Tutu attacks “Stars Earn Stripes”
OK, I tried to watch that NBC show “Stars Earn Stripes” last night. I really tried, but between the voice over of that smoldering turd, Wesley Clark and Nick Lachey telling me that “Nothing prepares you for battle like being in a boy band”, I only lasted about ten seconds into the intro. So if you’re looking for a review of the action last night, you won’t get it here.
I did, however listen to Dean Cain this morning on Fox & Friends who couldn’t stop talking about how much he admires the troops for going through that stuff everyday. Of course, some of us might disagree with him on that. Most of our days are filled with mind-numbing boredom, cleaning weapons, checking fluid levels on our vehicles, tightening bolts, replacing track pads, scrubbing TA-50 and then getting it all inspected.
Anyway, leave it to a Nobel Laureate to call it all a glorification of war;
Besides Tutu, signers of the letter are Jody Williams, Mairead Maguire, Shirin Ebadi, Jose Ramos-Horta, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Oscar Arias Sanchez, Rigoberta Menchu Tum and Betty Williams.
The Nobel laureates also declared their support for a protest against the show outside NBC’s Rockefeller Center headquarters in Manhattan.
NBC counters that it’s not a glorification of war, but rather a glorification of service. Well, we all know better – it’s glorification of profits for NBC. They wouldn’t have put the show on TV if there wasn’t an audience, and that’s more to the point. I’m sure there were a lot of people who enjoyed the show last night who weren’t me (I have trouble staying interested in any “reality show” anyway, because I already know that I’m surrounded by assholes, I don’t need TV to remind me).
Now I’m sure that morons like Tutu think Stolen Valor was about free speech, but they want to influence what Americans watch on TV with their pointless lamentations about the glorification of war and violence.
Tutu and his band of idiots should go back to their own shithole countries and change things there. I’m sure they have more problems than TV shows which are probably easier to change than anything they think is wrong with the US.
Category: Shitbags
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I was curious as to that, too… does Todd Palin really have any “celebrity” status other than as “First Dude”?
So, I checked his imdb page, and there it is! Obviously, his celebrity status is from when he appeared as “Himself – Audience Member” on Dancing With The Stars!
Not to pick on Palin, though. He’s one of only three names I recognize in the list of contestants (the others being Dean Cain and Laila Ali).
I actually enjoyed it because you can tell that he military and police guys are having fun. They know that they are there as face and they are doing stuff as a nod and a wink to us. Did you notice how they were breaking down the door? It was a hollow core door and they were just breaking through it like it was nothing. Grady Powell just ran headfirst through the door.
Todd Palin wins…
We had a discussion about this today, prompted by the cadre while in the WLC classroom. At first a couple students also disagreed with the concept of the show on the grounds of potential OPSEC concerns. When someone pointed out that none of us had even watched the show, and that most of the Nobel Peace Prize winners mentioned were crooked folks, the class pretty much decided it was worth watching just to spite them. No one seemed to notice the significance of Wesley Clark, but a few comments were made that he must be making a bit of dosh.
@12 I learned more from those quotes then anything I could learn from a silly “unreality” show. Thanks all for the grins though, love the comments!
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