say goodbye to paris...
have you seen the mika brzezinski thing yet? it's pretty great... brzezinski is a panelist on some MSNBC show called morning joe, which is also primarily a vehicle for conservative pundit joe scarborough. a couple of days ago-- on air-- she suddenly refused to cover paris hilton for the morning's top story, choosing instead to focus on senator dick lugar's* call to downsize the military presence in iraq (a detail which will surely be omitted from the sensation this moment might cause). take a look:
i always find it memorizing when public figures become suddenly emotional on television, especially during news broadcasts. it's always a painful reminder of how content my media usually is to sit, house-broken, in a playpen of juvenile spectacle. i get tantrums on the debate shows, robots on the nightly stuff, and nothing in between. but once in a while, something burrows its way out of this box, and (thankfully) this is one of those cases.
but, seriously, watch scarborough in the clip. it's amazing... here's this purported maverick; this straight-shootin' contrarian of the right... and he's literally scrambling to DEFEND this brainless tabloid turd that's been handed down to him. with his patronizing, frat-boy sarcasm as his artillery, he acts as if he's the voice of reason. he invokes brzezinski's integrity as a journalist only to flip it-- her long overdue eruption of common sense is reduced to hysterical egotism. meanwhile, scarborough's leadin' the fucking cheerleader squad for a drunk-driving, trust-fund amateur porn star. rome wasn't burnt in a day, indeed...
there's probably a lot of soundbytes of this floating around right now chock-full of threatening female emotion. and they'll inevitably trigger lame comparisons to the imus fiasco that morning joe apparently replaced. don't be fooled by it. brzezinski's refusal to remain a chirping, on-screen automaton isn't the warning sign of a nervous breakdown. and she's not gonna chop yer nuts off either fellas... but you'd never know it watching those other two chickenshits tryin' to keep her in line. brzezinski's the healthy one in this equation. scarborough needs a spine transplant.
* "dick lugar," folks. can you imagine spending your entire life answering to that? somewhere ron jeremy is blushing...
Click to viewi always find it memorizing when public figures become suddenly emotional on television, especially during news broadcasts. it's always a painful reminder of how content my media usually is to sit, house-broken, in a playpen of juvenile spectacle. i get tantrums on the debate shows, robots on the nightly stuff, and nothing in between. but once in a while, something burrows its way out of this box, and (thankfully) this is one of those cases.
but, seriously, watch scarborough in the clip. it's amazing... here's this purported maverick; this straight-shootin' contrarian of the right... and he's literally scrambling to DEFEND this brainless tabloid turd that's been handed down to him. with his patronizing, frat-boy sarcasm as his artillery, he acts as if he's the voice of reason. he invokes brzezinski's integrity as a journalist only to flip it-- her long overdue eruption of common sense is reduced to hysterical egotism. meanwhile, scarborough's leadin' the fucking cheerleader squad for a drunk-driving, trust-fund amateur porn star. rome wasn't burnt in a day, indeed...
there's probably a lot of soundbytes of this floating around right now chock-full of threatening female emotion. and they'll inevitably trigger lame comparisons to the imus fiasco that morning joe apparently replaced. don't be fooled by it. brzezinski's refusal to remain a chirping, on-screen automaton isn't the warning sign of a nervous breakdown. and she's not gonna chop yer nuts off either fellas... but you'd never know it watching those other two chickenshits tryin' to keep her in line. brzezinski's the healthy one in this equation. scarborough needs a spine transplant.
* "dick lugar," folks. can you imagine spending your entire life answering to that? somewhere ron jeremy is blushing...