Too much douchiness for a Monday?

While channel-surfing on my radio (due to the loss of the CBS affiliate), I switched onto the overly synthesized pop rock station. Within minutes, I heard the familiarly cheesy douchiness that is Ryan Seacrest. The youth in my listening area will be indoctrinated with that dude's pantload and there's precious little that anyone can do about it, although, his banal banter takes up less than ten minutes per hour of airtime, which is a major plus. Still, for those paying him, they are totally getting hosed. If you contrast him with, say, the Tom Joyner Morning Show, in terms of getting your money's worth, Tom Joyner is the much better deal. Tom's personality, along with his chemistry with J. Anthony Brown and Sybil, and the total time that they engage in actual on-air discussions about anything and everything under the sun, made their show worth listening to. Unfortunately, the local R & B/hip hop station opted for cheap - hence Rickey Smiley.

Anyway, I listened to a little of Seacrest, since that's as much as that douche would offer up, and the Pratts were on, b*tching and moaning about their treatment at Al Roker's hands. First off, pound for pound, Spencer Pratt can outdouche Seacrest any day of the week, but that amount of douchiness in one place is not healthy for anyone. Anyway, I tried to watch the Today interview in question and just couldn't do it. Even if Al did give them the business, it just wasn't worth watching. And as for Spencer insisting that he wanted Matt Lauer to do the interview - did he really want that? Is he really sure that he wanted to be in Matt Lauer's hot seat? Because people still remember when Lauer grilled Tom Cruise four years ago and Cruise was a real star.

And that crack about Roker being 'just a weatherman'; it rings a lot like when the Republicans kept spinning Obama as 'just a community organizer' or Hillary saying that he's 'just a great public speaker'. Compartmentalizing people, especially people of color is never a smart thing, Spencer. Of course, we are talking about one half of a couple that, collectively, has the IQ of dryer lint. Besides, Roker has done hard-hitting, thorough interviews with celebs before. An example was Star Jones. Despite their friendship, he asked very probing questions and Jones didn't b*tch about it after the fact because she stood up to the scrutiny and provided an interesting interview.

People need to recognize and internalize that just because some of us look cuddly doesn't mean that we are pushovers. Al Roker, in recent years, hasn't been a pushover. In fact, that Don Imus MSNBC debacle was probably Roker's turning point. It was probably the first time that he publicly declared his position about an important matter. And frankly, once a person of color finally feels comfortable exposing their feelings publicly, it will not stop.

Good for Al for checking these vacuous jack@$$es. And a big ups to Whoopi Goldberg for trying to get through to these idiots. It won't work, of course, and it may gives these two dickwads more fodder to work with, but it had to be said and said to their fcuking faces.