First, I must confess that I am conceivably more obsessed by clan Palin than is justified by their actual importance in the unfolding of human events. Also, that I tend to see conspiracies. Sometimes I’m right, and sometimes I’m wrong. Here’s one that just struck me, so I’ll lay it out, but then deny it before the end of the column.
So, recently I noticed two articles in Huffpo with the phrase “Wild Ride” in the headline. The first was about the Republican primaries. Odd choice of words, I thought, but nothing bizarre. Then there was the story of the “Wild Ride” with Michael Jackson, Marlon Brando and Liz Taylor. It was a strange tale, indeed, 3 celebrities who couldn’t get out of New York after 9/11 so they RENTED A CAR AND DROVE TO OHIO, and that was like the whole story, Jackson and Brando split the driving and the old lady near death sat in the back seat, and everybody got pissed off at the Godfather because he couldn’t drive past a KFC, which would explain one thing. The article didn’t actually say if any of them went inside at these places, but I suppose they had to stop and pee somewhere. Anyway, if you think about it, ultimate celebrity is its own best disguise. Anybody seeing the 3 of them together at a KFC in Youngstown would just assume either costume party or celebrity impersonators.
But my conspiracy theory was that Huffpo was deliberately trying to devalue the phrase “Wild Ride,” so that Sarah Palin’s “Wild Ride,” her flight from Texas to Anchorage via Seattle, followed by a drive up to Mat-Su hospital in the wild northlands, all the while in the final stages of pregnancy, and so calm that none of the check-in people or flight attendants even noticed she had a bun in the oven, would only be viewed henceforth as “a” wild ride and not “the” wild ride.
So, I decided to check with Google. I googled “wild ride” on the web and, of course, got pages and pages of websites for theme parks. So I changed the setting to news and I got book reviews, film reviews, lots and lots of crimes stories with car chases, some sports stories, a couple of stock market reports and a whole lot of other stuff. You have to actually google “Sarah Palin’s Wild Ride” to get the story which proves to me that Trig is not her child.
As to my theory, though, I’m forced to concede that “wild ride” is just a real common phrase and it’s no big deal if Huffpo uses it in a couple of headlines. I’m still convinced that Sarah was covering up for Bristol, which raises questions about the later born Tripp, but I no longer think Huffpo is deliberately trying to change the dialogue.
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