Archive for February, 2010
Monday Open Thread: February 22nd, 2010
What’s on your minds today?
Do you think all Hell will break out over Dr. Utopia’s new Healthcare Rationing plan, released this morning, which will raise taxes drastically and unconstitutionally require Americans, for the first time in history, to purchase a product?
What do you think of our new depiction of the current president?
H/t seapea
Question: Does the Left's hatred manifest differently when aimed at a man versus a woman?
Here’s a great question a reader submitted on the thread for our “Simons Says Rape” post, where we told the story of what happened last night in Sidetracks, where this Australian Lefty here in Boystown went on a tirade about how much he hates Sarah Palin, think she’s a b****, a c****, and a w****, and said he wanted to “take her out back and rape her” to “teach her a lesson”.
The question asked of us was: does the Left’s hatred of Republicans in Boystown manifest the same way towards men as towards women? For example, did the hatred aimed at George W. Bush involve people like Simon saying they wanted to rape Bush, did they call Bush a w****, did they call him a d***, etc. in gender and anatomical-specific terms similar to what Palin receives from these hopey-changey Obama supporters?
Please chime in below with your take on this, but here’s our experiences with the issue, off the top of our heads.
We’ve detailed all of the misogynistic and sexist attacks on both Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, as witnessed here in Boystown. Without rehashing all that, to sum it up these two women are always attacked in terms of their bodies, not because of anything they’ve ever written or said. It is 100% physical in attack, though slightly different for each woman.
Hillary Clinton was attacked as being a witch, for having a fuller figure, for being older, and was called a harpy, a shrew, and all sorts of other gender-specific age-and-sex related names. She was also attacked because she stayed with her husband after he cheated on her, so that personal decision makes her a target, for some reason, to these lunatics. Clinton’s laugh was called a cackle. Her hair was constantly made fun of. She was repeatedly called a b****. There were great debates on whether or not she was in menopause, because the lunatics said she would be too irrational once a month to be president.
This was not coming from Republicans, people. This was from OBAMA SUPPORTERS, the new Democrat Party. DEMOCRATS on the Left whipped up this gender-based hate. NOT Republicans.
For Palin, the attacks are of a much more sexual nature, rather than gender-based or age-based. They call Palin a w****, even though she married her high school sweetheart and has five children. They call her a s***, they make fun of her fertility, they attack her baby and claim all manner of bizarre incest stories they say explain little Trig’s Down Syndrome (read Andrew Sullivan for those). Palin is routinely referred to as a c**** here in Boystown. “That b****. That c***. That w****”. No mention is ever made of anything she’s ever said or actually done…it is all geared towards her secxuality.
She is unapologetically a beautiful woman. We think Hillary Clinton is also beautiful, but Palin is younger (despite becoming a grandmother first). Hillary gets the matronly hate. Palin gets to be sexualized and victimized in racier terms.
With Bush and Cheney, the hate from the Left was TOTALLY different. There was no one like Simon saying he wanted to rape George W. Instead, the hate at Bush was 100% directed towards the liberal fantasy that Bush was an idiot. At Sidetracks, a bar we love, they used to play endless clips of Bush stumbling, falling down, opening the wrong door, all set to Benny Hill or other ridiculous music. They had videos where Bush would morph into a chimp and start eating bananas, and one we remember of a chimp in the Oval Office throwing feces at the curtains, while “grown ups” tried to get “the president” to behave.
Another part of Bush hate was the Western aspect to his presidency. Because Bush spent so much time in Crawford, city folk in Chicago ridiculed that, calling him a cowboy and making it seem like all he was good for was clearing that brush. So, that’s a mix of rural hatred, and hatred of Texans, with the “Bush is stupid meme”.
Bush was generally thought of as a Tex Avery character, Yosemite Sam type.
It’s hard to explain, but in hating him, and painting him as a cowboy, there was also an underpining of how much these guys here in Boystown knew Bush could totally kick their sorry asses. So, it’s like in grade school where the little punks would shout insults when the chain link fence was separating them from their target — but, whoo nelly, if there was a gap in the fence and those cowards knew the target could fight back, they’d tear off running. So, Bush was a dumb Texan chimp who had a pistol in each hand shooting at the ceiling, but he was never, ever sexualized. We don’t remember seeing anything about anyone wanting to rape Bush, or do anything sexual to Bush, or talk at all about his genitals and being naked. None of that.
With Cheney, his caricature was 100% as Dr. Evil, plotting and scheming somewhere, or as “Darth Cheney”, up to something. SOMETHING. Which in Boystown remained undefined since the guys here get all their news from either MSNBC or The Daily Show, and rarely know much of what’s going on. So, they weren’t clear on what Cheney was supposed to be doing, so they just lifted various schemes from Blofeld or Goldfinger and attributed them to Cheney instead. Very few guys in Boystown ever knew about Cheney shooting his friend (on accident) in the face while hunting. Only a few times Sidetracks tried to play that clip during comedy clip, and little twinks especially would say, “What’s that? Who shot who? Say what?”.
Cheney was just painted as being generically “evil” while Bush was generically “stupid” and “cowboy”. No sexualization of either man ever occurred…which is interesting because in Boystown every man that walks through the door of a bar is sexualized. Even Panda. If you can believe it.
The Hillary hate was never that strong in Boystown because gays love the Clintons…even if a portion was momentarily turned against Hillary because the Obama campaign directed them to unleash the hate on her.
With Palin, it’s been 100% non-stop two-minute-hate going on two years now.
What’s interesting is that this is the same sort of weird, gay hatred of women that pops up in other venues too. Vaginas might as well be Medusas to some of these guys, despite the fact that all of them, without exception, were birthed from one, somewhere. It’s embarrassing to listen to a lot of gay men talk, because the things they say about women would not be tolerated if they said them about any other group of people.
For example, guys will talk freely and loudly, in front of women, about how disgusting their vaginas are and how much the thought of ever seeing a vagina in person makes them throw up. And then, like children, they’ll make the gagging, vomiting noises. They talk about how fishy women smell, “Hold the seafood!” some drunk will shout, and the bar will erupt in spontaneous laughter. “Why are we laughing, I don’t get it,” some clueless twink will ask, and an older queen will take the little chick under his wing and tell him, “It’s okay Brenden, I’ll tell ya. Women are gross. Their vaginas are stinky and nasty. Women are stupid and are sluts and rape teaches them a lesson, especially when they are conservatives, because conservative women want to kill all gays and they are the reason we can’t get married”.
Do you realize the irony of a gay man ever calling ANYONE on the planet a slut? Even those of us who have high standards and only pick really great guys have had probably twice as much sex as the average straight guy, and probably 3 or 4 times as much as the average woman. But, yet, conservative women are sluts and bitches and whores. So, what does that make the guys in Boystown, if the bar for being a slut, a bitch, and a whore is so low? There isn’t even a word for what some of the older queens would be…the ones who hang out in Man’s Country hoping to meet the next president from Chicago no doubt.
The problem is that the MSM turns Republicans into villains, like from a cartoon, that gay men just instinctively hate.
90% of us take a lot of grief from our families, who, in many cases, can be evil to us. All of that grief gets turned into hatred and resentment and all manner of demons, and seems to need to go somewhere, and be projected at SOMETHING. That something is Republicans. Because the MSM sets Republicans up to be villains, and Republicans are still so damn stupid in most cases that they take the bait and give anti-gay talking points the MSM then uses to hit the LGBTQ community some more in a nasty, vicious cycle.
When it’s a female Republican, the hate blasts up to eleventy because the guys couple that villainization of the right with all the misogynistic, irrational, perverse hatred of female genitalia, and that leads to the sexualized, horrific verbal attacks on Sarah Palin.
THAT leads to people like Simon saying Palin needs to be raped to be “taught a lesson”, while everyone else in the bar hoots and hollers about what a c**** and a b**** she is. So she deserves it, in their book.
It is vile.
It’s sick.
It’s an abuse of free speech that should be as illegal as yelling FIRE! in a movie theater or falsely accusing someone of being RAAACIST! because you want to destroy them.
THIS is what the Left engages in. This is what the Democrat party has become. These are their weapons.
And just as the black community is used as an unthinking tool, incited by shouts of RAAACISM! and race-grievance-mongering, the gay community is stirred up against Republicans by the MSM with all manner of fantasy and cartoon villainy. Throw a female Republican into the mix, and watch all Hell break loose.
Which is really weird on another level, because if a beautiful woman walks into Sidetracks, all the guys will stop and rate her outfit, wonder who cut her hair, and some of them might even wonder if they can get that top in their size. They’ll oooooh and aaaaaaaaah over her shoes, dream about becoming her bestie so they can go shopping with her, and think about how long it would take to become good enough pals so that she could be their date to an Oscar party or something, because, OMG, she would make such a great MARILYN. To die for. LOL. Whatev.
But, if that woman opens her mouth, is smart and opinionated, and has the AUDACITY to be conservative in any way, let alone a full-on Republican, the living full size anatomically correct Barbie all these guys wanted to play with a minute before suddenly turns disgusting, revolting, evil, and monstrous. Now, instead of a potential bestie, she’s a bitch and a whore and a c****. Now, her vagina stinks. Now she is planning to kill all of us. Now she’s the enemy.
Because she’s a Republican, and thus must be destroyed.
It is really and truly sick.
Have you seen this where you live?
Do you see the Left’s hate aimed differently at men versus women?
Please share.
Simon Says Rape
Before Christmas, we told you about meeting a guy named Simon at Sidetracks here in Boystown. He’s from Australia, and he’s a nationality expert. But, to his credit, when he asked the “What nationality are you?” question to Sebastian, he accepted Bast’s answer of “American”, without further nationality expertism. So, Simon redeemed himself for acknowledging no one presses him further when he says he’s “Australian”, so no one should press anyone who identifies as “American” further as to where dead ancestors from hundreds of years ago in Europe are buried. If you are not an immigrant, have no immigrants in your family, and only have loyalty to the United States, and you love this country, and you see yourself as 100% American, then “nationality experts”, as we call them, have no business asking you, “no, where were your great-great-great-great grandparents from?”. That’s not your nationality. that’s these lunatics’ personal racist obsession.
Well, Simon later un-redeemed himself by, out of the blue, launching into an attack on Sarah Palin that night we met him, which was strange because we never — as hard as this may be to believe — bring up politics when we go out. Never. Politics is what we write about here on this site. It’s what we talk about amongst ourselves when we are on the phone or hanging out at Buzzquarters. It’s what we talk about if we go out to dinner and are at a big table together. But, in a crowded bar, we’re talking about whether or not we think Lady Gaga has staying power (YES), the mess the city’s made of the transit system (BOO!), and how many hotties are out and about (few). We go out to have fun. Frankly, we deserve a break from talking about politics. Life is short, we know we won’t always live in Boystown, and so we enjoy these nights out at Sidetracks the way older friends enjoyed their time at 54 or the Pump Room or wherever else they used to hang out with their friends and have a great time someplace iconic and of their moment. In 2010, Chicago, Boystown, that place for us is Sidetracks, where many an adventure is had, and where absolutely no politics is discussed by us.
We stress this because when we told the story about Simon the first time, some of you in comments said something to the effect of, “Oh, just because he doesn’t like Sarah Palin, that doesn’t mean you have to stop talking to him. You’re judging him unfairly”. Maybe this is hard for us to articulate, but it’s more than just “not liking Sarah Palin”. Part of it is what we talked about in the last paragraph, about not wanting to get into politics with anyone when we are out to have a good time. If someone LOVED Palin or wanted to talk about how much they love the Clintons (which is always a favorite topic of ours), we’d steer the conversation to something else, or suggest the person do a guest post for us on HillBuzz. Because we just don’t want to spend our whole lives talking about politics.
The other part of it with Simon is that his hatred of Palin was clear, and hatred isn’t attractive on ANYONE. We don’t like or support the current president and think even less of his wife. But we don’t hate either of these people. We mock them, because they are so full of themselves and so fawned over by the adoring MSM that they deserve to be mocked. We work against them, because we believe their agenda is detrimental to this country. But, we don’t hate anyone. We don’t even hate the trolls and Kos Kids who attack us personally. We will fight back. We’ll take them to court if we have to. We’ll make sure they can’t attack anyone else. But, we don’t hate them. Life is too short, and we just don’t have the energy to do everything else we do, and still find time to fire up the hate machine.
So, our stance on guys is this: if within the first few hours of knowing you, you manage to launch into a spirited two-minute hate on anything, chances are you are not a guy we want to know.
Simon proved a guy CAN actually recover from the “nationality expert” crap we detest (for those unfamiliar, it’s a Chicago thing where, as a qualifier to see either if you are worth dating or to try to figure out how much money you have, how much money your family has, or whatever, guys as “What’s your nationality?”…it’s like asking “what high school did you go to?” to figure out if someone is from the “bad part of town”…100% unique to Chicago, in our experience…where the acceptable answers are “Irish”, “English”, “Italian”, or limited other European options, but anything else gets a weird face made back at you). Simon asked it of Sebastian. Sebastian answered “American”. To date, Simon’s the only guy who’s ever accepted that as an answer, and then moved on to other things to talk about.
So, good on him.
But, unfortunately, as noted, Simon decided to talk about how much he hates Sarah Palin, to which Sebastian noted, “Actually, see my friends here? We’re going to work for Palin in 2012, and we’re getting everyone we know to do that too. We love her”. That made Simon launch into a tirade of what a b**** Palin is, how “stupid” and “crazy” she is, etc. When pressed for backup on why she is a b****, why she is so “stupid”, and why she is so “crazy”, Simon just burbled. See, Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, Anderson Cooper, Chris Matthews, and the rest don’t give REASONS for what they want their adherants to parrot…because that would be too complicated. Simon gets all of his news from MSNBC or CNN, and all his views from the anti-Palin propaganda brigade. He does not think for himself. He has no idea why he hates Palin. He just does, and gets blustery whenever he runs into a gay guy who does not feel the same way.
Well, as we told you a few months ago, Sebastian told Simon it was nice to meet him, but that he didn’t want to spend his evening listening to how much a stranger hates another stranger, a stranger who is the former governor of our largest state and will be our next president.
We have all gotten quite good, over the last two years, of extricating ourselves from the company of Simons, when they launch into these anti-Hillary or anti-Sarah two-minute-hates.
Well, we didn’t see Simon again until last night, and we needed to write up what happened so you can get a fuller picture of what we mean when we told you that it’s best not to keep talking to a guy once he reveals his hate for either Hillary or Palin, or other people we like. This is something we have learned from experience: if a guy is a diehard Olbermann-Matthews-Cooper type, and if he’s a total Obot, and if he says anything nasty about either Hillary or Palin in the first few hours of knowing him, there’s a good chance that hate runs much, much deeper, down to a truly dark place we don’t want any part of. The mean age in our little group is 33. That means we’ve each got give or take another 40 years on this planet, relatively tops. We don’t want to waste any of that time sucked into anyone else’s churning, swirling, bottomless vortex of hate.
Simon got Sebastian’s number, somehow, and texted him after that encounter a few times. Sebastian never texted back, because Bast doesn’t want anything to do with Simon…or any guy like him. Last night, Simon came up to us in Sidetracks and went right for Bast, and asked why he never texted him back, and Bast told him that it was nice to meet Simon, that Bast hopes he’s enjoying living in Chicago, but that Bast has no interest in being Simon’s friend or anything more.
Bast was polite, as kind as possible, but clear and firm that he did not want to have anything to do with Simon.
“Is this because of that b****? That filthy f****** c****? Is that why you won’t talk to me, because of that filthy Alaskan b****? That f****** b**** should be dragged outside and raped, and then maybe she’d be good for something. That c****.”
People, this went on a good two minutes.
Pure hate.
Panda, who has a mouth like a sailor, actually blushed, himself never hearing so many expletives dropped in such a short time…and such vile ones coming out of Simon’s filthy mouth, to borrow a word he loves using against the Governor.
If we ran a transcript, word for word, of what Simon said about Sarah Palin, it would be mostly *********s, followed by more ********. It would be illegible, because we won’t ever write language like that on a site children could read. And we won’t lend any credence to these attacks on the Governor by putting her name in the same sentence with such words.
Simon the Australian is truly a vile and deranged man.
Sebastian stood there and let Simon scream all this, right in his face. He stayed calm and cool, and occasionally drank some of his Pilsner, waiting for Simon to finish. In Boystown, Bast has run into a few guys here and there who don’t like being turned down, get drunk one night, and then decide to berate Bast for not wanting to go out with them. Simon’s good looking, tall, clearly has money, and is not used to being turned down. So, there’s that, but the thing that really unhinged him was the fact that he was turned down because he said vile things about Sarah Palin. His response, of course, is to come up to Sebastian and scream even more vile things about Palin to him.
As if that will suddenly make Bast like this guy.
That might be how Liza Minnelli solves her drinking problem, by just drinking more until she forgets she has a problem, but it’s not how best to handle a situation like this.
When Simon was red in the face and out of breath after railing on for a while about how he wanted to rape a former governor and our next president…and let us be CRYSTAL CLEAR, here and now, so we don’t get any assy comments from anyone later…HE CLEARLY SAID HE WANTED TO RAPE PALIN. Simon. Personally. HE, a gay man, believes finding Palin at some undetermined juncture in the future, hitting her over the head caveman style, and dragging her “out back” to be raped by him, a gay man, is “what that c*** needs”.
It was so bad, Panda wasn’t revved up waiting for a “Julia Sugarbaker Moment” from Bast (what Panda calls the times Sebastian takes someone down, verbally, and puts him in his place…which Panda sometimes tries to goad into an actual punchout for the most deserving). Panda had his phone out and was seriously ready to call the cops, he thought Simon was so over the top dangerous. It was flat-out crazy.
There are times in life when all of us feel like we channel Hillary Clinton, after watching her up close for so long on the campaign trail in 2008. We saw all sorts of crazy people come out of nowhere on rope lines and say the most bizarre things. People shouted at her here and there, said she was part of all sorts of insane conspiracies, and made up all sorts of lies. These were all Obama voters, of course, as well behaved as they always are.
And you know what Clinton always did? She stayed totally calm, didn’t let these people get to her, and just said, “Thank you for your opinion”, and moved forward.
She’s incredible.
And so was Sebastian, really, because once Simon huffed and puffed and revealed his darkest rape fantasies against Sarah Palin, Bast brought the situation under control, Hillary-style.
“Well, thank you for your opinions, Simon. You certainly have a passion, but as I told you when I last saw you, I don’t think you and I are people who can be friends because I am a supporter of Sarah Palin’s. I am saving up money, in fact, so that when she runs for president I can volunteer for her full time, go to every state if I have to, and elect this woman president. Now, you can disagree with me on this and we could still be friends. I have lots of friends who don’t like Palin, or any Republican. I am a Democrat who doesn’t like the current president. So, these are odd times, and some of my Democrat friends don’t like that I support some Republicans, like Palin. But, you know what Simon? Do you remember what we talked about last time? Do you remember when I told you what misogyny is? That’s where a guy like you throws the words b****, c****, w****, and the rest around like they are nothing, just because you don’t like a woman. So, you resort to gender and anatomy-based pejoratives, because you aren’t informed enough to argue policy points against a woman, so you just sexualize her and demean her and call her these words you know are harmful to women. Simon, I just can’t be around someone who does this. My friends are good guys. We have better vocabularies than that. And I just can’t imagine any of us ever talking about how much we want to rape anyone. ANYONE. Rape just does not enter my mind, no matter how much I don’t like someone. So, seriously, I’m concerned about the anger that’s inside you that makes you want to rape someone. Anyone. It’s not healthy. I know it’s not an Australian thing, because other Aussies I know don’t go out in public and call for the rape of private citizens. So, I want you to think about heading down to the Center on Halsted on Monday. They have counselors there that are free. They might be able to help you work some of this out. I, however, am not a counselor. I’m just a guy with a beer that’s getting warm and friends I want to be hanging out with, so Simon I want you to have a good night, be safe, and enjoy Chicago, but I am telling you again that you and I are not going to be friends. Please accept that. I don’t want hard feelings or drama. I just want to drink my beer and hang out with my friends and not hear any more about rape tonight, okay?”.
And with that, Sebastian walked closer to the rest of us, but never turned his back on Simon, just in case he lunged and tried to hit him with a bottle or something. Two years dealing with the Obama crazies has made us painfully aware of their tendency to lash out with violence whenever they can’t express themselves through logic and reason. This is what Obama meant when he said his followers need to always “get in people’s faces”. Simon got that message loud and clear.
We all watched him carefully, and he was mighty, mighty drunk. Bast talking to him so calmly, and being so diplomatic in his breakdown of misogyny and the rape fantasy Simon conjured, threw him for a loop. Simon wanted a fight…and he’s got a good 50 pounds and four inches of height on Bast, so it’s a fight our guy would have lost, no matter how quick the bouncers could have gotten there. Gay relationships are pissing contests for guys in lots of ways, and they are invariably mighty competitive on many levels. The worst part of male-male relationships, in our experience, is the tendency for so many of them to get violent…much more than what you hear about domestic abuse in heterosexual relationships. Two guys. Two bad tempers. All of that upper body strength combined. All of that testosterone. It leads to trouble more times than it should.
So, considering all of this, do you understand now why we eliminate the possibility of inviting a Simon into our lives at the first appearance of hate?
Great Merciful Zeus, the guy’s from Australia. We can think of 1,000 cool things he could have talked about with us…telling endless stories about AUSTRALIA alone. We could spend lifetimes talking about the wildlife of Australia alone, and never, ever, not in a million years get onto the topic of raping anyone. So, we spot trouble, BIG TROUBLE, in a guy who can’t talk for a few minutes in a bar, to strangers, without mentioning how much he hates a woman.
Any woman.
Could be Hillary. Could be Palin. Could be Maya Angelou.
Whomever.
If one of the first things you choose to reveal about yourself is how much you hate someone else, then we’re sorry, but we don’t want to know you. We have a lot of friends. On this site, we get hundreds of emails a day. We all work several jobs and know lots of people there. At Sidetracks we know all the bartenders and staff and a good many of the customers. So, we are not desperate to meet anyone new. There isn’t a big NOW HIRING sign in our friendship department. If you are cool, if you’re someone interesting, if you’re someone positive we think it would be fun to hang out with, then we’d love to meet you and talk to you.
Everyone who comes up to one of us starts off on that foot. It up to each guy to then reveal himself to be someone we should all want to get to know…or, in the case of Simon, to NOT get to know.
For the sake of wrapping up last night, Simon got progressively more and more drunk, and wandered around the bar angry, occasionally giving Sebastian the stink eye. We have a feeling this is not over, and the next time he gets drunk, he’s going to try to start something again. So, on the way out, we told one of the bouncers what happened and just told him to put Simon on the watch list we know they have…of people known to get too drunk and start trouble.
It’s a really busy bar with something like 20 bartenders on duty every night. So, it’s much easier to be overserved there than it is in a place like Cheers, where everybody knows your name, and it’s just Sam, Diane, Coach, or Woody keeping track of how out of your mind drunk you are, or how violent you can be.
Now, before anyone goes nuts in comments, we know that not ALL Obama supporters are as bad as Simon. We know not all people who call themselves “Liberals” would get to the point he got, where he was so mad we support Palin that he launched into a very well-thought-out, prepared, rape fantasy about her. But, easily, 90% of the Leftists we’ve known drop the b, c, and w words without any thought of how misogynistic they are. 99% of them have no idea what misogyny is, or how they’re poster children for it.
The Left, which has taken over the Democrat Party, is fueled mainly by hate and the politics of personal destruction. We believe these people would indeed rape and even murder a political opponent if they could. We also believe the MSM, in particular the anchors and commentators at MSNBC, rev this hate up. Organizing for America, the DNC, ACORN, the SEIU, and the current White House count on this hate, and the thugs energized by it, to destroy all those standing in the current president’s way.
This is the hope and change these people were all chanting about in 2008.
This is who these people really are.
Like with Simon, it might take a few Fosters to get the masks off, but someone who brings rape fantasy into any diatribe is someone who has serious, deep-rooted, horrific problems.
You might not live in Boystown. You might never go to Sidetracks. You might never meet Simon.
But, all across the country, there are Leftists like Simon. That’s a scary, sobering thought.
Do you see, now, why we instinctively walk away from guys who give the first indication of being one of these Leftists?
Does this make sense now?
The Queen of Farts
H/t seapea
How fitting is it that the effeminate socialist in the White House currently is depicted cradling a little piggy, since Mary’s administration is the most wasteful, spendthrift, profligate, and pork-loving in all of history.
We’re getting some great stuff from the “Alice in Wonderland” photoshop challenge. Keep them coming.
This is an excellent way to get through to people exactly who Dr. Utopia really is: more Queen of Farts than any president we can respect and feel safe with in the White House.
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UPDATE: Is it possible to take this image further?
We’d love to start using it as the standard image we run of Dr. Utopia from now on. We believe showing him in drag emphasizes his effeminence, which the MSM ignores, but regular people do see, even if it’s on the subconscious level. The Left caricatured Bush as a cowboy, and it stuck because Bush is a cowboy…and cowboys, in our opinion, are AWESOME. We were late to the party on realizing how good a man Dubya is, but even when we didn’t like him, we saw “cowboy” in everything he did. Since we always liked cowboys, even if we didn’t like what Bush was doing, we felt safe with him in office, because cowboys make us feel safe.
If people see Dr. Utopia as fey and weak, effeminate, and don’t feel safe with him in office, we think depicting him in drag like this for the next two years will work against him psychologically, reinforcing the image of himself he doesn’t want to be seen. The MSM is pushing him as a basketball player and insists on telling everyone he is so cool.
To us, he’s a second-rate drag queen. As nelly as any queen we see in Boystown.
* What if we turned the hearts into the “O” logo, that creepy eye he uses as his personal emblem?
* What if in the background we had a toilet, and on it was written “The Kennedy Seat”…like the toilet Chrissy the Hyphenated created for the Martha Coakley photoshop challenge? The Queen needs her throne.
* Can we change the red in the dress and the hair to that creepy smurf-blood blue Dr. Utopia loves so much?
This image is so great because there’s a lot of blank space to use in the future, to add topical items to it.
We’d love to create a classic, go-to image of “The Queen of Farts” that could go viral and be repurposed time and again for the next two years.
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Here’s a great starter image of Pelosi & Reid as the Tweedles:
H/t Kim
Love the Tea Party background.
Sunday Open Thread: February 21st, 2010
What are you doing this Sunday?
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Here are two things that don’t traditionally go together, but happened today in history:
1948 – NASCAR is incorporated.
1958 – The Peace symbol is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment.
So, hippies and conservatives both got something they ended up loving today.
We as a nation have much more in common than sometimes we think.
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Question: Did the White House throw the Dalai Lama out with the garbage on purpose
Consider the following headlines, with excellent visual accompaniment by Chrissy the Hyphenated, and chime in on if you believe the White House threw the Dalai Lama out with the garbage ON PURPOSE:
Oct 5, 2009 – President Barack Obama has refused to meet the Dalai Lama in Washington this week in a move to curry favour with the Chinese. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/6262938/Barack-Obama-cancels-meeting-with-Dalai-Lama-to-keep-China-happy.html
Feb 2, 2010 – China: Obama-Dalai Lama Meeting Would Harm Bilateral Relations http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/02/china-obama-dalai-lama-me_n_445507.html
Feb. 18, 2010 – Obama welcomes Dalai Lama to White House http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35456043/ns/politics-white_house/ Meet is kept off-camera and low-key in an attempt to avoid inflaming tensions with China.
Feb 19, 2010 – China summons Ambassador over Dalai Lama’s visit http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20100219/876/twl-china-summons-us-ambassador-over-oba.html China summoned the US ambassador Obama’s meeting with the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and accused it of ‘grossly interfering’ in the country’s internal affairs and ‘damaging’ Sino-US ties.
Photoshop Challenge: Alice in Wonderland
The new Tim Burton version of Alice in Wonderland is coming out in March. It’s going to be a massive hit (unlike “The Princess and the Frog”, which bombed, its images will indeed become part of pop culture).
We think it’s smart to start making photoshops of Dr. Utopia as the Queen of Hearts…and all his minions as the various other creatures of Wonderland in service to this queen.
Jabber-Biden just sort of writes itself.
Pelosi and Reid as the Tweedles is another obvious one.
Dr. Utopia is an effeminate, radical, lunatic demanding complete control of the country…much like the Queen of Hearts as played by Helena Bonham Carter.
We tried depicting Dr. Utopia as Dr. Facilier from the Disney cartoon “Princess and the Frog”, because that character was clearly based on Utopia visually, but so few people actually saw the movie that it never registered who we were lampooning.
Things will be different with Burton’s Alice…a movie about Alice’s quest to bring down the evil queen and restore freedom to Wonderland.
The Golden Age of Hope and Change under this madman is as surreal as any “wonderland”.
Both Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin can take the role of Alice…though Palin will be the one most likely to come face to face with the Queen of Hearts in 2012.
We think we can do serious damage to the White House with this imagery…so we’re trying to get ahead of this before the public sees the movie so the images stick.
If you can start work on some good images, email them to us at HillBuzz@gmail.com
Thanks!
Project: How do we stop the MSM and GOP elite from doing to Sarah Palin what the MSM and DNC elite did to Hillary Clinton?
Let’s use this as a brainstorming thread, because on Monday, with great effort and determination, we want to launch a full-scale effort to prevent the MSM and GOP elite from doing to Sarah Palin what the MSM and DNC elite did to Hillary Clinton.
It’s clear the MSM is hard at work to make Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney, John Thune, Haley Barbour, or some other milquetoast white man the losing GOP candidate in the 2012 presidential race. We wish these men weren’t so stupid and ego-driven that they could all see they were being used. Pawlenty, especially. He needs to look in the mirror and realize he’s a better candidate to portray Droopy Dog at a theme part somewhere, without needing a costume, than he is to be our next president or vice president. He should wonder why the MSM shows such great enthusiasm for calling him “a strong presidential candidate”, and ask himself if maybe, JUST MAYBE, they are doing that because they want a truly terrible candidate to run against their beloved Dr. Utopia so that he can win the second term the MSM wants him to have.
We clearly see all the tricks used to take down Hillary Clinton being used against Palin now.
The MSM calls her “polarizing”.
The MSM whispers to Republicans that “a woman can’t win”.
The MSM invents all manner of bizarre charges against her, rehashing old lunatic fantasies and lies.
The MSM breeds Eeyores amongst her supports and concern trolls to lower morale.
Meanwhile, the DNC is gearing up to game the Iowa Caucus so Palin won’t win, while ACORN and the SEIU and other organs of the Liberal-Socialist Democrat Party gear up for more voter fraud, intimidation, and the nuclear option of calling Palin and her supporters RAAACISTS!
If you paid any attention at all in 2008, you’d realize this is the playbook used against Hillary Clinton.
So, it’s time to start running a counter effort against all of this garbage. The Democrats have only one playbook. Republicans, for whatever reason, never learn from the mistakes of the past. Those cocktail parties and dinners they love going to at the Union Club must serve lotus leaves and waters of Lethe, because it’s Groundhog Day for Republicans every Election Day. Fooled forever by the same tricks.
Sarah Palin is something different though — a Republican who doesn’t play by the old rules, and is smart and fiery enough to take the fight to the Democrats. She is the opposite of milquetoast, which is just what’s needed.
We want to help her.
The only thing we can offer her is our experience and advise on bringing down the machine that’s being set up against her.
That’s a role we can play going forward.
We’d like your help in making it happen.
So, let’s get started by identifying what’s being done to Palin now, who’s doing it, and how we can stop it.
Chime in, and let’s get cracking.
Question: Does Oprah Winfrey have some use after all?
H/t seapea
We think Oprah Winfrey is probably the second most overrated and consistently most racist person, place, or thing on the planet, currently. She’s the Charybdis of Lake Michigan, the woman who demands Michigan Avenue be closed down for days at a time so she “can get some pudding”, and one of the main reasons we have a socialist in the White House trying his level best to destroy this country and remake it in his own Marxist image.
Yesterday, we did a spot on the Andrea Shea King Radio Show and, as always, the host asked very interesting questions — one of which was about Tiger Woods and the absolute disaster of a press conference he gave yesterday, where he mumbled and fumbled his way through a lackluster, insincere prepared statement saying he was “sorry to the universe” for not knowing how wrong it was to send his penis on some sort of bizarre vagina study abroad program.
“I’m sorry I got caught hurting my wife and children,” Woods repeated, crying, sobbing, lying, and generally making things worse for himself.
We hate to admit the woman’s good for anything, but Woods should have gone on Oprah and cried (not jumped) on her couch.
Oprah, thus, does fill a useful role in our society…one that will be gone come 2011, when she retires to California where she claims she’s starting her own network called O.W.N. (which stands for “Oprah’s Weird Noises”, and will be 24/7 coverage of the sounds Oprah’s gastro-intestinal tract makes as she ingests, digests, processes, and expels the remnants of various foods from around the world).
Wherever will terrible people go to cry and say they are sorry when Oprah’s off the air?
Does Oprah really have a good use after all?
What did you think of Woods’ sham-pology?
It’s an interesting topic, because we don’t think he owes the public anything. He owes his wife and children every cent he’s got, for being such a cheating jackass who has humiliated them all and quite possibly ruined their lives as they knew them. But the public?
The man uses metal sticks to hit a little dimpled ball across the lawn. People, for reasons unknown to us, clap and cheer for this. Really, intensely, unimaginably boring men whisper on television as the balls he hits roll around over the grass, avoiding sand, and find their way towards the only holes that have never gotten Woods into any marital trouble.
The public owes Woods an apology: for being so obsessed with golf and buying Woods-endorsed products that he was able to carry on like this in the first place.
Celebrity is a weird and terrible thing in this country: we are a nation that revels in creating monsters. Some we put on television, and allow to gorge themselves on the finest of everything, until they think they can create new gods and proclaim other monsters “The One We Have Been Waiting For”. The media is Dr. Frankenstein, and the public is a willing, cheerleading, ever gullible nation of Igors. When the monsters unleash their worst upon the world, who’s really to blame?
Them — for being what they are inside, and have always been if people looked closely enough?
Or the people who created them?
Regardless of the above, we believe if Tiger Woods had gone on Oprah at the first available opportunity after this scandal broke, he would have overcome it, easily. If he had sat down with Oprah, cried his eyes out, and gave his wife whatever she wanted to appear on TV and berate him, let it all out, and allow Oprah to mediate and end the show with a big hug, Woods would have been forgiven, his sponsorships would have been left intact, and he’d go right back to where he was before in a year or so. Americans are a very forgiving people. For as much as they love seeing someone with everything lose it all, they adore a comeback story, especially when the riches-to-rags protagonist is truly contrite, learns a valuable lesson, and makes it clear he’ll never do wrong again.
Woods could have probably retired from golf a few years after that, and who knows. The Senate? A governorship? It could have happened.
But, not now.
We think the damage he did to himself is too severe to ever come back from…and yesterday did him no favors. Whoever ran damage control for him on this was TERRIBLE. We’re guessing it was one of his family members, and not a pro.
And there was just no reason NOT to do Oprah. She needed the ratings boost. Woods needed to cry on the couch and seem contrite. The media needed to rescue one of its favorite creations. Golf needed its superstar.
It’s amazing how poorly this was all handled.
What do you think about the mess?
Alaska Iron Dog Open Thread
H/t Rain
What news is there on the Iron Dog race in Alaska?
Last year, we tracked Future First Dude Todd Palin’s course in the race, and we want to root him on and do the same this year, too.
Can anyone find the route tracker?
What are you hearing about the race?
We believe it started yesterday.
Go, Todd, Go!
Stay safe, be awesome, win this thing!
