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Fortunately for me, I don't watch teevee anymore. So I miss all these horrors!
I have no way to form a correct opinion on this person. It appears the OP is speaking of other values rather than the performance itself.
The critical reviews of the quality, or lack of such in her performance do not seem to be on topic. Some Americans resent or mistrust any B&W collaboration, due to a prejudice known as miscogenation.
Those days are long gone for us at DU, but some benighted citizens are still hostile about such things. Perhaps OP has concerns about what OP sees as sexist and racist and is using this to draw some out.
Not you. I'm speaking generally and think the POV of the OP author is that criticism of Miley is not warranted. It's no use for me to judge what those who have grown up in a different era than myself find to be tasteful. I doubt if I'd enjoy her performance as it's described here, but it appears the OP found nothing objectionable. She has not returned to answer AFAIK, but I may have missed it.
I agree with the OP that men have been acting sexy in performances for years. Especially Jagger and Tyler. Tell me this video isn't gratuitous sexual imagery here:
It was outrageous. I still love it, but some might find it offensive today. Yes, it was definitely sexist in terms of the power aspects and the guys were acting their sexist roles out, but it looks like no one was unwilling. I laugh at it, each to his own.
IMO, the OP is right about men getting a pass. There may be both sexism, slut shaming and racism going on in the reaction to this woman's stage act.
It's hard to tell with half the populace playing at being Simon Cowell, who I think is a shallow, obnoxious jerk. But it's what media has turned many into, going after Obama for not having ketchup on his burgers, and all of that.
I think it's all shallow stuff, racism, sexism and all of the phobias.
Thanks for the chat, see you later.
Oh, and I would not have liked to have seen teddy bears used in a music show for adults with sexual themes. That's creepy. But I think Disney is creepy, too...
I was always fond of wise sounding words like Gahfurgle, myself.
It says so much and yet so little at the same time.
Thanks, DR
A dozen strange reasons Kerry is lying according to some, IMO:
#12: The swiftboating campaign virus permanently damaged their brains.
#11: His work in the VVAW has been forgotten, so they think he's become a warmonger.
#10: They never saw a Fox meme fly by that they didn't swallow.
# 9: His testimony on American war crimes in Vietnam during the Winter Soldier hearings must still rankle them.
# 8: He speaks French, so he must be an effete liberal intellectual snob, just like Agnew said.
# 7: His investigation on Iran Contra didn't rid the Earth of every single GOP goon, thus, he's one of them.
# 6: He went to the same college as Bush, thus he's a fraud.
# 5: He married a rich heiress which means he's one of *them.*
# 4: He's from the liberal state of Mass and we all know about them!
# 3: He was a friend of the Kennedys and some say Ted was no good.
# 2: He is taller, better looking and has more hair than them.
# 1: Mostly though, it's because he and Obama are way too friendly:
NATO is the prime mover as one of its members, Turkey, feels it's being invaded by refugees.
While the people going into Turkey may only be refugees, there is more to it than that. Some may enter to overturn the government of Turkey for their faction.
But I think this is being done at the behest of Turkey, definitely not the USA, which has been dragged into it. Turkey has been complaining long and loud about what Assad has been doing because it directly affects them.
Question:
Which nation directly adjoining Iraq had such a grievance, and was a member of an alliance that was not hastily put together, but has been pledged to support each other for over half a century?
Answer: None.
Iraq and Syria are not the same and the move against them is not the same. Unless we want to call Obama following the PNAC model, which he has not done.
Question:
Who did not want the USA to leave Iraq and wanted the USA to follow that model and Bomb Iran?
Hint:
Ran for president with Caribou Barbie in 2008. And still wants to run for president in 2016. And wants us to go into Syria and has already picked his favorite rebel group to replace Assad.
Who does not want a war with Iran and is using every other means to settle down concerns about Iran, and avoided calls for going into Syria for years, and is has continually gotten flak from the RW about it?
Answer:
Obama.
If Turkey was not in NATO, this might not be happening. But I don't blame them for wanting this cancer to spread in the region, either.
Syria's Assad has had a terrible reputation for repressing his people for decades, this is not news to anyone. What his reasons for acting the way he has in the past are, I don't know but some Lebanese still hold him responsible for the turmoil in their nation, saying he used proxies to invade Lebanon to create a 'Greater Syria.'
Russia has not curtailed Assad, instead they are leaving NATO to play the bad guy for their own reasons. They could have coerced Assad to do something else years ago, but didn't want to do so because they, too, have groups within their own borders that want to do harm them.
P. S. Agreed totally with your post.
VIDEO here. Yes, I remember that speech. When there was sanity in media:
That was the era when a Democratic president could get air time on network television, often pre-empting programs with entertainment.
Carter did not have to put up with being talked over or words edited out as Obama has. We've lost that ability to get our message out and people just don't realize it, for the most part. The pulpit is being used, but it's not televised. What a waste.
In the seventies, I was working in subdivisions that pre-installed passive heaters for hot water as energy measures were made standard. It was the logical thing to do.
Reagan and his pals took this country backwards, but many people never saw anything better. So they are skeptical things can be different, their world view was shaped by conservative power.
Obama has done all he could with this despite the cynicism. We don't have to continue living under Reagan's stupidity. It's time to stop being led by the nose by the RW pundit media.
Thanks for providing that transcript. It is the reason why Carter 'had' to be shoved out of office by the oil cabal. I expect nothing but trouble from this group for anyone who does not embrace their interests, always.
Thanks for the link! So NATO is not going to ignore this:
That's a lot of countries and most of the world's defense spending:
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; /ˈneɪtoʊ/ NAY-toh; French: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique Nord (OTAN)), also called the (North) Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. NATO's headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium, one of the 28 member states across North America and Europe, the newest of which, Albania and Croatia, joined in April 2009. An additional 22 countries participate in NATO's "Partnership for Peace", with 15 other countries involved in institutionalized dialogue programs. The combined military spending of all NATO members constitutes over 70% of the world's defence spending.[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO
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