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Another Latham grotesquerie

February 4th 2011 05:53

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Former Australian Labor Party leader and Prime Minister wannabe Mark Latham says incumbent Prime Minister Julia Gillard is incapable of empathy because she has no children.

Writing in a magazine column, Latham said Gillard comes across as wooden talking to the public because she chose a life without kids.

This is not an honest opinion. It is the sort of tabloid headline-grabbing, sensationalist sewage which people like Latham rely on to make a buck.

Having famously failed at a real job, they get a peroxided agent and a botoxed publicist and proceed to play the tabloid celebrity game. What you do is bad-mouth people and take extravagantly opinionated stands on any issue which suits your purpose, and watch the offers come in to appear on mindless TV reality, talkback and tabloid affairs shows.

Having your thoughts ghost-written for the redneck press and your (paid-for) picture appear in the front cover of supermarket shock sheets are the next step up the slimy slope.

It's a living. If you're outrageous enough, you can create your own cult. Think Sarah Palin.

Common sense and carefully considered opinion have no place in this game. Snipe, gripe and shoot from the lip. Hit hard, and as far below the belt as you can reach, before running to the next make-up call, via the bank.

It's like the bad loser on a football field, the guy whose side's getting beaten so he gets defensively angry. Nothing is his fault.

Gillard is a winner in the political game at which Latham proved a blundering no-hoper. Look at the scoreboard, Mark.
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Blinkered in rural Arkansas

January 28th 2011 02:32

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David Furnish and Elton John

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Elton John is fuming, and he has every right to be. Just last week he said he was getting increasingly annoyed by anti-gay sentiment, and now this.

With the world looking at pictures of a grinning John and his partner, David Furnish, with the baby they have just adopted, a supermarket in a rural US community has decided the pictures are offensive.

The Harps store in Mountain Home, Arkansas, has decided to hide magazine covers featuring pictures of John, 63, Furnish, 48, and Zachary, born on Christmas Day, covering the happy family in wrapping normally used on pornographic magazines.

The supermarket said it decided to wrap the magazines after customer complaints and to "to protect young Harps shoppers".

Now the world is crying "homophobia". Maybe so - as mX columnist Anna Brain wrote today, one assumes it is not the baby that people are protesting about.

But I don't call this homophobia. I reserve that noun for cynical acts of hatred or violence against gays. I don't think this is a homophobic act. I think it's an act of ignorance, and I think criticising it is the wrong response.

A person or persons in rural Arkansas was offended by an image of a gay couple celebrating parenthood. It's an unenlightened reaction, but there will always be an uninformed minority, and there will always be a need for tolerance towards them.

The supermarket to which the complaint was directed decided to take action, meaning its management was as naive as the complainant. This is a Keystone Cops sequence of the dumb influencing the gullible. Instead of labelling them homophobic, we have a chance to explain how and why majority perceptions differ from their own.

It needs a gentle approach.

Now get those moronic covers off those magazines, and give Elton a quiet day or two until the next piece of stupidity comes along.
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Uchitel teaches Tiger a lesson

August 24th 2010 03:15

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The shameless milking of a situation for notoriety and profit is something that Rachel Uchitel understands. For her, its not a matter of social conscience or philosophy. For Rachel, its a career move.

Rachel Uchitel was the first woman named in the never-ending Tiger Woods transgression story. Her name sits atop what turned out to be a long list.

Her name has been popping up ever since. We are not saying she receives money every time she is interviewed. Just most of them. Call it a nice return for her investment in a few steamy sessions with that randy philanderer Woods.

Its a game she knows how to play well or at least the pack of piranhas which gathers around the Rachel Uchitels of this world knows how to play.

The game is to tell all, bit by tantalising, lucrative bit. Facts are convenient if they fit; much more important is a plentiful supply of anecdotes, comments, advice and post-coital reflection.

Scripted scruples.

For a price.

Then you wait for the phone to ring, which it will do every time Tiger does something newsworthy. Such as mishit a drive. Such as have another bogey-laden misstep in the track back to Superstardom. Such as finalising his divorce.

Thats what happened yesterday when Woods and Elin Nordegren and a large number of lawyers met in a Florida court to sign off on their split.

We are sad that our marriage is over and we wish each other the very best for the future,'' they said in a statement released by the lawyers (Nordegren reportedly had eight of them present).

What the statement didnt make clear is the settlement details. Guesses so far range between $US100 and $500 million.

Did someone mention money? Back to Rachel Uchitel who, piranha-like, smelled an opportunity, scripted and polished something sellable to say, and released a statement of her own, through a lawyer of her own.

Tiger can begin again but he should never forget the human wreckage that he has left behind and the fact that he has still not been fully accountable for the suffering that he has inflicted on women, said Rachel.

He has broken his wife's heart and the hearts of many others. His apparent lack of honesty in his relationships doomed his marriage and caused a break that could not be repaired.''

Oh really? Rachel, we know you have heard this before, but you knew he was married, you knew he had two small children, and you bonked him anyway. It takes two to philander. By what bizarre extension of logic do you now find it plausible to preach morals to him?

Our advice to you is to get a new press writer. The above is way too transparent, showing, as it does, a woman as bereft of common sense as she is of consideration.

Its one thing to understand the shameless milking of a situation for notoriety and profit. Its another to do it consistently well. Keep producing this kind of twaddle, Rachel, and you may have to look for a new career move.

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