Stevie at James Brown's Funeral

[DeeGeMe]

I watched CNN last night, their 10pm-11pm newshour and was just flabbergasted as they devoted about half the newscast to James Brown's funeral, they spent more time talking about it than they did Ford's state funeral ceremony in the Capitol & Saddam's hanging! WTF? To me it was just further proof of this country's obsession with celebrities (she said as she posted on a celeb-based message board, ahem) and our lack of focus on real news.

And I'm not even a Republican (very liberal Dem) but how can you justify giving more air time to James Brown than you do a former president of the United States?

I did think about calling in last night when CNn was soliciting what memories we had of James Brown. I wanted to say, "That God Awful mug shot of him after he got drunk, got high, and was beating the **** out of his woman and got arrested for it." Somehow though, I didn't think my memory would have made it on air!