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I usually skip the entertainment page of the “Tampa Daily Bugle and Thunderstorm.” The day usually goes pretty well without knowing what Kim Kardashian is up to (or even who she is). But this morning my progress to the sports page was arrested by a photo of a cute young woman named Kathy Griffin. I should have just admired her youthful, perky looks and moved on. But, foolishly, I read the item with the photo.
It seems our Kathy has a new talk show. And it will feature celebrities (i.e., people who appear on celebrity talk shows). The republic needs another celebrity talk show about like Custer needed more Indians. In Kathy’s case the charges of tiresomeness and flagrant cliché must be added to redundancy. She confesses that her “idols” are Howard Stern, Bill Maher, and Joan Rivers. (How truly sad.) And in the tradition of her heroes, she says she wants her own show to be “edgy” and to “push the envelope.”
Darkness and devils!! With the broadcast air full of “whores,” “sluts,” and F-bombs, and every sexual practice known to man lingered over in prurient detail, there is no envelope left to push. The envelope has long ago been shredded. Someone please tell Kathy, and the folks at Bravo who are enabling her.
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Casey Abell| 4.19.12 @ 12:46PM
Kathy Grifin is "young"? She's 51.
Everything's relative, I guess.
A Grin without a Cat| 4.19.12 @ 12:58PM
Cute?
Hank| 4.19.12 @ 1:14PM
"Youthful perky looks"? She's only about one more plastic surgeon visit away from Joan Rivers' record.
Long Live Peter Green | 4.19.12 @ 1:27PM
Larry, if you haven't already, read Christopher Orlet's column "Life After Television" here on ASO. The talentless clowns you mentioned in this column are yet another good reason to shut off the tv. The idiocy of the left can only be seen & heard if we turn on the tv & watch & listen to them.
Drek| 4.19.12 @ 2:26PM
Your use of the term "indians" only demonstrates your cultural and ethnic insensitivity! What arrogance! What outrageous Caucasian-centrism!
Moreover, you casually used the epic clash between the races at Little Big Horn, a Titanic struggle which pitted "the other" against the evil white man. You deliberately failed to note that Custer was a tool of the white man's greed and rapaciousness. Such an omission only compounds your original insensitivity!
Where's it going to end?
How many times do we have to remove American Indian stereotypes as college nicknames before you evil whiteys get it!
Are you kidding me| 4.19.12 @ 3:03PM
PANCAKES, FRIED EGGS, EEEECCCCCCHHHHH!!!