Okay, you and I both know that Africa is in fact a continent. And, buying expensive clothing during a recession/depression is pretty ill-advised but seriously ... MSNBC ... exercise some modicum of restraint, for Allah’s sake.
On “Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann,” the latest Sarah Palin debacle was deconstructed. The short form: She organized a little press junket to commemorate her own little turkey pardoning. Afterward, she gave a three minute interview; in the background of her interview was Cletus the slack-jawed yokel slaughtering two turkeys (i.e. doing the job he was getting paid for). Comical? Yes. A critical misstep? Maybe. Deserving of endless critical missives in the little box that runs at the bottom of the screen? Magic 8 Ball, help me on this ... "Highly doubtful."
You be the judge. Collected below are the denunciations that ran during Gov. Palin’s three minute interview ... again, I emphasize THREE MINUTE interview. Pick your favorite:
"Turkey carnage?"
That’s six different jabs that they used; that’s one every thirty seconds. Plus, they even repeated a few of them. O-ver-kill! Hey, MSNBC, quit being such goddamn pussies; why not just say what’s on your mind?
Friday, November 21, 2008
C'mon, give Palin a break!
5 comments:
The first and third captions were reasonable, but the other four were definitely overblown. All the same, Palin signed off on using that scene as a background, which was monumentally crazy. It's almost like she purposely chose to be interviewed in front of someone slaughtering turkeys to invite criticism.
There's a point in the interview where she turns her head a quarter way around, while Jethro is divorcing the turkey head from its body, but it's almost like she stops quickly to avoid acknowledging what's going on, as if she knows what's behind her, but she wants to finish the interview, and if she acknowledges the activities in the background she'd be harshly criticized for not taking the press party somewhere else.
The denouement that she approved the location yields nothing to the issue, because she could have realistically picked that backdrop out before Cletus started his turkey pluckin'.
I kinda feel a bit sorry for Palin. I haven't seen this level of a rapid "love you, hate you" social relationship since, maybe, the Macarena or the neo-swing revival of the early 2000s?
...Nate you were big on the swing comeback. Admit it. And don't take that as a bad thing either.
Hell, some of the stuff was great. You went way deep into the genre, stuff I'd never heard before and actually dreaded to hear. But I popped some cassettes into the dash and the tunes were on point.
Poor Palin, what else can be said? Or covered in detail by Josh and Ron.
Add Republican party vs. Jackass party, and then some.
To be honest, those two knuckleheads made an incredible argument for both parties in the weeks during and after the election. It was almost ridiculous.
I can't wait til the day that one, if not both, run for office.
Hopefully agin each other, cause those debates will make history.
They'll go on for so long that they'll have to end ith a "Dusty finish".
-Burke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AytWOmJtQ8I
I see your Soul Train and ante up the Judy Chop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuigcXvcy1A
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