Brucey Baby

OK. Go to this site, look at the Bruce Willis piece:

http://entertainment.msn.com/news/article.aspx?news=135781

And I thought entertainment media loved him. Apparantly they prefer him divorced and randy as opposed to patriotic in any way. I will quote them here :

"Peculiar thing back home is that the liberal media was trying to portray it as a bad war," he (Willis) said. "But being over here just a couple of days, seeing how well our troops and the allied troops are being received here, I think the Iraqi people are happy we're here." The thing is, according to the World Entertainment News Network, well-off Willis traveled to Iraq by helicopter and didn't actually see many Iraqi citizens, many of whom still have no water, electricity or food."

What strikes me the most amusing about this article is that their big giggle at Willis is all "...according to the World Entertainment News Network..." a reliable source of information if ever there was one. Does this news source have any presence in Iraq much less any credibility? How can I take their word that they know for certain that many Iraqis are without water, electricity, or food when their bread and butter is made from discussing whether Britney Spears had a boob job or Hugh Grant had a blow-job? Celebrities are given carte blanche to drool over the rights of animals, and J Lo's ass, but God forbid they want to do anything truly humane like kick the living shit out of a real life and possibly accessible Hitler. "Bad Celebrity. Bad. You broke the shallow celebrity code and now you will pay." I'm hearing all of that in a French accent. I don't know why, but it sounds really funny. Over and Out.

BIG BROTHER THE JOURNALIST

For God's sake someone has to put a leash on the fucking media. They've gone beserk. If it weren't for the internet, you'd think Iraq will be the birthplace of the apocolypse. Al Queda and the Ba'athists forming an alliances, birds and bees copulating (or was it the lion and the lamb?), I forget. Anyway, someone has to rein them in before they start reporting that we actually lost the war. If you don't like the president, fine. Write an op-ed piece, or a blog, or on your car window in shoe polish, but for the love of neutrality, STOP PASSING OPINIONS OFF AS JOURNALISM. I'm too tired to cite examples, but I will predict the future. The media is going the chew like goats on the supposed leak of the identity of the undercover CIA agent until the name of that agent becomes as synonymous in annoyance as Monica Lewinsky's. The network news was grinding so hard into the Bush administration, that it didn't mention that it was a journalist who published the identity of that agent. To anyone who starts in on freedom of the press, just who's interest was that journalist serving by revealing that agent's identity? Could it have waited? I think so. People are just as likely to believe a reputable journalist quoting an unnamed source as they would a named one. They shouldn't, but they do. Anyway, I lay the blame of that agent's exposition squarely on the media who has jumped on the president's falling numbers like whores on money.