and WHY do we care that the first lady got a burger?!

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I did mine bright red... cause I hardly ever do red and I got a red pair of open toe red shoes that matches perfectly. mine were purple! before that they were black

Hi Stormy!! Where's the beef? Not in my dinner tonight... I grilled fish lol. What color did you paint your nails? I might do purple later tonight after I take my daughter's friend home. I mean I'll do HER'S purple. I'm not sure yet about mine. I was going to get a pedicure but I had an issue with my phone the day I was going to do it.

Why be sorry. I did not disagree! It is the media who strokes their egos and tries to make them appear as some kind of divine beings.

Yep. I was just saying that they are no more important than my neighbor's cousin's dog.... lol. I'm sure there are people that would call something like that blasphemy, but honestly to someone who has never met ME, I'm about 'that important' to them. So yes, it's mostly media hype and people stupid enough to believe or buy into it.

Well, they ARE ordinary people. I don't think deciding to run for president and then make it makes you anything special. You are still who you were the day before that, and the day before that, etc. It doesn't make you different, it doesn't make you newsworthy, and it doesn't make you any more important or interesting than my neighbor's cousin's best friend's dog. Sorry.

If someone followed me around and reported that I got a burger, I'd have some paparazzi's blood on my hands! Seriously, what's even worse is that they allow this to go on!

i don't know if they allow it as much as they really can't do anything about it. if you are in the public eye then you are not fair game. sucks i know

Well ya think? They REPEATED the dang story 3 times in less than 10 minutes!

Don't be surprised if they do. All of us who question anything, "Obama", are considered racist just because we question.

They cycled thru it three times while I was watching before I decided to post the dicussion. I just could not believe it was that noteworthy, not even to mention ONCE but THREE TIMES? Someone is really trying to suck up to the president and his family! I wouldn't want media or news people following me around knowing ANYTHING I did in a day, much less that I decided to get a burger for lunch! That's like invasion of privacy and extremely rude.

I am still waiting for her to do something news worthy. So far she has worn weird dresses and eaten hamburgers and they have compared her to Jackie O. First off that is an insult to Jackie and secondly she still has done nothing good for the country. Where's the BEEF? Shalom

I agree. What an insult to Jackie, at least she was a First Lady when people weren't acting like heathens...

I just can't help it! And it's not like I'm WATCHING CNN on purpose either, this is one of the 2 channels the tvs at the gym are on. I have a lovely selection of CNN or MSNBC... or ESPN! Obviously it is not someone like me who gets to choose the stations they broadcast! I'd put one on music videos and the other one on the food network - what better than tons of yummy food to make you blast your butt working out? LOL! I'm just not quite sure why CNN (or anybody really) thinks anything Michelle Obama does is important or reportable. Whatever she does is worth just about as much as the stranger working out next to me... I might know nothing about them, and i don't care. At least they ought to report on something of value, like fires, kidnappings, murders, etc lol. I'm actually not big on global news because a lot of it doesn't affect me - not in any way that *I* can do anything about it. Why should I know if there's nothing I can do - good or bad - to change, influence, or keep it the same? At least if there's community news reported, chances are I can actually benefit from it, do something to help or go up against it, etc and therefore it is important in the long run.

Yeah, the Philippine media can really be shallow. I do not care a bit for Pacquiao's mother too. Seeing her on TV with all those focus on her is a waste of time. That is why I did not watch it. I had better things to do, like mylotting :)

It's weird isn't it? So many people practically hanging on the activities of a person who not long ago was just as anonymous as you....

Yeah the big "O" is definitly not our friend. Shalom

Hehe... yeah, do they honestly think this is stuff anybody needs to know? Those who DO like to know are morons lol. At least have the stuff you want to know about be about your friends or something!

Oh dear. Now that kind of news is so heart rending Id like to get a break from it. I want to know whats happening but the nature of some of the occurences are just so hard to absorb. The crash does seem funny, comic even but the reality is truly touching. So that was what we may have missed out on uh? Cant say it would win my heart over the burger story but that is news. The burger story amounts to journalistic idleness.

Helicopter crashes? I recently saw something on the news about another one of those. I turned to my hubby and said - well that shoots down the idea of me ever getting in a helicopter. I saw a report once that was talking about a little girl in a burning building. They were trying all sorts of things to get her out and nothing was working. They decided to send a helicopter up there with a crew.... well in the background behind the reporter, everybody watching the report saw the helicopter which was supposed to rescue the girl crash and burst into flames, adding to the fire and killing the pilot and crew. At the time, I started laughing, not because it was funny but because the result was so awful if I hadn't been laughing, I would have been bawling. I can do without news like this. I know bad things happen. I just prefer not to be that viscerally AWARE of them happening. I don't think they got the little girl out of the building either. She probably knew she was going to die when she saw the helicopter crash... and if I remember right she was only about five or six years old.

I saw this funny thing on the show Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey were on, that Newlyweds show on Mtv? In one segment she didn't know how to use an ATM card to pay for gas at a gas station (what normal person doesn't know how to do that?!) and in another segment she was arguing that tuna was chicken, not fish... and in another she was burning pancakes because she didn't know how to make them! I think it's definitely FUNNY to see people who are now famous and their shortcomings but when you think about it, oftentimes their shortcomings are because they never had a normal life. They never did normal things that other people learned how to do. When you don't ever do something, of course you won't know how to do it and you'll fail miserably, especially in public on camera lol.

Frankly, *I* am more interesting and we all know it I've seen stuff about the governor too, and I care about the same amount about that as well. If they were part of my family or my friends maybe I would care, but you know some people go and get a burger on a daily basis. That ISN'T news. It's not even interesting.

It is that difficult getting news 24X7 and get the viewers to stick with the same channel, so they have to do some mad things. I think it is up to us that what kind of news we prefer, if we don't give them TRPs for such *foolish* news, then they would not show it in future.

Weeellll... I'd like to know if a celebrity or national figure is suddenly embracing cannibalism, especially if they live in California... but barring that crisis, I wouldn't care if they ate a bottle of glue at 2 AM

Well, I've got to admit I would let the cannibalism thing slide lol. But I hope I don't have to lol.

There are all KINDS of things happening that are bigger stories and awful things! I happen to think that there are people who are obsessed with the president and his family - and for what? What reason (if any?!) is there to be consumed with what any of them are doing? I'm actually horrified that ANYBODY would think there was anything special about anything they do - since obviously WE are not all reported on at all. Is this like a 'stalk the celebrity' type thing? Right now we have a really bad forest fire in Santa Barbara, then there's the ever present economy issues and unemployment levels, a college student who was murdered, among other things.

That is a good point that you make. It is plain silly when you put it that way.

I think the media employs people who have IQs below 70 I'm not quite sure why else something like this would qualify for news. What's sad is that it was CNN, which used to be reputable.

I'd rather hear about you, how was YOUR day? What did you do? It really does make me sick that people just have to elevate these other ordinary people into the stratosphere for what is really no reason at all. I have never considered the president or the president's family 'celebrities' and I think we all need to butt out of their lives. I'm not much interested anyway, like I told someone else, it's not like they're my FRIENDS or anything. Why should I care?

Yep, so true. It's like these people have no lives they're more interested in other's than thier own. That's sad

Um, I am sorry if you believe she is worth more than any of us, I just don't happen to think so. Because of that, this whole thing about reporting about anything she wears, anything she does, or anything she eats is completely ridiculous. If you would do it for Joe Blow down the block, then fine, but if you wouldn't, then don't do it just because someone is the First Lady. I hardly feel that's a title worthy of celebrity stalking. Like I stated before, the ONLY reason the media even does crap like this (and it IS crap) is because there are MORONS who actually tune in and CARE about this, they talk about it, they watch it. It is not important, and it is these stupid people who follow anybody considered a 'celebrity' who makes this happen. I know she is not valueless, but she is not BETTER than you and me because we aren't the president's wife. Also, I fail to see what makes anybody better about being a x graduate. I see people make comments about education that way and that really irritates me. Education is good, but it simply does not make someone better or worth more.

Burgers. BURGERS?!! Yeah, wtf. I mean they do have to eat you know! If you don't eat, you DIE!

I don't need to hear anything else about them. *I* am not in love with them, I don't care what they do, what they eat, where they go. I just want them to fix the economy and make sure there is medicare and social security around for future generations. That's all.

I have begun believing there is no such thing as REAL NEWS. There can't be. People are attracted to all sorts of different things. I mean my husband watches all sorts of news stuff and talk stuff that I can't seem to find a single interesting thing about. However, HE is interesting. I don't know what he sees in some of this stuff that's cool at all but hey, if it floats his boat, then I guess it has a reason to exist. The types of real news I like is anything that might actually affect me, at ground level. Community and local things, human interest. I don't care a lot about stuff that has absolutely nothing to do with me, never will, and I couldn't influence the direction of whatever it is even if I had at my disposal an army of tanks and a title!

The media is full of $&!#

Oh but those fancy schmancy NEWS PEOPLE think it's news! Does that mean none of them have a life? Probably. I don't think much of news people anyway. I think they should have found a better profession.