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I enjoy Newsbusters almost as much as Mythbusters.  They’re a hoot at pointing out factual errors in reporting.  And, they LOVE picking on MSNBC.  Good reason to, MSNBC is a classic at bad reporting.  However, in their haste to show how wrong today’s headline was, I think they missed the obvious chuckle of the day.  To wit, a young girl makes a trip to the North Pole.  Now, we’d all like to go there, so that part’s pretty interesting as it is.  However, the North Pole is a pretty dull place for the most part.  Just a bunch of snow.  So, to liven up their piece a bit and to turn it into a global warming message, MSNBC embellished by adding melting glaciers and starving penguins.  Two problems with that obviously stick out.  First, and most conspicuous is the fact there are no glaciers on the North Pole.  It’s a flat plain.  Secondly, and the part that really got under Newsbusters’ skin, there are no penguins on the North Pole either.  However, the best part of it all to me was what Newsbusters totally missed.  Namely, this:

Now, to me, that is more exciting than the fact there are no penguins on the North Pole.  That name ring any bells?  Maybe this will:

Get it now?  The babe who needed a canoe for ankle deep water also thinks there are glaciers and penguins on the North Pole.

Man, where was she when I was in college?

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Miley Cyrus is apologizing to anyone who’ll listen over this photo.  I am clueless.  What’s wrong with it?  Now, I get the Disney/pure as the driven snow image she has to portray for Hannah Montana.  But to me, this pic is pretty much pure as the driven snow.  There’s nothing suggestive, nothing inappropriate, and not really any critical skin exposed.  You’ll see a lot more flesh when she goes swimming in the most conservative bathing suit.  So, I just don’t get it.  Are we just that anxious to shoot down anyone that tries to set a good example for kids?

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Oh puh-lease.  Can one single American Idol season go by without some concocted and contrived “scandal”?  Here’s this season’s scandal:

That is supposed to be Ramiele Malubay’s lesbian scandal.  She’s not naked.  They’re not having sex.  They’re not even kissing.  This redefines the L word for lameness.  The other two “scandals” so far haven’t gone anywhere at all, so along comes this one.  When a show starts relying on stunts instead of substance, you know its days are numbered.  The only real advice I have for anyone reading this post, if it’s not too late, is don’t waste your time Googling “Ramiele Malubay lesbian sex pics”.

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Yesterday during the Kentucky - Arkansas game, with the 30 seconds left and the game on the line, CBS cut away to the Duke game.  Now, it’s bad enough to cut away from the game everyone here wanted to see.  But, to suddenly be watching Duke?  After I imagine several thousand irate phone calls, they cut back to the UK game with about 10 seconds left and the game basically over.  I doubt too many people here hung around to watch the Duke game 

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According to most news reports, Sally Field got an Emmy last night.  In addition, she got to make a speech.  In that speech, she decided to get political.  When she got political, she decided she needed to hammer home her point with expletives.  Not to be outdone by gutter talk, at least a couple of other awardees got edited for expletives as well.  According to reports, one attempted censure was missed.

I have therefore come to the very real conclusion that since these television entertainers can not behave themselves on television, I can not allow my kids under the age of 17 to watch the Emmys any more.

Heh.  Heh.   That’s a joke!

No one watches the Emmys any more, much less kids.

It’s not like anyone’s GOING to watch the Emmys either since the only thing we can apparently hope for is a glimpse of profanity every now and then to spice things up.  I mean, apparently even the awardees know how boring the Emmys are.

( Add Sally to the annoying list of people who can memorize printed material who think that endows them with a right to cram their personal politics down everyone’s throats. )

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Now, I’m not a big fan of Britney Spears.  However, it just gets a bit tiresome seeing all the media posse toot exactly the same horn in the form of big headlines when a lot of more important things are going on in the world.  Whoring for attention isn’t news to me.  That goes for media as well as their topics.  Latest example:

Front page on Fox:

A college girl’s death, Bin Laden, a tropical storm hitting North Carolina, and a major earthquake merit small type.  Who knows what else happened?  Britney’s show will be forgotten tomorrow, the others stories will have some impact for some time to come.  Think I’m picking only on Fox? 

MTV Awards Flourish Despite Britney Bomb

That’s ABC.

VMAs bounce back after Britney bombs
Out-of-shape singer looks bleary, unprepared

That’s NBC.

CNN is the only one that seemed to word it as I would have:

Lackluster Britney Spears kicks off MTV awards

Bottom line, this was a lot of wasted media.  At least CNN and NBC put the story where it belonged, buried somewhere.  The MTV VMA’s are a complete waste of air-time.  Any publicity they get is what they want.  Anyone with any sense whatsoever would have known Britney’s not in the right frame of mind right now to be a headliner on a national show.  Sticking her up there was just media whoring on the part of MTV, which is all they know any more.  Justin Timberlake demanded during the show they play more videos.  In other words, Music TeleVision needs to do what it was designed to do and quit competing with O Network and all the others.  If they showed a sincere commitment to music instead of selling advertising any way possible, then maybe the VMA’s would actually mean something and they wouldn’t have to resort to media whoring by way of sticking an obviously not-ready-for-prime-time performer front and center to get anyone to pay attention.  Britney may have been lackluster, she obviously wasn’t in to this performance.  However, apparently the rest of the show hardly merited being mentioned.  Last year it didn’t get mentioned at all.  MTV hardly gets mentioned for music any more, why should anyone pay attention to their awards?

Next year, I’m gonna bet it doesn’t get mentioned at all.  Again.  Britney bombing has just gotten so over-used any more they can’t rely on that one again.  And, the rest of the line-up they featured last night would never get anyone to turn off the Soap network.

And, for what it’s worth, Britney’s performance was about what I expected.  Nothing even close to great, but not nearly the train wreck Fox describes.  However, how long can people expect Britney to keep being a precocious teenager?  She’s grown up.  I think that’s what hurts so many people and why she will never meet their expectations again.  She’s morphing now into what she will be after the twelve year old tease.  Hopefully, she’ll morph again into something a lot more appealing to most people than a twenty-five year old stripper with two kids.  Not everyone can pull off being Madonna, I know Britney can’t, just the wrong personality.  However, she can be the next insert favorite lasting performer here who didn’t rely on sex exclusively to sell their music.  There are more of those than there are Madonna’s.

Until then, please media, just focus on the people that truly merit attention.  I prefer those that are on top of their game as it sets the bar a little higher in life.

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We got Moxi/Tivo last night.  I didn’t like the way the installer set it up so I moved it and made it look a lot more esoterically pleasing.  Then, the step-daughter, the boy, and the wife got home.  I really didn’t get to see it again.

From what I have seen so far.  It’s cool.  I hear it has all kinds of cool gadgets on it.  I can’t wait to check them out.

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You know it’s a slow news day when you have headlines like this:

 2 NYC Firefighters Hurt in Scaffolding Collapse at Ground Zero Site: Watch Live

Now, I really don’t think I want to watch it LIVE.  In fact, I’ll just wish them well and not watch it at all.  That’s the end of that one.

But wait, there’s more!

That’s right, Beyonce has breasts.

We can’t stop there now can we? Lindsay Lohan, in the legal move of the century by claiming the coke she was carrying was in someone ELSE’S pants won. She’s just a seven-time misdemeanor convict, but not felon. Felons are just people who are too stupid to think of an alibi like that apparently. Someone else’s pants. HAH! HAH! HAH! Gotta love a prosecutor with a sense of humor. If it were me, she’d probably be in prison.

Maria Sharapova, the tennis star made most famous for what’s under her dress, is now advising other up and coming tennis stars on what to wear what people want to see under as well.

And all of that was made even more trivial than it already was by the announcement that Jenna Jameson is retiring again. And to celebrate, she ditched her boobs. The truly shocking part of that to me is she is only 33. OK, let’s get this in perspective here. Everyone who’s made an “honest” living the last fourteen years and are ready to legally and financially retire raise your hands. She’s made millions doing what we all do for free. To me, that’s the the biggest headline so far. The money she made, not the boobs she ditched.

Well, I take that back. the pigeon dung being bad for bridges story was pretty captivating. But that would go on the spacedream I would think.

Three stories about boobs, two stories about breasts, one story about poop. There’s more, but that’s all I have to say about that right now

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I was recently made aware of this skit on SNL.  It’s called “The H is O”.  It’s so horrible I couldn’t stop laughing all the way through it.  It starts bad, gets worse, then digs an all time low for television.  It’s a classic!

However, for me, the greatest moment of SNL came the very first broadcast.  When John Belushi took on Joe Cocker, you KNEW this show was going to be great. 

In both cases, what made it great was famous musicians not taking themselves the least bit serious.  My vote is on John doing Joe.  There are other great scenes out there as well.  I might go back and look at some of them later….

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My wife sent me this.  We used to watch Who’s Line is it Anyway a lot when it was on.  However, I had never seen this skit.  Be sure to watch it ALL!

You know what makes it extra funny to me?  Check what channel it’s on.

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