print“In promoting MAC’s ‘Plushglass’ lip potion, [Sandra Bernhard] referred to the prototypic Republican woman as a ‘little freaked out, intimidated, frightened, right-wing, thin-lipped bitch.’ This, presumably, is in contrast to her own centered, courageous, larger-than-life, left-wing, and lush-lipped persona.
Bernhard’s slur, the focus of conservative ire, however, isn’t the salient feature in this coarse creature’s shtick. Her delivery is: its contents; her demeanor — everything about this woman is sickening. Allow me to talk you through the MAC ad, which I’ve transcribed verbatim. If it appears disjointed and nonsensical, it’s because this folderol is intended as a bit of choppy, esoteric, performance poetry.”
The excerpt is from my latest weekly, WorldNetDaily column, “Bernhard Barfed.”
Well, I do not know about the lips, but I would be really wary about throwing down and ravishing someone with a mouth big enough to drain a swamp and strain out the alligators through the gaps in her teeth.
Reed
As an English teacher abroad, I used to like to show-and-tell the story of the meeting of the magnificent Sarah Bernhardt and Eleanora Druse.
Berrnhardt attended a performance by Druse, and in between acts sent her a note, “Sarah Bernhardt says Eleanora Druse is a wonderful actress.”
Druse took a pen, made a slight alteration and sent the note back. “Sarah Bernhardt, says Eleanora Druse, is a wonderful actress.”
[Priceless. More, more]
I have not seen the ad, and hopefully I will not. Ilana’s description will have to suffice. I accept that the ad is disgusting, and that Sandra Bernhard is your typical pretentious, pseudo-radical know-nothing. (Didn’t she play a psycho in “The King of Comedy”?) What I wonder is this: a firm engages in advertising to increase profits. In theory, the firm identifies a target audience likely to buy its product, then chooses how to promote its product to that target audience. Of course, some advertising campaigns work and others don’t. As disgusting as the ad may be, I wonder if it will actually succeed in increasing MAC sales and profits. Perhaps their target market is middle-aged psychotics.
In general, I am free to change the station if a television commercial is too disgusting. I don’t know if and where I would draw a line for “over the top”, but the ad as described doesn’t cross it. Disgusting and offensive, yes, but I can see disgusting and offensive material on any given sit-com.