Friday, December 28, 2007
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Kevin McCullough
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Roger Friedman of FoxNews notes today that pop culture hates celebrities, because of things like the 2007 Anna Nicole Smith, PerezHilton, TMZ effect. He calls it angry bitterness. Isolation, Velvet Ropes, Pushy Publicists, Thuggish Security. I know I have harbored a good deal of "CelebriHate" or at the very least "CelebriDislike" - Tom Brady for example...and I extend it to his whole team. My father-in-law won't go see a movie that's made by an ever growing list of actors. Friedman implies the anger comes from jealousy. My opinion is that it runs much deeper than that... what do you think? 800.345.WMCA.
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A man asks a woman to marry him but insists she not ask him any important questions before accepting. Would she? Of course not! An employee seeks a job position for a company but has a strict "no questions" policy during his interview - does he get the job? Not in the normal world. Yet with only days left before Iowa, a leading candidate in one of the two parties implements a "no questions" policy. Several Christian ministries have done the same now that they are being investigated by Congress. How does that make a supporter feel? What does it incline a voter towards (support/distance)? I don't feel like we would tolerate that in family, friend, work, church, or community personal relationships. 800.345.WMCA.
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You know what I think it is bad when our elected officials squander, missappropriate, and our money. I think it is bad when they tell us one thing to get our support and money, then do another or don't come through on their promises.
What is worse is when churches and religious leaders do the same.
You can be a political leader that turns life in your country into a socialist nightmare, but religious leaders create a stumbling block to the salvation of their flock. I take the latter to be far worse of those two evils. |
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Sure, I despise situations where our news organizations devote a significant portion of their time telling us about Anna Nicole Smith and all that.
I must admit though that I did not get on the schadenfrued bandwagon when Paris Hilton was sent to jail. I suppose I was a minority in this.
The collective joy over her being sent to jail struck me as unseemly. It was the worst, most class envy driven aspect of populism I have grown to hate over the years. Don't have much use for populism in any form anymore.
People were acting as if she'd personally done them harm and that their lives were somehow enriched by what she was going through.
Okay, Hilton's life and upbringing has not equipped her to deal with the real world the rest of us live in. So we're tougher than she is.
So what? I'm supposed to take some kind of perverse pride in this? What I felt was pity.
The same as I would for some abjectedly poor child or homeless person, who also doesn't seem to be well-equipped to deal with the real world.
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