![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oselleUp until now I've been posting videos of "jes' plain folks" humiliating themselves in public. Last night, supposed healthcare "expert" Betsey McCaughey, the person basically responsible for fabricating the whole "death panel" lie, humiliated herself on The Daily Show. Because of time constraints, the show was only able to air a portion of the interview, but you can watch all three parts of it here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/21/betsy-mccaugheys-ideas-ca_n_264970.html
You know how you can tell this woman is lying? The obvious answer is because she has no facts to back up her claims. But there's something else, like a gambler's "tells" -- this weird shtick she's doing. The cheesy flattery of Stewart, the hair-flipping, the smug "See what I mean!" nods and shrugs and all that death's-head grinning and addressing the audience directly (so much that near the end Stewart asks her, "Who are you talking to?") What I see here is a lot of what I also see in Sarah Palin -- a woman who's used to influencing people by being pretty and charming in that awful sort of smarmy, phony, used-car salesman sort of way. There's no honesty going on here. It's all lies and spin and the grimacing bleached-blonde theatrics of a whore.
I think Stewart does a great job but I wish he'd hammered her like he did Jim Cramer. I think in that case, Stewart had a lot more documented evidence against Cramer, but I also think Stewart's going easier on her because she's a woman and because she's pretty. I adore Jon Stewart but I think in his mind he's still this nebbishy kid from Jersey and he has a tendency to get a little bashful when he's interviewing a pretty woman, as if some part of him can't really believe that someone like her is even talking to him. I don't care when the woman is just some actress but in this case? He could have gone after her a lot harder and you can see moments where he literally seems to be biting his tongue and I wish he hadn't.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/21/betsy-mccaugheys-ideas-ca_n_264970.html
You know how you can tell this woman is lying? The obvious answer is because she has no facts to back up her claims. But there's something else, like a gambler's "tells" -- this weird shtick she's doing. The cheesy flattery of Stewart, the hair-flipping, the smug "See what I mean!" nods and shrugs and all that death's-head grinning and addressing the audience directly (so much that near the end Stewart asks her, "Who are you talking to?") What I see here is a lot of what I also see in Sarah Palin -- a woman who's used to influencing people by being pretty and charming in that awful sort of smarmy, phony, used-car salesman sort of way. There's no honesty going on here. It's all lies and spin and the grimacing bleached-blonde theatrics of a whore.
I think Stewart does a great job but I wish he'd hammered her like he did Jim Cramer. I think in that case, Stewart had a lot more documented evidence against Cramer, but I also think Stewart's going easier on her because she's a woman and because she's pretty. I adore Jon Stewart but I think in his mind he's still this nebbishy kid from Jersey and he has a tendency to get a little bashful when he's interviewing a pretty woman, as if some part of him can't really believe that someone like her is even talking to him. I don't care when the woman is just some actress but in this case? He could have gone after her a lot harder and you can see moments where he literally seems to be biting his tongue and I wish he hadn't.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2009-08-22 06:45 pm (UTC)