FOX'S $8 MILLION DOLLAR A YEAR ANCHOR, SHEPARD SMITH, DOESN'T COMPREHEND THE JAPANESE WAY OF LIFE. He says they have a really nice suite in Tokyo and that the staff is polite. He says they are made to feel very comfortable. But Shepard just doesn't seem happy. I am not surprised--I've met men like Shepard before. Shepard is wanting something to go down, something to happen, something that will focus the light on him.
So far, according to Shepard, they have seen no looting. What this super star of Fox doesn't understand is the difference between the lifestyles of the Japanese and the general populace of the deep South.
Shepard says he has heard rumors that there are Japanese who are thirsty, without water or food. (Perhaps he's looking for groups of people stranded on concrete viaducts like they were in Katrina.)
Remember how worked up everyone got after they had been stranded on the bridge for four days and couldn't get so much as a bottle of water? I remember it--I kept waiting for a helicopter to drop the folks some water and food, some baby formula. But this is not happening in Japan. Either the folks are getting water deliveries or they aren't screaming loud enough.
Shepard Smith is, it appears to me, very upset that he has yet to find a Japanese who is disgruntled. I am wondering if he is going up and down the Ginza interviewing.
Do you suppose he would find some grumbling if he got off the main drag and went down into the depths of Tokyo, down where there are no signs of any kind, just red glowing lanterns, places where men with a thirst for sake hang out? Shep' would be confused as the men bowed and tried to get him to down a few shots of real sake. And if the anchor man slammed a few shots of the sake, Old Shep' would soon understand the Japanese lifestyle, especially when he awoke the next morning, back in his comfy suite, wondering how in the hell he got back.
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