Posted in 200, Entertainment, Politics, Uncategorized, tagged Air America, Al Franken, Beck, Buffoons, CNBC, Ellen DeGeneres, Jennifer Lopez, Jim Kramer, Jon Stewart, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, The View, wankery, Whoopi Goldberg, Will Ferrell on March 30, 2009 | Comments Off
Will Ferrell has made a career out of playing arrogant, loud-mouthed buffoons who never realize what idiots they are. In real life, Will Ferrell is one of the nicest, most unobtrusive people you would ever want to meet. Which makes his characters like Ron Burgundy in Anchorman (2004), Brennan Huff of Step Brothers, or Ricky Bobby in Talladega Nights (2006) all that much more memorable.
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You can’t deny their success, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, James Dobson, Jay Leno, Rosy O’Donnell, Roseanne Barr, Jim Kramer, Al Sharpton, all have made a career and become very rich in the process by being loud-mouthed bufoons. The decline of rational commentary, critical thinking and the move of “news” programmers to showcase the show-boaters and the loud-mouthed, obstreperous analysts whose sole goal is not to elucidate or educate or even illuminate, but to make YouTube. We saw it first with Jim Kramer the mad man anent mad money. Kramer made the nervous breakdown an art form. Wrong about virtually every prognostication, Kramer wowed us with histrionics and arm-flailing. Think Travis the Chimp on meth. Who cares if virtually every stab at financial and market augury was erroneous, Kramer delivered his baleful bleats daily and on cue. What’s very serious, is that the economic situation that is before us is without peer. No histrionics can explicate truly how perilous these times are for us and the world.
Long thought of as loud-mouth talking-heads (Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck) that serve only to divide our nation with their far-right wing positions, it turns out while Rome burns, the loud-mouthed bufoons howl and hoot, hoping to make YouTube. Is there any responsibility that these folks owe us, the public? Wait. Did I just ask about journalistic ethics and duty? I must have forgotten what year I’m in. This is the era of O’Reilly, Limbaugh, Beck and the rest of the Loud-Mouth Buffoon Club. TV reportage today is about volume and hubris and chest-thumping. Give me a sound bite, give me video. Loud-Mouth Buffoons Club is engaged in group-think which is worse than a conspiracy because group-think institutionalizes biases, the biases and hate that Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Limbaugh and others seem to be filled with.
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Posted in 200, Entertainment, Politics, Uncategorized, tagged cheeseburger, cheeseburger in paradise, ijustine - I Want A Cheeseburger on YouTube, Jimmy Buffet, Justine Ezarik, McDonalds, Smashburger on March 26, 2009 | Comments Off
The other day I went into a McDonald’s for a cheeseburger, fries and a coke and all I was offered was a lousy salad. I don’t want a salad. I don;t want to eat healthy or otherwise why am I standing in a burger joint that sells greasy french-fries? I don’t want the one of six salad choices, the one of half-a-dozen chicken sandwhich choices or have to choose between McDonalds regular fish sandwich or their super fish sandwich. I just want a cheeseburger!
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Posted in 200, Politics, tagged AIG, Alan Greenspan, Austen Goolsbee, Barack Obama, Bernard Madoff, CBS' "60 Minutes", Dark Knight movie, John King, Leno, Messiah, Peter Principle, Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshir, Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, Timothy Geithner. on March 22, 2009 | Comments Off
A CHARMING visit with Jay Leno won’t fix it. A 90-percent-tax on bankers’ bonuses won’t fix it. Firing Timothy Geithner won’t fix it. Unless and until Barack Obama addresses the full depth of Americans’ anger with his full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts, his presidency and, worse, our economy will be paralyzed.
It’s clear to those economic pundits that Obama doesn;t have a clue as to how we got into this mess nor does he have a clue to how to “stitch” America back up before the long and lingering infection sets in.
Sometimes the truth isn’t good enough. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded. In short, Obama is the president we need right now- just not the president we deserve. America deserves better.
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Posted in 200, Entertainment, Politics, Uncategorized, tagged Bananarama, CHicago White Sox, Chris Matthews, college basketball, Comiskey Park, Keith Oberman, March Madness, Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye, Nancy Faust, NCAA, Peggy Noonan, Steam on March 18, 2009 | Comments Off
You’ve heard it at one time or another. At sporting events, political campaigns or divorce parties with your friends. The song has become a cultural phenomenon and a way of “dissing” a losing team, an unpopular president or politician or an exiting spouse. The song?
Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye.
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Posted in 200, Entertainment, Politics, Uncategorized, tagged All Woman by Lisa Stansfield, Apple, Dell, Harpo Productions, Hewlett-Packard, Kimpton Hotels (gay and lesbian travellers), Nordstrom's, Oprah, Oprah Winfrey, retailers, Seattle's Pike Place Market, Starbucks, The Calvert Women's Principles, The Women (movie), Victoria Secret, women, yoga on March 15, 2009 | Comments Off
This morning on CNN, the gloomy retail news continued with retail sales down 26-percent over February of 2008. In an interesting twist to the dozens of large “retailers” closing their door for good, the few retailers that posted the best earnings in this dismal economy (down only 2-percent) had one interesting thing in common.
Note to corporate America: If you want to stay in business and remain not only financially viable but competitve you’re going to have to find a way to market yourselves to to this secret ingredient which Starbucks has known all along: “Women!”
It’s no secret that consumers (read women) are economizing because spending power is eroding. Marketers are confronted with similar issues. Their budgets are dwindling as well and there is more emphasis than ever on accountability and making every dollar work harder.
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Posted in 200, Politics, tagged borrowers, CEO's, drowning in debt, economy really dead, Federal Reserve Bank, financial crisis, Great Depression, housing crisis, I Want My Bailout Money by Michael Adams, incompetant bankers, Monty Python Money Song, print more money, Take Your Country Back, taxpayer takin it in the ass, unemployment on March 12, 2009 | Comments Off
In the “Weird Depression” of 2009, America is in denial. Because people are still employed (barely), making barely enough money to pay their bills but still retaining health benefits, we have told ourselves that things are going to get better, that our economy will turn around. So. government does not have the incentive it did in 1929 when it faced major unrest, bread-lines to create the thousands or millions of new jobs we need for Americans. WE ARE IN DENIAL!
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Posted in 200, Entertainment, Uncategorized, tagged Dunkin Doughnuts, FHM, For Him Magazine, Michelle Malkin, nude photo's Rachel Ray, rachael ray fhm, rachael ray photos, Rachel Ray, Rush Limbaugh, the ubber Mary Ann on March 7, 2009 | Comments Off
Like the typical high school bully picking on those too weak to defend themselves going after a food talk-show host, these days, the uber Mary Ann has little to worry about from big-mouthed Rush Limbaugh for Rachel Ray is back on top and fella’s, she’s hotter than ever.
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