Category: Obnoxious celebrities
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Imagine waking from a 22-year coma
You’d be quite surprised to learn what has become of some of 1994’s most famous newsmakers and celebrities: A rapper is defending Bill Cosby, accused of being a serial rapist; The Kardashian surname is more famous than Simpson; Bill Clinton is a frail old man; “Full House” is returning to TV; And Donald Trump is […]
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Kanye West is not very smart
A slightly amended victory lap post from 2014. I’ve never understood the media’s default acceptance of Cosby defender Kanye West’s self-proclaimed genius. The evidence says otherwise. 1.) He married a Kardashian. 2.) He says things like this (while defending his 45-minute toast to himself): And what I talked about in it was the idea of […]
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Is it sexist to call Lena Dunham annoying?
Probably. According to Dunham, calling Hillary Clinton “inaccessible” is sexist. So how should we describe a candidate who didn’t give an interview until three months into her second run for the presidency? The same one who had her functionaries literally rope off reporters — on Independence Day, no less. Is crypto-fascist acceptable? Plastic is another of […]
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Kanye West is not very smart (cont’d)
And his fashion line sucks. That is to say, it’s brilliant but no one will give him the proper credit because he’s straight. “I got discriminated against in fashion for not being gay,” he said in a wide-ranging interview with SHOW Studio recently. “It’s the people that break the stereotypes that make history but I just thought […]
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Was the moon landing part of a vast left-wing conspiracy?
Conspiracy theorists are, without exception, intellectually bankrupt, excessively paranoid and patently irresponsible. Fitting that Rush Limbaugh has joined their ranks. Limbaugh believes that NASA’s been “corrupted” by the Obama administration and warned listeners “this news that there is flowing water on Mars is somehow going to find its way into a technique to advance the […]
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Better stay profitable, Tom Cruise
The media’s unrequited love affair with (relevant) celebrities has long been an exercise in shameless, soulless pandering, but the wet kiss it planted this week on Tom Cruise marked a new low. Just three months ago, Cruise was hit with allegations that he profited from slave labor provided by the Church of Scientology and sanctioned the […]
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