It’s fair to say that most of Europe looks askance at America’s newest Tea Party – and this article from France’s Liberation by Didier Péron does nothing to dispel that impression.
Focusing on what is now a somewhat famed photo of Tea Party darling Christine O’Donnell’s facial expression after winning the Republican Senate primary, Péron likens her to a sitcom comedian determined to get the audience to laugh at just the right moment.
For Liberation, Didier Péron writes in part:
If you like Sarah Palin, you’ll to love her new 41-year-old protégé Christine O’Donnell. She’s the Tea Party candidate for the Senate seat in Delaware, who during the mid-term primary election managed to shunt aside veteran Republican Mike Castle. The Tea Party is not an association of green tea drinkers, but an ultraconservative movement that emerged in 2009 to fight Obama’s economic reforms the reform of the U.S. healthcare system.
There is a photo of her in which she’s been caught in a pose that has come to be code-named “Deep Throat” [photo on top of page]. In refined circles, it’s not in good taste to exhibit ones’ uvula or glottis like that, offered from the perspective of the observer, who, unfortunately, is out of the field of site, making it impossible to describe their expression (amused or horrified).
“Beautiful performance, Miss. But who taught you to do that?” the voiceover on a soundtrack might say, while in the next shot, a huge phallic anaconda would suddenly emerge to fill her little greedy mouth to the limit of her oral capacity. Perhaps she’s trying to imitate Janet Leigh’s scream in the shower during the murder scene from the movie Psycho, or check the mirror to compare the lovely affect of her white teeth against her white pearl necklace? One can also imagine that she lied about her age and that, born in 1936, she underwent a radical facelift allowing her to erase the ravages of time – but only after having to pay the (heavy) price of being unable to completely close her mouth.
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