-By Warner Todd Huston
Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawik should check into a clinic somewhere to have his delicate mental balance checked. Maybe they might have some nice medication he can take to temper his Palin Derangement Syndrome? His is so bad he can’t even write about a little reality TV show without indulging unnecessary vitriol and hate.
It’s interesting that critic Zurawik gets so filled with hate in such a short space. In fact, the tiny four paragraph “review” spends more time name calling and attacking Governor Palin than it does in discussing the TV show on which she is about to appear; TLC’s American Chopper.
Certainly professor Zurawik’s contribution to society is above reproach, of course. Long known to be the bastion of American intellectualism and culture, TV has always been considered one of our most important institutions. So, Zurawik’s work as a critic is sure to have the sort of cultural staying power as that of the great philosophers, I am sure. And his review of Palin’s appearance on American Chopper is sure to remain a standout example of the sort of tour de force work he’s long been known for.
Zurawik gives us no less than one slight on Palin’s social standing, one denigration of her addition to the McCain presidential ticket, one claim she is “divisive,” as well as a few name callings and the like. Zurawik calls Palin “a hot dog” and then implies that she is a low-class individual that is perfect for reality TV.
In fact, out of the four paragraphs of the review, only one of them actually talks about the show. The rest are merely an excuse to attack Palin on a personal level.
One would also be excused if after reading the acid tongued Zurawik’s account of the show that Palin is a central part of the episode. In truth, however, only one small part of the show features Palin as she was visited by the show’s main character, motorcycle builder Paul Teutul, Sr.
Teutul and his American Chopper TV crew were in Alaska to film the building of a motorcycle meant to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Alaska’s admittance to the union as the 49th state.
It is also interesting that Zurawik somehow missed the complimentary things that Teutul had to say about the Governor. It turns out that after the filming, Teutul said that Palin was “a real down to earth person to talk to.”
I guess nice things aren’t in the cards when PDS is raging, eh?
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as newsbusters.org, RedState.com, Human Events Magazine, AmericanDailyReview.com, townhall.com, New Media Journal, Men’s News Daily and the New Media Alliance among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events and is currently the co-host of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Conservatism” heard on BlogTalkRadio. He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book “Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture” which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of publiusforum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions : EMAIL Warner Todd Huston
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Usually TV critics are so kind to people to appear on American Chopper!
Yeah yeah, he is using a TV review as a platform to make political points. He’s completely Medved-ing here. I’ll also add that the Baltimore sun apparently has the only bad picture of Palin that exists there it its files.
Still, it’s a 4 paragraph blog post that you spent 8 paragraphs hysterically hacking away at, so who’s more deranged here?
“Still, it’s a 4 paragraph blog post that you spent 8 paragraphs hysterically hacking away at, so who’s more deranged here?”
I always LOVE this sort of illogical attack from your side, Piker.
By your illogical little jab there one would think you just violated your own supposition of your superiority. After all, if you are going to attack me for being “deranged” at this TV critic’s absurd attack on Palin, then I can merely ask YOU why you just wasted your OWN time on mine? If what I had to say was so pointless and crazy, doesn’t it make YOU just as crazy for replying here?
See, you can’t have it both ways. Either things are WORTH discussing (and, yes, maybe even getting outraged over) or NOTHING is worth putting any effort at all into it.
Your position is not logically tenable.
Hmmm.