Thanks to Washington's current lofty perch in pop culture, I now have friends from outside Washington quizzing me on what type of rub Freddy’s BBQ Joint uses under new management and how the dredging of the Triskelion is going. If you ask me, for as good "Captain America 2" is, and for how god-awful House of Cards has become, the show that best reflects the D.C. and its inanity is Veep.
The HBO comedy is a critical darling, garnering praise and accolades for the incomparable Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Looking to bank on Washington's most popular politician, Rolling Stone slapped her on their April cover.
The magazine released some preview quotes:
She has had a good rapport with actual veeps.
In addition to meeting Al Gore – "who did win, by the way," she said, raising a finger – she recently shared a memorable dinner with Joe Biden. "He loves to tell stories, and I'm a good listener," she said. "I loved that dinner. There was no cynicism, just a very earnest jubilation about being there."
I can't wait until JLD breaks bread with VP Cheney, so America can bear witness to her wearing his BAMF ten gallon cowboy hat. For now we'll just have to settle for her slumming at state dinners with Dad.
Rolling Stone made a rather intriguing decision in choosing which photo to place on their cover. As some savvy observers on the Twitters have pointed out, they reduce the modern day Lucille Ball to nothing more than a piece of parchment. Maybe scribbling a weird Constitution/Declaration of Independence hybrid on the nekkid back of JLD is Rolling Stone’s way of boosting American students's civic scores, since the mag deems the U.S. education system one of "Six Ways America Is Like a Third-World Country."
RS should have made like a normal American student and consulted the Wiki.
Pro tip: John Hancock didn't sign the Constitution pic.twitter.com/qFQ2oYFmKa
— JustinGreen5000 (@JGreenDC) April 9, 2014
I mean, it's not a stretch to find a flattering photo of JLD. As her BFF Uncle Joe would say, she LITERALLY cannot take a bad picture.
Stripping JLD down is a lot like the decision Golf Digest made to put Paulina Gretzky on their cover: It's about that cash money.
Hypocrisy, your name is Rolling Stone. These are the same people, remember, who published "Marx Was Right" and said America should just ditch this whole capitalism experiment for socialism.
And who said capitalism was dead?
