Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Sunday, October 04, 2009


I found the Obamas' pitch - the President doing his usual I-I-I-I-I Carmen Miranda routine and the missus citing her father's multiple sclerosis - oddly reminiscent of the Atlanta Olympics: If you watched the TV coverage in Canada, the Netherlands, Sudan (assuming for the sake of argument that Sudan has network television and that the live sports action pre-empted the local version of "Survivor"), you would have seen people of many lands swimming up pools and running round tracks. If you randomly switched on ABC's US coverage, you saw sappy soft-focus features accompanied by elevator muzak about this or that heartwarming Ohio shotputter who'd overcome childhood polio or whatnot. The Olympics as covered by ABC wasn't a contest of sporting excellence but merely another opportunity for the usual wallow in Oprahfied mawkishness. [Alphabetic overemphasis and links added]

We hate to make a big deal of little things, but really, Mark should stick to being Joan Rivers to PILLHEAD's Johnny Carson.


P. S. at 4:40 p. m. Somebody anonymously corrected PILLHEAD's Accent. Maybe he was thinking Australian Broadcasting Corporation?

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