As the tabloid circle turns.
As the tabloid circle turns.
Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#1As the tabloid circle turns.
Posted: 12/16/09 at 3:22am
Wasn't it just a few weeks ago that everyone was all atwitter with the unfolding shenanigans involving David Letterman?
And tonight, I accidentally paused briefly on his monologue, only to hear him make Tiger jokes. And the audience laughed. And he winked, and even referenced his own 'difficulties'.
And the audience laughed. Again.
Is this really an example of our national consciousness? Will anyone ever really focus on what matters, and recognize nonsense for what it is?
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#2re: As the tabloid circle turns.
Posted: 12/16/09 at 3:59am
"Is this really an example of our national consciousness?"
Yes.
"Will anyone ever really focus on what matters, and recognize nonsense for what it is?"
Probably not.
Tabloid scandal has always fascinated the public. "Chicago" sums it up very well.
nmartin
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/3/05
#2re: As the tabloid circle turns.
Posted: 12/16/09 at 6:47amThis country is populated by bottom feeders.
#4re: As the tabloid circle turns.
Posted: 12/16/09 at 7:55amI don't watch Letterman so why in the hell should he be considered my national consciousness when he is just a comedian/late-night host who left his peak a long time ago?
#5re: As the tabloid circle turns.
Posted: 12/16/09 at 8:29amWho are you?
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#6re: As the tabloid circle turns.
Posted: 12/16/09 at 8:31am
Strum - obviously, your consciousness is busy being raised by paying close attention to the experience of Courtney Love's child. Clearly, this doesn't apply to YOU.
D2 - I've been wondering that a lot over the last couple of days.
#7re: As the tabloid circle turns.
Posted: 12/16/09 at 10:06am
Me three!
The obsession with Tiger Woods in general has me baffled. What makes this so fascinating to people? Is it because she busted his window out? His squeaky clean image? I don't really get it. I feel so sorry for Elin.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#8re: As the tabloid circle turns.
Posted: 12/16/09 at 10:17am
I don't feel sorry for either of them. Being cheated on doesn't give you the right to physically attack your spouse, regardless of your gender. I am rather tired of hearing about this.
The other night I was watching Anderson Cooper have a panel discussion about celebrities and what they should reveal and whatnot and I thought, "Mary, don't YOU have nerve?"
#9re: As the tabloid circle turns.
Posted: 12/16/09 at 10:33am
Technically she didn't physically attack HIM. She was demanding an explanation and he jumped in his car to leave. She grabbed the closest thing she could and bashed his car window out. lol I do feel for her because he wasn't discreet, there were many women and they have very small children. He put forth the image of such a family guy. Some report said that while doing an interview the day before the story broke while he was talking about his family being his life, his girlfriend was waiting back at the hotel.
That said, I am tired of hearing about it, too.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
#10as the tabloid circle turns.
Posted: 12/16/09 at 10:33am
she, he or it is a minion of satan sent here to taunt and annoy.
if my wife cheats, i have the right to either knock out two of her teeth or break two fingers. it says so in the good wife guide.
conversely, should i cheat, she has the right to remove certain appendages.
i really should have read that closer before saying "i do" but you know i was dazzled by the pretty lights of vegas.
i thought, wow, dave, way to bond with your fellow philanderer!
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
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pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
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#11as the tabloid circle turns.
Posted: 12/16/09 at 10:41amTiger Woods is still the rage because nothing else of note has happened since to steal focus.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#12as the tabloid circle turns.
Posted: 12/16/09 at 10:43amDave made fun of his own infidelities- why wouldn't he make fun of Tiger's?
Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#13as the tabloid circle turns.
Posted: 12/16/09 at 10:43am
"nothing else of note"
I really don't know what to say to that.
Well, more to the point, I have quite a few things that come to mind to say, but none of which should be said publicly (so as not to get this thread deleted.)
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#14as the tabloid circle turns.
Posted: 12/16/09 at 10:48amIf he had smashed her car window when she was driving away, it wouldn't be looked on as him just smashing the car. He would have been accused of trying to attack her. I think the same thing of her. That's just me. I fully admit I don't completely understand heterosexual ways and customs.
Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#15as the tabloid circle turns.
Posted: 12/16/09 at 10:55amJoe - valid point. But, my curiosity is more with the audience reaction. I realize they're not exactly a microcosm of America, but the wink/wink, nudge/nudge attitude from this particular group seems at odds with the "plummeting" poll numbers attached to Tiger and all the attendent judgement.
#16as the tabloid circle turns.
Posted: 12/16/09 at 11:06amPRS, you are right, of course. I guess I just buy into the double standard. :/ Honestly, though, if she had cheated on him so carelessly and so many times while he was home raising two small babies, I don't know if I, personally, would think any less of him for bashing her window out.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#17as the tabloid circle turns.
Posted: 12/16/09 at 11:14am
Q. it's all about how it's handled. Letterman came out, and immediately made a clean breast of it. Full Disclosure. With self-deprecating jokes. If Tiger had handled it the same way, he'd be more popular now than ever. As has been proven by Nixon, Clinton and so many others: It's not the crime, it's the cover up.
And yes, Phyllis, you are 100% correct.
#18as the tabloid circle turns.
Posted: 12/16/09 at 12:27pmAs my 7th grade english teacher always said, "If you mess up, fess up!"
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#19as the tabloid circle turns.
Posted: 12/16/09 at 12:39pm
Letterman is a comic and his goal is to make people laugh. Like most GOOD comics, the jokes are as much at his own expense than at Tiger's.
I wouldn't isolate Letterman and single him out as a cultural barometer.
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Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#20as the tabloid circle turns.
Posted: 12/16/09 at 12:44pm
Oh, I know - as I said, hardly a microcosm.
I think what I really have in my head are a group of people very much like the dogs in UP.
"SQUIRREL!"
#21as the tabloid circle turns.
Posted: 12/16/09 at 12:57pmI don't think Letterman is a measuring stick for the social conscious either. Letterman, O'Brien, Kimmel, Fallon, etc all lift from the tabloids for their material. They're not news programs - they are entertainment programs. It's much easier to make a joke about Tiger's 14 mistresses that one about an impending war. They trying to take our minds off all of the more serious issues for a short time
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#22as the tabloid circle turns.
Posted: 12/16/09 at 2:14pmkinda like jon stewart.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
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