WHO'S HOT & WHO'S NOT! (Iconoclast)

ICONOCLAST ^ | R. Bastiat, et al

[Apolitical]

WHO'S NOT....

1. BRITNEY SPEARS



Is there anything tougher than being Britney Spears? Apparently not, if you listen to the pop diva's poignant complaints about married life.

Spears reveals her latest frustrations in the April 2005 cover story of Allure magazine, where she moans and groans about her exhausting daily grind supervising the caregivers who service her Malibu estate and look after new husband Kevin Federline's two young children:

"It's this reality. Like omigod, I have to tell the maid to buy diapers and get the pool boy to walk the dog? Can't I just make out with Kevin all the time? Being married sucks."

The Allure cover story digs into Britney's tumultuous love life -- her breakup with fellow mouseketeer and singer Justin Timberlake, her first marriage (quickly annulled) to actor Jason Alexander -- "I didn't think it was real" -- and the rocky start of her current marriage to Federline, a professional dancer.

The singer admits in the article that she has gained weight since the wedding last September, but she denies the widespread rumors that she is pregnant. Already unhappy in the role of stepmother to two toddlers, Spears says having her own baby is "not something I'm striving for" in the near future. She attributes the extra pounds to "just lounging around and eating."

But despite all her grumbling in the cover story about her own personal life, the 23-year-old pop star has no hesitation in offering advice to other entertainers. Spears told Allure that what Michael Jackson really needs is "to get in a fight." The accused child molester, she says, "needs someone to be like, 'OK, let's buck you up, let's give you a moustache, let's rough you up, let's go to a bar, let's get drunk and be a man.'"

In retrospect, Spears now seems to think that she talked too freely to Allure magazine, and she vows to shut up about personal matters from now on and speak of them only through her music.

"In the future, I will refrain from discussing my private life in interviews," the pop singer wrote on her Web site. "It will be expressed solely through art."

Yes, it's tough being Britney Spears, and her married life may very well suck. But at least she has her art.

3. THE DISLOYAL (LIBERAL) OPPOSITION?

Nancy Soderberg and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts)

High on this month's "Not Hot" list is Nancy Soderberg, a top foreign policy adviser in the Clinton Administration, along with the remarkable wish she expressed during a recent TV interview. In response to a reluctant comment by her liberal host that President Bush's policies seemed to be succeeding in promoting not only democracy and political reform in the Middle East but perhaps even a resolution of the Israeli-Arab conflict, Soderberg replied:

"There's always hope that this might not work."

Soderberg repeatedly suggested throughout the cable television interview that the Democratic Party is hoping the American initiatives in the Middle East will fail.

She made her comments during an appearance on "The Daily Show" hosted by the irreverent current-affairs commentator Jon Stewart. Commenting on Bush's efforts to combat terror and spread democracy in the Middle East, the former Clinton aide told Stewart that the prospect of American success in those initiatives was "scary for Democrats."

Soderberg, a former advisor to Ted Kennedy, served as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in the Clinton White House -- the third-ranking official on the National Security Council. She appeared on the Stewart show to promote her new Bush-bashing book, The Superpower Myth, which has been described as a tedious apologia for Bill Clinton's foreign policy mistakes.

Her televised comments came several weeks after Senator Kennedy publicly expressed an equally remarkable opinion apparently asserting a moral equivalence between the efforts of U.S. forces in Iraq to safeguard civil society and the deliberate slaughter of innocent Iraqis by terrorist insurgents.

"Our military and the insurgents are fighting for the same thing -- the hearts and minds of the people," Kennedy said in a speech on January 27, very clearly implying that in his view, offering self-government to the Iraqis is exactly the "same thing" as trying to cow them into submission through murder and terror.

Soderberg and Kennedy may have been speaking for themselves on these two occasions, but their mindset on foreign policy is undoubtedly shared by many of their fellow party activists, not to mention the highly partisan members of the elite media and intellectual establishment.

For the vast majority of rank-and-file Democrats who might actually hope for American success in bringing reform, democracy, and peace to the Middle East, perhaps it's time for them to ask their opinion leaders the old labor union question: "Which side are you on?" ........................

[Apolitical]

Right on about the traitorous Democrats.

[Theresawithanh]

"Ted Kennedy" and "hot" (or not hot) should never be used in the same sentence, let alone the same article! Ewwwww.

Pity poor Britney, such a hard life she has, (sigh).

Iconoclast bump.

[citizencon]

Ted Kennedy and "cold"( water, that is).

[7.62 x 51mm]

Britney Spears = talentless, slut, skank, best argument for abortion.

[ScreamingFist]

"It's this reality. Like omigod, I have to tell the maid to buy diapers and get the pool boy to walk the dog? Can't I just make out with Kevin all the time? Being married sucks."

I believe the band Tool said it best... "F' all these delusional, insignificant actresses"

[jimboster]

That's a bogus quote by Britney. She never said it. It was a joke.

[Theresawithanh]

Ummm, I kinda suspected that ;). My quote was bogus, too.

[Sender]

Britney started out alright. She was a high school pop icon, talented at dancing and tolerable at singing. She had a squeaky-clean, schoolgirl image that lifted her into the national spotlight. Then she slutted out.

[Kimmers]

Can she actually sing?....her voice sounds over dubbed by electronics

[Sender]

Oh she can sing, she's not a prodigy or anything. And she definitely can dance. But she should have stuck to the clean image she started with instead of becoming just another sex skank.

[Mr. Buzzcut]

Wow -- Britannoy is brighter than Nancy Soderberg!!!!

[dirtbiker]

Wow -- Britannoy is brighter than Nancy Soderberg!!!

This strikes you as a surprise?

[CFC__VRWC]

"It's this reality. Like omigod, I have to tell the maid to buy diapers and get the pool boy to walk the dog? Can't I just make out with Kevin all the time? Being married sucks."

Do these people actually listen to themselves whine? Good lord, this sounds like a bad parody of the demanding diva routine.

Spears told Allure that what Michael Jackson really needs is "to get in a fight."

If you're going to fight Jacko, use a baseball bat. If you hit him with your fist, all that plastic will shatter and most likely shred your hand, leaving you to bleed out on the barroom floor.

[Kimmers]

I would have to agree but where are the parents in this....I guess money talks....would not be happy if my daughter behaved like these hollywood ho's behave....

[Kimmers]

I would have to agree but where are the parents in this....I guess money talks....would not be happy if my daughter behaved like these hollywood ho's behave....