Archive for June 8th, 2010
Has Michelle Obama ever worn anything this hideous? The ugliest outfit we've ever seen, as spotted waiting to ride Dumbo.
Has even Michelle Obama ever worn anything so hideous?
This was worn by a man from England, at Disney World on Gay Day 6/5/10, as spotted by Panda in the line to ride Dumbo (Panda’s second favorite ride, after It’s A Small World (“because it looks like the inside of my head with all of my ideas”)).
If you think something the current first lady has worn can top this, email it to us at HillBuzz@gmail.com.
It’s going to be pretty tough, folks.
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We have to share the story behind this too, because it actually involves a reader here on HB.
Three of us were in line to ride Dumbo: Robby, Joaquin, and Panda. The entire weekend, people kept asking Panda for his autograph because they thought he was comedian Alek Malpa from Ugly Betty, who had performed a comedy routine during Gay Days back at the host hotel. We think this is because both Panda and Malpa are gaysian, both wear hats all the time, and both have funky retro glasses. But, mostly because of the gaysian “they all look alike” thing for a lot of these people…and, when Malpa and Panda met for the first time at the hotel, bumping into each other in a hallway, Malpa rubbed his eyes and thought was looking into a mirror for a minute, like in a Scooby Doo cartoon.
In line, Panda was signing autographs and lapping up the attention, when Joaquin just started laughing, uncontrollably. Robby wondered what was up, and Joaquin turned his head so he could see the guy in front of us…the British man in that getup above. Then, Robby started laughing too.
This was, actually, funnier than the looks on all the straight guys faces in the park on Gay Day, when they realized that almost everyone wearing red shirts at Disney was gay. Suddenly, that favorite Cardinals shirt they chose to wear that day didn’t seem so favorite, when they’d look around at the crowd and suddenly get the urge to buy a gray Mickey shirt, in whatever size they could find, no matter what it looked like.
Panda finally spotted it too, and took out his phone to snap the pics above, trying to be as surreptitious…as possible.
But, the woman behind us, Maggie, from Ohio, tapped Panda on the shoulder and said, “I know what you are doing. I did it too!”.
Then, Maggie started giggling with us about how ridiculously the man was dressed, and how odd it was that the woman and child he was with were dressed normally. Usually, when someone’s this odd, the people he’s with are oddballs too, but not in this case. The baby looked fine, the wife was nicely dressed. It was just him that looked crazy.
Robby speculated he was being punished for something.
“Look, you still get to come to DisneyWorld with us, Seamus, but you have to dress up like an absolute horse’ arse for us to let you come along. We’ll let the baby dress you like her favorite poppet from the telly. That’ll teach you but good”.
As Maggie was talking to us, she said, we kid you not, that “this would make a great Who’s Dressed Better? bit for this site I read, where they make fun of stuff Michelle Obama wears”.
Yup.
Maggie didn’t realize who she was talking to until she looked more closely at Joaquin and saw he had a little bee tattoo on his bicep, just like the one in the logo.
Robby told her there’s nothing we’ve ever seen Michelle Obama in that’s as terrible as this getup. But, we promised her we’d post these pics from Panda and ask you all out there to see if you could find anything Michelle’s ever worn that could top it.
Most beautiful thing we have seen in the world
The most beautiful thing we have ever seen in the world:
The second most beautiful thing we can think of:
May there always be an Israel, with Israelis so brave and strong and resilient in the face of all onslaughts.
And may Israel and her people always know that in America the Left does not speak for all of us. The Left is a small minority here with unfortunately too much say in the Media.
Israel is our friend, now and forever.
We love Israel.
After the Media’s apologies and attempts at rationalizing Helen Thomas’ virulent antisemitism this week, we just felt compelled to say this again.
Aside from America itself, there is nothing on Earth we love more than Israel.
Shame on your language "President" Obama. Shame on your incompetence and job performance in general, but extra shame on your language today.
Here’s something we’ve noticed living in Boystown all these years: the biggest sissies feel the need to talk most about “kicking someone’s ass”.
I’m gonna “kick your ass” is a ridiculously stupid phrase beneath even the most ridiculously stupid drunk any of us ever encounter out and about on Halsted.
What does that even mean, really?
Are you literally going to kick someone, and have the spot where you kick that person localized to some part of their posterior?
Who does something like that?
I’m gonna “punch your face” makes more sense, if that’s what you intend to do to someone. We’ve seen people throw punches before — Leftists, mainly. SEIU thugs. ACORN members. Obama voters in general. In fact, during 2008, Obama himself encouraged his supporters to commit acts of violence when he cajoled them to “get in people’s faces” and beat down all opposition to him.
But kicking someone, in a particular part of their anatomy? We’ve never seen anyone do that before.
And if the President of the United States isn’t literally going to do this to someone, showing more athletic prowess and follow through than ever before in his personal history, then he should not demean his office by using language like this.
Has any other president before him shown less respect for the presidency?
LBJ was a salty Texan who didn’t often mince words, but we don’t remember ever hearing him say he’d “kick somebody’s ass”. He was a crude man who thought nothing of plucking beagles up by the ground and talking, off the record, about how big his penis was to just about anyone who would listen, but even he didn’t, in public, to our knowledge, talk about ass.
We normally censor the word ourselves here at HB because we’re uncomfortable writing profanity…but did so in this post because the current president used that exact term.
Is this appropriate?
At least one person in the Media doesn’t think so, surprisingly.
QUESTION: How do you define the Republican burka?
This weekend, we had a lot of time to reflect on what America means, and what it means to be an American, working events during Gay Days at Disney World. It was a unique opportunity for all of us — with many adventures to share in the days and weeks ahead — that really resonated the most, oddly enough, when we were in Frontier Land and Liberty Square in the Disney park. Standing there, surrounded by American history as presented by an American cultural institution like Disney, we kept seeing certain repeating imagery:
* the pioneer women and men who took gruff from no one and built their forts, towns, and businesses from trees they cut down without anyone to help them
* the colonists who got so fed up with what the British were imposing on them that they struck out on their own and took matters into their own hands for themselves
* the Wild West characters who believed strongly in Second Amendment rights, never waited for government to solve their problems for them, and didn’t take kindly to bullying
* everyone who’s celebrated in “Americana” exhibits like this is brash, bold, take-no-prisoners, fiery, ballsy, and brutal when they need to be to get things done
In the Hall of Presidents, despite the Obama worship Disney has inserted for the current president, the men who get the most play are those who were unapologetically bold, 100% pro-American, and without any qualms at all about using all their might to get things done.
George Washington. Andrew Jackson. Teddy Roosevelt.
Not a cucumber-and-mayonnaise sandwich muncher in the bunch.
Shockingly, Disney even featured a clip in the presentation of George W. Bush standing in the rubble of Ground Zero with his bullhorn, telling the police and firemen he could hear them, and that America’s enemies would soon be hearing from us. Considering the fact someone we know, our friend Jane, was in that rubble somewhere, you better believe we all teared up seeing Bush become the strong and effective leader this nation needed in that moment.
There was Bush before that terrible day, and Bush after 9/12. We’re thankful every day whatever happened inside him, or whatever guidance he got from some higher plane, transformed him into the man who was needed then and there. We will always be so grateful for that, because every time we see him with that bullhorn we feel on a very personal level that he was there for Jane. He, truthfully, was there for thousands of people, but Bush really connects with us, still, going on ten years later, on that personal level…because we really feel his passion and his conviction and just know that somewhere out there Jane was vindicated by the American president taking charge and promising to strike back against her Muslim murderers.
We don’t have a current president with the crisis management skills or executive experience to handle a disaster, as Obama proves every day by going to Paul McCartney concerts, playing golf, taking lavish vacations, and carrying on the way he does while the Gulf of Mexico is drowned in oil. Worse, we don’t believe a boy born in Hawaii, who grew up in Indonesia, then moved back to the tropics to be mentored by a communist has enough love for this country to ever summon the passion and conviction to stand up for Americans the way Bush did on 9/11. Say what you want about Bush, and the man made a lot of mistakes, but he got the 9/11 response right. And for all the Bush Katrina critics, who have insisted for five years that Bush wasn’t intelligent enough to marshal the federal resources to handle the hurricane’s aftermath, we’re waiting for an explanation of how the Lightbringer hasn’t been able to marshal the federal resources to handle the Gulf Spill, despite all the demigod-level hopeychangey magic Obama was promised to possess.
Something’s really happening in this country that we can sense, but not really put our fingers on at the moment.
Shockingly, the Republican party is coming alive with some real firebrands right when they are needed, just as Bush came alive when needed after 9/11 and became the man this country longed for and deserved at its helm.
Sarah Palin was the first in what we hope becomes a WAVE of patriots who stand up against the Obama administration and what the Left is doing to this country. Michele Bachmann appeared on the radar next, speaking the truth, cracking skulls and taking names. Then, we noticed Jim DeMint emerge to draw a line in the sand and stare down the RINOs surrounding him. Chris Christie took office in New Jersey and set course on a mission to make life a living Hell for the Left, doing what needs to be done for his people without concern for polls or the Media’s yapping. Jan Brewer in Arizona followed, not allowing the Media or the Left to beat her into submission.
These people are all American heroes worthy of their own exhibits and rides in theme parks.
For our entire adult lives, Republicans have worn a burka designed and constructed by the Media.
Prior to 2008, this was fine with us, because it meant Republicans lost elections so often, and when in office generally did whatever Democrats wanted them to do (just look at the careers of Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, and Arlen Specter). But, once the Left took over the Democrat Party completely and booted out centrist Clintonian/Jacksonian Democrats like us, we looked to the Republican Party for people who were willing to stand up for America and take all the lumps the Left could throw at them without fear, and at first the only person we saw standing her ground was Sarah Palin. She, because of that, earned our permanent respect, support, and loyalty. We’re thrilled others have followed her lead, and we hope more will follow, and ultimately the burka-wearing Republicans will be cast aside in favor of take-no-prisoners, accept-no-burkas true patriots.
The burka Republicans have been wearing, to us, centers largely on their weird and twisted collective need for Media acceptance.
When we see cucumber-and-mayonnaise Republicans like Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, John Thune, Mitch Daniels, and other wimpy wusses on TV, they are as effete and manufactured as our current president. These men wear more makeup than most drag queens we know, so that they look Mattel-packaged fresh for their big interviews, where they have the looks of small puppies in their eyes, so desperate for attention, affection, and perhaps Snausages that they’ll do whatever their interviewer requires of them.
Meanwhile, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Chris Christie, Jim DeMint, Jan Brewer and other firebrands not in elected office like Liz Cheney come to interviews looking for a fight and never backing down until they’ve called the Media out as the propaganda wing of the DNC that it is.
Republicans should have been doing this for years, instead of wearing their burka.
The Media and Left have allowed Republicans to exist, but they must keep quiet. They must stay under their burka and be fey little mouses, never speaking their mind lest they be beaten down and deprived of the affection the Media always dangles over these pets.
In walking around Frontier Land and Liberty Square at Disney, we tried to imagine what Davy Crockett, Sam Adams, or Thomas Paine would have thought of Mitt Romney or Tim Pawlenty. The fact that there are no animatronics devoted to effete wig-wearing, powdered and pampered colonists and Western dandies tells us that American history does not take kindly to Romneys or Pawlentys.
But, it celebrates TRs and Washingtons and Crockets and Palins.
Because they have the American spirit. They take gruff from no one. They face down all enemies of liberty and freedom and give their heart and soul to this country regardless of what their detractors think or say.
None of these people would ever wear a burka.
Mitt Romney, in particular, has a closet full of them, in whatever color polls tell him is popular that day.
We’re wondering if you ever picked up on any of this yourself, and what you think of the analogy of Republicans wearing a burka for the Media and the Left in this country?
Do you see the GOP doing this, allowing themselves to be forced into a submissive position because they crave Media love so much?
Do you see Republicans sacrificing their beliefs and voice, and walking ten steps behind the Left, because they are afraid of being slapped by the Media?
Do you think history will ever be kind to the cucumber-and-mayonnaise crowd?
What think you?
Charles Krauthammer talks more about the Democrats' Civil War
Here’s a little video blurb of Charles Krauthammer talking about the Democrats’ Civil War.
This is something we’ve talked about here for a long time, based on things we’ve noticed anecdotally being involved in Democrat politics for the majority of our adult lives.
We told you that when the DNC and the Leftist wing of the party went all-in for Obama and savaged Hillary Clinton in the 2008 primaries, the things the Obama campaign did to take the nomination from her (including voter fraud, intimidation, race-baiting, sexism, misogyny, and employing ACORN, the SEIU, and other thugs to beat down Hillary’s supporters) created a permanent fissure in the Democrat Party that the media’s ignored.
Some of you out there still don’t realize that this is MUCH bigger than just Hillary Clinton. The Media doesn’t want you to appreciate this, but as much as we all supported Hillary, and as much as we wanted her to be president, what the Obama campaign and DNC did in 2008 was also about Hillary’s SUPPORTERS. On very personal levels, removed from the candidate herself, those of us who worked for Hillary were attacked, maligned, marginalized, abused, and kicked to the curb by our own party. These people went further than they had to in securing the nomination for their Lightbringer. The Left declared all-out war on centrist Democrats, and the Media helped the Left win and take over the Democrat Party.
After this, centrists said “we’re done with Democrats”.
See people like Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a former top Democrat fundraiser who essentially says that Democrats can now rot in Hell for all she cares.
Now, multiply Rothschild by thousands and you can get part of the picture of what we are talking about: people who used to put their heart and soul into Democrat fundraising, volunteering, and party promotion now all feel like we do — that the Democrat Party is dead to us and deserves its fate.
The Media, Left, and DNC under the likes of Donna Brazile has insisted Democrats can do just fine in elections with blacks, urban elites, college kids, and new Hispanic immigrants.
Good luck with that.
Because Democrats have permanently alienated people like us, people like Rothschild, and people like all of our friends from the 2008 campaign — none of which have helped a Democrat since what happened in our primaries. They can all go to Hell for all we care. Rothschild might be the most visible person saying this, but she’s speaking for a very large contingent of formerly loyal, dyed in the wool, straight party voting Dems who now hope to see the party utterly and completely destroyed.
NOT necessarily because of what the party did to Hillary, because that’s only part of it. The problem manifested itself in what it did to Hillary, but the problem is deeper than that.
The problem, at its core, is that the DNC made a conscious decision to enter into a pact with the Devil, in the form of the thuggery, fraud, and ACORN-backed tactics Democrats now gleefully employ as a Leftist party. Seeing the party embrace this behavior, propagate it, and RELISH in it is revolting to those of us who thought the party was better than this. Those of us who can of age politically when the Clintons were president in the 1990s are ashamed of the Obama Democrat Party. This is not what we signed up for when we registered as Democrats in high school. This is not what we agreed to when we campaigned for Democrats in every election since we turned 18. This is not the party we supported with whatever spare cash we had to donate all these years.
These thugs will never get another cent out of any of us, and we can’t honestly see a day in the future when we will ever vote Democrat again.
They have permanently alienated us.
To which Donna Brazile, no doubt, says, “so what”. She clearly does not care if five gay guys in Chicago won’t ever vote Democrat again. She doesn’t care if a mom in Pennsylvania won’t ever vote Democrat again. She doesn’t care if a bar full of coal miners in West Virginia won’t vote Democrat again. Brazile’s too busy calling everyone RAAACIST to notice that if you add up all these individuals who are so sickened by the behavior of the party that they won’t ever vote Democrat again then you have an awfully large number of people who’ve been permanently alienated.
That’s going to come back and hurt Democrats in a very big way.
The media will be stunned, and will try to pin all of this on RAAACISM, as usual, but it’s — in our opinion — a natural reaction by decent people to the thuggery Democrats have reveled in since 2008. The “I Won” mentality of this White House coupled with the gross incompetence and hubris of almost everyone in this administration is leading to a historic and unprecedented disaster in the making.
We still maintain the REAL Democrat Civil War won’t start until a week after the November elections.
That’s when there’s going to be a real and concerted effort by centrist Democrats to try to take back the party from the Left, and the two sides are going to slug it out.
If you had asked us what we’d do a year ago, we’d have thought we’d join the fight and try to save the party. It appears the Clintons intend to wage that battle, and many Clintonites and operatives we know are gearing up for a DLC challenge to the Left for the soul of the party once Democrats are trounced in November.
Honestly, we think the DNC has done so much damage in the Golden Age of Obama that we don’t want to see the party saved. We want it destroyed, with the Earth around it salted so that it permanently joins the Whigs on the scrap heap of history.
We need a Republican president in 2012 to clean up the Obama mess, and a conservative Congress in place for the next 10 years or so to clip spending, lower taxes, stimulate the economy, and remove all the monstrous legislation Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid got up to in their brief reign of terror. The only things important to us in terms of national agenda are (1) becoming solvent again, (2) creating jobs, (3) achieving energy independence, (4) reasserting American superiority and exceptionalism in all spheres of the world.
We don’t see Democrats as they currently exist being able to get a handle on any of this. We also don’t see very many Republicans on the scene who can do it either — because what needs to be done is going to take a lot of guts. That’s why our eyes our turned to the Sarah Palins, Chris Christies, Jan Brewers, Nikki Haleys, Michele Bachmanns, and Jim DeMints of the Republican Party…and not to the Mitt Romneys, Tim Pawlentys, and other wimpy cucumbers-and-mayonnaise Republicans.
We will continue to do, each day, what we think is best for America. Whoever is best equipped and poised to save America will have our complete support. Maybe someday that person will be a Democrat again, but we can’t envision that scenario at the moment.
Country first.
Party last.
Current Democrat Party never.
Have you noticed what's happened to magazines lately? Many have become so small they're practically the Weekly Reader for children.
We did a lot of traveling this weekend for work events in Florida and, as usual when we fly, we loaded up on magazines for the plane rides.
We were STUNNED by just how far Newsweek in particular has rightfully fallen.
It was about the size of the old Weekly Reader magazines that came out when we were in grade school — flimsy little Scholastic Inc. publications with little stories in them, no more than a page each, to rest reading comprehension.
Newsweek is now so light and sparse it could have been mimeographed by an elderly school secretary, then stapled together and piled up for delivery to home rooms by the hall monitors. The quality of its contents was amateur, and it’s liberal bias never more evident. Everything is Bush’s fault, of course. Even the monsoon rains that delayed our planes at various points over the weekend.
It seemed like a great many advertisers have dropped this rag.
TIME, Vanity Fair, and other publications we used to read regularly (and have delivered), also seemed anorexic.
We can’t imagine ever again in our lives paying for a subscription to any of these rags, and catch up with them only when we’re traveling and are a captive audience curious to see how far they have fallen. Apparently, many of you out there feel the same.
Vanity Fair, in particular, used to be chock full of interesting, glamorous, inventive ads…so much so that when we’d pull those pages from the magazine, to make collages with them or save them for other art projects, the actual articles remaining were 1/3 the content of the magazine. It doesn’t seem like VF has dialed down this content, but rather the ad space must not be selling, because the current issue is about the same thickness of those old magazines after we’d culled all the ad pages we found interesting.
That’s remarkable to us — and further proof that this country is only 20% liberal. Now that the Left has overplayed its hand and revealed itself for what it really is, so many people have woken up to this garbage that they can’t get away with operating under their old model. VF, TIME, and Newsweek were always Leftist biased, but they did a better job of hiding it. So much so that people in the middle politically, or truly independent, could ignore the Leftist bent and focus on other things, like the pretty ads, or the spicy columns by people like Dominic Dunne.
Well, Dunne’s dead now, and VF might not much longer outlive him. The Left still hasn’t realized this, but we believe it’s becoming increasingly more clear that America is just not going to accept liberal domination for very much longer. Not politically, not in entertainment, not in the media. Nowhere, no how, no sir.
Are you noticing these trends too?
QUESTION: How repugnant is Helen Thomas?
We know this is a very open question, and the obvious answer is “extremely” or “to the umpteenth level”, but just how repugnant is Helen Thomas?
This weekend was a very busy one for us with work, but we were sickened immensely by the remarks Helen Thomas made insisting Jews should abandon the fictional place she calls “Palestine” and instead “go back to Poland”.
It’s one of the more horrendous things we’ve ever heard anyone in the media ever say — and we were regular viewers of Tim Russert’s.
Disgusting.
When Israeli expert Laura Rosen Cohen was in Chicago, and generously granted us a lengthy chat about the perils Israel faces, our eyes opened to the reality that liberal colleges and universities indoctrinate their students with a rabid antisemitism, without many of these eager learners and professor pleasers realizing what’s happening. Thomas is an example of this, because her near Hitlerian attitude towards Jews is so casually displayed because in the circles she keeps this is normal parlor chatter. The other reporters most likely agree with her, and she certainly didn’t seem like a woman saying something she’d never said or thought before. To these “journalists”, talking about the Jews getting out of “Palestine” and being forced back to Germany or Poland is like normal, thinking people talking about the weather or the Blackhawks’ chances to win the Stanley Cup.
There’s a scene in the HBO TV movie adaptation of Robert Harris’ alternate history book Fatherland that’s chilling, with a character that could have been played by Helen Thomas if she wasn’t so damn troll-like. The character is a Greta Garbo/Marlene Deitrich wannabe, failed film actress, a mistress to a high ranking Nazi party official in a dimension where Hitler won the war and took over all of Europe — and in this world an American reporter played by Miranda Richardson is in Berlin, capital of Germania, covering a peace summit between US President Joseph P. Kennedy and 75 year old Hitler. Richardson interviews the actress, who at a critical moment in the film is preparing to leave Germany with a world-changing secret so as not to upset the peace treaty. In this world, the Holocaust was covered up, and idiots globally believe a Nazi propaganda lie that the Jews were all “resettled” in new cities Hitler built “in the East”, and that’s the lie people want to believe.
The actress’ character reminds us of Thomas because of the casual way she talks about the Jews being “resettled, in the air, as smoke”, as she twirls her fingers in the air and smiles. She knows the truth about what happened in the Holocaust, and thinks it was a great thing. No more Jews. Because she thinks Richardson is like-minded, this actress is fully candid and almost gleeful in describing what was done to the Jews.
It was one of the most horrifying characterizations we’ve ever seen on film.
THAT is how we feel watching Helen Thomas speak, realizing what she says is more likely than not shared in opinion by not only the vast majority of the American media, but by the bulk of graduates being churned out of the liberals’ degree mills.
It’s horrifying to realize that our beloved and dear friend Israel is threatened every day not just by the hordes of orcs and goblins that constitute Islam, but by trolls like Thomas and her liberal ilk right here in America — people who do everything they can to aide and abet the Islamic push against Israelis.
Hearst News has announced the immediate retirement of Helen Thomas…but like that actress in Fatherland, she’s hardly the only one who thinks the way she does. She’s one of the most visible and hideous speakers on this subject, but she felt comfortable enough to be so vocal about this that we find it impossible to believe this is not something the entire American media agrees with.
CHILLING.
