A Complete Waste of Space

from a recent interview with Michael Musto(Musto in red type):
Will you have to update the show every night to mirror current events? You don't have to update because nobody can keep up with this shit. I'm keeping up with it, and I'm a week behind. Every channel repeats the same stuff, so by the time you reach 8 at night, you feel like most of this stuff happened weeks ago. We've had two years of both sides telling us where they stand and how important what they think is. If you go to the other side, somehow the planet will spin off its axis and crash into an asteroid, and we're all gonna die! You can't be serious. You're gonna tell me again that the Democrats lean more toward government and the Republicans lean more toward business? We get it! Sit down and discuss it with the other side and don't involve me any more—just do it! It's like high school. There were people who cared about what was on the homecoming float, and the rest of us didn't give a shit.

Your thoughts on Paul Ryan? The thing that scares me is his eyeballs. When you look at somebody on TV, and they look crazy, they're crazy! I look crazy on TV, but I'm portraying a character. That's really him. And America wasn't just done so everybody can grow up in the fictional world of Ayn Rand. It's clinical insanity that his inspiration is someone who wrote fiction.

Well, he wrote fiction with his convention speech. And Romney? A black man is elected, so Republicans have to respond with the whitest man ever. I thought George Bush Jr. was the whitest man ever and one of the most uncomfortable people I've ever seen inside their own skin, but compared to Romney, Bush looks Jamaican.

callmeslick wrote:I thought George Bush Jr. was the whitest man ever and one of the most uncomfortable people I've ever seen inside their own skin, but compared to Romney, Bush looks Jamaican.

This is a real hoot...

Who is Michael Musto?

"Musto began his Village Voice column in 1984, after having already written features for the publication.[3] He is a recurring guest on several nationally broadcast television programs including Countdown with Keith Olbermann and others on A&E and PBS, also having appeared on E!, VH1, Real Housewives of New York, The Daily Show, and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

He is gay and is published regularly in several LGTB publications. He appeared in drag in a blue dress in the all drag queen music video for Cyndi Lauper's single "Hey Now (Girls Just Want To Have Fun)", and as a reporter in the film Garbo Talks. He wrote several articles in The Village Voice about the murder of Angel Melendez, bringing national attention to a case that resulted in the trial and conviction of Michael Alig and Robert "Freez" Riggs. He was the first to report Alig's firing from the Limelight club by owner Peter Gatien, and to allude to a missing club kid. When his blind item describing the buzz on the details of the crime got picked up by The New York Post's "Page Six" gossip column, the story took on more prominence.

On the June 14, 2007 episode of Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Musto coined the word 'celebutard' (combination of the words celebrity, debutante, and retard) to describe Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan. He gave a cameo appearance in Erasure's 2010 re-release of A Little Respect (HMI Redux)',[4] the proceeds of this release were donated to help students attending the Harvey Milk Institute.

In 2011, Musto was named one of the "Out 100" of the country's most influential LGBT personalities. He's appeared in documentaries about actor/writer Charles Busch, Paris Hilton, Warhol star Jackie Curtis, restaurateur Florent, Michael Alig, camp performer Divine, clubs like the Roxy and Squeezebox, and many more.

In a January 30, 2012 article disputing Newt Gingrich's statements on marriage equality for gay people, Musto implied that Gingrich was a pagan because he showed a lack of respect for relationships, promises and marriages. Several protested of this characterization of the pagan community. Musto has not responded."

Thanx for the laughs...

Mike Musto is....gasp.....GAY? Wow! Thanks for informing me.

Glad yer apprised,Slick.
Next time ya dance with him?
Maybe, he'll let you lead?

he's a funny guy, and nice as hell in that sort of queenish way. I've known the dude for a long time, since I spend some free time in the Village visiting old artist pals from my school days. You see, gay people don't scare me, repulse me or upset me. They're just people. And, in Mike's case, good people.

Glad to hear that Slick....bet you wear "loafers", when you go for a visit.

I wear what I always wear. Still chuckling over the fact that you don't get the fact that running a Presidential office and house and travelling as a Chief Executive costs money. Geez, how dumb. You may want to go and see what the predecessors spent and cost. Bush took twice the vacation Obama has, and that was with two wars, an attack on the nation and a couple natural disasters. Funny thing is, that ranch he went down to for photo ops got sold about a month or two after he left office. Now, he's a suburban cowpoke!!

callmeslick wrote:Bush took twice the vacation Obama has, and that was with two wars, an attack on the nation and a couple natural disasters.

Two terms

per term, Fats