Word: rantingly
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...ready-to-wear blanket went so far as to inspire Cameron Cosgrove, an 18-year-old Connecticut native, to post a seven-minute, profanity-laden rant on YouTube. "This is the best way to explain it," he tells the camera between long drags on a cigarette. "It's a bathrobe. That is really long. That you wear backwards...
Scott Boilen, CEO and president of Allstar Marketing Group, the company that makes the cuddly cassock, is familiar with Snuggie haters; he's seen Cosgrove's rant. "Publicity is publicity," he says. "At least people are talking about it." And evidently people are also buying it, with more than 3 million Snuggies sold and counting...
...take Cameron Cosgrove, an 18-year-old Connecticut native who posted a seven-minute, profanity-laden rant on YouTube about the cuddly merchandise. "This is the best way to explain it," he tells the camera between long drags on a cigarette. "It's a bathrobe. That is really long. That you wear backwards...
...Scott Boilen, CEO and president of Allstar Products Group, the company that makes the sleeved fleece, is familiar with Snuggie haters; he's seen Cosgrove's rant: "Publicity is publicity. At least people are talking about it," he says. And people are evidently buying it, with more than 3 million Snuggies sold and counting. This is perhaps not surprising in a country that turned the inventor of the Pet Rock - a pebble with googly eyes glued on - into a millionaire in three months...
...digital and cellular phone cameras break down limits on who can get images out into the world: "[A]mateurs increasingly cover the news more effectively than professionals, as was the case in the London bombing of 2005, the racist rant by actor Michael Richards, or the return of the American war dead in caskets. They also frequently make the news, such as soldiers' photographs made in the Abu Ghraib prison or the videos of captive either pleading for their lives or being murdered that are expressly made by insurgents to foment terror...It may be time for professionals...