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    Donny Deutsch, Pedestal Man

    Thursday, July 21st, 2005

    On July 20, 2005, Donny Deutsch, host of CNBC’s The Big Idea, had Bernard Goldberg on his show. Goldberg was there to discuss his new book, The 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken is #37).

    Unbeknownst to Goldberg, Donny and five other liberal panelists were there to ambush him — after all, most of the people on Goldberg’s list of 100 are liberals. Even though all the panelists were trying to excoriate Goldberg, all admitted to not reading his book. The roudy segment was such an embarrassment for CNBC that the show’s producer, Marlilyn Cutler, is rumored to be resigning over the incident.

    Especially interesting was watching panelist Linda Stasi, NY Post TV critic, relentlessly grill Goldberg, firing multiple questions at him without letting him answer one of them. Finally, after his impressive patience had expired, Goldberg told Stasi to shut up. When Deutsch, incredulous at what he had just heard, asked Goldberg why he told Stasi to shut up, Goldberg retorted: “Because she won’t shut up.”

    Donny Deutsch went ballistic. He couldn’t believe a man would have the audacity to tell a woman to shut up, as if her gender bestows on her the right to be rude. Deutsch was so worried that girls watching the show would learn bad male behavior, that he certainly didn’t care about the bad, double-standard female behavior these impressionable young girls would be learning! Deutsch probably doesn’t have to worry either way, given that only 70,000 people watched the show.

    In addition to being a liberal, Donny obviously puts women on a stupid pedestal. Women can blast men, and men have to take it. Right, Donny? A little advice, Donny: If you’re going to let women play in the big, tough world, let them suffer the consequences of their behavior and words. They can handle it.

    Irony of Wedding Crashers

    Saturday, July 16th, 2005

    The new movie, Wedding Crashers, starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, is about two guys who have honed to an artform the crashing of weddings, with fake names and occupations, to meet and screw women.

    If you read this movie’s critiques and promos, you would expect the plot to be one continuous romp by two “sleazebags” who prey on single, female wedding attendees so caught up in the emotions of getting married that they easily fall for any romantic come-on from the single men attending the same wedding.

    In fact, Darragh Worland wrote a piece on FoxNews.com [CLICK], called “It’s Venus vs. Mars for Singles at Weddings,” that, in general, makes guys seem like such callous, caniving, sexual predators and women totally innocent, naive victims. Get real! This is the usual socialized nonsense to which we’ve all grown accustomed to hearing. Too bad it’s false. Why, then, does it refuse to die? Because people have this unexplained need to perpetuate the stereotypes of male and female behavior, which I dispel in The Man’s No-Nonsense Guide to Women: How to Succeed in Romance on Planet Earth. If you haven’t read it, you ought to.

    Without spoiling it completely for people who have yet to see this fun movie, I will tell you that it cleverly and ironically shows that men and women are equally skilled as schemers and equally vulnerable in and desirous of love. I highly recommend Wedding Crashers.