MARSHMALLOW WORLD
The Stephen Miller Holiday Special
if you want to watch Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas, you have to make an effort. Not a massive effort; it is readily available on YouTube, but you probably could not find in on any major streamer, other than broadcast or cable network that would be showing Christmas specials. It is not a perennial, such as “A Charlie Brown Christmas” or “Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer”. Most Christmas specials such as Dean and Frank’s have fallen by the wayside, the same with Bing Crosby’s and Andy Williams’ yearly specials, but if you want to dig thru the world of YouTube, you can find them. Or, they could have been included in those Dean Martin Show DVDs that were being hocked on infomercials, and perhaps still are in the wee hours of the morning on conservative-leaning stations. Maybe that is how Stephen Miller and his family watched the special as a celebration of Christmas, or, in his view, American superiority, which just happens to feature two sons of immigrants.
And there is not anything offensive about the special itself, which starts on the Dean Martin show set, and then turns to Frank and Dean singing “Marshmallow World”, which is NOT a Christmas perennial to be sure. But, there are Frank and Dean, mincing in the way that Frank and Dean would, belting out. This leads into a variety of performances from Frank and Dean’s families: Gail Martin and Nancy Sinatra perform a medley along with various dancers (itself a staple of Dean’s show) which includes a Christmas version of “These Boots are Made for Walking.” Then, Frank Jr and Dean Jr perform a medley of songs, then it’s Deana Martin and Tina Sinatra’s turn. A quick cameo by Sammy Davis Jr as Santa Claus, then more performances, and the families announcing they will donate toys to needy children in hospitals, an effort that was not matched by Miller or anyone else in the Trump administrations.
And to Stephen Miller, “infinity immigrants from the Third World” could only sully what was happening on the screen, this perfect worldview of how America should be under the current regime, the perfect example of what is meant by “Make America Great Again”. The hypocrisy of using this special featuring two very famous sons of immigrant families to prop that up? Well, they’re FIRST world immigrants, so that is alright. And they’re white you know.
At least Nancy Sinatra didn't not sit silently in defense of his father, who for whatever foibles he had (he was a Reagan supporter), he was not someone who was anti-immigrant:
There is one place that you could have been able to watch Frank and Dean and their families celebrate Christmas: your local PBS station. The same PBS that the Trump Administration is determined to destroy.
Stephen Miller’s world really is a Marshmallow World.
👊I keep thinking of the phrase, "When you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
Well done on this.