Ozzy's True Stripes

After this weekend, we all have new reason to worship Ozzy Osbourne. While hamming it up as one of the stars of the annual glitzfest known as the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, the heavy metal papa was asked what message he wanted to pass on to the president.

Some of Hollywood's beautiful people, puffed up with self-importance (among other things), would have felt the need to twitter portentously about their current cause celèbre.

Not Ozzy. He's his own cause celèbre, and all he wants is dual-citizenship. " I want to be American," he called out. "America is the coolest place on the face of the Earth. You've got freedom of speech. You've got McDonald's."

Clearly, Osbourne's already an American at heart: Only a true Yankee spirit could be at once so patriotic and so gloriously self-interested. Of course, this being the outspoken, opinionated U.S.A., not everyone agrees. Lynne Cheney reportedly joined the short list of naysayers after the dinner. "He's hardly someone we should be applauding... not a role model, I am rather embarrassed."

Ozzy's not. Nor should he be.

Great shows - MTV & Oz suck compared to those. I watch the old reruns on TVLand: HappyDays, Andy Griffith, Leave it to Beaver, Bev. Hillbilly's - man those were great shows!

Nowadays, all the comedy has to be vulgar, sexual, and have at least one fruitloop running around the set. Sad, ain't it?

They can keep their Oz-Man, I'll take Pa Cartwright any day!

I would agree with your comment. Let me express this thought though. When people have a blemish on their face, they'll invariable touch it or point to it. Usually the blemish is something that other people would completely ignore if they person would let them. Somehow it seems to be human nature to either subconciously or inadvertantly do this. Bush's comments about Ozzie seemed to mimic this human trait. If Bush hadn't mentioned Ozzie, I doubt if many would have even noticed that he was there. This isn't a huge gaff on Bush's part, but I do think it was a mistake none the less.

You make a good point, even with the threat of jail for young girls...

but you forgot Neve, and she has about the best legs I have seen in a long time!!

Ohhh! Someone needs to get off their high-horse
now, don't they? Did someone die and make you the judge
of the rest of us, hmmmm? You know, you seem to always
find the opportunity to connect Bush to someone else's
behavior, usually bad. Why is that? All he has to do
is to be nice to someone or connect with someone you
don't approve of, and all of a sudden, he's just as bad
as them. For heaven's sake, get off the high horse,
and cut the lectures, huh! We are not all children who
need your 'approval' to do anything, or to admire some-
one. You're acting like you're our "daddy" or our
"old maid aunt" or something!

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