PUTTING THE "CHRIST!" BACK IN CHRISTMAS
Gaaah!
The campaign season is hitting new lows and the election is nearly a year away. Not in smears or attacks or the standard lies and misinformation. No. We are new hitting new lows in taste. Okay, Christmas is about as kitsch as it can be anyway, but do we really need our potential national leaders compounding it?
Rudy Giuliani's new Christmas ad has to be one of the worst ideas in campaign history. Never mind the comparisons to Huckabee's relatively warm, soft focus holiday commercial (about which Ron Paul amusingly cited Sinclair Lewis: "when fascism comes to this country, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross"), itself a classic of mawkish pandering. But the Giuliani thing is frightening enough in its own right. Who the hell is Giuliani's stylist, never mind his publicist?
Who thought that that ghastly, ill-fitting sweater was the right choice? It's like the "Young Frankenstein Christmas Special". Who decided to bounce a 2000 watt blonde off his pate? The man's a fucking beacon. Put him on top of the tree, man. Who thought the general public would consider a stump speech a "gift"? Come on, strict constructionist judges for Christmas? Who thought that Avuncular Rudy would be anything other than downright creepy? Seriously - do any of these people know Giuliani? And who thought it was a good idea for Rudolph Giuliani - in this ad - to mention fruitcake??
Yeah, well. I suppose it's better than the alternative:
The campaign season is hitting new lows and the election is nearly a year away. Not in smears or attacks or the standard lies and misinformation. No. We are new hitting new lows in taste. Okay, Christmas is about as kitsch as it can be anyway, but do we really need our potential national leaders compounding it?
Rudy Giuliani's new Christmas ad has to be one of the worst ideas in campaign history. Never mind the comparisons to Huckabee's relatively warm, soft focus holiday commercial (about which Ron Paul amusingly cited Sinclair Lewis: "when fascism comes to this country, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross"), itself a classic of mawkish pandering. But the Giuliani thing is frightening enough in its own right. Who the hell is Giuliani's stylist, never mind his publicist?
Who thought that that ghastly, ill-fitting sweater was the right choice? It's like the "Young Frankenstein Christmas Special". Who decided to bounce a 2000 watt blonde off his pate? The man's a fucking beacon. Put him on top of the tree, man. Who thought the general public would consider a stump speech a "gift"? Come on, strict constructionist judges for Christmas? Who thought that Avuncular Rudy would be anything other than downright creepy? Seriously - do any of these people know Giuliani? And who thought it was a good idea for Rudolph Giuliani - in this ad - to mention fruitcake??
Yeah, well. I suppose it's better than the alternative: