Posted on 05/13/2007 5:46:15 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
A point of pride in my family is that my great-aunt, mother of my late Uncle Harvey Goodman, was once named Mother of the Year in New Hampshire. She was the mother of 13 children, and despite the family's very limited financial resources, 12 of them made it to college and went on to raise families and be good, productive members of society. That's the kind of story that, in the good old days, the CBS Evening News might have featured on Mothers Day.
But times have changed. A lot. So to whom did the Evening News send its video bouqets on this evening's Mothers Day edition? The draft Al Gore movement, and growers of eco-friendly roses.
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First up was a segment focusing on a rather ragtag bunch of folks, members of DraftGore.com. The reporter excitedly proclaimed that "their website boasts 70,000 signatures on its draft-Gore petition." We were informed that "the L.A. group meets once a month" at an outdoor market. Impressive! My favorite member was the one pictured here, Derek Bevil, looking like a young Gerald Depardieu. CBS reporter Bill Whitaker, after running footage of George H.W. calling Gore "Ozone Man," claimed that there's been "a big change since the days when he was mocked as a boring fanatic." Guess what, Bill? In the eyes of millions of Americans, Al remains a . . . boring fanatic. Enthused Whitaker: "he's so hot, he's cheered on one of the coolest shows on TV." Cut to clip of Al on the Daily Show. Hmm, so Al's "hot." And Paris "that's hot" Hilton will be doing some jail time. You fill in the blanks.
Later, in the place of a traditional Mother's Day segment, we were treated to a piece on earth-friendly rose growing. Host Russ Mitchell introduced the piece: "and of course it's Mothers Day, the day florist live for, with Americans spending $2.3 billion on flowers for the moms in their lives. But with consumers more and more conscious of the environment than ever, the big new color in the floral industry is . . . green." Cut to reporter Anthony Mason who, after showing pretty shots of flowers, somberly informed us that "there's a less romantic side to all this beauty." Cue the CEO of something called "Organic Bouquet" who warned us "whether it's chemicals and how they affect the environment, or how the farm workers are treated, or the ecology of the farms, there's just a whole lot of issues with flowers." What a Mother's Day downer!
Then it was on to footage of an enlightened guy, an Ecuadorian flower grower. "We really believe in doing good for the planet, and doing good for the people who work for us." Mason proudly informed us that the grower's got "more organic and more fair trade certifications than any grower on the continent."
Great. But on Mother's Day, rather than Al Gore and organic farming, couldn't CBS have found some time to celebrate . . . mothers?
Contact Mark at mark@gunhill.net
CBS-Mother’s-Day-bouquets-for-Gore-and-organic-rose-growers ping to Today show list.
tipper’s lookin’ hot, from a distance in a grainy picture, at least.
Mother’s Day is secondary to PradABDNC’s one mission of electing dems/commies.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Communist Manifesto: Destroy the family.
Geez, what’s Tipper thinking!
One bend over to slurp on her soup spoon,
and she’s going to pop a nipple!
My mother hated Al Gore
LOL. I have 4 of them. They brought me non-organic flowers. I am happy.
Verizon Yellow Pages had a great radio ad concerning a normal guy trying to order a dozen roses for his mother over the phone. The moonbat at the flower shop (Flower Power) was named Light and she wanted to know first if the flowers were for his birth mother or Mother Earth. She then went on about how they only sell “orphaned” flowers so that they don’t have to be cut (he asked if there was any adoption paperwork involved). The ad was hilarious.
Happy Mother’s Day! (Organic or otherwise.)
Tipper does look good. The more bloated Al gets, the better she looks.
I just checked Google and they had a mother’s day Google. How terrible and thoughtless! Some people don’t have mothers! Mine is dead and they’ve made me feel horrible, those ba$tard$! And just think of the motherless children, and the test tube babies, and the kids in “alternative” families! And now they are using mothers and dead mothers to promote Algore. ;-)
LOL! Well don't we all?
Only if the basics are in place.
Helen Thomas? Rosie O'Donnell?
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