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Your Fifteen Minutes are up

Published by marco on

The following citation from That Couple by Tom Schaller (538) applies to so much in popular American culture today.

“No, you’re not famous; you’re infamous. You’re situated squarely at the bottom of an already too-deep and increasingly murky barrel of celebrity culture, celebrity journalism, and (un)reality TV, the depths of which are probably making even Andy Warhol cringe in his grave. I want this to be your fifteenth minute. I want your egg timer to ding now, so you can exit our national discourse as swiftly, completely and permanently as possible.”

I was confused about the target of the diatribe: I was convinced that it was directed at Sarah Palin and husband Todd (who, admittedly, has disappeared entirely from the official media story of her life), but discovered that it was about a couple of idiots that snuck into the White House.

Talk about not having my finger on the pulse of America.

At any rate, I wish to re-purpose the citation above and direct it at Sarah Palin, whose efforts at self-promotion are still too frequently reported, even far from America’s shores.