Originally Posted By Labuda Oh, and here's a nice Op-Ed in the NY Times about the Palin-Johnston debacle: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/15/opinion/15collins.html?_r=1&hp" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07...?_r=1&hp</a>
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< >>Kathy Griffin is going to be ticked off.<< Is it bad that was my first thought too >>> It didn't take long: <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/offbeat/2010/07/15/moos.lovelorn.over.levi.cnn?hpt=C2" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/video/#/vid...n?hpt=C2</a>
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "Didn't Billy have his own beer or something?" He sure did. If you can't read the ad's print, it says "it's the best beer I've ever tasted, and I've tasted a lot." <a href="http://thebsreport.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/billy-beer.jpg" target="_blank">http://thebsreport.files.wordp...beer.jpg</a>
Originally Posted By Labuda Oh, wow - NOW I get why y'all are mentioning Kathy Griffin. Weird. lol Thanks, SPP! By any chance is there anyone here who's old enough to have tried Billy beer and did?
Originally Posted By dshyates So it looks like the engagement is now off. <a href="http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38495817/ns/today-entertainment/" target="_blank">http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/...ainment/</a>
Originally Posted By Labuda Thank goodness I made psot #2 in this thread where I said "if it happens at all" after I gave it six months in post #2. Ok, so, at least this was int eh "entertainment" section, and not in the political area of MSNBC.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox As long as reality programs like Jersey Shore are popular, I doubt these clowns will disappear anytime soon.
Originally Posted By gadzuux I love these clowns. As pop culture goes, there are many different circles of hell. Who these two are and how they got to prominence makes all the difference. They didn't initially seek out the limelight, it found them. That's important to consider when the comparisons are made to your garden-variety media whores like Snooki or Spencer and Heidi. As I've mentioned before, Levi serves a very important role in the narrative of Sarah Palin. Too many people take that woman seriously, and so the side-show aspect of her life and family needs to be kept front and center. And if that seems unduly harsh or overtly political, remember that Bristol's own family parades her and her baby Trip around like show ponies for teen abstinence rallies. Bristol and Levi volunteered for the magazine cover story and the rounds of interviews that followed.
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 You would think that the first baby would have taught him an important lesson about condoms...
Originally Posted By DAR <<As long as reality programs like Jersey Shore are popular>> <<Hangs head and mumbles in a low register: ikindoflikewatchingit.
Originally Posted By Labuda ^^^ I watched ONE episode of it last year when I heard all the furor... and boy howdy do I want that hour of my life back! It was the episode in which that idiot Snookie got punched in the mouth and she made WAY too big of a deal about it. Sheesh. Oh, but I do recall that the dude who calls himself The Situation had a nice body.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <Dear God - when will these people just go away?!!> Not until Sarah P. herself does.
Originally Posted By DAR Again you're not strapped to a chair with you eyes pried open ala Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange being forced to watch these people.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I don't watch these people. I started resenting a while ago the people the media, in effect, tell me "ought" to care about. I flipped the channel any time the "Runaway Bride" came on, for instance - I decided I actively did NOT want to know a damn thing about it - and there were other cases and "celebs" of that ilk that I did (and still do) the same thing to. But you can't get away from sister Sara no matter how hard you try, and Bristol and Levi are sort of the news equivalent of "collateral damage."
