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Selah March has more delicious scuttlebutt on this thing. Ah me, my schadenfreude when it comes to this knows no bounds.

Jorie rounds up some interesting linkage on this issue.

LLB blogs about this and writes a column on AAR.

Jonquil describes some of the horrorshow on her Livejournal.

Selah March has a post on the RITA/Golden Heart awards ceremony.

Instead of a celebration of RWA and romance fiction over the past 25 years, the RITA/GH awards ceremony included the following:

* a video and audio rehash of every national and international tragedy that’s taken place since 1980, set to a back-drop of kicky tunes from each year represented.

Imagine, if you will, footage of the tanks rolling through Tiananmen Square with “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” playing in the background. Apparently, only a last-minute edit managed to save the ceremony attendees from being forced to watch the shuttle Challenger explode in mid-air and…AND…the Twin Towers fall.

Think about that. All those NYC agents and editors in the audience. Think about it some more.

Yee-HAW. We’re celebratin’ NOW, baybeee…

** images of political leaders flashed on the screen, looking handsome and honorable.

Okay…wait. Let me rephrase. Images of REPUBLICAN political leaders—specifically Presidents Reagan, Bush I and II—flashed on the screen, looking handsome and honorable.

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*** virtually no positive images of women. Lewinsky was there, as noted. Lorena Bobbitt made a showing. Donna what’s-her-name…the one that sunk Gary Hart’s political career? She was pictured. Princess Diana got the full treatment, and—GET THIS—they called her story a FAIRY TALE.

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**** virtually no positive images of people of color. O.J. in his white bronco they got, ad nauseum. Bill Cosby flashed by once, so I’m told, and, as I said, Oprah got a brief mention.

Please, y’all. Please tell me this trainwreck didn’t actually happen.

Is anyone who was there willing to confirm whether this actually happened?

Update! On Monica Jackson’s blog, a couple of people confirmed that this did, indeed, take place.

That dull, thumping sound? The sound not unlike that of a ripe cantaloupe hitting the sidewalk? That’s my head hitting the desk.

My question is: why aren’t more people who attended blogging about this? Or did none of this strike them as incredibly asinine and/or inappropriate?

Or maybe I just need to expand my blog rounds more? Hmmm. If you have linkies, put ‘em in the comments! Eyewitness accounts too.

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