Thursday, January 18, 2007
What a Choice, The Donald or The Rosie?
Wow, what choices we are faced with these days. Withdrawal from Iraqi or The Surge? Barack or Hillary? Rosie O'Donnell or Donald Trump? Caring about the latter or not?
For me, the choice is simple. It boils down to which one of these self-made media darlings understands what's at stake, which is virtually nothing beyond their egos. On that criterion, you have to go with Rosie, who knows it's a big joke and that her job is to make jokes. The Donald, on the other hand, doesn't get it because his ego (not to mention his overblown hair) gets in the way. He is a joke that even he doesn't get. I mean, how do you take it seriously when he complains that Rosie shouldn't have said he'd gone bankrupt several times because he's never gone into bankruptcy personally (but several of his enterprises -- many of which carried his name -- have).
It is even worse now that he got his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. We can only hope that Rosie has a dog and she will walk it so that it can make a daily comment directly on Trump's sidewalk star. Fitting, I'd say. And at least we won't have to step in it.
For me, the choice is simple. It boils down to which one of these self-made media darlings understands what's at stake, which is virtually nothing beyond their egos. On that criterion, you have to go with Rosie, who knows it's a big joke and that her job is to make jokes. The Donald, on the other hand, doesn't get it because his ego (not to mention his overblown hair) gets in the way. He is a joke that even he doesn't get. I mean, how do you take it seriously when he complains that Rosie shouldn't have said he'd gone bankrupt several times because he's never gone into bankruptcy personally (but several of his enterprises -- many of which carried his name -- have).
It is even worse now that he got his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. We can only hope that Rosie has a dog and she will walk it so that it can make a daily comment directly on Trump's sidewalk star. Fitting, I'd say. And at least we won't have to step in it.
