As John Cameron Swazey, host of "The Camel (cigarettes) Caravan of News" (that I watched on our 7 inch TV in my youth) used to say, "Hop-scotching the world for headlines". Or, in my case, just trolling the media for items which have interest, but lack accuracy. Here are three recent examples
1. How come the Yahoo news feed is now referring to Stormy Daniels as a "FORMER ADULT FILM STAR"? As I said in a previous post, I've seen her website-----there seems to be NOTHING "former" about it. And, in addition, during the much anticipated Anderson Cooper "60 Minutes" interview that aired Sunday, Ms. Daniels indicated that "business" has picked up since her allegations were made public. Sounds like a pro to me!
2. Also, while we're on the subject of Ms. Daniels and Cooper, last week Stephen Colbert was at pains to make the point that, in his opinion, the Stormy Daniels story just won't go away no matter how many times Anderson Cooper airs photos where the camera slowly zooms in on her bust line. Colbert maintains that this practice has caused Mr. Cooper to rename his show from "Anderson Cooper 360" to "Anderson Cooper 36DD"---that being Ms. Daniels' chest size according to her website and a video interview with (I think) Howard Stern. However, I checked the accuracy of this particular claim with an independent expert on this subject, and that person immediately replied, "She may be wearing a 36DD bra, but you can tell by the "spillover" (which is a technical term of art used by beauty pageant judges) that those ARE NOT 36DD boobs!"
3. Lastly, I'm watching CNN this past Thursday morning as I always do on mornings that I'm using the treadmill. And I don't even know the name of the show I'm watching, but it's hosted by a guy named John Something-or -Other who, based upon every broadcast of his that I've seen, absolutely despises the President. During Thursday morning's show, John and his panel of three women were discussing the juvenile behavior being displayed by both parties in a schoolyard style exchange that has taken place during the past few days between Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden (the former VP). The latest volley fired was Trump calling Biden "weak" both physically and mentally. Old John went on and on about name calling, bullying and the lack of decorum by a "President of The United States" and asked the panel what they, as women, felt about it and how women's attitudes would affect the mid-term elections. The group generally thought the behavior to be childish and posited that other women would feel the same way (although none of them predicted a Democratic landslide in November because of it). What interested me most, however, was that the panel was nearly 10 minutes into the discussion before one of the women pointed out to the host that he shouldn't forget that it was Biden who initiated this fight. While giving a speech on the issue of sexual assault of women, the former VP said words to the effect that if he had been present when Mr. Trump made those disparaging comments about women on the ET bus, he (Biden) would have taken him(Trump) "...out behind the gym and beaten the hell out of him." The woman panelist went on suggest to John that, knowing the Trump temperament, a comment like that can't be put out there without expecting a tirade in return. The self-proclaimed counter puncher will revert to form and, of course, he did. Big surprise!! I guess this story was not so much inaccurate as it was incomplete.
But then, it was CNN.
LATE BREAKING NEWS!!
After I posted this item, I awoke this morning to the news that on Good Morning America, today, Ms. Daniels' lawyer, Michael Avenatti, announced that "We have a litany of...evidence...and it's going to be laid bare (emphasis added)...". How appropriate since Mr. Avenatti's client has a long history of laying things bare.
I apologize for the re-post---I just couldn't resist.