Posted by
Joseph Lopez on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 2:00:00 PM
My dad's just never been the same since Camelot took over the White House. What used to be a daily ritual of O'Reilly, Hannity, and Greta has turned in to Olbermann, Maddow and more Olbermann. I get home in the evening and I hear a monster yelling in our living room, and whenever I run in there, it's just Kommunist Keith on one of his tirades again.
But last night I got in and my dad - a man of a white-collar, professional career; a man who has a Bachelors, Masters, and his Doctoral degree; a man who was put on an education panel by Former President George W. Bush; and a man who is far too intelligent to waste brain cells - was flipping back and forth between MSN-"BS" and The Bachelor.
It was a pretty interesting scenario - two completely different television programs, yet two that are very similar in retrospect.
The Bachelor, which airs Mondays at 8/7c on ABC, has a flock of Galleria, uppity-up-type girls compete to try to win the heart of the single, 30-something, well-endowed (money-wise) man. Relationships are made, hearts are broken, and catfights ensue. Kind of like MSNBC!
MSNBC: has a flock of Galleria, uppity-up girly men such as Hardball boy and that guy who can only count from ten down, among others, who try and get you to win the heart of Obama - the, albeit married, 40-something, well-endowed (power-wise) man.
It's a land of dreams, rainbows, puffy clouds, and red roses - coincidently, just like the Bachelor!
Relationships are made between the left and...the left. Hearts are broken upon the discoveries of numerous journalistic errors. And yes, catfights ensue - don't ever get in Maddow's way when she's interviewing a pesky conservative. It'll be like interrupting Jeremiah Wright during preachin' time.
Yet note that when the season of The Bachelor is over, and the lights go down, and the cameras turn off - every Bachelor, except for Byron Velvick of Season Six, has dumped his "winner." That's a meager 8% success rate. What does that say for the looney tunes on MS-I'm-on-LSD? The Americans are smarter than you all are. We will "dump" you. You won't win.
I hear that MSNBC is in the works of creating it's own Bachelor-esque show entitled Scare Tactics, where Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann take the current MSNBC news-reporting style and try to court Rachel Maddow with it to win her cold, liberal heart.
Oh, baby.