So the news bomb drops on the Friday before a holiday weekend and what is the first response from the silly talking heads at CNN? Why, they personalize it. Of course. “Oh, no, she had to announce it now, not last Monday, not a week from now. I know what I’LL be doing on the fourth,” giggles one of the female announcers, indistinguishable from the others so I can’t remember which one. “Yeah,” ad libs another, “Sandra Day O’Connor is spiting the women she inspired by becoming the first…”yada yada yada. “Hope my husband understands about my working instead of having that barbeque.”
So the news bomb drops on the Friday before a holiday weekend and what is the first response from the silly talking heads at CNN? Why, they personalize it. Of course. “Oh, no, she had to announce it now, not last Monday, not a week from now. I know what I’LL be doing on the fourth,” giggles one of the female announcers, indistinguishable from the others so I can’t remember which one. “Yeah,” ad libs another, “Sandra Day O’Connor is spiting the women she inspired by becoming the first…”yada yada yada. “Hope my husband understands about my working instead of having that barbeque.”
Thanks, Candy, or Kathleen, or Dana, or Kelly, or the other Kelly, or whoever contributed to this worthless, self-absorbed piece-of-tripe commentary, for reminding the viewer how elite you are. It’s not about the significance of a Supreme Court Justice resigning, it’s about your life interrupted. Your charmed life is worth so much more than that of the poor sap who has to surrender HIS holiday to the check-out lane at Walmart, or the poor waitress at the Denny’s that never closes, or the poor volunteer at the suicide hotline where remaining open – even on holidays – is literally a matter of life or death.
No, the fact that the poor saps who don’t have a glamourous job have to work, every year, on the fourth of July pales in comparison to your inconvenience, and the nerve of a newsmaker making news just in time to disrupt your holiday. Poor, charmed, overpaid, famous talking heads can’t take the four-day weekend off because Sandra Day O’Connor dared to announce her big news just in time to spoil your holiday. Never mind the poor saps on the timeclock regardless of what happens in Washington, DC.
And you know what’s ironic about this whole meaningless scenario? the girls lamenting the impact on THEIR lives first thing upon hearing the news, instead of focusing on the news itself? Why, it’s the fact that their program, On the Story, the program every Sunday featuring the women of CNN discussing the past week in entirely superfluous language adding a total of zero to the consensus, were given the weekend off, in honor of clearing their precious calendar for the holiday. That’s right, CNN was kind enough to preempt On the Story with a packaged report in the can days ago so as not to disturb the delicate egos of the girls of CNN by forcing them to work an entire day before the holiday itself
Only for events to intervene, forcing them to work after all. As the Howler would observe, Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo. Poor, charmed, overpaid, famous, silly talking heads. How dare that Sandra Day O’Connor affect your special lives. Silly fops at CNN, it’s all about you, not the news.