Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Hillary Video Puts Her in the Hype Culture
Yesterday I found out about a new video on Hillary Clinton. It was supposed to be a takeoff or spoof on the Sopranos:
I looked at the video. It shows Hillary Clinton coming into a plain looking restaurant. She sits down and peruses the songs in the juke box. These include "Superstar" by the Carpenters, "You and I" by Celine Dion, and "I'm a Believer" by Smash Mouth. While she is perusing these, her husband Bill comes in and sits down opposite her. She continues to peruse videos, while at the same time she orders carrot sticks for her husband. Then the video vanishes, and the viewer is invited to find out what the winning song is. This is to be Hillary's campaign song.
To me this video is about as funny and as interesting as this limerick by W. S. Gilbert:
There was an old man of St Bees,
Who was stung in the arm by a wasp.
When asked, "Does it hurt?"
He replied, "No, it doesn't -
I'm so glad it wasn't a hornet.
What's so special about eating at a restaurant and selecting songs out of a juke box? But what really got me about this video is that she put in some kind of contest or guessing game at the end. "What's my campaign song?" This reminds me of a raffle or a quiz game. I hear about these things in the pop culture a lot, but they don't belong with anyone with Presidential aspirations. Further, she intended this to be a spoof on "Sopranos". I don't know if it is or not, since I never watched that diva show, but to me this further disqualifies her as a possible US President. The Presidency is about soldiers dying in Iraq, immigration problems, the teaching of false information in the schools, abortion rights, the welfare of this country's economy, and most of all, the world's dwindling oil supplies. It is not about some silly TV program that some diviots conjure up in Hollywood. Hillary sets herself up as being someone trivial by doing stuff like this. Further, the show she selects is especially hideous. It's about violence, especially the sneaky, mobby, garroting type of violence prevalent in these crime families. She is hypocritical if she imitates this show while clamoring to get our troops home now. She is merely pandering to the masses, and this video to me, although it looks like a silly triviality, is really a form of propaganda.
This is a better video about Hillary:
So I certainly would not want Hillary as President, but she still is preferable to all the Republicans except maybe for Ron Paul. My favorite right now is Barack Obama, with John Edwards a close second. But I am also keeping my eye on Michael Bloomberg. Is he this era's Redeemer President?
I looked at the video. It shows Hillary Clinton coming into a plain looking restaurant. She sits down and peruses the songs in the juke box. These include "Superstar" by the Carpenters, "You and I" by Celine Dion, and "I'm a Believer" by Smash Mouth. While she is perusing these, her husband Bill comes in and sits down opposite her. She continues to peruse videos, while at the same time she orders carrot sticks for her husband. Then the video vanishes, and the viewer is invited to find out what the winning song is. This is to be Hillary's campaign song.
To me this video is about as funny and as interesting as this limerick by W. S. Gilbert:
There was an old man of St Bees,
Who was stung in the arm by a wasp.
When asked, "Does it hurt?"
He replied, "No, it doesn't -
I'm so glad it wasn't a hornet.
What's so special about eating at a restaurant and selecting songs out of a juke box? But what really got me about this video is that she put in some kind of contest or guessing game at the end. "What's my campaign song?" This reminds me of a raffle or a quiz game. I hear about these things in the pop culture a lot, but they don't belong with anyone with Presidential aspirations. Further, she intended this to be a spoof on "Sopranos". I don't know if it is or not, since I never watched that diva show, but to me this further disqualifies her as a possible US President. The Presidency is about soldiers dying in Iraq, immigration problems, the teaching of false information in the schools, abortion rights, the welfare of this country's economy, and most of all, the world's dwindling oil supplies. It is not about some silly TV program that some diviots conjure up in Hollywood. Hillary sets herself up as being someone trivial by doing stuff like this. Further, the show she selects is especially hideous. It's about violence, especially the sneaky, mobby, garroting type of violence prevalent in these crime families. She is hypocritical if she imitates this show while clamoring to get our troops home now. She is merely pandering to the masses, and this video to me, although it looks like a silly triviality, is really a form of propaganda.
This is a better video about Hillary:
So I certainly would not want Hillary as President, but she still is preferable to all the Republicans except maybe for Ron Paul. My favorite right now is Barack Obama, with John Edwards a close second. But I am also keeping my eye on Michael Bloomberg. Is he this era's Redeemer President?
