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.

Its all a joke, he didnt come up with that name for himself...its sarcasm. I dont agree with everything about Ozzy either..but the show is funny, and Ozzy still makes great music. We can watch the show without emulating him, we dont emulate anything we watch, although I do get a hankerin' for a good pigeon burger on Tuesday nites after the show, cant quite explain it.

The next morning more than one newspaper article refered to Osbourn as overshaddowing the President by his attendence.

Something Xlinton would have been outraged over but not GW. GW is totally comfortable with his identity and is not threatened by such pettiness.

by the way do you think that is Pat doing the opening song on the show?....

:o( Oh, how I wish I knew!!! I don't have cable, so I've been totally out of the loop with this new show. I only hear people talk about it. I've been hoping that they put the series out on video soon. Now I guess there are two good reasons to get cable again: The Osbornes and Southpark! ;o)

I dont watch much network television at all anymore, dont watch a whole lot of cable, but the shows I do like just happen to be on the cable channels, and Southpark is one of them. I think the only network shows I watch anymore, if I happen to be in front of the TV when they are on, is Fear Factor and Whose line is it anyway?

Growing up, Iron Man was one of the first guitar songs I learned - I do like Oz' music, but not the show.

MTV used to be good, like Delbert said, but it's really turned to the gay agenda, exploiting sex, and lots of other trash. Well shootfire! they don't even play videos anymore!

It amazes me how people keep trying to cover for Bush's or his handler's idiotic mistake. Another huge mistake was having that idiot Drew Carey up there making fun of Bush's speaking imperfections. Bush is really destroying his presidency with all of his stupid mistakes. I always remember when he said that Jesus Christ was his idol. like Clinton waving his bible in the air like he was some kind of God fearing Christian, now I belive Bush really did not mean it when he said that Jesus was his idol. Bush is allowing the Federal government to grow exponentially. We are sunk as a Nation, I am afraid.

I just heard that Bush is putting Clinton in a group to go to East Timor as a sign of peace. We are finished as a nation, my friends. Kiss it goodbye.

Heres something that sux....I wanted music videos..not rap, not hip hop..ROCK MUSIC VIDEOS...so I had to pay extra money on my cable service for expanded MTV. They had a channel called MTV X ..it played ROCK MUSIC VIDEOS..just like in the old day new and classic rock videos...I enjoyed the hell out of that channel...well last week...I turn to cable channel 472, MTV-X..well what do I see? Bootylicious...damn if they didnt do it again...took out the ROCK and changed the format to rap,pop and hip hop....They did it to me again...I cant believe it.

What? You haven't gotten into Buffy the Vampire Slayer?!! If I had kids I probably wouldn't let them watch Buffy for all the occult stuff, but it is one of the best written tv shows out there. I agree about network tv in general though. I remember when I was a kid there were only a few significant shows for kids and adults: stuff like A Team, The Increadible Hulk, Charlie's Angels, Little House on the Prairie, Grizzly Adams, BJ and the Bear, Battlestar Galactica, etc. They were all so simple and campy. Now there are so many shows, and the ones that are targeted for young people (including Buffy) have sexual and violent content that would have caused parents to riot 15 years ago. I'd hate to be a teenager these days.

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