A Legal Alien

I hate David Hasselhoff.

When we were in college, every now and again, Disa and DaShawn would be watching re-runs of Knight Rider. Considering my intense aversion to all men who wear white pants, my loathing of all things Hasselhoffian grew. But now it's worse.

Did David Hasselhoff really help end the Cold War?
Baywatch star David Hasselhoff is griping that his role in reuniting East and West Germany has been overlooked. So what part, if any, did the hunk in trunks play in ending the Cold War?
Barely a month after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, the city that had been divided by politics for more than 40 years was united in song.
And leading the chorus of several hundred thousand voices was a man hitherto known to the rest of the world for driving a talking car.
David Hasselhoff, star of the hit 80s TV series Knight Rider, is renowned in celebrity-obsessed circles for being Big In Germany; not only as an actor, but as a purveyor of soft rock anthems.

Speaking to Germany's TV Spielfilm magazine, the 51-year-old carped about how his pivotal role in harmonising relations between the two sides of the divide had been overlooked.
"I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie," he told the magazine.
The singer himself has powerful memories of the performance. "It was the first time Germany had been unified, and close to a million East and West German fans stood together in the freezing cold at midnight watching me perform. I was overcome with emotion," he recalls.

His popularity even prompted a headline in one German newspaper, "Hasselhoff: not since the Beatles". So, do German fans think their idol has been overlooked as a history man?
John Stuellenberg, who was won over by the Hoffmeister as a 14-year-old schoolboy watching that New Year's Eve concert, believes he deserves recognition at the Checkpoint Charlie museum.
"It's a big museum from what I hear, so I can't see why they wouldn't have room for a photo."

Story from BBC NEWS:http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/magazine/3465301.

You've got to be kidding me. As if people didn't care any less about this has-been hack of an actor who's known for riding around in a talking car, wearing bad sweaters and WHITE. PANTS and later for being the guy in a sea of boobs on Baywatch. Does anyone really care if David Hasselhoff stood on the Berlin Wall and sang wearing a jacket with flashing lights? Reality Check, David. The Berlin Wall had nothing to do with you. You have no business being in the Berlin museum. At least the Germans did something right in hoping to forget the embarrassing debacle that is your fan base.