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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-04 12:15 PM
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Arnold's Wife: "Adios, Maria "

http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/04/23/news-lowery.php

As Shriver resigns from NBC News, millions wonder: Who will do the stories of rich women who can’t have everything they want?

Last week’s stunning announcement that California First Lady (no, not Ryan Seacrest) Maria Shriver would leave her position at NBC Dateline to concentrate on her official state duties sent shockwaves through American journalism with all the force of a truck rigged to explode on contact.

In newsrooms everywhere, reporters asked why their editors were such dickweeds, then asked if anyone had checked out the new receptionist and then asked who would take up Shriver’s mantle and tell the nation about Czech sex slaves and Hollywood studio executives’ wives unhappy with their Botox treatments.

Shriver said she came to the decision after it was obvious that being the governor’s wife would mean her "journalistic integrity and that of NBC News will be constantly scrutinized"—which she apparently couldn’t bear given that the last time NBC News came under scrutiny, people found out that Dateline had rigged trucks to explode on contact. Wasn’t this apparent conflict of interest a problem during the campaign? Shriver doesn’t say, despite the fact there was almost universal agreement among media critics that she really should eat something, even if it was only a piece of fruit.

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With last week’s announcement, though, one has to wonder: Who will do the stories of rich women who can’t have everything they want? Indeed, Shriver is one now. So, for now, or at least until her husband is the subject of an Internet sex tape, she will have to be content with answering other reporters’ questions about groping and Nazis. We can only hope that lunch is served.
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it will be a sad day when the bloody hands bushgang fully takes over the state of Calif.

all those artists with the bushgang stomping around in their gardens uninvited.

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