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Wednesday, Nov 25, 2009
We're confused, until it's explained to us that "GAB" are George's initials. We finally figure it out -- he's talking back to the guy who's flying the planes. George, as we've explained before, doesn't understand that different people are hiring the plane guy to pull the messages across the sky.
"Live long and prosper GAB," in other words, is basically Rockfordian for "Fuck you -- [signed] George."
Maybe Dr. Drew's cargo cult theory isn't so far-fetched.
Back in the studio, we learn that Julie has learned to hug. She hugs Cassandra, as do her friends, who are so proud of her they say so 50 times.
Cassandra does not discharge the same emotional effluvium that Brittany and Karen did, and so her reactions are a little more staid. We do notice that she's laughing more than she ever did in the house -- but then, we'd laugh too if we were sitting across a table from Julie Chen.
Cassandra expresses concern for her housemates. Chen sweetly reminds her that they are former housemates. Later, she asks Cassandra:
"Do you regret not taking the cash?"
Cassandra says that for her it was a question of integrity. "I didn't want to be bought."
"But is that because you're financially set?"
The United Nations has called for sanctions against Julie Chen, strongly condemning her moronic handling of just about everything in her purview. Financially set?
"Obviously, $50,000 would make a huge, huge difference in my life," Cassandra says. It is one of the hallmarks of her character that she is able to say this to Chen without a trace of derision in her voice. "I am not financially set. But it was not right for me at that moment."
Having just held her tongue, Cassandra does it again when Chen shows her clips of "times when she held her tongue," and proceeds to rerun all household conversations having to do with race, the ones in which someone inevitably says something clueless to Cassandra.
All of the household conversations having to do with race, in other words.
Cassandra won't take the bait, even after being forced to relive the Jamie "You defy stereotypes" natterings and the Eddie "There is no more racism in America" spiel.
Why didn't she say something? Chen wants to know.
This may be Chen's lowest moment yet. We don't know anything about her career, save that she's one of the few people in the industry to have stepped from "The Early Show" to a worse gig. And we will soon forget her. We hope.
But we can't imagine that her stint in big-time TV news has been without quite a few instances of racism and sexism, some of it blatant and deliberate, some of it merely as clueless as the remarks in the house made to Cassandra.
How would Chen like to be questioned publicly about how she chose to handle each of those incidents?
Yet here she is attempting to humiliate another minority woman, all to try to inject something controversial into these tacky proceedings.
Cassandra keeps her cool, again. "With a character like Eddie," Cassandra explains, "you have to wait for a bilateral opportunity to talk to him about those kinds of issues. It wasn't going to be constructive to go at him against the group like that."
"OK, we're going to goodnight the show now," Chen says.
We'll have to wait for a bilateral opportunity to talk to Chen about reconsidering her career choice.
(C.C.)
