Posted on 09/26/2005 5:18:55 AM PDT by NickatNite2003
Apropos of yet another “will-he-or-won’t-he” media psychodrama starring Warren Beatty as a possible candidate, this time for the 2006 California governor’s race, I’m reminded of that dreadful 1995 movie, The American President. One line summarizes the Warren situation, uttered by Michael Douglas as President Andrew Shepherd, while accusing a vocal critic of playing to the cameras: “This is a time for serious men, Bob, and your 15 minutes are up.”
That’s why I wince every time Beatty pontificates from the sidelines of American politics, no matter if it’s preening from the commencement podium of UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, as he did May 21, or stammering on the telephone to the oh-so-gullible Los Angeles Times four days later. Because again and again, the discussion descends from the steak of what he’s saying to merely the sizzle of whether he’s going to run. The problem is that, when the press coverage dies down and Beatty retreats again to his Mulholland Drive mansion, it’s left to the serious progressives to clean up the mess from his endless sideshow.
Don’t get me wrong: Anyone who has anything bad to say about our illegitimate governor is a friend of mine. This special-interest-beholden greedmeister, girlie-man-calling machomeister and sexually-harassing fibmeister needs to go down, and go down big come re-election time. So when I saw that Beatty’s keynote address was well thought-out, I was intrigued enough to think about writing a column sorta praising him for saying rather eloquently what had been unspoken publicly in Hollywood until then.
But I didn’t, because something nagged at me that this was another Beatty grab for attention disguised as a gab about terminating the Governator. Tipping it all off was Berkeley’s own coverage of the graying has-been actor’s speech, noting that in attendance were multiple news crews drawn by rumors that Warren would declare his intent to replace Schwarzenegger. Also troubling was the line in his Arnold slam: “. . . although I don’t want to run for governor, I would do one hell of a lot better job than he’s done.” With Warren, it’s inevitably all about me, myself and I. Never “us.”
So I hung back to watch which Beatty would emerge after the brief flurry of media attention caused by his strong stance. Warren the Democratic Dynamo we’ve waited two decades to see resurface? Warren the Committed Reformer we’ve seen snatches of but little more? Warren the Independent Dilettante we’ve learned to live with in recent years? The answer came when Beatty grabbed headlines for himself, and not his cause.
>B-)
"Don't ever call me Bugsy!"
35 years ago I was in a high school production of Lil Abner. The "Bulworth" in your title reminded me of one of the characters in that musical and the chorus of the song came back to mind.... SCARY!!!
"Three rousing "Rah's", a few "Huzzah's" and a "Hip, hip, hip hooray" What's good for General Bulworth is good for the USA"
I guess moonbats consider a duly elected politician illegitimate just because they disagree with him.
How does this person figure Gov Schwarzenegger is illegitimate? They can't say "the supreme court put him into office" as they do with GWB. He didn't quite get elected with a majority, but he clearly won the most votes in a legitimate recall election. I think he won about 48% of the vote, but it was a big plurality.
Maybe they are saying Ahnold is illegitimate because he is actually not the son of a NAZI.
I don't pretend to even begin to comprehend the inner workings of the warped moonbat mind. :)
Bullworth really was good movie he told exaclty how liberal DEMS behave and really think,too bad he will not be honest when it is his turn.
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