That’s the only explanation one can come up with after reading this whinefest about Sen. Clinton’s “Sopranos” ad. To Carlson the ad is all about various levels of being and whatnot, you get the sense that she too agrees that onion rings are vaginas.
A long time ago I used to believe that a lot of these people were just talking over my head, their discourse too lofty for a regular guy like myself. But that isn’t true. They’re just stupid.
Could anyone be this dumb?
CARLSON: “The ad touches close to the mother lode of Hillary’s vulnerability among some women. When you ask them why they don’t like her, they say it’s because they don’t understand why she makes goo-goo eyes at a guy who broke her heart multiple times and humiliated her daughter. After that, pretending to be a teenager in love makes them wonder what else she might be faking.”
Really? Which women think this? Carlson doesn’t bother to say. Is she reporting the result of a poll? Her own informal interviewing? Or is she just inventing what “some women” think to mask her own prejudices?
That column is a disgrace.
Better yet, let’s just rewrite Ms. Carlson’s paragraph, removing the fakery:
“The ad touches close to the mother lode of Hillary’s vulnerability among scripted writers who can’t get Monica out of their minds. When you ask us why we don’t like her, we won’t bother to try to lie–it’s because we are addicted to triviality and gossip. We won’t bother trying to make excuses for our silly behavior because it’s all we know how to do.
off.
To paraphrase Freud (who is at least partially responsible for all of us “finding” phallic and vaginal symbols everywhere), sometimes an onion ring is just an onion ring.
Jinkies!
Velma Dinkly Carlson goes all catty on Hillary, while she has a warm (wet? ew!)spot for that genteel Hollywood Fred “Creature from the Black Lagoon” Thompson.
And yet some wonder why Gravel just stands there in his new ad.
Oliver,
I seldom disagree with your posts, but you are so wrong here:
The correct statement should have been:
I had the same experience, Oliver. For example, there was once a time when I considered myself politically astute because I watched Meet the Press on Sundays. Yay me! Luckily, time passed, I learned a lot more, and grew up, and now I realize that I’m politically astute because I DON’T waist my time on that shitty show.
emerging from the shadows to say you are SO right. again. it’s as though these two women were driving behind the stupid gas truck when it exploded. retreating to the shadows now.
Yes: I, too, vaguely remember the days when I thought that JOURNALISTS and PUNDITS on the TEEVEE must be, like, a superior breed of people or something because, hey, people want them to talk on the TEEVEE. And some of them are quite smart and knowledgeable. But some of them…well, some of them really are just useless and wouldn’t exist were it not that they filled a niche created by the warped ecosystem of corporate TV.
Straw women?
Believe me, you are much smarter than Fred Thompson stalker Margaret Carlson.
Of course they’re stupid. And over-paid.
As well as craven, whoring, self-important, personality-disordered, empty-headed, lying, misinformed, petulant, truth-dodging, grovelling, and slutty.
And just plain creepy.
you are correct in that they are way stupider than any of us regular folks….. and way more evil than we would ever allow ourselves to be……
Nobody’s willing to point out the elephant in the room. The vast overwhelming majority of **AMERICANS** are stupid. The stupidity of the punditry is a mere corollary of that fact.
When examining the media’s (collective and individual) decisions regarding whom to legitimize, one must recall two factors that control everything else:
1) Advertisers expect a predictable product for their investment bank or gastric reflux pill corporate clients.
2) The “on-air talent [sic]” have an economic career incentive not to do anything to get out of the DC “crab pot” worldview to paraphrase DuBois.
We have greatness in this country, just not much of it in the DC journalism crabpot. We could use a Lance Armstrong-quality investigative journalist in DC. Josh Marshall is in New York, I think his operation is great. Maybe Sy Hersh - again, as New York as they come. Woodward is ethically compromised. Have you heard anything good done by Carl Bernstein lately? Has the Post actually broken anything dramatic about Iraq or Iran in the last 2 years is it still getting beaten to the punch?
And lo, a great sucking sound
As a friend of mine used to say, more or less, “And lo, the seventh seal was opened, and there was a great sucking sound.” Is there anything more dignified to be said about our horrible Farm and Energy Bills?…
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