That Britney Spears sure knows how to shake a tail feather. What were her handlers thinking when they paraded her out there in her olive drab skivvies on the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night?
She crashed and burned like a car bomb driver in the sights of a .50-caliber manned by an American GI at a Baghdad checkpoint.
While her performance certainly should have been rehearsed more than once, what's depressing about the whole affair is that most Americans on Monday were talking about her over the watercooler, on talk radio and over the Internet. They weren't talking about Baghdad or Falujah or Anbar province or today's sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C.
Don't you think American war policy is more important than a sorry performance on MTV, which isn't really a music channel anymore, is it? There's more videos on CMT than MTV, which warned it would kill the radio star back when it premiered 26 years ago.
Anyone out there remember "I Want My MTV?" Anyone remember VJs? With You Tube, MTV has itself become left to wallow in lame reality series. Want music videos? How about The Tube on cable?
Ah, but The Hound digresses.
What all the barking about Britney shows is that most of us aren't connected to 9/11 or the War on Terrror or Iraq or Afghanistan. And that's the way The Man wants it.
And a suggestion for Britney's handlers: If they want her to make a real comeback, ship her tush over to Iraq or Afghanistan for a USO show for the troops. She couldn't bomb any worse.
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