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By Beth in Politics, Feminist, Female Empowerment, TV, Pop Music, media, celebrity, Obama, DNC, McCain, Sarah Palin, Joe Biden, Presidential race on August 29 2008
John McCain, who’s registered low on the media-barometer this week, in part due to this week’s DNC Obama-rama is back in full swing (or as much as the media will mind him for as long as they’re capable of) announcing his running mate for the Republican ticket, Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska.
Catching an earful of CSPAN’s 20-minute closing credits for the DNC alongside some bizarre musical orchestration that conjured up images of Charlton Heston’s Ben Hur meets “I Have a Dream,” the announcer, who doubled as a commentator, happened to throw in that Palin is a member of the NRA and likes to hunt.
Let’s leave aside the fact that if a woman were running alongside a Dem for the VP ticket, this would be some giant social leap forward and we’d be focusing on her X chromosome. But politics, aside…Seriously? Is this really among the list of things I really need to know about a person’s credentials for VP.I have but one thing to say to all of this: Let the mud flinging begin and the media f*ckfest end. The DNC is done.
Obama has left the house - for this week.
By ariel in Uncategorized, Entertainment, Politics, News, Clinton, Advertising, business, pop culture, media, America, celebrity, Barack, Obama, DNC, Joe, Biden on August 27 2008
And the Barack shows up- A real Rock Star… A surprise behind curtain number 2! WHAT A SHOW… What a circus…
A very sad joke. Joe Biden practiced the first rule in advertising, and made more too-good-to-be-true promises the enthusiastic crowd of blind believers at the DNC.
By ariel in Uncategorized, Entertainment, Politics, Heroes, Smut Advertising, News, Advertising, TV, relationships, pop culture, media, America, celebrity, Barack, Obama, Democratic, Michelle, DNC, Oscar on August 26 2008
To Michelle Obama!!!
For best supporting actress for her roll in:” DNC-Obama above all.”
Barack and Michelle can now win American Idol.
By Beth in Entertainment, Politics, sports, TV, pop culture, Beijing, China, Communism, Darfur, 2008 Summer Olympics on August 9 2008
 The 2008 Beijing Olympics began yesterday with opening ceremonies airing in the U.S. last night.
Whatever your brand of politics might be with regards to China’s questionable treatment of its own citizens and those of Darfur, it was an impressive and tastefully done spectacle - up until the very end with some Chinese air gymnast engaging in some bizarre gravity-defying stunts. Huh? Well, I told myself that was a cultural thing, much like the appeal of campy Japanese game shows which if anything dictates that Kabuki theatre will never be entirely phased out.
But back to China and the Olympics and its opening ceremony.
Politics was in the air (the very polluted Beijing air) last night. Costumed Chinese soldiers did their android marches evoking an era less reminiscent of the futuristic feel of Blade Runner and more befitting of Mao’s China or a Mel Brook’s production mocking Germany of yesteryear.
Only today’s China isn’t some silly movie that ends rather disappointingly after a 2 hours of build-up nor are its visuals of devastation - from the 1.5 millions displaced peoples whose mere existence was inconvenient for new Olympics construction to the percentage of those very people who were then forced into a life of migrant work and hard labor at their own expense just so we could all cheer for a cute little kid rescued from an earthquake in Sichuan and feel better about ourselves for endorsing a country who’s so hard-pressed to find a symbol of hope that they have to dig out a 5-year-old from an earthquake who isn’t quite old enough to question the ways of his country to be their mascot.
The ceremony left audiences with an everlasting reminder that however fashionably forward China’s Capitalist pretense may be in the global community, at heart they remain true to their Communist doctrines. These principles do little to win public opinion, mind you. In the days and weeks leading up the Olympics, perhaps the most critical network to air coverage of the event was the one that dumped the most moola and has the most invested in its success.
Still, NBC is stuck with the Olympics. We’re not. Which means we can decide to change the channel, but unfortunately, can’t turn a blind eye to the goings-on in China. I decided not to change the channel last night. “It’s better to know and be cognizant,” I told myself.
Besides, the place our imaginations take us is far darker than what our eyes will allow us to see. Or is it?
By ariel in Uncategorized, Entertainment, Politics, NBC, News, Money, sports, Advertising, environment, TV, business, media, America, The Today Show, 2008, Beijing, China, Olympics, Billy Bush, Matt Lauer, Broadcast Rights, Government on August 5 2008
 The entire world will be amazed by the beauty of China, and exited with the beginning of the Olympics. I won’t. Not that I don’t like sports, nor was I born yesterday to this cynical-material world, but every day we discover more and more about how the Chinese government managed to pull this production on the backs of it’s poor people, the less I’m inclined to actually watch the games. NBC, who paid $894 million for the US broadcast rights, will show the Olympics no meter what. Here and there, we’ll see an item on the news that gently criticize the Chinese actions, but it disappears between Matt Lauer reporting for the Today Show, and Billy Bush getting a foot massage for $25 in Beijing.
Money talks, as the Chinese and we know, so what are a few million people whose homes were demolished in favor of a shiny stadium? Or a few millions more who are left to starve because they are not allowed to water their rice fields, comparing to Coca-Cola TV commercial?
So, I’m not so exited about the games. Maybe I’ll watch it a little bit, but no more than that.
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