You know it’s a slow news period when Drudge begins to fill up again with news of Hollywood stars, by now the most tedious people on the planet. Billions have babies but we are supposed to be interested in Tom Cruise’s baby. How vulgar. Yesterday it was something again about Madonna. Are people still interested in these creepy self-aggrandizers in the post 9-11 world? Hard to fathom. Even Ben Stein, the perpetual Mortons glad-hander, has turned away. Couric too is part of this celebrity culture that seems from another era. It is not just the anchorwoman thing, outdated as that it is, but the heroine worship implied, so distant from real accomplishment. I guess if I found these people to be in any way fun, I could excuse it. But they’re not.
If “news” of the Cruise baby is so objectionable, why not just ignore it? It seems a little weird to decry the ubiquity of the story in the public discourse, but in the same breath disseminate the nonsense further. Think about it this way: you write approximately three posts a day, and you’ve blown 33% of it on this bullshit.
If blogs are to raise the level of commentary, shouldn’t they rise above this kind of crap?
I fear that you’re crotchety old age is showing, my friend
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The “post” anything world exists for a short time, then life goes on. The post WWI world lasted for awhile, but people got over it and moved on, same for post-WWII, post-Vietnam (well most people got over that one), post-Cold War… sure there will probably be indelible changes, particularly in airports and borders… but humans bounce back.
This war, without clear goals or victories, easily gets shoved to the background. And things that feed the desires of people comes to the fore. Have you seen “Flavor of Love”? Hell, Katie “Anchorwoman” Couric looks like an awesome role model compared to that madness.
I, for one, am glad to see this… if we, 5 years after 9/11 were still wandering about in sackcloth and ashes. If we were still willingly handing over all of our rights and not saying a word in protest… then the terrorists would have accomplished their goal in ways beyond their imagining. Terror isn’t about killing, its about scaring the shit out of all the people you didn’t kill. Its about forcing people to change who they are, how they act and what they think about. That’s the goal of terrorism. The fact that bullshit like Tom’s baby, Iron Chef, Katie Couric and the Crocadile Hunter are top news and have the attention of many Americans is a good sign… it means that they are no longer as terrorized as they once were, and that means that we may end up being stronger than OBL and all of his mad arab cronies ever suspected.
I’ll have to remind myself that we are in the post terrorism age each day. The daily reports of “”"”terrorist”"”" (are those enough scare quotes) attacks, the perps bragging about them… all that affects slow witted people like me. We just haven’t picked up on the word from the nuanced class.
Roger, I noticed that about Drudge also. I think it’s laziness, maybe complacency. Whatever the reason, I rarely read of anything at Drudge first anymore, except as you say, the star gossip.
Have the terrorist failed to terrorize us so badly, some “academics” even deny terrorist pulled off 9/11, or are the trappings of affluence so contrive it is impossible for us to stay engaged even at the presumed cost of our (real) lives. So we make up stuff and deny/blurr the real stuff.
I don’t know.
I think most of the problem is what the TSM decides to cover. As an example, I stumbled across this: http://www.boberdmann.com/Did_You_Know.htm and have been able to verify some of it already. A lot of this stuff is pretty news worthy, but since it would make the current administration look good, its ignored, and even buried, by the TSM. Instead we get the inevitable obituary about Steve Irwin, and a photo of Tom Cruise’s kid. And the TSM wonders why more and more of us are flocking to the Internet and abandoning them. No mystery there!
baby suri and the “chosen one” baby jolie/pitt jumped the shark at their conception. however, i have to admit my guilty pleasure at the wags writing “gawker” and “defamer,” who have entertained me with their wild assertions of false pregnancies, alien labs pulsing with hordes of spare and stand-in babies to be trotted out at the appropriate moment as the real thing, both caucasian and asian babies taking their turn before the discerning lens, and protests to free katie and comfort jolie as pitt storms out. frankly, given the hype and false reporting we’ve seen in the haughty highbrow msm on iraq and lebanon, lower court decisions on security, election follies, etc, come to think of it these tales of the pretend babies have about as much truth–and far more amusement.
Got to put a little twist on the “news” to make it news worthy. Tom Cruise and his new daughter is of interest to a few people but just think how much more interesting it would be if Hammas kidnapped Mr. Cruise and forced him to become a Moslem; now that would be a story. The Moslem Fascists did it to two CNN newsmen and was no big deal to the Main Stream Media, wonder if they would give a story like that a pass for Political Correctness if it concerned a movie star. Religion means something to Mr. Cruise also, would he rather lose his head than convert?
Wonder if Madonna was grabbed by the Islamic Fascists and made to convert and cover up her goodies or lose her head, would the New York Times put it on page one or one page 23 where the Medal of Honor guys go. Ms. Couric would be a natural for a forced conversion to Islam and it might work out for her, she wouldn’t have to worry about a clothes selection again because she would be making the news program from the inside of a burka.
at elgin tyrells blog there are displays of commietary that dwarf the world of Tom and Katie, whichever one she be…
Thursday September 7, 2006
Enroll at Harvard, see foreign cultures, meet interesting people – and become them.
How long will it be before each class begins with chants of “Death to America”?
Elgin pipes in with, “in many ways, hasn’t that been going on since the sixties?” Thanks E for that insightful commietary.
I have some good news and some bad news.
The good news is we are confirming a large oil find off the Gulf of Texas and Louisiana. (No, is not the Gulf of Mexico, as soon there won’t be any Mexicans left in Mexico to claim it)
The bad news is that the oil find may make it more likely that Tom’s little Suri will speed away from the paparazzo on the same gas guzzler we drive today.
BTW Ron. I can’t imagine the danger you are causing by naming the wife of a British citizen. Islamists “grabbing” Madonna?
There is no need to smear the fine reputation of Madonna just so you can score some punditry points. Shame on you.
I really don’t understand the Couric blabble. We’ve been seeing women sitting behind news desks at six o’clock on the major nets for decades. Is it just because she alone carries the “official” title of the One True Anchorman?
By the way, we can’t call her an anchorwoman, can we? That wouldn’t be correct. How about an “anchoress?”
The fact of the matter is that, but for an accident of fate, most of these Hollywood “stars” would be populating the drunk tanks, seedy bars and Chilis of America right now. Miniscule or no talent and a tremendous amount of hype seems to be the rule. Watching some of these “stars” try to act in current movies starts to make my eyes bleed. Real talent–dancing, singing, or God forbid, acting talent–is in very short supply.
To then have these no-talents, many of them not even high school graduates and barely literate, tell us what their geo-stategic views of the world are and to then have these views breathlessly trumpeted to the skies by the MSM, is beyond laughable as is most of their charity work which, I presume, is an attempt to give their lives, which they know to be a fraud, some meaning.
Enough of this crap!
I see I’ve misspelled strategic but then, I get so damn mad at these Hollywood types. Things are really getting pretty scary in our world, we’ve got Muslim fanatics out for our blood and instead of waking up and paying attention to the real world, lots of people seem to be fixated on the comings and goings, marriages, divorces, triumphs and tragedies of Madonna, Tom Cruise and JayLo. I’m sure that a detailed knowledge of some star’s sex life or career is going to be real helpful if we get attacked again. Perhaps that is all they can handle. Denial is getting wider all the time.
There is one good thing about Suri and Brangelina: I can talk about SOMETHING with some left wing relatives who I love. Remember, Home is where, when you go there, they have to let you in.. even if the conversation is limited to Suri and speculation as to her paternity, and should we be worried about Katie’s sanity, is she really imprisoned by that Cruise/Scientology crowd??.. and then, is Angelina Jolie still crazy, or has she permanently outgrown that vampire phase, and become a really good mother to her kids??
Bill Quick: my vote’s for anchorite
I get really annoyed when some Hollywood “stars” go on about how evil big business and/or capitalism are. Do they really think that the film business is a cottage industry, or that in a centrally planned economy they would get 10-20 million dollars to star in a film? Someone needs to coin a word for this combination of stupidity and hypocracy.
I’m in the crowd that has lost all patience for the narcissistic idiots in Hollywood. Seeing Brangelina, Paris or the Sagas of Jennifer all over tabloids and the internet makes MY eyes bleed; I already boycott all their product. I’ve lost the ability to have a conversation with co-workers and relatives whose serious thoughts never venture past the lives of celebrities while carrying celebrities’ ideological water.
mrbones, who are you to deride Roger for voicing his disgust on his own blog? Why don’t you read somewhere else rather than whine about his writing what so many of us are thinking? It’s not like all these Hollywood idiots with their repugnant lives are not thrown in our faces constantly all day long. We can’t avoid them. Furthermore, it is not as if their product is any good. I express my loathing for them regularly and get great enjoyment when Roger and others express theirs. And the plain fact is the MSM finds celebrities to be much more important than that we have an entire culture determined to annhiliate us. Wake up.
Roger, you put it all perfectly.