How disappointing it must have been for the Obamas (shattered! It was a blow to him! It was about him!) and Oprah Winfrey when it was announced that Rio de Janiero would get the 2016 Olympics and not them. How their pride must have been wounded when they realised that not even their waning star power was enough to convince the IOC that Chicago- their home town- was an ideal place for the war without guns (tm George Orwell). Granted, the world could be on the verge of great nuclear conflict and magazines bearing one's name must be sold but still...not even the Olympics? Could the IOC not see the glow about the great Chicago Triumvirate? Could they not? Nope. Brazil's got the Olympics. Burned. Someone get the Obamas and Oprah some antiseptic gel and cold blankets because they got burned.
(Thanks a bunch for the pic, Michelle Malkin)
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Remember when David Letterman made a rather perverted gag about Sarah Palin's fourteen year old daughter and he tried to weasel out of apologising even though his cheap and tawdry crack was reprehensible? Guess who fell off the wagon again. Yes, he was blackmailed by a total moron but really- who cheats on his wife with young interns who could possibly say no if they accepted they couldn't sue for harassment?
Following swiftly on the heels of the Roman Polanski fiasco, the adoring masses who are willing to forget these enormous moral improprieties are less adoring in so far as they are just ignorant. Why anyone would look to celebrities for their social and political mores stuns me even to this day but to remotely forgive this? This stuff is the reason why people lose all hope in humanity. One director- although quite accomplished- drugged and raped a thirteen year old girl. Though Whoopi Goldberg, clearly one of the West's greatest legal minds, is willing to forgive him, a court of law- whose role ostensibly is to judge Polanski's guilt or innocence- may not. Now Letterman has been proven not just a bore but a boor.
How about we treat celebrities as they should be treated- people who are overpaid and have no bloody business telling anyone anything, least of all what morals to espouse and for whom or what cause to vote. They don't work for NASA for a good reason.
2 comments:
When they gave the Nobel Peace prize to Arafat, I no longer cared.
Now, a little peeved. Arafat, for all of his "Kill teh Jooos" rhetoric, did have some accomplishments, sick and gruesome accomplishments those may be, but he did things.
Now the Peace prize is no longer ignored, but laughed at outright.
Nice post on the music, I'm surprised there's an Ono out there with real talent.
Why award anyone for anything? It seems all people want is validation, not a recognition of hard work or sacrifice.
And yes- there is at least ONE Ono out there with the pipes.
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