In the latest twist on the Christine O'Donnell saga in Delaware, we have Bill Maher providing unequivocal evidence that Christine is a duck. See here for the reasoning process:
Well, maybe that was a bit of artistic license. It's more like Maher has suggested that the Republican candidate for the "Biden Seat" in the US Senate is a witch. No, not in the Nancy Pelosi sense, but in the classic burn-at-the-stake sort of Nathaniel Hawthorne scenario. Salem Massachusetts, not Castro-district San Francisco sort of witch.
You see, if we go back many years ago to a much younger Christine we find her making appearances on Maher's comedy show in which attractive, articulate and entertaining people sat around a table and talked in a manner which was advertised as being politically incorrect. What would be more entertaining to a group of pseudo-intellectual metro-sexuals and liberated women chatting on the ragged edge of acceptability than a giggly young girl talking about hanging around with some friends who were into witchcraft and finishing up a date with the rather risque adventure of picnicking at midnight on a "Satanic altar"? That's late night entertainment, 1990's style.
Here's Maher casting the gauntlet to the ground and with tongue placed firmly in his cheek leering that he's got her on record as being a loon:
Will this be politically damaging? Honestly I think it is more entertaining than disruptive. It sounds like the candidate is outgoing, gregarious and not above making fun of herself and conventions. Maher, however, seems to think he's got 22 smoking guns to hold over her head. The impish grin however, seems to be more aware then some about what he's really doing.
We'll see how this develops.
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