The Hills Have Aye Yay Yays

I generally don't like using this cliche because...well...it's a cliche but I must ask this of Dirty Harry: Really?

I've written about Libertas and their main blogger, Dirty Harry, a couple of times before so my opinion is known. (That opinion being that Dirty Harry is a cowardly, right wing demagogic douchebag who is incompetent at critical analysis of cinema, opining on political and social issues and humor, the three things he's paid to do on his blog. And yes, I know I said that my opinion was known. I just enjoy typing it out.) Today's topic is not the first time that Harry has taken a day trip to downtown Stupidville and it won't be the last. Today, however, is a rather egregious example. Surprisingly, it does not involve running the script of an upcoming film through the Michelle Malkin spin cycle looking for signs of treason. No, this just involved some celebrities endorsing John McCain.

If you don't know who Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag are, it means that you don't watch The Hills or MTV, the network that recently had a reality show about a bisexual swimsuit model pretending she was trying to find someone to love by choosing one person from a group of men and women. Anyway, the two cast members of The Hills said they supported John McCain and Dirty Harry thought that this was so super duper ultra mega mondo awesome that he immediately slapped the link to that news on his blog. In an update, he admitted that he was an asshole. No, he didn't use those words, but he admitted that he had no idea who these two girls were even though he labeled them as, "smart and conservative." As I looked through some old interviews I saw that Heidi admitted that she and Lauren had once argued about whether or not Boston was a state.

This made me think of when Bruce Springsteen endorsed Barack Obama. When that happened, Dirty Harry both criticized, mocked and dismissed Springsteen as well as the concept of celebrity endorsements. Coincidentally, Heidi Montag is also a singer. So, Barack Obama has the guy who sang Thunder Road, Born To Run and The River. John McCain has the girl who sang this. Dirty Harry thinks that John McCain can take this and ride it all the way to the White House. He thinks this and then asks us to believe that he's not a doofus which, of course, is asking too much.