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Kardashian vs. Obama
August 15, 2013 By Mark Tapson
At the end of July, President Obama participated, for some reason, in a Kindle Singles Interview, a new interview series for Amazon.coms e-reader. In the course of discussing the need for increasing government involvement in our lives, lamenting the increasing polarization of American politics (which he personally has exacerbated beyond measure), and whining about increasing Republican resistance to his disastrous agenda, Obama also commented dismissively on the cultural impact of super-rich celebrities among them the famous-for-being-famous Kim Kardashian. Kims mama bear Kris Jenner responded by publicly calling him out for his hypocritical and anti-capitalist jab.
So what? Why is a little spat between the President and a reality TV maven important? Because when a celebrity as widely known as Jenner not only doesnt slavishly heap adulation on Obama, but actually challenges and chides him on her talk show, the cultural impact is potentially huge, and that trickles down to the political. She reaches a wide swath of low-information voters who otherwise might not follow politics at all, or ever hear any criticism of the President in the left-leaning cultural realm. The fact that Jenners audience cheered in support of her defense of her daughter against Obama is revealing and significant.
Things began when Obama, reflecting on how his own childhood differed from the world his children face, said, There was not that window into the lifestyles of the rich and famous Kids werent monitoring every day what Kim Kardashian was wearing, or where [her rapper fiancé] Kanye West was going on vacation, and thinking that somehow that was the mark of success.
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Why not? What right does the President, or anyone else, have to tell Americans what the limits of their dreams and aspirations should be, or to claim that they didnt build it themselves? Thats quite simply un-American.
Kardashian vs. Obama | FrontPage Magazine
Kardashian vs. Obama
August 15, 2013 By Mark Tapson
At the end of July, President Obama participated, for some reason, in a Kindle Singles Interview, a new interview series for Amazon.coms e-reader. In the course of discussing the need for increasing government involvement in our lives, lamenting the increasing polarization of American politics (which he personally has exacerbated beyond measure), and whining about increasing Republican resistance to his disastrous agenda, Obama also commented dismissively on the cultural impact of super-rich celebrities among them the famous-for-being-famous Kim Kardashian. Kims mama bear Kris Jenner responded by publicly calling him out for his hypocritical and anti-capitalist jab.
So what? Why is a little spat between the President and a reality TV maven important? Because when a celebrity as widely known as Jenner not only doesnt slavishly heap adulation on Obama, but actually challenges and chides him on her talk show, the cultural impact is potentially huge, and that trickles down to the political. She reaches a wide swath of low-information voters who otherwise might not follow politics at all, or ever hear any criticism of the President in the left-leaning cultural realm. The fact that Jenners audience cheered in support of her defense of her daughter against Obama is revealing and significant.
Things began when Obama, reflecting on how his own childhood differed from the world his children face, said, There was not that window into the lifestyles of the rich and famous Kids werent monitoring every day what Kim Kardashian was wearing, or where [her rapper fiancé] Kanye West was going on vacation, and thinking that somehow that was the mark of success.
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Why not? What right does the President, or anyone else, have to tell Americans what the limits of their dreams and aspirations should be, or to claim that they didnt build it themselves? Thats quite simply un-American.
Kardashian vs. Obama | FrontPage Magazine
