His Name was Barry. He was a Jerkweed.
Sorry, but there is no other way to describe a man who has apparently been living in the liberal echo chamber that is today’s entertainment industry for so long, that the delicate flower can no longer bear to even sit in the same room with someone who does not share his moronic political views.
On his website, Manilow explained:
“I wanted to let you know that I will no longer be on The View tomorrow as scheduled. I had made a request that I be interviewed by Joy [Behar], Barbara [Walters] or Whoopi [Goldberg] but not Elisabeth Hasselbeck,” he wrote. “Unfortunately, the show was not willing to accommodate this simple request, so I bowed out.”
Sweet smoking Judas. . . what nonsense on parade.
As I’m sure you’ve heard, Manilow would only agree to come on “The View” if they removed Elisabeth Hasselbeck from the set so she couldn’t ask him any questions. Hasselbeck’s sin? She had occasionally attempted to stand up to Rosie O’Donnell’s bullying, and crazed Bush conspiracy frothing when Rosie was a panelist on the show. (Manilow and Rosie are buddies.)
So this is what it has come to now. Lib celebs used to at least pretend to be champions of free expression and the right to say unpopular things, blah blah, McCarthyism, yada yada, blackslists…etc. Today, and increasingly, deep thinkers like Manilow want to make sure that, not only are they never even are exposed to ideas and view different from their own, they never even have to be in the same room with someone who holds them.
In recent days Barry stated that he “regrets” the whole controversy because it is all anyone wants to talk to him about. Of course, that’s not the same thing as regretting it because he made himself look like a jackass. But it’s something.
Nice site, I’ve visited a few times. I added it to my blogroll (not that this is any great benefit to you) and will visit more often. I also rail against celebrity but in a more limited subject matter. I have a blog and a site under thankgodforglobalwarming.com. It is very frustrating to here people adopt a view because their celeb said to. Whether you agree with my points on the environment or not, we do agree that celebs are just people with more stuff and normally more problems. Since you seem to be a little entrepreneurial, have you considered making a site through wordpress.org on a paid host so that you can promote the site more and do some advertising on the site? Just a thought.
Let me know if I can give you any ideas about that.
Keep up the good work!
Brutus
Thanks Brutus! I hope to make the site a lot more dynamic in the months to come. We will indeed be taking the site to a paid host soon. Thanks for stopping by and for the encouragment!