To Live Up To His Public Image...
Published by BG on Monday, July 23, 2007 at 6:30 PM.Hugh Hewitt
From the Times of London:
TO LIVE up to his public image of a rugged, ex-SAS adventurer, it must have seemed essential for Bear Grylls to appear at ease sleeping rough and catching his own food in his television survival series.
But it has emerged that Grylls, 33, was enjoying a far more conventional form of comfort, retreating some nights from filming in mountains and on desert islands to nearby lodges and hotels.
Boy, that's a curious thing for Hewitt to point out about someone. If he's so concerned about marketing versus reality, I wonder why we haven't seen him write things like...
To live up to his public image of an independent, grounded non-Beltway denizen, it must have seemed essential for Fred Thompson to appear at ease driving a pickup truck to campaign rallies and reaching out to social conservatives.
But it has emerged that Thompson, 109, was enjoying a far more conventional form of comfort, renting the truck for image purposes, and using his inexplicable charm to philander his way through the Greater Beltway middle-aged social elite before deciding on a trophy wife who Joe Scarborough thinks can probably "work the pole."
DISCLAIMER: Naturally, for those who choose to ignore reading comprehension in favor of jumping to conclusions, I am, in fact, saying that only Republicans could possibly be image-conscious hypocrites. Liberals are all angelic, honest populists for whom there cannot be an assumption or projection of human failings or the trappings of power and celebrity.
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