Who’s Your Daddy?
Last week, the two questions that dominated the headlines were: Who will be the Presidential frontrunner for the Democratic Party? and Who is the real father of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby? While each story represents a completely different aspect of American culture, I cannot help but recognize a few similarities: each story stars two frontrunners (Barack and Hilary, and Stern and Birkhead, respectively) with a potentially endless cast of B-list hopefuls. Both stories involve mudslinging, however irrelevant and inappropriate. Finally, most importantly, both stories threaten the future of a helpless child — Daniellelynn Smith, of course, and America (230 years is young compared to the other countries in the world). If only “the media” could consolidate these stories into one uber-headline, we’d have so much more airtime and newspaper page space to praise Jennifer Hudson. Meanwhile, weeks after Smith’s death and a year and a half until the election, there’s no end in sight for either story, and only one parental figure seems to be winning these cases: Father friggin’ Time. Right over his knee, we are.
