Archive for July 7th, 2010
Tipper Gore sure is spending a strange amount of time in California…wonder why
Anyone concerned about the Cult of Anthropogenic Global Warming, and interested in its takedown, needs to pay close attention to Tipper Gore and her movements.
Here’s another People magazine article on the Gores, which is 95% useless. Essentially, it’s just a blurb to keep the Gore sexual assault story in the headlines, without revealing anything new. This is a trick People magazine uses a lot — our guess is there’s a dry erase board in a boardroom somewhere, with the stories People’s editors want covered; every issue needs to have one piece on that story, even if it’s just a shallow recap, or an article quoting an unidentified “friend” weakly claiming this, that, or the other isn’t true. The principals involved in the story aren’t actually quoted, and no attempt even seems to be made to speak to them. The magazine knows it has months of stories ahead of it with the Gores…and People will string this out as long as it possibly can to sell more copies.
So, the only real interesting bit in this article is the mention of Tipper Gore “making a new life for herself” in California.
Why California?
In the article, it mentions Tipper being present for a big “family event’ at a lake somewhere in Tennessee, where presumably the Gores have many friends and family members. If someone wanted to “make a new life for herself” the natural place to do that would be somewhere like Tennessee, where Tipper would have a support system ready-made to springboard that new life.
Why choose California instead?
With all of California’s budget and other problems, not to mention the natural disasters and endemic woes, why resettle there? If Tipper wanted somewhere tropical and peaceful, there’s plenty of room in Florida and Hawaii. If she wanted someplace cosmopolitan and glamorous, there’s New York and Connecticut.
Why California?
It seems like this has 100% to do with California’s EXTREMELY generous 50/50 assets-splitting provisions in divorce.
And it feels like Tipper’s going to be filing for that divorce as a resident of the Golden State so she can take half of ManBearPig’s vast carbon-credit backed fortune.
We hope she gets as much as she can, then disappears into obscurity to enjoy her money any way she likes. We’ve never much liked Tipper Gore, and have thought she was something of a loon since her early 1990s crusade against rap music and its attempts to censor lyrics and destroy the careers of performers she did not approve of. No one appointed Mrs. Gore to be our watchdog or Culture Tsarina, and no one ever will. Take all of ManBearBig’s money, then take a flying leap, sister.
The Gores’ divorce will be very interesting for a great number of reasons, not least of all will be any insight we get into ManBearPig’s actual assets, and the full scope of how much the Cult of Anthropogenic Global Warming is actually worth.
It will also be interesting to see how effective a pope Gore will be to his cult after his fortune’s clipped in half by the California divorce, and all the exposure it will bring him.
Especially if Tipper intends to use People magazine and other tabloids, through unidentified “friends”, to further humiliate her soon to be ex husband by revealing everything about him. Maybe these little blurbs in the magazine that say nothing are something of a warning to Gore — letting him know that the magazine is committed to filling at least a page every issue on this story, so if Gore’s not generous with that divorce, Tipper could start getting chatty via intermediaries…with presumably an awful lot to tell that ManBearPig would want kept secret.
Ricky Hollywood apologizes to the Palin family in People Magazine
Normally, Ricky Hollywood (nee, Levi Johnston) isn’t worth mentioning, in anything other than discussions of biological males with a micropenis (one of the most common ways Ricky and the current president are linked in conversation, incidentally).
But, this People magazine article is interesting for the fact that Johnston takes the opportunity to apologize publicly to the Palin family in Alaska for most of the nasty things he has done to betray and backstab them. Essentially, it seems Johnston is blaming his ungrateful and reprehensible behavior on the likes of Kathy Griffin and others in Hollywood who “used (him)” to attack the Palins — and have now seemed to throw him away. So, Ricky Hollywood, with no more Hollywood to exploit him, seeks the role of prodigal son returning to the good graces of the next American First Family.
The Palins seem like decent, forgiving people, and we know it’s in their nature to show kindness and compassion to everyone. So, if they choose to forgive Ricky Hollywood, that’s their right and prerogative. They can do what they wanna do.
What’s really interesting to us in all of this is the fact that People’s even running the apology from Johnston. Why? It’s not like an apology story will drive magazine sales…unless People sees that Governor Palin’s popularity is high enough amongst People readers that an apology from Johnston is something they wanted to see, and would buy an issue of People at the checkout stand to read.
Whenever politics and entertainment collide in a magazine like People, it’s important to look beyond the particular article at hand and into the deeper meaning of that intersection. Politics is boring to most Americans. People magazine has a whole folder of photos of Jennifer Love Hewitt shopping for groceries, walking dogs, and getting foam on the tip of her nose while drinking frappuchino (while simultaneously trying to look adorable, but failing). If People can’t fill an issue with actual news, and has empty pages, rather than write about politics they’ll run more of those ubiquitous Jennifer Love Hewitt photos, as a full page, because either that’s JLH’s personal deal with the devil or she’s some sort of running joke in the entertainment trades (or a little of both).
It feels, to us, that People magazine, and its sister publications in the tabloid world, received blowback over the course of Ricky Hollywood’s shameful trajectory, and there must be stacks of letters in People’s offices from readers who didn’t like what Kathy Griffin and her ilk were pushing against the Palins. Maybe running this apology is paean to all those out there who’ve been telling People that Ricky Hollywood would never hurt the Governor in their minds, and that ultimately the Palin Derangement Brigades would run out of venom to spit at her.
Kathy Griffin is an unfunny gorgon whose mean-spiritedness and “hijinks” destine her for karmic comeuppance. It is very much apocryphal that “the gays” all love her. We think she’s a sad joke of a woman, who, like most in Hollywood, has no idea what she’s talking about when she enters political waters (in an ill-fitting one-piece that gives her diaper butt, no doubt). Recently, an episode of her train wreck reality show aired where Griffin went to Alaska with Johnston and embarrassed herself. We’d say Ricky Hollywood embarrassed himself, too, but really at this point that’s either redundant or impossible.
Griffin will continue to talk smack about the Palins, because Griffin doesn’t exist without some manufactured feud. She’s one-note, with very little creativity, and still relies heavily on stale ’90s jokes about her being mistaken for the woman on NewsRadio (a much funnier redhead who’s not so fueled by bitterness and spite). So, don’t expect Griffin to drop her Palin Derangement any time soon.
It will be interesting, though, to see what Ricky Hollywood does next. It looks like his micropenis prevented him from attaining that career in pornography he went to Hollywood seeking. That’s what a centerfold in Playgirl magazine is supposed to launch a man into, unless he’s not equipped for the task. We’d heard numerous stories of Ricky Hollywood going to various showbiz parties and receiving the same cold shoulder bottom feeders like Griffin are given. No one especially wanted him around, his fifteen minutes were up, so maybe he sees that his future lies in Alaska…so it’s best for him long-term to mend fences with the people he trashed for the better part of a year with Griffin at his side.
He seems to realize Governor Palin is not going anywhere, that his attacks on her have only made her stronger, and that he needs to get with the program and stop embarrassing himself if he wants to have a cordial relationship with the mother of his son…and the rest of her family. Maybe some Alaskans behind the scenes told Ricky Hollywood to knock it off and brought him to his senses themselves. Alaskans seem like they can be pretty plain-spoken and effective when they care to be.
Why do you think People magazine is running his apology…and why is this happening now?
Wednesday Open Thread: July 7th, 2010
What’s on your minds this Wednesday?
What are people talking about in your part of the country?
