Randy Rainbow Update: This Week He's Channeling Madonna In "Border Lies"

In his latest video, Randy Rainbow channels Madonna with
his new song "Border Lies."

One of my most favorite Madonna tunes is "Borderline."

But I have to say Randy Rainbow, in his latest video that was dropped today, has improved upon the song greatly with his new version, called "Border Lies."

It was inevitable that Rainbow would take on the so-called national emergency Trump declared over the border.

He didn't get his money for his stupid wall, and his predictable tantrum took the form of declaring a fake emergency for his border wall, or fence or whatever.

You have to admit, Trump gave Rainbow a nice assist with his sing-song speech about how his "emergency" will wend its way through the courst. "I love this song," Rainbow gushingly stage whispers to his journalistic colleagues in the video.

Then the performance of "Border Lies" gets underway.

Sample lyric:

"Border lies
Great for distracting from Russian ties 
More insulting than your skin tone 
Talkin' 'bout border lies."

The video has everything, even a Nancy Pelosi style clap back.

My only quibble is I don't think Randy Rainbow can pull off a 1980s style hairdo as well as Madonna could back in the day, but oh, well.

Here's the video, so enjoy!

Oops: Putin Was NOT Target of Poopy Sanction By Angry Bird

See that bit of bird poop on Vladimir Putin's shoulder?
Totally fake. Somebody photoshopped into a video. 

Remember that video the other day I posted of Vladimir Putin giving a speech and bird pooped on  his suit?

Turns out it was totally fake. I and a lot of news organizations and bloggers got taken.

Britain's Independent was able to prove that somebody who is pretty damn skillful at altering videos inserted the bird poop from the sky.  

So it turns out Putin was not the victim of targeted sanctioning from a bird.

So oh, well.

I still think Putin is creepy, and wouldn't mind if a bird really did poop on him.

One can only dream.

Cheating, "Midgets," Gonorrhea And McDonald's: Is This Embarrasing Video Real Or A Bad Comedy Sketch?

Today, all over this Internet thingy, is a video supposedly of a guy having a meltdown at a McDonald's.

Is the explosion of fake YouTube videos
good, bad, or meh?  

In it, he's on his phone, outraged that his girlfriend, who accuses him of giving her gonorrhea, is cheating on him with someone who he describes as a "midget" (his word, certainly not mine) and he threatens to do something sexual to that person, you know, as punishment.

He wants to have sex with someone who helping his girlfriend cheat?  Some people have the most interesting lives. Or not.

This could be another case of off-the-rails TMI, but more than likely, its yet another one of those fake videos that are just put out there because they are outrageous.

Totally fake, but good for getting eyeballs to look at it, thereby getting web hits and some money for whomever put it out there.

The most famous example is that one of the woman twerking, falling over onto some candles, thereby setting herself on fire. A lot of people thought it was real, but it was a Jimmy Kimmel gag.

I don't even know whether I should be annoyed at these fake videos flooding YouTube. You do feel betrayed when the videos don't reflect reality, and are just somebody's idea of a joke. But geez, we spend our lives watching and consuming fiction for fun. Is this any different?

Of course, most novels, television shows, movies and the like are clearly billed as fiction if they are, and many of these videos don't have such labels. Is it bad that we don't know what's fake and what's real on YouTube? Probably not, but this kind of thing inevitably bleeds over into all kinds of aspects of life.

It just makes us less certain of what's real and what's not in our lives as a whole, and that's unsettling.

So I'm torn. Whether this video is fake or not  puts me on the fence on whether I should be posting this.  But what the hell, it's funny. We'll just assume its fake so that we don't further upset our concept of reality.

Yep, That Twerking Video In My Screed Last Week Was Fake, As I Said

Some of you might remember my screed last week declaring twerking a dead fad.

I stand by that, but not by a vow I made to myself to never talk about twerking again.

Jimmy Kimmel fessing up with
the stunt woman who helped him make
the fake twerking video that went viral last week.  

In last week's screed, I said a video of a twerking disaster that went viral was probably fake.

I was right again. Just for the record, the fiery twerking disaster was a sketch produced by Jimmy Kimmel. 

He 'fessed up to the "deception" last night on his show.

The woman who twerked, fell and burst into flames in the video was a professional stuntwoman.

Kimmel said he just put the video out there without promoting it, to see if it would go viral. It did. He and I are amazed at how many media outlets reported on the video at face value, without even mentioning that it could be a fake.

Um, you can't believe everything you read on the Internet, folks.

Yeah. I'm twerking madly right now as I type this. It's true! It's on the Internet, so it's true!

Kimmel said he hopes his fake twerking disaster video will end twerking forever.

I can't agree with you more, Jimmy!

But it turns out twerking isn't a new fad. I found this great video on BoingBoing of a woman twerking in 1910. Seriously!  To be honest, it's probably the only twerking video I'll ever like

Watch and see if you agree: