Posted on 07/24/2010 8:39:11 AM PDT by moneyrunner
Kathleen Parker is an incurable Liberal suck-up but her latest column Voters elevate the ordinary has an inkling of what happened to the United States. Kathleen, poor thing, has a good thought, but when she takes it out to play, she lets it get away from her.
It’s all about “Being There,”... According to Parker, Chauncey Gardiner, the genial but retarded gardener from “Being There” is Alvin Green.
And that’s the point at which Parker’s though begins to run off.
Alvin Green, the man who won the nomination to be the Democrat Senate candidate from South Carolina, who didn’t campaign and is totally unknown, is not, despite Parker’s desire to enlist him in her story, a Chauncey Gardiner model.
Parker: “Being There” is the tall tale of a gardener who becomes a favorite to run for U.S. president following an unlikely series of misunderstandings. The first occurs when Chauncey is turned out of the mansion where he has lived (and gardened) his whole life upon his benefactor’s death. When someone asks his name, “Chance the Gardener” is heard as “Chauncey Gardiner.” Thereafter, everyone Gardiner meets projects his or her own needs and expectations onto this kind but empty-headed “nobody.” In their minds, Gardiner is the wealthy aristocrat they need him to be, his mundane gardening observations sublime metaphors filled with timeless wit and wisdom.
If you have heard or read about Alvin Green, you know he really is an “empty headed nobody.” But no one believes otherwise. No one thinks of him as an aristocrat. No one interprets his words as wisdom. The big mystery about Green, who lives with his father, is how he managed to get the money to file his candidacy.
But a light bulb went in my head as Parker brought my memory back that movie.
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the flim flam pvnk
It's a theme that should have been expanded upon more.
That, again, was the attempt of those who wanted to believe in Chauncey ... er, Barack, that his policies would work as advertised.
The point of "Being There" was the way in which the "elites" managed to make fools of themselves by seeing intelligence and profundity in someone who was retarded. Remember, Chauncey could not read or write. They viewed him as a sage when he was a kindly fool because they thought the others around them saw something they did not see. "Being There" was just a very funny, modern version of the Emperor's New Clothes ... without the tailors.
What's troublesome is that the movie has come to life.
Now I’m feeling like renting “Being There” again this weekend. Haven’t seen it for probably ten years. Plus I need a break from “Atlas Shrugged.”
Neat. What's her e-mail address?
You've given me an idea. Think I'll do the same.
Check Townhall.com
“I like to watch.”
The thing is, that we have been using that for years in regards to Obama, it isn't new, I even picked up the video last year because of it.
But, as a bloggers, you and I know that the full extent of our power is that we can run it up the flag pole...if no one notices it and spreads the word, that's the end of it.
Excellent tagline! I’ll remember that thought and repeat it to others!
I had watched that movie years ago and found it extremely boring, kinda like Obama...... I like Peter Sellers but I hated this movie...
sorry you missed the sarcasm.
I did miss it, I wonder if she will notice it, or take your e-mail as a compliment?
I dunno. Congratulating her for making scurrilous remarks about Obama should be difficult to miss. I do not expect to get a reply.
Your humor, or sarcasm is too vague for me.
The deep truth in “Being There” is that packaging is everything today.
You can’t see the truth. Especially in those days, before mass distribution of alternate ideas (internet), there is only what the media will show us. It is simple to project meaning onto puppets.
The powerful mass media, with money coming from where, exactly? Ah, yes... Well, they will still be either ignoring or ridiculing ANY opposition to their packaging.
The young Barack Obama must have looked like a plump and juicy little chicken to the wolves that got him where he is today. The vehicle they were searching for just HAD to be somewhat blackish, with perfect diction and a powerful ego, able to read platitudes under Doric columns with his chin in the air like Mussolini, and he’d have to be a believer of their cause. When he walked in, they must have drooled all over their black T-shirts.
Feeding his ego to get him where they wanted him, on the Inside, was too easy. The only wrinkle was his penchant for life on the DL, and though they had to do a lot to keep that quiet, no one seems to care. The MSM’s “ignore or mock” rule for any unpleasant news about Obama seems to still be working.
Chauncey just HAPPENED to be a nice guy. The process still works even if he’s not. Brilliant movie.
A conservative lawyer named William Baldwin Montfort (note my posting name) wins a ton of money and decides to run for House of Delegates, for something to do because he does not want to practice law, but does not want to become an idle alcoholic.
A talented campaign manager offers to run a campaign for a Congressional seat he appears to have no chance of winning.
Crooked manipulation on the part of a shadowy cabal occurs and the popular incumbent drops out because he believes he has a heart condition that MUST be treated immediately. Our inexperienced guy goes higher in politics than anyone could imagine.
It’s from George Eliot from the 1800’s; he actually said “It’s never too late to be what you might have been.”
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