Rachael Ray didn't heat things up with Jay Z; Chrissy Teigen isn't a bad mom
Also in Tattle: The Jungle Book, Richie Ashburns Home Runs for Heart
BACK WHEN Tattle was a boy, people kept their opinions to themselves.
Then sportstalk radio let every fan with a transistor and a rotary phone have a forum to boorishly mouth off.
Then political call-in radio replaced the oratory of Lincoln with the bloviating of . . . pick anyone.
This development meshed with online comments sections, which allowed trolls who couldn't write a whole letter to their newspaper to spew venom before the minimalist ideas rattling around in their brains even had time to gestate.
Facebook gave the world the chance to tell all their "friends" when they were waiting for a bus, what they had for dinner, what their favorite Prince song was (finally, something useful).
Twitter allowed them to do it in shorter sentences. With hashtags.
So now we have a community filled with short attention spans and shorter fuses who feel it necessary to lash out at celebrity chef Rachael Ray for stealing Jay Z from Beyonce.
As the Washington Post - the paper that once broke the Watergate scandal - reported, one social-media user wrote, "Oh, I loved hot chicken fajitas but I will never make them again after what you did you did to the Queen."
Another wrote, "Never watchin ur show again Rachel u r a homewrecker!"
A third wrote, " . . . you better cook up a new man b4 I roll up with beehive and sting your - until you go into anaphylactic shock @rachaelray."
Yo, geniuses, Beyonce's alleged "Lemonade" rival is Rachel Roy.
With an "o".
Rachael Ray is on QVC selling baking pans.
* Also feeling the wrath of social media the past few days was Chrissy Teigen, wife of Penn alum John Legend, who had the unmitigated gall to go out to dinner with her husband less than two weeks after she gave birth, and leaving their newborn daughter in the car.
Uh, no.
In an unprotected area of Chuck E Cheese?
Nope.
A transgender bathroom?
No again.
Teigen's sin was leaving their baby at home with probably a nanny, a grandparent, bodyguard, a nurse on call and a baby monitor so expensive it could pick up the breathing patterns of an ant crawling under the crib.
Everybody needs to chill. Worry about your own kids.
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* According to The Tennesseean, Erin Andrews has settled her suit against a hotel owner and operator that gave her stalker/peephole filmer an adjoining room when she stayed in Nashville.
Her lawyer Randall Kinnard, said, "Erin Andrews is satisfied with the settlement, the terms of which are confidential."
* Last week we reported on the winners at the Richie Ashburn Memorial Home Runs for Heart Media Day at Citizen's Bank Park, but everyone who played was a winner, even if they couldn't hit the ball past the pitcher's mound.
A number of the 35 swingers came late and missed the photo-op, but seated (from left) are Chris Stigall, WPHT; Mina Say What, Power 99; Kelsey McElroy, WJBR, guest of honor Alex Forss; Rich Ashburn Jr.; Jillian Mele, Comcast SportsNet; Marc Farzetta, 94 WIP
Standing (from left): Raphael Opida, Q102; Rocco, Q102; Barrett Brooks, Comcast SportsNet; Bruce Adams, Main Line Times; Brian Soscia, WSTW; Tom McCarthy, Phillies Broadcast Team; Frank Lewis, WOGL; Crockett, WXTU; Tattle, Philadelphia Daily News; Tom Rowan, Philly.com; Bill Zimpfer, WOGL; John Clark, Comcast SportsNet, Bobby Smith, AMP Radio; Jenice Armstrong, Philadelphia Daily News; and Chris Leonard, WJBR.
The two day public event is Monday and Tuesday, May 2-3, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Can you hit a ball over the wall for a good cause? For more info, go to www.heart.org/homeruns.
- Daily News wire services
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