Archive for October 20th, 2009
Philadelphia ACORN video drops tomorrow at 930am EST
We have no idea what’s going to be on it, but the Philly ACORN video drops tomorrow at 930am EST.
There’s a clue over at James O’Keefe’s Twitter account…saying something about “NPR and Philly”.
Should be interesting.
We have not heard anything more about a Chicago video, but everyone here believes that would be the mother of all ACORN videos, since Chicago’s easily the most blatantly corrupt city in the country.
Remember, Dr. Utopia got his political start with ACORN in Chicago. It defies logic to believe there are no videos from the very belly of the ACORN corruption beast.
First Ladies Update: October 20th, 2009
Here’s something new we’re starting here, hopefully on a daily basis: a thread dedicated to what the current and former First Ladies of the United States are up to. If you have any info on the whereabouts and activities of Betty Ford, Rosalyn Carter, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Laura Bush, or the current First Lady, post the links here.
Hillary Clinton, to us, graduated from former First Lady into her own special sphere, as we see her now as Secretary of State and former Senator more than as a former FLOTUS. She will always be a former FLOTUS, obviously, but at this point in her life she’s already exceeded Eleanor Roosevelt as the most accomplished and hardest-working former FLOTUS this nation has ever had.
Whether you like the woman or not, you have to give her that. We happen to adore her…and look forward to many more years of HRC on the national scene, every day building more of a legacy for herself, waking up each morning to make this nation better and stronger (and, currently, doing her level best to be the one voice of reason and grown-up sensibility in an administration bespotted with itself and completely out of control).
So, what are the FLOTUSes up to?
The Current First Lady: Here’s an interesting read from SybillSpeaks, regarding Mrs. Utopia’s crusade against junk food (something that, we’re sure, could positively destroy her friendship with bestie “chit chat buddy” Oprah, Lake Michigan’s own Charybdis). Apparently, Mrs. Utopia wants her face put on McDonald’s wrappers and cups, warning people not to eat so much. So THAT explains her fashion choices. All along we thought they were just hideous lapses in judgment, but here they were nobel attempts at appetite suppressants. Somewhere, Norwegians are already scrambling to hand out the prizes.
Jackie Kennedy: According to all seismic data available, she’s still rolling in her grave at a steady pace, due to the MSM’s constant insistence that vintage Givenchy and Chanel is in any way reminiscent of Jason Wu coffee filter dresses or frocks made from couch upholstery.
Barbara Bush: Check out this article on WowOwoW and see how it takes a potshot at Barbara Bush, calling her “Marie Antoinette” for making remarks after Hurricane Katrina the Left enjoys hammering her on. Now, take in the silence punctuated by the sound of crickets in terms of the same media ever talking about the things that come out of our current First Lady’s mouth. Like how, twice in one day in Wisconsin during the 2008 primaries, she insisted she was proud of her country for the first time only because she and her husband were winning things and getting lots of attention. Or, how about when she ridiculed the Bush tax rebates by saying, “$600 can’t even buy me earrings”. Then there’s the disaster that is the current First Lady’s “organic garden” on the White House lawn — a garden much ballyhooed and trumpeted that’s completely ignored by the media now. Why? Because the arugula’s not growing, and the whole plot’s not considered actually organic because the land it’s planted on is riddled with chemicals and who-knows-what the current First Lady’s crackerjack team didn’t bother to sort out before declaring themselves “100% green and organic”. Sounds a little like a certain Petit Hameau that proved an inauthentic embarrassment for the real Marie Antoinette — who actually probably would have thought $600 was a lot to spend on earrings and was never as bad as people made her out to be. AND, we must note, was proud of her adopted country each and every day until the very end.
Laura Bush: h/t LandmarkSocietyWNY Laura Bush was the speaker at the annual Advocacy Luncheon; she talked about the Preserve America and Save America’s Treasures programs, which she championed as First Lady. She told the assembled preservationists, “Whatever you’re doing, you’re making sure that future generations of Americans can enjoy the natural and historic treasures of our nation.”
BREAKING: Oprah Winfrey good for something besides methane production
Oprah Winfrey, the Charybdis of Lake Michigan, is now officially good for something besides industrial-scale methane production.
On Monday November 16th, she’s going to be promoting Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rogue, which is already a record-breaking bestseller.
The book drops November 17th.
During the 2008 campaign, notorious racist Winfrey refused to book Palin on her show, despite Palin being the historic first woman to ever occupy a place on a national ticket as a Republican (making her only the second woman in history to share a presidential ticket). Winfrey did not want to have a white politician on her program when she felt it could have hindered the candidacy of the black male candidate she dubbed, ‘The One”.
Other things Winfrey has dubbed through the years:
Sandwiches = GOOOOOOOD
Herds of cattle = SNACKS
Cake = MINE, MINE, MINE
Refusing to fund the abuse of young women in schools bearing her name = HUH?
Closing down Michigan Avenue for three days to stroke her ego and facilitate her latest pudding delivery = TUESDAY
Palin’s wicked smart in this: for some reason, suburban women still watch Oprah (mainly, we think, so they can count her as “a black friend”, which they whip out whenever they’re somewhere surrounded by liberals and they need to show how progressive and open they are. “Well, I might live in Schaumburg and the thought of coming down to the Southside, for anything, horrifies me, but I watch Oprah all the time and liked the Pointer Sisters in the 80s, so I have a good relationship with black people, let me tell you”.)
We hope Palin brings up Winfrey’s racist refusal to allow her on the show during the campaign. We also pray Palin heeds Harpo Productions’ own warnings and ensures there aren’t any snack food products, or even so much as an errant Tic Tac, in her purse during the interview…lest Oprah spend the whole hour “trying to find the source of that snack food goodness”.
Charybdis can root out truffles at 300 paces. We shudder to think what she’d do if somehow one of Piper’s Twinkies ended up in her mother’s handbag.
OPRAH HUNGRY!
Tuesday Open Thread: October 20th, 2009
What’s on your mind this Thursday?
Here’s some of what we’re thinking about today:
The New Jersey Governor’s race is interesting for several reasons. Governor Corzine was a strong Hillary Clinton supporter and President Clinton is campaigning for him today…we also personally know several Clinton fundraisers who are working for Corzine now, so he has our full support. Corzine should be losing this race though, based on his job performance in New Jersey and recent scandals that hit close to home. But, he’s going to win the race because of the Republican vote being split by an idiot running as a third party candidate.
Some of you out there occasionally advocate third parties — and we laugh because after all these years post-Perot, no one seems to see that when they vote for a third party candidate, the person they really, really, truly don’t want to win comes out the winner.
Think about that.
in 1992, Republicans voted for Perot because they didn’t like Bush, but would never vote Dem. So, the Clintons won the presidency.
In 2000, idiots voted for Ralph Nader because Gore wasn’t liberal enough, so conservative Bush won the presidency.
In 2004, those Nader fools were at it again. Bush gets second term.
In 2008, Bob Barr got enough votes here and there to have made a difference for McCain. On the Dem side, Dr. Utopia lost Missouri, with enough votes for McKinney and other loons to have made a difference and given him the state. In this case, it didn’t matter because low Republican turnout in general gave him the presidency…but it ruined the whole Missouri as president-maker thing.
If you are casting a vote in an election, and you really, really, really don’t like one of the candidates, then please stop voting third party. Vote for the person you only kind of like…because otherwise you are seriously helping to elect your own worst nightmare and you have no one to blame for that result but yourself.
So, here we are in 2009 and Democrats are benefitting from Republican third party nonsense, with Christie losing a very valuable 2-3% to a candidate who has no hope of winning the race, but is running as a spoiler. Ridiculous.
It is fascinating that Democrats are trying their level best to rehabilitate Caroline Kennedy, though. We mentioned President Clinton is heading to New Jersey today…and HRH Princess Caroline is going to stump for Corzine on Thursday.
Princess Caroline seems to be back in the spotlight because the spiders down at Hyannis Port want to maintain their hold on power…and she’s the only operative they’ve got right now, as damaged as she is after her disastrous power grab last Christmas for Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat. Since she’s perfectly content to spend her days at Pastis and shopping at Bergdorf’s, Princess is being told to head out there so the Kennedy name remains on everyone’s minds…and Kennedys keep collecting political chits.
Big Dawg is campaigning because he’s still collecting chits for HRC for future use…and to repay chits Corzine earned for supporting the Clintons in 2008.
Princess Caroline might be earning chits of her own…who knows, she might think she can try another run for the Senate…and might want to use Corzine in the future to raise money for her. It’s clear she doesn’t spend much of the day brushing her teeth, so there’s a lot of time for her to plot things like this, as unrealistic and delusional as they may be.
The Princess Caroline Rehabilitation Tour should be an interesting thing to watch on Thursday. Has she gotten any better since December, when she embarrassed herself so thoroughly? We’ll see.
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Sarah Palin’s going to be in the Milwaukee area next month. Of course, journalists being so professional and accurate these days, the article doesn’t bother to note which day she’ll be there…perhaps we’re meant to just stake out Wisconsin with our eyes to the sky to see if we can spot her plane. The cynics in us feel like this might be a deliberate way to “report” on the event without giving it any useful publicity by noting what day it’s going to be held. A Dr. Utopia appearance, of course, would have the contact number to buy tickets, a Mapquest option to give you directions from your house, and an offer from the author to be your personal tour guide and butler for the duration of the event.
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Speaking of our Sarah, here’s an article about her Facebook ninja throwing stars. Essentially, the piece highlights the fact Palin has close to a million Facebook friends right now. Mike Huckabee, who the MSM is currently pushing as the 2012 GOP nominee, has 121,000. Mitt Romney, who the MSM would also like to see as the GOP nominee, has 87,000 friends. Nothing against either Huckabee or Romney, both of whom we met the same day we first met Palin, in St. Louis days after Palin was announced as the McCain VP pick, but these two men won’t beat Dr. Utopia. Palin would, which is why the MSM is committed by blood oath to destroy her.
The article asks why Palin prefers Facebook as a platform to speak to her supporters…and wonders why she moved away from Twitter. Facebook is a lot easier to use than Twitter since Facebook has no word limit for Palin…she can still post her links on Twitter and get them out there, but the content makes sense on Facebook. It’s very smart on her part, costs nothing, and is easy for her team to manage.
One interesting takeaway from the article is the reminder of how human politicians are — it’s something you realize when you go to campaign events and meet these people in person. On TV, it seems like they have staffs of thousands and know all the answers to everything. In reality, they’re not that much different than you or us. They still have only 24 hours in a day to do everything, and only have as much help as they can reasonably afford. Palin might have one or two people, at most, traveling with her at any time. She might have another two or so in an office somewhere. But that’s probably it.
And yet, look at the impact she continues to have.
Also catch the quick appearance John Coale makes in the article — that’s Greta van Susteran’s husband. He’s also a Team Hillary guy…and now he’s good friends with the Palins. For those of you who still wonder, after all this time, how we could support both the Palins and the Clintons, please note we aren’t the only ones out there who do that.
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Here’s a surprise find in the Sun Times, of all places. It’s about the media and White House excuses wearing thin…and the fact that many Kool-Aid drinkers are waking up to the fact that MSNBC and CNN have clear corporate directives to push Dr. Utopia’s agenda and paint anyone who criticizes him as RAAACISTS! It also notes that we’re now nine months into the Golden Age of Hope, Change, and Unicorns. It is not acceptable to blame George W. Bush for anything anymore. The Lightbringer has had nine full months to work his magic…and things have only gotten worse in our economy, despite one trillion dollars wasted on Democrats’ pet pork barrel projects.
The White House’s attack on Fox in recent days sure feels like it’s going to blow up not only in Dr. Utopia’s face, but will greatly damage MSNBC and CNN too. We don’t know WHAT’S going to happen, but have a gut feeling one of the following won’t exist as a network in the next five years: NBC, MSNBC, or CNN. Fox will continue to thrive, with higher ratings than ever. When the Wall Street Journal is beating USA Today in sales, there’s something up. Americans don’t like propaganda machines.
Americans remember who were the loudest and strongest backers of Dr. Utopia.
Americans know who wept with joy on Election Night when Dr. Utopia was declared the next president.
That was the likes of Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Charlie Gibson, Katie Couric, Anderson Cooper, Rachel Maddow, and the rest of the White House communications team. Uh, the “unbiased and objective media”.
Does it feel to you that a lot of this is going to really hit like a tsunami by this time next year?
We have a feeling next year’s Halloween costumes are going to be really, really political…just in time for the 2010 midterms. Not so much this year, as people will be Lady GaGa or Michael Jackson or characters from Glee and other fun shows…but next year, man alive, it’s going to be tense across the US, and we think that’s going to manifest in October of 2010 unlike anything we’ve seen before.
