The Cold War, Botox and CNN: At least Neanderthals had an Excuse

Does any one remember Nadia Comaneci and Mark Spitz? Two Olympic athletes from the Cold War Era when Botox wasn't something vain crazies puffed their faces up with. But it was something humorless men and women, drones for ideology tinkered with behind blast proof doors, in places germ war thriller fiction writers imagined. When it was Botulism.

What then does the corporate media giant CNN have to do with this? Well it seems nothing is more newsworthy than the fact Nadia Comaneci and Mark Spitz are shrills and peddlers for Botox and CNN reasoned it would justify it's bottom-line quest with, considering the success of the "make-over" phenomena, an infomercial disguised as news.

So on 7/16/08; on it's head-lining morning news was CNN's Alina Cho, concluding her report with (and I'm paraphrasing) What troubles critics is a lot of athletes will see how much money can be made plugging Botox and all sorts of Cold War unmentionables and I guess the Vandals will be at the gates!

The Surreality of what passes as objective necessities of the human condition these days... at least Neanderthals had an excuse! They didn't have Lou Dobbs harrumphing and Rick Sanchez haranguing.

By Apropos