Generally speaking, I’d rather watch the elderly practice ballroom dancing at the gym than turn my attention to the overhead television, which is invariably tuned to the Today Show. I made an exception this morning, though, as the happy gang of falsely-laughing, purveyors of faux-news were “reporting” on their network’s most recent stunt-casting coup. (Apparently, Sarah Palin will be joining them tomorrow as a co-host!) I sat there, in a pool of sweat, wondering how it is exactly that we, the American people, allow such stupid, lowest-common-demoninator, ad-driven crap to masquerade as meaningful news on our public airwaves, when I was shocked out of my reverie by the chilling image of two clearly insane women, sitting on the Today Show couch, cooing over what appeared to be dead infants…. And, thanks to the internet, you can watch the highly troubling segment for yourself.
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This made very little sense to me until I read, just now, that Matt Lauer is actively working to destroy his co-host, Ann Curry. Apparently, he hates her, and wants her off the show… I can think of no better way to see this happen.
I hesitate to share this, but I have one more thing to share about Curry. About 12 years ago, when I was working in D.C., I knew a woman who had an Ann Curry story involving her husband, who was an airline pilot. I’ll leave it at that.
And, yes, I chose to write about this tonight instead of Paul Krugman’s brilliant piece on the new Republican budget. I cannot express to you the shame that I feel… Those babies are totally fucking gross, though.
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They are dolls. I thought for a second it was another something about abortion.
Ugh.
If, every time a clot of cells was aborted, it was replaced in earth by one of these monstrosities, I’d be Pro-Life.
Real babies do not look like Steve Buscemi.
Ann Curry is one weird, awkward woman. I wasn’t surprised to see that she was a local reporter out in California, during the time of the infamous McMartin preschool debacle and she “reported” on that case, in her weird, overly dramatic fashion, which I’m sure, helped create a hostile atmosphere for the McMartins, who were later exonerated. Ugh. Ick. Did I mention how weird she is? The creepy, faux intimacy she tries to get away with when she’s with celebrities? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCEV21xHQks&feature=related Can’t stand Matt Lauer, either, but I can sympathize with anyone who wouldn’t want to work with her. And YES, I hate those damn telly’s at the gym.
I’m ignoring the dead babies.
I liked Krugman’s piece, too.
If you’re right about Lauer wanting to force her out, I wonder what her next assignments might be. A trip into the sewers of Bogotá, wearing goggles and swim fins? An evening at Andy Dick’s home? An expose on bed sores and the elderly? An interview with the cast of Dreamland Tonight?
Funny you should choose to mash-up the Ryan budget, crazy people, lazy journalism, and dead babies in the same post. With time, I think that I could make something of that.
I don’t have time right now, though. I just wanted to pass along this quote from Obama on the Ryan budget.
“It’s a Trojan Horse…… Nothing but thinly veiled Social Darwinism.’
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/03/obama-paul-ryan-budget-social-darwinism_n_1399080.html
Yeah, I thought it was about abortion too…if every pregnant woman knew she had that crawling up inside her, I think abortion would be more common.
On another note, has anyone ever happened upon one those miscarriage doll sites? Basically, some women who have had miscarriages create dolls based on what they think their babies would have looked like and then…well, sort of mother them or at least have them around. It was absolutely heartbreaking and creepy. I’ve never wanted kids, and I can’t imagine the pain of a miscarriage, but I’m not sure how this is helpful.
Thanks, Mark, for constantly reminding me how effed up pockets of our society can be.
http://www.godslittleones.com/
I saw Palin on Today this morning. I still can’t believe that MCCain felt as though she would have made a passable president, had he died in office. That fact erases every good thought that I’ve ever had about McCain. He put the election ahead of the country with that one decision, and he negated his legacy in that instant. Let that be a lesson to us all.
As for Palin, when I saw her today, she was talking about Oprah’s struggling OWN network. Palin said that she could make it successful if she added more “patriots”. That pissed me off. Since when did their side own the “patriot” label? God, that made me furious.
I hope this doesn’t offend anyone, but it is legal to have sex with these things, right?
We should chip in and buy one of these. We could have a lot of fun with it. For instance, I think it would be great to lay one on the ground, with it’s ugly head peaking out from underneath a filthy rag, in the window of Dreamland. Or, better yet, that little storefront next to Deja Vu, where they sell the sex costumes. Can you imagine the uproar?
Also, I’ve never been a vocal proponent of late-stage abortion, but if I ever saw something like this crawling out of my, I’d beat it with a shoe.
http://media.photobucket.com/image/recent/red1446/Nod%25202/PC150217.jpg
Thanks for the link, Pete! I was going to Google it myself but I just couldn’t make my fingers type the words.
Oddly, Sanford, Florida, the same town where Trayvon Martin was recently killed, figures prominently in the world of Reborning.
http://moms.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/02/10981779-reborn-doll-craze-cute-or-creepy
Speaking of the Ryan budget, as Ezra Klein points out, in some ways it’s very much like Obama’s:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/wonkbook-where-ryans-and-obamas-budgets-mostly-a
Jon Stewart was also apparently pissed off by Palin’s suggestion on the Today Show that conservativism and patriotism are one in the same.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/04/jon-stewart-sarah-palin-today-show-infiltration_n_1402373.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009
Bryant Gumbel didn’t like seeing Palin on the Today Show either.
Read more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/09/bryant-gumbel-embarrassed-palin-today_n_1411907.html
Ann Curry is pretty strange.She is dull and appears in love with her inner drama queen—-zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Sorry.
And then he had her fired.