Take some heat for 'hotties'

TMZ.com can be informative (court docs at your fingertips) and amusing (video of train wrecks like Brandon Davis), but it also crosses the bounds into the mindlessly tasteless from time to time. I want to wrap somebody's knuckles for today's pronouncement/poll on "Who's the Middle East Hottie?" It talks up Bill Hemmer, above right, of Fox News, Richard Engel, left, of NBC, and Anderson Cooper, below right, of CNN and how cool they look in their flak jackets.


Puleeeeze. These guys are among hundreds of reporters in Israel and Lebanon who are putting themselves in harm's way to cover serious combat that already is taking a very heavy toll and has worldwide consequences. Not quite the same circumstances as the brief Gulf War, when NBC's Arthur Kent was playfully dubbed the Scud Stud.