Greetings Mouthketeers:

Happy Earth Day!  We all should be helping to preserve our environment today, but sadly, we are still obsessed with trash.  What’s up with all the controversy surrounding celebrity blogger, Perez Hilton, and Miss Cali, who had it out during last weekend’s Miss U.S.A. Beauty Pageant?   Puhleeeze, this story is soooo old; I’m getting a yeast infection just blogging about it.

Apparently, Perez—a judge in the Miss U.S.A. Pageant—asked Carrie Prejean, Miss California, if she believed in gay marriage or something of that ilk.  And Perez didn’t like her answer.  Let’s cut to the chase:  This Miss Try-to-Be U.S.A. is no Wannabe Miss U.S.Gay.  You got that right!  She doesn’t believe in gay marriage, doesn’t like men who swish for a living, and doesn’t seem to like Perez Hilton, who has been milking this story since the weekend.  When asked why he was calling the dyed blonde contestant (who looked as if she wore NuvaRings for earrings) names, he boasted, “Because I’m not running for Miss U.S.A.  Because I can.  Because I’m controversial.  I’m Perez Hilton.  I don’t have to be nice!”  (And you wonder why straights hate gays?)   Poor Perez was beginning to believe his own PR.  And why was he speaking in slow-motion during the CNN interview with Reggie Aqui?  We know he’s Cuban-American, but was he afraid the viewers didn’t speak English?   

The lines between the news and entertainment are very fine in this country.  The last time I watched, Miss U.S.A., it was “light” entertainment, not Charlie Rose.  Who wants to listen to the latest news/traffic/weather from a beauty pageant contestant anyway?  You wanna catch a bikini malfunction or watch a big buxomed babe twirl a baton, not listen to chitter-chatter about gay marriage on date night.  Yawn.  Because it seems as if news and entertainment are now glued at the hip, should we expect to see Katie Couric in a thong and Anderson Cooper in a leather harness—just to get higher ratings?

The bottom line is when my Mouthketeers and I want to embrace serious subjects, we turn on NPR, read the NYT and switch to PBS.  It’s getting pretty sad when America is beginning to get their news from tweets or twats on Twitter.

Time to wash my mouth out with soap.   Where do you get your news? 

Peace.

The Mouthinator. 

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