TheLastManInAmerica

It takes eight minutes for light to travel from the star at the center of our solar system to our planet. For the star called GOP2 (aka Sarah Palin), it took a matter of seconds for her light to engulf the planet, a light so bright that it has since blinded and dumbfounded the masses from  the day she were announced as John McCain’s running mate for this year’s failed GOP ticket for president.

In the three weeks since losing their bid, Sarah Palin has seen an amplified interest from the media. And, oh, how happy those in her corner are!

“Tomorrow, Governor Palin could do an interview with any news media in the world,” said her spokesman Bill McAllister. “Tomorrow she could sign any one of a dozen book deals. She could start talking to people about a documentary or a movie on her life. That’s the level we’re at here.”

From Oprah and George Stephanopoulos to Letterman, Leno and the Daily Show are, media sources everywhere are  clamoring to get Palin on their programs with the possibility of her own talk show not too far out of reach. I, personally, am sickened that we live in a society where someone like Sarah Palin, who rose to infamy as an inept politician, can ride ride that wave to international celebrity. While doctors are growing windpipes from stemcells and astrophysicists prove the validity of the Big Bang Theory, it’s people like Sarah Palin, who didn’t know Africa was a continent as opposed to a country, that become famous. Need I say more?     

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