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January 18, 2011
A One-Sided Attack on Zionism
The many problems with the documentary 'With God on Our Side.'
Editor's note: Several months ago, we reviewed a pair of documentaries about Christian Zionism. Our reviewer found one of the films, With God on Our Side, to be a balanced look at the situation. Guest blogger Gerald McDermott, the Jordan-Trexler Professor of Religion at Virginia's Roanoke College, offers a different viewpoint.
The documentary With God on Our Side is anything but balanced. It does not give "both sides their due" but instead interviews only Israelis on the far left and ignores Christian Zionists who defend the rights of Palestinians. The result is a one-sided attack on Israel that treats social and political realities with the same ideological insouciance which the documentary assigns to John Hagee and his band.
One interviewee in the film claims—without rebuttal—that Jews did not live in the land for two thousand years. The truth is that Jewish communities have lived in the land through all this time, flourishing in Jerusalem, Galilee and coastal cities in the 9th and 11th centuries, and then rebounding after being massacred by Crusaders in the 12th century. By the early 19th century, long before the rise of Zionism, more than ten thousand Jews lived in what is now Israel.
Viewers are told of Jews expelling Arabs from villages in the 1948 war for independence, but not that the war was started by Arabs, or that Arab armies from neighboring countries targeted Jewish civilians, or that the war was unnecessary because the UN had offered a two-state partition that the Jews accepted and Palestinians rejected.
The documentary states that Israel started the 1967 war "pre-emptively" but fails to provide the context: after months of threatening war against Israel, Egypt's President Nasser announced (just days before Israel struck) that "the armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon . . . are arranged for battle, the critical hour has arrived."
The film then proceeds to charge Israel with "illegal occupation" of the West Bank after the 1967 War on the grounds that Israel failed to comply with UN Resolution 242.
According to this resolution, Israeli withdrawal was to take place in the context of mutual recognition of the right to exist and territorial adjustments to achieve secure boundaries. Withdrawal was ordered from "territories," not "the territories." Both Arthur Goldberg and Lord Carrington, the primary authors of this resolution, have said that the word "the" was purposely omitted because it was not intended for Israel to give back all of her territories, since they recognized that some were needed for secure boundaries.
Despite the fact that most Arab states have refused to recognize Israel's right to exist (a condition of Resolution 242), Israel has implemented the principles of the Resolution three times. When Egypt terminated its claims of belligerency in 1979, Israel returned the Sinai. When Jordan signed a peace agreement, Israel returned land claimed by Jordan. Then in September 2005 Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza, only to be met with new attacks on her civilians launched from that territory.
Illegal occupation? Hardly. Israel has made repeated efforts to comply with UN stipulations for the territories, while its Arab neighbors have not.
When the Palestinians appeared to accept Israel's right to exist during the Oslo negotiations, Israel turned over control of major West Bank cities to the Palestinian Authority (PA). But when the PA showed support for terrorist attacks on Israeli citizens in 2000, Israel resumed control of those cities. In that same year Israel offered to return 92 percent of the West Bank, which this documentary dismisses as ungenerous because, it charges, Israel never owned the land in the first place.
Yet Jews have lived in ancient Samaria (the West Bank) for over three thousand years. Jordan unilaterally renounced all claims to this area in 1988 and released legal ownership to Israel at that time. This video suggests Jews should remove all settlements from the West Bank, leaving it entirely for Palestinians. That would be as unreasonable as insisting that no Arabs can live in Judaea.
Besides, what other country has been required to give up land that it won in a defensive war? Do Germans displaced from Koenigsberg clamor and agitate for that German city to be returned to them by the victorious Russians?
The film concentrates attention on suffering caused Palestinians by the new wall. The wall is indeed tragic in many ways. But there is only a passing reference to the attacks on citizens which prompted its building, and the fact that this wall has prevented many such attacks.
Perhaps most disturbing, this video leaves unchallenged one man's denunciation of Israel as "apartheid on steroids." This accusation is not only inflammatory but egregiously unfair. South African apartheid was based on race. "Blacks" and "coloureds" could not vote and had no representation in the South African parliament. But Israeli citizens of all races—Arabs and Jews alike—can vote, be represented in the Knesset, and have recourse to the courts.
Apartheid was also a legal system that restricted participation to a minority that had control over a majority. In Israel the majority give equal legal rights and protection to Arab citizens, who make up 20% of the population of Israel.
Irshad Manji, a Muslim, has written, "At only 20 percent of the population, would Arabs even be eligible for election if they squirmed under the thumb of apartheid? Would an apartheid state extend voting rights to women and the poor in local elections, which Israel did for the first time in the history of Palestinian Arabs?"
There are also theological problems with this film. First, we are shown only Christian Zionists who use biblical prooftexts to support Israel's rights to the land. There is no sign of the vast numbers of Israelis and evangelicals who believe that modern Israel is a miraculous work of God fulfilling biblical prophecy while at the same time supporting Palestinians' rights to self-determination in the land. In other words, viewers never hear of another kind of Jewish and Christian theological Zionism that takes seriously both prophecies of Israel's return and the biblical mandate of social justice for Jews and Arabs alike.
The second and more serious theological problem is that the end of the documentary suggests that God's covenant with the Jews (Gen. 12.1-3 et al) was eclipsed by the new covenant for Christians. This is the familiar replacement theology that does not do justice to Rom 11.28-29, and that helped create an atmosphere that required Zionism in the first place. In other words, it was this sort of supersessionism (the belief that the Christian covenant replaced the Jewish covenant) that taught Christians for millennia that Judaism was no longer significant theologically, which then encouraged the belief that Jews were no longer important in a Christian world.
I am delighted to see genuine balance established and recorded in this article by Gerald R. McDermott. McDermott's familiarity with the land and cultural geographic meaning of "place" among the people of the region (indeed its meaning within every culture) runs much deeper than that portrayed in the video. Jacob Burkhardt once observed that the "essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity". McDermott's insights regarding the people and region have helped us unmask the woeful simplicity purveyed by the producers of this documentary and reminded us of the complexities involved those seeking truth will need to grapple with.
While this response was necessary, I do reject this article, although admittedly I disagree with Zionism from the outset, and thus the final two paragraphs of the article to be full of dodgy theology. However, as Christ is my saviour, it is through Him and Him alone that salvation can be found. So I will pray for peace in Jerusalem between all the residents in the surrounding areas, as well as humility and self-sacrifice for God's glory. I'm sure we can agree on that.
This review was very helpful for restoring a balance from the fringe of either side. The situation IS complex, but it can't be attempted to be understood without understanding 1948, or 1929, or the state of the land in 1850. McDermott has done a good job on restoring context to some of the more recent events.
Great to see a reasoned response by McDermott. I wanted affirm Briane's post. But, buysabillion: remember from Psych 101 that when a person says "I'm not" there is a good chance that person is. I hope people are not duped by the movie and rather read material that shows a more complex story, like:
• Burrell, D. and Y. Landau, eds. Voices From Jerusalem: Jews and Christians Reflect on the Holy Land. Mahweh: Paulist, 1992.
• Faust, Avraham. "On the Uses of 'Land of Israel', 'Palestine' and other terms in the study of 'Western Asia': A Comment on C. Dauphin's Review." Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society 23 (2005): 177-83.
• Lowe, Malcom, ed., People, Land and State of Israel, Immanuel vol. 22/23, (Jerusalem: Ecumenical Theological Research Fraternity in Israel, 1990).
• Karsh, Efraim. Palestine Betrayed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
Its not about replacement or not. Its about the covenant with MOSES and not the promised covenant with Abraham. That is, Godpromised Abraham and Issac that he will establish a covenant with thheir off springs. That covenant was done with Moses and is talked about in Dueteronomy 38. It was a CONDITIONAL covenant which the Bible tells us that the Israelites repeatedly violated and were repeatedly punished.
What Jews expect is unconditional support based on their geneology. Thats fantasy. So I guess one way for them to solve this is by creating another Judaism that gives the Jewish that unconditional support. And that Judaism is the Rabbinic Talmudic Judaism. That Judaism was condemned by Jesus and its that Judaism that most Jews follow. That Judaism, the Talmudic Judaism, is the state religion of Israel. Deeply ethno-centric it believes if its good of the Jews its good. This is not the Judaism of the Old Testament but a Judaism manufactured by men.
Thank you, Prof. McDermott, for bringing clarity and balance to a complex issue.
As a Jew I have to respond to Bigmo's remark, "What Jews expect is unconditional support based on their geneology [sic]." What evidence do you have for a statement like that? It sounds like the sort of ant-Judaism that has plagued the church for centuries. Moreover, as a follower of Jesus, I also object to the idea that Jesus condemned "Rabbinic Talmudic Judaism," which didn't even exist in his day. Jesus embraced much of Jewish tradition (like the wine at Passover with which he instituted the Lord's Supper). What he condemned was the religiosity and hypocrisy of the religious gatekeepers--and you don't have to be Jewish to be guilty of that sort of thing.
While stating, "Interesting that McDermott accuses the film of replacement theology when it actually goes out of its way to criticize replacement theology..., " Sandy Newhart fails to note the phenomenon of cryptosupercessionism which is rampant among many who both deny and decry superscessionism, including Dispensationalists. Cryptosupercessionism is present whenever Christians assume the expiration or setting aside of those identity markers that formerly applied to the Jewish people, effectively nullifying Israel's unique chosen status in whole or in part. To say that the Law is no longer in effect, and/or the the Promise of the Land is no longer in effect, and/or the unique chosenness of the Jewish people is no longer in effect is be cryptosupercessionist. It needs to be recognized and corrected.
This is right on. YES! Thank you. The documentary was unfairly one-sided and extremely selective - an attempt at demonizing Israel.
As much as I admire Dr. McDermott as a historian, in this case he has stepped into a role to which historians are largely unaccustomed - that of political advocate for a nationalist ideology given credence by bad Christian theology (Christian Zionism). He has, in fact, written exactly the kind of piece that we often find Israeli authorities writing to make sure that American and Christian sympathies remain with a brutal occupation whose legality and morality has rightfully been challenged by nearly every nation on earth apart from the US.
The point is, what Dr. McDermott presents here as historical "fact" is overlaid with an interpretive narrative that even Israeli historians (ala Benny Morris) can no longer justify. It is not an attempt to "balance" the record. It is yet another attempt to cover up an injustice to which Christians have too long closed their eyes and hearts.
The documentary never purports to be balanced. In fact, it is the first major film piece that portrays a side of the debate within the broad evangelical community that is too little seen and heard. So kudos to the makers of this critically important documentary for bringing, in some small measure, balance to a discussion that is normally one-sided toward the Christian Zionist perspective.
Why is that when a pro-Israel and often anti-Palestinian argument is made publicly, either by authors, dramatists, politicians, a counter Palestinian perspective is rarely included. It's assumed that the pro-Israel argument is the only legitimate one. Present a Palestinian-only argument publicly, and cries for balance! balance! are demanded immediately. What's sad is that forces opposed to the Palestinian narrative will often succeed in canceling the presentation all together. The short play about Rachel Corrie on off-off-Broadway last year is a perfect example.
When do you ever expect a balanced argument.....the goyim do not count......the press owned by rupert Murdoch,
sarnoff, palewski, Goldston......and Hollywood by again Murdoch, Mayer, Coen, Spielberg...etc. etc...Not to mention the Lord of Banking the Rotschilds......the Palestinian viewpoint has zero chance of being presented in a fair and balanced way
Interesting how none of the pro-Palestinian comments actually rebut the facts that McDermott brings to the table. I'm one to base a belief on facts. McDermott has a well-supported stance which is not driven by emotional zeal.
By the way, Jessica--McDermott is not a historian--he's a professor of Religion, as the article states.
Actually McDermott is a church historian. As for rebutting his points, this is easily done, but requires more space than a short letter would give. Most easily done is to challenge his assertion that the occupation is not "illegal." It is, in point of fact, illegal by international standards of justice. But given that McDermott is speaking as a Christian, we don't need those standards to dispute his claims. The biblical standards of justice make the same case. Israelis who have documented the occupation have made a strong case for the fact that at least 40% of the land that the militant settlers have declraed their own is, in fact, stolen land. "Thou shalt not steal" does very nicely in terms of refuting McDermott's claims. His attempt to justify this is, in fact, appalling from a Christian perspective. Stealing is wrong.
People who assert that "the occupation is illegal" are victims of conceptual confusion. The occupation of the West Bank by Israel is not illegal as such. The issue is what acts by Israel in the area would or would not be legal under international law. What an occupying state can do on the territory of another state is fairly well defined in intrernational law, so that would apply to the Golan Heights. The West Bank, however, has not been the sovereign territory of any state since Ottoman Turkey. Moreover, it was part of the area assigned for a Jewish national home by the league of Nations; so what constitutes international law is this case is disputable. UN General Assembly resolutions have no force in international law, so it is irrelevant to quote them in this context. UNSC Resolution 242 did not specify any timetable for withdrawal of Israeli forces from the areas occupied in 1967; but it did couple an eventual withdrawal with the establishment of secure boundaries for Israel. By signing the Oslo agreements, the PLO agreed to various aspects of the occupation pending a negotiated peace treaty. That includes: 1) Israeli security control total over Area C and partial over Area B of the West BAnk; 2) no PLO activity in any part of Jerusalem. These are just some of the complexities of the issue.


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Busking for Change is a short documentary about a group of street musicians that are playing music to make a difference.
Produced by Callib Carver
Director, Editor, Camera Operator: Callib Carver
You can find STL Busking for Change on Facebook, facebook.com/stlbuskingforchange.
Miscellanea House is a small family owned and operated coffee house in Belleville, IL. The building is has stood there since the mid-1900's and the owners have no plans to change it, in fact it fits their old school style. You can check them out at facebook.com/miscellanea62220 or stop into the shop located at 1111 West Main Street, Belleville, Illinois.
Director Notes
I created this video on a complete whim, in about 72 hours from filming to uploading it here to Vimeo. It's another step in my own learning process, since I've only filmed a handful of things with my HDSLR. While also allowing me to experiment more with shots, colors, angles, and so forth. While it may this, or any of my work, might not be true experimental, it is for me and it's what I want to see in a video.
"If" by Broke For Free (brokeforfree.com/) Licensed under Creative Commons
Special Thanks
To Michelle and Sharon for letting me disrupt the cafe during filming.
A shot from the set, where I was filming Drew Lance of STL Busking for change. Keep an eye open for more photos and videos from the documentary Im working on about the group.
Keep an eye on www.ccarverstudios.com for more shots, clips, and soon the full documentary.


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"Building a Human" by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz. Because I'm into DIY.
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"The Daily Mail reports that Rogers confessed to the Brown-Goldman killings after he was already in jail for the 1995 murders of Tina Marie Cribbs in Tampa and Sandra Gallagher in Los Angeles. He is also suspected of killing at least 10 others and once claimed he had murdered 70 people."
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With the recent shutdown of Megaupload and the arrest of Kim "Dotcom" Schmitz (founder of Megaupload and formerly the number one ranked Call of Duty player) for massive amounts of alleged copyright infringement, other legal news relating to Megaupload might be overlooked. Well, have no fear, here is some information about the lawsuit filed by Megaupload weeks before its shutdown.
Megaupload.com was a web hosting/file sharing site where users could upload their files (very often copyrighted music, film, and software) and other users could download those files.
About six weeks ago, Megaupload filed suit in California Federal Court against Universal Music Group ("UMG") claiming misrepresentation pursuant to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. §512(f)). Within Section 512, it is stated that a company shall not be liable for monetary damages, injunctive relief, or other equitable relief, if upon notice of claimed infringement, removes or disables access to the content in an expeditious manner (among other necessary conditions). Megaupload is claiming that the takedown notices Youtube received had no basis since none of UMG's copyrights were infringed.
But wait, what copyrights were allegedly infringed by Megaupload? Well, Megaupload created a music video featuring "endorsements by numerous famous artists, including but not limited to, Swizz Beatz, Kanye West, and Chris Brown," all of whom "executed full releases of any intellectual property right to the video." The music video even featured Printz Board and George Pajon Jnr of the Black Eyed Peas, among others. UMG demanded Youtube to remove the video because it featured an unauthorized performance of one of its artist Gin Wigmore.
In their complaint, Megaupload claimed that they did not infringe any copyright owned or administered by UMG and that UMG had "actual subjective knowledge of the contents of, the artist contributing to the [music video], that [Megaupload] was fully authorized to produce and publish and held all rights in the [music video] and that it did not infringe any of [UMG's] copyrights on the date [UMG] sent YouTube the takedown notice…" (See link above for a copy of the complaint)
Megaupload then goes on to allege that UMG acted in bad faith when it sent the takedown notice. Under Megaupload's theory, and assuming all their allegations to be true, UMG violated 17 U.S.C. § 512(f) by knowingly materially misrepresenting that the music video infringed UMG's copyright and used the DMCA takedown notices to cause the removal of such content from the Internet.
What is interesting is that UMG stated that they do not need to give a take down notices to YouTube. Rather, UMG said that they have a contractual agreement with YouTube that gives UMG use of a Content Management System. Through this system, UMG is able to remove videos from the site "based on a number of contractually specified criteria." This admission may have even exposed other flaws in the takedown procedure, as explained here.
However, possibly due to their recent troubles, Megaupload filed a notice to dismiss the claims against UMG without prejudice. This means that the lawsuit can be revived if they choose. Only time will tell if they will reinstitute their claims or not. Regardless, be on the look out for more information on UMG's use of its Content Management System.
In the mean time, Megaupload's attorneys will have to brush up on another area of copyright law – secondary liability.


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The 50th child to be abducted is Gerard Way. The 36th was Frank Iero.Please read.
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Humanitarian Intervention
The U.S. government is frequently called upon with requests for humanitarian intervention by foreign governments, the international NGO community, and various other groups. As such, many are calling for the U.S. to adopt a "responsibility to protect" doctrine. "R2P", as it has come to be known, raises serious questions about intervention on strictly humanitarian grounds: Is it legal? What are the ethics of using military force in response to human right violations? When and who should intervene? And finally, is it even effective? On May 21, the Center for Victims of Torture is cosponsoring this event along with the Minnesota International Center, the University of Minnesota Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change for a discussion attempting to answer some of these questions with one of the world's leading experts on humanitarian intervention, Dr. Lloyd Axworthy. More information here.
Cowles Auditorium, University of Minnesota Humphrey School
301 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis
Tickets: $5 Minnesota International Center members, students and cosponsors and $15 non-members
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Lil Wayne sat on the couch of BET's The Mo'Nique Show last night. In what was meant to be a week of simply promoting the upcoming release of Young Money's We Are Young Money—an album that as recently as last month was still intended to be double-packaged with Weezy's Rebirth—things have now taken a turn for the Uh-oh.
Wading back through Rebirth's multiple release dates and push-backs shows that Wayne's rock project was indeed intended at one point to drop this week. Then it got moved to December 21. And then to February 1. However, Amazon was apparently as confused as the vast majority of the public, as around 500 copies of Rebirth were accidentally shipped out Monday to those who'd pre-ordered it.
Naturally, the full album is all over the Internet now. Weezy gave nary a mention of the snafu while talking to Mo'Nique—who likely made his bad week worse when she decided to stage an impromptu audition to be added to his Cash Money roster.
Catch Wayne on The Mo'Nique Show—and clips of the leaked official Rebirth album—below the jump.
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My 5-year-old insists that Bilbo Baggins is a girl.
The first time she made this claim, I protested. Part of the fun of reading to your kids, after all, is in sharing the stories you loved as a child. And in the story I knew, Bilbo was a boy. A boy hobbit. (Whatever that entails.)
But my daughter was determined. She liked the story pretty well so far, but Bilbo was definitely a girl. So would I please start reading the book the right way? I hesitated. I imagined Tolkien spinning in his grave. I imagined mean letters from his testy estate. I imagined the story getting as lost in gender distinctions as dwarves in the Mirkwood.
Then I thought: What the hell, it's just a pronoun. My daughter wants Bilbo to be a girl, so a girl she will be. And you know what? The switch was easy. Bilbo, it turns out, makes a terrific heroine. She's tough, resourceful, humble, funny, and uses her wits to make off with a spectacular piece of jewelry. Perhaps most importantly, she never makes an issue of her gender—and neither does anyone else.
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Everyone knows that the first 90 days is the honeymoon phase in dating. You don't usually meet the "real" person until you've seen them in different environments and/or handling a variety of circumstances. What happens when you are seeing someone new and you see their nasty side (read: Not the good kind. The Ms. Jackson, If you're 'nasty' kind)?
Obviously, you don't want to dump someone for having a normal, human emotion, do you? Would it bother you if someone you were seeing revealed a pretty mean streak? What do you do when you have seen them react to something in a way that doesn't really sit well with you?
What are you willing to overlook and what classifies as a deal-breaking mean streak?
Have you ever been on a date and the person had a seemingly random outburst of anger or mean behavior?
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SALISBURY, Md. - The Salisbury City elections are over, and it's time to make those new positions official.
Incumbent Mayor Jim Ireton and City Council candidates Shanie Shields and Jake Day will all be sworn in on April 15th. The ceremony is at 6 p.m. inside the council chambers at the government office building.


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Hong Kong's Pottinger Hotel Blends Old World and New World
Rising from Hong Kong's oldest historic stone slab street is the city's newest addition to the bustling hotel scene. The Pottinger is a perfect balance of Eastern service and sensibility with Western amenities.
Located in the vibrant neighborhood of Central, Pottinger offers 68 guest rooms that showcase Hong Kong's romantic rich heritage, reflecting the wealth of its diverse culture. The standard rooms are perfect enough, but the seven suites, each named after streets in the neighborhood, are a bit more special with bespoke decor. Besides a calming and relaxing palate, all rooms include free wifi, bottled water and toiletries by Acca Kappa.
While the rooms might be elegantly appointed, each room also displays photography from Chinese artist, Fan Ho. The artist is best known for stunning black & white shots from around Central so they may offer up some inspiration to capture your own Hong Kong memories.
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Inside the Executive Club Lounge at the Four Seasons Hong Kong
Over on Jaunted, you can get our inside looks at some of the world's best airline lounges, so we thought we'd do something similar here and start talking about some of the hotel lounges we've frequented for our series on Hotel Club Lounges. Today, we're having a look inside the Executive Club Lounge at the Four Seasons Hong Kong.
Set within the International Finance Centre, the Four Seasons sits nearly on the water's edge on Hong Kong Island. Before we zoomed up to the 45th floor to peek inside the hotel's Executive Club Lounge, we had breakfast in The Lounge downstairs, which had us pleasantly surprised for its relatively affordable menu. Hong Kong's luxury hotels are notoriously expensive, so we wouldn't have thought scrambled eggs on toasted English muffins with bacon and avocado, a fresh orange juice, and a latte would take the total only up to just over US$20. It was delicious too, and the free WiFi for 2 hours helped us take care of a few things as well.
Stepping out of the lift on level 45, you turn to face the reception desk at the end of a short hallway. We liked the dramatic black high-gloss walls, the sculpture, and the colorful painting at the back. The hotel has 399 rooms and suites, with some categories having either a Western or contemporary Chinese design. Club access costs HKD1,400 (about $180) a night for two people, and is included with Club Rooms and Suites.
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5 Awesome Room Amenities at the Revamped Peninsula Kong Kong
We knew Peninsula Hotels was spending some serious money to refresh its Hong Kong flagship, and that lovers of tech would be well looked after. Having just stopped by the hotel, we now know what those proprietary bedside tablets look like in their natural environment, and spotted a number of other cool room amenities – including the futuristic-looking thing above.
We honestly had no clue what it was, but in this case we're not the target audience. Ladies, any guesses? Read on to find out.
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Does Hotel Indigo Hong Kong Deliver on Pretty Guestrooms and More?
Does the Hotel Indigo make us covet its guestrooms and manage to stand out in the Hong Kong hotel crowd? A HotelChatter Review
Guess the Hotel revealed! The blue staircase and blue pool did indeed belong to the Hotel Indigo Hong Kong, which is where we laid our head during a short stopover in the city. Hong Kong has an impressive hotel game, and our expectations were high given what Indigo pulled off further north in Shanghai. Read on to find out what we thought.
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A 'Wander'-ful Design Team Interprets a Chinese Fairy Tale at The Mira Moon
The Mira Moon in Hong Kong is 100 percent hotel haute couture and we all look good in it. This hotel unabashedly shows off its own sense of style and we, as the guests, become the necessary accessory.
In case you're not sure what we're talking about, this is the sister hotel developed by the Miramar Group, after the Mira Hong Kong, another visual journey (and hide-out for NSA leaker, Edward Snowden.) We think they may have outdone themselves with this one.
The hotel takes its name from the traditional Chinese "Moon Festival" which is celebrated in the Autumn. This is a festival of good fortune, honoring the Goddess of Immortality who has inspired many a Chinese fairy tale. It has also inspired a dream team of designers, who took this happy fairy tale and turned it into a one-of-kind, high fashion boutique hotel. Who else could pull this off better than Wanders & yoo?
Keep reading below for more on Wanders & yoo
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Here's How Peninsula Hotels are Celebrating The Year of The Horse
There's no doubt that the Chinese New Year is one of the most auspicious times of the year in most parts of Asia so it makes perfect sense for Peninsula Hotels, a hotel brand that originated in Hong Kong, to have some special celebrations to welcome in the Year of the Horse. And here's how they are doing it:
The nine luxury properties are hosting "Ten Perfect Treats" to help Chinese New Year first-timers and veterans of the celebration get into the mood of the happiest cultural season. Treats involve decor, food, arts, activities and packages amongst other events.
The Peninsula Hong Kong will be the center of good fortune, happiness, wealth and longevity. This Saturday, the flagship property will host a Sun Terrace party with free champagne to watch the fireworks over Victoria Harbour. Once the show is over, you can fill your belly with traditional new year treats at one of the hotel's seven restaurants.
After the jump, see how some of the other Peninsulas are getting festive.
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Shangri-La Starts a 'Points for Charity' Effort, But Who Really Benefits?
With the holiday season just a month or so away (sorry to be the bearer of bad news), Shangri-La is giving members of its Golden Circle rewards program the opportunity to help out two Hong Kong based charities, Oxfam Hong Kong (which aids poverty and disaster relief) and MedArt (which brings care to those in long-term confinement, such as prisons, psychiatric institutions, hospices, homes for the elderly, etc).
For every 1,000 points given by a member, Golden Circle will donate $20 to one of the charities on the member's behalf. The minimum donation starts at 2,000 points and can be increased by increments of 1,000 up until a maximum of 10,000, equivalent to a $200 cash donation. Members may donate by visiting the "Redeem Points" section on Golden Circle's website.
The donated points are forfeited from your account in exchange for the donation made by Golden Circle. How much these points are actually worth varies. For example, at a Shangri-La "collection A" hotel, a standard room is worth 1,000 points/night. At the highest tier of hotels, "collection G," a standard room is worth 20,000 points. So, a guest who donates 2,000 points sacrifices a two-night stay and the hotel donates $40 to charity.
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A Few Hotel Deals, All Wrapped Up Pretty and Nice
Deals: you want 'em, and surprisingly, everyone has 'em. Take a look at some of the latest hotel deals going around the internet today from booking sites, social media sites, flash sale sites and more. Don't forget to scroll down to see the HotelChatter-approved deal either. Who knows? You might just find what you're looking for. (But don't forget to tell us about your stay!)
· Kimpton's Mid-Atlantic Hotels Will Be Home for The Holidays: 12 of Kimpton's Mid-Atlantic Hotels are offering special "Early Bird" rates for stays from November 22 – December 1 in a special flash 72-hour flash sale beginning on September 24. Rates will start at $95 a night. Go here to book and enter the promo code TURKEY. The sale will kick off promptly at 12:00am on 9/24 and will end at 11:59 p.m. EST on 9/26. Participating hotels include the Donovan House and the Palomar in DC, along with the Monaco Alexandria in Virginia and the Monaco Baltimore.
· Love Thy Neighbor (and Thyself) at the Eau Palm Beach: Eau Palm Beach, the former Ritz-Carlton, has just introduced a new "Love thy Neighbor" package exclusively for Florida residents with rooms starting at $199 and an add-on spa package with $200 worth of spa credit for just $100. The deal is good through December 13th (before the out-of-towners start to arrive) and includes a Champagne welcome, high speed internet access and complimentary newspaper. Go here to book. The spa should be booked separately by calling 1.855.580.3933 with the code word LOVE. Guests must show Florida identification upon arrival.
· Marriott Hotels Rates Fall for Fall in NYC: Travelzoo has a deal for up to 45 percent off for Marriott Hotels in the pricey Big Apple. The Renaissance Times Square is usually going for $449 but if you book on Sept. 29 and Oct. 6 and 27, you can get it for just $233 a night. Two other Marriott hotels in Manhattan are also discounted but again, only for certain dates so make sure to cross-check those with your travel plans.
· Passport to Bourbon Country from 21c Museum Hotel Louisville: The funky museum hotel is offering a "Just Add Bourbon" package for National Bourbon Month that includes overnight accommodations, two cocktails at the Proof on Main hotel bar, two passports to the Urban Bourbon Trail in Louisville, breakfast for two at Proof on Main hotel restaurant and a Whiskey Lovers Kit from the hotel shop to take home. Rates start at $291 a night. Go here to book. (The package is also available at the 21c Museum Hotels in Bentonville, Ark. and Cincinnati as well.)
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Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong Celebrates 50 Years With 50 Ways to Pamper You
Here's the latest happening in the luxury hotel world as told by JustLuxe.com. Got a question about luxury hotels, the travel biz, and where to stay? Send it in and we'll have JustLuxe answer it.
The Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong sent us a sweet summer reminder that it's celebrating its 50th birthday all year long – and everyone's invited, as long as your "splurge travel" budget can handle it. With special spa treatments and commemorative cognac, dining promotions in all 10 F&B venues and champagne flowing from every direction, the hotel is wooing travelers on every front.
The list of "50 Fantastic Years" promotions goes on and on, so here's the Cliff Notes verision of the MO, HK Glorious Excess.
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And Here's Another Reason Why We Don't Trust the Hotel Safe
We've long been suspicious of the in-room hotel safe after personally encountering safes that simply didn't work and after hearing several tales of the safe getting robbed, like this one. But if you were still trusting the hotel safe to keep your valuables protected, this story may really cause you to think again.
At the posh Peninsula Hong Kong, one of the most high-tech hotels in the world, a man wearing hotel slippers tricked the staff into thinking he was a guest, not only gaining access to a hotel room but also getting the password to the in-room safe. Here's how he did it:
"Speaking in English, he told hotel staff that he had lost his room key and demanded another one," the [South China Morning Post] cited a Hong Kong police officer as saying, adding that the man provided details of the 47-year-old male occupant including name and birthdate, without saying how he had obtained such information.
After entering the room, the man "telephoned the front desk from the room saying he had forgotten the password of the safe and asked for assistance to open it", the officer was quoted by the SCMP as saying.
The thief managed to walk away with about $4,900 in cash, a computer, a wallet and a piece of luggage. So far, no arrests have been made but we're pretty sure that couple will never, ever, ever, use the hotel safe again. Or maybe, Hong Kong just needs to beef up their hotel security. After all, a HotelChatter tipster was able to uncover where NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was hiding out, thanks to a very nice hotel operator.
Traveling with some pretty nice stuff but don't want to use the hotel safe? Read our tips after the jump!
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What's Out, What's In: Dreams Really Do Come True
What's Out: Chocolates on your pillow
What's In: Over the top, fun and experiential turn-down services
Everyone loves coming back to their room after a nice dinner out to find that little chocolate sitting on their pillow, right? If you like that, though, you're going to love this. Some hotels are going out of their way to make sure that you have really sweet dreams with these OTT nighty-night rituals.
Hotel Vermont offers a special "bedtime menu" that includes such delights as a selection of Vermont flannel pyjamas to snuggle up in on a brisk night, local Lunaroma aromatherapy products from which you can choose, a Vermont teddy bear (your choice of six) to sleep with or take home, a selection of bedtime stories for the little ones, a locally-inspired Hot Toddy selection, and 10-15 minute in-room meditation sessions via TV or download.
In Fairmont Gold rooms at Boston's Fairmont Battery Wharf, you get a message in a bottle with top things to do in Boston during that particular time of the year.
Four Points by Sheraton Los Angeles International Airport is more than an ordinary airport hotel. It's known by some to be the original beer hotel and has an enormous beer selection featuring over 100 beers, a poolside bar dedicated solely to local beers, monthly beer appreciation nights and it even has a Beer Advisory Board and a Director of Brewer Relations. If all of that beer surrounding you has made you thirsty for more, you can order a Beer Club Package that includes stocking the in-room mini fridge with your choice of three of your favorite beers and a nightly beer turndown with souvenir glass.
Three more hotels with bedtime treats follow!
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Edward Snowden Has Already Checked Out of The Mira Hong Kong
If you ever need to track down someone in a hotel, it helps to put someone who works in a hotel on the job. When we guessed the whereabouts of the PRISM whistleblower, Edward Snowden, this morning, we threw out a couple of not-so-serious hotel guesses. But someone reading our story took it very seriously.
Our own Macau Deepthroat, as we call him, noticed the interview setting that Snowden did for the Guardian UK looked very similar to the rooms at The Mira Hong Kong in Kowloon Park. A quick Google image search confirmed this for him. Then MD went to the next level. Here's what he did:
With this bit of information I called to the hotel and claimed that I had sent a fax to Mr Snowden but it had never reached his room. The friendly operator confirmed then that Mr Edward Snowden had checked out at 12:30 pm and explained that this may have been the reason why he never received my fax message. I thanked her and ended the call.
I then called a second time to the hotel, this time I asked for the reservations department and pretended to be interested in extending Mr Edward Snowden's stay as he had to remain in Hong Kong due to unforeseen circumstances. I only provide the name and the fact that he had checked out of a Parkview Room today and a second later the reservations agent happily provides me the room number (on 10th floor) and quotes the rates for an extension of stay...
As I work in hotels, I know how to play the game and get the information one wants...
Where Snowden has gone is anyone's guess but we're sure the CIA and the NSA are on it. Meanwhile, the Mira might need to have a conversation with their "friendly" operators.


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The Sony Xperia Z1 is the phone the Xperia Z should have been. Its new, more rounded design sits comfortably in the hand, and the 5-inch Full HD screen looks great. Inside it has the lightning quick Snapdragon 800 chip, which includes a 2.2GHz quad-core processor and the Adreno 330 GPU. The real highlight, however, is the new camera. It has a larger than usual sensor that's the same size as most compact cameras, while the 20.7MP resolution is one of the highest you'll see on any phone. If it takes photos as good as its specs suggest, it'll make the Z1 a fantastic phone.
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Enduring Oddity in the "City Square"
When new images of the "City" in Cydonia became available in 1998, researchers noted a seeming discrepancy in the area dubbed the "City Square." One of the four mounds comprising the "City Square" seemed to have changed position since it was last photographed in 1976. The GIF animation below shows the "rotated" feature.
Note "rotated" appearance of mound in lower left of top half of image.
Anomalists are left with three distinct options:
1.) The seemingly "rotated" feature is a trick of camera angle and lighting.
2.) The feature was indeed physically moved on the Martian surface by unknown means between 1976 and 1998.
3.) One of the images of the City Square has been digitally manipulated to give the impression of a "rotated" surface feature.
The "City Square," four mounds located in the lateral center of the "City" complex. The pill-shaped mound under discussion is visible on the lower left.
Chris Joseph, whose photoclinometric images of the curious Martian "tubes" appear in earlier installments, writes the following regarding his attempt to reconcile the 1976 and 1998 images:
"One is a comparison between the viking image, showing the points of reference on the grid, the other is the resized and rotated MGS [see image above]. You'll notice that as close as I get the reference points to each other, the pyramid, the crater above it (top right) and the large mound (bottom right) are way out of place. The image was proportionally resized for a best fit, and then the height and width were tweaked into place seperately. The animated gif (for some reason, Flash dithers the images) is a cutout of the city square overlay.
"I would think that if the images were taken at different angles/aspect ratios, the tweaking should have lined everything up. Maybe I'm wrong."
SPSR's Lan Fleming notes that the "rotated" mound appears to be elevated in the Viking image, in which case its seeming dislocation may be due to the different lighting conditions present when the Mars Global Surveyor took its picture in 1998.
Martian "Tubes"--On Earth!
Reader David Robinson has kindly supplied the following image taken from the 1980 book "Flights of Discovery." The photo caption from "Flights of Discovery" appears beneath the image below.
"The Klondike [sic] near Dawson City in the Canadian Yukon. The discovery of alluvial gold in the Klondike [sic] sparked off the gold rush of 1896. Whatever escaped the gold washers and nugget hunters of the old days is now extracted from the diminishing gold deposits by mining companies using huge floating dredges. The systematically churned waste shows where the dredges have passed."
The most famous of the alleged Martian "tubes." Other, similar features can be seen intersecting and nestled near each other much like in the Klondyke image above.
Rather than an ancient transportation system, could the Martian "tubes" be the remains of a vast mining operation, as suggested by the Klondyke photo?
Did Ancient "Martians" Dredge for Gold?
G.T. McCoy, posting on UFO UpDates, relates the following concerning the possibility that the infamous Martian "tubes" might be debris from an ancient mining operation:
"Want to see what made those tailings? Look at this example of a gold dredge still in existence at Sumpter, Oregon:
"[T]he valley that Sumpter sits in has tailings very like the Klondyke example given [see article and photo above]. The big deal is, this area was relatively arid and what passes for a river in Eastern Oregon would be a creek elsewhere. The point is this thing 'floated' on very little water and had a shallow draft.
"It might be worthwhile for someone to look for the remains of large, derelict equipment, possibly under the sand at the head of these anomalies."
The fact that the dredging machines described by McCoy were capable of operating in shallow conditions correlates with conditions in Mars' remote subaquatic past. Could a Martian civilization have used similar machines to scour the landscape for gold or some other precious substance?
Readers of Zechariah Sitchin will probably be the first to recognize the emphasis on gold related in the last two installments. According to Sitchin's theories (described in "The 12th Planet" and "Genesis Revisited," among others), an extraterrestrial species colonized Mars (and Earth) driven by a dire need for gold. Perhaps the notion is testable.
On a purely humorous note: Delete the "P" and the "T" from "Sumpter" and you get "Sumer." Richard Hoagland, eat your heart out!
An Octagon in Cydonia
Another unusually symmetrical and geometric feature has been located in the Cydonia region, site of the Face, Cliff, Tholus, and D&M Pyramid.
Interesting Cydonia feature discovered by Trish Anderson.
Much like the hexagonal feature adjacent to Mound P, the "Octagon" appears highly eroded but distinctively "out of place." Its internal structure appears un-craterlike.
Stereoscopic close-up of the Octagon by Chris Joseph. Note overall "faceted" look to surrounding features and small, triangular depression to upper-left.
Stereoscopic perspective view of Octagon and associated features.
Stereoscopic perspective view of Octagon and associated features.
Dome-like Feature Next to Eras Mounds
Chris Joseph has detected a dome-like anomaly next to the Eras Mounds identified by Paul Anderson. At first take, the Dome appears crater-like, but less so when seen in stereo.
The strange dome-like feature adjacent to the Eras Mounds presented in stereo format. Note "groove": a ramp of some kind?
Like many fine-scale enigmas found in the Cydonia region, the "dome" exhibits angles and inconsistencies with the surrounding terrain that suggest possible architectural origin.
The equally spaced, linear (terraced?) mounds discovered by Paul Anderson.
Detail along what can be seen of the Dome's shadowy perimeter indicates a deep foundation. Any number of reasons can be imagined why a Martian civilization would build partially buried structures, from the desire to maximize insulation from cosmic rays to the need for subsurface water ice. Aesthetic implications are much more difficult to postulate given the available data. The Eras Mounds certainly suggest a certain mathematical redundancy, but is this their raison d'etre or a by-product of their function?
The Eras Mounds, Dome and nearby "tube" seen in context. "Widescreen" stereo presentation courtesy of Chris Joseph.
The anomalies found in Cydonia warrant close-up, preferably manned, surface exploration. We seem to be looking back in time at artificial structures so old they have begun to regress into the landscape. Many ancient formations on Earth, long considered to be "natural," have proven to be artificial upon high-tech inspection. The anomalies in Cydonia deserve the same cautious approach.
A Pyramid on Phobos?
The "monolith" discovered on Mars' moonlet Phobos appears pyramid-like in this preliminary shape-from-shading rendering by Chris Joseph.
As explored in earlier installments, Mars' moon Phobos features several unexplained outcroppings, shown below.
Perhaps the most interesting of these is the tall feature dubbed the "monolith" by its discoverer, Efrain Palermo. Preliminary photoclinometric analysis by Chris Joseph shows that the "monolith" may be pyramidal. Since Phobos is a small, rounded body with no water or atmosphere to erode features into interesting shapes, the presence of the pyramidal "monolith" on Phobos is made doubly hard to explain.
Analysis of "monolith" by Efrain Palermo.
One prosaic option is that the pyramidal outropping is a chunk of debris that was blasted from Phobos by a meteor strike. But Phobos' gravity is scant, and it's difficult to accept that a shard of debris would fail to achieve escape velocity. We're left with the intriguing option that the monolith is an artifact of unknown function.
Was Phobos once colonized by a technological civilization? A body of evidence suggests this possibility. Before photos of the enigmatic moonlet were relayed to Earth by the Mariner mission, Carl Sagan had written about the implications of Phobos' anomalous orbital characteristics. Mainstream astronomers were forced to confront the possibility that Phobos was a hollow artificial satellite.
In the 1970s, physicist Gerard K. O'Neill published "The High Frontier," a blueprint for designing habitats in space. He described in detail how hollowing out a captured asteroid to make room for a human population would provide abundant raw material for self-sustaining microgravity industry.
Richard Hoagland, writing in "The Monuments of Mars," notes that the Martian moonlets seem "fortuitously placed," emphasizing possible artificial origin. Of the two moons, Phobos is the strangest, boasting an enormous crater that may be an opening into an unseen interior. Numerous straight furrows, or grooves, radiate from the crater. While some scientists have ventured that they are cracks caused by tidal stress, their origin is unknown and subject to debate.
But there is an exciting artificial explanation. O'Neill's proposed spacefaring worldlets propel themselves by means of mass-launchers. By flinging "buckets" of indigenous matter at a constant speed, an asteroid outfitted with strategically placed mass-launchers can be steered through space almost indefinitely. Intriguingly, mass-launchers take the form of large electromagnetic "tracks," which accelerate their payloads to escape velocity. Perhaps the enigmatic grooves on Phobos are derelict mass-launchers once used to receive and ship materials from elsewhere in the Solar System -- or even propel the moonlet through space.
Isaac Asimov championed the idea of "generation arks," enclosed artificial worlds like O'Neill's, designed for long interstellar journeys. Equipped with homeostatic ecologies, Asimov's arks could carry passengers from star to star over durations of hundreds if not thousands of years; the original colonists who set off on journeys aboard the arks would likely not see the voyage through to the end. But future generations, born within the arks' delicate enclosed biospheres, could ultimately finish the journey initiated by their ancestors.
Phobos might literally be an enormous spacecraft confined to Martian orbit. If the anomalies in Cydonia and elsewhere on Mars are in fact artificial, then perhaps the civilization that built them came from elsewhere, leaving its "ark" to bear mute witness. If so, future exploration of Phobos may ultimately prove as revealing as a manned mission to Cydonia.
Elliptical Formation Near Eras Mounds and "Dome" in Cydonia
Curious ring composed of small isolated mounds. The placement of the mounds appears nonrandom.
The area in Cydonia featuring the unique Eras Mounds and apparent dome is also home to a curious elliptical formation composed of evenly spaced small mounds. The most resonable skeptical argument against nonrandom placement is that "Cydoniahenge" (as I dub this formation) is the remains of a badly eroded crater. However, telltale signs of meteor damage such as caldera and ejecta are tantalizingly absent.
"Cydoniahenge" enlarged and contrasted.
Could the complex around the Eras Mounds constitute some sort of "earthworks" or cultural center? Or are we seeing even more bizarre rocks behaving in decidedly ungeological ways?
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This one's for Mrs. Lou Bradley of Maysville, Ky. Or, as I like to call her, "Mom." And Mom always said — and I mean always — that "your sins will find you out."
Last week a video of Erin Andrews, of whom you've heard, surfaced on the Internet. It was shot through a peephole in a hotel room and it featured — and here the hearts of 10 million fanboys go all a-flutter — footage of Ms. Andrews unclad. Her lawyer acted quickly to have such footage removed from the Web.
"While alone in the privacy of her hotel room, Erin Andrews was surreptitiously videotaped without her knowledge or consent," wrote her attorney, Marshall P. Grossman of Santa Monica, in a statement released on PR Newswire. "She was the victim of a crime and is taking action to protect herself and help ensure that others are not similarly violated in the future. Although the perpetrator or perpetrators of this criminal act have not yet been identified, when they are identified she intends to bring both civil and criminal charges against them and against anyone who has published the material. We request respect of Erin's privacy at this time, while she and her representatives are working with the authorities."
If you check today, you'll not find the video on the Internet. What you might find, according to Samuel Goldsmith of the New York Daily News, is a download purporting to feature Ms. Andrews but containing instead a big fat computer virus. Which, not to get all judgmental, is what you deserve.
As Graham Cluley of Sophos, an anti-virus developer, told Game On!, a USA Today sports blog: ""Hackers are no slacks when it comes to taking advantage of a hot internet search trend, and they have been quick to set up bogus webpages claiming to contain the video footage of Ms Andrews in her hotel room."
A confession: While I have seen Ms. Andrews in person — she lives in Atlanta — I don't quite understand the mania that has occurred since she became a sideline reporter on ESPN. (She used to do in-game updates for TBS during Braves games, and nobody seemed to find those exceptional in any way.) Yes, she's attractive, and yes, she's on TV, and yes, she covers sports, which caters to an audience of males, but still … a peephole video?
That's just sick. That's not even funny sick — it's "Psycho" sick. (The Bates Motel, as you'll recall, featured a peephole. And a nut behind the front desk.) Even Deadspin, a site not renowned for its sense of shame, has felt the need to apologize for directing readers to the (since-deleted) video.
And here's a word from Mrs. Bradley's son: Making like Norman Bates isn't cool, isn't sexy, isn't anything but … gross. Now go and sin no more.
July 20th, 2009
2:33 pm
I have to admit until the virus thing was mentioned I was going to try & Google the video . I feel a little bit bad about mentioning it . It was a slime ball act but beyond that how hot can a video really be shot through a peephole . Women who know sports & hang out in their hotel room naked are awesome . I think we can all agree on that .
July 20th, 2009
2:35 pm
I agree on a couple of fronts Mark. 1) this is sick and I hope they catch the idiots that did this 2) I do fondly remember Ms Andrews on the TBS broadcasts. And while I thought she was cute I don't understand the entire fascination of the fanboys with her online?
July 20th, 2009
2:42 pm
Bama Aaron,
????????????????? Erin Andrews is amazing!
Personally, Id like to see the video.
July 20th, 2009
2:44 pm
…does not float my boat (and yes, I am 100% heterosexual male)- she is just nothing special to me – and how does Mr. Bradley know what is on the web site that purportedly had the original video?
July 20th, 2009
2:45 pm
I think the whole thing is a set up, and a sex-tape would not help her career in broadcasting. However, this is going to bring more viewers to the games she works. Her stock just went up to ESPN.
July 20th, 2009
2:48 pm
Sorry Robert. I said I found her cute, not amazing. Just not my type I guess. Of course I do prefer brunettes….
July 20th, 2009
3:02 pm
ehhhhh, no disrespect intended, but I think Ms. Andrews is reaping benefits from the strange online hype machine/groupie fanbase.
July 20th, 2009
3:03 pm
Finally, Mark Bradley wrote something that's not idiotic. I hope she owns the hotel when this is over.
July 20th, 2009
3:06 pm
I feel bad for Erin's privacy being violated. When a sex tape surfaced on Paris Hilton, she agreed to have royalties for downloads, and is listed as a porn actress on some cites, per TMZ.
July 20th, 2009
3:07 pm
Make that, websites. Sorry.
July 20th, 2009
3:14 pm
I want Bradley through a peephole
July 20th, 2009
3:17 pm
As an ol' friend from Leroy, Alabama would say about Erin Andrews, "she looks good from 40 yards out." While attractive, she's no Jill Arrington…..
July 20th, 2009
3:19 pm
I do, however, know how the AJC benefits from this posting Mark. Tons of hits.
July 20th, 2009
3:21 pm
This is just so sick and disturbing….
Does anyone have the URL for the video?
July 20th, 2009
3:25 pm
The video is really sick and distrubing.
That said…it was a really, really hot video.
July 20th, 2009
3:25 pm
Lets see, attractive blonde that can talk about any and all sports. Yeah I don't see what all the fuss is about either. I will have to say, she is a totally differen't reporter since her Braves days. I would take her over most others in the business on either baseball or football now. Back with the Braves, she made me long for John Sterling and that former outfielder that lasted a year. What was his name?
July 20th, 2009
3:26 pm
Now Mark any publicity is good publicity in entertainment . Publicity about an attractive blonde sports reporter hanging out in her hotel room naked & having a video shot of them is going to give attention to her & her employer . Sports fans are for the most part male no ? The attention from this will benefit her to a degree don't you think Mark .
July 20th, 2009
3:26 pm
Jill Arrington had a mustache
July 20th, 2009
3:28 pm
Pre-drilled hole and camera small enough not to be noticed? I'd investigate other rooms in the hotel for peepholes….which I'm sure the police are.
I bet the place is a constant feed of hidden camera videos.
July 20th, 2009
3:29 pm
Dont see the big deal over her, shes just OK for me Dawg as Randy Jackson would say, me myself I've had better & still do, shes nuttin to get busted over thats for dam sure, Comprende"?????
July 20th, 2009
3:30 pm
Nor was Jill Arrington any good at what she did.
July 20th, 2009
3:31 pm
Javy you so crazy, you neva have girl so fine as Erin Andrew. you a lie, everybody know it too.
July 20th, 2009
3:33 pm
Jill Arrington used to list her residence as Beverly Hills . I used to think that was so tacky .
July 20th, 2009
3:35 pm
Hey BW-TR,
Ever hear of waxing here and there to remove unwanted hair?
I never noticed anything unsightly about Jill….looked really good in a sweater too.
July 20th, 2009
3:36 pm
I know it's different strokes for different folks, but "SimpleDawg" I just went back and checked out Jill Arrington' pics and I still think Erin's hotter and a much better allsports reporter. She really works hard researching every sport she reports on where as Jill just worked hard lookin' pretty.
I saw the disgustingly wrong peepshow on barstool sports and Erin was HOT!
July 20th, 2009
3:38 pm
SURE. Im buying this stance from most of the bloggers.
This is one of those to wife: "Can you believe how disgusting this is?!" (See Joe Buck "Thats just disgusting")
10 minutes later you are looking for the video. Then on Poker Night Tuesday you will be talking about how hot she is with the buds.
Be real. I found it. I watched it. I thought it was very hot. Maybe that makes me sick—but at least im honest. I'm a red blooded male and she is HOT. Eve couldnt resist the apple. I couldnt resist the chance to see Erin Andrews naked.
Be Real
And yes, shes hotter because shes on TV and you arent SUPPOSED to be able to see her naked…and shes pretty smokin anyway.
July 20th, 2009
3:39 pm
The way she talks through her nose annoys me and has since she did the studio gig for Thrashers games. Sounds just like all the other whiny Florida yankees. I don't understand the perverted fascination with her at all.
July 20th, 2009
3:39 pm
How many people just went to Barstool Sprots?..you know…just in case it was still there.
July 20th, 2009
3:39 pm
Maybe we're "splitting hairs" here….
July 20th, 2009
3:40 pm
BTW, it looks like she held up a dress in the footage that looks like the one she wore at the ESPYs filmed last week (shown last night). It was probably a hotel room in LA.
July 20th, 2009
3:40 pm
Glenn- I agree, ESPN has really struggled to get viewers. It would make sense for them/her to do this so people will actual tune into one of their 4 or 5 stations.
July 20th, 2009
3:46 pm
if you think the video is gone from the internet, you are sorely mistaken.
July 20th, 2009
3:50 pm
As a fellow Florida Gator I have got to admit, she only adds to the longlist of "Things of pure Awesomeness" that the mighty U of F has contributed to our great nation.
July 20th, 2009
3:52 pm
Not letting Erin Andrews do hockey was a HUGE mistake that ended up benefitting her and ESPN. For what it's worth, I thought she was very attractive when she was working for TBS.
That being said, the thing that kills me about this is the site that posted it and attracted the wrath of ESPN's attorneys said NOTHING about it being Erin Andrews. It was only after the e-mail from ESPN's attorneys that they realized what it was. The video also apparently has – or had, at this point – been available at another since since the middle of February (it was not identified as Erin Andrews there either).
I haven't seen it, but a few sites have reported that the quality is terrible (what do you expect through a peephole) and that you can't even tell for sure that it's Erin Andrews.
Well, at least you couldn't until she and the ESPN attorneys decided to go crazy.
July 20th, 2009
3:55 pm
Jill was blonde out of a bottle and if she hadn't gotten back to Beverly Hills and missed a waxing she would have a shadow because she is dark headed and not a true blonde like Erin. Erin does the college basebal w.s. She's awesome.
JCWFalcon, thanks for your honesty, me I'm paranoid. You know big brother gettin in my computer
July 20th, 2009
3:57 pm
She's Gator-trash. Who cares? The video probably just caught the WWTTD? tatoo (What Would Tim Tebow Do?) on her backside.
Again… I see about 20,000 MUCH better looking members of the fairer sex walking around Athens every day.
July 20th, 2009
3:58 pm
id say with 99% certainty its her. #1- they jumped on it too fast just to be another hot blond. #2- she held up a dress that looked very similar to the one she wore to the ESPY's.
July 20th, 2009
4:00 pm
Mark who was the color guy (Terence I'm talking about the other guy with the play by play guy) that did Braves games in the 80's, got run off about the time Sterling did? Played left field some, pure aweful.
July 20th, 2009
4:01 pm
Oh, and BTW… Sarah Palin is kinda hot. So is Rachel Madow.
Doesn't mean either of them offer or do anything actually substantial in their jobs, does it?
The Curious Case of Erin Andrews (let's call it) just proves that guys have extremely low standards (again, she's GATOR-TRASH).
We should all aspire to the standards of Tom Brady, I think.
July 20th, 2009
4:02 pm
To me, an attractive woman that knows about sports is a turn on. I can't stand the women who are high maintenance and are afraid to break their nails.
July 20th, 2009
4:02 pm
Mark, you could not be more right.
I hope the perp ( or perv ) is caught and prosecuted to her liking.
Maybe she'll end up with a hotel or two out of this.
She may or not be sports eye candy, but she does bring game.
July 20th, 2009
4:09 pm
"Chef" well said.
I just saw where a Garrison Smith video was accidently released. When will the madness end!
July 20th, 2009
4:17 pm
Oh well, you seen one, you seen them all. The only differences are colors, sizes & shapes. I don't know myself, but maybe Erin's is trimmed in GOLD! Honestly, I dont quite understand all the fuss, much to do about seriously nothing. If you have a woman, it's really better to view the real thing on her than have some fantasy on a boot leg video. Just IMHO~
July 20th, 2009
4:18 pm
I just saw the video myself, it's 6 parts on youtube. I felt like a creep even watching, I can't imagine recording that. Wow.
July 20th, 2009
4:20 pm
Let's face it. Erin Andrews is only looking for TMZ type status. The sex tapes worked for Kim Kardashian, Paris, and Pam Anderson. It's about selling yourself to get fame. Now non-sports fans will know who she is. She and her PR firm planted this.
July 20th, 2009
4:23 pm
This just in: Two individuals arrested for the Erin Andrews Peep-hole video incident were two University of Georgia Alumns!
July 20th, 2009
4:26 pm
And I thought I was cynical (I am, too.)
Frankly, in this age of voyeurism and the constant idolatry of celebrities, I'm a bit surprised something like this hasn't happened sooner to Ms. Andrews or any one of her colleagues. Now, that doesn't make it right in the least bit. Not at all. This invasion of her privacy is beyond ghastly and reprehensible. It's worthy of a good blanket party for the culprit (if you need a reminder, see "Full Metal Jacket." You'll get it.) with Ms. Andrews being allowed to take the first swing, the last swing and as many swings in the middle as she desires.
In a world where TMZ and Perez Hilton (and just who the hell is he and why should he matter) actually have an audience, it only points to the continuing degradation of our society as a whole. And this whole keyhole video of Ms. Andrews ain't helping, brother.
July 20th, 2009
4:28 pm
Bank Walker:
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