Too much Cher-ing
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Too much Cher-ing
Normally, I don't really pay attention to what actors and actresses say. I realize they are overly-impressed with themselves, and that much like the infant who is fascinated by his own toe (or the new parent mesmerized by the glory of his perfect poo) they have a tendency to exaggerate the importance of their thoughts.
It's not just stars who do it, of course. Anyone who blogs (mea culpa) has a tendency to think that their every comment is worthy of Alexis de Tocqueville treatment. It's only natural; humility is an acquired virtue in a society where women get attention for teasing their hair, getting drunk and wearing so much makeup they make the late Tammy Faye Baker look minimalist in comparison.
But every now and then, I notice a particularly offensive comment from a particularly offensive source, and it's hard to look away. It's like the proverbial accident; you simply cannot tear your eyes and ears away from the mess.
In this case, the mess happens to be Cher. Now, for anyone who has been paying attention for the past five decades, Cher has always been a mess. Her life has been a mess. Her hair has been a mess. Her mothering habits have been messy, too, given the fact that her daughter is now a son and her son is currently between rehab stints.
She has had good moments, as when she won the Oscar for Moonstruck and appeared at the Academy Awards wearing Ruth Buzzy's hairnet...as a dress.
Her music is also pretty fine, including my favorite song, Half-Breed, which seems to be the theme for Elizabeth Warren's senatorial campaign.
But when Cher went off recently calling Mitt Romney a racist, among other things, she showed that actors and actresses are nothing more than highly-paid toddlers who wage tantrums simply because they can.
My own nephew, an unpaid toddler, is actually more mature than the plucked, tucked, and (I am not going there) 'courted' remnant from the glitter decades.
I love it when Cher sings. The rest of the time, she should just keep her mouth shut. As Mark Twain once famously said, better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Mitt Romney may or may not be a racist (it would be nice if you cited context; that would be useful--rather than just shooting your mouth off without facts to support your ranting). It is clear, however, that he is a callous elitist, the apotheosis of wealth worship who made millions in part by loading companies with debt, driving them into bankruptcy and laying off their workers. Now, he flip flops like a fish out of water. I can't wait to watch him lose.— sophistry- Okay, if you want to go off on her for her political beliefs, fine. But her hair and her mothering habits? You lived up to your name on that one, HypoChrissy. We've seen your hair on that Sunday morning show. You need to find yourself some gay male friends and have that rug fixed toute de suite. And her mothering skills? How are your kids these days? Oh right, you don't have any. You just bloviate to everyone else about how they should handle their offspring.— scoobysnacks
- ROTFL, @scooby.— sophistry
- Cher is an enormous talent with exaggerated taste in everything.
I love "Moonstruck" and have watched it many times. I think it was Nick Cage's best movie ever. She also has a wonderful voice. And my favorite song is "After All" with Peter Cetera.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhFsIgmxlWI&feature=related
All things considered, are we really surprised that she speaks in hyperbole?
— Magistra 
The best thing about Cher was Sonny.— PlumberJoe- Also... I did not become a parent until the end of my fourth decade. But that did not stop me from understanding when a child's home life was a mess whether or not the parents were famous.— Magistra
- Plumber, no doubt that Sonny made Cher what she was. But she always sang better than he did. And louder.
— Magistra - Magistra, give me the Captain and Tennille any day. You can have Cher and her deadpan face.
You can also have the Flyers. I am quick to get off the bandwagon. Although the bandwagon is gone.— PlumberJoe - Freedom of speech baby! If Mitt can spew his views, why can't Cher?— Lorenzo11
- "Humility is an acquired virtue."
President Eye needs humility. He is the one who says, "I got Osama. I rescued GM. I created 50 million jobs. I ended divisiveness, I need a second term. I can't look you in the eye.
Mark Twain said of President Eye, "It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."— PlumberJoe - Try bribing the Taliban into good behavior with your Peace Prize, President Eye. — PlumberJoe
- You know what's even more pathetic that this insipid column (which I freely admit I suck for wasting the time to read)? The way Dumber always comments on his own comments. Shouting into the void, Dumber. Really.— sophistry
- President Eye, a most insipid man, has just OUTED that he has (had) in place a double agent. The one who revealed the latest in UNDERWEAR BOMBS.
Now that agent will be in the unemployment lines and Al-quaeda is the wiser. Yet another severe faux pas from President Eye.
Cher will soon be singing to President Eye, "After You've Gone."— PlumberJoe - Oh dear, where to start on this hot mess of a column … (these days her columns reads like the author had just finished off a bottle of really cheap wine). What does it say about someone who writes that they do not care what “librul” Hollyweird says; about someone who uses “Twitchy” as a source of their daily newsfeed; who is so bitterly childless that they lamely and obnoxiously denigrate someone for parenting skills in areas that they aren’t appropriately or very applicable (parents have absolutely no influence over the gender identity of child than they do of their eye color or of any drug addiction); who cattily posits snide ,elderly wardrobe critique (Is Christine really 78 years old?) ; who calls someone immature while penning one of the most immature diatribes to appear on this site? Vapid, intellectually shallow (so much so they make their truly racist and homophobic idol, Michelle Malkin, look like a Rhoades scholar), ignorant, clueless and hypocritical. All because Cher, who’s been right about her political observations more times had more success in a minute of her half-century career than Ms. Flowers could even attempt to realize in 1000 lifetimes, makes such a pathetic and thin-skinned reaction to an equally lame post about Cher’s views (most which Cher’s tweets happen to be true, btw – does a photo even exist of Romney or any current prominent right wing star in the presence of any non-white people or address a single issue to help a minority?– maybe that’s what got to our besotted author so easily). I love it when Christine writes about hockey. The rest of the time, she should just keep her mouth shut. As Mark Twain once famously said …— B Beal 19146
- beal, Twain saw you on the horizon.
And he said about your primitive mind- "Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge."
— PlumberJoe
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