Reply #63: I'm not sure why he ran this other than to say

[Berry Cool]

"This is some scary celebrity stuff that happened this past year. Don't let it happen to you."

I don't think he thinks it's necessarily all funny.

And he lacks no sympathy or understanding for alcoholics. He's spoken about alcoholics and other addicts and their issues many times when he's been on Dan Patrick's old ESPN radio show, because so many athletes have those problems and it gets in the news. When he's done so, he's spoken with great insight and understanding into the nature of addiction. And he's said he's had relatives who have dealt with it, so he knows what he's talking about.

If people want to think "Keith is a sanctimonious, mean-spirited, self-righteous prick" or "perverse" or "sadistic" just because he runs this, that's their choice. If they want to throw out the baby with the bath water by swearing off him because of something he said or did that made them decide he was too evil to watch anymore, that's their decision. But I think they're projecting an awful lot more than they see, and ignoring what they don't know about. Is he perfect? No. Is he to everyone's taste? No. But his value as a truth-teller to me outweighs everything else.

Personally, I'm with those who find "the DU inquisition is a bunch of sanctimonious, self righteous, mean-spirited pricks." I'm tired of hearing about how much KO "hates women," just because he made fun of some trashy celebrity like Paris or Britney for their behavior. (By the way, he never "laughed at Spears for being fat.") It's not their gender he's ridiculing...it's their behavior. He'd make fun of it in a man, too...and does.

As for animals, he never shows footage of animals being permanently injured or killed. He wouldn't find it funny. Otherwise, he finds that goofy things that happen to animals are as funny as when they happen to people. It's not "animal cruelty." It's bloopers. He showed the two-headed kitten story because it was news...a blooper of nature. I sensed no glee in him whatsoever. I think he was amused by the way the little boy in the family it was born to was handling all the media attention, not the plight of the cat.

You know what footage I once wished he'd stop running? The stupid fake video of the guy who was supposed to look like Silvio Berlusconi supposedly walking up to a meter maid leaning over a car and pretending to plug her from the rear. He played it over and over and seemed to find it hilarious. I didn't find it funny at all and wrote the show several times to say so, but he kept playing it, even after he found out it wasn't Berlusconi. That was MY big gripe with him, until he stopped playing it. If I ever met him in person I'd still tell him off for that one. I'd tell him that women who have been trapped by a strange man grinding his groin into them in public while fully clothed really don't appreciate the constant reminder of what it feels like.

Also, while I don't think he hates women like some people like to think, I do think he sometimes makes the sorry mistake of judging their intelligence and virtue on the basis of their looks. But that's something society teaches us all to do from our early days. "Only bad witches are ugly," as they say in The Wizard of Oz. Eventually that translates to: "If a woman is pretty, she must be good--even if she's not smart. If she is ugly, she must be bad."

Should he know better than to judge at least some women by their looks? Should he know better than to laugh at a strange man grinding himself into a woman in public even when it's a staged video? Yes. But would it make me stop watching his show or failing to appreciate him for all the good he does? No.