Today on Oprah’s first segment she had 30somethings who are single. Oprah asserted that men are intimidated by women like her bff Gayle because they look at her “purse and her boots” and think “I can’t pay for that.” Therefore, they don’t want to go out with her.
Excuse me, while I make sure I’m not watching Star Reynolds on The View circa a few months ago.
Okay I’m back. Wha-wha-wha-wha??? Seriously, O? Since when are you so materialistic? Or you just think all men are? I guess this is why she never married Stedman? I’m so confused!! I don’t like hearing Oprah say stupid things! It upsets my understanding of the way of the Universe!
My daily routine normally begins by watching The View with my mom, and today she made an astute observation.
Hot Topics has TOTALLY increased in length.
What was once 15 minutes, max, is going on half an hour! I personally could not be happier, for watching these four women bicker about President Bush makes me day. Did anyone notice Rosie snap at Barbara when she tried to move the conversation away from a fiery State Of The Union discussion? If the View is Rosie’s show, Hot Topics is her bitch. She owns that piece!
I love watching Elisabeth squirm. Less and less is she able to squawk her conservative babble, because even she is realizing she is totes wrong. Bush not mentioning Katrina in his speech! Cheney not answering questions about the contradiction of his gay daughter’s pregnancy and his homophobic policies! Elisabeth, dare I say, is becoming an independent!
Lastly, if Tina Fey were not already so good at her other job, I’d demand her on the View, stat.
Didn’t her hair look extra fabulous? Swoon.
Today’s Oprah was confusing as it used Elizabeth Vargas as the centerpiece of the stay at home mom “movement” because she left her job as the anchor of ABC World News to be there for her children. Half way through the interview it came out that she is now co-anchor of 20/20. So she didn’t really give up working outside the home, she gave up one job. Listen, if Lizzy wants to work as a news achor that’s fine. I just don’t know why she was used to represent stay at home moms. Anyway, Dr. Robin came on to distract me and make sure we all knew what was true and what wasn’t. She did it well, while sporting a very Rachelesque/Farah hair cut which i imagine is hard to do for a black woman. In the end nothing was really decided but I’m sure everyone was left wondering why Oprah doesn’t adopt a baby herself and create a superhuman to rule the world when she can’t anymore.
The View’s littlest mommy really let loose today, and dare I say, I kind of agree with her!
First of all – I LOVE Hannity & Colmes too – I just adore their “little arguments” full of lies and bias!
Okay, I kid. I may loathe Elisabeth, aka Mama Hasselbeck’s conservative ranting, but she definitely had a point about parenting. And I say this as an expert, as I am a 27 year old unmarried woman with NO CHILDREN. So, I know.
Her point was basically, if you have kids, don’t be a selfish douchebag that thinks with your dick (or in SOME case, vajayson).
Be a parent first. And in a world where Britney Spears is bringing her son on trips to a lingerie store, I’d personally rather grow up like Gracie than Sean Preston ANY day.
There’s nothing like a show with 12 year old scientists, future Presidents, and piano prodigies to make me feel like I haven’t done anything with my life. I don’t find these types of shows inspiring, I find them discouraging and I would ask Oprah to stop it. Stop trying to impress us with tiny geniuses. Do a show about someone older finding their calling at 50. Didn’t that happen to Mrs. Fields? What happened to her? Do me a favor Oprah and find her. Her cookies are delicious, we should celebrate her.
Rosie realllllllly ripped into American Idol today, and right in front of Kellie Pickler too!
I hate to say it, but watching the horrible auditions on Idol is my favorite part of the show – well, second only to watching Paula try to function on 79 vicodins and a Coke product.
Major news outlets are picking up on Rosie’s Idol bashing. It raises a good point – that basically the entire country gets off on watching ugly dorks be humiliated. Also Rosie is right about Paula. My dad watching Idol for the first time Tuesday night and he could not stop commenting on Paula’s drugged up antics. She was worse than the singers!
I realize that I didn’t make up a punny word, I just put “ro” in front of sense, but I still feel like I’m creative. Anyway, did you people know that Brad & Ang are moving to New Orleans?? I didn’t either until Ro told me, fine us, on the View today. She made an excellent point that Brad and Ang are using the paparazzi who follow them everywhere to shine the light on problems in the world. How can anyone not love them? For some reason Elisabeth feels the need to support “Team Aniston” as if Jennifer Aniston needs a team or cares at this point. That bugs me, but it occured to me today that I can’t dislike Elisabeth because she looks a lot like Carol Turner, the only popular girl in 8th grade who liked me and who invited me out onto the lawn where the popular people ate lunch and when she asked me I looked behind me and then pointed to myself, “you mean me?” and she laughed and nodded her pretty blonde head like “Yes, of course, silly!” and unfortunately the rest of the popular 8th grade people didn’t have the foresight that Carol Turner did to see how awesome I am so my time on the lawn was brief, but still, I have to like Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
I promise not to post again when I have had only a couple hours sleep.
But while I’m here, Kate, you may think you wouldn’t come up with things like the paci fairy when you have kids, but when you do have kids you will realize that everything you thought you would never do, you will probably do. Aside from you know, being purposefully hurtful.
Come to find out, the first new Oprahs of the week were BORING. Plugging Bob Greene’s new diet system? Snoozefest. I mean, his system sounds pretty straightforward, but the only advice they offered was to go out and buy his products.
And Oprah plugging Yoplait yogurt? Barftown! That stuff is like high fructose corn syrup and chemicals to the max! I’m a whole and organic Stoneyfield Yogurt woman myself. Now I know I have like, a little less pull than the O, but trust me, Stoneyfield is the way to go. And it SO much healthier – for you and the animals they use.
Let’s turn this blog into a crazy vegetarian rant zone!
Okay sorry about that. That whole show peeved me. Today I had about enough patience to last through half of the first Mary J. Blige jam. I couldn’t even finish the episode even though I knew my childhood crush Ben Taylor was going to be singing alongside his mama Carly Simon. I think they even sang my fave James Taylor song “You Can Close Your Eyes”. Eh, I’ll watch it on TiVo with a glass of wine. Sorry Bob Greene! I’m not cutting that out for the month – OR EVER!
On to the View. Pretty tame stuff eh! No more mention of the Donald, no more mention of anything but the usual – Elisabeth’s barren womb, Rosie’s kids, Barbara’s dog and Joy’s….thing.
Joy and Mario Cantone covering the Golden Globes today was hilarious-licious.
Not so great? The song and dance Rosie did with two of her Broadway boys. I’m kind of over that schtick already. I love you Ro, but I’d rather hear you talk about vibrators and Vivi’s pacifier. Which leads me too…
THE CONNECTION!
After watching Ro talk about how she and Kel told Vivi that a Paci Fairy was coming to take away her pacifier, I read the exact same story in my girl O’s Magazine, as told by Kristin Armstrong, Lance’s ex-ho! I guess this is a common technique moms use to screw with their kids heads. When I have babies, there is going to be a fairy who is responsible for all the bad things that happen in their life. That way I can take no credit for ruining them. Smart huh?
Rosie hates the first rounds of American Idol because she thinks it’s mean. People, I don’t want to freak you out by how similar Rosie and I are (sugar addiction, feminist, intensely relatable), but I hate the first rounds of American idol because I think it’s mean! And I think Paula Abdul has gotten way too smug. Isn’t she supposed to be the nice one? What am I talking about again? I think everyone here can agree that you can enjoy Jack Bauer killing someone by eating their neck and still think American Idol’s first round is mean. What? Look, that’s my Ro-ment. Take it or leave it.
