Truest analysis yet. Part of a pretty great article on Salon.com (you may need to view an ad to get to full content).

we're not the Philippines yet

what is this implying???

m-o-n-a -- the speaker is saying that when we see a person of privilege taken down--being forced to obey the law, just like us common folk--that we're reassured this is still the land of truth, justice and the Original American Way.

So, to extrapolate, he's implying that largely, it isn't: that this is a country that values wealth and corporate supremacy over real justice.

We made Paris. We watch her terrible tv shows. We buy the bogus magazines that detail her every irrelevant move. We clamor over her sex video. We can hate her all we want...we provide her the fuel she runs on.

The problem is that we care...not that she does what she does.