoenas too. And there’s no “separation of powers” question either.
Class warfare – a recurring theme.
Never let a good “emergency” go to waste! Use it to expand government.
@ 5
Those tests that were run initially on the Seattle patients? They were run on samples that were not collected for that purpose, and violated patient informed consent guidelines.
Probably violated some federal statutes along the way as well, in the beginning of “a sweeping public crisis”.
Personally, I’m glad that the violations occurred. But I’m not a smarmy attorney sitting somewhere further than 20 miles away from a hotbed of infection. YMMV.
Oh. Here’s your fucking defense.
I see that Rahm Emanuel has joined @ 6 the Sanders campaign.
Bypassing Pelosi seems reasonable.
Making Marion Berry look good.
Andrew Gillum Involved in Alleged Crystal-Meth Incident in Miami Beach
Y’all libbies wanted to make Andrew Gillum governor of Florida.
Damn good thing y’all failed.
Here’s an article about a test being developed at Mayo Clinic in MN. It’s not an approved test but it can be used to gather data in order to determine its efficacy, and that data can be submitted for FDA approval when enough testing has been done.
I suspect, smarmy attorney @ 3,5 who lives nowhere near the hotbed of infection currently roiling the Seattle area, that an in-development test was used by the NBA to test that dumbass Utah Jazz center and others.
Well aware. Widely reported. ID’d one teen before they were ordered to discontinue testing because of FDA regulations. Regulations that could be waived by order of the Sec. the minute an emergency is declared. A presidential emergency. Remember those? Like for the WALL SHITDOWN? Redirecting billions from defense support to WE BUILD WALL https://miro.medium.com/max/1500/1*bGJTuTt7vqJ7ZeKFQ3XrHw.jpeg
That’s some defense.
So weird that a nurse living within the radius of highest infection with direct positive patient contact and manifesting symptoms was unable to obtain any testing. Not even “an in-development test”. GOPers even overruled King County Health.
NBA players and CPAC attendees: YES! ONE HOUR FOTO HUT SERVICE!
Front line health care providers inside the hot spot: FUCK OFF AND DIE ALREADY!
Face it bot-farm pussy. This bell will not be un-rung no matter how hard you try. At some point industry executives will be served and have no choice but to respond. The only question now is will they be responding to a grand jury or to a House committee. And when they respond who will they name?
Impeachment never really dies. Just ask Nixon.
@10 Never let a good “emergency” go to waste! Use it to denigrate the black guy. He’s guilty until proven innocent and even then, the racist incel won’t believe it.
In a statement, Gillum said he had only consumed alcohol during the night in question.
“I was in Miami last night for a wedding celebration when first responders were called to assist one of my friends,” Gillum said.
“While I had too much to drink, I want to be clear that I have never used methamphetamines.”
That said. His political career is probably over.
Whoa! Almost missed that. What happened to all the gloating and scolding from a few days ago? Sounds like maybe that 20 min ferry crossing is feeling threateningly closer with each passing day.
Or is it just the inconvenience of being cut off from Costco?
Yeah. Prolly that.
Fwiw, I see gold is crashing today (down $72), back to its pre-panic level (~$1500). Dow up ~1,000 pts, but Carl Icahn doesn’t think this is the bottom yet. Seattle is closing its libraries, but I was thinking of buying Barrons for the next few weeks anyway, so I don’t run the risk of touching one Doctor Dumbfuck’s mitts have been on. No telling where those library Barrons have been, or who has sneezed on them.
@2 well we the Pro’s are the Gods. Go rah, rah, rah, sis, koom bah!
@5 I used to think sports teams were a way for billionaires to spend some of their money. Silly me. They’re a way to turn, say, $2 billion of family money into $4 or $5 billion of family money. Taxpayers, it seems, are a bottomless well when it comes to subsidizing sports teams. (You know by now how this works: We pay for the stadiums,* they collect all the revenues, including the parking fees and the profits from those little bags of salted peanuts.)
* Plural, not singular as in the old days when one stadium would do; now, every sport must have its own billion-dollar sports palace, because the team owners make more money that way.
Then, maybe they should say soooooo. Have some transparency into the lives of the precious few.
Doctor Dumbfuck whines incessantly about the $15 minimum wage, but I wonder how many restaurants have been driven out of business by the 15% surcharge (or whatever it is) tacked onto restaurant bills to pay for stadiums and sports facilities? I’ve never heard him complain about that. Maybe he doesn’t realize that $9 or so of his $60 steak goes for enriching billionaire team owners? Or maybe he does know but doctors, even bad ones, are so filthy rich they don’t care. Somebody’s getting all that money from our overpriced health care.
I know the perfect solution…..keep doing that and then pay students for the intramural sport (instead of the education)so the Students can get a little of the action too.
Then they could also maybe get a test for the virus.
@9 You mean “more selective federal aid.” After closing Washington’s and California’s borders — you know what a blockade is, and what it’s for, don’t you?* — you don’t really think sanctuary cities, or the states and counties that harbor them, will get any of this aid, do you?
* In case you don’t know, blockades are a military tactic used to bring enemy territories to their knees.
@11 How did Erik Prince get the drugs into Gillum’s drink? Just curious.
@23 I’m pretty sure paid student athletes will be another profit center for the Daddy Warbucks types. I just haven’t figured out how yet. It’s a safe bet, though, that it involves yet another picking of taxpayer pockets. It always comes from taxpayers.
@9 Trump has invoked the Stafford Act many times during his presidency, approving major disaster declarations to address flooding in the Midwest and wildfires in California, among other events.
It’s about time.
20,
At least when it comes to the NBA, because of free agency, average market size, and the lack of revenue sharing, it’s always seemed like a bit of a con. But at least it is mostly a con targeting bored billionaires desperate to prove that their success is owing to brains rather than pure luck. I only complain when those billionaire groups come begging to pick my pocket to help them with their egos.
Don’t really know fuck all about Utah Jazz, except given the available market size and location they ought to have a half way decent chance of doing better than break even. It’s gotta be much harder in any market with lots of local competition. But SLC seems nearly ideal for a mid-market sports ball business. No other major pro sports, just three middling FBS college products, and damn few winter entertainment alternatives other than snow sports. NBA teams belong in places like SLC, Boise, etc.
They shouldn’t have any trouble charging whatever they need at the gate, and on the concourse to cover their nut without any taxpayer support. They’ll never make NYC, LA, or Chicago money. But they ought to be able to compete for rings. A perfect setting for a bored tech bro needing a retirement hobby.
In about five days Magaheads:
It’s the Flu. It’s nothing. We’re fine.
Wash your hands but CNN is making people panic.
It’s not the Donald’s fault. It was a bio weapon from Korea.
This is a big deal and we need to disinfect the stock market.
A national state of emergency is appropriate.
Biden gave us Swine Flu and Donald handled it great.
@9
Alternate headline,
POTUS, forced to admit this is not a hoax, completely reversed course highlighting the utter incompetence on display since January in response to the Coronavirus.
“This will all go away soon.”
“Soon we’ll be down to zero.”
“I am declaring a state of emergency. Nervous Nancy should have let me declare an emergency before 42 people died but we’ll start saving lives RIGHT THIS MINUTE!”
27,
Which puts GOP RapeHero suddenly squarely in opposition to his impeachment support base in the GOP Senate and 4chan Tiki Torch Nazi Rally base voters.
He now gets to tap up to $40 billion in theory, much of which was being directed toward DHS WALL and Guatemalan Toddler Torture. That could be managed if CPACvirus does not blow up south of the border and the “Remain in a Squalid Cholera Camp” policy is not overwhelmed by refugees. But it will deprive him of all that sweet, sweet virtue signaling to his MAGA FaceBook base.
The bigger problem is that while FEMA fund balance has $40 billion available, pretty much all of that balance is tentatively committed to recovery budgets and claims from previous disasters. Tapping into it will obligate Congress to appropriate more money to replace it. About half of previously appropriated funds are already obligated (under contract) elsewhere. And nearly all of what remains has been announced/allocated through the planning process which includes local government entities, states, NGOs, and their budgets.
So despite what you may be hearing today about FEMA money flowing to the CPACvirus affected areas, that probably won’t happen until the GOP Senate agrees to stay at work and delay their vacation tantrums. And Rapepublican Senators from trailerbilly wastelands like Tom Cotton aren’t going to like that one bit.
National Geographic
All 16 fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls owned business the Museum if the Bible are forgeries.
Some of us have brought up misrepresentation and fraud in regards to the Bible and it’s interpretation in modern times but whatevs.
There’s also the possibility that the NBAs relationship with China and how they licked the balls of the Chinese censors over a pretty innocuous tweet by an assistant coach about Hong Kong….
NBA teams have overnight access to tests and labs that have been running successful testing protocols for months already.
If you’ve got the money to go get cancer treatment overseas some countries have treatments the US is either behind or insurance won’t cover.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Vice President of the United States.
33,
I freely admit there are international avenues available to the wealthy and the powerful unbound by US laws. Kinda like those mini cruise ships out in international waters where Trump donors can skull fuck a toddler or hunt a prostitute with a machine gun.
Whaddya gonna do?
But I find it very improbable that any corporate officer of a company doing business in the US would order a violation of US laws “as a favor for a pal”. I can tell you with a high degree of confidence that corp counsel and compliance officers at such companies have candid conversations with their boards and compliance committees explaining to them the moral hazard terms of their contracts, and the protections of federal whistleblower statutes, as well as a handy guide for how to submit your resignation from the board.
One way I can certainly see it happening however. That would be if said board member CC’d the compliance committee with a copy of a “Get Out of Jail Free” card signed by a high ranking member of the RapeHero administration. So, subpoena anyone?
Now isn’t the time. But that time will come well before November 3rd.
Yeah. About bot-farm pussy’s big plans for Florida:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/03/12/older-americans-coronavirus/
@34 Some people desperate for attention will do anything for attention. Especially those with no marriage, no career, no future, and no talent.
But that’s trivial. You should see who Republicans elected president … before Trump, I mean.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-bush-cocaine-chronicl_b_37786
I’ll bet Dumbfuck voted for that Republican, too.
@36 The Dow closed almost 2,000 points up. Maybe Wall Street thinks COVID-19 will kill off the GOP and adults will be in charge again.
In any case, I think we’ll see some Darwinian selection occurring in the days and weeks ahead. The stupid will not survive.
I’m not sure if it would be a violation of U.S. law. aboiut 25% of NBA players are foreign nationals. There’s a team based in Canada. Access to tests and labs outside the U.S. isn’t the hard part. If it’s legal to buy from Chinese pharmacies over the web (gray area for some drugs) and delivered not sure why having team doctors collect swabs and send them outside the U.S. would really be a problem.
Also a business generating $8B/year in revenue might have calculated that when this is all over and IF investigations ever happen the public support for ‘doing the right thing law be damned’ will make any fines negligible and certainly no criminal charges.
I’m just being a contrarian here.
38,
Eventually the “panic phase” gives way to the “planning phase”.
If I could anticipate fund managers and institutional investors plans I wouldn’t have to take another idiot for a client. But alas, that is not the case. Still, I strongly suspect that we have only seen the beginning here. A marginally competent response, delayed by six weeks, mediated almost entirely at the state and local level, will still take many weeks to bring the basic reproduction number below 1.0. During most of that time the number of new cases will continue to rise exponentially before it begins to flatten out and eventually begin to decline. If, as I suspect, we are successful in slowing the advance of the contagion and limiting the impacts on the healthcare system, it will only come about as a result of a prolonged reduction in much economic activity.
It’s a grim calculus. And I assume that with economists, statisticians, quants, and lots of super computer time at their disposal big investment firms are going to be tracking the numbers very closely to decide when to take whatever profits they can before battening down the hatches and sailing for a safe harbor. I have no idea what number is most important. But I suspect that total deaths and death rate are among the key indicators. And sad to say, for the markets and economic growth, in this case more death is better.
Despite the dire consequences to the economy, I feel I’m being “hopeful” and “optimistic” here. Hopeful that fewer people will die. Optimistic that as a society we will limit the rate of growth, and thus prolong the epidemic, enabling our healthcare system to respond effectively before too many of us die. It’s really too bad that because of the delayed response inflicted by the GOP, we are probably faced with a choice between a rapid economic recovery and saving lives. We probably can’t have both. We missed that opportunity six weeks ago when Trump was still ordering doctors to stop testing people.
39,
Pretty sure it wouldn’t be a violation of US law if they left the US to be tested.
Is that really what you are saying?
Other than LDTs* I think Doctors taking samples from patients in the US and sending them overseas for testing at facilities that are not FDA licensed would be a violation. FDA would view it as more or less Jim Bakker but without the mercury poisoning.
*Lab developed tests – I’m not even sure if FDA would be okay with this since part of the COVID-19 delay has involved LDTs and they’ve only recently changed their minds on that.
If you’re worried about the NBA I wouldn’t be. It doesn’t look great for a bunch of young, healthy millionaires to jump the line in front of a bunch of dying old people. But since when have appearances mattered to sports superstars? This will only become an issue if people working for pharma cos or Trump lackeys helped them do it. Which is a strong contender.
While the Rapepublican FOX News run wild in the streets accusing China and North Korea of having buttseks with Pandas to make the coronavirus and then smearing it on NBA balls…
… Jack Ma ships 500,000 test kits and 1,000,000 N95 masks to the US.
@40 ” It’s really too bad that because of the delayed response inflicted by the GOP, we are probably faced with a choice between a rapid economic recovery and saving lives.”
Well, we know which the GOP will choose, don’t we?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-food-stamps-cut-coronavirus_n_5e6a3d7cc5b6bd8156f2b191
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-disability-cuts-social-security_n_5e6bb096c5b6bd8156f68c4d
The only lives they care about are their own.
@41
No but taking a swab at a team facility and sending it somewhere to be tested seems like something that happens all the time. When they take the random urine samples in locker rooms they don’t do the drug testing there on site.
I think we’re hung up on the idea that the team got some physical test delivered to them that are in short supply and used them.
We live in an age where you can buy a sterile cup at Bartells, force your kid to pee in it and ship it to find out if they’re smoking weed (crack, meth, angeldust still a thing?)
New sign on the Resolute Desk:
“I don’t take responsibility at all.” — Trump
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-coronavirus-national-emergency_n_5e6ba653c5b6bd8156f65d1a
Truman’s “The buck stops here” sign has been in storage since 1/20/17.
44,
Drug urinalysis is not a diagnostic test. Diagnostic tests are considerably more regulated for what are hopefully obvious reasons.
It’s not the “physical test” that matters. It’s the diagnosis that arises from it. That shit is highly regulated in the US. This isn’t “23 & Me”.
What’s in short supply aren’t swabs or PCR tubes. It’s facilities that meet the requirements for diagnostic reliability. This kind of testing is very easy to fuck up. All kinds of rigorous protocols have to be in place at both the sampling site and at the testing facility. It’s probably relatively easy to increase sampling, although poorly trained technicians can probably fuck that up too. Probably much harder to increase testing. And btw, those drugstore take home urinalysis kits are said to be unreliable as fuck. Actually if the expert testimony I’ve heard is to be believed, most of the employer drug urinalysis is highly unreliable as well. I mean, what the fuck do people expect for $5?
I don’t think there’s anything at all wrong with Jared Kushner reaching out to his sister-in-law’s father, an ER doc, and asking him to poll his Facebook ER Doc group for recommendations about CPACvirus.
I think there’s probably good input to be had from ER docs about how to prepare (better late than never I guess). And ERs are going to take some of the impact of this pandemic before this is over. So they ought to be involved.
But tests. Screening, sampling, and tests. Yesterday. FUCK!
Why do I continue to get the feeling that some of these Trump people are treating this like a field trip to America they can later use to curate their social media feeds with cool pics and quotes?
@47 “Why do I continue to get the feeling that … ”
Because they’re Republicans, and nothing Republicans do is not in their own self-interest.
@46
And now according to AP state of OK used half their available tests on the Jazz.
If the Trump response has been so bad, why does Creepy Joe feel the need to distort and manipulate?
http://horsesass.org/drinking-.....nt-1397943
@godwinha spews: Tuesday, 3/3/20 at 1:21 pm
US deaths from coronavirus infection (so far):
748Tennessee deaths from last night’s tornado (so far):
2124Disneyland and Disneyworld Close.
A hospital in Seattle area has sent out a note to staff, suspending elective surgery and warning that “our local COVID-19 trajectory is likely to be similar to that of Northern Italy.” The hospital is down to a four-day supply of gloves.
Royal Caribbean, NCL, Costa Cruises Suspend Operations Due To Coronavirus Pandemic
Drumbeat of bad coronavirus news starts to hit U.S. auto dealers
Republicans Tried to Sneak Abortion Restrictions into Coronavirus Bill
Delta slashes flights by 40% as virus cripples global travel
Hollywood Could Take $20 Billion Hit From Coronavirus Impact
Did anyone hear if the stock market fell again today?
Andrew Gillum took a meth suppository in the ass while being sodomized by a gay escort.
Coronavirus pandemic cripples Seattle restaurant industry, with more than 50 closures in 2 weeks
The racist incel rejoices in the pain of others, blames crippling on paying the workers more.
Bet those guys are wishing right now they hadn’t rejected all those Mar-a-Lago ads.
Monsoon is offering 30% off for call-in pick-up orders.
Good food.
@53 The racist incel continues to punch down on people who did not get elected.
As Goldy contemplates the possible failure of The Stranger, he should consider what The Stranger helped make happen:
Overall, not a bad night of entertainment in a room that was about 78 percent full on a Wednesday during a pandemic. Near the end of the show, a friend said, “I’ve hugged all my favorite people tonight. If I’m gonna die, I wanna die happy.” Amen.
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/03/13/43129768/patti-smith-guitarist-lenny-kayes-semi-secret-gig-at-belltown-yacht-club-cured-the-covid-19-blues
People too close together at this time is wrong and stupid, even if the overall number of the people in the room remains technically legal.
Stranger, if you go down, at least you’ll go down stupid.
And you know what they say about stupidity.
Today is gman’s favorite day of the year.
No, not because of the Friday the 13th thingy.
Because
On This Day in Space: March 13, 1781: Uranus is discovered!
https://www.space.com/39251-on-this-day-in-space.html
It wasn’t so much discovered as it came out publicly.
Did anyone hear if the stock market fell again today?
Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats Reach Deal With White House on Coronavirus Bill
Trump finally declares virus emergency; Pelosi announces aid deal
Trump’s absurd parade of CEOs conceals his inaction in the coronavirus crisis
Despite CDC advisory, President Trump could not stop shaking people’s hands during his coronavirus address
I don’t know what all those employees at The Stranger are worried about. The Stranger is a well-known launching pad for future employment by billionaire activists. Ya just gotta leave good taste behind and shill for your supper.
If you write so fucking well, you oughta be able to make Mike Bloomberg look good, amirite?
@55 A sudden 90% drop in revenues and an urgent request for donations — you figure it out. But I’ll bet they have no regrets about the Mar-a-Lago ads. Decent people would rather starve than grovel to Trump. You’re not starving, yet you grovel to Trump (for free, yet — !!!), so you wouldn’t understand this.
@57 He doesn’t want to offend anyone who might be in a position to do something about it.*
* Apparently he assumes all elected officials abuse their authority the same way Trump does. He’s a Republican, and all his acquaintances are too, so that’s somewhat understandable.
@58 “People too close together at this time is wrong and stupid …”
Are you referring to the White House? (See #60 for details) And Mar-a-Lago? Maybe also the shabby little bar you hang out in?*
* The saving grace is everyone else leaves when you come in.
@61 “shill for your supper”
Kinda silly to criticize someone else for that when you do it for free.
At least you’re consistent — you think that people working in $60 steak restaurants should cook for you, wait on your table, and clean up after you for free, too.
@61 “If you write so fucking well, you oughta …”
That’s a problem you’ll never have to worry about.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/sarah-palin-s-masked-singer-performance-fox-perfectly-encapsulated-our-ncna1157181
Maybe she thought she could work her way up to being one of Bob’s horses.
Cheerleading skirt and Pom Poms for Bob!
@67 I’ve heard she’s available.
There might be a stopgap treatment for severe cases of COVID-19.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/doctors-push-treatment-coronavirus-blood-recovered-patients-n1158476
Failed DEMOCRAT gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum was incapacitated in the bathroom when someone in the bedroom was receiving life-saving CPR.
It’s amazing how Boob is always right. Whoever passed him up as their top ball player should be shot.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2020/03/13/how-utah-jazz-got-coronavirus-tests-during-national-shortage/5046539002/
If bot farm pussy is coaching the Chiefs he pulls Mahome with 2 min left because he’s up by 4?
Given the chance, any chance at all, any good Democrat will drive Trump and the rest of you pathetic failures into oblivion. If you really wanted Marquis of Queensberry you shouldn’t have sold the franchise to FOX/Bumfights.
72,
I’ll have to take your word for it. I do not click on media ad-cancer.
So is the report that somebody in government pulled strings?
Again. Now is not the time. Right now the focus needs to be on saving lives, and trusting that government officials will do the right thing and not sacrifice lives for personal gain. But the time will come soon enough. And the subpoenas will issue. When these people have to stand before the public and answer for this with a mountain of dead bodies behind them, one in five families having lost someone, there will be more than enough justice to go around.
Bob’s a doctor. Or says he is. Wonder if he’s still licensed? If he is, maybe he should volunteer his services. Every doctor and nurse in the country will be needed on the front lines if this thing gets out of hand. On second thought, maybe he should take care of himself and avoid human contact. He’s probably not infected. That requires human contact, and he probably hasn’t had any human contact for quite a while now. Does anyone know if horses or goats can transmit Covid-19 to humans? Maybe he should be tested before he’s let out of the barn. Just in case they can.
You will recall that a few days ago Trish Regan, a Fox talking head, ranted on air that coronavirus is “just another attempt by Democrats to impeach President Trump.”
Yesterday, Fox announced that Ms. Regan’s show is no longer on the air “until further notice.”
And there’s also this:
“Dana Nuccitelli:
“March 9: on her @FoxNews show, Trish Regan rants about the ‘Coronavirus impeachment scam.’
“March 13: Trish Regan’s show is placed on hiatus so that @FoxNews can devote more time to Coronavirus coverage.
“If Fox wants to do their viewers a real service they’ll make it permanent. https://twitter.com/trish_regan/status/1238647842513747970 …”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trish-regan-fox-hiatus-coronavirus_n_5e6c9006c5b6dda30fc99b6
Yeah. Taking her off the air is a public safety measure. She’s a menace.
Trish Regan didn’t need any brains — and doesn’t have any — to land an on-air job at Fox. She has the two essential qualifications for the job: (1) She’s a former Miss New Hampshire, and (2) she doesn’t know what the fuck she’s talking about. (If she did, she couldn’t read Fox scripts with a straight Fox, and couldn’t work there.)