Wow, that whole Balloon Boy escapade was really some must-see TV, wasn't it?
Weird and unreal and suspenseful. Like a mash-up of Home Alone, James and the Giant Peach, and the twitter fail whale.
Confession time: we actually didn't catch any of it. Kristin was curled up with Princess Di's funeral service. Sarah was watching O. J. in the white Bronco. Poppy was trying to decide whether that really was a "wardrobe malfunction," and Susie was hypnotized by Aretha Franklin's hat.
You see, we're connoisseurs of live TV excitement, and Balloon Boy didn't make the cut.
We've carried children to term. We've carried angry toddlers out of restaurants. If we had to, we're pretty sure we could carry a six year old.
And we know a Jiffy Pop container filled with helium wouldn't be able to do it.
I didn't watch any of it when it was happening and got sick to death of trying to watch REAL news when all they were talking about was this crap. I consoled myself with the fact that if this was all they had to talk about there must not have been anything REALLY bad happening anywhere else in the world. Now it just needs to go away.
First they attribute racist quotations to Rush Limbaugh without checking sources. A little research would have shown them he never said those things.
Then they fell for this.
And we are supposed to believe the media why?