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O'Reily and a couple of Musketeers

Watched a clip of Bill O Reily who reminds me of sausage fly.  He had two crusty former Mousekateers (one that had written a book about it) from the old 50s and 60s Mickey Mouse Club.  They all three, Bill included, gloated on how times have changed, how society is so different from back then.  Meanwhile they are showing different clips from those old timely episodes that included in every other one, a little more than barely legal tween girls kicking up their heels and twirling their short skirts and flashing the camera guy their most flirty charms.  Oh, really, well how is that different from today.  The Disney Channel is still pouring out more dirty-ole-Bill-eye-toys by the generation from Christina Agularer, Britney Spears, Hillary Duff, and Linzy Lohan (until they turned unfashionably eighteen) to Selena Gomez and the Jail Bait Elvis of them all, Miley Cyrus.  Glen Beck, a journalist I actually respect, said earlier that words have lost their meaning.  It is like our national debt, causing our confidence to wain, the dollar to loose value, backed by gold that doesn't exist.  Words, promises, even opinions have lost their worth and are used without thinking because truth has become elusive and rare.  Bill O Reily, for example, with his two crusty Disney hags (they didn't seem to be offended that they hadn't received a call from Disney since they were fifteen) saying how innocent the fifties were with the Mickey Mouse Club getting some props for that illusion. 
They said this during and following one of the Disney pig's confession that she had been seduced by Frank Zappa to be in some nude spread shots during the 70s.  (Her post-Disney legal years).  As they talked about the glorious influence that the Mickey Mouse Club had on the youth and the Musketeers themselves.  I think of the wonderful influence that being Musketeers had on (again) Britney and Christiana or Lindsey Lohane and the even sleazier influence they had on their fans.  I shudder and think of why those girls had to be beautiful & young to be worth so many adults' billions of dollars. And what about the youth that watched the 50s Mickey Mouse Club that these two famous crusted Musketeers had belonged to?  The youth turned into a hypocritical hippie for life that failed to reach any of their goals besides becoming hairy one day and a divorced Match.com whore pain killer pusher the next.  The Mickey Mouse Club let Mom and Dad & Dad down and they helped bring us down.
The worthlessness of words for the lack of honesty. Bill O Reily calling the birth of Disney's creepy not youth but youth-sexuality crusade and the two sexed up crusty memories of it innocent and inspiring.  Oh, but for just one example. 
And more and more these days people around me are giving more and more words and with action (if any) that mimics the inanity of their oaths. 

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The Disney Kingdom

These following thoughts, or story rather (its all a g-ddamn story) were conceived while waving a salt and peppered glance toward the magazine rack (dunno-y).  I looked upon a Bop, a teen magazine that was the holy grail of almost two years of my life.  Then it was covered by Elijah Wood (young), Jonathan Taylor Thomas, and Hillary Swank (In the New Karate Kid).  This time its cover (I did not look further than that) was twas flooded with Ashley Tisdales, Hannah Montanas, Camp Rock stars, Jonas Brothers.  All these tweenystars, teenyboppers, are products and plushes of the Disney Empire.  I don't think that another network had so much influence and power over the tween population (the most profitable age group) than Disney has in recent history. 
Sure Disney has always been that giant in the corner of the room.  Weird but wonderful.  Orlando was always a big hit for families and so has its movie and animated films over many, many years. 
Yet, until the introduction of That's So Raven and Lizzy McGuire staring a then teenage Hillary Duff, to a Wizards of Waverly Place and Cheetah Girls, the Disney Channel has always been that "cool cartoon channel" that the cable company made available for a week or two.  It was mostly for young children, by far not Disney's greatest profiteer. 
Today the Disney Channel and its creations and stars must bring in billions to an empire that the original Walton, uh, Walt could never of even imagined. 
Elvis was king because he owned the tween world and so was the fab-four.  With children sprawled out on the floor, parents would watch the Ed Sullivan Show along with their children and soon go out to buy them Beatles tickets or memoberlia.  Today their grandchildren are sprawled out in front of the TV watching Hannah Montana's Miley Ray Cyrus (The greatest luck ever experienced by a mullet wielding one hit wonder; Billy Ray).  How many billions of dollars of worth of High School Musical stuff will the Santa's little person slaves make in the North Pole this year?  From the east to the west, in every country in the world from the half decent to the most corrupt blob of the west, billions of daughters sobbed for Suite Life of Zack and Cody dolls.  I'm sure of it. 

I don't know, it kind of makes me sick.  If you ever discover that you have less of a life than I and decide to watch something on the Disney Channel (if you have a daughter I'm sure you've seen plenty of it) you'll notice how little Disney actually spends in their sets, script writing, and actor scouts.  Watch one of the three High School Musicals to get the picture.  The film gives off this puky radiance of a false universe called a high school full of pretty people that each have their very specific and important role in the school structure, singing lyrics ripped off the Donny Asmond Show and filling our youth's eyes and brain with sticky sloppy sweetness. 
This is the first generation since before Elvis when the youth has completely lost all its edge, confidence, and independence.  Replaced with

We’re all in this together

I finally figured it out (yeah yeah)
That all our dreams have no limitations
That's what its all about

Everyone is special in their own way
We make each other strong (each other strong)
Were not the same
Were different in a good way
Together's where we belong

In the words of the great Kill Hannah,

They can't save us now
'Cause we're far away from home
And there's no where else to go
They can't save us now
'Cause we're lost and won't be found
We can scream so loud
But they can't save us now


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