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There is something both odd and irritating about watching a political leader blithely singing a silly song as he otherwise destroys his country. Was it Nero who laid the groundwork for this nettlesome counterpoint of music and mirth vs. madness and mayhem? I’m sure many of you heard our Glorious Leader singing, with impish frivolity, a song about how he yearns to return to his fake, non-working “ranch” (more accurately known as a “country home”) after he kills some more folks. I suspect that that cloying little number is too close to current travails to enjoy. The following clip, however, thanks to the amelioration of time, is genuinely funny:
While it is generally acknowledged that corporations don’t have hearts, they apparently have feelings, tetchy feelings that are easy to both hurt and inflame. Why else would Fox New be acting like a petulant character in Mean Girls, engaging in a pissy fight with one of its frenemies in the world of corporate media?
[Fox News Chairman Roger] Ailes called [NBC chief executive Jeff] Zucker on his cellphone last summer, clearly agitated over a slam against him by MSNBC host Keith Olbermann. According to sources familiar with the conversation, Ailes warned that if Olbermann didn’t stop such attacks against Fox, he would unleash O’Reilly against NBC and would use the New York Post as well.”
And people say you can’t rely on a word uttered by Fox News. Rubbish! For lo and behold, look what appeared in today’s New York Post:
May 19, 2008 — Is Keith Olbermann, MSNBC’s top-rated anchor, on the verge of yet another professional meltdown? His feuding with “Hardball” host Chris Matthews is nothing new. But now we’re told notoriously odd Olbermann is lashing out at the rest of his network’s talking heads. During West Virginia primary coverage the other night, Olbermann began pounding the table when lead White House reporter David Gregory didn’t wrap his segment quickly enough to satisfy him. Olbermann recently encouraged management to oust the cable channel’s lone conservative, Tucker Carlson, and it’s also no secret among producers that Olbermann refuses to introduce Dan Abrams’ show, which follows his own. Olbermann walked out of MSNBC years ago in a huff after also blowing up at ESPN, so TV insiders are curious if this recent behavior is a sign that history will repeat itself. MSNBC did not respond to our calls and e-mails seeking comment.
As you can see, Demon-crats are up to their usual, underhanded trickery: Using what Mr. McCain says on one day to contradict what he said on a completely different day! It’s sad that the liberals are so bereft of words that they must resort to using Mr. McCain’s words. The so-called “truth” is such a bothersome technicality and, as your current President has so painstakingly showed, has absolutely no place in American politics. The liberals should be ashamed of this nitpicking approach: To be tethered to accuracy shows an appalling absence of imagination. Frankly, I haven’t witnessed such an sad reliance on technicality since Dora Denkins prowled for men in international waters on a Carnival cruise, simply to evade the jurisdiction of the Centers for Disease Control.
Author of books for children, Bill O’Reilly, can always be counted on to bring the crazy, but this is a rather wonderful display. Now, I don’t wish to gossip, but I wonder if that, ur, sniffing and, um, licking of lips had anything to do with the outburst.
SNL usually employs a delicate touch when it comes to making fun of politicians. The intentions are broad and the execution silly, so as not to unduly offend the tetchy sensibilities of an America now divided between people who use the noun “libs” and those who know the difference between a noun and an adjective. Indeed, SNL’s approach to political commentary usually seems more geared at avoiding ruffling the peacock feathers of General Electric than in providing biting, much less insightful, satire.
Last night was a rare exception. The show opened with Amy Poehler (who imitates Hillary Clinton as well as Miracle Whip imitates Béchamel) doing a pointed evisceration of Hillary Clinton (a political with nine lives, each progressively more annoying and desperate than the last, who is apparently well into her tenth life). While I do think that Hillary (a gal ready for deficit-spending on day one!)has been begging for such a brutal smackdown for quite some time, I find SNL’s sudden boldness oddly timed. After all, we have just gone through seven years of the least popular president in living memory and the most bite SNL could ever muster was to portray the man who made torture chic again as harmless and amiably befuddled. But maybe I am being too generous in crediting SNL with any moxie at all. After all, it waited until Hillary had already lost before taking this shot. As a Republican, I thank them. And John McCain’s 135 year old mother thanks them, too.
Our First Lady Laura “Pickles” Bush is just as dynamic a public speaker as sleepy, old John McCain. Whenever he isn’t screaming and red-faced, I’m never sure if John will remain interested enough in what he is saying to actually finish any given sentence. And I can’t watch this video of Pickles without thinking that the some staffer shoved the wrong speech into her tranquilized hands just before someone turned the camera on. Surely, she was supposed to give her usual “Reading stuff is real keen!” speech instead of scolding a country currently coping with ten times the deaths New York witnessed on September 11, 2001. And I’m sure I’m not the only who thought, when she bemoaned the incompetence of the government in responding to the natural disaster and how those in power are illegitimate and ignore the constitution, that she was talking about Katrina and cabal much closer to home.
Honestly, what a vulgar question! Of course, the answer would have been equally shocking if Mr. McCain had not scrupulously skirted it by pretending to be above such profanity.
In his 1992 Senate bid, McCain was joined on the campaign trail by his wife, Cindy (who looks as if she used to be a stewardess on Pan Am), as well as campaign aide Doug Cole and consultant Wes Gullett. At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain’s hair and said, “You’re getting a little thin up there.” McCain’s face reddened, and he responded, “At least I don’t plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you [UNCHRISTIAN WORDS THAT STARTS WITH A C].” McCain’s excuse was that it had been a long day. If elected president of the United States, McCain would have many long days.
