Uneasy Rhetoric

For a while I was getting tired of Wonkette. Who wouldn’t? Gossip about “famous for DC” people just gets dull after a while.

Then I read this about the GOP’s “hipster/young people” interview program Off the Record and laughed. This program is a fluff piece extraordinaire, with two white-bread young ladies looking for all the world like soccer-moms in training. They sometimes forget to blink, they barely move, and, unless the camera is full on their faces, I’m not entirely sure their lips move. Furthermore, they are bereft of last names, undoubtedly giving them a virginal quality, signaling their availability for fine Republican young men.

On the other hand, they are being given good political advice. They don’t even try to do anything but let the politicians speak, and I don’t doubt the politicians have been given the questions in advance (something about the way Ari Fleisher smiled every time he was asked a question).

How do we know that the program is for young people? Because it has requisite questions that hip, young people are tuned in to like “do you like movies” or “what CDs do you have in your player” (what? not what’s in your iPod?).

By the way, Governor Huckabee, hip young people don’t know who .38 Special or Dionne Warwick are.