Out Foxed
Yesterday, Michelle and I got up extra early to make the 150 mile drive to Butte, Montana, for a live satellite uplink interview with the New York based "Fox News Morning Show". It turned into a wild goose chase... or "Fox" hunt might be the better metaphor.
Butte, Montana is home to one of the largest toxic cleanup site in America. It' a top "super fund" site. The center of town overlooks a 5 miles wide crater carved out of a mountainside, a former copper mine. Hundreds of people died there in 1917 in an underground fire. Butte was a boom town in those days with over 100,000 residents. One can buy a house there for under $20,000.
The TV station in Butte looks like it hasn't been updated since 1963. It's located in a former train station. Everything is slightly yellowed. A youthful Dan Rather promotional poster from the 1970's still hangs in the reception area along with promos for "One Day at a Time". The engineers had me sit at the paint chipped nightly news anchor desk, and I was wired for sound while bright studio lights trained on my head. In the control room engineers fidled with knobs and phone lines while they established the uplink. Michelle tried to make my hair look better. They did a sound check. I waited nervously staring at the monitor trying to guess what they were going to ask me. I waited some more. Everyone stood around staring at me. Then they told me I could unplug myself... the segment had been cancelled at the very last second.
Turned out, just as we were about to go live, a heavy downpour in New York City messed with the satellite signal quality and the top dogs at FOX Network pulled the plug on me like Wolf Blitzer in Baghdad. Instead of doing my Chrismukkah interview, they broadcast a "puppies for Christmas" back-up story.
Michelle and I drove back home, frustrated and dejected. Hey, that's show biz.
6 Comments:
The whole idea of the holiday of Chanukah is about the Jews fighting assimilation. Yes that is what the holiday about. It is not about eating potato pancakes or doughnuts. That only shows a major miracle that transpired on Chanukah. The very reason for the so-called necessity for such a holiday called Chrismukkah goes against every principle of Judaism and the Holiday of Chanukah. In Judaism a marriage of a non Jew is not even recognized as a marriage at all. All it is recognized as is a sin. Thus your wonderful Holiday that you made a nice and charming websites about is celebrating a sin. What is next? The Jewish pro-pork eating website? Or the Jewish Lets all eat on Yom Kippur website? The truth is, if the mother is Jewish, the child is Jewish. The father can be a gorilla, it makes no difference. The Truth is a Christian child does not have the right to celebrate Chanukah. Yes he does not have the right. It is a spit in the face to every Jew that actually cares about Judaism. I pity you all, who celebrate it, and for the Jews that do celebrate it, I wish you all a refouah shelaymah. I know, none of you know what it means, go ask your grandmother, if she is still alive. I am sure you all made her very proud by the way. (Note, it was not an insult)
Hey, no one's asking you to celebrate Chrismukkah or marry a goy. Why not take your self-righteous superiority and...
Well, I shouldn't be mean on someone else's blog. But what is it about Jews that makes them so offended at other Jews who don't live by their rules? I'm Jewish, too, by the way - an atheist, non-practicing, living-in-sin Jew and proud of it! Happy Chrismukkah everybody!
I'm sure you meant: Wolf Blitzer in Baghdad. Right?
Do not listen to the over-religious folks who believe that Chrismukkah is evil.
I find it ironic that you obviously are all about The OC and haven't mentioned it once. :D Do you work on the show?
Although the Anonymous comment above, citing the religious meaning behind Chanukah is said in a confrontational and extremist tone, I agree to an extent. Jews and Christians should be mutually respectful of each others traditions and customs, however neither should try to amalgamate the two, or synthesize them in to some irrelevant secular holiday.
All of you are shifting the focus away from the extremist religion of Muslim. No, they are not a peaceful religion. They've only been depicted that way by our government, who is afraid to deal with them and their threats to mankind. You are only doing satan,s work, directing attention away from the real threat to ChristianiTy and
JUDAISM.
Post a Comment
Links to this post:
Create a Link
<< Home