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Mar
08

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Well Bobby Jindal’s big national television debut was just a couple of weeks ago and people enjoyed poking fun at the awkward, happy-go-lucky governor who reminded some of Mr. Rogers. But while the Mr. Rogers comparison is hilarious (thank you, Jon Stewart) and apt, it seems like Jindal is actually facing a bigger problem: reminding people of Kenneth the page from NBC’s 30 Rock.

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(For those of you unfamiliar with the show, it’s Tina Fey’s inspired television series about a show not unlike Saturday Night Live, where Fey was a writer for the better part of a decade. Kenneth is the ever-optimistic and perennially-naive NBC page that works with Fey, Tracy Morgan and Alec Baldwin’s characters on the show. In this week’s episode, Kenneth threw a fake birthday party for Tracy Jordan (Morgan’s character) and then had to spend the rest of the show trying to figure out what Tracy had wished for in order to make it come true. Really though, you should just check out the entire show on Hulu.)

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Well, any hopes Jindal may have had about the comparisons going away with time have been shot to pieces. Politico.com has this (unintentionally) hilarious analysis of how Jindal was on the right track to making an organically positive national image and then derailed all of that as soon as he stepped up to the podium to respond to President Barack Obama’s address to congress. But it goes much further than that. The comparisons came up right after Jindal’s speech on sites like Gawker and Huffington Post but they’ve persisted through time and there are now Facebook groups and writers from all parts of the country either scratching their heads or making the same comparison. Just Google “Bobby Jindal Kenneth the page” and you get 522,000 hits.

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Now, I’m by no means a political savant, but it can never be good when you’re trying to build a campaign to run for president and people are constantly referring to you as a television character that once uttered this line: “There are problems on the farm. After years of inbreeding, the pigs are getting violent and the pig shield around the house has worn thin.”


Comments:
Adrastos on March 8th, 2009 at 3:47 pm #

I guess you missed all the local bloggers who wrote about the PBJ fiasco.

Alejandro de los Rios on March 8th, 2009 at 3:56 pm #

Nay, this post is about how the “Bobby Jindal=Kenneth the Page” meme seems to have some lasting power.

Resista on March 8th, 2009 at 4:14 pm #

Hello .lo….lo ….lo Wow this is like an echo chamber in here. !

Your criticism of Mr. Jindal is petty and snarky. There is no doubt that you are nothing more than a wanna be political operative for the democrat party. After reading this I feel like I need a shower for it drips with nastiness and partisanship.

The governor of this state just like the governor of any state needs media watchdogs and frankly a worthy opposition. You and your publication are neither nor is that only slightly veiled partisan propaganda show on MSNBC you linked us too.

Funny how GE and NBC and MSNBC and countless minions are all putting out the same message and your just lapping it up daily like a little Pomeranian. I am not saying that you are conspiring with the cable networks because that would be silly and unnecessary. There is no need for a meeting because you just like MSNBC are not really journalists. You only do that part time. The rest of the time is spent on dreaming up fake news items like this one so that you can further the propaganda that supports your common world view. I am surprised that you didn’t link us to a national survey sponsored by the NYT that says 84% of women polled think that Bobby Jindal is just icky.

I am a Libertarian so I don’t really think the Republicans are the answer and I don’t know yet about Mr. Jindal’s leadership skills but one thing I do no is that the only reason you are constantly looking for any possible way to make him look bad on this blog and in your paper is that you really don’t have anything on him. You can’t get Larry Flint to pay to connect him with a Whore yet and he really hasn’t made any bad political decisions yet and has been doing his job.

Let’s hope for your sake that you get an actual story soon to rag on him about because these partisan attacks you have been Echoing or Channeling from MSNBC and the Huffington post are tiresome and lacking in any journalistic integrity. I am really sorry that the governor didn’t live up to your Hero’s Telegenic Telepromptered presence. That sucks for you. I know! He just doesn’t have the style and we all know that is so much more important that substance.

liprap on March 8th, 2009 at 5:24 pm #

Nothing on Jindal? Nothing?

In terms of criminal intent, yes, there is nothing.

In terms of support for policies that espouse “critical thinking” in science classrooms - code for introducing intelligent design as a supposedly valid “theory” in science classes and bringing us right back into the days of the Scopes trial - that we have, and the science organizations around the country that would usually come to New Orleans to have their conventions have already begun reconsidering. Things are pretty bad when this city gets dropped as a convention host for UTAH, of all places.

Oh, let’s see, what else? The man has already proven that he will fabricate anecdotes to place himself in situations relating to the emergency management of 8-29-05…and he really didn’t need to do so. He would also reject stimulus money with the idea that the state would do just fine without it, and he doesn’t propose any plans as to how this will be done here. You know, getting some funds from some conventions might actually have bought the man some time while he figured it out.

Of course, he has to stay IN THIS STATE first and actually try to use the brains he supposedly has.

Oh, it’s not criminal in the sense that it can put him in jail…but it would be nice for him to get back here and actually do the job he was elected to do HERE.

Resista on March 8th, 2009 at 6:00 pm #

So that is really a big deal to you about the intelligent design thing. I don’t think I agree with that either but I wouldn’t exactly say that is some really big deal for you to freak out on. If the guy works for 4 years and you only have that on him your going to look really silly.

Did you ever think that some people may agree with him even though you and I don’t? Did you ever think that in “This” state they might be the majority?

We have serious problems in the schools here? I have you looked lately? Where were you and your righteous indignation for the last 30 or forty years while we manufactured an army of dunces and armed gangs? More important to me is that Mr. Jindal is against the subtle kind of racism common with liberals and that is “the racism of lower expectations”.

That is why you hate him. For you to try to pretend that we don’t lose conventions all the time because people do want to come to “Murderville” for their shin dig is ridiculous. So we lose one convention that might have come here and you want to freak out on that? To a person like Mr. Jindal maybe the way to stop all the murders is to get people to think about religion from an early age. I don’t know if I exactly agree with that but certainly the former plan of raising an army of Godless teenagers with no marketable skills has not been working so far in my judgment. Certainly after 40 years of liberal control of New Orleans this should be a workers paradise but sadly it is not.

I am not even sure that the scientist are all that great of a loss. I am sure they were not actually booked and if you go on their site they are really proud of that letter they wrote to Bobby Jindal. Good for them. I guess they told us? It sounds like a political point they and you are trying to make more than something that actually costs us money. Once again man made weather manufactured to meet a certain political point but pointless at the same time.

So actually the main reason people don’t come here for a convention is that people get killed at Mardi Gras parades and on just about every other day here.

So in my mind if a rule like this is the least of our problems and almost a non issue? It really serves much better as a straw man argument for you than an actual issue that we need to be living in fear of.

So you don’t think he is here enough and neither does gambit. They posted some dumb cartoon map the other day by someone on the internet to prove that this is a serious problem.

I think that we need a little outside PR my self after all the bad press we get all the time for us being the stupidest state in the union and the fattest state in the union and the one with the most people in Jail or the one with the most violent street gangs.

I don’t understand the Harry Lee story so you got me and Jindal on that one. I know that you think it was made up and I would guess that Keith Oberman would agree with you that this is a travesty.

But since I am not his butt boy like you are for Obama and the liberals then I have the right to ask him with full intellectual honesty WTF?

Like you said he doesn’t really have to make anything up. He did a good job during the storm by most accounts and didn’t make us look so stupid for once.

So I ask you again. What is your point? Do you want a smooth talking liar that isn’t intellectually honest about what he really believes and plans on doing with the government or do you want someone that actually does things and provides leadership?

I think I know the answer already.

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