Thursday, November 30, 2006

"I don't want to look like the help"

That's what Bill Murray, co-anchor of WSAZ's News at Five said Thursday.

He was doing a story on all the folks who are getting gussied up for the Marshall movie premiere that's really not a premiere at all.

He was trying on a tux at Skeffington's in Huntington - a rented tux.
The clerk was telling him how appropriate it looked.

Looking in the mirror, Murray said "I don't want to look like the help" as he straughtened his tie.

Good Lord, Murray. I think that's something I would have edited out even if I meant it.

The clerk assured Murray that he wouldn't look like "the help" at the big whoop-ti-do at the luxurious Big Sandy Superstore Arena. "The help" aren't wearing coats, the clerk said.

I'm sure that's a big relief for Murray and all the others who don't want to look like "the help."

I'm sorry but that kind of language, and the mentality behind it, goes through me like a jolt of electricity. It always has.

It's "the help" that makes this country what it is, Buster. And strangely, Murray is "the help." Hell, most of us are "the help" whether we wear a tux or a white shirt or kakhi work clothes.

I hope Murray enjoys his rented tux and looks like somthing other than "the help" on the night of the big non-premiere. I'll be at home, dressed in my jeans and laughing at the people in Huntington who apparently like to play dress-up and pretend.

In fact, that's what Huntington has become - dress up and pretend.

Friday, November 03, 2006

Gawd, Don't You Just Love America?

BetUS.com Posts Odds On Accusations Against Ted Haggard



November 3rd, NEW YORK – The president of the National Association of Evangelicals, an outspoken opponent of gay marriage, has given up his post while a church panel investigates allegations he paid a man for sex. The Rev. Ted Haggard resigned as president of the 30 million-member association Thursday after being accused of paying the man for monthly trysts over the past three years.



With religious communities reeling and the general public speculating as to whether the allegations are true, up-to-the-minute analysts of current events, news and politics at the largest most respected sportsbook on the web, BetUS.com, posted odds on the situation in its entirety. People are logging on and wagering on how this scandal will play out.



Analysts at BetUS.com posted the following odds regarding Ted Haggard:



It will be proven that he had a homosexual affair: 6/4

A church sex scandal will happen before March 2007: 1/2

Haggard will issue an apology for the situation: 1/3

His voicemail messages to accuser will be released: 5/1

Others will accuse Haggard of paying them for sex: 4/1





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