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WRIGHT RIGHTED
Reader Sunny D. reports:
I was watching The Einstein Factor last night. It’s one of the few shows that is actually watchable on the ABC. The host is funny in his quirky ways.
I am not sure if you are aware of the format. There are three contestants and also a Brains Trust (invited guests from all walks of life, writers, public servants, good for nothings etc). Yesterday among the Brains Trust was Dr Clare Wright.
I don’t know much about Ms Wright, but it wouldn’t be a stretch to describe her as your average latte-sipping, Chomsky-reading, “terrorism is a valid political expression”-believing armchair feminist.
One of the contestants had chosen Lawrence of Arabia as his main topic. Ms Wright remarked (I am paraphrasing): “Don’t you think it’s funny that today Lawrence would be in Guantanamo Bay for his beliefs”.
She ended this with a satisfied smirk, as if she had just said something very witty. To her utter disgust (and my pleasure) the contestant fired back with: “To the contrary, if Lawrence would have succeeded in his ideas, there wouldn’t be a need for Guantanamo Bay. There would be democracy in the Middle East.”
The consternation on the face of Ms Wright as she turned away from the contestant was telling. What an answer! In my high school days in LA, it was referred to as getting ‘bitch slapped’.
Perhaps she was Lawrenced.
I’m not warming to her.
“Clare is currently the Executive Officer for the History Council of Victoria. She is married to the acclaimed furniture designer/maker, Damien Wright, and has two spectacular children, Bernie (5) and Noah (3). Clare wants to be a writer when she grows up.”
What would have made the moment nicer is if they would have done that tuba sound “wah wah wah waaahhh” right as the camera went to the reaction shot of her.
Unless they did do the tuba sound. I don’t get that ABC here in the Delaware Valley.
Posted by William Young on 2005 05 16 at 12:55 PM • permalinkOh thank God. I thought at first Tim was making me a butt of jokes, Margo Kingston style.
It should be noted that Claire Wright is married to a Wright and therefore is not a Wright by blood. If she was, well, the clan would likely have to meet and take care of our own blood faults.
I better go call the Scottish side of the family and tell them to put away the Claymore, it was a false alarm. I imagine the Aussie side will be a bit disappointed though. I know the USA side is.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 05 16 at 02:10 PM • permalinkwronwright,
Interesting coincidence: I’m Wright on my mother’s side and Clan Gunn on my father’s.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2005 05 16 at 05:42 PM • permalinkActually, the “Doctor” Clare Wright thing brings home the sad fact that these days, at least in the Anglosphere, you can progress right through the academic history mill and remain profoundly ignorant. One of the most ignorant people I’ve ever known had her Ph.D. in history. She could blather about discourses and hegemons, but the lightest literary or historical allusion in conversation - the small change of cultural reference between educated adults - sailed a mile over her head, unregarded.
Sorry to keep on this one, but even Dr.Wrong’s original comment, as reported by Sunny, makes no sense at all. Lawrence was ‘special ops’, working with local irregular militias, just like all those guys in Afghanistan: as far as I know, none of them ended up in Gitmo, nor would there be any reason for them to.
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hehe lol
Posted by Astonished on 2005 05 17 at 04:52 AM • permalinkThat emale address bounced back. Clare must be in hiding.
Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2005 05 17 at 07:10 AM • permalink
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