John_Dee
Active Member
we've already seen that he's hopeless at TV - even sun couldn't make his show with doug work out for more than 1 episode. rob ought to be looking at the likes of sarah palin and feeling scared: she had a reach and a media market orders of magnitude larger than rob's, and she couldn't make it work once she left politics (publishing, TV, radio, all flopped).
Out of the many, many far right-right demagogues and grifters hawking their wares in the U. S. media, Palin's probably the best comparison to Ford for two reasons: 1.) Like Slob, she's a genuine moron, and 2.) also like Slob, once you get away from the incendiary politics, the plain fact is that she's as dull as dishwater. There was simply nothing interesting about her at all, a problem that Ford suffers from in spades. He's crass and boorish, but not in a funny animated-sitcom-dad kind of way. (Yes, he has a Chris Farley-esque tendency towards slapstick disasters, but that has a limited 'appeal' at best, and it certainly doesn't bring out anything charitable in the people watching him fuck up. They're laughing at him, not with him.) He's small-minded and mean, but he's also pea-brained and dull. He's a hoser and a hick, without the slightest sense of grace or wit. He's far from physically attractive - Palin had that going for her, at least - and his story, when you get right down to it, is really quite banal. And none of this even covers the nastier stuff about him.
Limbaugh is a pig, and is far from a genius himself, but he's an old hand when it comes to radio, and can keep going for hours on end. Ford doesn't have that in him. He's awkward as hell, has a high-pitched, squeaky voice, and can't even look people in the eye when he's talking to them. Thug was the aggressive one in their little entries into radio/tv/Youtube, and he's not exactly popular in his own right. He probably has little enough tolerance for his loser younger brother now, but when Mayor Assclown loses the upcoming election, and loses badly? Let's just say I don't see the two of thm taking the media world by storm, and there's no way Slob is going to do that by himself. He's not going to replicate Limbaugh's (undeserved) success.