Posted on 02/13/2009 10:30:55 AM PST by lewisglad
That picture of octuplets' mom's obscenely large bulge represents an epic culture meltdown.
Oh, no! Look what Demi Moore hath wrought. I never believed back in 1990 when I published Annie Leibovitz’s famed Vanity Fair cover picture celebrating the fecundity of a naked pregnant Demi Moore that it would spawn 19 years of star knock-off pictures that culminated in today's epic moment of pop-cultural collapse—the sight of octuplet mom Nadya Suleman on TMZ bearing her ballooning 16-legged implants to the world.
The worst thing about the Suleman story is the way the freak-hungry media has rewarded her delinquency every step of the way. The sit-down star interview with NBC’s Ann Curry, the magazine covers, the hype for her PayPal web site, the impending book deal. Suleman's duvet lips are in themselves an homage to all the photo spreads she has seen of Angelina Jolie whom she so closely resembles.
Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It’s the new badge of authenticity.
Movie stars today are as greedy for more and more kids as bankers are for bonuses. It’s the new badge of authenticity. The problem is it's also a movie star myth that raising an ever-escalating tribe of screaming infants is no sweat, no cost, no impediment to doing absolutely what you want. They can do it because they can, but there's nothing cool about it for a single mom already freeloading on disability. (One of Gov. Sarah Palin's many missed opportunities was that she never told us how she was really coping backstage not just with GOP handlers drilling her with foreign affairs cliff notes, but the friction of a boot-faced pregnant teenager and a school-deprived seven-year-old made to tote around her dazed four-month-old baby brother.)
That's why I wanted to throw a shoe at Anderson Cooper's toothy blonde co-anchor Randi Kaye Monday night when, after Cooper's admirably deadpan account implying the many ways that Ms. Suleman was clearly deranged, Kaye gurgled to camera, "Oh, but come on, they ARE really cute, aren’t they?"
Yes, the eight tiny preemies are very sweet indeed, lying there in their ICU unit festooned with tubes to keep them alive. It’s why it’s so sad that these same cute babies will almost certainly have an array of lifelong medical complications or disabilities they don't deserve. Like many kids with disabilities they'd no doubt be valiant, but these will compete for love and care with three other siblings who've inherited disabilities due to their mother's reckless conduct, and they'll share with eight others their mother’s resources in utero and one-fourteenth of her attention (and childrearing budget) from now on.
Who’s going to want to do photo spreads on eight socially-deprived adolescents with learning disabilities raised by a crazy mother? P.S. Brad and Angelina will probably be split up by then, too.
Tina Brown is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. She is the author of the 2007 New York Times best seller The Diana Chronicles. Brown is the former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Talk magazines and host of CNBC's Topic A with Tina Brown.
Mama Mia!!!
“Tina Brown is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast.”
Is she annoyed that Nadya Suleman is on the public dole or is she pissed that she had children?
Had to make sure and get a dig in at Sarah, of course. Daily Beast, indeed....
See, Tina, that's you liberals problem in a nutshell. You never consider the long-term consequences of your actions.
Tina Brown is a petty little biatch Obama worshipper. But that having been said, that picture? GAAAAH. MY EYES.
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Separated at birth ?
Whew, that is huge. Yes, thanks to the media and hateful bloggers, she is getting death threats I heard on the news last night which, if true, I find despicable. She is a product of the Southern CA/Hollyweird influential culture among other things which has spread all over however you want to view the rest of it.
There just ALWAYS has to be a smarmy slap at Sarah Palin in every article written by a lib. What the he** does Sarah Palin have to do with the mentally ill Suleman? :-(
I think she looks a lot more like Jeanine Garafolo than she does Angelina Jolie.
Nevertheless, in this case she is right-but she is also a hypocrite.
“There just ALWAYS has to be a smarmy slap at Sarah Palin in every article written by a lib. What the he** does Sarah Palin have to do with the mentally ill Suleman? :-(”
Because Tina Brown is a bitch troll from hell that’s why.
Somebody was saying the average preemie runs up a hospital bill of something like $160,000.00 before they get released.
So we’re looking at 1.2 mill before they ever go out the door, and nothing about that guarantees that they won’t be back in a week later with complications.
Supposedly Suleman has sent 3 wacky fan letters to Angelina, although no one really knows for sure.
She seems more annoyed that others have copied her original (apparently) idea of photographing a pregnant woman.
Or that Angelina Jolie is rich and good-looking and has lots of kids.
I’m trying to put my finger on whether the liberal outrage is because she didn’t get some abortions, or they really don’t want to pay for all those children. They don’t have a problem paying for millions of other welfare children. So it has to be the abortion issue.
I guess you could say that I have a pregnant woman fetish, but this is over the top. She might well have “cured” me.
Jolie is not using my money, and I think she can pass a mental test. The sow cannot.
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