It would be one thing if she were merely stupid and self serving, but her hateful behavior on the campaign trail was beyond excuse. She's much more than an annoying celebrity gadfly, she's a cancer on our society. Her attacks on Obama weren't just hardball politics, they were poisonous and dangerous and she had no shred of remorse delivering her venom. She's without conscience, and she appeals to the very worst elements in this country: the bitter, rancorous, paranoid and bigotted.

She's a festering, running sore covered with a shiny bandage. Relentlessly ridiculing her every idiotic word and deed isn't just fun, it's an obligation. She needs to be held up as the blank-eyed, dumb, mean-spirited, self-serving hate-mongering symbol of what we as a nation should reject.

On Da Al G Show the Bruno segments always felt forced. His accent is off and he seems clearly fake when doing the character. I have a difficult time believing anyone fell for it. Ali G and Borat always seems strange but could be real. Bruno, never.

One of the problems I've always had with the character is that it reinforces negative perceptions. Ali G and Borat were always socially clumsy and oafish, but there was also an endearing quality. Bruno always seemed to me a very negative portrayal. It seemed like SBC was holding the character up for as much contempt as the "victims." His other characters seemed to use stereotypes to dash the stereotype. Bruno always seemed to reinforce the negative stereotype.

I think he can be very funny. I just never thought this character was very successful.

The kid was a prop.

Well Mariah Carey was there, so right off the bat it's disqualified as "classy" by any stretch of the imagination.

It was a money-grubbing family trying squeeze a few more bucks out of there cash cow and assorted has-beens pushing their way in front of a camera.

Classy would have been a quiet private service. The circus is many things, "classy" isn't one of them. And yesterday the elephants arrived before the clowns.

It's almost as if this conservative stuff she's been doing is performance art. Its so foolish. She sounds more stupid than her act on SNL. I find it odd that conservatives would even want idiots like her speaking for them, but they certainly don't seem to mind.

Oh, the possibilities are endless!

A freak show isn't any fun without the freaks. I mentioned in another thread, Jackson was a bad '80's act who surrvived because his nose fell off at regular intervals. It was the endless, ever more grotesque plastic surgeries, the child molestation charges, the burka, the out of control spending, the weird friendships with La Liz and Liza that kept people's attention. Creatively and musically he hadn't been relevant in many years. He held the fascination of a car crash.

The day he died Keith Olbermann was talking to a reporter on the scene at the scene at the medical center. He kept referring to the "crowds" Clearly, there were only a handfull of people. Olbermann finally asked, rather wryly, "Are the crowds in transit?" The media may have over estimated this time. Once everyone got to see Jackson loaded into the van the show was pretty much over. No one cares about his avaricious family and some has-beens trying to push their way back infront of the public. He's dead. His nose isn't going to fall off anymore, he won't look any creepier, no more scandals...Sarah Palin has stepped in as the freak of the moment. Most people I hear mentioning it are just annoyed by the coverage.

Michael Jackson.

I really don't see any grief or mourning. I see an avaricious family almost gleefully squeezing what's left from their cash cow, and a bunch of has-beens pushing their way into the public's attention one more time. The fans? That's not grief. They look to be having a grand old time mugging for the cameras. Let's face it, Jackson was a bad '80's act that surrvived because his nose fell off at regular intervals. His death, like his life was a freak show. That was the appeal and interest. This isn't grief.

The civilians killed in Afghanistan? We paint everyone as some sort of video game villain now. The people of Iraq and Afghanistan are looked upon as "them." They've been dehumanized by our media and politicians, and that has resonated with many Americans. We have an all volunteer army now, so war doesn't touch the lives of most American. It's something remote that we see on tv like a movie. I just think most americans don't have any real feelings about it.

King of Pop? With a little tweaking to that story he could be the Messiah of Pop.

I have a feeling alot more accusations will be forth coming. Will we eve know if any of them are true? Probably not, but at the very least he engaged in wildly inappropriate behavior. As the years go on he'll be remembered more for the unpleasant questions and less for the dance moves he lifted from Bob Fosse and the bass line he lifted from Hall and Oats.

...then I guess she's about as maternal as Joe Jackson.

I mean professionally. Zsa Zsa made a career basically out of being Zsa Zsa Gabor. Palin is sort of a toxic version. She won't do anything. No one will actually know what it is she does after a while. Her career will be being Sarah Palin.

No insult ment to Zsa Zsa.