Rupert Murdock and Kim Jong Il

In case anyone watched the Superbowl last weekend, they might have noticed a commercial for godaddy.com (a web hosting company) . The commercial showed a buxom young girl, with the straps of her tanktop falling off, being questioned by a bunch of officials, in what looked like a Senate hearing. (Watch the commercial here) The whole commercial was making fun of the censorship-mania that followed Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction during last year’s Superbowl. The godaddy commercial was funny and relatively tasteless. However, I just read that it was supposed to be shown twice during the Superbowl, but Fox censored its scheduled second half showing. .

I know Fox is a huge bastion for conservative ideas, but their hypocrisy is just plain silly. The godaddy girl was sexy, but certainly not immoral. Well let’s look at Fox’s regularly scheduled programming. There are just as many girls, wearing less clothes and acting promiscuously, in the OC. In a show called “playing is safe” a girl has to find out which of her potential mates in gay or straight. They have “my big fat obnoxious boss”, in which people are hit by paintballs and sexually harassed because they think they will win something (which they can’t). Ohhh, and they also created a show dedicated to Paris Hilton, who is most notable known for having a hard-core porn circulating around the internet.

Well maybe I saw the commercial they showed in the first half and now my mind is corrupt. I cannot be trusted. Run Run Run.

In news that is clearly not as important, North Korea officially announced they have nuclear weapons and will not take part in a six country meeting to talk about disarmament. I wonder how Bush is going to spin this one? I just don’t see how this can’t end in disaster. North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il reminds me of Stalin. His only goals is to increase his own internal power. He has no regard for his people or for the prosperity of the country. Kim Jong Il is the same and although barring North Korea from trading with the world is devastating to their economy, he just doesn’t care that much. And he can always finance his government by selling nuclear technologies to rogue countries. Than again, I don’t really blame him, the US has 5,000 strategic warheads, more than 1,000 of them ready for lunch. 1,000 nukes, is that really necessary?




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Glen Lipka said…
Thats 1 nuke for every dead soldier since Bush declared "Mission Accomplished".
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

I think our Nuke-yoo-lar arsenal is a disgrace. We need no nukes. None. Zero. We should launch them all into Uranus. Heh heh. Anus.
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