We're now into Day 9 of America's Media Held Hostage (i.e., denied any chance to interview or even chat with Sarah Palin). I know this because there is a widget going around that ticks off the days and hours and minutes. It was at 9:12:41 last I checked. Unfortunately we may have to tick off the days here for quite awhile for, as a McCain spokeswoman said on Friday, "who cares?" McCain campaign manager Rick Davis says Palin won't give any interviews until she feels "comfortable" giving one. This morning he added that she wouldn't give any "until the point in time when she'll be treated with respect and deference."What are they doing with our fair Sarah?
In My Fair Lady,[from IMDB]
A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
They start from here:
until she finally gets it:
Now imagine Karl Rove as the misogynistic and snobbish professor transforming a freshman Alaskan governor into a credible vice presidential candidate. Imagine him teaching Sarah choice phrases on the politics of the former Soviet Union, the deficit, and health care, and how, when an interviewer strays beyond her new sound bites, to change the subject, attack her opponent, and more important, attack the questioner.
Who is intensively training America's media to ask probingly with respect and deference as they test the new Sarah?
Like Liza, Sarah isn't dumb, she just didn't get raised in the 'right' environment.
In the musical, Higgins wins his bet.
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Are we sure he meant "deference" rather than "reverence"?
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to see the McCain campaign isn't trying to hide the fact that it's punishing the media for trying to do its (the media's) job. Is this the "change" they keep promising? Because it feels an awful lot like the same old song and dance. It's just that this time the hook is "sexism" rather than anti-Americanism.
Woul'n't it be lovely?
ReplyDeleteWhat you propose is scary. I thought they were taking this from LOTR, but My Fair Lady is more accurate! If he succeeds but they don't win, will she be too good for Alaska?
This is way too much like America's Next Model, where she is in a boot camp for VPs.