Archive for September 13th, 2011
Pop Tots: TLC Working with the Left to Normalize Child Exploitation
Megan Fox is a homeschooling, suburban mom in Chicagoland who hosts “The Megan Fox Radio Show” and routinely investigates issues important to her, especially those involving children. Here she explores the disturbing recent trend involving the media’s normalization of child exploitation.
I recently cancelled my cable (for the second time) due to escalating costs and a general disgust at the lack of quality programming. I won’t lie and say I’ve never indulged in reality smut for entertainment. I have caught myself watching Bachelor Pad and no part of me is proud of it. It is the “train-wreck” factor that keeps people paying attention to most of the stuff that passes for good TV.
The other day I caught Toddlers in Tiaras (a disgusting show where mothers, who have failed to make something of themselves, live out weird fantasies of wealth and beauty by forcing their little girls to traipse around in wigs and makeup applied with a trowel.) It was an episode that garnered a lot of controversy because a mother put her 4-year-old in a costume with padded breasts and butt. Frankly, it surprised me that anyone got upset considering the other outrageous things they do to these girls all the time like forcing them to wear false teeth and look like cheap streetwalkers.
Nonetheless, it was the padded butt/boob costume that got tongues wagging. Shortly after that episode, another featured a 3-year-old parading around in the prostitute costume Julia Roberts wore in Pretty Woman complete with hooker boots and cheap wig. While the general public finds such things repulsive, TLC continues to air what amounts to child abuse every week.
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5 Clues in Sarah Palin’s 9/12/11 Greta appearance that she’s running for president
After last night’s GOP presidential debate on CNN (sponsored by the Tea Party, live from Tampa, Florida), Governor Sarah Palin appeared on Greta van Susteran’s “On the Record” with her commentary on the declared candidates. Though the Governor’s supporters have known she’s running for president for some time (and, has in fact been running since 2008, the media will eventually see in retrospect), there were 5 clear clues in her FOX appearance last night that the Governor’s soon to announce her candidacy, though on her own timetable.
Utah Ground Report: Who’s really being victimized?
Dear HillBuzz -
Maybe it’s just because HillBuzz.org has been covering this lately, but I have noticed things around me that tie into issues we Buzzers have had great discussions about – namely bullies who claim they are the victims.
It started with the Only@Brunch guys making derogatory comments about Trig Palin in Chicago and The Ben Cohen Standup Foundation hypocritically holding an anti-bullying event in the venue where those bullying attacks were showcased. And I have to hand it to the HillBuzz crew for standing up for Trig and everyone else who gets picked on in the gay community because of their handicaps or what-have-you. Also, HillBuzz’s highlighting of the Gaystapo’s constant targeting of people they don’t agree with has made me realize how much those who claim to be victims are really the bullies.
Top 10 Things You Need to Know About the Tampa, Florida Republican Debate September 12th, 2011
[She wasn't on the stage, but her absence was felt, since without her to focus on the other candidates' had to stand in the spotlight themselves for a change...which is honestly the top reason Governor Palin has not officially announced yet]
For those of you who missed last night’s GOP presidential debate in Tampa, Florida, the woman and men who’ve declared their candidacies so far exchanged barbs and raised important issues you need to know about. Here’s a live blog transcript of the debate as it happened if you want to read the full thing. If not, Kevin DuJan of HillBuzz.org has prepared a summary of the Top Ten Important Things You Need to Know About the Tampa, Florida GOP Debate.
HillBuzz Open Thread: Tuesday September 13th, 2011
2008 – Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries. Those responsible? Yup, you guessed it. Muslim males between the ages of 17-41. No pattern here! Keep strip searching retired nuns and girl scouts at the airports and humiliating WWII veterans with body cavity searches, you geniuses at the TSA!
2005 – A glitch in the MMORPG World of Warcraft results in a plague affecting thousands of players. I love Warcraft, which my boyfriend doesn’t understand. I am trying to work up the nerve to write an essay about how the Chinese force people to sit at computers all day to mine gold and sell it to people in the virtual world of warcraft, which really happens. But, I’m not ready to do full posts yet. These little Today in History things are hard enough for me. But I think my first essay will be about the Chinese abusing warcraft for profit.
1953 – Nikita Khrushchev is appointed secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Does anyone else get weirdly nostalgic for the days when America’s greatest enemies had hard-to-spell names that at least didn’t have “Muhammed” or “Hussein” or “bin something or another” in them? It would be nice if the people in the highest levels of our own government didn’t have names like that either.
1948 – Margaret Chase Smith is elected senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate. 2012 will be a historic year for women too, you betcha. Despite the best efforts of all known “feminists” to stop it…and you know who.
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TAKE ACTION: Please write a letter or send a postcard to Governor Sarah Palin asking her to run for president. If you want her to run, you need to ask her to do so, or regret always that you didn’t have the chance to tell her personally how important it is to you that she enter the presidential race.
