"She is Snooki. It's the same math."

[kpete]

MSNBC's "Morning Joe" wrestled with the media's Sarah Palin fascination on Tuesday's program and contributor Donny Deutsch had a theory:

"She is Snooki. It's the same math. A younger generation, they want to watch this character with big hair, who's funny, you don't know what she's going to say. It's no different, but for a higher demographic. We watch her, she's interesting-looking, what's she going to say, she's campy, she's kitschy. It's telegenic, it's television, it's entertainment. That's the fascination."

http://www.politico.com/click/stories/1101/deutsch_palin_is_like_snooki.html

[spanone]

1. i suggest it's a lower demographic.....as low as it gets.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. naw, her legs aren't that good. A bit higher,

just below her neck.

That's what fascinates her male base

[HughBeaumont]

2. Sigh.

No, America loves a TRAIN WRECK.

Deutsch seems to be mistaking "laughing at" with "Laughing with".

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. oh, he knows, but he also realizes that

MSNBC cannot state the obvious, especially on Mourning jo.

[Crankie Avalon]

4. A little harsh on Snooki, I think. nt

[DCKit]

6. Jerry Springer normalized the kind of behavior we see from both of them.

He needs to be locked up.

[Poll_Blind]

10. Too true...Watching what's "acceptable" now is also remembering the dozens and dozens of...

...steps that get you from The Jackie Gleason Show to Jersey Shore.

PB

[Frank Cannon]

12. I was watching a show about Ernie Kovacs a while ago.

For a while, he had one of the most popular shows on TV, full of strange and imaginative skits that sometimes seemed to take forever--because that's where the humor was.

Ain't no way you'd see a show like that on TV today.

[Poll_Blind]

13. So true. Well, you might- but not on American television! n/t

PB

[Dappleganger]

14. REally?

People need to be jailed for putting crazy people on tv? Believe it or not, there really are people like this running around IRL. Jerry's a strong democrat, btw--a really standup guy.

[MinneapolisMatt]

7. Poor Snooki.

LMFAO!

[dynasaw]

8. Fascinated by Freaks

Always been people around fascinated by freaks:





http://www.freakingnews.com/Sarah-Palin-After-Dark-Pics-56990.asp

[okieinpain]

9. i don't understand either one of them. n/t.

[monmouth]

11. All Snooki really wants is to be called Nicole again.....poor thing..n/t

[WinkyDink]

15. Snooki/Nicole is laughing at US all the way to the bank.

[gratuitous]

16. Except I don't think anyone seriously thinks Snooki should run the country

And there seems to be a very vocal (though small) segment of our population who thinks that Quitterella would make a dandy President. And for that, I fault the popular media, which can't seem to bring themselve to call a nitwit a nitwit.