Wow, what a sensational headline. Be prepared, because this will be quite the blog post. This journalist is letting her blogger side really take over with this post. This is not Fox News, but that headline could definitely be confused or could potentially be a Fox News headline - apologies for that. Anyway, Miley Cyrus (who turned 18 on November 23, so she's not jailbait anymore and no one can give her any more complaints about her being overly sexual) has been said to have been smoking from a bong, but the claims are that the bong contains salvia.
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It seems like not very many people know what salvia is. It looks like the bigger story is "What is salvia" more so than Cyrus doing salvia. All right, being a college student may help in educating this. Salvia is legal and it is comparable to marijuana (not from personal experience). Salvia is said to give hallucinations and all sorts of things, but it's temporary.
CBS' headline for this story is: Miley Cyrus Bong Said to Contain Salvia: What's That? Aside from the fact that the headline should probably say "Miley Cyrus' Bong." Or if read in a different tone it could make it sound like Cyrus' bong is actually speaking.
CBS includes:
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TMZ can always be relied on to get just what is needed to help with the credibility of a story (oddly enough). It seems weird that TMZ and credibility work together. TMZ has a video of the former Hannah Montana star taking bong hits for her birthday.
TMZ includes:
As for the video ... the source tells us it was shot by one of Miley's friends -- and the theory is someone stole or copied the video from that friend's camera.
Ha, TMZ is like WikiLeaks for celebrities. Letting out all the juiciness that people want secret. Everyone should watch that video - she looks pretty happy.
Now, it's interesting that TMZ's credibility is greater than that of US Magazine. US Magazine reports that Billy Ray Cyrus is "sad" because of Miley's bong video.
Wait? He's sad because of the BONG video. He isn't sad because of the lap dance video or any of the other disturbing things that she did when she was not of legal age, but now that she's 18 and she is doing a legal drug he is sad?
Apparently he tweeted:
"I had no idea. Just saw this stuff for the first time myself. I'm so sad. There is much beyond my control right now."
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| Personal screen shot taken of Billy Ray's Twitter |
The screenshot includes his tweet about Jesus.
What? He is more upset about her doing salvia bong hits than her dancing on stripper poles, taking seductive pictures at the age of 15, giving a 44-year-old man a lap-dance at the age of 16, etc? Does this family make sense? Her racy outfits and watching videos of her acting all seductive at concerts and making herself "sexy" before she reached 18 was not as upsetting as seeing a video of her taking hits from a bong? This is unbelievable - maybe US Weekly isn't right.
US Weekly also claims:
"Okay, I'm about to lose it now," Cyrus says after taking her first hit. "I'm having a little bit of a trip right now."
Hey, it's legal. She is allowed to enjoy herself now. Is this being blown out of proportion? Maybe, but it's enjoyable to be able to blog about this. It's ironic that now that she's 18 all off a sudden her father finds a flaw in her behavior.
Here's a completely unrelated video of Nikky Raney doing a KE$HA parody. This video has absolutely nothing at all to do with this blog post in any way shape or form.. just felt like including it:
Please stop deleting comments. It was not offensive at all and it was constructive criticism. What I said was the following: Try to not show political bias, because it is pretty evident in here. As a republican, I don't really care, but others will.
ReplyDeleteWe reserve the right to delete any comments we feel are not within what we want as proper discourse. No one cares that you're Republican. The comment just had to be moderated.
ReplyDeleteThis is a blog - where bias is actually allowed to occur. Now, if this was me in "journalist mode" writing an article then it would not be biased. But think of this like an editorial - except it's a blog post. And what on EARTH does this have to do with being a republican or a democrat -- this is about Miley Cyrus.
ReplyDeletewow, time for a new blog to follow
ReplyDeleteZennie, I actually respected you and loved this blog but I'm questioning why you treated me this way. I was referring to the line where it says, "This is not Fox News, but that headline could definitely be confused or could potentially be a Fox News headline - apologies for that" Yes, apologies, thanks. Anyway the way you two just replied in such an aggressive manner is why I'm not going to continue checking in on this blog. I bet you're going to just delete this comment, I don't care. I would just like you to know this
ReplyDeleteI would like to say that as a journalist I think that it's all right for me to discuss which news stations I do or don't appreciate. There is no doubt that Fox News is sensational - and assuming my political party based on a comment I made about Fox News is unnecessary. I'm glad that you read the post, but it's a bit sad that the only part you focused on was the part about Fox News.
ReplyDeleteBONG HITS 4 JESUS
ReplyDeleteCan I say that someone should call the wahmbulance for anonymous up there? Or will that kind of silliness be too aggressive of a comment for him?
ReplyDeleteWorks for me, John! LOL
ReplyDeleteI feel that Miley made a mistake, as we all do and I see no significance in the even. However, I also posted on her outing in hopes of battling all of the "OMG! No way!" hysteria that hit the fan. Thanks for a good post!
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