Here I go with the Larry King imitation again:
1. Yes, ROLLING STONE has a black-and-white cover story about Britney Spears, suggesting she's as much a victim as a selfish, thoughtless celeb whirling around in pain and anger because of massive quantities of resentment (at parents, at management, at cops and lawyers, at damn near anyone who won't get her what she wants RIGHT NOW).
And it again must be said that Lynne Spears deserves accolades for being a Bad Parent in excelsis.
2. The man in Missouri who killed city officials (over zoning difficulties) last night is a sobering cautionary tale to anyone who gets furious at people he/she believes are being patronizing and belittling--and, instead of listening, thinking, considering the consequences to his/her family and the families of the people he/she wants to harm, and walking away from anger--picks up a weapon.
3. Do I wish MSNBC's David Shuster could have used a better phrase than "pimped out" to describe Chelsea Clinton being sent out to court superdelegates (basically a Democratic Party attempt dating from 1982--after Ted Kennedy tried to derail Jimmy Carter's 1980 re-election campaign--to ensure the party's "establishment" candidate has a chance to "win") and three of THE VIEW's cast members (given Sherri Shepherd's past retrograde views, one would think she'd opt for Huckabee)?
Part of me wants to say yes, but I think that even if Shuster had said something other than the p-word, Hillary and her PR goon Howard Wolfson would have still yelled their heads off at MSNBC and used this as a battering ram to ensure that no "irreverent" coverage of Hillary will occur for the remainder of the year. And it's a really classy touch to threaten to avoid MSNBC-telecast debates, too.
While the "men being sexist" card has also been played against Chris Matthews, consider this recent remark from Maureen Dowd in THE NEW YORK TIMES:
[Even though Hillary reasserted her strength, corraling New York, California and Kennedy country Massachusetts, she and Obama will battle on in chiaroscuro. Her argument to the Democratic base has gone from a subtext of “You owe me,” or more precisely, “Bill owes me and you owe him,” to a subtext of “Obambi will fold at the first punch from the right.”]
If Maureen Dowd were a cable-news contributor, would she--and her network--get the same kind of body-blowsMatthews did?
Here's a better question: How likely do you think Hillary, Wolfson and Terry McAulliffe will threaten to withdraw access to THE NEW YORK TIMES because of a Maureen Dowd column?
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