Bill clinton, superstar

UPI ^ | 6-15-04 | PAT NASON, UPI Hollywood Reporter

[Indy Pendance]

Note the author's byline...

"Galen said the tour has already been disrupted -- by the weeklong series of memorials for former President Ronald Reagan, who died June 5."

Ronald Reagan knows how to manipulate the press, even in death! Gotta love that man!

[Hank Rearden]

I beg to differ; he's a pile of dogcrap.

[AngieGOP]

"I beg to differ; he's a pile of dogcrap."

Why insult dog crap?

[TYVets]

X42.........is about to embark on a promotional tour likely to stoke public perception that he is part politician, part rock star.

Shouldn't that be porn star?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Who, who are youuuuuuu ?
The WHO.

[Cicero]

Milton describes the fate of Satan, returning to Hell in triumph and addressing his devils after having brought about the Fall of Adam and Eve:

So having said, a while he stood, expecting
Thir universal shout and high applause [ 505 ]
To fill his eare, when contrary he hears
On all sides, from innumerable tongues
A dismal universal hiss, the sound
Of public scorn; he wonderd, but not long
Had leasure, wondring at himself now more; [ 510 ]
His Visage drawn he felt to sharp and spare,
His Armes clung to his Ribs, his Leggs entwining
Each other, till supplanted down he fell
A monstrous Serpent on his Belly prone,
Reluctant, but in vaine: a greater power [ 515 ]
Now rul'd him, punisht in the shape he sin'd,
According to his doom: he would have spoke,
But hiss for hiss returnd with forked tongue
To forked tongue, for now were all transform'd
Alike, to Serpents all as accessories [ 520 ]
To his bold Riot: dreadful was the din
Of hissing through the Hall, thick swarming now
With complicated monsters head and taile,
Scorpion and Asp, and Amphisbæna dire,
Cerastes hornd, Hydrus, and Ellops drear, [ 525 ]
And Dipsas (not so thick swarm'd once the Soil

--John Milton, Paradise Lost, Bk 10

[Indy Pendance]

Excellent post. thanks!

[Cicero]

P.S. I expect this scene to be duplicated at the Democratic Convention in Boston.

[Vision Thing]

If satan received that kind of response for punking Adam and Eve, ya gotta wonder how bad the response was when Jesus won.

[cyncooper]

I can only think the headline writer thinks of Clinton as a Christ-like figure.

I mean, it IS a play on "Jesus Christ Superstar", right?

Pathetic.

[Vision Thing]

Rumor has it: the ROLLING STONES will open for Bill Clinton at the Hollywood Bowl on June 26...

Sympathy for the devil.

[Billthedrill]

Maybe it's just my imagination, but I sense a certain hyperexcited desperation here. The publicity machines being employed in this milieu have not had a particularly good year of it, typified most recently by the popcorn fart that was The Day After Tomorrow.

We'll see how the public takes this stuff. Because if Bill Clinton's name can't sell 957 pages' worth of snakeoil the jig's pretty much up, isn't it? There will be a certain tribal sale factor "just to show those conservatives" as there was by the questionable number of folks who purchased Hillary's little ghostwritten tomes and never read them, but I'm guessing that will pass pretty quickly. What will be left is a political version of the bleary view that a wino gets when he finds himself staring through the bottom of an empty bottle. Game's over, Jack.

[Billthedrill]

That was an absolutely brilliant quotation, BTW, the sort of thing I log into FR for. Thanks.

[cyncooper]

"I think there's so much interest in politics right now," she said. "Look what just happened with the Ronald Reagan funeral coverage, which was enormous.

This follows the line of thinking we had pundits inform us with last week: The throngs of people appeared on the scene because they "wished to be part of history". It wasn't Reagan in particular, you see. No, any politician would do, went this logic.

It was ridiculous on its face for a variety of reasons. I'll not deny Clinton has his followers and fans, but he is not loved by America. Ronald Reagan was loved by America.

[Vision Thing]

I can only think the headline writer thinks of Clinton as a Christ-like figure.

I mean, it IS a play on "Jesus Christ Superstar", right?

Last week on MSNBC, during one of the Reagan tributes, Pat Buchanan said that a reporter asked Reagan what he thought of Barry Goldwater.

Reagan responded, "He was like John the Bapist."

Buchanan said he was tempted to ask Reagan: "Well, what does that make you?" But he didn't ask.

Anti-Christ Matthews was very unhappy about that story. However, I'm sure Anti-Christ Matthews would have no problem with the comparisons between Christ and Clinton in the title of this article.

[skeeter]

They can put all the lipstick on this particular pig they want, but I'll never forget what kind of 'leader' the 'toon was.

[Vision Thing]

The monolithic Old Media failed to disrupt Gibson's Passion of the Christ. I doubt they'll be able to prop up this book much.

[Indy Pendance]

"I sense a certain hyperexcited desperation here"

Thanks, you nailed what I couldn't. Exactly, the left is so desparate for Bill clinton to be their Ronald Reagan, there is no comparison. They are desparate. Clinton was one of the worst presidents in US history. His legacy is just that. One of the worst.

[Indy Pendance]

see my #7. I totally agree. His post was exceptional!