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It’s hard to imagine how some people who have been in the public eye for so long can remain sooooooo dumb. I’m talking about Hollywood types who have managed to get through life unscathed by even a hint of intellectual activity. For instance, Courtney Cox, a lascivious slinker on prime time television who revealed why she had taken her husband’s last name. "It feels like, wow. I’m changing my identity. It was scary. It feels good, like I’m really committed. It feels better than not doing it and it made him happy."
Or that knee-crossing seductress Sharon Stone, who commands eight-figure movie deals. Does the money go to her head? It might; there’s certainly plenty of room there. Asked why Stone changes clothes between every one of nearly 50 media interviews scheduled for a single day, an aide said, "Sharon will not sit before a camera and wear the same piece of clothing (twice). She doesn't want someone to turn on Entertainment Tonight, then turn the channel and see her wearing the exact thing on Larry King. She doesn't want people to tire of her. She cares."
Now even if a sentient being really thinks this way, it’s hard to believe that she would say it out loud. In public. Oh, but what am I saying. In a world with Tammy Faye Bakker and Howard Stern, Monica Lewinksy and Dennis Rodman, even flagrant and ostentatiously inept narcissism should hardly make a ripple. Of course, they all live in a different world, where such thinking -- and I use the verb loosely — is de rigueur, as in rigor mortis of the mind.
It’s not just the official entertainers. There are also the politicians and the bureaucrats who either don’t hear themselves or don’t think it matters what they say. I’m thinking of Hillary Clinton and her ridiculous pussy-footing around her ostensible Senate race. Why won’t she simply say she is running? Or not.
Or the people involved in the EgyptAir disaster investigation. For the longest time, U.S. officials let it be understood that the back-up co-pilot who was at the controls when it began its descent said, and I quote, "I made my decision now." Infer from it what you like, but the insinuation that was allowed to float was that the man had sabotaged the flight. However, it turns out that he didn’t say any such thing.
It’s been said that you shouldn’t believe everything you read. Or, apparently everything you hear or see. In some cases, people are just out-right liars, like Hillary’s husband. But we are advised to keep in mind the warning from Martin Luther King Junior who said, "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
And that’s SetonnoteS...I’m Tony Seton.
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