Contender Saturation Point

Has the modern American Right worked itself into such a frenzy over finding anyone to defeat Obama in the upcoming 2012 election cycle that they have already been defeated themselves?

That was my first thought after watching this?



And the Right are clearly not pleased when their overzealous nature in regards to "trumping" Obama's ability at a second term.

Just think about the names that are already in the contender pool: Palin, Bachman, Huckabee, Romney, Santorum, Gingrich, Paul, and Trump. Not one of them has the solid credentials that the modern American Right claim are required, save perhaps Romney. And as far as Trump is concerned, he's more of a "self-promoter" and is likely doing this simply to boost his own visibility.

This is the problematic nature of the Right's 2012 narrative - favoring the gimmick, the rhetoric, over solid policy for the country. It seems that with every news cycle, the current situation in Egypt for example, the Right is more concerned with speaking about how Obama is failing at handling it, while not offering examples of how it should be handled.

Make no mistake, the 2012 election cycle is now in full swing, and it's already getting quite interesting.

EXIT QUESTION: After Ron Paul swept the CPAC straw poll last year, and Fox"News" doing their best to spin it as a fluke, or that the Paulbots rigged the results, who do you think will win this year. Certainly not Palin, as this is the third year in a row she snubbed the convention.

They're All Out To Get You!

Actually, Carrie Prejean is more than likely going to be better off, in terms of a career, now that she isn't Miss California anymore. She's certainly getting her Fox"News"-bitter-anchor-woman schtick down.

Paging Rupert Murdock....

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DETHRONED!!!!!

Here's something that Ms. Prejean isn't considering or is just flatly ignoring - this is a Donald Trump business. He's not going to fuck around and go to bat for you and then allow you to trot around in your tiara and sash over at Fox anytime you feel like it. He's not going to put up with it, period.

But this isn't about how Trump runs his business. This is all about Carrie Prejean, "victim".

So let's hope that we can hear from the Special Olympics, these unnamed "hospitals", these people that Carrie seemed to have to call on her own. Surely Miss California has a press agent to do these things for her. And after all these alleged calls that she had to make on her own and she can't even call Donald Trump or Mr. Lewis, the director of the Miss California pagent?

Was she really that distressed over being fired or is she just ready to ride this train as far as it will take her?

Breaking News That Really Doesn't Matter

Carrie "Full Frontal Opposite Marriage" Prejean keeps her crown.

And now, David Shuster explodes:

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Shuster has a point, though his is going to be lambasted for it on Fox"News" tonight for letting the wall that seperates news anchor and honest American slip. What is all the fuss about?

Here's why this is such a big deal.

Carrie Prejean is now a household name not because she is Miss California, not because she "opposes" gay marriage, but because she is another in a long line of media-created controversy-mannequins. There's been thousands like here before, and when her time is up - and since she's retained the crown, that moment is fastly approaching - there will be thousands more to come.

Shuster's outburst is indicative of not only his pesonal beliefs, but those of the bulk of Americans who see the Miss Universe Corporation ( and that's why Trump is part of this, it makes him money ) as a visual distraction from everyday life.

What exactly does Carrie Prejean have to offer the world, seriously?

Has she invented a longer lasting lightbulb? A cure for cancer? Discovered that magic number of licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie-Pop? The answer to those questions, and more, is an emphatic NO.

Sure, she'll travel around California and have her picture taken at events, answer questions from media outlets that are better off focusing on the needs of their audience rather than kowtowing the the platic nature of the pageantry-class. Because, at the end of the day, what is Carrie Prejean other than just another blonde with fake boobs and a desire to have people look at her so she can tell them exactly what they want to hear?

As far as David Shuster is concerned, this particular video isn't so much about Ms. Prejean as it is about him. Well, that's going to be the Fox"News" perspective this evening. That's because this is their type of story.

Here we have a vaccuous blonde with ( non-too-impressive ) fake boobs that is ready to go all-in and tell Perez Hilton that she believes in the "sanctitiy" of marriage. They are sitting there, in the control rooms and editing suites, ready to have B-roll footage for O'Reilly, Beck, Hannity, and whomever else can use it. Color-corrected, chopped quotes, and talking-points memos distributed en masse to all their anchors. It's almost as sensational as the latest "missing-white-girl" story. Only this time, the girl can talk, do press tours, provide the "context" with which they so eagerly coax out of her.

For Trump, this is a business decision. The more face-time Prejean gets, the more money he gets. It's win win for him.

Fox"News" doesn't give two twinkles about Carrie Prejean. She's their new toy. They'll play with her so long as she is willing to bend over and take it with a smile. Make no mistake that they are always looking out for the next gimmick.

And isn't that what the pageant-class is all about, gimmicks?