The BBC headline Naked Prince Harry photos published online recounts today’s American gossip website TMZ exclusively describing pictures showing Prince Harry and a young woman naked in a Las Vegas hotel room. The BBC reports the two photos of the 27-year-old royal on the gossip website, TMZ, were taken on a private break with friends over the weekend. The site speculates the prince was in a group playing “strip billiards”. St. James’s Palace has confirmed the prince is in the photos but has made no further comment about the images. Which should be a story in itself and not buried, shallowly, in the copy.
Nonetheless, the BBC guesses the two pictures of the prince were taken on Friday. And website TMZ claims the pictures came after the prince, who is third in line to the throne, invited friends back to his hotel room for a private party. That’s a story. The prince actually associates with people without Bold Print names to rival his own draw as gossip fodder. Associating with commoners? My gosh, that deserves to be brought before Parliament for a negotiated punishment of thirty lashes, at least?
In an analysis from the BBC’s, Royal correspondent, Nicholas Witchell, Prince Harry’s gossip history is paraded forth, as per usual, when who has a clue what counts when people hardly read anything they’re not titillated by anyway? So why again, does it matter, Mr. Witchell whose explanation starts – There was a time when he was known as the partying prince, falling out of nightclubs in the early hours, getting himself into scrapes and generally showing a lack of good judgement. Acting like some inebriated kid at that age he actually was – and is?
But then the BBC analysis gives the prince a break? – In more recent times, Harry has transformed his image. His military service has played a big part in the change. He served in Afghanistan with his regiment, and said he was keen to return.
Sure, participating in the honorably centuries long family war-mongering business, that’s a real credit builder. We should all be proud the business of public relations has set the public straight on the purpose for war. To keep royalty from getting naked in Vegas, except when off-duty?
So Mr. Witchell continues to make clear what the public is capable of being taught to think. Writing – And time and again during his royal duties he’s shown the caring instinct that his late mother demonstrated. Harry has become a huge asset to the Royal Family: committed, but with a sense of fun and mischief to which people have warmed. Dag-gum, it’s as if the Royal Family are real people. Gee, who’d have thought that’s what they’re supposed to be with all the pomp and circumstance?
Mr. Witchell, taking his cues from TMZ, continues. – So this latest episode will surely be both an embarrassment and a disappointment to his family and, most particularly one imagines, to Harry himself. His friends say he was just “letting his hair down”, a young officer having a few days of relaxation before returning to military duties. But it can never be quite as straightforward as that when that “young officer” is third in line to the British throne. And other than Prince Charles installing solar panels throughout Britain, why and how is the pestered Royal Family necessarily politically relevant, unless for labeling as scapegoats in instances such as – this?
To continue with the BBC’s charmingly detached, journalistically inclined description. – It is not clear how the photos were taken, but it is presumed they were captured on a camera phone. Uh huh. Maybe the lack of professional lighting and grainy texture accounts for that assessment? The pictures have since been picked up by much of the American media, but as yet have not been printed by any British newspaper. Nor this Journal Block essay, perhaps because of the shallowness that others comfortably like to be paid to portray the public as?
As the BBC admits – The father of one of Prince Harry’s closest friends told the BBC’s The World at One the prince was “a very easy target” for the press. Alex van Straubenzee, whose son Thomas has known the prince since childhood, said that “more than anything [Harry] is a British soldier”.
Well then? As this other pops says, “He has a very, very good qualification in the job he does for the Army and I think this is what people will look at.” Well raise the flag and strike up the bagpipes, The Queen and prince will, no doubt, share grins at the weekend retreat, Windsor Castle.
But even the BBC can’t stop, redundantly stating – The emergence of the pictures is the latest colourful incident in Prince Harry’s life. In 2005, there was widespread outrage when an image of the prince attending a friend’s fancy dress birthday dressed as a Nazi emerged. Nah, he couldn’t possibly as a descendent of Germans be mocking tragic history? Now that was absurd. But a kid wearing a costume, really?
Then the BBC vomitingly repeats- in 2009, Prince Harry was forced to apologize for using offensive language to describe an Asian member of his army platoon after video footage emerged. Sorry I missed that. Was the Asian’s member present, and why exactly does a whole continent describe that person’s lineage? I understand my not spending more time finding out, but with the sources of the BBC we settle for defining a member of the exalted British military as just being of Asian descent? Good work, if you can get it, I guess.
But who’d have thought defending a prince would come my way as had happened to Michael Phelps having his private life exploited four years ago in the American Carolinas. Because what the story actually is, is someone took private pictures and sold them with at least an awareness that blackmail is out when people have such high profile. It’s really just us commoners that suffer from self-righteousness being sold to the world as a valuable commodity, so worth our attention that a trivial intrusion on the life of a member of the human family can be exploited in such a pathetically shallow method such as has been made out of this.
Ha, ha. I’m not a lawyer. (satirizing, for the non-indoctrinated, TMZ’s television tagline) Stick that where the laughs belong, tabloid journalism.
You know, I think we’ve all been had. Because this Harry from being angry at photographers who are a nuisance in his path, to whatever stunt he chooses tomorrow seems to always emphasize, Why Can’t The Rest Of You Leave Me Alone To Live Your Own Lives? Look what you’ve done being such pests badgeringly following my loved ones. And it wasn’t the photographers following his mother that made that tragedy happen. It was gossip haunting her life and I don’t think the world really can apologize to him.
8/22/2012
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Why Would Anyone In Line To Be Emperor Have Clothes?
8/22/2012 concluded: You know, I think we’ve all been had. Because this Harry from being angry at photographers who are a nuisance in his path, to whatever stunt he chooses tomorrow seems to always emphasize, Why Can’t The Rest Of You Leave Me Alone To Live Your Own Lives? Look what you’ve done being such pests badgeringly following my loved ones. And it wasn’t the photographers following his mother that made that tragedy happen. It was gossip haunting her life and I don’t think the world really can apologize to him.
Britain Leads The World Hiding From America's Same Embarrassments
Jeremy Corbin wasn't the best choice for standing against the historically jingoistic political frame of mind. No choice the only option. The American side of the Atlantic is also torn. Re-idolizing ethnic superiority under the guise of a traditional nationalism that, as benign as represented, is malignantly self-serving. Tweaking political correctness to mean smoke and mirrors is all anyone's really seen.
Windbags. If only amazing the age old description's nowhere near the tip of 30% of the electorate's tongues. Settling like a fog, the pretensions have hardly been noticed. The Great Public Relations Presidency muddles on as enabled. Hardly having to obscure the gall at all by hiding behind nationalism, as probably, the biggest crutch of all.
Addressing (an) issue(s) from obscurity is, so to speak, an oxymoronic phrase. Yet how soapbox views form. Perhaps, especially, necessary when the world's sound bitten to delirious proportions. Where the field's throned masters are so immune to self-reflection, their own parodies even slip obedient consciousness past a trough of overlooked nuances. The ethics of arrogance having agendas all their own. Everything's a fight, isn't it?
Oh no, discuss (a) particular candidate(s).
Full Disclosure: The Soapbox View 100 Character Celebrity Sighting feature, near the pages' bottom, includes this entrant in the Democratic Party Presidential Primaries:
7/28/2019, 9:05 PM, LEAVING STREET FURNITURE LOCKED BIKE BY JUST PARKED SUV I HAD AN I KNOW THEM REALIZATION AND, TURNING, SAW MAYOR BLOOMBERG WATCH, MY BOWED LEFT HAND SALUTE, AND SAY “HELLO.”
My explanation for saluting, came from an understanding, my wife and I arrived at, that former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg civilized the city. A statement of unlimited contradictions. But, in fact, by banning smoking indoors, respect for everyone's rights peaked. Common sense and decency was hard to come by without a law. Pity decent culture couldn't have already handled that on our own.
As a critic I haven't advocated political candidates and been against an average number. However I appreciate Michael "Mike" Bloomberg running for president. Same reason that, while watching Bernie Sanders rant in the U. S. Senate, I thought he should run for president. Because, historically, that's THE PLATFORM by which issues are faced by the American public. And not just where the Political Entertainment Complex processes celebrities. Because if the message something is extremely wrong here isn't getting across? That reality requires accentuation.
Of course Mr. Bloomberg might hate my not caring whether, or not, he won. Despite all the platform engineering focused on his standing for rich enough to buy a celebritized way through, as happened last time, if we're completely honest with ourselves, there's a real solid reason, for running. It's extremely important people are reminded something's really off that should be righted. Conservative principles be da__ed. Mr. Bloomberg shouldn't even run against the other candidates and focus on President Trump in the most obvious fashion. Rip the entire arsenal of poppycock to shreds. The words. The shadowing of nuance with mediocrity. "Witch Hunt." As much as any of the trenches our president's built against introspection and observance, using that term, "witch hunt," as a reference point, associates himself with this country's politically persecuted that's an entirely inflated relationship. In a sense a mad man's on the loose with American History that no one has any right, or business, portraying as exclusively theirs.
Go after the words. Reducing the entirety of politics to flippant address. Ad infinitum. There's no narcissistic shame?
December 4, 2019
Throw words like "disgrace" around and portray offense. Our president's arrogance already acted out, nationally, by an eventual Supreme Court Justice, defending his bench seat, before the U. S. Senate. A hard pill to swallow these strange coincidences? As idolized arrogance's all that's necessary. "This is where we're at today. ... A simple railroad job." Thank you Representative from Georgia, sir. Whew. Badger the public with full speed ahead redundancy. When nothing's faced but bank accounts. Ba dump bump.
Sigh.
Eloquent Essay
November 10TH, THE NEW YORK TIMES Print Edition Title:
The 'Lost Cause' Built Jim Crow
By Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Online:
Nothing like nails hit on the head for a grand awakening the whole world crucially needs. Professor Gates' Pulitzer worthy essay is all that need be said, here, on a laudatory level, concerning his sharply accurate depiction of the underlying bunch of crap still toyed with by elitist manipulation. Good essay. I'll not repeat what the professor wrote.
It is amazing that something so wrong, can, at its' core, be summed up with just two words as names often are. Jim Crow. The name would crop up, from time to time, through the years, but not anywhere nearly enough when facing Jim Crow was so much more vitally important than now, that's still just as critical. Identity politics. People must be kidding. Categorized, bundled, trundled and de-independent-ized.
The Soapbox Views reparations.
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If every turn's a right, you're boxed in, somewhere, somehow, for whatever reason, there's no direction left.
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From Facebook, concerning the Middle East.
Charles M. Fraser Bulldozing the past's not facing the future by facing the past. Tough's proven not to be the answer. Unless arrogance's laid down, souls here can't really claim to be standing up.
George W. Bush's martyrdom on our behalves. Claiming God told him to continue the cycle of revenge you should apologize for, sir. Yes sir. I'm repeating myself and there's no reason you'd listen. However. In light of recent torture revelations, you visited the 9/11 Memorial Sunday evening, December 14th, around 6:30 PM for an hour on a low key basis according to the next morning's radio news. The 9/11 tragedy is everyone's grief whether they believe it or not. While we, humanity are smarter than this. The idea people hate each other so much they won't stop at anything, does not excuse crossing an objective line and insinuating any holy war mattered more than any other. Poppycock. 
People are wrong blaming anything about this on God. Unless these hatreds are solved perverse cycles of revenge won't be. You, George W. Bush have to apologize because everyone needs to get a grip. Oooo, Isis formed. No kidding. Even NBC's Meet The Press traced Dick Cheney's warning of ramifications on C-Span to 1994. 
The strategy of overwhelming the public with pragmatic patriotism was never a secret. The cat was never in the bag. Yes sir. Essentially invading the Middle East was another flaw in the cycle of revenge. Not right for them or us either. Pride shouldn't doom us to this paraphrasing of Samuel Johnson's warning - PATRIOTISM IS THE REFUGE OF THE SCOUNDREL 
Now. It's foolish contradicting someone elected twice. Also the United States tried running the fairest war the world has ever seen, despite discrepancies, including billions of dollars flowing for capital means if the money only learned to land. The yang, of course, corruption. So what. It's offensive but how money flows till fluid while even America's revenue streams have eccentric patterns. The point is, the reality of this nonsense was resentment wasn't altered. Hatred that hadn't changed for centuries you jumped in feet first. This quicksand of animosity. Just more "hate you to kingdom come" ridiculousness from the dark ages. Everything about terrorism is offensive. The battle shouldn't include any of us. Yet you went ahead and essentially said, jihad for everybody. When its hardly anyone's right to claim stupid prejudice is God's reality. Defending America? None of this Terror War nonsense even defends Allah. None.
Our martyrdom is more sacred than yours is the cycle of revenge tragedy that caused September Eleventh. Misguided reactionaries? Ring a bell, sir? Xenophobia? Have you ever at least heard that word describe nationalism's flaw? Or has your life been so politically carved, the absurdity of the cycle of revenge wasn't enough for you to have restraint. 
For God? When we are God's suffering and smarter than this. Apologize. You did it, sir, and you keep doing it. No matter what imagery your people sell you, we're living with something else. People blinded by smite. An apology from you would really go a long way toward solving this. What's this? An unconscionable, soulless, bigotry. Visiting our shrine to a crime in a solemn hour and only shaking hands with a few on-duty security people may be an act of noble humility. Still, apologies' missing. 
I know. In this instance I should show more deference to a President of the United States. More grief in light of 9/11's tragedy. Or outrage for the victims? STOP THE HYSTERIA! Its impossible all this was ever Allah's/God's wish. For Pete's sake. 
The Presidency's Honor Requires An Apology, Sir? Mr. President. 
