Archive for November 16th, 2009
Newsweek recycles old fitness photo to subtlely attack Sarah Palin
H/t to our friends at Frugal Cafe for the corrections to this Newsweek cover
Here’s an interesting read from David Brody on a point we have not seen mentioned elsewhwere. This week, we were so thrilled to see Time use a decent photo of Hillary Clinton on its cover that we didn’t stop to look at the photo Newsweek (or is that Newsweak?) used of Sarah Palin for the “How Do You Solve A Problem Like Sarah?” issue.
For starters, Sarah Palin’s not a problem. If she wants it, the woman’s the 45th President of the United States, barring any decision by Hillary Clinton to take that title for herself.
Newsweek lifted a photo taken of Palin, an avid runner, for the fitness magazine Runners World — on whose cover the photo was appropriate — and used it in a political magazine — on whose cover it is not appropriate — to subtlely belittle Palin. As Brody notes, it’s the rare feat of being biased and sexist at the same time.
We want to speak directly to conservatives for a minute here: do not allow the Leftist media, which is acting on orders from the White House itself, to convince you Sarah Palin is not your candidate in 2012. They are going to do everything they can think of for the next three years to tell you “Palin is too polarizing”, “Palin’s looks are an issue”, “Palin is crazy”, “Palin is unqualified”, etc.
You realize the same nonsense has been done to Hillary Clinton for the last twenty years, especially that polarizing part. For Clinton, being older than Palin, she never endured the “too pretty to be taken seriously” attacks Palin gets (instead, Hillary has always been insulted over her weight, her body type, and her facial expressions).
The MSM will continue to tear up female candidates for office because unlike attacks on black people because of their skin color, attacks on politicians because of their gender are not only accepted, but encouraged. ”Heh, heh, heh, that cover’s a good one. Way to hit that Palin, we just hate her so much,” somewhere the collective MSM Sausagefest seems to be saying.
Americans, please stop buying Newsweek.
Stop buying TIME while you are at it, even if the cover of Clinton is decent this week.
Republicans, please start calling out misogyny and sexism wherever you see it because — even when it’s happening to Hillary Clinton or someone else you don’t typically support.
You know why?
51% of the population is female.
Democrats take women for granted, in the Camille Paglia/Gloria Steinem mindset that thinking women all have to agree with the Liberal cause and default vote Dem.
Well, let us assure you, many women have strong FEELINGS while doing their thinking…and if the Republican party became the party that’s known for standing up for women and shouting sexism and misogyny down, women will start to rethink their loyalty to Democrats in 2010 and 2012.
Just like with the LGBTQ community, cultural voting traditions are so deep for some people that you might not ever get them to vote GOP, but you might get people — people like us here are HillBuzz — to become so disgusted with how the Democrat Party operates that we move away from our dyed in the wool labels and start seeing us as Independents.
Sexism and misogyny in the media is a wedge that could drive enough female voters to Independent status to cost Dems Congress next year and the White House in 2012.
If Palin does indeed decide to run for president as we believe she will, the MSM will ratchet all of this nonsense up 100-fold to destroy her.
We pledge here today that we will continue to do everything we can to stand up for her.
Will you join us?
Will you also stand with us when they pull this stuff on Hillary Clinton?
What about Michelle Bachmann?
What about Martha Coakley, Meg Whitman, Kirsten Gillibrand, Carly Fiorina, Sue Lowden, etc.?
What’s happening is that a whole new generation of female politician is rising to prominence without kissing the ring of Gloria Steinem and the Leftist Feminist Brigade. That causes immense jealousy. Urban elitist women don’t like anyone who hasn’t been swimming in the same waters as them, and women like Steinem and Paglia don’t like any woman to be more successful or influential than the two of them think they themselves are.
The only women they like are ones they can say, “Oh, she’d be nothing without me. I MADE her. She’s only where she is because I gave her my blessing.”
Those are narcissists in feminists’ clothing.
If an article’s about a female politician setting out to promote a book that she’s written, photos of her dressed in running gear are not appropriate.
Would they run a photo of Mitt Romney in a Speedo or Mike Huckabee wearing his Halloween costume in an article about their thoughts on policy?
No.
But, that’s because Newsweek wants Romney, Huckabee, Charlie Crist, Tim Pawlenty, or John Huntsman to be the GOP nominee in 2012.
They don’t want Sarah.
Because Sarah would win.
So they have to do everything possible to destroy her every day so they can beat her into submission and convince her not even to run.
Sarah, if you’re listening, RUN, GOVERNOR, RUN!
EXCLUSIVE: Photos of Levi "Ricky Hollywood" Johnston's Playgirl photo shoot leaked.
Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol Palin’s adorable baby boy, is now calling himself “Ricky Hollywood” (thank you, Kathy Griffith for that one) in the porn movies he’s apparently doing after the Playgirl photo shoot (“Chi Chi La Rue, I’m ready for my closeup!”).
His first day of exposing himself for all to see took place, with another shoot scheduled this week.
Through less than Six Degrees of Kevin Aucoin, we here in Boystown’s gay community know some of the PAs who worked Johnston’s photo shoot…and managed to snap a few shots on their camera phones that Playgirl and Johnston would never want you to see.
We put them all after the jump below, as some of you might not want to get caught looking at these while at work. They certainly capture the real Levi, in all his glory, pretty much as expected.
Apparently, they even made a music video during the shoot, too, which everyone on the set insists will become “Ricky Hollywood’s” signature theme song as he embarks on his big career in, aptly enough, HollyWOOD:
Sarah Palin on Oprah: Live Blog
Sarah Palin appears on Oprah November 16th, 2009
Please use this thread to comment on Sarah Palin’s appearance on Oprah today, which we believe is on at 4pm CST (at least it was years ago when Oprah was this relevant). We all gave up our TVs this summer because we were so sick of the MSM that we didn’t even want Idiot Boxes in Buzzquarters anymore, but we’re at a friend’s house this afternoon watching her TV, and will do our level best, technology permitting, to live blog during the show. It won’t be a transcript, but a running markup of our thoughts and conversation as we watch. If it works out, maybe we’ll use the same format for other events in the future. We baked both Hillary cupcakes and our new Sarah cupcakes for the occasion (Hillary cupcakes are orange with pineapple-basil frosting and a smiling Hillary face on top; Sarah cupcakes are gingerbread with white chocolate frosting and a chocolate moose on top).
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First up: a word about Nielsen ratings. Some of you are worried that watching Oprah today will boost her ratings. What you need to remember is that this is only true if you are a Nielsen family.
Nielsen families are chosen through some top secret process (apparently, squirrels pick their names out of a large round cage somewhere in Pasadena, around the corner from where Nancy Pelosi gets her Botox done). In the mail, they (the people chosen, not the squirrels) receive a letter asking them first if they want to participate. If they say yes, then the next day or so a package arrives. Inside the package, there are papers. On the papers, there is writing. There’s also a large journal the family has to keep for a week, writing down all the things they watch in each time slot.
One of us here was a Nielsen family back in the 90s for a week. We believe he was paid $5.00 for doing it, which came in an envelope inside that packet and was the most crisp, sharpest, uncirculated Lincoln he’d ever seen…almost as if it had just come off the printing press). There was a lot of feel-good hooey in the packet too, talking about what an honor it was to help networks determine what people really watch.
When he filled out that booklet, he made sure to say he and his family watched all the shows he liked or had actors and other people he respected in, whether he watched them for real or not. Shows with people he didn’t like, such as Janeane Garafalo or any of the Baldwins, he just left off that booklet and instead said he was watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer reruns or something at the time (as sometimes terrible actors and people we don’t like make their way into an otherwise good show…but we’d be damned if we’d give those clowns any ratings points to further fuel their massive egos and penchant for soap box preachings to all us ignorant Midwesterners).
Now, this was probably a decade ago — so who knows if Nielsen still does those paper books. We imagine all of this is probably done electronically now.
But, the point is, if you have not agreed to be a Nielsen family, it doesn’t matter what you watch or don’t watch because no one is keeping track of you. Yet. Give the current administration a second term, and maybe that will change.
For now, the only way the networks know what you are watching is if you tell them by way of those booklets after the squirrels have picked your names. The ghost of Brandon Tartikoff is not peaking at you through your window to see how much Must See TV irradiation you are getting this week, trust us.
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This is funny, because all of us have lived in Chicago now for at least 5 years, but still think things are on the times they used to be on in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Rochester, or San Antonio. Like we said, the last time any of us had seen Oprah was in 2004, when we were all living elsewhere for the most part. None of us have a TV Guide ever, and so we just assumed Oprah was on at 4pm here in Chicago like it always was back in our home states. Apparently, that’s not true. So we missed the Palin interview completely as it looks like Oprah airs here at the ridiculously early time at 9am.
We have to wait until 11pm, as far as we can tell, to watch the interview. We’ll do that, and will live blog it when it comes on, but hope the rest of you out there fill up the comments here with your take on things until we get our chance to chime in.
Not having televisions and being totally disconnected from things like Oprah is great 98% of the time. This is one of the few occasions in recent memory when that didn’t really work in our favor…but we will see the program, only later tonight.
Someone out there, if you know of a way for us to watch this online or in Chicago off non-cable, regular broadcast channels tell us, as we’re eating cupcakes watching back episodes of GLEE on our computers…and if the Oprah thing can’t be worked out we feel like heading out to some bookstores to see if we can find one that broke the street date so we can get Palin’s book early today too.
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We’re jealous Comedy Central gets to actually watch the Palin interview right now while we in Chicago have to wait until 11pm for it. For some reason, we got a random shoutout over there for talking about Nielsen ratings and squirrels, which evidently not a lot of people know about. Squirrels really are very useful critters. Wish we could say the same for Oprah.
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While waiting for Oprah to air here in Chicago, we’re eating cupcakes and looking at the newly-leaked photos of Levi Johnston in Playgirl, which came to us through Six Degrees of Kevin Aucoin here in Boystown. Don’t get excited, no big surprises here.
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11:06pm: Waiting for the show to start
11:07pm: My goodness, Oprah looks more terrible than usual. She’s wearing one of Michael Jackson or James Brown’s old wigs. How nice for her, that she got those in the wills.
* Palin comes out to strange music. Oprah gets right into the snub she gave Palin last year. Palin says she didn’t let Oprah’s actions get to her. She said, “No offense Oprah, but you weren’t the center of my universe…it’s your show, your baby, you can do what you want”.
* Oprah talks about her decision to only have Dr. Utopia on her show during the election. She’s wearing a dress that’s bursting at the seams, with one of Mrs. Utopia’s Klingon War Belts.
11:10PM: Oprah asks Palin about being picked VP. Palin says she got “the call” while at the Alaska State Fair. Oprah interrupts, rudely, and says, “Whadda he say? You wonder if you were up for THAT job?”. Palin tells her that she’s been the chief executive of a state, so yes, she was ready. The McCain campaign evidently had information on Palin going all the way back to high school, knowing every event she’s been to, every sermon she’s ever heard at church, etc. They knew about Bristol’s pregnancy, which Oprah brought up.
* Palin said one skeleton in her closet was that she had a D in a college course once 22 years ago. Oprah said, “Girl, weren’t you concerned about the pregnancy?”. Palin says she wished she could have presented it in a better way that would not seem glamorous regarding teeen pregnancy. Oprah talks about the press release the McCain campaign sent out, and Palin said that she did not approve the press release…she said the first time she saw the press release it was on TV’s news scroll. She didn’t want the message to be “we’re happy to be grandparents”, but that we should tackle the issue of teen pregnancy. Palin said she tried to correct that press release to change the message, but that the McCain campaign just ran what they wanted. Bristol had to see that released via the news, which embarrassed her and put her into tears. ”Not just Wasilla, but the whole world now knows what’s going on”. Palin said her children should have been excluded from the controversy, but that from the get go the press made the kids part of it. Oprah asked, “Didn’t you know the pregnancy would become an issue?” Palin said she and McCain talked about how hard being in office is on families…not knowing how intriguing it would be for haters and critics to take glee in going at her. Palin said she was naive to think the media would leave her kids alone because the MSM left Dr. Utopia’s kids alone — there was a double standard there. Oprah tried to defend Dr. Utopia, saying he told the press to layoff the kids…and Palin said that’s not what happened but that she respects him for saying that. What’s unsaid is that the MSM was working for the Utopia campaign and if he really wanted to, he sure as Hell could have told the press to layoff those kids — he didn’t.
* For people who don’t like Oprah, even in the slightest, we’re trying to be as objective as we can when we say this, but she really and truly does look terrible sitting there. Like, health-problems terrible. She’s sweaty, bloated, her wig looks horrible.
11:19PM: Commercial break. Ads for Steak n’ Shake, Burger King, diabetes medicine, dry cracked skin ointment, adult diapers. Are these commercials for Oprah’s viewers, or are they geared towards Charybdis herself?
11:21PM: Oprah talks about Going Rogue and the McCain campaign telling Palin who to talk to, how to dress, what to eat and a McCain campaign person telling Palin she had to go on the Atkins diet. Palin said there were other things to focus on besides her weight. Oprah talks about being at the Greek Temple Crazy Fest in Denver that was the DNC Convention and seeing Palin for the first time on August 29th. Oprah said, “Woooo, girl, I saw you and I said to Gayle, girl, wakeup, who that on TV?” Palin said she walked into the staging area in Ohio and there was a wardrobe ready for her — never thinking it would be a controversy because there was no controversy over Dr. Utopia’s expensive suits. No other candidate had such double standard criticism. She also said that the McCain campaign made over the entire family, and they all felt like “did we look that bad that people had to layout all the clothes for us”. Palin said that she appreciate Hillary Clinton with this too, because there is always an extra standard for a female candidate in that they can’t just wear the same clothes every day.
11:24PM: Oprah’s asking about the debate prep cards Palin was given. Palin talks about how extensively she was told to stay on script and how the McCain people were trying to control her. Palin said it was her fault for allowing McCain’s staff to control her as much as she did. Palin said her people never really found the script she was supposed to be on. Oprah said, “Why you tried to go to Michigan when they told you not to, girl.” Palin said her VP team wasn’t even made aware McCain had decided to pull out of Michigan because she and Todd thought they could have done well there.
11:26PM: Palin talks about the economy tanking being the fatal blast to the campaign…in that the economy tanked under a Republican Administration. Oprah said, “Oh, I need to take a break now. Someone in the front row has a Baby Ruth in her purse and I AM GOING TO FIND IT”. Palin sure looks glad she didn’t bring a purse with her.
Commercials for: Old Dogs, cheese, Huntington Learning Centers, Zicam, US Cellular
11:20PM: Oprah said, “Oh, let’s talk about Katie Couric now. You said that was not a good interview. What you think?” Palin said the interview was supposed to be lighthearted, with just one segment and if it went well we would do more. Palin said things didn’t go well and that Couric was very rude and badgering. There were hours of tape and CBS edited them together to hurt her. She said that CBS deliberately made her look bad in a partisan agenda. Palin said Couric’s agenda was to show her in a bad light and to make all of her mistakes known, unlike her interview with Joe Biden. The campaign didn’t feel it was a defining moment and that it was a good interview, but Palin was made to keep doing those segments with Couric. Oprah said, “I got a clip of that interview and we gonna watch it now”. It’s the clip of Couric getting in Palin’s face and asking her what magazines and newspapers she reads. Oprah said, “Why didn’t you remember what magazines you read. I read my own magazine because it is about me. Why don’t you have your own magazine yet?”. Palin said that no matter what she said, Couric would try to twist it. Oprah asked if Palin was annoyed with Couric. Palin said she just came off a big rally and things were going well and she was pumped up and then Katie Couric appeared and so she had to do that interview, so that’s why she seemed revved up, because she had all that adrenaline going. She also said that Couric kept asking the same questions over and over again, like on abortion, because Couric didn’t like the responses she got.
1136PM: Palin said that when she was first pregnant with Trig, she thought about what makes a woman think about abortion, because being pregnant is daunting. She said she thought about her life and how she would tell Todd, because he was working on the slope at the time. She said that when she told him about Trig having Downs, Todd took it better than she did and he knew itw as going to be okay. He said he was happy but also sad.
Commercials: Carpet cleaningWalt Disney World, Lowe’s
1141PM: Levi Johnston. Oprah talks about Johnston. Palin says that most of the discussion about Levi has to do with Trip and doesn’t think national TV is the place to talk about him. She says that Johnston is going by the name Ricky Hollywood now and that he’s working in porn…he has not seen the baby in a while because of his media tours…Palin says that she prays for Levi. Oprah says, “You are a public person. There are circles. And Levi is in another circle talking to circles. You pissed?”. Palin said that his handlers have been telling him to say false things, based on foundations of untruths. Palin is aware of all the lies that Levi has been saying. Palin says that Levi’s gig is to spread lies and inconsistencies and that he is not on a healthy road, that he is a teenager who doesn’t know what he is doing and doesn’t see how he is being used. Bristol has Trip 24/7 and realizes she has it easier than most with all the family support — her public mission is to remind her sisters and other young women that there are consequences to unprotected sex. Oprah then asks, ‘Will Levi be invited to Thanksgiving Dinner, cause if he’s not coming, can I have his plate?”. Palin says that Levi needs to know he doesn’t have to come down a road of controversy or drama and that there is an inviation to come to Aunt Katie’s house (the Palin relative that hosts Thanksgiving) for the holidays.
11:46PM: commercials — Twilight, Wal-Mart, Oprah’s Oscar winners and nominees, Brooke Shields eating celery for Colgate, Janet Jackson on ABC talking about Michael, Jersey Boys leaving Chicago, Subway sandwiches “Chicken Marina Melt”, that shoe commercial where the shoes pretend they are the Sex And the City Girls and the Samantha shoe is vulgar, Chicago Holiday Light Festival
11:48PM: Ducks quacking…Wasilla sign…video of Palin with baby Trig (he is SO CUTE!)…Todd playing with Trig…Piper going to school…Palin and Piper going to the gym…Palin with the McCains on campaign bus…then in her SUV saying it’s nice not to be handled and to be able to go where she wants to go…it’s Halloween so they are making caramel apples…the Palin parents are there…sister Molly…baby Trig dressed as a chicken….Piper is dressed as a motor cycle ninja…Palin takes her trick or treating…we swear Piper Palin will be president herself some day…that little girl is so smart and has such an energy to her.
11:51PM: Oprah asked, “Why Todd gone so much. You like that?” Palin explains to her that Todd has a job and is away working a lot, and that’s what life in Alaska is like because of the work there. Oprah, still sniffing for that BabyRuth bar, has trouble paying attention (yet sweats effortlessly).
11:52PM: Commericals — for some kind of video game, Princess and the Frog, Elmer’s Glue
11:54pm: Oprah is talking about McCain’s concession speech…and why Palin didn’t get to speak. ”You looked sad, girl”. Palin explained that she wanted to win the election and that is why she was sad…and that McCain’s team said that VP candidates don’t give speeches, but that John Edwards gave one in 2004. Palin said there were things that she wanted to say. Oprah then brings up the fact Palin has five children and asks how she would have managed that and being VP or President….and then acknowledges that male candidates are never asked that question. Palin said she was asked that question all along and that men work and run families….Oprah said, “Girl, but they got wives”….and Palin notes that she has a husband who is an excellent father…and that she has been in politics for a long time and that she is a believer in making the right choices that are appropriate at the time and what her support system is. She says her support system would blow people away because of all the aunts and uncles and friends and parents and the what not. So that’s how she can handle anything. Oprah still doesn’t know why Palin stepped down as Governor. Palin said she was not going to run for a second term and knew she came back from the campaign trail with nonstop Obama operation researchers to start constant ethics violation charges and wasteful efforts against her. Oprah has a hard time understanding this. Oprah asks her if she’s looking forward to 2012, and Palin said that in 2012 Lil’ Trig is going to be starting kindergarten. Palin said that she is focused on making a difference and using the years ahead to affect positive change.
12:02AM: Commercials: sandwiches, GE appliances, Walmart, Chase Bank
12:03: “Girl one final question: should I be worried you gonna get a talk show, because I will cut you.” Palin tells Oprah that she is the Queen of Talk Shows…and then takes a little jab at the McCain campaign and says Oprah can’t shut off her mic (like McCain’s staff did on Election Night when they didn’t want Palin to talk at the Biltmore Hotel). Palin says the book talks alot about all the things she was able to do ‘Thanks to God and Todd”. Oprah holds up the book Going Rouge then gives a shoutout to Willow and Piper who were in the audience, and that’s a wrap.
Liz Cheney is a national treasure: "Cheney 2012" indeed
The President of the United States should bow to NO ONE…but, of course, the current POTUS believes he was sent from the stars to humiliate America as much as possible, including prostrating himself before the King of Saudi Arabia to kiss his ring (“But, I couldn’t help myself, it looked so DELICIOUS! I might be ‘The One”, but I cannot resist things that are DELICIOUS!”) and bowing before the Emperor of Japan (“In my defense, I was listening to my Ipod when they told me who he was, and I thought it was the Emperor from Star Wars and that he was going to make me a Jedi so I could get one of those badass purple lightsabers like my homes Sam Jackson has. I already got a Nobel Prize, baby, so next up is Jedi. If they skip me on this I’m going to say it’s RAAACIST because all prizes should go to me, got it?”).
In the clip above, William Kristol (not the one who’s friends with Whoopi and made those cowboy movies with Jack Palance before he died, the other one) says, decidedly, that President Palin would not bow to the Emperor.
And Liz Cheney makes a plug for her dad, Dick Cheney, after it’s noted that Vice President Cheney treated the Emperor the way an American should: politely, without groveling and subjugation. Cheney shook hands and then the two sat down as EQUALS.
“Cheney 2012,” the wonderful Liz Cheney says.
We like her more and more each day — please give her an hourlong news show of her own somewhere.
Sarah Palin faces the Charybdis of Lake Michigan today; In other news, Sarah Palin prepares to slay the media Hydra
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It’s a shame the revamp of Clash of the Titans won’t be in theaters until next year, and not just because Sam Worthington is scantily clad throughout (though, that always helps, and is a crying shame the film isn’t also a historically and wardrobe-accurate depiction of the ancient Olympics, too). Titans are clashing left and right these days, with one interesting matchup taking place on your Idiot Box sometime this afternoon in syndication (check your local listings).
In one corner will be our second-favorite figure in American politics these days, the Thrilla from Wasilla, Saracuda herself, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin — a force to be reckoned with from America’s final frontier, campaign ready three years before what we expect will be her presidential campaign.
In the other corner squats Lake Michigan’s very own Charybdis, the Beast Who Must Be Fed, with an ego the size of the Willis Tower and a gluttonous appetite for devotion, Oprah Winfrey.
Palin’s doing a round on Oprah’s daily yawnfest this afternoon, so it will be the first time we’ve watched this show in several years (since, honestly, the day she had Nate Berkus on to talk about surviving the 2004 tsunami, where he was flushed out of his luxury resort and into the flood waters and nearly drowned; watching Berkus cavort at MiniBar and seeing how he treats people when not on the air makes us much less sympathetic to him than he came across on that program, FYI).
Oprah’s ratings are in the toilet, for a combination of reasons: she’s been at this too long, her program’s gotten increasingly more crazy every year since the Tom Cruise couch-jumping thing, her brand’s been diluted with overexposure, that school she runs in Africa that abuses the girls who attend there has done more damage to her than she realizes, and Oprah’s endorsement of and campaigning for Dr. Utopia in 2008 gives her real culpability for the mess Dr. Utopia is making of this country. Oprah’s best days are behind her (much like her immense, eclipse-generating, ass). While she’ll regrettably be around forever in one form or another (like Slimer from Ghostbusters), this is the final year of her original syndicated show…which might get its best ratings in decades with Palin’s appearance today.
It’s exciting to watch Palin’s rise to national prominence from the beginning, having been supporters of hers back when she was a little-known Governor of Alaska. We wish we’d been able to make the trip up to Anchorage before she became McCain’s VP nominee, because then we could have met the woman before her rise (like meeting Hillary Clinton when she was just First Lady of Arkansas)…so we could say we had that chance to know her, even a little, before everything else happened. We believe if she wants it, and if she follows her own instincts and keeps the GOP’s special brand of idiot/loser/defeatist advisors at bay that she’ll be the next President of the United States — barring a second candidacy by Hillary Clinton in 2012 (in which case, we’d wish Palin sincere luck but would run the cleanest, most issues-oriented, mature but determined campaign to defeat her and put Hillary Clinton in the Oval Office where she belongs…hopefully with Sarah Palin accepting a position in the Cabinet as Secretary of Energy, the Interior, or whatever other position she’d like).
If Hillary doesn’t run next time around, we here intend to work for Sarah Palin. We will never be Republicans, but we remain gay, moderate, increasingly-close-to-being-former-Democrats-turned-Independents who are so disgusted by what the DNC, mainstream media, Utopia campaign, and Leftists did to Hillay Clinton and then Sarah Palin in 2008 that we have no qualms about working hard and going all-in for Palin in 2012. To be perfectly honest, we truly hate Ioawa. We spent 8 weeks there for Hillary Clinton, indulging those spoiled and naive Caucus voters, trying to stop ACORN, the SEIU, and Utopia campaign from gaming that first nominating contest back in 2007-2008, and hoped we’d never have to spend much time in that state again, but we’ll go there for Sarah in a heartbeat if she needs it. It was brutally cold, there was little to do but canvass and phone bank, at times we thought we were going to freeze to death or be murdered on some back country road where we hadn’t seen anything but scarecrows and packs of unattended farm dogs for miles. The people were indecisive because they loved the attention lavished on them so much, never wanting to settle on a candidate because that would mean the house visits would stop, as no one pays any attention to them if it’s not an election year. The thought of going through this all again exhausts us already, but we will do it for Sarah.
And we love the fact the MSM will go completely unhinged over her campaign, which we believe is already in motion.
Her book tour is going to be phenomenally successful. PHENOMENALLY. It has the potential to be the biggest selling political book of all time, drawing the largest crowds to its signings in history.
Palin will make news at every stop…gaining new friends and supporters along the way.
No matter how well any of this goes, the MSM will frantically keep trying to destroy her, but in actuality they will only be further damaging themselves. Every hit they take at this woman bounces off of her and strikes them in their own glass jaws. Even Americans who never thought in their lives about voting Republicans can see the media’s fully in the tank for the current president and is doing everything it can to be his personal propaganda machine. The attacks on Sarah are coming right from DNC talking points, and all women, regardless of political persuasion, should be disgusted with the DNC for its relentless misogyny directed first at Hillary Clinton and now Sarah Palin. Men who love and support women should be disgusted too.
All of the energy put into destroying Palin is only going to destroy the MSM and DNC themselves. It’s a story like something out of mythology, where a hero emerges from the wilds somewhere, and all the established monsters come at her with all their venom and bite, and she effortlessly slays them, one by one, using her pluck and the natural talents and abilities she was given in her simple, unadorned upbringing.
That’s a classic American tale that resonates.
Couple it with a stylish and catchy moose logo; add the Saracuda, lipstick on a pitt bull, hockey mom, and other sharp Palinesque visuals; fortify it with a campaign platform centered around energy independence, regaining control of runaway spending, and keeping the promises made to average Americans, and Sarah Palin’s got herself a winning 2012 campaign.
If she wants it.
That remains the operative part of all of this.
The media sausagefest is doing everything it can to berate and obliterate Palin, while also attacking Michelle Bachmann and every other woman who could potentially run for the highest office in the land, the same way these craven sexists pounded Hillary Clinton with every attack imaginable in 2008. Feminists attack any woman who doesn’t owe them anything, so jealous that women can get ahead without paying homage at the altar of Gloria Steinum and Betty Freidan, or cozying up to the good side of Camille Paglia, if she’d ever show a good side.
People in the MSM will continue to discount Palin at their own peril.
Meanwhile, we will continue to support her, and to regard her career with great interest for all the Liberal monster-slaying potential she has.
If anyone in the Palin camp ever reads this, know you’ve got a committed bunch of gay guys here in Boystown who’ll work Iowa for you if our own champ doesn’t want to put herself in the race in 2012. If Palin sets the moose loose and launches a presidential campaign, we’ll hit the ground running for her.
And we’ll spend the next three years gearing up for just that, so we’re ready just in case.
Valerie Jarrett as evidence the MSM is losing its powers
There was a terrible Merlin miniseries on NBC years ago, with Martin Short and Miranda Richarson in it, playing some kind of elf and Queen Mab, respectively (White House advisor Valerie Jarrett did not play a goblin in that movie, contrary to popular belief). In the end, people stopped believing in Mab, and she’s finally defeated because she’s rendered powerless and irrelevant when no one pays her any attention. She blows away into amnesiac time as dust.
This is what’s happening to the MSM, and it is the price they are paying for being shameless shills for Dr. Utopia and Liberal socialists for the last two years. People have stopped believing in traditional journalists because they know they do not report the whole truth anymore, and they refuse to cover anything that is not flattering to the White House.
BUT, people are still finding out what they need to know…the Internet, and bloggers have made that possible. And now that all this information is out of the bag, the MSM is further discredited when people find out the truth and angrily demand why the “journalists” didn’t tell the whole story, warts and all for this White House.
Valerie Jarrett is a great example of this — and is a woman who will be forced to resign in 2010 some time, we have a feeling.
Michelle Malkin has a post up about a controversy at Stanford, where the paper there ran a glowing propaganda piece on Jarrett, wholly ignoring the fact she’s a slum lord and has been involved in all sorts of unsavory affairs, inside and outside the White House. Well, Stanford caught an earfull from Alumni for running that tribute to Jarrett…it was inundated with letters, emails, calls, strip-0-grams, you name it demanding to know why Jarrett’s record as a slum lord and real estate scam artist was not part of the coverage on her.
This is amazing, because a few years ago the MSM would have been able to keep any of this from getting out. Even last year, the MSM kept most negatives from getting out about Dr. Utopia. Most Americans do not know what really went on at Trinity United. No one has seen Dr. Utopia’s college grades, his birth certificate, or any explanation for what he was doing at Columbia, where many accounts seem to indicate he was selling as well as doing cocaine while in NYC. There’s also no mention of any of the shennigans state senator Utopia got up to in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood before he moved into that fabulous new mansion on the Southside and was still in a cramped condo with Mrs. Utopia whenever he was in Chicago. Someday, all of that will certainly get out, and America at large will know what Man’s Country is too. A rub a dub dub.
Apparently, there’s something big about Valerie Jarrett that’s not out in the media yet either. There are cryptic people we know here in Chicago that keep telling us to look into Jarrett’s past and to write about her as much as possible. This is the cloak and dagger part of living in Chicago that creeps us out sometimes: whenever someone has steered us onto a story, it’s been for their own interest, and there a lot of people here who want to see Jarrett go down, if only as payback for awful things she’s done to them through the years. But, other people who tell us to keep hammering Jarrett are people who seem to just want her out of the White House so she has to stop having the ability to steer so many people like Van Jones into the administration. Jarrett needs to become such a liability she’s forced onto the sidelines like Jeremiah Wright, another influence on Dr. Utopia that’s been mercifully removed.
Jarrett is more radical than either Dr. Utopia or his wife. Apparently, she not only looks like one of the goblins from the Harry Potter movies but has the disposition of one too. The adjective we hear most often about her is “dangerous”. She has no shame for owning condemned, rodent-infested buildings on the southside where people live without heat or running water. She tried her level best to make a fortune off Chicago’s Olympics bid. She is a gatekeeper to the president and every day does whatever she can to get as many radicals into our government as possible.
Valerie Jarrett might not be a household name, but she is bad, bad news.
And the news media has done its level best to protect her, just like it does with the rest of the administration.
But the Stanford bit Malkin noted indicates the media does not always get what it wants…so maybe in the months ahead Jarrett will get what’s coming.
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UPDATE: Unrelated to Jarrett, today Drudge ran a few pieces on the MSM and the Left in general is becoming completely unhinged by the likes of Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann. That’s worthy of a post of its own, but interesting to note here because 2008 did permanent and, we now believe, fatal damage to the MSM that we didn’t appreciate at the time. When the networks of MSNBC and CNN, and the New York Times, TIME, Newsweek, etc. all went into the tank for the Utopia campaign, we knew they did themselves an immense disservice, but even we didn’t realize how bad things were going to get for the MSM.
It reminds us of the Titanic hitting that iceberg.
We knew the ship sustained damage, but it took a while to realize how bad it really was…and now that the ship is going down, honestly, we just don’t have any idea how these people are going to save themselves.
Sarah Palin will truly be the end of these people.
Monday Open Thread: November 16th, 2009
What’s on your mind this Monday morning?
Before we get to anything else, we want to remind all of you that Thanksgiving and Christmas are coming — not because you would have forgotten, but because there is still time for you to contact your local USO office and ask them what you can do to volunteer those days (and if not ,see if they need prep work help the day before Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve).
Here is the contact page for the USO…you can follow the links to find out how to volunteer in your city. If you have a major airport, you’ve got a USO.
The reason we keep reminding you about this is threefold:
(1) We love the USO, we love our troops, and since none of us guys here can be in the military ourselves (due to our fabulous gene), we try to serve our country in other ways…and supporting the USO, and asking other people to support it, is one of those ways.
(2) We want to see our troops have the best holidays possible, all across this country, because if anyone deserves a holiday it’s the men and women who wake up every day, put on a uniform, and set to work keeping us all safe for very little pay in often unpleasant circumstances. If they can get up and do this every day, all of us on the homefront can get our butts off the couch on Thanksgiving and Christmas and do our part to make the holidays better for all who have chosen to serve us. These are heroes with servants’ hearts, people…they deserve our love, support, and respect EVERY day, but most especially on holidays.
(3) Listen to us closely because truer words were never spoken: if you do this, if you volunteer for the USO, you will have the greatest experience of your life, you will be awash in feelings of pride, patriotism, and good will. You will receive thanks in the form of the most beautiful smiles you have ever seen in your lives – those worn on the grateful faces of our men and women in uniform, who will be DELIGHTED you chose to spend part of your holiday time with them. We are grown men who on the car rides home from volunteering days with the USO actually tear up, so proud of all the service members we met that day. This is an experience we have shared with many friends now, all of whom have become regular USO volunteers themselves. Once you start doing this, you are hooked…and hopefully hooked for life. You will make new friends as well as great memories.
Seriously, if you ever listen to us about anything, PLEASE checkout the USO near you. Tell them you want to volunteer some of your time to make Thanksgiving and Christmas special for our troops. Ask them for marching orders, and they will give them to you.
Go ahead and blow their minds and tell them “those gay Hillary guys in Chicago told us to do this”. They always get a big chuckle out of that, for some reason. One time we wore shirts when we did this that said, “Hillary Sent Us”, and everyone just loved that.
Go USA!
Get your butts off the couch!
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Here’s something that’s interesting that we’re going to think more about and work into a more substantive piece, if you can help us gather some more information and examples for an essay:
In 1994, part of the reason Democrats lost Congress was because many politicians and potential candidates saw the writing on the wall and decided not to be competitive that year, in what became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Ie, Democrat candidates thought Dems would lose big that year, and Dems lost big that year because strong candidates backed out so they could run again at some later date that looked more up their alley.
It sure feels like that’s happening this year.
In California, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom dropped out of the governor’s race, leaving only former Governor Jerry Brown (a vile man) as the sole contender for the Dem nomination. Newsom is a very good guy. The papers are all saying that he’s had trouble raising money in the state, and that’s why he’s dropping out. We just don’t think that’s the reason — to us, it feels like he doesn’t want to be one of the Dem casualties in 2010. He’d rather hold off and run some other day, and let Meg Whitman win the race this time out (unless Dianne Feinstein really does decide to leave the Senate and make a run for the Sacramento job being vacated by Schwarzenegger).
In Illinois, there are largely only terrible people seeking the Dem nomination for the Senate. We are supporters of Roland Burris because he has always been not only a strong friend of the LGBTQ community here, but also because we consider him a personal friend and are so proud he marched with us at the Pride Parade in Boystown this last year (the first US Senator to march in Pride in as long as anyone can remember…since Dr. Utopia, as a Senator, always refused to do so and Dick Durbin is too busy being lazy, ignorant, and slimey on whatever day the parade is held each year). Since Burris is not seeking election, we hope Republicans win Dr. Utopia’s old seat, because that would sure be a wonderful victory for Michael Steele and the RNC’s Senate team. And it would infuriate the White House. The trouble is, Republicans are running a fatally flawed candidate in Mark Kirk, who will be outed spectacularly by Democrats during the general election — using ammunition Kirk’s estranged wife has been feeding Dem operatives during their messy divorce. It’s deja vu to the Jack Ryan for Senate campaign all over again (remember, that’s how Dr. Utopia won his Senate seat…by releasing the pervy sex details actress Jeri Ryan used against Kirk in their divorce). Kirk does not respond well on his feet: instead, he starts telling military stories from his time in Afghanistan and seems to think you won’t notice that he’s not addressing whatever it is you want to talk about. A lot of politicians do this, but Kirk’s not good at it. Too clumsy and obvious. When he’s outed next year, he will probably do more of this, and fumble and bumble his way to a Jack Ryan-Alan Keyes debacle.
The reason this is bad is because Democrats are running some of the worst people in the state for Roland Burris’ Senate seat. The frontrunner is Alexi Giannoulias, the scion of the family that run’s Chicago’s mob bank, Broadway Bank. This is the bank that Dr. Utopia’s benefactor, convicted felon Tony Rezko used in many of his slimeball deals. We believe it’s also where scam artist and slumlord Valerie Jarrett found funding for many of her own shady real estate deals too. If Al Capone were alive today, he’d be banking at Broadway, and the Giannoulias Family would be taking great care of him. In essence, installing Alexi Giannoulias into that seat would be like sending a younger, fatter Tony Soprano to Washington to represent one of the most corrupt and crime-addled states in the Union.
The other people running for the Dem nomination are almost as bad, including Urban League President Cheryle Jackson, who is one of the rudest and most condescending people we’ve ever had the displeasure of meeting. She’s not one of the Jesse Jackson Jacksons, but might as well be. No business anywhere near the Senate for her, thanks.
Why aren’t there better candidates running for this open seat in 2010?
Why aren’t there more Democrats running for Governor in California?
Why aren’t people like Beau Biden running for his father’s seat in Delaware?
Why aren’t Dems forcing strong challengers to Chris Dodd and Harry Reid in their respective states, or telling them behind closed doors they need to retire so that a formidable Dem challenger can run instead and actually win those races?
It feels to us like Dems know already 2010 is going to be a bloodbath, and they do not want to waste good candidates they can instead run in 2014-2016, when things settle down and cycle back to Democrats’ advantage after a Republican president takes office after 2012, and Republicans take back Congress in 2010.
Everything we look at is trending this way.
Democrats look far into the future for whom they are going to run and when. Republicans don’t bother thinking about strategy until a few months before an election…but Dems try never to waste a good candidate on a race she or he won’t win, because many of these people have only one chance to run and don’t want to be tarred as a loser.
For 2010, it looks like Democrats are fielding no one from the A-team in many races, or even the B-team. When you are running Jerry Brown in California and the Mob’s banker Giannoulias in Illinois, it sure looks like you know you are going to get spanked. That’s what the GOP does in Illinois: it runs crazy people like Rosanna Pulido in the race for Rahm Emanuel’s Congressional seat because it knew there was little chance a Democrat, any Democrat, could lose that contest. So Pulido got to run, was able to act crazy and say weird things and embarrass herself, but no decent future GOP candidate had to suffer a loss because they needed a sacrificial lamb to serve up to Mike Quigley (who won the seat easily).
The only races that we see that have decent Democrats running are in places like Massachusetts, where Martha Coakley’s running for the Senate seat vacated by Ted Kennedy (the man who let a woman drown in his Oldsmobile while he went back to a party for more drinks in 1969…lest anyone ever, EVER, forget). Coakley is a Hillary supporter, and someone we like very much personally. Massachusetts should be a safe Dem seat. But, isn’t it interesting no Kennedy wanted that seat. Not even HRH Princess Caroline, who demanded Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat in New York, but was denied (for the first time in her entire life, the dilletante didn’t get what she wanted…and is apparently STILL pouting over that one).
Hillary Clinton keeps repeating she has no interest in the New York governor’s race next year, and we wonder if it’s because she too feels like Dems are going to lose across the board in 2010. Ted Strickland, another strong Hillary supporter whom we are very grateful to, is in deep, deep trouble in Ohio (partly, we think, because of the actions of Jennifer Brunner, the despicable ACORN-backing Secretary of State in Ohio, who makes every Dem in the state look bad because of her shameless support of voter fraud in all its hydra forms. The woman truly does belong in federal prison…and yet she’s running for Senate herself, where Republican Rob Portman is ahead of both her and perpetual Senate candidate Lee Fisher, whom we also don’t like). Republicans have a great shot at taking the Senate and Governor’s races in Pennsylvania, too.
Republicans might even pick up Senate seats in West Virginia, in the 2010 election and if as expected Robert Byrd passes on in the next year leaving that vacancy to be filled by special election.
Even though the 2010 elections are still far, far away, the Dem primaries for all of these contests are coming up SOON. It’s almost Thanksgiving, and nothing of any importance ever gets done between then and after the New Year because people are so consumed with all things holiday then.
That means within the next two weeks we’ll have a good idea who the Dem nominees are going to be for the 2010 general elections.
Once that’s clear, we think good predictions can be made about what the DNC really thinks is going to happen to Congress. If, by and large weaklings and crazy people were run in the majority of races, as sacrifices, then just like in 1994 Democrats will lose Congress. If there aren’t mega-millionaires putting in large chunks of their own fortunes for the chance at taking vacant Senate seats for prestige value, then Dems are really in trouble. People only go all-in with their own money if they know they are going to win. In this climate, fundraising is tough for everyone…and if the super wealthy Dems aren’t stepping up to breeze away with Congressional prizes, then we know their independent and expensive internal polling has shown 2010 favors Republicans too strongly for them to make that expenditure now.
What other races are you following that could either help support where our gut reactions are going or disprove our theories?
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Elections have consequences. What sort of America do you want this country to be?
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