Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Gene Veith on our cult of celebrity

Gene Edward Veith coins a new word: CELEBRITOCRACY

Reports are that Barack Obama is appointing as Surgeon General that doctor guy on CNN, Sanjay Gupta. By that logic, Michelle Malkin suggests Judge Judy for the next Supreme Court opening.

Comedian Al Franken will likely be the Senator from Minnesota. Kennedy princess Carolyn Kennedy may well be the Senator from New York. We already have a body-builder action-movie star as governor of California.

Maybe we should just turn everything over to the celebrities whom we adore. Some societies have had aristocracy (rule of the “best”) and others have had plutocracy (rule of the rich). We used to have democracy (rule of “the people”) until the people found that boring and an interruption of their entertainment. I think we are ready for celebritocracy (rule of the celebrities).

[That is a new word, as far as I know. Use it and make it spread. It would be the pinnacle of my achievements to add a word to the English language and to get a credit in a future edition of The Oxford English Dictionary. UPDATE: Bob Hunter tells me the word is already out there. Foiled again! FURTHER UPDATE: Others of you are piling on. Stop tormenting me for my failure!]

What other celebrities would you suggest for high government office?

OK, I’ll go first:

(1) Kiefer Sullivan for Director of the CIA. (As Jack Bauer, he would surely know more about espionage than Leon Panetta.)

(2) Sen. Fred Thompson for Attorney General. (He did such a good job at that on Law and Order.)

11 comments:

Jase and Melissa said...

(3) Bruce Willis for Secretary of Defense. (More conservative and better looking than -now- Obama lackey R. Gates)

Todd Pruitt said...

Dan Rather - Press Secretary

Bob Villa - Housing and Urban Development

Leonardo DiCaprio - Department of the Interior

Sean Penn - Department of brooding, politically ignorant actors (it's a new department).

Anita said...

Oprah has to have a position somehwere?? Maybe Press Secretary?

Anonymous said...

Ty Pennington for Secretary of the Interior

Reggie White for Secretary of Defense

Richard Simmons for Secretary of Energy

Todd Pruitt said...

How about Richard Simmons for Health and Human Services?

Anonymous said...

Tommy Chong - drug Czar

kevcyp said...

Secretary of State - Bono

Pete Morris said...

Mickey Mouse to replace the Bald Eagle

Mike said...

Ronald Reagan - President

Todd Pruitt said...

Keith Richard - Drug Czar

Jimmy Carter - Ambassador of Good Will to International thugs and dictators

Charles Rangle - Ways and Means (oops, he already is)


Mike - DITTO!

rsimmons said...

Gee Whiz I need to change my name.