I’ve never really understood why being on television gives someone instant credibility. It was bad enough when there were only 3 channels, but these days with 500+ channels, some of them public access, just about everybody and his Laotian brother-in-law are on TV. A year or so ago, my wife and I went to see the Robin Williams flick “Man of the Year”. It was cute but not as funny as I had hoped. The saddest and funniest moment came as we were leaving and one of the men sitting behind me told the other, “That’s the kind of candidate we need in real life.” Some people are like clay mentally, and yet their vote counts as much as mine. I have always wondered how the hell we got to this situation. In my studies of history I’ve learned that in centuries past acting was considered a scummy profession. Low enough on the social food chain that in some cases women of any social class weren’t permitted to act. Apparently it was too demeaning, for even hookers, so men dressed in drag played the female roles. My how times have changed.
I’ve heard so much stupidity spew from the mouths of actors and actresses that I now just assume they’re morons until they’re proven otherwise. One would think they would take Laura Ingraham’s advice and Shut Up and Sing, but they don’t. Instead they engage is such egregious blather that it becomes impossible to enjoy any show or movie they are in. It took living in a world with 500+ channels for me to realize that three was probably too many. Hurray for Hollyweird.
