According to Sarah Palin, nothing good-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/18/family-guy-actress-respon_n_468331.html . Apparently Family Guy has fallen afoul of the former governor, who has been seen as of late toting around a kid like a fashion accessory. Political pandering, anyone? Actually, I agree with the Huffington Post's assessment of the situation- chick is nuts, man. It does indeed seem like the Palinator is running around trying to grab media attention- what I can't figure out is, why leave the post of governor to do so? A book under her belt, she now seems to spend a good deal of time digging around for something to get mad about. Could this be an attempt to keep her in our collective minds as she gears up for a run for the White House? Good lord, I hope not. Could it be something for her to do other than shoot animals and see Russia from her house? America, we can only hope.
So as the article states, the show managed to piss her off by making a thinly veiled reference to a gal with Downs Syndrome being a daughter of a former Alaska governor and an accountant. Interestingly, the show hired an actress who has Downs Syndrome to voice the part, and her answer to Palin's criticism is a burn and a half, and very insightful and intelligent. The real fact of the matter is, would anyone really have cared if Palin hadn't made such a big deal out of it? How many times has Bush the Younger been parodied on the show, and we don't hear him complaining, do we? Perhaps the sophisticated satire of the show eludes his "good ole boy" sensibilities, I don't know. But it seems Palin is on a witch hunt of some odd sort, seeking out and destroying any reference to her family and/or herself, then raising holy hell about it to a jaded and indifferent media audience still reeling from The Thousand Nights of Tiger Woods. Whatever happened to the ditzy Republican veep candidate we all loved to hate (and more than a few of the male voters out there wanted to nail)? I can only imagine what happened to Lisa Ann, the dishy former exotic dancer who dared to parody the Gov in the porno film we've probably all heard of by now. Hey, if Palin can shoot moose, or whatever large game animal it was, I'd be running for the hills, Lisa.
All this seems to point to one thing- no one really cares. The world is an inherently messed-up place (believe me, I've been here for 31 years, and it ain't no picnic sometimes). But there are also amazing and wonderful things here. You take the good with the bad- save one, let the other pass you by. Just make sure it's the right things you're focusing on and holding onto.
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