Remember when Kelly ran The Atlantic?
Posted by TFG on August 31st, 2008
Me, too…I had a subscription then.
Ta-Nehisi Coates (August 31, 2008) - Elitism Bait
The entire Sarah Palin pick comes down to one thing–the hope that George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson, or (God forbid) Will.I.Am. will make a joke about moose-burgers. At that point, the McCain campaign will cut an ad which says They’re laughing at you. Vote for McCain and you can show the world. You can show them all! Of course said ad will never appear on television but will be screened only for the media–who will then do their job and turn the cable news into giant echo chamber in which the “Real Americans” yell They’re all gonna laugh at you! They’re all gonna laugh at you! Welcome to Victimology 101–the White Working Class Edition.
You’d take this as a jokey Sunday morning thing, until you get to the last quoted line. Just like Dobson below, I don’t know anybody who cares what Clooney or Johansson says. Unless it’s “Would you like to run away together? I’m buying if you’re flying.” Nobody but pinhead journalists grants them any more legitimacy than they’ve earned as trained poodles, which is not one hell of a lot in the real world.
Besides, we know they’re laughing at us already. Nobody really cares, so long as they continue to take their shirt off for us. Scarlett is my preference. YMMV.
Now, what the hell is a Will.I.Am? Gotta be an artist. That’s just too twee for anything else.
August 31st, 2008 at 1:19 pm
When you’re right, you’re right. One funny part you didn’t mention was the idea that Mac’s alleged video wouldn’t appear on the tee-vee. Like that matters anymore. His folks certainly would get it up on YouTube and that would be all she wrote. These old media types are still living in Oldmedialand. They’re still waiting for Uncle Walter’s successor to become the “most trusted man in America.” Fat chance.
September 1st, 2008 at 10:02 am
You seem to forget that we’re dealing with a huge population that takes advice from Oprah. Lots of people care what celebs tell them. Not that I’m one of them. About the only thing George Clooney could tell me to do that I’d actually consider is, “DG, take off your clothes and lie down on my bed.” But that’s sort of a weird little fantasy I have going. Don’t tell anyone.