Digg this… because what fun would Monday be without a reminder that the famous and fabulous tend to have truck-sized chinks in their self-righteous armor?
- The big news out of John McCain’s U.S. presidential campaign on Thursday was a statement promising (among other things) that a President McCain would “Pursue Protection Of Intellectual Property Around The Globe” … unless, of course, that intellectual property belongs to Jackson Browne, or Mike Myers and Dana Carvey, or John Mellencamp, or Frankie Valli, or The Orleans, or the producers of the “Rocky” movies, or makers of antidepressant drugs.
- On Friday, George W. Bush weighed in on the fighting in Georgia, saying that “Russia has damaged its credibility and its relations with the nations of the free world. Bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the 21st century.” (video here) Which — if you look at things from the point of view of, say, half the Middle East — must sound pretty ironic if not downright two-faced.
- Deceiver reader Gen writes in to let us know that PETA spokes-tramp Pam Anderson has her own signature line of overpriced pet products. It doesn’t seem to bother her that PETA is against the whole institution of pet ownership. According to a profile in The New Yorker, PETA’s president has even had a seeing-eye dog taken away from a blind man. Personally, I always thought if Pammy started selling $40 collars, they would be for people…
- Brooke Hogan apparently can’t decide whether she’s an attention-seeking publicity whore or a very private person who wishes the paparazzi would just leave her alone. (Funny, I can decide that one in about three seconds…) Last week on her MySpace blog, she wrote: “It’s so funny that the smallest thing I do can jack up everyones day…LOL sorry I ruined your little gossip world today people … Stay tuned! I might go shave my eyebrows tomorrow! Lets see what other fun things I can think of…um…. don’t you have a life to live? I know I do!” … This from a made-for-VH1 tart who thinks she’s Paris Hilton most of the time.
- Barack Obama tried a few weeks ago to re-position his presidential opponent as “Big Oil” McCain, even putting out a spoof ad calling him “Exxon John.” But it turns out that ExxonMobil executives and employees are actually giving more money to Obama than to his Republican rival. (“I’m sure he’ll give it all back,” writes Deceiver commenter-in-chief Pastafarian.)
- Remember the whole “NBC Green is Universal” November 2007 sweeps campaign? Last fall the network tried to weave environmentalism into a whole week’s worth of programming, while needlessly leaving its own office lights burning. Network bigwigs (who work for General Electric, by the way) even postured for the green crowd by trying to broadcast a football game in the dark. Well, so much for saving energy. As soon as the cameras turn on for the Today show and the Nightly News broadcasts, NBC’s Beijing Olympics team is broadcasting from an air-conditioned outdoor studio
- And just for fun, Keith Olberman slams Sean Hannity for making a big stink about John Edwards’ marital infidelity, while giving John McCain a pass for cheating on his first wife. (Are we guilty of the same sin? You tell me.)
