11.15.10
Act Naturally Scripted
I couldn’t have hoped for better timing. Although it won’t do any good.
From Newsweek, on Sarah Palin’s Alaska, the mom bending down upon her grizzly knee:
Watching Sarah Palin’s new reality show Alaska is like listening to Sgt. Pepper.
You can’t buy a better ridiculous lead sentence.
More:
While driving a dog sled across the wilderness, her fur-trimmed parka so perfectly frames her face, she evokes Audrey Hepburn.
===
As Sarah Palin continues her climb, her knees feel trapped, she doesn’t know how to maneuver. Somehow, she musters the strength to climb higher, helped by the coaching from her guide who acknowledges her “Alaska-girl grit.??? He adds, “Good job, Sarah.??? And great job, Mark Burnett, who mines one more nugget from his newest reality star who says it was tough, but, “It’s fun when you reach the goal.???
Cue “Act Naturally.”
The Democratic Party has no one “white and crazy.” Nobody to beam at the camera with their name upside down in the background and have it painted as victory. No one for the media to gush over, to compare to Audrey Hepburn while outdoors fishing or sledding. It has no story, not even a ludicrous or bad one.
And I mean that in a critical way.
They have no one except Barack Obama to dominate television shows or news appearing to “Act Naturally.” Not a soul to destroy any mainstream media journalistic narrative by making their own. And he won’t do it, going absent without leave.
Instead, there are the likes of Heath Shuler and Jason Altmire. Fake Republicans only known to political junkies and news show tv producers — and not for any good things. Even as fools they have no hope of hitting the bigtime.
Even when the Democrats have MSNBC, they nuts it up, finding a situation in which Keith Olbermann has to take a few days off while no one bats an eye at Glenn Beck calling George Soros a Nazi collaborator.
On tv, even though they retain control of two-thirds of government, they appear a party of people with little backbone but lots of buyer’s remorse, eager to try and figure out how they can make tax cuts for the rich and even more decline look good.
And if they keep on going like this the Republicans will be able to get even someone fresh from a pharmaceutical straight-jacket elected in 2012.
The obvious point is the contrast between the administration’s
current whipped-dog demeanor and Mr. Obama’s soaring rhetoric as a candidate.