how to stand out from the crowd

You could be like Rudy Giuliani at the Republicans’ “debate” last night: ***

Will the day that Roe v. Wade is repealed be a good day for America?” asked moderator Chris Matthews of all 10 contenders.

All except Giuliani answered in the affirmative.

Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas said, “It would be a glorious day of human liberty and freedom.”

“It’d be OK,” said Giuliani, …

Hmmm, let’s see: from glorious to —> OK. That’s how to stand out if you’re in politics.

If you’re in gossip, on the other hand, you claim moral superiority over your competitors by proudly gloating that your magazine is factually correct. Really, I’m not making this up:

TAKING SHOTS: Us Weekly, consumer advocate? That’s the spin Wenner Media is putting on the title’s decision to run a story this week calling out its competitors for misleading consumers. In the piece, “All the News That’s Fake,” Us Weekly points to recent issues of OK!, Life & Style, In Touch and Star and “corrects” headlines and accompanying stories in each magazine about celebrity breast augmentations, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony breaking up, Brad Pitt wanting Jennifer Aniston back, and Katie Holmes talking about divorcing Tom Cruise.

“The level of fabrication has reached a fever pitch that we needed to do something about it,” said a spokesman for Wenner Media. “These headlines are completely egregious and misleading.”

So why not address its own mistakes while calling attention to the competition? “We do run corrections in the front of the magazine, and it happens in the regular course of news gathering,” said the Wenner spokesman. But, he added, “We don’t make up a headline.”

Bottom line: Everybody’s got their standards!

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*** Does the human Ken Doll love America or what?

And Romney did seem to come up with the smoothest, most seamless extemporaneous answers of the 10 rivals for the nomination.

Confronted with an out-of-left-field question about what he disliked most about America, Romney answered, “Gosh, I love America. …”