Well, I don't know if it's true or not.
Certainly, we all know people who, given the resources and lifelong confinement to the celebrity bubble would behave just about exactly like this.
Let's see, what level of mindfucking could someone like Oprah be capable of? Well, she launched Phil McGraw's celebrity career and, evidently, approves wholeheartedly of the troubled parent programs to which he instructs his blithe followers to ship their kids. Either that or, contrary to her warm and sentimental public image, she doesn't give a FUCK what you fans think.
Are they capable of it logistically? Are you shitting me? People WORSHIP these icons. All it takes is one devoted follower to slip in an alternate tape and flip a switch for that couple of seconds down at the local station. Even better? Just switch the cable feed outside the house or up the pole for a few minutes. You'd be surprised how much unquestioned access one can get with just a hard hat, a tool belt and a plain white panel truck. Or one low level clerk at a bank services company for whom a call from any of the above is the most exciting thing that ever happened to them.
Not a problem.
And then there's the Eddie Murphy story. Remember? A few years back? He was getting all kinds of condemnation from black 'leaders' about making all black people look bad? Then he's hiring body guards, talking about harassment and death threats and stuff? Then he sort of dropped out for awhile. I missed him. Next time I noticed him, he was doing a vampire movie. Not a bad movie, as modern urban Dracula flicks go. But not his best work either.
Anybody remember?
So now he's supposed to be doing some documentary work in New Orleans w/ Spike Lee.
I'm piqued, I tell ya'! And how ironic is it for Bill Cosby, of all people, to be preaching at anybody for denigrating the image of African Americans?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ar ... Nov18.htmlThat sort of fits the timeline too, doesn't it? And the motive question. It's one thing to entertain audiences, make them think and illicit real respect and affection from them. It's another thing
entirely to presume oneself to be their keeper; the guard at the gate, protecting them from harmful, dangerous material.
Yeah, it fits. I'll mark it as credible but unproven and keep on digging.
By the year 2000, we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
--Gloria Steinam, women's rights activist
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