29 august 2004

bizarro world

As a rule, I don't blog breaking news. But this is just weird.

MTV, ROLLING STONE and the rock and roll establishment — past and present — have cast their vote, and their man is John Kerry.

So on Sunday night when John Kerry's daughters were announced to speak at the annual MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS, the MTV youth were expected to welcome his daughter's as pop culture princesses.

Instead, in an era of the unexpected, the daughters of the Democratic candidate were met with a resounding wall of boos at the filming in Miami.

From the moment Alexandra and Vanessa started speaking, the boos outweighed anything close to cheers, and the reaction turned worse when the daughters asked the VIACOM youth to vote for their father. So shocked by the reaction, the taller of the two daughters tried to 'shhhhhh' her peers to no avail.

Here's the evidence:

vma-kerrydaughters.jpg

A search on Google News just now garnered only this additional story, which states that the Bush daughters also appeared—via satellite—but that “the reaction from the crowd was difficult to hear.”

As Drudge says, developing…

 

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