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Breaking News: Obama Kills a Fly
Yes, that is the actual headline I saw on the Yahoo! front page the other day.
I like the President, as most people seem to. I may not like everything he does, but from a personal standpoint, he seems like he’d be a pretty cool person to hang out with, or have as a co-worker, or even have as a dad.
But, that doesn’t mean that everything he does has to be reported to the masses. I went off about celebrity obsession last week. But this fixation the media has with covering absolutely every moment of his life and capturing his every action has become absurd and is quite unhealthy.
Source: vanityfair.com
If you think ObamaMania has faded in the least, the article on Yahoo! surely illustrates that it has not – and if anything he is actually more popular than ever.
Do you feel that slight tingling in your head? Do you feel a little off kilter? Don’t worry, it goes away (or you get used to it, I don’t know). What your feeling is the same sensation I felt after witnessing that – I actually felt my brain liquify a little bit when I saw the intense infatuation that everyone has for the President. He swatted a fly. My God. So. Fucking. What.
It’s as if he is so cool, that everything he does is gold. Granted, the President is pretty fucking cool. He is our generation’s JFK and then some. But that doesn’t mean we need to see every tiny little thing he does.
I know where this all comes from, though. His popularity is largely in part due to the stark contrast between Obama and the Nimrod that held the office before him. Obama grew up of modest means, worked exceptionally hard to earn everything he has and seems genuinely convicted in his motives.
Bush, on the other hand, was an out-of-touch trust-fund baby who cheated his way into office; a bible-thumping elitist whose sole motivation for any action he took was to ultimately line the pockets of himself, his friends, and his daddy’s friends. He didn’t have to worry or care about popularity or what anyone thought about him as a person or as a President. His approval ratings sank to depths that hadn’t been seen in 35 years.
Kate Plus Eight Minus Jon
So the Gosselins are divorcing.
Tracy at I Hate My Message Board posted a pretty insightful piece on Kate Gosselin a few weeks back. Her piece pretty tidily illustrates the idiocy and hypocrisy of it all.
…“This isn’t where we’re supposed to be,” the heavily made up Kate, complete in designer duds and sporting that bizarre, Sonic-the-hedgehog-like hairdo, protests in this season’s opener.
But it is, Kate. It is where you’re supposed to be.
Because here’s the rub… the train that’s driving the Gosselin family over a cliff was designed and sold by Jon and Kate themselves. Narcissism and pride prevented them from looking down the track; like parakeets, their eyes were riveted only to the shiny pretties that a life of contrived “reality” TV promised. Little thought did they give to the fact that when you sell yourself, your family, your home, your vacations, your body, and everything else you have to give to the public, and resign yourself to live on the handouts that public tosses at you – no matter how generous they may be – you’re not in control. You never were. In other words, you’re our bitch now…
Source: thesebootsaremadeforstalking.com
The thing is, I am happy for Jon. He is finally able to get away from the confines of the perpetual bridezilla that his wife had become. I don’t know if I have ever seen a person as ugly on the inside as Kate Gosselin. Look closely. After you’ve sold your soul, this is an exact prototype of what you have left over when the magic fades.
Jon needs to grow a pair though. In the worst way imaginable. He is the antithesis of what a man should be. If Ted Nugent saw Jon Gosselin in the crowd of one of his shows, he would stop the music, grab his famous bow and skewer poor Jon with a flaming arrow right through his torso and the place his spine would be if he had one.
As an aside, doesn’t he kind of remind you of that pregnant man from Oregon?
This goes on and on forever. At what point will we have seen it all enough times that it will no longer interest us? With the rate at which things are going – with manliness and stupidity going in inverse directions, I am quite certain that it won’t end for a very, very long time.
Reader Comments
Hi! Thanks for linking me! I just have to say that I can’t take credit for the piece, it was written by Jaime Marzullo.
PETA sure likes attention, doesn’t it?