Bad News Day
So, if you were in the White House press office, and you needed to release some bad news, today is the day. Between the "mysterious" death of Anna Nicole Smith, the love-crazed astronaut story, and the cold weather (again, is cold weather in winter a story? And it's snowing in upstate New York!), there just isn't attention span left for anything approaching boring details like the hearings on Feith's Office of Special Plans. My guess is that the death of ANS will even kill the Nancy Pelosi plane story and the Edwards blogger story.
You know what to do. Clear the decks today, White House press office!
Btw, the stories about the paternity case . . . make it stop.
posted by Number Three @ 6:56 AM
3 Comments:
What you obviously fail to appreciate is that ANS is our Princess Di. If there is a better contemporary "embodiment" of the American dream, I don't know who it is. In the same way that Di represented the essential Brit dream (pretty but vacuous young woman who grows up to marry the king-in-waiting) Anna represents ours (pretty but vacuous young woman gains celebrity for being pretty but vacuous). And she was brilliant at it: a walking, talking, un-self-reflecting parody of everything you hate but can't take your eyes off of in pop culture. Anna, a nation mourns for you.
BTW, what have you got against diaper-wearing, mallet-wielding, sex-addled astro-babes? Get better soon, "Robochick."
Um, in my American dream, the dream does not consist of stripping, nude modeling, gold-digging, and reality television. But, admittedly, I come from the refined and dignified stock of the Midwest. Maybe ANS represents a kind of Southern American dream?
We agree: my American dream doesn't consist in you stripping or nude modelling either. But don't make this a southern thing. You Yankees love your gold-digger melodrama as much as anyone else. Southern ratings alone could never sustain the 24-7 coverage ANS is getting on EVERY SINGLE station on TV.
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