Archive for September 6th, 2010
Illinois needs Cedra Crenshaw in office
Cedra Crenshaw is a friend of our friend Althea.
Here she is taking time to answer questions posed by an amateur reporter (much like we ourselves would do, if we had the opportunity).
This clip doesn’t have the best sound, with the wind blowing, but we’re so very impressed by how Crenshaw carries herself.
THIS is the sort of person we want sent to Springfield to clean up the mess the Democrat machine and Republican establishment has made there.
We need more Moms in elected office, folks.
We need people who understand the REAL impact government economic policies have on REAL families.
Crenshaw’s at only the beginning of her political career…but it is our deepest and most sincere hope that the woman in this video is a future United States Senator. We know the GOP establishment’s plan is to run Aaron Schock against Dick Durbin in 2014, but we’d like to see someone like Crenshaw take on Durbin instead.
Because we bet she’ll win…is she stays the course, keeps being as effective as she is now, and only improves with time.
Just imagine how great this country would be in the future if conservatives sought out and supported conservative MOMS like Cedra Crenshaw coast to coast.
Momma Grizzlies all the way, people.
Someone we think is from an old Sandra Bullock movie is accusing Governor Sarah Palin of being anti-gay…and now we're involved too, apparently
We’ve never heard of this person, but there’s apparently a woman named Ruth Marcus at the Washington Post who’s allowed to bang her head against one of the typewriters, “just to see what comes out”. Occasionally, this dinosaur paper prints some of her missives (when there aren’t any drawings from elephants at the zoo that need to be published).
In doing this, she’s concocted a rambling, bizarre, indictment of Governor Sarah Palin that attacks her for swinging one of her Momma Grizzly paws in the general direction of Vanity Fair magazine, for the ludicrous, chock-full-of-lies piece it did on her recently (which relied heavily on not just anonymous sources, but “whispering coming from under the sink, late at night, after taking lots of the red pills”).
The first thing about all of this that comes to mind, of course, is the old Sandra Bullock movie, “The Net”, which features a character named Ruth Marx, who is evil, and tries to steal our Sandy’s identity (because Sandy worked from home, was some sort of computer genius, ordered pizza off the computer like 15 years before anyone else could, and didn’t talk to any of her neighbors). Marx gets the neighbor, Mrs. Kravitz, in on the act, and she basically accuses Sandy of being a witch, because she’s never seen her since she doesn’t have to go outside due to the fact she works from home and has all that pizza delivered via computer.
We love that movie. Especially at the end when Sandy goes all Palin on the bad guys and decimates them. Go, Sandy, go!
Ruth Marx we can do without, though, in real life as much as the movie.
The author of the Vanity Fair piece is a guy named Michael Gross, but he’s not the bearded Michael Gross from Family Ties who then went on to make those movies about evil, giant worms that terrorize people in the desert. This is ANOTHER Michael Gross, who actually IS gross. He’s the one the cleaning products whisper to at night, who wrote that article for Vanity Fair that was filled with so many lies that DEMOCRATS actually have come out to eulogize VF as now being completely and utterly irrelevant (and, at our last count, being comprised of about 15 pages of actual content…with the rest of its heft being an ever-dwindling supply of glossy advertisements).
Michael Gross is gay (once again, not the guy from Family Ties, though ironically enough the mom from the same show, Meredith Baxter, IS a recently out and proud lesbian) and Ruth Marx is claiming that Governor Palin insulted him by saying he was “impotent, limp, and gutless”. Which he totally is.
Ruth Marx says that’s a pejorative against gays, because she hears “limp-wristed” where Palin said limp…in the way Maureen Dowd imagines people add “BOY!” to any criticism against the current “president”, particularly if said criticism is leveled by Representative Joe Wilson at a State of the Union address.
FreeRepublic ran a blurb about all of this, and we just find it amusing that we’re quoted on there in defense of Governor Palin.
We’re going to tell you all something, and we want this to be abundantly clear — we stand with Governor Palin in all that she does, all that she hopes to do, so long as we believe she has the best interests of this country in her heart and she continues to fight for Americans in every way she knows how.
If any of us believed Governor Palin was anti-gay, we’d seek her out and have a sit-down with her and set her straight, no pun intended. Being prejudiced against gays is antithetical to everything the Governor stands for. A woman who is anti-government encroachment into the lives of Americans does not support the invasion of personal privacy that comes with anti-gay prejudice. Governor Palin has consistently stood up for the rights and liberties of all her constituents during her time in elected office — and yes, even the gay ones — and we see her on peer with former Vice President Dick Cheney as one of the Republicans we trust most when it comes to defending gay people against all bullies, wherever they may be found (hint: they’re usually on the Left, funded by the DNC, and not on the Right where state media tells you they are…Fred Phelps, the most gay-hating closet case in the known universe is a Democrat).
Here in Boystown, we’re all bombarded by irrational typewriter-head-bangings like those lobbed by Ruth Marx, because the Left is deliberately putting out a meme that Governor Palin is the second coming of Anita Bryant (the gospel-singing-whackadoodle and foil for Harvey Milk, not the place that Oprah shops).
Last week, K. was confronted by a random guy named Keifer in the Holiday Club because Keifer recognized him from TV and went on a wild tear about how “Sarah Palin is coming to get us”.
K. explained to Keifer that he’d met Governor Palin on several occasions, she knew who he was and that he’s “a Chicago gay activist” (according to columnist Andy Martin here in Chicago, who enjoys writing that about once a month or so), and Governor Palin — shockingly — made no moves “to get him”.
There was no abduction.
K. wasn’t bonked on the head and taken to Alaska.
Governor Palin didn’t make so much as a mean face.
Instead, she was welcoming, charming, and appreciative of the support she gets here at HillBuzz. That day, Governor Palin also met Joaquin from this site, and she didn’t try to “get him” either. Joaquin was so excited to meet the Governor and shake her hand that he forgot his own name, and the Governor didn’t make fun of him, but patiently awaited the return of his mental faculties, shook his hand, and then promised us that she’d keep working hard for America and saying what needs to be said. K. told her to not listen to the RNC, the state media, or anyone else that tried to tell her not to run for president — and that we would be with her all the way doing whatever we could for her — and the Governor said, “Oh, I got THEIR number, alright”.
It would have been pure Heaven if she had added a “you betcha”, but we still walked away content in the knowledge that Governor Palin has absolutely no problem with gays…and that she’s very much running for President and is not going to let the RNC and GOP establishment put up a boring cucumbers-and-mayonnaise soggy sandwich impotent, limp, gutless Romney Republican to lose to Obama in 2012.
Mittens Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Mitch Daniels…all those guys ARE impotent, limp, and gutless.
Michael Gross (the writer, not the Keaton family patriarch) IS impotent, limp, and gutless.
If the males of the state media insist on using the pejorative “polarizing” for every female candidate they don’t like…while shoehorning into articles as many references to female politicians’ hair, makeup, and wardrobe as possible…exhausting every misogynistic and sexist attack they can…then we can all CERTAINLY refer to any man we please as being impotent, limp, and gutless.
Governor Palin is a hero of ours because she embraces truth and beauty and punches ugly square in the face.
And there ain’t NO BETTER place to punch a Soggy Sandwich male than below the belt, where all that limp is stored.
We’ve been actively backing Governor Palin since June of 2008, when we started advocating for her to become Senator McCain’s VP pick in the 2008 race. We know her heart, from reading everything we can about her, listening to all of her public remarks, and meeting her in person, and we can vouch that the woman possesses no prejudice…particularly none against guys like us.
We’re committed to doing everything we can possibly do to help make Governor Palin our 45th president. We surely would not be doing that if we felt she was “out to get us”. Unless she was “out to get us lemonade” or “out to get us sausage-and-marshmallow After School Special pizzas”.
We actually have a bizarre dream of Governor Palin coming to Chicago at some point, on a Monday, so we can take her to Sidetracks in Boystown for sing-a-long Showtunes night. She’d have a great time singing along, we bet, and all around her in the bar people’s heads would just explode. ”There she is! She’s here to get us! Oh, wait, she’s singing along to Barbara. She’s not getting anyone.” Though, it would be hilarious if she moved around the bar, grabbing random people, shouting “Gotcha! Got another one! Huntin’s real easy here! Bwahahahahaha!”.
If that night would ever happen, they’d have to recall all known copies of the dictionary so Webster’s could rewrite the very definition of AWESOME.
The Governor has a great sense of humor. She speaks her mind and does not hold back. These are things the Left has not had to really face in a Republican politician since Ronald Reagan.
And we’ve got news for Ruth Marx and everyone at the Washington Post and the rest of the dinosaur media: Governor Palin is better than Ronald Reagan at what she does. We’ve seen her up close, and she’s the real deal, folks.
And she’s got a bunch of gay guys here in Boystown that’s going to make sure they do everything possible to put her in the White House in two years.
You betcha.
QUESTION: Do you know why Glenn Beck's book "The Overton Window" has a male Statue of Liberty on the cover?
Click to embiggen...then explain what you see
Thinking about Halloween costumes this year, one of us wants to go as a male Statue of Liberty. Not a drag Statue of Liberty, but what the Statue of Liberty would have looked like if it was built male instead of female.
In looking for ideas image-wise online, we keep coming up with this “Overton Window” image from the Glenn Beck book.
Has anyone read this thriller?
Can you explain why Beck has a male Statue of Liberty on the cover? Is this part of the plot? Is the book set in an alternate dimension where the Statue of Liberty indeed was built male?
We’ve loved alternate history adventures ever since our good friend Abbey turned us onto the TV show Sliders and the book “The Two Georges” by Harry Turtledove and Richard Dreyfuss (of all people). That book was about a world where George Washington brokered a peace with King George that preserved the British Empire in North America and kept the thirteen original colonies from revolting. Chicago still exists in that alternate world, but it’s called Astoria…and you fly into O’Hare Airship Port on giant, luxury dirigibles.
Can someone give us a rundown of “The Overton Window” and let us know if it indeed is an alternate history…and if so, what’s the deal with the male Statue of Liberty?
TEA LEAVES: It will be over for the Obamas if we ever see an unflattering drag version of Michelle Antoinette
With all this material to work with (literally), it's surprising no drag performers we know lampoon our current First Spouse.
We started talking about this here at Buzzquarters after running a little piece on Halloween costumes earlier tonight — and it’s something that’s so obvious to us, but we realize our conservative, straight readers might not recognize the drag community as the cultural barometer that it really is.
We’re friends with all the major drag queens here in Boystown, knowing them as the larger-that-life characters that they are, but also as John, Robert, Jeffrey, Brian, you name it. Drag’s something that even a lot of gay people don’t quite “get”, and to be honest it took all of us a long time to get passed the surreality of it all. None of us have ever done drag, and none of us have ever dated a guy who performed in drag. We default to the old “if we wanted to date women, we’d date actual women” line, and cop to that, because there are limits to our open minds. In fairness, you can’t will yourself to be attracted to something you are not, and guys who perform in drag are a turnoff.
But, they are great as friends — and through those friendships we’ve seen that life is much harder for these guys than it is for the non-performing gays in Boystown. First off, drag performing is incredibly expensive, with every outfit requiring professional tailoring, hours of detail work, and then the regalia of jewelry, wigs, makeup, and other wallet-busters. But, more than that there’s all the grief these guys put up with for their art. And, yes, it really and truly is art, when done right, by guys who know what they are doing in creating their characters and illusions. These aren’t drunk frat boys dressing up as cheerleaders on Halloween; these are artists creating stage personas and intricate performances inspired by the strong personalities of women real and imagined. It takes a great deal of work to do drag…and the guys behind these divas sacrifice a lot to do what they do…so whenever we hear people in Boystown making fun of them, or putting them down in any way, we try to remember how much they suffer for their chosen art.
And remind ourselves that back in 1969, at Stonewall, the first guys with enough guts to stand up against the police, the bullying, and the harassment…and throw the first punches in what became a civil rights revolution that led to the creation of Boystown itself (and, subsequently, all our antics here)…were the guys in drag. The queens. Forever maligned and looked down upon, mocked, ridiculed, and ostracized (even in the gay community).
But, they were at the forefront of everything back then…and are routinely ahead of the game today.
So far, we’ve never seen a single queen, either here in Boystown or in any of the national gay papers we follow regularly, dress up as Michelle Antoinette.
We’ve suggested a “Michelle Antoinette” character to a black drag performer we know, who is down on his luck and always asking if we know any parties or events he could play at. We told him we bet we could get him booked as “Michelle Antoinette”, if he would create an act based on our spendthrift current First Spouse — and he refused.
He said he’d feel uncomfortable making fun of her, because she’s the first black woman to live in the White House, so he doesn’t want to be a race-traitor (his words, quoted exactly).
Even though he sees that he could make money by getting booked as “Michelle Antoinette”, dressed up as ridiculously as possible, channeling Omarosa, telling people at various events how “proud of you I am for the first time in my adult life”, this drag performer we know refuses to do it.
We’ve never seen a white drag performer go there either…probably because of the terror of being accused of working in black face. Two Halloweens ago a pair of guys here in Boystown dressed up as the Williams sisters and went out into the various bars — and they were asked to leave several places by security because someone deemed them offensive. These guys weren’t making fun of the Williams sisters, intentionally at least. They were skinny guys with braided wigs, matching tennis skirts and tops, holding racquets, with either “Venus” or “Serena” on their backs. The offensive part was that they used makeup to approximate the Williams sisters’ skin color…and in Liberal ranks anything that could possibly summon the Race Industry to protest, picket, and caterwaul gets censored immediately.
The reverse is not true, by the way. We’ve seen black guys dress up like the titular “White Chicks” characters from the Wayans brothers’ movie, to thunderous applause. We’re not advocating doing either of these things, or using them as costumes, but it’s interesting to note these sorts of inconsistencies…where no matter what a black person does, it’s applauded, just because they came and participated. Meanwhile, everyone must forever be on their toes lest they somehow open the door for a visit by Al Sharpton and the Race Industry boogeymen.
During the Bush years, we saw Laura Bush lampooned at Halloween. Since 2008, many guys have dressed up as Governor Palin. Here and there, we’ll see a drag Hillary Clinton. Once, we saw a drag Jackie Kennedy (tastelessly smeared in blood, with bits of boiled macaroni glued to her, wailing in the street and trying to climb atop the backs of cars).
Michelle Antoinette has made herself so ripe for parody — and yet, she’s culturally off limits in terms of drag renditions of her. Black gay men won’t go out as Michelle Antoinette because they don’t want to be “race traitors” and contribute to the mocking of the first black woman to live in the White House. White gay men won’t touch her (anymore than her husband does), because they can’t dress up as her without some color enhancement, and that’s a major no-no.
So, Michelle Antoinette gets off scot-free.
For now.
We don’t think this spell is going to last forever, but we doubt we’ll see Michelle Antoinette lampooned this Halloween.
We’ve said on this site many times that we believe SOMETHING is coming, SOMETHING Michelle will say or do, that will show her true colors to the nation. Once she crosses that line, and has her true “let them eat cake” moment, all bets are going to be off and the spell will be broken.
We’ll know the country is through with the Obamas when we start seeing drag versions of Michelle Antoinette, strutting her stuff, carrying on in public, reenacting whatever that “let them eat cake” moment was.
Only people who follow politics know about the “proud of my country for the first time” remark in Wisconsin in 2008.
Only those who read sites like this regularly are familiar with the nasty things Michelle Antoinette said about the Clintons during the election, or how she wanted to “scratch Bill Clinton’s eyes out”.
Only newshounds are following how much Michelle Antoinette spends of taxpayer money to gallivant around the globe enjoying the good life, hobnobbing with royalty, taking several vacations a month.
But, we feel, deep in our bones, that Michelle Antoinette will one day do something so stark and revealing of her true nature that the state media won’t be able to cover it up. It will go viral. She’ll become either a laughingstock or a point of national disgrace.
And the drag embargo will be lifted…with much fanfare.
It will be an “Oh no she didn’t” moment, with a chaser of “Hell to the no”, culminating in an “It’s on now, girl”.
In the drag world, names are made by being first with something. Being on that cutting edge. Shaping culture by reflecting these pop moments.
The queens have been in a holding pattern, trying their best to steer clear of mocking Michelle Antoinette…but if she does have a “let them eat cake” moment, just wait for the scramble of sequins and feathers that will fly in the mad dash to be the DEFINITIVE Michelle Antoinette impersonator.
We’re not at that point…yet…but we’ll keep watching the drag scene here for any crumb of metaphoric cake.
ADDENDUM from CtH: Click each to embiggen.
IDEAS NEEDED: How would you interpret "Little Shop of Horrors" as the 2010 Boystown Halloween Parade Theme?
George Soros. In the single most flattering photo we have ever seen of the super villain.
Today we learned from someone on the Merchant’s Association board that the theme for Boystown’s Halloween parade is going to be “Little Shop of Horrors”.
Last year’s theme was “Alice in Wonderland”, which leant itself to a wider array of interpretations than Little Shop does, at first blush, anyway.
Obviously, we’re going to stay away from doing any of the main characters in Little Shop…because hundreds of other people will do those, and we don’t want to be repeats. Drag performers will have fun being Audrey, no doubt…or the three backup singing Supremes-esque girls who followed the main cast around.
“Little Shop of Horrors” can have all sorts of other meanings, we bet, if people get creative enough and think beyond the movie musical and stage show.
Frankly, Congress, as it exists right now, is a Little Shop of Horrors. As is the current White House.
More like Little Shop of Soros, but you get the drift.
Our gut is to just ignore the parade theme and do what we wanted to do for Halloween, and that’s to go with something patriotic.
Anything colonial-inspired can do double-duty throughout the year for Tea Party events…or events during the 2012 campaign.
What we’d really like to come up with would be a great Alaskan-themed costume…that can, of course, be used during Governor Palin’s presidential run too.
We are all about the multi-purposing with the costumes.
Any idea on how you would interpret the Little Shop theme…or what you think the big Halloween costumes will be this year?
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So, help us…we also kind of want to do a riff on Obama’s whole Hope! Change! Unicorns! bit and pull off something like this, too:
Too gay, even for Boystown?
Only, with real pants instead of the chaps, and much more clothing in general considering how cold Chicago is in October.
And, really, we also just wanted an excuse to run what’s clearly one of our favorite photos again.
But…what other great costumes can you think of that would lampoon the Obama Administration and Democrats in general?
Halloween is just three days before the election…so it could be a fun way to inspire a few voters here and there…or demoralize the Lefties by subtly rubbing their failures in their faces.
Vetting Allen West as a VP choice for Sarah Palin in 2012
Can't you just see West, his wife Angela, and daughters Aubrey and Austen campaigning at events with the Palins? They would be incredible on stage together.
Last night, we ran into a friend who’s very active in Democrat politics here in Illinois…and we started talking about Democrats’ reliance on the black vote…and how black voters are, bar none, the absolute most racist in the country.
Black voters supported Obama at a 90%+ margin in 2008. No other voting bloc in history has ever broken along those tight racial lines before. Black people look at a candidate’s skin before they look at anything the candidate has ever said or done. It’s shameful, but it’s true.
That’s what makes Allen West such an interesting VP pick for 2012.
We think, and our friend agrees, he could very well cost Democrats a nice percentage of the black vote…because with a black VP, a lot of blacks will say “we win either way” and sit home on election day, if not vote for West himself.
Especially if West continues doing what he’s always done: calling the black community out for supporting the likes of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Henry Gates, and other race hustlers. West does this in the way Bill Cosby does, delivering tough love where it’s needed, and repeatedly scolding the black community for living as pets of the Democrat party, never taking responsibility for their own communities and moving forward to become entrepreneurs, hard workers, and business owners in their own right.
What would happen to Obama’s electoral fortunes if he scores only 85% of the black vote, instead of 90%?
What happens if having Allen West on the Republican ticket as Governor Palin’s VP also causes white liberals to sit home, too, giving Obama 5% less of these people as well?
The historic and unprecedented “first black VP” combined with the historic and unprecedented “first female President” could do a world of damage to Obama’s re-election bid.
Before we get too far into thinking about this, we’d like to know how Allen West would do in the VP vetting process.
Is there anything from his past that could hurt him?
We admit to not knowing a great deal about the man, but we love everything we have seen so far. If he’s allowed to be himself — and we can’t imagine Governor Palin preventing this — West could really hit Democrats hard and shake a great many people’s beliefs down to their foundations.
He’s probably the Democrats’ nightmare VP candidate because he could do so very much damage to the DNC’s voting-bloc makeup, just by being himself, and telling it like it is.
George Soros declares open war on Tea Party; Americans need to declare open war on George Soros
Most Americans have no idea who George Soros is. That’s one of the reasons Soros has been allowed to manipulate America the way he does: he’s a James Bond villain without the corresponding movies that allow the American people to see what he’s up to.
Soros has now announced that he’s declaring open war on the Tea Party movement.
Since 70% of Americans share at least some Tea Party sentiment, this means Soros has now declared open war on 70% of the American people.
This will not end well…for George Soros.
Especially not if the Tea Party itself responds in kind, and members spread the word to all Americans about the unnatural, undemocratic influence Soros has on the country.
We have a feeling in our gut that this could be a critical error on the part of Soros. By attacking a grassroots, inherently American, revolutionary movement, Soros might just draw more attention to himself than he’s ever drawn before. With the things he’s always up to, that’s going to be bad for Soros.
But, good for America if people finally wake up and demand Democrats own up to everything Soros has a hand in.
