L.A. Times Calls Governor Palin a 'Monkey' [Kevin D. Williamson]
Politics on the sports page, this time from the L.A. Times in a display that is remarkably vulgar even by the low standards of that dying joke of a broadsheet:
On Friday night, the Angels’ Rally Monkey let down the home crowd in Anaheim. Although the team triumphed Sunday night in Boston, you can’t credit the monkey unless he sneaked into Jared Weaver’s suitcase.
On Saturday, John McCain’s rally monkey, Sarah Palin, popped up in Carson. Fresh off of her victory over herself at the debate, her campaign let Palin out of the cage to rev up the fan base.
It's anybody's guess what the Angels have to do with Governor Palin, or why somebody writing in a forum that advertises itself as "The who, what, where, when, why — and why not — of L.A. sports" feels it obligatory to share her half-witticisms on politics in the course of writing about baseball. Or, for that matter, why they're getting baseball commentary from somebody whose biographical highlight includes Billy Baldwin:
"Lisa Guerrero has covered Super Bowls, NBA championships and the World Series, along with the Oscars, Emmys and Grammys. As an actress, she has appeared on "Frasier," "The George Lopez Show," and as Billy Baldwin's long-suffering wife in the family film "A Plumm Summer," which she executive produced.
Isn't "executive produced," in addition to being an ugly neologism, sort of a euphemism? Not exactly a producer, not exactly an executive. More like, "person who called in some favors and possibly put up some money to get something produced in spite of everybody's better judgment." If you haven't seen A Plumm Summer then you are in a nearly universal majority but might enjoy knowing something about this cinematic achievement. From Wikipedia:
A Plumm Summer is an American action/family movie directed by Caroline Zelder. It stars William Baldwin, Henry Winkler, as well as model and "Inside Edition" correspondent Lisa Guerrero. The film is based on an actual event that occurred in the hometown of screenwriter T. J. Lynch, Billings, Montana. At the time there was a very popular locally produced children's TV show on the air called "Happy Herb & Froggy Doo." Happy Herb was a magician and Froggy Doo was his wisecracking string puppet sidekick. Billings was turned upside down one day in 1968 when Froggy Doo was kidnapped and held for ransom.
I suppose if you've staked your career on "Froggy Doo" then calling Governor Palin a "monkey" is what passes for cutting commentary. Not exactly Cicero ad Catilinam, but that's Hollywood.
10/07 03:02 PM
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