Hell grew very chilly today. For the first time in my life, I actually agree with something Rosie O'Donnell said on her new gig at The View, a show I look at as being the spawn of Satan anyway, thus keeping the Hell motif going hot and heavy. Years ago, I couldn't even agree with Rosie on the whole Krispy Kreme thing. Tried them. Not so hot. At least, I wouldn't have built an oven and conveyor belt into my TV talk show set, had I had one back in the day.
Of the whole Trump/Miss USA thing, O'Donnell said, "... left the first wife, had an affair, left the second wife, had an affair. Had kids both times, but he's the moral compass for 20-year-olds in America." I don't have a problem with ANYONE who is divorced, once or multiple times. (I'd question Rosie's order of events, though. I'm guessing it was "had an affair" BEFORE any of the leaving of the wives.) There are two sides to every story, but I agree, The Donald should not be setting the moral standard for anyone, maybe not even himself.
I actually received a reply from the Fox6 News vp/gm (or someone writing for him) to my query if they'd lost their minds yesterday morning when they ran The Donald's press conference LIVE as breaking news. He said that every major new outlet covered the story, and "it was great PR for" Trump's company.
And that's where it proves that the top person at Fox6 in San Diego is CLUELESS about news. PR isn't news, but why this should surprise me coming from a station who regularly runs commercials for a local laser eye surgery group AND then presents their doctors on air as experts for interviews AND also allows their on-air talent to appear in commercials for said group. There's obviously no separation of church (news) and state (sales) at this station, nor is there nary a thought of "conflict of interest" in their airy little heads when they allow such things to happen. But I digress.
I wrote them to complain about treating The Donald as breaking news, and they missed my point. The real story was Miss USA's tearful act of live contrition that they did NOT air. I'm not denying it's a news story, on some level. They just showed the stupidest part of it--Trump--as BREAKING NEWS. I think Jon Stewart said it best on The Daily Show last night. "Who has the moral authority to absolve this woman of her sins?" And up, of course, pops Donald Trump talking about "second chances" for Miss USA Tara Conner. Stewart spoke the thought we've all been thinking all along: "To help me milk all the extra publicity and exposure I can, out of this second-rate paegent that I bought ten years ago, as an excuse to nail girls like Tara."
Donald Trump. Businessman. Mogul. Humanitarian. And, of course, horndog.
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