Everybody knows that I can't resist going for "cleverness points" so I propose this 1991 Ice Cube video question to David Shuster. You Chelsea Clinton was "being 'pimped out'". So, who's THE MACK?
Seriously though, get past all the baroque stuff and burlesque of it, and listen to the words. The song actually is kind of profound in an open-form shrug of the shoulders sort of way.
Shuster (and Chris Matthews and Barbara Walters) apparently think the answer to Cube's musical question is "her own goddamned mother."
I'm guessing a guy like David Broder would be super-Beltway Man and say "Mark Penn." Obama supporters might take a really conspiratorial view and say "Howard Dean".
I certainly HOPE that Senator Clinton doesn't think that the title belonged to Patti Solis for "letting" Chelsea take part in the campaign. I think the Senator is too smart and loves her daughter too much to cast the blame there.
All I know is that the lyrics of the song suggest that there's nothing terribly great about being THE MACK.
Taking the preceding into consideration, to me THE MACK is the generic LIBERAL Obama supporter who "knew the game but still ended up on her (his) back," or who paid guilt money to a beggar, or who "thinks every girl's inferior." And especially a certain Junior U.S. Senator from the State Of New York. Why does he think she's "inferior"? Because he's scared to death that he might be a little short in the masculinity department.
And speaking of those light in the masculinity department who try in vain to demonstrate the contrary via a random Senator who's running for President...If Shuster's right that a reference to a top-flight American politician "pimping out" her own daughter is just his effort at being part of pop culture cool, maybe he's THE MACK. DISCLAIMER ALERT: Being gay has nothing to do with masculinity. Being gay has to do with what one chooses to do with his or her body. Showing the ultimate in cowardice by trashing the child of a candidate very much has to do with a startling lack of masculinity.
So, David Shuster, I GOT YOUR POP CULTURE--RIGHT HERE!
Monday, February 11, 2008
Who's The Mack by Ice Cube
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8 comments:
just stopping by to tell you that lately I have really enjoyed reading your blog posts.
I have an idea for Hillary. At her next event, she should shout, "You want change? I've got a vajay-jay down here!" (points to her nether regions) "That's your change!"
Guaranteed 5 point pop in the polls.
Gary'sBoner:
I could not agree more. I don't EVER question Clinton campaign tactics because I've seen that every time you give them up for dead it turns out that they've either had a master plan all along have held back some very strong Plan C as a failsafe.
Nevertheless, I think this would be an excellent time for her to do something like what you suggest just to try it for grins because as I see it, she's now got a free pass to do or say anything she likes.
Liberality:
Thank you very much for that.
Kelso - I'm with GB on this one, too. I, for one, would welcome the vajay-jay change..
Spartacus:
I note you've been ID-ing with your fellow NY-er, Gary's Boner. Me alegro.
I wish he'd do another guest post.
kelso, I think Shuster may have bungled the word form when he got into his pimping comment.
It seemed to me that Chelsea was pandering. If anyone's flesh was for sale, it was Hillary's. And Chelsea was attempting to sell it to young voters.
Hillary apparently is only now learning that she is -- in the eyes of the college crowd -- old.
Not McCain old, but decades away from them.
Meanwhile, I thought it was amusing that she fired her multi-ethnic Hispanic Irish female campaign manager.
PSD (Post-campaign Stress Disorder) said she was worn out and wanted to spend more time at home with her two young kids. That's nice, and that's normal.
But we're talking about the campaign manager for the first female presidential candidate in history. A candidate who is running on the feminist platform that anything men can do, women can do at least as well. Or, as Hillary claims, better.
This crew should show the drive of demons. Instead, it's lloking more like they spent too much time in front of the mirror repeating some feminist mantra of empowerment.
PSD's admission struck me as the confirmation of a belief many men have had for years -- that women just wanna go home and be with the family.
That's not a criticism of the desire. But it's out of place on this campaign. It seems to me the crew working this campaign should be the most kick-ass campaigners in the history of US politics.
PSD also said she didn't think the campaign would become so demanding. That's a fascinating admission. It suggests she and Hillary figured the nomination was in the bag before the campaign began. I gather the campaign strategists are clearly experiencing hubris.
I flipped through a few pages of Primary Colors the other day. The opening, a description of Clinton's winning greeting/handshake technique that seemed to touch people in some deep way. Has she got that? No way.
Anyway, no matter how things go in this election, there will be books about life inside the Hillary campaign. I hope there's a Joe Klein in there somewhere. A person to share the temporary "campaign sex" unions that arise. However, I've got a feeling the stories will fall short of those relating entanglements in the first Clinton campaign.
No_slappz:
I agree and disagree with your comments here.
I don't think Chelsea Clinton was PANDERING. She was doing ordinary work for the campaign. Shuster's defense was that she was employed to persuade super-delegates.
Good point about the college crowd. I guess it's different now than when I was in college. It was way less an image thing and more of an ideological thing. I was always something of a cynic but I did observe lots of passion on the ISSUES more than the themes and messengers.
I absolutely agree with you that the campaign has lost some fight, that it's kind of playing a prevent defense, going back to "themes" such as feminist empowerment rather than demonstrating feminist empowerment by being tougher on the issues and in highlighting the differences, and most of all in drawing sharp contrasts between her self and Obama.
Agree with you completely the Patti Solis Doyle thing was botched completely. You are absolutely correct that while the "spend more time with my family" jive is standard stuff for any public figure who's been fired, it does have an additional malign effect on this particular campaign. And they should get back to the style that got them the big lead in the fall. Also, good point about Solis-Doyle's remarks. I don't think that they considered Obama their main threat until way too late. Of course, Clinton could have coasted against Edwards.
HRC is not WJC. She has a different style altogether. She doesn't try to "connect" with anyone. But she is a first-class nuts-and-bolts campaigner. Her game is to leave nothing to chance. I don't like to criticize either Clinton's campaign style because their won-lost record is amazingly good, 9-1, by my count. I do think, however, after ripping Obama apart in the November Las Vegas debate, she was supposed to remain on the attack so as to leave nothing to chance. She was supposed to just finish Obama off and isolate Edwards.
There's one really good book about HRC's first NY Senatorial campaign called "Hillary's Turn" by Michael Tomasky. I think that this campaign, however, will not throw off anything as good as "Primary Colors" or "Hillary's Turn" because the Obama-PC factor's too high. But anyone with some balls who want to write THE STORY will probably have a good one to tell, I agree.
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