Larry David Takes Back Apology After Assault On Elmo
Category: The Story Of The Week
Last week, Britney Spears fans played a prank on Justin Timberlake by streaming her 2011 song “Selfish” after the of a new song under the same name by her former boyfriend. So we use that as the inspiration for this edition of “The Story of The Week,” which doesn’t bring sexy back, but does dig up dirt with Spears, a very ‘selfish’ interruption of Dakota Johnson, and even going way back to Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction in 2004.
This week, the House Ethics Committee investigating Rep. Matt Gaetz has reached out to Joel Greenberg, a one-time close friend of Gaetz who was sentenced to 11 years in prison after pleading guilty to federal charges. The Committee also reached out to other new witnesses, much to the disdain of Gaetz. My commentary goes into the basics of the probe, how the investigation may have had a hand in the ousting of Rep. Kevin McCarthy as Speaker, and the deluge of our public officials being bad at public officiating and worse at working the TV camera and social media.
This week, the Israeli forces started testing flooding the Hamas tunnel network with seawater as a new attack tactic, knowing that the move could backfire in the long run as they don’t know where the remaining hostages taken on October 7th are located. I am not the most significant resource on international armed conflict, but I am willing to put my signature on the words I put down in this episode.
Julianna Margulies and Susan Sarandon issued apologies over their recent controversial comments sparked by Israel-Hamas war. They spoke from different sides of the conflict but quickly backed down from their original passionate speech after a quick crisis and backlash. This week’s commentary doesn’t quite stick to the point, but it gives some perspective on why the growing conflict over our opinions of this conflict is a big deal.
Bobby Petrino is headed back to the University of Arkansas football program as its new Offensive Coordinator, about a decade after leaving the school after a sex scandal that was just enough to overshadow his winning record (barely). This week, I go into the back story of Petrino and why this new edition seems like a problem just for me and not a single member of the actual Razorback fan base.
Apple TV Plus and Jon Stewart have reportedly parted ways over “creative differences” with the political talk show, ‘The Problem With John Stewart.’ Those creative differences were apparently the show’s upcoming moves to cover topics on AI and China. I talk about what this is as a loss for all of us as media consumers, a loss for me as a media creator, and what the future of ‘smart commentary’ may look like.