From the “Not Exactly Ready For Prime Time” Department comes Victoria Jackson, living proof of what can go wrong when a network fails to ensure that their guest has taken her medication. Jackson was never really all that funny when she was on Saturday Night Live, and she’s even less funny now that she’s serious about being a member of the lunatic fringe. All she does is confirm every negative stereotype out there about teabaggers being aggressively ignorant racists willing to believe even the most demonstrably untrue propaganda as long as it fits with their prejudices. Every time she opens her mouth, she sets the Tea Party movement back ten years. No mean feat, that…especially considering the loons she hangs with.
In a bit of perfect comic timing, wouldn’t you just know that Jackson’s interviewer on Fox and Friends was none other than the astonishingly inept Steve Doocy. A less-than-skilled interviewer under the best of circumstances, Doocy was completely unprepared when Jackson went off the reservation…and go off she did.
DOOCY: So, are you ready to join the tea party people?
JACKSON: I am the tea party people. We’re beginners at this political activism and it’s all new to us and it’s kind of cute ‘cause we’re shy, we hold up our signs like this, you know, despite what they say about us, I have never done anything like this, but we have to because the president is a Communist.
To his credit, Doocy at least advised Jackson (albeit somewhat tepidly) that the President ISN’T a Communist. Unfortunately, the look in his eyes was terror, the bowel-emptying trepidation of someone who was about to go over a cliff with no idea as to what awaited him below. Oh. My. God.
Memo to Tea Party leaders (if in fact there even is such a thing): If you want to make your case to the American people, if you want to have any chance of convincing us that you’re not a motley collection of angry, uber-ignorant White Folks, you might want to keep the cameras away from Victoria Jackson. Keep her in her trailer and make certain she has plenty of OxyContin and Bud Light. If she’s anything resembling lucid, she’s as unstable and as likely to go off as that WWII mortar shell in Grandma’s pumpkin patch…and WAY more entertaining….
