Apparently the only reason the GOP is allowing Donald Trump to host/moderate/conduct its next televised presidential debate is because Krusty the Klown is a cartoon character, Bozo the Clown is in assisted living and Emmett Kelly is deceased.
Is the GOP kidding? At a time when serious people of all political bents are desperate to find a candidate who even minimally fits their profile of what a US president should portray and provide, the Republican Party has agreed to hand its stage to an attention-starved, conceited, child-like goofball with a habit for starring in pro wrestling pay-per-views?
Does anyone not recall how Trump, just months ago, quickly and predictably washed out as a GOP candidate because he was so comically short on dignity, modesty, facts and credibility? Gee, what a shock.
Why would the GOP, or any party at such a critical time, allow Trump center stage in its quest to shake out a credible presidential candidate? Trump’s “populist” image is a by product of his imagination and the media’s fascination with any rich guy who acts like a jerk.
Why not just bring in Snooki to show us her cookies? Or have Alex Trebek demand answers from the candidates in the form of a question? Or is it that Trump is going to hand out comps to his nearest casino buffet?
Our leaders and prospective leaders are so out of touch — President Obama told a Special Olympics gag (read: “retard joke”) on national TV, Texas Gov. Rick Perry thinks the voting age is 21 — that anyone who can distinguish himself or herself as dignified could leap to the presidential front of the class.
So here’s an idea: Let’s allow Donald Trump to conduct the next televised Presidential debate. Let him help determine who will run for president. Besides, no one better represents the sweat-rent middle-class than he! All in favor?
Good gosh, we are in trouble.
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In her new courtroom show, “We The People,” seen here weekdays on Ch. 4, Gloria Allred has removed all remaining skimpy pretense that she’s a noble women’s rights advocate and a lawyer out to serve anyone’s best interests other than her own. She has become another TV-centric schlock artist, eager to profit from the lowest and all-too-common denominator.
And “We the People” is another “judge” show aimed at appealing to white trash of all colors. Just in time, too. There hadn’t been a new one in weeks. Only her “courtroom” features actors nominally working off scripts. It’s rated P for pathetic.
But Allred will never surpass her TV performance, this past April. Representing the parents of two little girls who were subjected to an obscene act with a baseball bat by Atlanta Braves pitching coach Roger McDowell before a game, Allred called a news conference. With the little girls at her side and their aggrieved parents behind her, Allred used a bat to “demonstrate” what McDowell did.
The poor little girls were so traumatized by the shocking episode, Allred made them relive it, this time before TV cameras.
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Well, it took some time — since the start of the “Arab Spring” uprisings in Cairo, this past April — but the national TV news media are beginning to realize that having pitched such mass protests as “pro-democracy” demonstrations was based on nothing more substantial than a wish.
There can be no democracy within a theocracy; the two are antithetical. This upheaval was always a matter of which Islamists — the extreme (a k a, moderates) or the ultra-extreme (a k a, extreme) — would rule. That centuries of history would be reversed only because the Western media reported that it could — and found some enlightened Egyptians to say so — was never going to make it happen.