Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Oliver Stone and Sarah Palin: Parker Spitzer

CNN's Parker Spitzer debuted on Monday night.

Not many people cared. Only 454,000 people watched the program.

Wow. That's unbelievably bad. That's MSNBC bad.

Client #9's Show #1 featured Aaron Sorkin.

He bashed Sarah Palin.

From Brent Baker, Media Research Center:

Aaron Sorkin came aboard the Monday premiere of CNN’s Parker Spitzer to promote the new movie, The Social Network, for which he wrote the screenplay, but used more of his air time to spout his anti-conservative and anti-Republican prejudices, starting with Sarah Palin. Prompted by Kathleen Parker for his assessment of Palin, Sorkin, creator of NBC’s The West Wing television drama, insulted Palin:
Sarah Palin's an idiot. Come on. This is a remarkably, stunningly, jaw-droppingly incompetent and mean woman.

Parker jumped in: “Wow. What do you base that on, the meanness part?” Sorkin explained: “When she talks about real Americans versus not real Americans, that's a divisive thing. I'm pretty sure I fall into the category of a not real American.”

...Later on the October 4 program, Sorkin echoed Bill Maher: “The Democrats may have moved into the center, but the Republicans have moved into a mental institution.”

Video.


Kathleen Parker questioned why Sorkin called Palin mean, but she apparently had no problem with the "idiot" and "remarkably, stunningly, jaw-droppingly incompetent" part.

Like Spitzer, Parker is not a conservative and she's not a very nice person.

I don't know if Sorkin still is a drug addict and that might be influencing his remarks. In any event, what Sorkin said is terribly rude. His comment reveals far more about him than Palin.

On Client #9's Show #2, we get Oliver Stone and more attacks on Sarah Palin.

Parker gave Stone the bait and he took it.


Video.


Transcript
KATHLEEN PARKER: Could you see making a movie about Sarah Palin? Is she movie fodder? I would think she's...

OLIVER STONE: I think it's a bad idea because I think you're already empowering her. She's a moron in my opinion and she doesn't say anything, and she's very colorful. But you give her more and more power, like Fr. Coughlin in the 1930s or... You know, she's an Andy Griffith character out of Face in the Crowd or something.

PARKER: Well, let's not make a movie about her right now. But looking backward, I mean as we advance in the future and look back, it's a very unusual phenomenon that she has entered this political stage.

STONE: No, not really. There's Know-Nothingism in American history all over the place. You find candidates coming, ignorant people run for office and they win.

The Ku Klux Klan was marching, 100,000 Ku Klux Klan marched in the streets of Washington, D.C. in 1923, to astounding success with white sheets on their heads in Washington, D.C.

ELIOT SPITZER: So what is the response? In other words...

PARKER: But a woman- I don't think we've had many women...

STONE: It happens... all kinds of crazy stuff happens. We've had suffragettes. We've had prohibition, right? We banned alcohol. We go, America goes into its virtue, its Know-Nothing kind of like, the foreigners are enemies; we hate the Europeans; we blame them. We're an isolationist history and an isolationist country. We have two huge oceans and we feel protected.

SPITZER: How do you expect, or do you expect, this to burn out or to end? What is the response to it?

STONE: Well, in this climate, with the media empowering her, you might very well have an election which she could win. If she wins, then we deserve what we get.

What a load!

Sarah Palin and two huge oceans to protect us?

Suffragettes were crazy?

I wouldn't call women demanding the right to vote crazy.

Stone, however, is.

I don't know the guest scheduled to appear on Show #3, but if it's true to form, discussion will turn to Sarah Palin.

Parker and Spitzer's obsession with Palin is creepy.

There's a lot about Spitzer that I find creepy.

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