Is Current News Missing The Point?
On July 8th, TMZ released a video of 22 year-old pop star, Ariana Grande, hanging out at a counter inside a donut shop for an oddly lengthy amount of time. In fact, the video seems to edit the actual time that lapses, to sustain our viewership while we wait to hear Grande insult a tray of fresh glazed donuts as she utters, “What the fuck is that? I hate Americans. I hate America. That’s disgusting.”
The internet got all up in arms and I read several posts of “tell her to go back where she came from” (Boca Raton, Florida). I’m not sure that would help. Regardless, the genuinely remorseful [that’s sarcasm] Grande issued an apology to US Weekly, explaining that her words were “taken out of context,” although I’m pretty sure neither she nor her marketing rep understands what that phrase means, but it sounds good. Then, Grande elaborates on her concern with childhood obesity in America. Some people will accept the apology and some people will petition for a ban on downloading her tunes. I don’t really care.
Ariana Grande can say whatever she wants. She’s not running for US President, so her absurd words shared in a private conversation — where I assume she’s trying to sound cool — absolutely doesn’t affect any single one of us. But you know what does???… the fact that she LICKED THE DONUTS ON THE COUNTER! And that’s why I’m pissed. Where is her apology for that? Was it an attempt to lower the sugar intake for the poor bastard who eats the donut from which she just licked off a teaspoon of sugar? I don’t know where Grande’s tongue has been. I don’t know if she licks assholes. But in this video, I see her making out with her new boyfriend, who was also licking donuts (which is an asshole move). So you can deduce on your own, what else Ms. Grande is licking… Yep. If I bought one of those donuts, I’d want my 89 cents back plus a Hep C shot.
Earlier last week, TV Land Network pulled The Dukes of Hazzard off the air, because of the famous and beloved car, The General Lee, which has a Confederate Flag painted across its rooftop. Big sigh. I am an advocate that the Confederate flag should not wave over US government buildings and neither should the British flag. THEY LOST THE WARS, and that right there is the only valid reason they do not belong waving over US government buildings. If you want to hang either of those flags on the front porch of your home, go for it. At least I’d know which home I want to stay away from. But thanks, TV Land execs, for completely missing the point and yanking a rather innocent TV show off the air because you were either trying to make an irrelevant statement or you were trying to prevent a potential petition calling for a ban on your network.
Donald Trump calls Mexican immigrants “rapists” meanwhile we find out from a released deposition tape from 2005 that Bill Cosby, television’s favorite dad admitted to carrying quaaludes to impair women he wanted to have sex with. Donald Trump called Bill Cosby a “tremendous guy” and a “gentleman” just last year in his taping of a Celebrity Apprentice episode featuring Keisha Pulliam. Typical to his unapologetic character, Trump tweeted out after it aired:
And all this goes to show is, Donald Trump doesn’t really know Bill Cosby. He also doesn’t know the people who are building his businesses from the ground up.
So what are we missing here? The point. Don’t lose sight of it. People are going to offend you. There are things you can’t unsee and things you can’t unsay. And some grammar nazi might get offended that I just used words that have yet been entered into Webster’s Dictionary or will be offended I used the word, nazi. But we have to move beyond what offends us and find the point of why we are offended. Ariana Grande is offensive, because she licked donuts that she knew were for patrons to purchase and consume. The Confederate flag shouldn’t wave over a state capitol building because it is neither the US flag nor is it the state flag. And Donald Trump is out of touch with reality… maybe that’s what happens when people do too many reality shows. But keep on doing them, because I need to work.
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