Archive for May 11th, 2009
Piper Palin's Lemonade Stand Still, Well, Stands
Despite being attacked by crazy person Theodore “Chip” Thoma in Alaska, Piper Palin’s lemonade stand outside the Governor’s mansion in Juneau remains open for business.
Thoma, it should be noted, has had multiple run-ins with the law involving cocaine, and has seemingly decided to make a career for himself joining the ranks of other loons who seek only to attack the Palin family at every turn.
Last night, we had dinner with some friends and were quite surprised by one of them, someone who is very bright and whom we respect a lot named Victor.
Victor voted for Dr. Utopia but supported Clinton in the primaries — and now sees that Dr. Utopia isn’t delivering on any of his promises and is being enabled by the MSM in everything he does, including the Scare Force One embarassment. So, Victor’s not a Kool-Aid drinker, and Victor also sees that Dr. Utopia’s economic policies spell doom for us all when the inflation kicks in come 2010 or 2011 or so.
BUT, Victor hates Sarah Palin.
It just comes out of the blue, totally unexpectedly…this Palin hate that Victor can’t even rationally explain. He says, ‘I just don’t like her. I think she’s not intelligent. I don’t think she is ready to be in an executive position.”
“But, Dr. Utopia was ready? What executive experience did he have?”.
Victor said, “That doesn’t matter, because he is learning now and he knew he didn’t know what to do so I am okay with that. But, Palin thinks she knows everything and that whole you betcha stuff is just an act. No one talks like that. I think she’s phony.”
And he was so passionate, too!
We’ve come to realize that in relation to the Palins, we will never understand where this irrational hatred comes from. Palin talks how she talks…and we happen to like it. We certainly would prefer to listen to her on an iPod than any of Dr. Utopia’s “historic” speeches that he likes to give people. And we don’t remember Palin ever telling anyone that she knows everything, but Dr. Utopia certainly promised he could lower sea levels and fix all of our broken souls, in addition to changing Washington and paying people’s mortgages and giving everyone unicorns.
And Palin only ran for Vice President, not even President, so it’s interesting that she’s held to impossible standards that weren’t there for Dr. Utopia.
As we’ve said here before, it’s going to be very interesting to see what the Palin family does in the years ahead. There is a concerted and well-organized effort to destroy this family, right down to little Piper and Trig. That is not going to stop, because people like Victor hate this woman without being able to articulate why they hate her with anything substantive that makes the least bit of sense.
Palin might think this stuff will just blow away, but she’s wrong. The Alinsky Method is being deployed against her, and it’s not going away. Will Palin decide she doesn’t want to deal with any of these loons anymore and leave public life? We sure as Hell hope not. We hope she keeps fighting back, and keeps getting stronger and stronger, so that one day that lemonade stand outside the Governor’s mansion can be packed up and setup thousands of miles away on the lawn of the White House in 2013.
The likes of Colin Powell keep insisting the Republican Party needs a bland moderate in 2012. Colin Powell is an enthusiastic (and racially-motivated, it seems) supporter of Dr. Utopia.
Why on Earth should Republicans listen to what Dr. Utopia’s supporters say in terms of who should be the GOP ticket challenging the incumbent’s re-election?
This is a mystery to us, just as it’s a mystery why people with criminal backgrounds like Theodore “Chip” Thoma are allowed within 500 feet of lemonade stands to begin with.
What's Hillary Clinton Doing Today? May 11th, 2009
1015am – Remarks at the annual Global Classrooms DC Model United Nations Conference
1100am – Meeting with Dr. Cai Goran Alexander Stubb, Foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs and Nordic Cooperation of the Republic of Finland
615pm – Meeting with Bernard Kouchner, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the French Republic
700pm – Dinner honoring The Foundation for Art and Preservation of Embassies
Go, Hillary, Go!
Monday Open Thread
What’s on your minds today?
Here are some things we find interesting this Monday morning:
(1) Criticism of Wanda Sykes’ “performance” at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner is coming in from some very unlikely places. Like Nikke Finke at DeadlineHollywoodDaily and her article on it, She Said What?. Finke is a self-proclaimed liberal Democrat and has identified herself as one of Dr. Utopia’s supporters. But, Finke calls them like she sees them, and excoriates Sykes for her rancorous behavior, accurately drubbing it as the most partisan and mean-spirited WHCD in memory.
Finke, surprisingly for a liberal, also notes that Sykes didn’t lay a hand on Dr. Utopia, but instead spent the whole time attacking former President Bush, Dick Cheney, John McCain, Sarah Palin, and Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh, in particular, got the most vicious attacks. You can read Finke’s piece for a complete blow-by-blow, but Sykes said she hopes Limbaugh’s kidneys fail…and Dr. and Mrs. Utopia laughed and laughed and laughed at that.
This is who the current President of the United States is: someone who not only mocks the Special Olympics on the Tonight Show, but who thinks it’s hilarious for Americans to die of kidney failure. We’ll leave that up to you to judge whether that’s presidential behavior or not, but you can’t dispute what Dr. Utopia did in these two instances. He of the “new kind of politics” and the “hope and change” forgotten promises.
If he really was the Light-bringing Hopemeister he claimed to be, he would have stopped Sykes. Now THAT would be transformational leadership. Someone crosses a line in front of you like Sykes did, and you rise up from the dais and bump her from the mic and get the night back onto a more positive and decent track, using all of that charisma and charm and “leadership ability” Dr. Utopia’s followers went on and on about during the campaign.
Where IS the hope and the change in a room where kidney failure’s wished on someone?
(2) Pursuant to the above, the sight of Dr. and Mrs. Utopia laughing at the attacks on conservatives, but not receiving any jokes aimed at them the way WHCDs are supposed to go makes us wonder just how much danger the new administration is in, and how little they realize it.
In America, we can’t think of a time when the current administration WASN’T joked about, laughed at, and made the staple of the latenight comedy hours’ monologued attacks. Around here, we can remember back to the Reagan Era, but not anything before that in terms of presidential jesting. We’re in uncharted territory when the MSM and comedians pointedly refuse to attack the current president on anything, the way they went after all of his predecessors. AND, if you think about it, the political cartoonists and commentators back in the 1800s were FAR WORSE to politicians than anyone in the media age has ever been. Thomas Nash and his ilk SAVAGED elected officials. It’s American tradition to hold up unflattering mirrors and shine truth at power.
So, we wonder what the ultimate ramifications will be for a White House that doesn’t receive any of the “ribbing” that Sykes aimed at Republicans.
Because no one seems allowed to make fun of “the historic first black president”, this administration is treated with kid gloves, which can’t be good for the administration let alone the country in the end. In many ways, the criticism and lampooning previous administrations received helped keep them on track, and allowed them to adjust behaviors that were striking the wrong nerve with the country. They didn’t do things they may have been tempted to do because they didn’t want to be excoriated by Leno or Letterman. And, so, in that way, these latenight comics helped the administrations improve themselves, because they didn’t want to take needless beatings wherever they could avoid them.
But, what happens to a White House that operates in a protected bubble where it knows it won’t receive criticism for anything? Add onto that an administration with a tone-deaf bully like Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff, and we think you’ve got a recipe for disaster.
It feels very Versailles.
Dr. Utopia IS the state.
We’re repeatedly told Mrs. Utopia is the most glamorous and wonderful First Lady in history.
They live in a golden whirl that must never be criticized or mocked in any way, lest you suffer great consequence for your insolence.
But, on the ground, regular people still see these people for who they really are. Regular people notice the deferential treatment this administration receives from the MSM and comedians like Sykes.
If the latenight ribbing of the President was always a safety valve that allowed the frustrated and downtrodden to laugh off some of their resentment of what was going on in Washington by making a fool of the President, what happens when that safety valve is removed, and people are repeatedly told there will be absolutely NO making fun of this presidency, no matter how much it deserves it?
Because what’s happening with the press is decidely un-American. It’s more like something you’d see in Romania in the 80s or Iraq and Yugoslavia in the 90s or North Korea today…cults of personality centered around Dear Leaders who are absolutely perfect in every way and decidedly above all criticism or reproach.
Will Americans magically change and accept this new reality, or will the frustrations normally excised by that latenight laughter just fester and build until they burst out in unexpected, unprecedented ways?
It’s all uncharted territory…but historical precedent indicates administrations that don’t allow themselves to be laughed at rarely have the last laughs in the end.
(3) Here’s a link to learn about some of ACORN’s history. Now, it’s on ACORN’s own site, so it’s obviously biased, but it’s a starting point from which to learn the actual truth about ACORN. The more we learn about these people, the more we feel like the Connor family up against SkyNet. ACORN feels like it’s got its tentacles in everything, and has more people working on its behalf in high places than any of us ever dreamed of. Scary, scary stuff.
What do you think?
