Why the love between MSM and Condi Rice?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

Any ideas?
Despite her painfully obvious inadequacies, her multiple failures and her fragile, inept and not particularly smart public demeanor, WHY, oh why, does the MSM bow at her feet and give her a pass on so many mistakes (and worse)?

Her history has been discussed here often, and many times, in great, pain-staking and scary detail. Yet, she remains the promo-babe of the MSM. In fact, despite the reality of her dismal performance, her presence raises bush's own numbers.

So, does the MSM give her a pass because of her
a) skin tone
b) sex
c) piano playing
d) russian skills
e) talent as NSC chair
f) talent as diplomat
g) shoe choices
h) great dental work.



Or am I being unfair? Is she truly a talented person, and I am nothing more than a racist, sexist, shoe-hating, envious, tone-deaf, hater of historians, who loves gappy teeth?

[pooja]

1. Its better than looking at the chimp, rove, or cheney

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. ouch. touche. Didn't consider that one.

but, there is a scary similarity between her and some of the mouthings that spew forth from Ann Coultergeist.

[TAPat]

3. I hate to say it, but she does have pretty nice looking

legs...

[arcane1]

4. they both work for the same bosses?

:shrug:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. like . . . .

big pharma
big corpserations
big NSA

[DemPopulist]

6. Not that hard to figure out

More than the media loves Republicans, they love Novelty Republicans. Novelty Republicans like McCain ("Wow, look, a Republican who went to war and sometimes disagrees with the president!"), Guiliani ("Wow, look, a Republican from New York who's pro-choice and pro-gay and didn't make a fool of himself on 9/11!!") and, naturally, Rice ("Wow, look, a Republican who's a woman AND black!!! OMFG!!!!!!"). Spotlighting these people in an endlessly hagiographic fashion promotes the illusion that Republicans are really a "big tent" party and papers over the fact that they're primarily - and increasingly - the party of white Southern Christian conservative men - ie Bush, DeLay, Frist, Allen, Gingrich, Reed etc.

Rice is an even better Novelty GOPer than her predecessor, Colin Powell, who if you remember back to the Nineties, was also the subject of presidential and vice-presidential rumors, speculation about how he'd bring blacks into the Republican fold blah blah blah. The difference is Powell wasn't completely a product of the Bushostocracy and showed discernible signs of independence and competency from time to time. Because Rice doesn't, she presumably has more of a chance to rise to the top in today's Republican party. More likely, she, McCain and Guiliani will end up much like Powell today: a political has-been who gets trotted out at the RNC every four years.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. a novelty? good point

A MSM dahhhhling.

The powers behind this admin chose well, in that case. They primed, prep'ed, primped, pimped and pumped her resume, her background and her status. They concocted a figurehead. And now, it is payback time.

I wonder which ports her oil tanker visits.