Holiday Peculiarities on CNN and in the Church of England

Holiday Peculiarities on CNN and in the Church of England

We’re in the midst of what some call the silly season which is often less silly than it is peculiar, unsettling, and scary. When former NBAer Dennis Rodman announces he’s assembling a topless women’s basketball team, it can be considered just another Rodman oddity.

Other oddities are much more bothersome.

When a Northeastern University Muslim chaplain, Abdullah Faaruuq, who advocates using “the gun and the sword” to advance Islam in America, is subsidized with American taxpayer dollars, it’s outrageous, not silly.

When Bill Maher can get away with tweeting, “Wow, Jesus just f*cked TimTebow bad! And on Xmas Eve!” it’s obscenely offensive.

When the Rose Bowl Committee chucks time-honored tradition and permits OWS crazies to render farcical the Rose Bowl Parade, it’s a sign people have lost their minds.

Still, the holidays also have lighter moments: Home celebrations and office holiday parties sometimes deteriorate into odd events where Uncle Harold dons a lampshade and the 70 year old boss hits on the 22 year old intern. They are somewhat excusable due the effects of over-indulging in holiday cheer–and booze.

However, Uncle Harold’s excessive celebration and the boss’s befuddlement don’t hold a candle or a bottle to ostensibly sober instances of asinine behavior in the television world and, of all places, in the Church of England.

New Year’s festivities on that bulwark of propriety, CNN, capped off this season’s excursions into the bizarre.

Hosted Saturday night by an exceptionally odd couple–staid, light in the loafers newsperson, Anderson Cooper, and foul-mouthed comedienne, Kathy Griffin–the cablecast featured a Griffin performance which she began by tickling her co-host and asking about his “nether regions.”

It got better.

As revelers reveled in Times Square, the exhibitionist Griffin didn’t drop an F-bomb as she did last year and instead dropped her clothes, stripping down to her Victoria Secret bests and prancing about for the crowd just minutes before the ball dropped and Cooper’s jaw pretended to drop.

Cooper quickly flashed a “NO NUDITY” sign–evidence that the act was staged–and complimented her “hot body.” That observation must be qualified by Cooper’s unfamiliarity with female bodies, hot or not, and by the fact Griffin’s body can be described as “hot” only by Griffin or by the visually-challenged.

David Rodham-Gergen called in and Griffin suggestively invited the RINO–and his wife–to call her before, mercifully, putting her clothes back on.

Classy journalism, CNN, even for New Year's Eve!

I missed it because I was trying to get Uncle Harold to wear a hat in lieu of the lampshade but readers can view CNN’s odd couple in action on my blogsite.

Neither Kathy Griffin nor Anderson Cooper are very entertaining but, in their defense, they try, however lamely. The Church of England’s current Archbishop of Canterbury, doesn’t try at all to entertain yet, in a sick sense, is wildly hilarious. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=11980.)