George
Clooney meets several of the criteria but mainly war monger. There's
never been a war the fancy boy hasn't cheered on -- this despite his
never having gone to war or served in the military in peace time. He
just likes people to be killed and not just with boredom by his films
but with actual bullets and bombs. Another 'winner' is U2. That tax
cheat lads refuse to pay their homeland (Ireland) its owed taxes so they
set up residences outside of Ireland. Bono shares with JFK the trait
of being a serial adulterer. Maybe that's why the useless group was
included. 2002 was the last time their music was embraced.
Coincidence? Bono then wrapped his arms around Bully Boy Bush and
refused to oppose the Iraq War. It sent a message and the group's never
recovred.
Amy Grant? When her brief pop singing career collapsed, she set out to cheat Americans. As Ava and C.I. reported in 2005:
To some, 44 year-old Amy Grant is a joke known for her "rhythmic"
bounding across the stage. To some, she's the popularizer of "Christian
music" at the expense of gospel. To some, she's the road into Bully Boy
country. Strange considering that we're speaking of a Vanderbilt
University drop out which is hardly Texas A&M. "Get 'em Commodores"
isn't exactly "Hook 'em horns!"
NBC thinks she's their Friday night manna. As reported in The New York Times, they've distributed copies of the show Three Wishes to clergy and passed around dollar bills at low-end chain stores. They see her as the entry point into the evagicals. A little strange if you think of the fact that not only do some evangicals see CCM (contemporary Christian music) as 'backsliding' but also that she's angered CCM loyalists over the year with her weak attempts to imitate Olivia Newton-John. A little strange as well if you grasp that 1999 is a year she still can't live down.
But there she was, with the widow's peak that makes her look like the evil queen in Snow White, on Friday night with Three Wishes. It's a really low-scale version of ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition without Ty for beefcake lovers to ooh & aah over. Instead they offer an Andrew Shue look alike and a blond who likes to yell "Woo-hoo" and name check the Dukes of Hazard.
Which makes Amy Grant Daisy without the dukes?
NBC has Amy Grant and Three Wishes. Heavily made up and gushing like a woman half her age, speaking as though she just fell off the turnup truck. (She did choose to leave Vanderbilt, right? She wasn't asked to leave?)
There's a feeling on the part of some that she's as phoney as her sayings. (Dan Rather may be gone, but Rather-isms live on!) When not shucking the husks, Grant tries a little bit of sociology offering that word travels fast in a small town and that it reaches adults who couldn't believe that "uh, you know, I get to dream a little bit?"
Oh Amy, you're trying to pull in an audience, not chase them away. If she really represented the demographic NBC was going for, she'd probably be familiar with Glen Campbell's "The Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife" and she'd surely be aware that people continuing dreaming regardless of age, regardless of location. But she's got to con you into thinking that not only is she granting wishes, she's also dressing up the otherwise drab lives.
Here's what Grant's Three Wishes grants:
1) A man gets a new truck and to adopt his step-son.
2) A little girl gets her own rehab center and the medical bills are paid.
3) A school gets a new football field.
Three Wishes traffics in the three stereotypes. The most needy, gotta have a truck and what's Friday night without local football.
They must be so proud.
Grant gets another shot at redeeming herself, NBC gets a cheaply made "hit" (it could be top sixty and it will make money due to product placement and corporate sponsorhip) and AmericaQuest gets to push aside those pesky allegations of predatory lending. (Just in time as the head of the company attempts to become our ambassador to the Netherlands!)
Everyone's part of the con.
Sound harsh? A family is facing financial ruin as a result of the bills from a little girl's accident. There's no firey Helen Hunt, As Good As It Gets, HMO speech. It's treated as though it just happened. That's the con. These are "isolated" incidents, these are "personal problems."
Things just happen. And aren't we all lucky "music superstar" Amy Grant is on the way?
NBC thinks she's their Friday night manna. As reported in The New York Times, they've distributed copies of the show Three Wishes to clergy and passed around dollar bills at low-end chain stores. They see her as the entry point into the evagicals. A little strange if you think of the fact that not only do some evangicals see CCM (contemporary Christian music) as 'backsliding' but also that she's angered CCM loyalists over the year with her weak attempts to imitate Olivia Newton-John. A little strange as well if you grasp that 1999 is a year she still can't live down.
But there she was, with the widow's peak that makes her look like the evil queen in Snow White, on Friday night with Three Wishes. It's a really low-scale version of ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition without Ty for beefcake lovers to ooh & aah over. Instead they offer an Andrew Shue look alike and a blond who likes to yell "Woo-hoo" and name check the Dukes of Hazard.
Which makes Amy Grant Daisy without the dukes?
NBC has Amy Grant and Three Wishes. Heavily made up and gushing like a woman half her age, speaking as though she just fell off the turnup truck. (She did choose to leave Vanderbilt, right? She wasn't asked to leave?)
There's a feeling on the part of some that she's as phoney as her sayings. (Dan Rather may be gone, but Rather-isms live on!) When not shucking the husks, Grant tries a little bit of sociology offering that word travels fast in a small town and that it reaches adults who couldn't believe that "uh, you know, I get to dream a little bit?"
Oh Amy, you're trying to pull in an audience, not chase them away. If she really represented the demographic NBC was going for, she'd probably be familiar with Glen Campbell's "The Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife" and she'd surely be aware that people continuing dreaming regardless of age, regardless of location. But she's got to con you into thinking that not only is she granting wishes, she's also dressing up the otherwise drab lives.
Here's what Grant's Three Wishes grants:
1) A man gets a new truck and to adopt his step-son.
2) A little girl gets her own rehab center and the medical bills are paid.
3) A school gets a new football field.
Three Wishes traffics in the three stereotypes. The most needy, gotta have a truck and what's Friday night without local football.
They must be so proud.
Grant gets another shot at redeeming herself, NBC gets a cheaply made "hit" (it could be top sixty and it will make money due to product placement and corporate sponsorhip) and AmericaQuest gets to push aside those pesky allegations of predatory lending. (Just in time as the head of the company attempts to become our ambassador to the Netherlands!)
Everyone's part of the con.
Sound harsh? A family is facing financial ruin as a result of the bills from a little girl's accident. There's no firey Helen Hunt, As Good As It Gets, HMO speech. It's treated as though it just happened. That's the con. These are "isolated" incidents, these are "personal problems."
Things just happen. And aren't we all lucky "music superstar" Amy Grant is on the way?
What a great service to the people.
While
the band U2 is being inducted, the Pips are being sidelined. Gladys
Knight will be inducted but not, apparently, the Pips. No offense but
without the Pips, Gladys has no career.
The real truth about The Kennedy Family Honors? It has no honor.
