It appears the The New York Times Politicians as Comics: A Sideshow on Pop TV - New York Times does not like it when our High Potentates, aka elected officials, appear as regular folks.
Take President Bush, appearing on the "lowbrow" NBC game show "Deal Or No Deal" with host Howie Mandel. I guess the fact that show features 25 very attractive young ladies is a "low brow" thing to the reviewer.
Why do these so-called "reporters" not get that there is a world outside of the cocktail parties in the Upper West Side of Manhattan? Or San Francisco? Or Hollywood? Really, there is a whole other part of the United States.
Some of us like shows like "Deal Or No Deal" or maybe WWE Raw, the "wrestling" show. Many an American like shows like Rachael Ray or the Today Show.
See, we actually elect these people to represent us, the American people. Thus, maybe Alessandra Stanley may not get it, but I think that Sen. Barack Obama sure gets it. Ask those bitter, gun-toting, religious nuts in Pennsylvania. I am sure that they will remind him tomorrow night about this time.
Yes, Alessandra, we like our leaders to be at least a little bit like us, with all our pathologies. And one more thing. It is OK to watch "low brow" television. Its fun and dare I say, occasionally entertaining!
2 comments:
i wonder if he had the same condescension when bill clinton was blowing his sax on arsenio hall's show!!
having had time to go read the article 64 i now see he stole my clinton reference. his point of presidents or those running for it trying to invade pop culture is well taken though. i am on the fence with this myself!!
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