Caroline Kennedy is Not Princess Leia
Dec 19, 2008 Media
Not a Skywalker
Readers Digest titled a column written by Carl M. Cannon, “Caroline Kennedy As America’s Princess Leia.” Being a medium-level Star Wars fan (not a fanboy, I repeat, not a fanboy), I was intrigued by the title. How is Caroline Kennedy like Princess Leia? Is she a feisty woman who can stick up for herself? Does she have amazing accuracy with a gun? Is she a rebel attempting to transport secret space station plans? Did she boink Harrison Ford? No, according to Cannon. The only mention of a Kennedy-Leia comparison is a short tag at the end of his faux-biographical piece:
John [F. Kennedy] did not survive that summer, his death being yet another cruel blow to his only sibling, sister Caroline. I was reminded recently of a fateful scene in Star Wars—the movie, not the nuclear defense shield. Yoda, the Jedi master, is ruminating with Obi-Wan Kenobi about young Luke Skywalker, another Crown Prince whose enthusiasms as a pilot sometimes outweigh his good judgment—and who has a sister of his own.
“Reckless is he,” says Yoda. “Now, matters are worse.”
“That boy is our last hope,” says Obi-Wan.
“No,” replies Yoda. “There is another.”
That is a horrible analogy. There’s actually more than one bad analogy. I think it’s pretty obvious that Luke Skywalker is nothing like JFK. You know what I’m talking about, right? I would give you a funny hint, but that’s just too morbid. The real bad analogy is Cannon suggesting that Caroline Kennedy is the one that can save us all from evil. That’s only believable if Cannon was able to tell why Kennedy is the one, but he doesn’t. Nowhere in his essay does he discuss Kennedy’s policy stances and political achievments. He just waxes about the Kennedy name and how her candidacy for Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat brings back the memories of Camelot. Carl M. Cannon, you wasted my time with an empty essay with a stupid analogy. You’re an idiot.
Reader’s Digest: Caroline Kennedy As America’s Princess Leia
Tags: bad analogy, carl m. cannon, caroline kennedy, princess leia, reader's digest, star wars
December 29th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
This woman is a poor example of higher learning dispensed by Harvard; and a very poor example of those who proffer serious public service for New Yorkers (or those on Martha’s Vineyard). She is opposed to green technology including wind turbines on Cape Cod and she sounds like a teenager, “y’know”?
She has not attempted to be proactive or helpful for the past 20 years to New Yorkers on many-many issues, so I say, who cares about Caroline K Schlossberg or whatever her name was before she thought she was Senatorial material. Yuck.
January 5th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
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January 24th, 2009 at 9:13 am
She got much more than the Warholian 15 minutes she deserved.
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