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Are these parts of our male population stupid or something?  Really?  Are they just plain flippin’ stupid?

OK I get it, I’m a guy that likes women.  No doubt.  And I hope that the women who may be around me now don’t read this article but I admit having several of the female species in my presence at this time and, well it’s just fine for me.  I’m a single guy, never married with no immediate plans and I believe in letting Rick be Rick.   Could be a very dry weekend after that statement but I thank the man upstairs that all of them hate anything connected to television.  Like this blog.  Yes there is a God.

But I just don’t get these married guys.  Ruining their careers and lives over what we in the male community call “something strange.”  Let’s be real, there are so many options out there for single or married men.  Just a numbers game  along with several glasses of an alcoholic beverage and the night can just be at the starter’s gate.

Chris Hansen, NBC News Correspondent

I don’t see any of the above named culprits in a happy state right now.  Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former Governor of New York is now out of work at CNN so he will have to spend more time, well at  home with his family.  Not good for the guy who likes to hire online hookers.  For something strange.

Arnold the Sperminator, well he just got served with divorce papers by Maria Shriver so his family life is in shatters.  Over something strange. Anthony Weiner, well what a joke he is.  Pregnant wife.  Congressional career and family in disarray.   Over something strange. John Edwards.  Well he’s the lowest of lows.  A simply awful human being.  Even men don’t like him.  He’s a liar and one of the worst people on the planet, just in general.

Lives ruined over something strange.

Then there’s the new member of the low-life club.  Chris Hansen, of NBC News has joined the list.  The host of the now defunct To Catch a Predator got caught up himself in his own little mess over something strange. He’s even in another mess that will certainly get him a job at Current TV cause if photos of his private parts end up on the Internet, well bye-bye Chris.

First story has Chris Hansen in a video headed to a hotel room with a blond.  Keep reading.

Today’s story has the smug, self centered, never pass by a mirror without admiring himself reporter or whatever he is apparently sending pictures of his you know what to WPTV/West Palm Beach reporter Kristyn Caddell.

What an idiot.  And I mean Chris Hansen.  Her career is done.  But once again, what the hell is wrong with these people?

Chris Hansen

Why do men in high places (if you consider Hansen in a high place) have to take photos of their thang and send them to women?  I have never done that.  On my grandmama’s grave I have never done that.

I find pictures of my 6 year old niece and 2 year old nephew a lot more compelling to gain the trust and confidence of women.  Not my pee-pee.

I have found, in my many years of being single, that pictures no only get me the meeting, help me do the pitch but then get me the sale when it comes to women.

Once again, not my pee-pee.

Chris Hansen has a wife and two kids.  Another scumbag putting his self centered gratification ahead of good judgment and embarrassing his family.  I would not want to be Chris Hansen.  Probably because I might just end up doing something stupid like him.  I say that as a guy.  As a man making the kind of money he may be making, I would never jeopardize my career or my income for something strange.  Nor the foundation of my family.  Because today I’m a single guy, when I’m married (ouch!) it’s time to be a man.  In other word I’m gonna let Rick be Rick.

None of these scumbags is a man.  Just guys.  Guys do dumb things.  Men?  Well men standup and act like men.  There is a difference.

As time goes on we will feel sorry for the families of these people.  Even Chris Hansen.  And who cares about the woman.  I mean if you really want your career to get a boost wouldn’t you sleep with someone on a much higher level than Chris Hansen?

Finally there’s something about this story that makes you feel as if he’s gotten his comeuppance.  As much good as he does, he seemed so enthralled in the content of his work on To Catch a Predator. Almost orgasmic.  And those kind of guys, who are do-gooders in sexual situations, that seem to get turned on by such topics, usually end up like Chris Hansen.  Caught with his hands on his ying yang, like some of the pictures sent to the dimwit reporter.

Sad day, sad story and believe me no lesson learned.

Rick Thomas

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Soap opera fans get your bandwidth ready!  In one of the smartest moves for a company called Prospect Park, two recently canceled daytime television icons in the soap opera genre will get one more live to live and extend their dramas online.  All My Children and One Life to Live will be headed to the worldwide web as Disney ABC television has sold the rights to both shows to Prospect Park.

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Two former Disney executives are the owners of this firm and both are executive producers of the USA Network show Royal Pains.  The cast and crew will remain the same.  Even Susan Lucci is on board to be part of the online version of All My Children according to the New York Post.

All storylines on both soaps will just transition from ABC to the online property so fans will not miss a beat in content from either show.  The deal seems concurrent with financing that Prospect Park is putting together to create the Hulu formatted online property and details on funding have not been released.

Prospect Park is also in the middle of negotiating for other television shows that did not make the grade on the big networks.

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OK so any heterosexual male is going to want to check the marital status of some of the women on the Forbes Magazine list of top paid actresses because all of them are extremely attractive.  Looking for a sugar mommy, start with this list.  The 2011 Forbes Magazine List of Highest Paid Actresses is out with Angelina Jolie topping the total list bringing in $30 million big ones from the movies she made through May of 2010 and May of 2011.

Sarah Jessica Parker

Sarah Jessica Parker of Sex in the City comes in 2nd in the $30 million range as well with her career taking off big time after her TV run.  And Friends Jennifer Aniston comes in at number 3 on the list bringing in $28 million bucks for the May to May period.

You can take a look at the full list at the On The Red Carpet link below with a really good overview of each performer.  Reese Witherspoon and Julia Roberts round out the top five list but there are more that round out the top 10 list of high level female performers.

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Shocking news, breaking news.  CNN is canceling Eliot Spitzer’s nighttime show In Arena with Eliot Spitzer.  Well that’s really no surprise.  What else is new.  This show was destined for the RealTVCritics.com canceled bin the day it launched.  And it launched with co-host which CNN believed would be the male-female combo to increase viewership on the network that continues its loss of audience along with an awful marketing campaign to promote the cable news network.

Had enough?

Kathleen Parker and Eliott Spitzer from the Original 'Parker-Spitzer'

This had to be one of the worst moves in television broadcast history, to take a much maligned former Governor of the great state of New York and put give him a show.  Awful decision.  Leno at 10PM was a brilliant move compared to the former Governor that hired hookers to suffice his freaky deaky lifestyle.

CNN management was mum on the rumor that Casey Anthony would be replacing Spitzer.  So until a decision is made, AC360 with Anderson Cooper will move from the 10PM slot to the 8PM time period where Arena ran.  Coops show will repeat at 10PM.

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It’s summer time and television programming sucks.  Let’s be real.  I was watching a bunch of awful reality shows for a minute.  CBS had a couple of NCIS episodes that were repeats.  Network television stinks in the middle of the summer. Except for a few USA Network programs on cable it’s pretty bad.  TNT has Falling Skies which is pretty awful.  Franklin & Bash, well can you say canceled bin fast enough?

And it’s been “all Casey, all the time” as networks broke regular programming to carry the verdict.  Cable news channels were all over it.  Even sports radio stations were talking Casey Marie Anthony.

Now that this awful human being will be walking the streets, partying her tail off once again and wanting to bring another child in to the world so the bimbo can duct tape her next kids’s mouth at some point in the future, what will television do without Casey Anthony?

Networks are in ‘specials’ mode over this but there should be immediate caution.  After watching today’s coverage of the not guilty verdict for this murderer, sickness and disgust will follow.  Follow to a point where any story about Casey Anthony will lead to one thing.  Viewers changing the channel to watch anything, anything to take them far away from this horrible event .

There are stories that viewers like to see.  Network and cable news programs run very few.  It’s all about things that suck.  Really.  The economy sucks.  But how many times must we endure story after story, politician after politician saying the same thing over and over again.  Viewers get real sick of the same story, time after time, and tune away.  I can remember my days in Boston at WBZ Radio and the New England region was experiencing a massive economic downturn around 1987 to 1989.  Television stations kept pumping up the mess of an economy there and viewers tuned away in droves.  They got tired of the bad news over and over again.  Enough was enough.

Network television and cable outlets should heed this warning.  I am so sick and disgusted at the verdict that after today anything about Casey Anthony is a tune out.  Who cares anymore.  Networks are all over the map creating specials about this trial yet after yesterday’s verdict, the interest in re-living this tragedy of a mother killing her child is not something viewers want to keep in their current and future memories.

In other words let’s get this crap off television.

Speaking to several therapists and attorneys the deed is done.  The story is over.  And we are ready to move past this but will networks and cable news channels move on?  Ratings will subside dramatically and the big three of NBC, CBS and ABC will probably not carry the story on the evening news.  Cable news channels have nothing else to program so they will be all over the follow-up.  But the party may be over for the biggest news story since O.J.S Simpson.

Well at least that party is over.  Casey Anthony’s new party life of being a single mom has just begun.

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Well we looked forward to the start of this one and so did NBC but apparently Chelsea Handler’s new comedy it turning out to be Kool Aid rather than a good glass of vodka.  Seems the real alcoholic beverage, according to one viewed website, says “the trick is to maximize the versatility of your ingredients.”  Well the ingredients for Are You There Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea aren’t mixing very well.

Lauren Lapkus as Dee Dee, Natalie Morales as Ivory, Laura Prepon as Chelsea in 'Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea'

Three casts members have reportedly been dropped the the Chelsea Handler NBC comedy production team because of “creative reasons” according to TVLine.com yet NBC has yet to comment on the dismissals.  Joy Koy who has been on Chelsea Lately is out along with Angel Laketa Moore from E.R. and Natalie Morales from Parks and Recreation is gone as well.

Koy was cast as a bartender in the series while Moore was a waitress in the bar where the content of the show was set.  And Morales was set to play Chelsea‘s best friend.

Are You There Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea was set to be a mid season replacement on NBC and timing is still planned for that period if and when the cast is replaces.  Not a good start for a promising transition for Chelsea Handler to network television.

Just watch the video.  And you’ll see why the producers needed to fire three cast member.  The show is just not funny.

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Not sure how to take this video campaign.  This campaign to help the homeless on Skid Row in Los Angeles.  Not sure how to react to the message of taking a homeless person from the streets of this downtrodden area of men, women and children and doing a makeover and then sending them back to this horrible place.

Skid Row in Los Angeles is no joke.  You will either like this presentation or really hate it.  I’m not sure how to take it personally but it is one hell of a message from the Los Angeles Mission.  You will either open your wallet or never give the Mission a penny.  But it is really powerful.

The Quick Fix

The Los Angeles Mission, no matter whether I hate or like this video, does great work for the people living on Skid Row.  They’ve been doing it for 75 years.  That’s a lot of time and a lot of people they have helped.  This campaign takes a bit of an entertainment turn.  Like watching one of those makeover shows you see in the reality television genre.  The Quick Fix with Gwen and Maxi goes way beyond what you would expect from a place like the Los Angeles Mission.  But the end result is that there’s no quick fix to working with the homeless and watching the end of the video is pretty disturbing.

Which means it’s done really well.

Gotta be honest.  After writing this I’m still not sure how I feel about it concept and content.  But I’m reaching for my checkbook so I guess it makes a point.  And makes me want to put up the link to their site so that maybe you can toss them a couple of bucks as I am.

Oh and if this isn’t an award winning presentation then I’m in the wrong business.

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Oh this is bad, really bad.  Not that Casey Anthony is free at last, free at last, but the comparisons between the acquittal of the really bad mama and O.J. Simpson have just begun.  Here we go.  Though there is a difference between both cases as far as timing is concerned, there is a racial connection that will have African American people doing high fives that O.J. Simpson’s verdict of not guilty can now go bye-bye.

White folks now have Casey Anthony to be outraged about.  Black folks, yes we are free, free at last.  Most black people, including myself, knew the real deal with O.J.  And I do mean most.  We knew he was guilty.  Yes there were some that were truly convinced of his innocence, but we put that group in the same area where the birthers were with Barack Obama.

Just a bunch of stupid people.

Casey Anthony

But the real black people of some level of judgement and understanding of the O.J. case really know that O. J. Simpson killed his ex-wife and Ron Goldman.  Were we surprised at the verdict, hell yes.  Did we see the prosecution bring on a cop that said he never used the “N” word yet was caught on tape using it multiple times, of course we did.  And did it change out opinion of the case, sure it did.  Too many times we said the former football player was guilty, but….

And white folks lost their minds over Simpson’s “not guilty” verdict.  Total outrage.  I know one guy’s dad who went on a serious drinking binge because O.J. Simpson was free.  Total outrage, right?

I love using this line.  It was used by Bruce Willis in Die Hard. Reginald VelJohnson was the cop who pulled up to Nakatomi Plaza after getting a call and found all was well inside the office building until pulling away from the scene and a dead body, courtesy Bruce Willis, was dumped on the hood of his police car.

“Welcome to the party, pal,” said Willis with a smirk.

The world now has Casey Anthony.  The new poster child for getting away with murder.  The murder of her own daughter.  My God, “how low can you go” in some song I used to like on the radio.  The world now has Casey Marie Anthony.

Difference is black folks are not outraged.  Not even close.  Watching the verdict on CNN.com and I shouted loud “Oh my!”  After all of the legal pundits called for her being found guilty because of the short time the jury deliberated, they were proved all wrong.  I was with them on he short time the jury reviewed this case and said “guilty” as well.

We were all wrong.

In a way, most black people are really happy.  Ask one.  Really happy that she was acquitted so that everyone can now see that these kinds of verdicts can happen all around, whether you are black or white, you can be freed by a jury of your peers.  Sad to be happy, but this is a lesson.  A real lesson.  That nobody cares about the other page when it comes to the justice system and it’s unusual decisions.

But here’s what I’m hearing from African Americans.  “The next time someone bitches about O.J. going free, I’m going to tell them to think of Casey Marie Anthony.”  Yes we are now free from the O.J. Simpson verdict, after all these years.

Rick Thomas

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So first we spent the whole year watching, hearing and beating up LeBron James for leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers and going Hollywood style to the Miami Heat, only to have his team lose to the world champ Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals on ABC/ESPN.  Yes the Heat was expected to win it all this past NBA season and although there are many teams in the NBA that would love to do what LeBron and his buddies did this season, well wait until next year for a guy LeBron, like me who follows the Sixers and the Pacers.

LeBron James

And now with the lockout, LeBron James is doing basketball camps as the NBA and their team owners can’t come to an work agreement with their players.  Yes the NFL and the NBA are in what is called a player lockout.  And this is not good for the TV networks who make a boatload of money broadcasting their games.

Now this.  LeBron whacks a kid at a basketball camp.  This is funny as heck, really.  But we gotta get these players in both leagues back to work.  That way kids all across the world will be safe from getting whacked by guys the size of LeBron James.  Lucky for the kid, a pair of LeBron’s sneaks got the kid and his parents off the phone, looking to cash in via Binder and Binder Law firm for damages.

But watch the video.  It’s classic.

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Here we go again.  Another case of poor management from the production end for MSNBC.  Who is producing these shows, interns?

Well it could be interns with all of the changes going on over at MSNBC and the mama company NBC these days.

But the 7 Second Delay is pretty much standard in broadcasting for live events yet MSNBC just can’t seem to find a producer willing to listen to their network as it airs.  This morning’s Casey Anthony trial proved to be another episode of a need for another tutorial on the proverbial 7 Second Delay.

But we must digress to the past for a minute.  And tell you the Mark Halperin story when the 7 Second Delay button was not working and this MSNBC host decided to call the President of the United States a “dick.”  That event got him suspended, now having literally no foundation as a contributor on MSNBC and making the network the joke of politics after this mark of stupidity by Mark Halperin.

Fast forward to the Casey Anthony trial this morning.  At least for this one maybe someone at MSNBC could figure out that any conversation between this whack job, party girl probably kid murdering bimbo would include a lot of curse words.  Hell it’s Casey Anthony for goodness sakes.  At least the guy or gal holding the 7 Second Delaybutton would never expect that idiot Halperin to use the word “dick” in a referenced to the President, but you sure must be awake for anything from Casey Anthony.

You might get two 7 Second Delay people, the guy and the gal, to monitor anything coming out of Casey Anthony’s mouth.  But NOOOOOOOO!  Not at MSNBC.

The tape is below.  Judge for yourself.  But the 7 Second Delay button has been in existence since my radio days in the 80s’ so someone like Phil Griffin, the guy that runs MSNBC, better send out a memo to producers who clearly don’t have an f#@$%&g clue.

That was funny.

Casey Anthony Goes Off on Family

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