My Hero during the MTV Awards – Jordin Sparks

A few weeks ago I taped the Espy awards (the ESPN awards for sports) and watched it in its entirety.  Justin Timberlake hosted the show, and throughout the whole thing showed class, made fun of people in good taste, and along with Will Farrell made me laugh my head off.  It was honestly fun too watch and made me want to tune in next year.

Fast Forward to this last weekend, when I once again taped another awards ceremony from MTV, the Video Music Awards, where MTV gave us the supposed best of this last years videos.  What we actually got as viewers was a pile of crap, and more reason to believe that MTV actually believes the next generation is a bunch of sex-crazed animals who don’t think for themselves.  This was not true of my generation, and this is not true of this one.

Russell Brand, a British lad, hosted this years ceremony and the best thing he said all night was, “I know you have no clue who I am…”  It’s true, and I wouldn’t care if I ever saw him again.  He used and abused his platform to do things like, oh, talk the whole time about sex and masturbation (a concept which seems to be an obsession with him), made fun of the Jonas Brothers who have a promise to remain virgins until marriage, and disrespect President Bush (and about 50% of our country) and tell everyone watching to vote for Obama. 

As readers of my site know, I have a very neutral opinion on politics, and I will be voting, but this plea from a person who doesn’t live here was as ludicrous as a pastor who decides they have the right to disrespect president Clinton from the pulpit.  Except that this was on a much larger scale. 
But it shouldn’t surprise me I guess, for a quick view of who Russell Brand is and what he has done on wikipedia was quite enlightening and sheds light on the kind of people MTV believes should be influencing us.

After all was said and done, towards the end of the show, Jordin Sparks tooks the stage with John Legend to present an award and made a hero of herself for going inpromptu on MTV and saying:

“I have just one thing to say about promise rings, it’s not bad to wear a promise ring, because not everybody, guy or girl wants to be a slut…” 

I’ll close this post that could actually be a lot longer with one more comment. The interesting thing about MTV over the last 20 years is that they are no longer the underdog.  They have a substantial audience and people view their television station (though their numbers are quickly fading as they are becoming more irrelevant in this day and age) as a part of popular culture.  The new underdogs are those who will take a stand to do what they think the right thing for them to do is.  For the Jonas Brothers and for Jordin Sparks, the right thing is to stay pure, because they have felt led to make not only a statement with words, but a statement with their entire lives.  This is a statement of character that is foreign to people like Brand, who say a lot, and do very little to make our world any better. 

This is, oddly enough, one of the reasons he curses our president.

My dad, grandfather (on my mother’s side), and cousin Chelsea travelled to Israel on Monday evening for a 12 day trip of the “Holy Land”.  My grandfather has now been to Israel about 20 times now (literally) and this is my dad’s 3rd time.
I received word today that the hotel they had reservations to stay in is the hotel that President Bush is staying in right now, and so everyone had to clear out.

Therefore, my family had to find another hotel.