Listen , I’m not a huge fan of American foreign policy and i do sympathise with the stereotypical view of most Americans as being a little like Middle Age astronomers who thought the spot they were standing on was in fact the centre of the universe - with everything, and everyone revolving around them.
However, i have to say that when it comes to shear watchability you can’t beat Americans. They were made for TV and TV was made for them.
Just when i thought i’d had my fill of caucuses, primaries, presidential nominees and the whole US election… along comes the self-styled Pitbull with Lipstick!!
Sarah Palin - Republican Vice Presidential candidate and John McCain’s running mate - is an internet sensation.
Clips of her are all over blog sites and video aggregators.
She is also the only way the Republicans were ever going to get news coverage in this country which would compete with the reams of press given to their rival Barrack Obama.
Let me round it up for you as much as i have a handle on it so far:
- She is known by her friends as Sarah Barracuda
- She fiercely contested reports she had extra-marital relations with a colleague
- She was forced to put to bed rumours that her baby son, was in fact her grandson.
- She did so by giving the press her 17-year-old pregnant daughter (who couldn’t be the mother of the baby because she was carrying a child of her own)
- The 17-year-old daughter’s boyfriend lists himself on MySpace as “a f**@ing redneck” who likes to ”shoot some sh*t” and “doesn’t want kids” - nice bloke i hear you say.
So far the only thing missing is some kind of conspiracy/government control angle
Oh, oh… wait a minute.
Here’s the Redneck, don’t want kids, gun lover up on stage with Pailn’s daughter at a Republican convention and he’s holding her hand and obviously completely happy about it all - and his MySpace site has disappeared!
Awesome.
