Billy Bob's a boob -- and no rock star

Billy Bob's a boob

Here's the funny thing about CBC host Jian Ghomeshi's on-air clash with Hollywood actor Billy Bob Thornton, which has drawn big traffic on YouTube. It wasn't a clash at all.

Thornton behaved like an ass. At length. But Ghomeshi plowed ahead with the interview regardless, in tones exceedingly respectful and polite. He thanked the bad-boy star when it was all over. He then invited his band to play a tune.

Ghomeshi should have shown them the door -- on air. He should have publicly booted their pretentious hillbilly backsides back to the Ozarks. Why didn't he? Why are Canadians so painstakingly polite even when we're treated terribly? And why are people generally so nauseatingly deferential towards Hollywood celebrities?

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