Posted on 09/10/2008 8:55:55 PM PDT by xDGx
The American Idol candidate
September 10, 2008
By Roger Ebert
I think I might be able to explain some of Sara Palin's appeal. She's the "American Idol" candidate. Consider. What defines an "American Idol" finalist? They're good-looking, work well on television, have a sunny personality, are fierce competitors, and so talented, why, they're darned near the real thing. There's a reason "American Idol" gets such high ratings. People identify with the contestants. They think, Hey, that could almost be me up there on that show!
My feeling is, I don't want to be up there. I want a vice president who is better than me, wiser, well-traveled, has met world leaders, who three months ago had an opinion on Iraq. Someone who doesn't repeat bald-faced lies about earmarks and the Bridge to Nowhere. Someone who doesn't appoint Alaskan politicians to "study" global warming, because, hello! It has been studied. The returns are convincing enough that John McCain and Barack Obama are darned near in agreement.
I would also want someone who didn't make a teeny little sneer when referring to "people who go to the Ivy League." When I was a teen I dreamed of going to Harvard, but my dad, an electrician, told me, "Boy, we don't have the money. Thank your lucky stars you were born in Urbana and can go to the University of Illinois right here in town." So I did, very happily. Although Palin gets laughs when she mentions the "elite" Ivy League, she sure did attend the heck out of college. Five schools in six years. What was that about?
And how can you be her age and never have gone to Europe? My dad had died, my mom was working as a book-keeper and I had a job at the local newspaper when, at 19, I scraped together $240 for a charter flight to Europe. I had Arthur Frommer's $5 a Day under my arm, started in London, even rented a Vespa and drove in the traffic of Rome. A few years later, I was able to send my mom, along with the $15 a Day book.
You don't need to be a pointy-headed elitist to travel abroad. You need curiosity and a hunger to see the world. What kind of a person (who has the money) arrives at the age of 44 and has only been out of the country once, on an official tour to Iraq? Sarah Palin's travel record is that of a hopeless provincial.
But some people like that. She's never traveled to Europe, Asia, Africa, South America or Down Under? That makes her like them. She didn't go to Harvard? Good for her! There a lot of hockey moms who haven't seen London, but most of them would probably love to, if they had the dough. And they'd be proud if their kids won a scholarship to Harvard.
Palin is a shallow, chirpy person with those vaguely alarming eyeglasses. Now her fans all want a pair. Remember back when women wore glasses that departed their ears in plastic swoops and swirls? My theory is, anyone who wears glasses that look weird is telling me something I don't want to know.
I trust the American people will see through Palin's facade, and save the Republic in November. The most damning indictment against her is that she considered herself a good choice to be a heartbeat away. That shows bad judgment.
Nice pen, you debonair world traveler you!
And I’ll bet that dorky looking fatass breaks the scale on his “weigh in”.
Gosh, Roger. I wasn’t aware you had spent so much time with her that you could understand her fully. You say it’s important for someone to visit Europe so they can understand foreign relations, yet you make a snap judgement about a candidate without walking two feet in her shoes.
Roger, you’re not even that good a movie reviewer. Shut the f*** up.
Gosh, such sour grapes from an obsessed personality cult builder...
Roger Ebert Should Layoff the Fatty Foods.
ah yes. jabba the critic, munching on frogs and belching his putrefaction. no doubt gene siskel would say that if took dying for him to escape the presence of ebert, it was a good bargain.
a pathetic michael moore wannabe. but at least moore makes something. all ebert does is fart about the accomplishments of others.
Ebert bragging at his whine and cheese party that he was slumming...What an elitst snob!
This guy is complaining about someone else’s glasses?
*pre-1989 Eastern Europe, that is...
>You don’t need to be a pointy-headed elitist to travel abroad. You need curiosity and a hunger to see the world. What kind of a person (who has the money) arrives at the age of 44 and has only been out of the country once, on an official tour to Iraq? Sarah Palin’s travel record is that of a hopeless provincial.<
Eat more doughnuts, Ebert. Silly argument for someone who;s occupation is to ‘review movies”.Obama appeared in Iraq for 15 minutes, Israel 45 minutes and Berlin for 4 hours. Yes, he is smarter than the rest of us (sarc). Just because you’re a world-class traveller doesn’t mean you are fit to be president. My parents and friends have to been to 6 continents of 7, and including your 57 states...yet they love their own country unlike you and your ilk.
She’s been to Europe, but that fat a** is too ignorant and shallow to know that.
And Ebert’s “proud” that all he’s done his whole life is eat doughnuts and watch movies for a living?
Beyond the Valley of the Ultra Vixens
'Nuff said.
Maybe us unwashed hayseeds don't want to go slobber all over some socialist paradise. Last time I checked, the office was VP of the United States, not VP of the Frickin' World, you condescending, ivory tower prick
Yup. Proof that those that can’t do criticize.
I bet she doesn’t use his opinions to pick out movies at Blockbusters either! He looks like Andy Warhol
Roger: your analysis was disturbingly shallow and sophomoric.
Besides, Obambi is the American Idol candidate.
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