This Might Be Controversial.

I never liked "controversial" people. When someone described as controversial would be on a talk show, it would turn out that they were either obnoxious or an asshole. Often both. It seemed like a TV-sanitized way of saying such. Morton Downey Jr. was controversial in the 80's. He had bad takes on everything in life and would often switch sides in an argument on his shows if the controversial winds were blowing in a more favorable way towards his ratings. You could see it happening as he read the room, looking to change sides for better or worse. 

I get all my CNN from Bluesky and Facebook, so I know a little about a guy named, Scott Jennings. He's "controversial". So, I already knew pretty much by looking at him that his path to fame was going to be looking like a smug dick and acting worse. Every clip I saw of him proved that. To me at least, he looked like Scottish comedian, Craig Ferguson, but without Craig's charm, sexual energy, and wonderful sense of timing. 

In this mad world of cable news and podcasts all over the damn place, you've got to compete with oodles of other folks to fight your way to the top of the entertainment food chain. Being controversial is always a way to go. Somebody has got to do it. It's like sitting at a poker table and, if you don't see a chump, it's you. You've got to step up your game or you are out of there. 

A lot of controversy and controversial people these days! Our Dear Leader has been controversial his whole life. Look where that got him. He's made a career of bad takes. Those are well documented, so I'll skip them here. The fvcking guy dominates way too much anyway.

Actors always say they prefer to play the bad guy or girl because it's more fun. Perhaps the same is true of bad pundits. You want to stand out as a guest and be invited back. If you are just echoing the good sentiments at the round table that others are sharing, anyone can do your job. Outrageousness has probably always been rewarded in life- well, depending on who is in charge. Not a good move if everyone is praising the King, so you opt to point out he's fat and stupid due to generations of inbreeding. Heads- your head- would roll. 

Cable TV and podcasts aren't so harsh on controversy though. They love it. I say I don't, but I don't mind being offended sometimes. I just don't go out of my way to be offended. I never liked Howard Stern. His bridge to far for me was when he made fun of a girl from the "Father Knows Best" show who revealed that she was molested by her real-life father and Stern quipped: "So, it was father knows best at work and daddy knew best at home then". She was crying, revealing her pain, and he was saying what the cab drivers and burnouts who listen to him wanted to hear. Fvck that. He's reinvented himself as more of a sober, reflective liberal person now, but I'm not buying that. Just a different degree of controversial perhaps? 

Madge Greene in congress has been controversial since she (maybe...) delivered the pipe bombs for the J6 coup. She hadn't been seated in congress yet, but the powers that be saw a lot of promise in her. She delivers whenever there is a camera around, as she did the other day when she inexplicably went off on a female UK journalist. This was to let maga know that Britain is no longer our friend! For reasons...I'd call Greene a "cvnt", but I don't want to be controversial. I'm just a Ferrerman trying not too to make it in the blog world that is about a decade or so past its importance.