Vanity: Is it just me or does Lisa Murkowski remind you of...

Vanity, Vanity, all is vanity | 30 September 2010 | Me

[Mr. Silverback]

It all clicked into place when I read that Murkowski is now running an ad attacking the Tea Party Express as "the organization from California* that did a half million in attack ads" thereby stealing the primary from her, and I imagined Princess Lisa saying "You were too stupid to think for yourselves so just vote for mke, you imbeciles! Now, I understand what's been bothering me about her the past few weeks.

Lisa Murkowski is Alaska's answer to Mom, the tycoon from the cartoon sitcom Futurama.

For those unfamiliar with Matt Groening's real masterpiece, Futurama is the saga of a slacker pizza delivery boy who is accidentally cryogenically frozen and wakes up in the year 3,000, where he gets a job working for his descendant, Professor Farnsworth, at Farnsworth's delivery company, Planet Express. One of Farnsworth's bitter enemies is a woman known simply as Mom, who owns many of the galaxy's biggest corporations (she is so powerful she even holds a trademark on the words "Mom," "Love" and "Screen Door"), including "Mom's Friendly Robot Company," which has a total monopoly in the robot manufacture market. Mom projects a folksy and sweet image, but in reality she is vicious, evil, thin-skinned, foul-mouthed and cringingly unattractive.

First, note the resemblance:

And really, after all the bitterness, all the derision aimed at GOP voters like they were too dumb to figure out whether they liked their own senator, and all the effort to make her seem folksy and caring about the down home Alaskans because the big bad Californians might hurt them, can't you imagine Murkowski walking into her office, closing the door and saying:

"Jerkwad Tea Party makes me sick to my ass! And if I see Joe Miller, I'll cram a squirrel in him!"

* Isn't that sort of like saying Alaskans shouldn't have believed Reagan because he was from California? just sayin...

[Mr. Silverback]

Your thoughts?

[RexBeach]

“I dunno, Mick. He sounds purty angry.”

[MrEdd]

Read the TV guide, you don't need a TV

[Mr. Silverback]

Dusting off the ol' CAPTION-A-RAMA list!!

[Tony O]

Nailed it.

[WestwardHo]

One of the things sapping the gray matter of the American mind is the blurring of reality and fantasy. Just my thought.

[far sider]

Mom has redeeming qualities.

[Mr. Silverback]

Dusting off the ol' CAPTION-A-RAMA list!!

[avg_freeper]

When do we get us some Slurm?

[stevio]

Paging...

[Mr. Silverback]

I’m not offended by your comment, but I have to wonder what is going on in your head if you think me pointing out a few similarities between a cartoon character and a real person is a “blurring of reality and fantasy.”

One of my high school buddies used to call my Dad “Fred Flintstone. That doesn’t mean he thought my father was married to Wilma and worked at the Slate Quarry on the back of a brontosaurus.

[Mr. Silverback]

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[CedarDave]

Make sure you see this Princess Lisa ad:

http://www.itsnotyourseatlisa.com/

[Mr. Silverback]

What’s that from?

[RexBeach]

I believe it was “Rocky 1”.

[Mr. Silverback]

Great movie.

[Mr. Silverback]

Alaska Ping!

[SparkyBass]

"Lady, last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it!"

[Mr. Silverback]

Thanks!

[Mr. Silverback]

LOL!