One of those daily teevee press releases that puts it all in perspective: gay sex/snorkeling stories about Eric Massa’s Navy career stopped being funny or even skim-worthy about 36 hours ago, and probably will not recover anytime soon. We’re delighted to offer cheaply-won publicity under these circumstances.
NEW SCANDAL PLZ
March 12, 2010
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Political science in the 21st cnetury.
They’ll be flogging that horse until it drops. Actually its RIDING that horse and flogging the DOLPHIN, a concept I’m sure Massa (As a “near” I hate saying Massa)understands. Damned mixed metaphors.
That may be the definition of news cycle fatigue: when even the Wonkette has had enough of towel-slapping shipboard ticklefests.
Green Balloons, media, green balloons!
Hey, didn’t they win the presigious Polkbody Award?
This could mean another Peabody award for Bill O’Reilly. Ask Senator Franken.
This week, Inside Addition.
Next week, Weekly World News
Bat Boy Verses Massa!
One thing about Inside Edition — they’ll never apologize for wasting an hour of America’s time.
Inside Edition. The launch pad for the illustrious careers of both Star Jones and Bill O’Reilly.
As Massa fades into a punchline, perhaps it will lose any Democratic government connection and be simply associated with pop culture sleaze, esp. on the part of the Teabaggers, who don’t know what pop culture sleaze means.
Speaking of sleaze–I as so g**damn fucking pissed at Elliot Spitzer for throwing his career away for prostitute.
With the Wall Street shit that’s been exposed, he would own the fucking issue. Instead, all he can do is pop up on MSNBC once in a while and throw rocks at it.
[re=529792]DustBowlBlues[/re]: Of course he would own it. That’s why we learned about the prostitute, so as to neuter him. The solution is to get over the fact that pols with balls sometimes bounce them against the wrong target. If we didn’t care so fucking much about sex in this country (because we’re so repressed), we’d have shit like that covered. Don’t forget, the Puritans left England and came to America. Indians should have let them starve.
Is Massa a human-dog hybrid?
You all know, don’t you, that they could clone you in a second.
Then, while the clone fetus is gestating, they could screw with it so it develops with no brain, just a brain stem. Basically, anancephalic.
Then, when the anacephalic, brainless mini-you comes to term, you remove it from the womb you rented, and let your surgeons loose, all new organs, shiny and new, for you! Live long time.
Its these fucking religious fanatics that won’t stand for it, I for one see no ethical problem at all.
[re=529785]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]:
Inside Addition???
[re=529792]DustBowlBlues[/re]: Spitzer really should have just followed the Vitter playbook and just stayed in office and refuse to talk about the hookers after his apology.
[re=529786]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Oh, you watched that thing to the end too? At least we didn’t waste money on protein powders and other work out gimmicks, right? (see “Want to get Ripped” ad to the left).
[re=529810]sezme[/re]: er … said ad is there about half the time.
[re=529792]DustBowlBlues[/re]: [re=529801]steverino247[/re]: fuckit, if newt can try a comeback, so can spitzer. He would probably get re-elected anyway*
* I have no idea what I am talking about but this might be true.
[re=529807]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: Sounds like it could be a Sesame Street sketch. “Coming up: a hard-hitting investigation into the secret life of the number three and five You won’t believe what they make together.”
FUCK IT! WE’LL DO IT LIVE!
Sorry, I couldn’t help myself.
There’s Hope! If all this perverted sex scandal coverage gets so common that people start to loose interest in it then they might have to cover something new, like news?
[re=529849]betterDeadThanRed[/re]: Something new, but they’ll never cover actual news. Maybe another pretty white girl will go missing, or another celebrity will have a televised trial.
Brooks even made a tickle joke on the PBS news hour; when someone who has had his sense of humor surgically removed starts doing Massa one-liners, the surf is officially down. I expected them to exit the segment with Judy Holliday singing “The Party’s Over,” which would fit right in with the musical atherosclerosis endemic on PBS.
[re=529810]sezme[/re]: Actually, HuffPo had a clip of the last five minutes of the interview, which was funny enough. I’ve watched my share of Glenn Beck though (the whole CPAC keynote speech, in fact, which is truly a dazzling work of fiction). It was hilarious to see him taken in by a clown. Damn, I might have to watch the whole hour now that I think about it.
Pulled off the mask, took out the ball gag, and thought I was free. But then I got sent back to Massa as a result of the “I Dread Scott Lively” decision.
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