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Saturday, September 20, 2008
PREP in the Daily Bruin!
I was searching pictures using The Google for the training guide I'm finishing up and I found a 1994 Daily Bruin article that briefly mentions PREP:
Cover Boys and Girls
"He's the biggest celebrity in the world." - Opening line to McCain ad, "Celeb."
Check out Barack Obama's latest magazine cover. (Compliments to Obama Magazine.)I wonder how he feels about "Sex Pistol: The Woman Who Whipped 007" near his face.
Yeah sure, Obama has celeb status. He recently held a fundraiser in B-Hills with a ton of Hollywood folks. A-list celebs have been unabashedly supportive of Obama: Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Jennifer Aniston, Robert De Niro, Chris Rock, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johannson, George Clooney, and G-O-D herself--Oprah.
He makes for a good celebrity because he's a photogenic guy. The McCain camp keeps mocking his celeb status but he can't help other people from being attracted to him. The McCain campaign had zero celeb status until they decided to bring on Sarah Palin
Palin has a sketchy record (Troopergate, the Bridge to Nowhere money, her fundamentalist cred, etc.) but the media, the public that loves her, and even the people who hate her still can't get enough of her. And she's featured on the cover of US Weekely, featured on Vogue, mocked on SNL (touching on her lack of VP qualities and her milfness), the endless blog entries, and inane "news" stories, etc. If that isn't celeb status, then what is?
And isn't Palin is the biggest celeb-reality star of all the candidates involved. She's a small-town girl, she has interesting "quirks" (moose-whackin', fundamentalist, secessionist ties, her Tina Fey glasses, etc.), and she's gone from zero to "Hero" overnight. Doesn't that sound like the background of a typical Survivor contestant?
By the way, didn't McCain appear SNL? Isn't SNL a stop for politicians, in order to yenno, like get regular ol'folk like them, to promote themselves, to look funny and approachable? Kinda like a celebrity?
Watch John McCain sing Barbara Streisand:
So why does John McCain choose to attack Obama for his celeb status? Why does being a celebrity have to be a bad thing? Doesn't everyone secretly yearn to become super famous? Is John McCain jealous that Obama is probably higher on the list in terms of celeb status?
Save the Date(s)!
- September 26: Presidential debate in Oxford, Miss.
- October 2: Vice Presidential debate in St. Louis, Mo.
- October 7: Presidential debate in Nashville, Tenn.
- October 15: Presidential debate in Hempstead, N.Y.
- November 4: Election Day
- January 20: Inaugaration Day
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