NY COUNTY MAKES HORRIBLE BALLOT BLUNDER "'This was a typo,' Rensselaer County (N.Y.) Republican Commissioner Larry Bugbee tells the Albany Times Union in one of the biggest understatements of the campaign. The TU writes that: 'Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's last name is spelled 'Osama' on hundreds of absentee ballots mailed out this week to voters in Rensselaer County.'"
There are live on-air gaffes that news anchors wish they could erase, like the common Obama/Osama mix-up.
But when Jesse Jackson whispered that he wanted to “cut [Obama’s] nuts off” before a Fox & Friends interview on Sunday was set to begin, it was a reminder that public figures often have a hard time keeping their private conversations to themselves when they’ve got a hot mic pack clipped to their hip.
It should be a simple life lesson: When you have a media outlet’s microphone attached to you , by default you should expect other people are listening to your conversation, and very likely recording it. Herewith, some famous examples of people who should know better, but obviously didn’t.
PATRIOT ACT The documentarian behind 2004's disgusting hit Super Size Me, has finished work on a new film that finds him trolling through Afghanistan, hunting for celebrity terrorist Osama bin Laden. Though everyone who worked on Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? is bound by a non-disclosure agreement, the director of photography on the film says director Morgan Spurlock "definitely got the holy grail." Interesting choice of words. Now, did he kick in the holy grail's fucking head like he should have?
In an effort to bolster the ever-assailed decorum of the Internet, MollyGood looks to poetry with Someone Haiku. Each day—using 17 syllables or less—you’re given the opportunity to wax poetic about some piece of flotsam or jetsam that’s washed up on the shores of MollyGood. Hopefully this Zen practice will not only bathe you in self-discovery, but also bring a touch of Eastern class to a global network of information that’s devolved into nothing more than tit websites and provocative MySpace pictures.
The Someone Haiku winner today is Stupidhero:
A lifestyle change?
No, six inches still in hand
And more money too
Stupidhero, you're belying your name.
New Someone Haiku is after this jump.
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