We interrupt this program for this important announcement…
For all you disgruntled Hillary supporters who are seriously considering throwing away your vote in November by casting it for John McCain, I implore you: Please watch Bush’s War, from the producers of Frontline on PBS. You can view the two part documentary online by clicking on the link in the Mz4Mz sidebar: 4More4. You can even download and print out a transcript of Bush’s War by clicking on: Night One and Night Two.
Watch this important television event, then Think!: Is your petulant act of rebellion really worth it?
People walk around everyday
Playin’ games and takin’ scores
Tryin’ to make other people lose their mind
Well, be careful you don’t lose yoursOoh think (think)
Think about what you’re tryin’ to do to me
Woo-hoo, think (think)
Let your mind go, let yourself be freeYou need me (need me)
And I need you (don’t cha’ know)
Without each other
There ain’t nothin’ we two can do
And now, back to our regularly scheduled program already in progress…
“Hi…Ooohhh…!”
At 85, Ed McMahon is facing foreclosure. Ed McMahon, thirty years Johnny Carson’s sidekick, long time Publisher’s Clearinghouse prize peddler, and self described “pitch” man is about to lose his home. Why? Well, several reasons. He marries young women who subsequently divorce him and are then awarded huge alimony and child support settlements. He squandered away his millions during a long bout with alcoholism. The house has been on the market over two years and “due to the housing crisis” hasn’t sold. He mismanaged his millions (or sat idly by as others did), didn’t pay attention, made mistakes, broke his neck, can’t work… 
Now here he is on Larry King spinning a tale of woe on all the media outlets and the Hollywood community is going ‘Yikes! How can something like this happen to Ed McMahon?’
To which he answers: “If it can happen to me, it can happen to anybody. I want to speak for the millions of people who now have foreclosure signs on their houses nearby. I want to give them hope, give them optimism, give them some kind of guidance. All those hardworking people who did everything right, didn’t do anything wrong and all of a sudden they’re in this boat, and I speak for all of them as far as I’m concerned.”
Ugh! Too low to get under, Ed.
Ed, are you really equating your situation with all those American families who have lost their homes due to foreclosure as a result of the housing crisis, the economy and the current jobs situation? Or is this what I suspect it is– a shameless public appeal for help from the Hollywood community?
You need $644,000.00 dollars? One “Save Ed McMahon’s Home” private Hollywood fundraiser would raise that much in ten minutes. Can the average hardworking person (about whom you have used the public airways, free of charge, to pledge your solidarity and sympathy) manage that? Can the average hardworking person go on Larry King and put their story out there? $644,000.00 could save seventeen “average” American families, (many with minor children), from the very threat you now face. But would it garner good ratings?
And Ed, after Jay Leno, Donald Trump, George Clooney and all your wealthy friends help bail you out of your financial morass, will you continue in your self-appointed role as “spokesman” for them then? Ed, pulleeese…
This just may turn out to be your most incredible pitch ever.
