The Caroline Kennedy phenomenon

Michael Goodwyn in the New York Daily News says that Caroline Kennedy has flubbed her audition to become the next Senator Kennedy: “the minute she faced the routine questions that help define a candidate for virtually any office, she had nothing to say. There was no ‘there’ there…. Her name is the sole reason she even dares go for it. Camelot must be Gaelic for chutzpah.”

Goodwyn wrote that ten days ago. Yet various “insiders” keep putting out the message that the appointment is hers.

By the way, have you noticed how in the coverage of Caroline Kennedy over the last few weeks there has not been a single mention of her husband and children, as though she had no family? For the last twenty years, every mention of her in the media has referred to her as Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg. Now the Schlossberg part of her name has suddenly been dropped into the memory hole, along with Mr. Schlossberg himself. Does this signify something about her marriage, or is it just a further example of how media functions as a hive, with every writer and editor mindlessly following the pattern of the moment, whatever that pattern might be?

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Paul G. writes:

My friend listens to conservative talk radio more than I do. (Well, I almost never do, so it wouldn’t be hard to do that. But I digress.) He said Sean Hannity made a great point about the Caroline Kennedy phenomenon—especially the desire among so many Liberals in the media to see her appointed—wherein he observed that, in an interview, Kennedy said “like” 30 times 60 seconds. Hannity observed that, were it Sarah Palin talking like a valley girl, you wouldn’t hear the end of it. Tina Fey would eat it up on SNL. The Liberal media darling talks like an ignorant freshman in college, however, and it’s not a news item. More than a little annoying, but not unexpected.

LA replies:

Yes. Has Saturday Night Live done anything on Caroline K.’s remarkable speech habits? Imagine the comic possibilities. But nope, they’ve done nothing on it, or we would have heard.

As far as I was concerned, SNL died in 1993 when Clinton became president. Here was a president offering an infinite banquet of material for comic and satirical treatment, and the SNL people systematically avoided touching it. Their desire to protect a Democratic president trumped their vocation as comedians, and they died.

January 8

More comments from Lucianne.com on Caroline’s K.’s amazingly sub-par personality, speech, appearance, etc.

Reply 11—Posted by: seminolesecure, 1/8/2009 7:23:06 PM

Her hair needs more body…..

sorry, ladies, I’m trying to be funny about the frivilous nature of Democratic politics.

But, jeez, can’t a multimillionairess get a little more life in her hair? She got Jackie’s hair, fo’ sure.

Reply 13—Posted by: poodlemom, 1/8/2009 7:48:13 PM

Her hair needs a new style, she hasn’t changed hers since she was in college. She’s 51 years old, time to update the *do*.

Reply 15—Posted by: fysammy, 1/8/2009 7:56:10 PM

Amazing that someone born into wealth and style (Jackie O was an icon) like Caroline didn’t go to finishing school. She walks like John Wayne, has lizard skin, unfinished hair and the vocabulary and delivery of lumber jack.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at January 07, 2009 09:24 AM | Send