The Jimmy Kimmel Show, Lie Witness News - Did You Watch the Super Bowl, JimmyKimmelLive. Uploaded January 30, 2013. http://youtu.be/zR9NV7D4FVY
Once again, Jimmy Kimmel Live Show adroitly skewers puffery, smugness and pomposity, this time, average people talking about having watched the Ravens-49ers Super Bowl Game that's still days from being played; #nfl, #superbowl47
This humorous effort of Jimmy and his writers to really skewer average people's pomposity, with humorous results, actually reminds me most of the uninformed comments I've heard stated the past nine years on Miami-area TV newscasts as elected officials pontificated about things after-the-fact that they were clearly only dimly familiar with after having actually voted.
Or, just like attending and carefully watching a Hallandale Beach City Commission.
Everyone's afraid to say that they didn't know, don't know or are unfamiliar with a topic, so they try to "wing it."
Hallandale Beach looks the way that it does and is run as poorly as it is because too many highly-paid people in responsible positions have been "winging it" for years.
But Hallandale Beach is not alone on that score in South Florida, just where I happen to live and a place that I'm most highly observant of.
In the new year, you will hear more on this blog about other cities and agencies that have been run similarly, with little concern for actually delivering a dollar's worth of service for a dollar's worth of taxes, and a refusal to face reality when presented with the true facts by citizens and activists.
I wonder if North Miami Beach councilwoman Phyllis Smith also "saw the Super Bowl last Sunday." I'm sure she'll be more than happy to tell you about it. And tell you about it. And tell you about it. Ad nauseam. Great video! It reminded me so much of the bloviating that goes on at NMB council meetings, mostly thanks to Phyllis, who just has to make a comment on every single topic brought up, whether she has a clue or not. She usually ends up with foot in mouth, which always provides entertaining material for my column.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you're going to branch out and write about other cities. There is just as much corruption down here as there is in Broward, especially in North Miami. At least in NMB, Phyllis provides some much needed comic relief.
Keep up the great work!