This is a six-day-old story so feel free to ignore, but on 1.6.23 an avaricious pair of Daily Beast reporters — Diana Falzone and Justin Baragona — tried to get Billy Bush re-cancelled for making a hot-mike “woody” crack about Kendall Jenner‘s “Jessie the Cowgirl” costume on 10.31.22.
Yes, over two months ago. Some vigilant observer who works (or worked) for Extra provided the Beast-ies with a video clip of Bush’s “objectifying” comment when the subject of Jenner’s Halloween costume came up.
Bush said the following: “Kendall goes as Jessie and, believe me, there were a lot of woodies.”
This was basically a so-whatter — a no-big-deal allusion to Tom Hanks‘ Woody character in Toy Story 2, the 1999 film in which the Jessie character (voiced by Joan Cusack) made her debut.
As far as Kendall Jenner is concerned, her brand is precisely and entirely about being objectified. That’s what she does in order to make money — guys get woodies and younger women are made to feel envious (and sometimes try to imitate her).
Bush, who got into trouble six years ago for giggling at Donald Trump‘s hot-miked “grab women by the pussy” remark, shared a mild crack about Jenner being an object of common sexual attraction…big deal. And a couple of months later a staffer or stringer on the Extra set tried to add to Bush’s angst by feeding the video to the fanatics at the Daily Beast.
In some media sectors the woke climate is nothing less than psychotic. This is but one example.
