O’Leary Has Given Herself Reason To Be Leery Of Press
Energy Secretary Hazel O’Leary has answered the year-old question: “What’re we going to do when we don’t have Joycelyn Elders to kick around anymore?” O’Leary wanted to make a name for herself when she signed on with the Clinton administration. Now, thanks to her paranoia of the media, she has. The Energy Department acknowledged Wednesday that it paid a media consultant at least $264 per day ($68,640 per year) to develop media strategy (read, prepare a press “hit list” and map out in detail how O’Leary could become a “household name”). White House aides rebuked O’Leary last week for using a consulting firm to analyze hundreds of news stories and rate reporters on the basis of the favorability of those stories. (And you thought Nixonism was dead?) At this point, Hazel had better keep a low profile and avoid using the word “masturbation.” Right, Joycelyn?
100 Hooter Girls can’t be wrong
I’m not pro-Hooters, but I am for free enterprise. I’d support the right of a Hooters restaurant to open in Coeur d’Alene - sans male waiters. But I wouldn’t frequent one. I gave up my fetish for bosomy cheerleaders in short skirts when I graduated from high school. Make that college. Would you believe when I got married? Anyway, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission earns a Hot Potato for recommending that Hooters, which features waitresses in tank tops and shorts, hire men, too. Sniffs one politically correct antagonist: “For a restaurant chain to say the only people who can be hired to serve food are women is something our laws don’t allow.” If the Hooters Girls were flashing T&A or wearing thong bathing suits, I’d say, shut ‘em down. Until then, the EEOC should heed the chant uttered Thursday by 100 Hooters Girls: “Get a grip!”
TV sleazemongers claim another victim
If a Rigby, Idaho, grandmother is right, TV sleazemongers should hide their heads in shame. She believes her grandson, one of three teens accused of murdering a store clerk last week, got the idea from violent television. Said she: “They never show the pain (on TV). They don’t even think it’s real when they’re doing it.” But, Grandma, we can’t prevent violent shows. No, no, no. That’d be censorship. Besides, everyone knows that TV and movies don’t affect behavior. The sleazemongers told us so. We’ll just have to put up with 15-and 16-year-old boys occasionally shooting someone in the back of the head with a .22-caliber rifle. That’s the American way.
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