What's really sad about this is it shows how willing pundits are to pimp themselves out for either party. Every journal and pundit seems tied to a party these days...you just don't see independent voices, really. Nobody actually says what they think, they just parrot the party line. Every once in a while, though, somebody says something off the cuff and you once again realize that most everything you're reading and listening to is pre-canned crap. You have to read between the lines so much now when you follow American political coverage that it makes all the old jokes about Pravda during the Cold War seem sort of innocent and naive. The horse race nature of the election cycle and the professionalization of political campaigns (and their take-over by marketing types) has made it into a win-at-all-costs game where you have two sides putting up what they view as the most "electable" candidates, not the best candidates or even necessarily the ones they agree with the most. It's a joke, a parody of itself.
Or was it a Connie Chung to Mrs. Gingrich "just between us two" moment? Heh, Jesse Jackson did almost the same thing when he mentioned emasculating Obama when he thought the mike was dead. Doubly delicious because the ones bitching the loudest about the "bullshit about narratives" are the very same ones responsible for creating the narratives in the first place.
Illegitimi non carborundum.
...last night. And in it, Ed McMahon was John McCain and John McCain's VP. Ed McMahon the John McCain was weeping openly because his VP version of himself had said publicly that he didn't care whether he won or lost and I was a reporter yelling at my cameraman to squeeze in for a tighter shot of the weeping retiree.
It is easy to buy small plaster models of what you think life is like.
I guess Ben Stein isn't all that thrilled either.
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
