Ha ha ha! The Red Roof Inn hotel chain, whose market research has shown that Red Roof customers are "big fans" of Nascar racing, is launching a new country music-based marketing campaign that tacitly admits exactly what many have suspected for years: that Red Roofs are low budget, simple and unbelievably boring, much like modern country music. Now, people on the run from the law lured into Red Roof Inns by "Red Roof Loves Country" print ads and billboards can then stay one step ahead of the cops with prerecorded wake up calls from country stars Phil Vassar and Little Big Town.
Of course, every thinking person knows the Red Roof Inn doesn't love country so much as it loves people who love country's money, something other companies have apparently also realized as of late. (Surprise! Folk in cowboy boots have cash, too, and that they can be suckered by good old fashioned hucksterism just as easily as Fiddy Cent fans.) Besides Red Roof's campaign, Coty has recently released a fragrance named after Tim McGraw and NBC has premiered a reality TV competition called Nashville Star.
Yahoo capitalism! Leave no demographic unexploited!
On The View today, Barbara Walters gives America one more reason to boycott country music by awkwardly telling Faith Hill, "We'd all like to 'do' your husband." [HuffPo]
• Faith Hill tells a grabby Tim McGraw fan to "show some respect," keep her hands to herself and refrain from any activity that involves balls flying at her face. In response, an omnipresent Stacy Dash quipped, "Well, there goes your social life."
• "WHICH actress' weight gain is being blamed on her scoundrel ex-boyfriend who knocked her up? She only started shedding some of the weight when he forced her to terminate her pregnancy." Aw, they called Jessica Simpson an "actress."
• We fully believed that Heidi Klum was modeling the chicest, most outrageous in cutting-edge couture until a small child laid eyes on her and said, "But she has nothing on!"
• Joe Pesci to marry Sly Stallone's ex.
• OMG, Paris Hilton was disinherited by her grandfather, reports a myriad of unreliable websites.
• Kelly Osbourne drops thirty pounds by eating healthy, exercising regularly going heavy on the Photoshop.
As we write this, we’re looking out the window and salivating over the picture perfect weather outside, currently being wasted on lazy, unemployed persons and pretentious NYU students. And so, for your sanity and ours, we’ve decided to kick off a glorious new feature called “Comment of the Day,” to provide a transient glimmer of entertainment for all you working stiffs who would much rather be downing margaritas poolside on the Jersey Shore (while fending off advances from married, guidos named Tony) than slaving away in your cubicles.
Today’s “Comment of the Day” comes to us from TMZ, and it pertains to the photograph (real or Photoshopped) of Tim McGraw that's currently circulating around the web.
But is it a beer belly, a case of indigestion or—more likely—a case (literally) of Sam Adams? And are Tim's fans grossed out or strangely attracted to the new "feminine" side of the pot-bellied country singer?
Thoughts, reflections and the COTD, after the jump.
• Faith Hill and Tim McGraw's home is burglarized! No official word on the precise number of cowboy hats, snakeskin boots or tins of Skoal chewing tobacco are missing.
• Judith Regan gets advice from a sex-toy expert on her Sirius radio show; listeners (and Jossip editors) silently "throw up a little" in their mouths.
• Barbi twins tried, failed, to save Anna Nicole Smith by leaving her an impassioned unanswered voicemail.
• Meanwhile, the National Enquirer reports that—in addition to starving herself—Anna Nicole Smith was intentionally underfeeding baby Dannielynn so she's look "slim and sexy."
• Brandy celebrated her 28th birthday by blowing out the candles and wishing this whole vehicular manslaughter thing goes away faster than Ray J's sex tape.
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