Tucker's popularity spawned the creation of his opposite number, Stuart Pearson, whose brand-heavy bullshit must have gone some way toward inspiring his tamer primetime equivalent, the aforesaid Twenty Twelve airhead Siobhan Sharpe.
And a day earlier, in the wake of Obama's high-five world tour that generated enormous media attention, John McCain's campaign released an ad that noted sourly: "He's the biggest celebrity in the world, but is he ready to lead?" Mixed with images of Obama in Europe were America's two favorite airheads, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.
"I have decided that I need to freeze my eggs or find a professional sports player to have a one-night stand with and then have a baby with," one of the airheads, Rachel, 28, says in the premiere during a break from bar hopping.
Two 15-year-old airheads living in the Watergate building see the May 1972 break-in.
Airheads features three teams of drone enthusiasts who have to build a UAV and compete with each other in a studio and on location.
Each time I did, I wondered what was to stop an airhead or two from causing significant damage or even outright destruction to the facility.
One is Neil LaBute's "The New Testament," about a racist writer who doesn't want an Asian actor to play Jesus in his new play; the other, seventeen-year-old Ruby Rae Spiegel's "Carrie & Francine," stars two high-school-age actors who play teen airheads talking about what teen airheads apparently talk about these days: vomiting.
Upon learning he is adopted, he vows to lead a model-citizen existence, becomes a policeman, marries and sires two children with Debbie Leslie Mannn), a devout Christian airhead.
On "Down Home Chrome" (Telarc), he delivers the usual affectionate sexism ("Little Rivi-Airhead"), goofy sense of humor ("Two Rons Don't Make It Right"), impossibly fleet fretwork (see songs one through twelve), and even a wild cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Foxy Lady," complete with inspired Jimi-like vocals.
He could have taught those armchair pundits and airhead academics a thing or two about the "end of poverty", "globalization and its discontents", the decay and imminent collapse of liberal democracy, the irrelevance of human rights and the vices of democracy and virtues of dictatorship.
At the BBC, the contribution from the judges on the latest Woman's Hour's "Power List" – in the week that the anti-feminist obsessive Philip Davies MP, was promoted to the Commons women and equalities committee – was the inclusion of two dead women, Margaret Thatcher and Barbara Castle, and of the fictional airhead, Bridget Jones.
