Hillary Uses Rocky Theme Song
This entry was posted on 4/2/2008 12:00 AM and is filed under Politics,Amusements,Irritations.
So
Slate has an amusing piece on
Hillary Clinton, and the fact that she's now taken to using the theme song from Rocky during her campaign stops in Pennsylvania. Sure, I get it... Philadelphia and all that. But Slate's Chadwick Matlin nails it when he points out that
the metaphor doesn't fly... Rocky is the underdog, not the corporate-funded favorite. Plus, Rocky
loses.
As Chadwick says: "Balboa puts up a great fight, but neither fighter knocks the other out
after 15 rounds.
Instead, the fight’s outcome hinges on the superdelegate-like judges,
who declare a split-decision: Apollo is the winner. But three years later, in
Rocky II, the fighters meet again. This
time Rocky wins. The takeaway: If Clinton
can’t win this go-around, maybe she can get off the mat in time for 2012."
