First ever GSN Awards show tainted by latest Bob Barker scandal!

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Buzzerblogsters have started the "FYB" movement, and some GSN.commers are calling for a boycott of the first GSN Awards show, and also showing a line of FYB t-shirts Barker protesters can wear to the event!

Whether or not any of this is true, other than the fight between Barker and Betty over the elephant, three things are certain; 1)The comments and posts are 99.9999% anti Barker. 2) The "Bob's A God" worshippers are errily quiet on the subject, maybe they're organizing to plant pro-Bob defense posts on all websites, or maybe they've finally gotten a clue!. And 3) Barker's panicking Spin Doctors haven't slept in 36 hours!

PS. I heard that the Animal Planet is going to run a special Animal Psychic show in which the frightened elephant confesses that she doesn't want to leave her family and friends and be relocated to San Andreas CA (who would?)

PPS. The elephant will be wearing a XXXXXXXlarge FYB t-shirt on the show. ;)

Third times the charm, I guess.
Considering how the majority of them operate, this really doesn't mean much.

Thanks Modor, I missed that the first/second time around, and there is some seriously funny stuff there!

I really wonder how the perception of Barker would be if this was against someone who wasn't universally loved by fans.

Well, how was the perception of Barker against Janice Pennington, Holly Hallstrom, Kathleen Bradley, Dian Parkinson, Sherrill Paris, Sharon Freim, Linda Riegert, Paul Alter, Barbara Hunter, Deborah Curling, Marc Breslow, Claudia Jordan, Sylvia Clement-Henry and Nikki Ziering? (And anyone else Barker got rid of that I may have missed?)

But in all those cases, he stood (or hid) behind the company which took the heat for it (publicly at least). There is no company to cover for him this time.

Whatever shred of respect I still held for Barker has been severed completely.

Betty White > Bob Barker

I couldn't agree with you more, Joe. To hell with Bob Barker and his "Oh, poor me, I'm not going to have Betty White ruin MY night." I'm surprised the place will be big enough to house Barker AND Dawson's inflated egos.

He does understand this is the "GSN Awards" and not the "Bob Barker Lifetime Achievement and God's Gift To Planet Earth Show", correct?

Probably not.

I'll try this one more time:

EVERY source that has reported this points back to someone who got this story out of the National Enquirer.

Not Weekly World News by any stretch, granted, but certainly not a source deserving of as much indignation and gravitas as has been displayed in this thread.

The National Enquirer is not in the business of fighting losing battles in libel suits. They know how litigious Barker is and if they printed false information which was unfavorable to Barker, they could likely expect a knock on the door from a lawyer representing Barker.

Wait a minute. You mean he's not?

Barbara Hunter...really?

^Thanks for pointing that out John. I was going down that famous (or infamous!) list of quotes about Barker from the former Price employees (none of it flattering to Ol' Bob!), and copied Barbara's name also since she was quoted too. Thanks for the heads up.

I was told by one of my big sources that Betty was asked not to appear. What a shame.

Absolutely. God forbid anyone upset Barker on "his special day".

Huh. All respect for Barker = gone.

(Also: blackout button tags. Sweet.)

This might get me banned, but I wish Barker would just leave this planet already. I have zero respect for the man and in my mind he is now sub-human. A soybean has more cred in my heart than him.

This awards show is a sham and should be dismantled. Bob Barker is not a human being.

Jason, get some help.

I would never stoop as low as Barker consistently has in recent years. I would have treated my staffers and models with respect and I wouldn't have tried to play revisionist history. And I sure as heck wouldn't have tried to piss off Betty, at the very least so she wouldn't go Lake Placid on me!

Don't think it'll get you banned (I don't speak for the mods), but it's time to put things in perspective here. Assuming the Enquirer is correct, then yes, Barker is by all means an egotistical prick who should be ashamed at himself. But to wish death upon him is pretty harsh.

BTW, it's not fair to paint the awards show in a bad light because of this. Barker unfairly put GSN between a rock and a hard place: making them decide between one of the more prolific game show hosts in TV history, or one of the more prolific panelists. Not diminishing Betty by any means, but I think if they had to make a decision, considering Barker's getting an award, it would look kinda tacky if your "lifetime achievement guest" were actually present, and not MIA due to a f**kin' elephant.

Crappy decision to make either way, and shame on Barker for putting GSN in that position.

I'd have just revoked the Lifetime Achievement honor if I were GSN. He rarely appears on GSN as it is, why bother?

There, fixed that for ya.

--Charlie

So now you renege on your decision, making you look completely tacky? Not to mention, you pull an award for a notorious prima donna who pulled a prima donna move in order to accept the damn award in the first place? GSN is adding enough to this alleged feud, albeit involuntarily. No sense in voluntarily shooting themselves in the foot.

Unfortunately, there is no winner in this scenario (pardon the pun). And unfortunately, letting your prima donna attend after he gives you an ultimatum is the best way to save face.

Just have the presenter of the award be Dian Parkinson. Problem solved.

They should do that anyway. And don't tell Bob about it ahead of time. Let it be a surprise.

Holly Hallstrom as the presenter would have a much better effect. Trust me.

No it isn't. I'd rather have not dealt with him in the first place or are the only people on Earth who see Barker as a mega-jerk us and the people he treated like trash? What does GSN have to lose shooting themselves in the foot?

Maybe I'm just the type of person who doesn't care what happens, but I'd rather live with the negative publicity if it means that the public sees the jerk they coddled for a half-century. Doesn't change my view that soybeans>Barker.

I'd rather have her and Dian picket the award with leaflets and an effingy of that non-human Barker. I'd fly out to LA and do it with them as anyone who has been screwed by Barker is a friend of mine.

Nobody on earth should like that non-human. At all. The world needs no love for him and it's time for the era of extreme animal rights to end. Sure, furs are bad and veggie wings are good, but the movements have gone too far and it was nice before 1981 when it went downhill thanks to PETA's founding and Dorthy Jo's death.

Dude, you're starting to frighten me. I thought you were just venting and being sarcastic, but you seem clearly serious about all this.

I'm POed at Barker too, but I wouldn't contemplate 1/10th of what you're proposing and implying.

You forgot the parts about Dian wearing an incredibly hot leather & fur outfit, and the award being sponsored by the new Kentucky Grilled Chicken.

And along with the award present him with a lawsuit.

I lol'd.

/And also give him a coupon that he can't claim.
//Got my free chicken dinner the day the coupons came out
///Total wait time: 5 minutes
////ObGameShows: KFC was a common game show consolation prize throughout the 80s.

I'm going to wait and see what Barker's spin doctors come up with. But in the meantime I don't intend to boycott the awards show, but like a number of others I also will be changing the channel when his "tribute" comes on.

And to think I defended this guy on another blog when the slings and arrows came out (TLEberle can vouch for that bit if insanity)

The more and more I read about Bob and his antics, the more and more I realize this guy was one of the worst ego-strokers in history. Of course, when a man demands to be referred to as "The World's Greatest Master of Ceremonies", going so far as to have it plastered on his dressing room door, you're gonna have to assume that he has an ego problem. It hurts me a lot because like all of us Bob was a part of my childhood, and one of the reasons why, as a child, I wanted to be a game show emcee...It's always hurtful when a part of your childhood dies. I still love TPiR, but Bob, I just lost any respect I had for him......*sigh*

Brian~

For me, it was Dick Clark all the way. You'll never convince me that he was a bad guy. :)

Ever see his fruit cellar? Piles of dead transients. And pickles from Soupy Sales.

And how do you know what Dian and Holly and all the others who screwed people over are thinking? If he did that to you, what would you think?

I'm with JepMasta in saying that all respect I had for Barker is gone. He has no chance to earn it back since he's a bad man.

None of that is the issue. The issue, as Joe pointed out, is that you're coming off here as stark raving mad. It honestly looks as though you're creating a personal vendetta out of something that doesn't even involve you.

Approves

Also approves

/and that's all that he is

Never is a long-ass time. I have zero respect for the way Bob Barker conducted himself, but there's a possibility that he could come back. How that would come about, I don't know.

Thought of him first

He'd have to make a lame man blind, cure a ham, and procure the Concentration library for GSN.

Being an Eagles fan, This is who I thought of.

/Frank Gifford is the one laid out like a pancake
//OBS: Later in life he married Kathie Lee who sung on NTT

Apologizing to all the people he hurt and waving the white flag with this elephant thing would be a start. Recanting for his revisionist history of his pro-fur past would be good too as would allowing GSN to all all of TPIR with a cigarette show-style stipulation for fur shows would be even better.

Maybe it's just me, but I'd have too much guilt to do what half the man did.

Which half, top or bottom?

Left hemisphere.

When I kick it, I want that in my funeral notice...

"He'll be laid out like a pancake at the Plots R Us Funeral Home."

For the record, Betty didn't show, Barker did.

And upon receiving his "Legend" award proceeded to give a speech about how he can officially call himself a "Legend" and how until they give the award away next year (Assuming there is a next year) he can be referred to as "THE Legend".

My husband, knowing nothing about Barker or his antics, gave me a look that said "Is this guy for real?"