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06/25/2003 Archived Entry: "Stupid Comparisons Department..."
Stupid Comparisons Department...
How many of you saw Eminem's Michael Jackson imitation today? Slim showed up on the hotel balcony with a baby (turned out to be a doll), and tossed it up in the air and dangled it over the edge of the balcony. The Scots ate it up. But what really struck me as funny was a quote in the article:
POP history repeated itself as farce yesterday when Eminem, the enfant terrible of rap, dangled a plastic baby over the edge of his hotel balcony in Glasgow, to the delight of the small crowd of fans who had waited all day to see him.His gesture parodied the actions of Michael Jackson, who last year provoked international outrage by holding a real baby - purportedly his own - over a hotel balcony in Germany in front of horrified crowds below.
The rapper's latest stunt adds to a catalogue of incidents that have secured his status as one of the most controversial figures in pop music today, leading George W Bush to label him "the most dangerous threat to American children since polio".
Oh, really, George? The biggest threat since polio? C'mon, fess up - Lynne Cheney told you to say that, didn't she?
Replies: somebody speaks up.
Look, I don't personally care for Rap or Eminem. But I'm old enough to remember polio. I recall a friend in grammar school, Flanagan, who had massive braces on both legs and hobbled around on crutches.
If that quote is accurate, then I am absolutely appalled at Knucklehead's vulgarity.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 06/26/2003 10:23 AM NY
