Out here in the wilds of Virginia, we often gaze at the television and wonder aloud, "Where exactly does the lunatic fringe of the Republican party grow all these blond-haired, big-teethed, starry-eyed female purveyors of spin?" There must be a cloning farm at one of Dick Cheney's undisclosed locations. And as the right wing paraded its bevy of talking-point crooners across the airwaves last week in defense of VP Pick Sarah Palin, one of the standout mouthpieces was Monica Crowley, a particularly noxious hate-speak conservative radio host.
On the McLaughlin Group, Crowley first crowed:
[McCain] pulled off the nearly impossible here with the selection of Sarah Palin and in his speech, which is that he has rebranded the Republican Party as populist, as reformist, anti-establishment, anti- corruption, and — dare I say it — hip and cool..."
[You can say a lot of things about the Republican Party (and I do), but how many humans with even mildly normal brain function would describe John McCain and Sarah Palin as hip and cool --- wait, maybe Crowley meant to say, "hip replacement" and "frigid?"]
But the lovely Monica did not stop there. Gushing, Crowley pronounced:
She (Palin) is Ann-Margret in "Kitten with a Whip." She is fabulous, okay? And it raises the question, where has she been? The Republican Party has been craving somebody new and fresh and dynamic.
Notice to Ms. Crowley: You might want to check theplot line of your acclaimed cinematic tour-de-force:
An aspiring senator [John McCain] finds himself in deep trouble when he tangles with a sultry teenage girl gone bad in this campy drama. Ann-Margret [Sarah Palin] stars as Jody, a tough customer who escapes from reform school by stabbing a matron and attempting to burn down the building and then takes refuge in a house owned by the ambitious senator David Patton (John Forsythe). Despite the hellcat's ample charms, the would-be officeholder wants nothing to do with her and tries to drive her away. She responds by practically taking him hostage, with the help of a gang of delinquent friends. An unexpected act of violence causes more trouble, leading Jody to hijack David and force him to a drive a getaway car to Mexico.
Could there be a more hilarious comparison? But beyond the sheer comedy, could there be a more sexist allusion? And the right wing is frothing charges of "disrespect" and "sexism" because Joe Biden observed that Palin is "good looking" ?!? No man -- not even a Republican man (well, maybe a dweeb like Jonah Goldberg) could have gotten away with making such a statement.
Yikes! That Republican cloning farm for robotic talking heads better recall Crowley back for some serious retooling.
Crossposted at The Progressive Puppy