The Paris Hilton Response "Ad"

It's everywhere by now, but I like Ann Althouse, so I'll credit her - not that anyone's following my links, but hey, a guy can dream...

See the video at Althouse's site, or at FunnyorDie.com

I though Paris did a great job. Obviously I have no idea how much of this, if any, was her doing, but at least she demonstrated that she can at least read, and has a decent sense of comic timing, unlike, for instance, her co-star in the original McCain ad, Britney Spears.

Not to go off on a tangent here, but as a big fan of How I Met Your Mother, Britney's much ballyhooed recurring guest spot was one of the single most unfunny bits of an otherwise consistently hilarious show. I understand the girl has gone through some tough times and whatnot, but she was really bad. Really bad. And then afterwards, Yahoo! or some other fake news source had an article or two that I didn't read talking about how Britney was upset that she didn't get nominated for Best Guest Performance at the Teen Choice Awards or some other fake awards show. Or maybe it was the Emmys. Which is also pretty meaningless, particularly in the Best Guest Performance category.

Not to go off on a tangent from my original tangent, but from what Paris is showing here, she would have done a helluva better job than Britney. How hard is it to be funny, with the writers they've got on that show, acting opposite the brilliance that is NPH for the majority of your scenes? Her timing was horrible, her delivery was stilted and forced...I'm still upset. The best part was when the brilliance that is grown up Doogie came out immediately afterwards and basically said that the show didn't need guest stars, particularly Britney Spears. Good stuff.

Anyway...Paris was good, the ad was funny, I don't know whether or not it was pro-McCain, as Ann Althouse claims, but it certainly wasn't anti-McCain, and I can definitely see how it could be interpreted as anti-Obama. Up front, Hilton dismisses Obama as "that other guy," and then basically parrots much of his energy plan. If McCain fails to refer to Obama's plan as "the Hilton Plan" by mistake in an upcoming debate, he'll be missing a great opportunity.

And, no matter what you think of her as a person (some suggestions: trashy, disgusting, vacuous, everything that's wrong with Western Civ., etc.) she's easier on the eyes than say, any politician out there. Except maybe the governor of Alaska.

This was quite tangent-filled, sorry.