December 21
...serving up your daily dish.
While Tom Cruise missed out on a Golden Globe nod, Glen Ridge High's most notorious thespian does get recognized for his year long performance away from the Big Screen by making the list of the "Ten Most Pathetic Media Meltdowns in 2005".
Advertising Age's Media Guy, Simon Dumenco, gives Tommy Boy the gong in the mag's December 19 online edition.
Tom Cruise’s toothy tantrum on Oprah was an instant classic that joined Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” on the shortlist of All-time Greatest Moments in American Television Infamy. But don’t forget that Tom’s attempt at bludgeoning us into buying his true l-u-v for Katie Holmes was almost topped by his own Scientology-fueled "Today" show outburst, in which he took on psychiatry, pharmacology, Brooke Shields and interviewer Matt Lauer. (“No, you see, here’s the problem: You don’t know the history of psychiatry,” he told Lauer. “I do.”) Unfortunately for Cruise, just about everyone concluded that his talk-show freak-outs were fatal PR malfunctions.
Any suggestions as to to else who might make the list for PR blunders in Baristaville?
December 21, 2005 in Pop Culture | Permalink
Some people ( mostly republicans ) cried foul, but you have to love the shot of Gerge W choosing the wrong exit door during his trip to China. It was such a classic metaphor!
Posted by: todd | Dec 22, 2005 9:48:27 AM
Not in Baristaville, but nationally: Howard Dean making his exceptionally dumb remarks (and he's already set quite a standard for such) that we can't triumph in Iraq. Such defeatist crap from our modern-day version of Clement Vallandigham (whom Lincoln thankfully jailed).
And then there was Howard Dean suggesting there was perhaps credence to reports that levee breachings in New Orleans were a Republican plot.
And there was Howard Dean dismissing Senator Lieberman's experiences in Iraq...And then...wait, it's coming to me suddenly, there's a discernible pattern here! How this sanctimonious, malodorous, neck vein-popping creep and worm could be named to lead the party of FDR is truly beyond me.
Posted by: cathar | Dec 22, 2005 10:37:25 AM
Oh, and specific to Baristaville, Steven Plofker's ill-advised attempt to sound like a tough guy on this very site, even going to far as to try taking down our beloved walleroo. Not the best way to win friends and neighbors there, Plofky babes.
Posted by: cathar | Dec 22, 2005 10:39:23 AM
When being called a Thug pull out the race card.
When caught with pants down claim it was a wardrobe malfunction.
Posted by: cstarling | Dec 22, 2005 12:30:28 PM
Cathar - are you actually challenging us to go through all of the White House PR sanfu's? I don't think there's enough memory on this site to list them all...
One that is most salient, however...GW standing in front of the St. Louis cathedral in New Orleans stating that America won't forget about that formerly great city...
Posted by: todd | Dec 22, 2005 4:19:22 PM
Je repete, there is no snafu like a Howard Dean, or a John Kerry, or a Chuck Schumer (Chuck? Who the hell in grade school would ever call this publicity-crazed wimp "Chuck?" This is purely an appellation he's awarded to himself.), or a Reid, or a Durbin, or a Hillary Clinton, or even a New York Times reporter's, snafu.
So yes, feel free to bring on your list of Bush administration missteps, because the party out of power is much, much dopier.
Posted by: cathar | Dec 22, 2005 4:44:23 PM
