A friend who's an entertainment journalist (and Obama supporter) e-mails to say how excruciating the MTV Video Music Awards are. Half the jokes are about the Jonas Brothers' virginity, he said, and most of the rest are making fun of Sarah Palin and George W. Bush.
They can't help themselves. They just can't. Not even P.Z. Myers (!) asking them to knock it off so they can win this election is going to stop it. Fine by me.
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At least when the threatened riots come if Obama fails to win, these bullies and buffoons will have no one but themselves to blame for the tear-gas in their eyes -- they will have lost much more than McCain will have won and those -- like me -- who in normal circumstances would have cared less one way or the other about this election will have not a single baby-crocodile tear to share. At least not for a good long while.....
There won't be any riots when Obama loses because the folks who would riot won't want to give Sarah Palin an excuse to use them for target practice.
And Obama will lose, not because of Sarah Palin, but because he has been trending downwards since July and if the Bradley effect holds he really is way way behind in the electoral count.
What the MTV-VH1 crowd fails to comprehend is that there many of us, conservatives included, who enjoy and purchase popular music, including artists that appear on MTV and VH1. You should see my iPod song list!
They can make fun of Palin and Bush all they want, but when they do so they make fun of millions of Americans who exhibit the tolerance the MTV-crowd betrays by its vulgar bigotry: we buy and listen to your music, and very much appreciate your talent and the joy it brings to our lives, but we still think that you are a collection of disordered souls whose opinions aren't worth a barrel of cow chips. Love the music, ignore the musician.
Francis Beckwith,
It *is* a bit rich when people who offer no audible evidence of much ability to do their *own* jobs nonetheless consider themselves more qualified than Sarah Palin or John McCain to do a politician's job.
I'd certainly rather sit through a concert by Sarah Palin or John McCain than even a dog-catcher's term in office from any of these three-chord wonders and sequencer and drum-machine virtuosos.
If the awards did that (and I have no clue, I didn't watch them, and I don't watch MTV), is it a surprise? They know their demographic.
Do you honestly see this impacting the election? I mean, how many people who would take offense at the jokes would've (outside being a culture blogger) be watching those awards in the first place?
Listening to the music, and watching MTV and the VMA's are quite different things.
Maybe buy the music because you like the music. I mean, I watch Clint Eastwood and Bruce Willis movies. What's that got to do with their political positions?
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