The quick take on this week’s 1/2 Hour News Hour is that it wasn’t as good as last weeks. Though there weren’t the clear low points that last week had (namely, the pregnant lawyer sketch), there were not nearly as many laugh out loud, rolling on the floor laughing moments either.

The news segments were a good summation of the show overall, pretty even keel with no real ups and no real downs. Some jokes included: A Hotel replacing the bible with AlGore’s _An Inconvient Truth_ (a book that no one would ever want to steal), The Fort Dix Six meeting on the CBS Evening News (as a way to make sure no one would watch them), and John Edwards unable to find his financial records in his new 28,000 sq ft. mansion.

The “commercial” segments once again contained an ACLU commercial (this dealing with the ACLU’s efforts to prevent people from celebrating Christmas in the public square) and a commercial for the new _Commemorative Surrender Plates_. This commercial was pretty solid, highlighting the various actions by members of the Democrat Party that are road marks on their way to trying to force the United States to surrender to the terrorists in Iraq. These include: Murtha having the troops “re-deploy” to Okinawa, Nancy Pelosi traveling to Syria to meet with their dictator, and Harry Reid declaring the war is lost.

The longer segments were okay. A segment with a fake press consultant who appeared to have a man-crush on John Edwards was fairly lame, but a segment where Lorenzo Lamas explained his “9-11 conspiracy theory” (i.e. that terrorists flew airplanes into builds on 9-11) was a good way to highlight the kooks that believe the various theories about how “9-11 was an inside job” or any of that other garbage. In the final segment, Dennis Miller’s “The Buck Starts Here” was much stronger than last week, especially his explanation of how setting a date certain for withdrawal in Iraq is completely illogical.

The this episode of the Half Hour News hour didn’t have the highlights that the first episode did, it also didn’t have the low lights that brought last weeks show down. On a scale of 1-6, I’d have to say this episode was about 4.