Monday, February 16, 2004
AN INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT...FOR ME TO POOP ON: American TV can't seem to get a break from apologies lately. Conan O'Brien's Canadian adventure ended on a sour note, as a Canadian legistlator was movied to call Triumph the Insult Comic Dog's tour of Quebec "vile, vicious hatemongering". Really, if you were expecting anything else than what Triumph delivered, you simply haven't been watching this show in the first place.
As usual, the problem isn't just about the act itself, but that roughly US$760,000 was paid by the city and provincial governments for the show's week-long relocation, so this "hate crime" was done partially on the public's dime. Coming so close to the Don Cherry thing probably doesn't help matters, either. Of course, Cherry really does have it in for Quebec, if the Reuters examples are representative. Triumph, on the other hand, is like that to everybody, regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, or species. He's truly an equal opportunity offender, and that's what makes him a real American icon. Read into that what you will.
It occurred to me that I'm defending Triumph on the same page where I'm saying another advocacy group had a point for their protests. Of course, it also occurred to me that nowhere in the coverage that's made it this far south have we heard how any French Canadians feel about the situation. Maybe they need to be reminded to be offended?
Being as image-protective as they are, I'm surprised the RCMP hasn't jumped on the 30 Rock refugees for using a man in a Mountie uniform to help rig a footrace between Seattle's Space Needle and Toronto's own CN Tower. At least there was a little solace for longtime wrestling fans: this one didn't use a cattle prod.
JANET RUINS THE BODY FOR EVERYBODY...AGAIN: I'm playing the catchup game on irrelevant news today, so I'll just point at the ABC network's yellow streak for suddenly getting cold feet over a sex scene in an upcoming NYPD Blue and be done with it. The trims will only be made for the Central and Mountain time zones, where the show airs earlier, so if you live in the Eastern or Pacific zones, forget you read this paragraph.
As usual, the problem isn't just about the act itself, but that roughly US$760,000 was paid by the city and provincial governments for the show's week-long relocation, so this "hate crime" was done partially on the public's dime. Coming so close to the Don Cherry thing probably doesn't help matters, either. Of course, Cherry really does have it in for Quebec, if the Reuters examples are representative. Triumph, on the other hand, is like that to everybody, regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, or species. He's truly an equal opportunity offender, and that's what makes him a real American icon. Read into that what you will.
It occurred to me that I'm defending Triumph on the same page where I'm saying another advocacy group had a point for their protests. Of course, it also occurred to me that nowhere in the coverage that's made it this far south have we heard how any French Canadians feel about the situation. Maybe they need to be reminded to be offended?
Being as image-protective as they are, I'm surprised the RCMP hasn't jumped on the 30 Rock refugees for using a man in a Mountie uniform to help rig a footrace between Seattle's Space Needle and Toronto's own CN Tower. At least there was a little solace for longtime wrestling fans: this one didn't use a cattle prod.
JANET RUINS THE BODY FOR EVERYBODY...AGAIN: I'm playing the catchup game on irrelevant news today, so I'll just point at the ABC network's yellow streak for suddenly getting cold feet over a sex scene in an upcoming NYPD Blue and be done with it. The trims will only be made for the Central and Mountain time zones, where the show airs earlier, so if you live in the Eastern or Pacific zones, forget you read this paragraph.
|| Eric 6:41 AM#
