Albert Brooks finds comedy in Sarah Palin
September 8th, 2008 by Scott Marks
A pair of Kings!
Albert Brooks has a lot of fun raking Ms. Palin’s parenting skills over the coals on his Huffington Post blog. Albert insists that Sarah Palin proved him wrong: “ANYONE can now be president.”
“I like Sarah Palin’s public speaking ability. I think she is fun to look at, certainly the hottest vice presidential candidate in history. But I looked up some facts. The United States has 10,000 nuclear weapons, 100 aircraft carriers, 3,000,000 people in the armed forces, and ten trillion dollars of debt.
I am now hearing from the Karl Roves of the world that having a 17-year-old daughter pregnant out of wedlock will make Palin sympathetic to millions of Americans who know the pain of that situation. But my question is WHERE WAS THE ADVICE? Do we want a president who cannot communicate to their own child that possibly having a baby a year after you get your driver’s license is not the smartest thing to do? Is this the new way for women to break the glass ceiling? To have their daughters throw their babies at it? I want my president to control their children, then they can tell the Navy what to do.”
Sadly, Albert failed to touch upon the opposition’s reaction were Barack Obama’s daughter in a similar situation. One can almost hear Rush Limbaugh spouting off on how “those people” can’t keep it in their pants.
I’ll give Palin credit for one thing: At least she didn’t pull a Joe Kennedy and hide her mentally challenged child from the world. Then again, she doesn’t have to parade Trig around like he’s one of Paris Hilton’s dogs.
I’d still rather Albert was given the funding to make at least 6 movies a year, but until studios realize what a comedic genius he is (and how to market him) we have Ariana Huffington to thank for bringing his wisdom to the world.
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