More To Love Still Together

More To Love Still Together

Did you watch More To Love? Brought to you by the man who offered us The Bachelor, wily producer Mike Fleiss, More To Love gave us Luke Conley, a 26 year-old husky fella, who’ll be winnowing down a passel of plus-size gals. I’ve watched The Bachelor occasionally, am no great follower of dating-genre TV, so ended up I liking More To Love on its own goofy, summer-vacation level. Luke isn’t smarmy. He’s a bit of a salesman (he does something in real estate, so he probably can’t help it), but one key to staying with a show like this is rooting for the person doing the picking, and so far, I’d like to see Luke fall for a nice person.

But who? More To Love allowed its bevy of women to emerge from cars with their weight in pounds printed below their names, a tacky touch, but then, what did I expect, In Treatment? Some of them seemed a little bitter (wondered one bluntly, why do guys “love the skinny bitches?”), some a tad sad (a woman who proclaimed she’d “never had a second date”). Did you watch More To Love? Do you think it handles its premise well, or that it exploits or condescends to its love-hungry contestants?

More To Love suffers from the usual garish visual tropes: the arrival of the contestants, the awkward kissy-huggy greetings, the settling in to a house that looks as though it was decorated by Lady Ga-Ga’s fussy chihuahua. One dull spot last night: Emme, the famous plus-size model, doesn’t add much as host, or at least she didn’t in the premiere, seeming awkward and maybe a tad nervous. I’ve seen her in interviews where she comes off smart and funny, so perhaps she’ll settle in. Anyway, she can’t be a worse presenter than, say, the shrill toothpick they hired for Top Chef Masters, right?

Big Brother 11 After Party

Big Brother 11 After Party

Big Brother 11 Update 8:15 PM BBT Wednesday August 12- After the Party Jeff, Jordan, Michelle, Russell laugh Jeff, Jordan, Russell, and Michelle are in the Splash room laughing. They talk about everyone being too shy to dance. Jeff says that he likes drinking. Jeff says that Jordan’s eyelashes are so long that they look fake. Jordan goes under the covers and Jeff covers his head. Russell says that is uncomfortable. Russell asks if the cuddle in the morning and Jeff says that their a*es bump together as they try to get more room. Russell asks if they have butt wars. They say yeah.

Michelle says this is the best summer ever. Jeff says that he is comfortable and Michelle says satiated, and he says yeah. What does that mean? Jeff asks if Michelle works with bunsen burners and she says that she burns plastic and stuff he asks if she burns rat hair. She says that she makes the things she puts in the rats. They start talking about pee holes and Jeff says that a guy’s pee hole, the mushroom and then you have the pee hole…….. Jordan thinks that girls have more holes than a guy, a guy has a butt hole and a pee hole, a girl has a pee hole, a butt hole, and a period hole.

Jordan says that she has seen porn where they all dress up like pigs and they have sex. Jordan says that on HBo every Thursday there is this sex show. Jordan says that there is another one called the Bunny Ranch and another one with a man who had one woman in the daytime and one in the nighttime. Michelle says that they all have pig suits. They all laugh. Jordan says she is not going to put a finger in a guy’s butt hole and Jeff says that the way he is farting, she could lose a finger in his. They are all loaded and laughing.

Jimmy Carter Racism

Jimmy Carter Racism

Former President Jimmy Carter drew widespread criticism Wednesday for claiming that Rep. Joe Wilson's infamous outburst last week was "based on racism" and that an "overwhelming portion" of similar demonstrations against President Obama are rooted in bigotry. Obama's supporters have attributed racist motives to opponents of his health care plan for weeks, but Carter is the highest-profile person so far to push that claim.

While anti-Obama demonstrators have been seen carrying over-the-top or racially insensitive signs, administration critics say Carter is flat wrong to claim that those fringes make up the bulk of Obama's detractors. "I think it's very destructive for America to suggest that we can't criticize a president without it being a racial act," former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told FOX News. The suggestion that race is behind Obama criticism has been made by New York Gov. David Paterson and Reps. Charlie Rangel of New York, Diane Watson of California and Hank Johnson of Georgia, among others.

But a poll released Wednesday by Rasmussen Reports showed that just 12 percent of voters believe that most opponents of Obama's health care reform plan are racist. The survey, taken Monday and Tuesday of 1,000 likely voters, found 67 percent disagree with that contention, while 21 percent are not sure. The survey had a margin of error of 3 percent. Carter, though, said in an interview with NBC that race is the driving factor.