Thursday, March 20, 2008
Should news conferences henceforth be rated?
As in G, PG, PG-13, R and NC-17? and how would you rate the press conference New York's new governor David Paterson gave the other day? Well it certainly had your adult themes, adultery and serial affairs, it even had some psychology thrown in (he did it because she did it first). It was kinda like a mild R so maybe we'll give it a PG-13, maybe it shoulda had a parental warning advisory scrawled at the top of the screen. Wondering, and it's probably wise but during his next meeting with reporters the kiddies should be shooed out of the room. If anything it doesn't set a good moral example, I've heard women say it's bottom of the barrel stuff. Maybe he can give his next press conference after 9 PM when the kids are safely tucked away.
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Imagine Ronald Reagan or even George W. Bush giving a press conference like this!!! wouldn't happen. People have also told me they don't know why Paterson even brought the subject up, this condition used to be known as diarrhea of the mouth.
ReplyDelete...unless he's secretly proud of it, he's one of the lads now...
ReplyDeleteI guess we can all thank Bill Clinton, he was the pioneer wasn't he?
ReplyDeleteI was going to bring that up but thought I'd let you do it. I'd say he had the most to do with sexualizing our politics and that's a hard thing to do when you stop to think about it, I mean can you imagine a dryer subject than politics? Now even Jim Lehrer of the Newshour was forced to discuss L'Affaire Paterson. Imagine if JFK gave such a press conference, my God it would last for hours, two hours just for reporters questions about MM and Ava Gardner alone!!
ReplyDeleteThe Clinton Legacy right there for you.
ReplyDeleteAnother part of his Legacy and we were debating this at work one day, I kid you not, now more and more people think that if young girls only engage in the Lewinsky they can remain virgins in good standing but z-man, ever the astute thinker, caused a hush to fall on the room when he said what if the young girls engaged in another act instead which we won't go into here, would they still remain virgins?? Sorry, you have to be rough sometimes to break the Clinton Legacy, you have to shock them back into Reality.
ReplyDeleteOh my!
ReplyDeleteI know but once I put it in these stark terms they got the point, they began to backtrack on the Clinton position. The original question posed to Clinton was not "did you have sexual intercourse with that woman" but "did you have sexual relations with her", the act in question was intimate enough to show that Clinton perjured himself. Oh my to think we're still discussing this all these years!
ReplyDeleteSo I guess according to Clinton's logic Linda Lovelace really didn't have sex in that movie.
ReplyDelete...in fact there's an awful lot of non-sex going on in pornos today...
ReplyDeleteIn fact what's the big deal? According to the Clinton Universe a lot of people are actually practicing abstinence by engaging in his version of non-sex so we're not going to hell in a handbasket after all.
ReplyDeletewhoopty-doo!
So we don't need all the drive-thru confessionals afterall?
ReplyDeleteDrive-thru-confessionals, I like that idea. They can even have a menu to choose from like McDonald's. "Hello, can I take your confession now?" "Yes, #7 - The Lust Package, I'm a high-ranking judge and I like to see prostitutes and like that other guy I have lizard feet and like to leave my black socks on during the act."
ReplyDeleteLOL, you always make me laugh.
ReplyDeleteIt's like sex is the downfall of the human race, even greed comes in a distant second. Now Paterson has come out again, the mouth now says he used pot and coke in his 20's so are these really news conferences or sketchy autobios? Yo dude, keep the news in the conference and if you want to write a book about it all and go on Charlie Rose just do it.
ReplyDeleteThat is an interesting observation, sex does seem to be more of a downfall than greed, at least for politicians. The Hollywood type are more into the drugs and alcohol, then rehab.
ReplyDeleteI'm waiting for his next revelation, they seem to be coming at the rate of one a week now. It's like he's an almost scandal, wants to step up to the precipice and look over I guess. Hey, maybe he can blog about it.
ReplyDeleteMaybe a love child with Oprah or something, huh?
ReplyDeleteYeah, her friend Gayle King could carry the kid (just kidding O, just kidding).
ReplyDeleteI don't want to sound too Rocky Allenish, it was only a joke, a mild rib-tickler.
ReplyDeleteThankfully we're anonymous and can't get into trouble (not yet anyhow).
ReplyDeleteWasn't too long ago that people like former UN Sec'y Gen. Kofi Annan talked about regulating the Web, remember? First talk radio then us, hence you have your occasional article in prominent magazines and journals saying how irresponsible and factually challenged us bloggers are, we don't have journalism degrees like the msm. Laying the groundwork Beth, laying the groundwork.
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