Let’s take a nostalgic trip into the Where Are They Now? files, as a vice-presidential hopeful from a more genteel and civilised age considers a new direction.
Owing to the tear that has opened up in America’s batshit-politics continuum, Sarah Palin has now been reclassified as a relative moderate, whose transition to cuddly Angela Lansbury type is already pending. Consequently, madam is mindful of the need to find herself a new televisual role. Top of her wishlist is a project being pitched by the production company she is signed to, in which she will function as a TV courtroom judge.
Please don’t bring me problems with the idea. That Sarah isn’t actually a judge – or remotely legally trained – might at one point have rendered the idea defective. But, at this stage in America’s journey, it begins to look like one of the least broken things about the system. It certainly doesn’t bother the TV executive previously credited with discovering Judge Judy, who is the guy behind the project.
Furthermore, don’t make the mistake of thinking that they’ll never find enough people willing to submit to public rulings by this most steel-trapped of legal minds. It should not have escaped anyone’s attention that Sarah has vertically integrated into content generation, and could easily provide a generous spread of miscreant offspring, on whose domestic-violence charges/“huge disappointment” pregnancies/public-order pile-ons Mom could pass adorably homespun judgment.
