Great Moments in Broadcasting. NOT. No. 6: Phony liberals mug furiously as Aretha sings. 38th Annual Kennedy Center Honors, Washington D.C., December 6, 2015
A year ago the Kennedy Center held a special tribute concert for Carole King. As great as Carole is, however, it was the legendary Aretha Franklin who stole the show, singing her timeless hit “(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman”. [1]
Aretha is unimpeachably brilliant of course, but there’s something repellent about the over-the-top reaction shots of selected audience members, who seem to think they are obliged to show the audience just how reverent they are in their worship of the Queen of Soul. Carole King herself, I’m sorry to say, is excruciating in her ridiculous wide-eyed, face-pulling luvvie antics; she starts her performance at the 13 second mark. Sitting behind her is the great cellist Yo-Yo Ma; obviously embarrassed by her shenanigans, he is by the 2:02 mark displaying annoyance and contempt for her.
But even worse is the appalling couple who start an obviously well rehearsed routine of painfully excruciating finger-clicking and head-nodding at 0:46. The man, who has been lambasted for his insincere posturing [2] in the past, even pretends to brush away a tear, so profoundly moved is he by the song. Never has the old truism been truer: guilty feet ain’t got no rhythm.
Great Moments in Broadcasting. NOT is an occasional series highlighting some of the worst moments in our shameful history of broadcasting mediocrity and downright failure.
Great Moments in Stenography. NOT is an occasional series highlighting some of the worst moments in moz’s shameful history of mediocre stenography and downright fabrications.
Nothing fabricated about any of these “Great Moments, NOT”, my friend…..
No. 6: Phony liberals mug furiously as Aretha sings. (Sun 18/12/16) No. 5: Chris Trotter puts on a “funny” South American accent (Sun 11/12/16) No. 4: Susan Baldacci and Jim Mora talk about “lack of empathy”. (Sat 10/12/16) No. 3: Kevin Roberts’ performance on TV3 chat show The Panel, late 2001. (Sun 4/12/16) No. 2: Noelle McCarthy’s patsy interview with Mark Bowden 8/1/13 (Sat 3/12/16) No. 1: Pippa Wetzel grovels and simpers before a slimy criminal…. (pubd. Fri 2/12/16)
You need to get out more – there is a lovely country out there – enjoy it. You will be a lot happier then spending hours in your basement banging out post of newsclips.
Don’t worry. Governments since 1984, have been fixing that as fast as they can get away with. We will be a country of bag ladies, beggars, combined with a few obscenely wealthy, as fast as we can.
Use of the word paradise in respect of NZ has become a twisted narrative repeated by the delusional
The delusional who enable the incrimental decline by comparing it to places that are ‘worse off’
So long as there is people suffering, starving, living in the street or in cars and garages and killing themselves in record numbers….use of the word ‘paradise’ is twisted
No. 6: Phony liberals mug furiously as Aretha sings.
38th Annual Kennedy Center Honors, Washington D.C., December 6, 2015
No. 5: Chris Trotter puts on a “funny” South American accent (Sun 11/12/16)
No. 4: Susan Baldacci and Jim Mora talk about “lack of empathy”. (Sat 10/12/16)
No. 3: Kevin Roberts’ performance on TV3 chat show The Panel, late 2001. (Sun 4/12/16)
No. 2: Noelle McCarthy’s patsy interview with Mark Bowden 8/1/13 (Sat 3/12/16)
No. 1: Pippa Wetzel grovels and simpers before a slimy criminal…. (pubd. Fri 2/12/16)
We will be a country of bag ladies, beggars, combined with a few obscenely wealthy, as fast as we can.