Please don’t take the joke any more seriously than something you might hear in any Tonight Show monologue. It was more about the dumb movie title than anything else. For the record, the punchline isn’t based on the idea that any woman with strong opinions, ambition or drive should be considered a predator. I would consider such an notion to be stupid and offensive. Also, there isn’t any reason (in my mind, anyway) to consider left-leaning politicos any more prone to be predatory than rightward ones. Indeed, recently I’ve been up in arms about Ann Coulter’s ghastly and cruel remarks about the World Trade Center widows, and her apparent calculation that the ensuing uproar would boost sales of her newest book. (She even said as much on a prickly Tonight Show interview. George Carlin, sitting next to her as she didn’t give an inch on this issue, looked like he would blow a gasket any second.) Predatory might be an appropriate adjective to apply to that situation.

But I digress… In this case of the late night joke, I’m afraid the reference is more specific, based on numerous reports of Hillary’s behavior and attitudes that might be considered Nixonian, if not draconian, manifested during the Clinton governorship and presidency. (I haven’t read as much about her Senatorial activities.) The joke was a play on that information, just as we hear endless jokes (again, watch Leno, Letterman, Conan or Bill Maher on any given night) about Bush being dumb based on his grammatical goofs, or about Michael Jackson’s plastic surgeries, or Arnold’s accent. There’s exaggeration of a particular characteristic for the sake of a laugh, though admittedly taking a chance that the humor might go too far or be hurtful. That certainly wasn’t the intent of my quip, and I apologize if it caused any distress on anyone’s part.

I thought Arnold was the alien (you know, because he wasn’t born American?) and Hilary the predator based on the aforementioned assumptions. Uh, sorry, everybody.

[slinks off, prays for death]

Cerise

Arnold is the Predator.

The democrats are from outer space :-)

C

I don’t admire Hillary any more than I admire any other politian with ambition and an agenda and political dreams and strong opinions and a list of mistakes. I don’t. I also don’t see this as a partisan issue, really, though I admittedly lean left pretty frequently. I just want to say [commence eye-rolling now] that when a woman is, even in an admittedly funny joke, referred to in a deragatory manner because she’s reputed to be strong, ambitious, crafty, opinionated, or holding a clear agenda for her sex/party/profession makes me really, really sad. It makes me feel like feminism (or, as I prefer to call it: gender-equitism) still has work to do. I’m basing this on two assumptions (or more - feel free to let me know if I’ve missed one):

She’s being called a predator because she’s female - I’m assuming this because this isn’t the first time I’ve heard a woman being called this, and I’ve never heard the same for a male figure. If true, not fair.

Predator is a deragatory term - anybody want to argue this one?

Paul, if you meant to call her a predator simply because she’s a politian, regardless of gender, I sincerely apologize for all the hoopla. Or, if you’re in the habit of calling left-wingers predators, the same. If this is about Hillary’s gender, ouch, you know?

I know I’m probably taking this too seriously and seriously killing everyone’s buzz. I’m sorry for that, but - you know - this is one chick’s response. Please don’t kill me…

Cerise

I’ll yield the floor back to Zod.

Anyway, neither of ‘em would dare debate Zod. All hail Zod!

C

In 2008 Governor Ahhnold is going to run against Hillary Clinton — it will be “Alien Vs. Predator”!!

Of course, afterward Zod would vaporize Bono.