The View is on ABC. PTI (Pardon The Interruption) is on ESPN. Both networks fall under the ABC family of networks. This knowledge helps highlight exactly how ludicrous the following actions are.
PART ONE…
Tony Kornheiser was suspended from appearing on HIS show PTI for two weeks due to criticism towards Hannah Storms fashion sense. I’m no expert, but I’m going to put a picture in and you can judge for yourself (personally I think he was right on)…
Criticizing someone’s fashion should not be a suspensionable offense, Even if ESPN has a policy of not being critical inside the network. Tony Kornheiser is a critical person, this is why they pay him to be on TV in the first place. To criticize and analyze what sports people do. He just happened to do it to a fellow ESPN personality instead of the latest drug fueled football player. GET OVER IT! Maybe he went to far in his comments, maybe he didn’t two week suspension from the show? Not so much, maybe an on air apology for something that most people never even heard (he produced said criticism on his Washington D.C.
PART TWO…
There has been some talk recently about how men that go on The View are talked to in a certain way. Let’s be honest, I’ve probably seen the show a couple times, and didn’t really pay attention to it then either. The hosts of the show are given credibility by the simple fact that “Barbara Walters” is on the show (yes I put her name in quotes because it’s like talking about Michael with Basketball, Tiger with golf, or Sampras with tennis). Who had ever heard of anyone else on the show before this show started? Not many.
That being said, when young(ish) male stars come on the show they are spoken to, and questioned, about VERY personal things. Robert Pattison (Harry Potter, and Twilight) was recently asked about his… um… package and why he decided to cover it while doing a “physical scene” in a new movie.
REALLY?!
Let me think, maybe because it’s not appropriate to go waving your privates around for everyone to see? Regardless of his reason, who are these OLD LADIES (sorry Hasselbeck)to talk about this stuff? I wouldn’t even sit there and listen to my mom talk about this stuff (some things just aren’t right), let alone Barbara Walters (no quotes for this one) who is 80 something years old! No-one would ever accuse Joy Behar of being classy, or Whoopi Goldberg of being soft spoken, but does that mean they should be able to talk to/about their “guests” like that? When is ABC going to ask for a suspension, or an apology? What would happen if David Letterman started asking Megan Fox about why she doesn't display her privates in her next movie? What if Jay Leno asked Miley Cyrus when she was going to pose for a mens magazine? Pick a guy on TV, insert a young females name from show business and imagine the reaction! It would be outrageous and the people who would be saying the most/loudest would probably be, wait for it…
THESE “LADIES” ON THE VIEW! Why is it different for men then women? Should it be? I think that it's ridiculous that not only is it acceptable for these ladies to get away this. All the guys (that don't wear pink shirts) should march on their studio and kick them out. Then we can hijack their broadcast and talk about guns and cars for an hour! That would be a much more productive use of time than what they're currently doing. Or is it that all the women who watch The View are so in need of living vicariously through them that we would be the bad guys, and considered chauvinists because we don't appreciate the female point of "View"? In the end does it really matter what words the talking heads on TV are spouting, or what his "motivation" is for being naked in a movie? I don't think so. What about you?
I’d like to end with Ben Steins’ most famous words,
“Hate dry eyes? Get clear eyes, with Visine.” Not what you expected?
Sorry, “Bueller…Bueller?” Is that better?
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