The Main Stream Media are now the Modern Day Equivalent of the little blue haired ladies from Boston. Call them the little blue shirted ladies and gentlemen after the camera friendly blue shirting's they wear; or, better yet, the little blue meanies of the media.
To be banned in Boston by the little blue haired ladies was a Seal of Disapproval that piqued public curiosity in such a way as to loosen a shower of cash on directors and authors of mildly salacious material. Spice your material with a little sex, like young girls getting pregnant out of wedlock in a small town in Alaska, and you were Banned in Boston. Open wallet, exit smiling.
The little blue meanies did their work on the new movie, "Governor Palin Goes to Washington", and they did do their best work. Governor Palin opened her metaphorical purse Wednesday night as an estimated Forty Plus Million tuned in to watch her star turn on the national stage.
If this really were a movie with 40 million tickets sold in one night the take would easily top 400 million dollars. No movie has ever hit that number even over an extended three day holiday weekend.
Impressive. Even for the little Blue Meanies. Who were feeling especially blue and bruised once she was through with them. The overnight returns were 38.7 million viewers. When you add in C-Span and PBS, the number goes to over 40 million.
Not to let a good thing die, the producers of the Republican Convention rushed out a remake of the movie "Maverick" starring John McCain. The overnights show that Big John has pulled in more viewers for his show than any of the political movies released in the last two weeks. Like the moguls of old, the owners of the Republican studio are teaming up their new stars for a new movie out in November -- rumored to be a remake of a John Wayne classic, movie to be named later.
The little blue meanies are reduced to engaging the Mythbusters team to prove that Wednesday night's speech didn't really happen at all. That it was just a massive conspiracy like the moon landings: made possible by Hollywood special effects and starring Tina Fey.
Somewhere in Hollywood a bright guy has to be pitching a red-meat for the red-states movie with the added kicker -- "I'm sure we can get Keith Olbermann to name the director "Worst Person in the World" on Countdown AND land a nasty cover on US magazine.
If he's lucky, he'll get a green light to proceed. Uhh, make that a blue light.
