Archive for September 21st, 2010
Dancing with the Stars Week One Results Watch Thread
If you’re watching the Dancing with the Stars Week One results show, have at it in this thread.
We want to know how Bristol Palin did in her dancing debut.
Post your take on the show…and the results here.
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Bristol is back for another week…which we expected.
Now, we’d like to know how many votes she got.
We’re not a fan of Dancing with the Stars, but love Bristol, so we plan on pushing for votes for her and following her on this show for as long as she keeps dancing. We’re very proud of this young lady for taking this big chance and putting herself out there like this. She’s very brave, elegant, and it sure looks like she’s having fun.
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Now he can haz cheezburgers…goodbye David Hasselhoff. You would have won if this had been Germany…where, evidently, you are still the biggest star that ever was…dignity or not.
Great Merciful Zeus. Can you imagine if people had stood up to the Left like Andrew Breitbart all this time?
Here’s Andrew Breitbart confronting the paid, staged mob of uninformed Leftist protestors outside the Right Nation event in Chicago this weekend.
First of all, we’ve said it before, but we’ll say it again, Andrew Breitbart is a national hero and a personal inspiration to all of us here. He has a lot of guts, a loud voice, and loads of courage. Though ridiculous in the extreme, the Left is actually very scary to go up against head-on. Because the majority of them are unthinking, have few scruples, and enjoy inflicting damage on others, whenever you are targeted by them you can expect a barrage of jabs, cuts, and slights whenever the Left decides to target you and put word out to its orcs, trolls, and other minions that you are to be victimized.
Instead of just taking this, the way conservatives have always done in the past, Breitbart not only fights back…but he goes right up to these raving idiots and asks them what they are shouting about.
In the clip above, there are scores of black people there, holding signs, giggling and chanting along to the rhymes being fed to them by a man with a bullhorn. Look at their eyes. Glazed over, expressionless…they have no idea where they are, what they are doing, or what their signs mean.
When you look at the handwriting on the signs, you see they were all made by one or two people, tops. Then the signs were randomly handed-out to the crowd that was bused in. So, people holding signs did not make their own signs, and have no idea what they mean.
Breitbart goes up to these screaming and yelling buffoons and asks several of them what acts of hate they claim Glenn Beck committed…or why they think Glenn Beck is a coward, since that’s what their signs call him. The fools just stare at Breitbart, unable to come up with a single thing to justify why they are standing there calling Beck all these names.
And then, at about 3 minutes into this, a Leftist Democrat woman in a hideous orange-red trench coat gathers up the protestors and tells them to get away from Breitbart because he’s gay.
We wish.
Andrew Breitbart is rock star awesome. We wish he was gay.
Poppa Bear’s welcome in Boystown eight days a week.
Mmm, hmmm, that’s right.
But, wait a minute, why would that matter to a Democrat? Isn’t the Democrat Party supposed to be the only party gays are allowed to belong to? That’s what they keep telling us here in Boystown, anyway. That if you are gay, you must be a Democrat. Even if Democrats, like the low-rent Carmen Sandiego impersonator in the video above (getting the most wear possible out of her Halloween costume in this Depression), use “gay” as a pejorative slur against someone like Breitbart, whom they want to target, ostracize, polarize, and make ineffectual.
Next up, Breitbart asks a man holding a sign that reads “Beck = LIES” what Beck has lied about, and the mellow, trucker-type begrudges, “Prolly’ everything”.
It’s amazing to us these Leftists were able to carry around all those flags you see in the video, though, because honestly, we’ve always thought the flag to them was like a cross to vampires. Just look at how Obama has such a hard time putting his hand over his heart when the national anthem is played and doesn’t much enjoy looking at flags while it’s sung. Those flags must have burned all those protestors’ hands. Good thing there’s free Obamacare now and all those union benefits so they can get their paws taken care of back home, after they board their five big yellow school buses and head back to whatever staging ground the union picked them up at.
Andrew Breitbart really busted these people for astroturfing. When challenged, they crumpled up, their bluster collapsed, and ran away defeated.
He called for the woman in the ugly red-orange rain slicker to apologize for using homophobic slurs, but she refused, and Breitbart had to badger one union organizer calling himself Eugene Winkler to ultimately say “that was wrong” when pressed a half dozen times.
This should happen wherever the union thugs and Leftists go.
It’s time Americans stopped being afraid of these ignorant bullies.
They are very much like the Ku Klux Klan, these thugs. They hate indiscriminately, have no real reason why they do any of the absurd things they do, hide behind their signs like the KKK hid behind its hoods, and they crumple into the wind when people stand up to them and demand to know who they are, what they are up to, and what they really stand for.
The reason the Left, and the current Democrat Party, hate and fear Breitbart and the Tea Party so much is that combined these two are going to be their complete and utter destruction.
We hope we personally can do all we can to help.
Another political ad knocked out of the park by SarahPAC
For the first time in our adult lives, we can watch Republican political ads and cheer…relishing the fact that SOMEONE on the conservative side is doing EVERYTHING RIGHT.
For the entirety of our time following politics, we’ve seen all the creativity, passion, and fire on the Democrat side of the aisle…with the Cocktail Party GOP establishment consistently holding itself back, afraid to hit too hard, forever worried the media would chastise them if they spoke up too much or fought too effectively against the Left.
And then Governor Palin arrived on the scene…and the political world will never be the same.
Honestly, this remarkable woman is to conservative politics what Al Jolsen’s “Jazz Singer” was to motion pictures. She is an evolutionary leap forward.
For those of us who’ve sat back, cringing, every time a Republican candidate “took the high road”, “didn’t stoop to their level”, “went-along-to-get-along”, and all the rest, listening to Governor Palin is like hearing this loud, clear, almost magical voice rise up from the mute and thunder across the Great Plains.
FINALLY, at long last, a Republican who takes the fight to the Left and encourages every day Americans to join the political process for love of country.
That’s a marked change from the Cocktail Party GOP establishment, which preferred the public to remain on the sidelines, so only the VIPs and Super-Double-Plus-VIPs could attend the party, where these experts and poohbahs could make all the decisions and pull all the levers, knowing so much more than those Average Joes and Unwashed Janes.
Those days are over, Mittens Romney.
You can kiss that world goodbye, Tim Pawlenty.
You have only yourselves to blame, Republican National Committee.
Tea can see November, everybody.
People sure are interested today in how Bristol Palin did on Dancing with the Stars last night
Here’s our Search Terms report for today, listing the words the are bringing people over to HillBuzz from Google:
Click to embiggen 9/21/10 search results
It’s nice to know that in addition to being a source on how Bristol Palin did on Dancing with the Stars (short answer: she was great), we’re also a good reference for people needing a time machine.
“Michelle Obama’s hideous dress” is a fun one too. You could fill an encyclopedia with what we’ve written about the contents of her closets.
QUESTION: Was the woman who said she was "exhausted by defending Obama" really a White House plant?
Today, there’s a lot of speculation about whether or not the devastating “I’m exhausted” questioner at the recent Obama town hall event was a plant, who purposefully posed our illustrious current president a question about why he’s been such a colossal, exhausting disappointment.
Here’s our take on this, just from watching the footage, and putting the questioner into the context of every political event we’ve been to, including ones when we’ve been selected to ask questions.
We can’t think of a time — ever — when someone told us exactly what to say to a candidate or sitting political figure. We’ve never seen anyone handed a script, and have never handed out scripts when we’ve been hosting or working an event.
What happens is that someone on the event staff looks for someone in a crowd that seems favorable to the political figure…someone who is not going to do the figure damage and is most likely going to be a softball, innocuous question. If we were Obama’s advance team, the woman who asked the “exhausted” question is someone we would have easily pegged as being 100% pro-Obama.
Once identified, someone from the staff pre-interviews this person, and most likely asks the woman what she thinks of this or that and if she would like to ask the president a question. Sometimes, people are asked when they come into the event to think of a question and write it on a card, or to do this at home and bring a question in. If that’s the case, then the staff pre-approves the question and finds the person and then sets them up to ask the question at the event.
Here’s what we think happened with the woman in the video above:
(1) The Obama advance team spotted the woman and believed she was a full-on Obama supporter.
(2) The Obama team approached the woman, spoke to her, and clearly determined she was a bright, knowledgeable, well-spoken, and relatable educated woman who would be incredibly telegenic.
(3) After speaking with her and seeing she excelled at all the qualifiers for someone the team would want on camera, the Obama people probably asked her, in either a direct or roundabout way, if she was an Obama supporter. This is probably where things went awry for the Obama team, because the woman most likely said she was, and that she voted for him in 2008.
(4) At this point, we believe what happened was that the Obama advance person who selected this questioner failed to continue asking the “right questions” in her pre-interview. Thinking he/she hit the jackpot with this well-spoken and reasoned Obama supporter, we bet the advance person approved her for face time with the president on television without really pressing to see what she’d ask him.
(5) With these events, the advance people are always very careful about seeming like they are feeding people questions…because this could blow up in their faces big time if someone made a big deal about feeling “forced” to ask the president something that did not really come out of their own mouths. If these people were hired actors, that fact would also come out in the end, too, and that would be a bigger net embarrassment for the candidate than some random citizen asking something embarrassing in the first place. Can you imagine the PR damage it would cause the White House if it was revealed the people asking him questions were PAID ACTORS? Busing in union members is one thing. Democrats are expected to do that, but if it was revealed Obama was hiring actors to address him at a Town Hall, we think even the media’s love affair with Obama would wilt enough for them to cover a story like that…it’s a little to manufactured, Wag the Dog, and Hollywood for American voters to swallow…and the Democrats would receive a swift blowback because of this.
(6) No, we think the woman stated she was an Obama supporter but did not reveal her exhaustion and frustration in that pre-interview. The reason she got through to ask Obama what she did is because the advance team member who selected her to speak believed she’d be a softball setup for Obama to talk about whatever he wanted, after she gave him praise. Her measured, reasoned, and well-spoken telegenic volley towards him was received by Obama very much like he’d take a question from a student at the University of Chicago law school when he was a visiting professor there.
(7) Some people are remarking on the fact that Obama was so calm when he addressed her and did not seem surprised by the fact she felt “exhausted” defending him. To us, this is just his professorial nature coming to the fore. Obama taught first-years at University of Chicago. A good portion of those students have attitude, chips on their shoulder, and engage in constant pissing contests with classmates where they all try to prove how smart they are. One way to do that is to constantly try to trip up the professor, or be the one student that teacher ever had who finds some magical flaw in the lesson’s logic that’s gone undetected all the many years Constitutional Law was taught. If Obama spent more than two weeks in a first-year ConLaw class, he would have encountered enough students at U of Chicago to well-prepare him for a lifetime of listening politely to someone speaking without being visibly surprised by what the person says.
(8) The above is about as surprising to us as someone working the counter at McDonald’s being able to remember to ask a customer if he or she wanted fries with that. It’s on-the-job conditioned training based on numerous past experiences.
(9) At a couple events during the 2008 campaigns, all of us here at one time or another were “plant” questions in the sense that event organizers knew who we were and felt comfortable letting a mic go to us because we would not embarrass whomever was speaking. No one from the campaigns ever told us what to say, but they felt at ease we would not say anything damaging or make some sort of scene.
(10) So, based on our experiences, we really believe the woman in this video is for real…her concerns are real…and she did in fact take Obama by surprise, though his experience as a visiting law professor dealing with the occasional sharply-worded surprise question well-prepped him to handle himself in this particular town hall.
Multiple things we find absolutely hilarious this morning — you can join in too
Get your crayons out, and write Lena Jabrowski on stuff!
First up, in Alaska, Lena Jabrowski is really humiliating herself.
This is the damn fool (and spoiled child) who lost the Alaskan GOP primary and then decided to stage an elongated puppet show of a campaign, for her own personal amusement, the way HRH Princess Caroline of Kennedy on the Democrat side makes her Manhattan servants stage life-sized, Richard Pryor-esque versions of various classic board games, with live human toys as the pieces.
Princesses Lena and Caroline were given everything they ever wanted by their families, though Lena actually managed to get that Senate seat she always wanted, while Princess Caroline keeps complaining that “all (she) ever got was that lousy pony Macaroni” and “the creeps” from cousin William Kennedy Smith.
Lena Jabrowski, senior Senator of Alaska, is going around the state telling everyone to sharpen their best crayons so they can write her name on the ballot come November 2nd.
She’s conducting spelling bees from Anchorage to Juneau all the way up to the North Pole, trying to teach all the people who didn’t like her enough to vote for her when her name’s printed on things to vote for her now that they have to spell her name correctly (or draw an “accurate enough” picture of her (which can’t be a nude)).
L-E-N-A-J-A-B-R-O-W-S-K-I.
Make sure everyone in Alaska who wants to enable Princess Lena’s little puppet show spells her name JUST LIKE THAT so Lena Jabrowski has no problems at all with this Kennedy-esque lunatic write-in scheme.
Which is failing miserably, FYI, because the latest polls say Joe Miller is now in a double digit lead over whatever Democrat crazy person is running against him. With Governor Palin’s Alaskan supporters backing Miller, and only people who hate the Governor voting for the Democrat, this leaves us to wonder who outside the Jabrowski clan will be using their sparkly crayons to draw pictures of Princess Lena on their ballots.
“Be sure you spell it L-E-N-A,” Jabrowski shouts from a bullhorn as it winds its way through the streets of Juneau. ”If you write L-E-I-A by mistake, then that unstable Carrie Fisher nut with the cinnamon rolls stapled to her head might get to be Senator, and my family said I’M the only princess in Alaska…besides those Princess Cruise ships…but I’m still the only Princess that’s not a thousand ton boat, so what I wants, I gets. Hear that world, LENA JABROWSKI will triumph!”.
R-E-D-I-K-U-L-U-S.
Then, in New York, something almost as hilarious is happening.
The Cocktail Party GOP establishment in that state seemingly had zero interest in picking up the Senate seats and Governor’s mansion, for whatever absurd reason. They could have run Rudy Giunliani and George Pataki for the Senate, and they would have won…easily.
We’d never heard of the Tea Party-endorsed candidate, Paladino, that’s running for Governor but we have to say the man is beyond hilarious and he’s driving Prince Andrew Cuomo absolutely BONKERS.
He keeps hitting Cuomo with all sorts of jabs UNHEARD OF for a Republican to use in a race.
First, he called Cuomo a sissy…and keeps saying he should “be a man for once in his life”. Paladino makes fun of Cuomo for being a “little prince” and then rags on him for not agreeing to a debate, with all that political experience he has. Paladino actually said “The only debate I’ve ever been in is maybe in a bar”, and then asked what Cuomo was afraid of.
Oh, Great Merciful Zeus, Cuomo’s blood pressure went through the roof, he started throwing furniture around, and he kept shouting “Let me at ‘em, let me at ‘em” like he was an angry bulldog in an old Warner Bros. cartoon.
Paladino is so hilarious with this stuff that the New York media is calling him “Crazy Carl”.
This is exactly what Paladino needs to be doing.
For decades, voters have watched one boring, sorry, limp, impotent, Cocktail Party establishment-backed Romney Republican trot onto the state in his blue blazer and khakis and mumble a bunch of nonsense unenthusiastically afraid of upsetting the media or being too aggressive in pursuit of office in a blue state.
And for decades the Cocktail Party establishment has been fine with this, because they’ve never really cared about winning any races, and are just more content to sit around, drinking their scotch, eating their soggy cucumber-and-mayonnaise sandwiches on starched white bread and complaining about how spicy it all tastes.
Who wants to vote for THAT?
Bring on Crazy Carl and his to the point, accurate, jabs at the Democrats’ dynastic entitlement in states like New York.
And our favorite point of all: Paladino is going for Cuomo’s jugular for supporting the Ground Zero Victory Mosque.
This is something that Republicans need to run on in New York, and force Cuomo, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Chuck Schumer to repeatedly defend and praise as much as possible…because Democrats are insane if New Yorkers would send any of these clowns into office if Republicans can consistently show the three of them want that abomination built at Ground Zero.
The Cocktail Party would never get into this, because the Cocktail Party is most concerned with scoring points with the state media and eating their non-spicy, bland, sammiches.
But, this is the road to victory in New York, we are TELLING YOU.
Launching my daily column over at Conservatives4Palin today…please send me some prayers
Today, my first column has been posted over at Conservatives4Palin, because I feel called to speak directly to Governor Palin’s supporters, from the heart, and do all that I can to make sure the Cocktail Party Republicans don’t prevent the Governor from becoming the Republicans’ nominee in 2012…before becoming our 45th President after that.
I’ve been wanting to do this for a while, but two things made me reluctant:
(1) I didn’t want the C4P site to degenerate, with my every post, into another tirade either against Hillary Clinton or against me for being gay. So, I’ve been supplying the C4P writers with ideas, and the occasional HillBuzz piece, to try to mitigate the troll droppings that result from anything Hillary or gay-related on a conservative site. After attending the Restoring Honor rally, hearing Governor Palin speak, and then reading in various gay publications all the vile lies being told about the Governor by the Left, I knew I had to start writing in her support under my own name, as a gay man in Boystown who is among her most ardent and dedicated supporters. Come what may. Glenn Beck’s rally in Washington taught me that no matter how difficult the challenge you’re called to, you must rise to it if you know it’s the right thing to do. So, hence, this adventure begins.
(2) Selfishly, I’ve been concerned about what new fronts of attack the Left is going to wage against me, by directly writing under my name, instead of the umbrella that HillBuzz has always afforded me. By doing this for C4P, and by extension the Governor, I’m Belinda Carlisle going solo from the Go-Gos, on my own, without the other Boyz here backing me up.
That’s scary for me because of the vile attacks I receive from gay bloggers, especially, whenever I write personal stories from here in Boystown about the viciousness and irrationality of the Left when it comes to Governor Palin. There’s one site in New York, written by a middle-aged man named Joe, who enjoys calling me a “quisling” and running awful photos of me taken by French TIME magazine when they did a profile on me during the last days of the 2008 campaign (the French photographer, of course, being an Obama supporter and insisting on shooting her subject from below, while speaking, so that they are the worst photos possible of someone she had contempt for because he did not support Obama). I’m, frankly, not surprised by the pettiness of this blogger, but I’m stunned he knows the word “quisling”…since looking at him makes me believe he’s much more familiar with Quiznos than anything else. What wonders those word-a-day-calendars evidently work.
I’ve always had the choice, since the Left’s direct attacks on me personally via Daily Kos, DemocraticUnderground, and those petty gay sites, to either fold up our HB tent and shut up and go home or to keep writing, keep calling others to action, and to maintain this little beacon of sanity in a world gone mad under Leftist control. I always figured that if I held out long enough that I could ultimately find a vast network of fellow Americans who’d stand with me against the Left and together we’d lay the groundwork for a champion to rise in 2012 and take back the White House and our government from the radicals who control them now.
As I said in an essay earlier today here on HB, and in my introductory column over at C4P, I will always be haunted by the fact that I didn’t dream up a way for Hillary Clinton to win the 2008 nomination and become president. If I had only had something like HB back then, or the guts to speak out more and be as vocal as I am now, maybe I could have done something to stop all this. There are millions of us Hillary supporters coast to coast who feel this way — because the world would be a very different place today if Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton was our 44th president.
So, thinking back to the Restoring Honor rally, and the Americans who were honored and presented on stage there, I’ve decided to take that next bold step and stop paying the slightest attention to the attacks of the Left. Let them do their worst. Let them seek to destroy me for speaking my mind, voicing my opinion, and doing everything I can to give Governor Palin and her supporters the tools they need to defeat them. Let the Cocktail Party of the GOP establishment hit back at me too, because I want to see these Romney Guys brought down as much as I want the Left out of power.
I’m going to start contributing daily columns to a few other sites as well, wherever I think my perspective from here in Boystown can do some good. This, no doubt, will make life even more difficult for me on the ground here in Chicago…and on the Internet where the more personal and from the heart I get, the more I’m attacked and maligned.
So, I’m going to ask you all to say some prayers for me: for courage, wisdom, clarity, and guidance. I’m going to need you all to be big sisters, brothers, aunties, and uncles to me, and to become busy little bees for us at HillBuzz to go out into the world and bring us back as much information as you can about what’s going on in your parts of the country and what weaknesses the Left has that you can see. Just imagine if all of you lurkers turned into commenters…and instead of just reading content here every day you took the next step and became active researchers and activists in your own right….and instead of little bees bringing pollen back to a hive you brought sound ideas for defeating both the Left and the Cocktail Party GOP establishment here to HillBuzz.
Just imagine all the honey-sweet strategy and compelling essays we could craft with all that invaluable information and data.
I’m willing to put myself out there to a greater extent than ever before, starting today, and it scares the heck out of me, because I know just how vile the Left can be. I don’t want to, and really can’t, do this alone. I need that swarm of bees behind me all the way…with all your buzzes of information…and most importantly, your encouragement and emboldening prayers.
I’m one little guy from Cleveland with a very big mouth up against monstrous bullies all the way…but this needs to be done, and others need to follow me into the fray, so that the Left and Cocktail Party are defeated and we can, in 2013, return some sense of normalcy and sanity to this nation.
I hope you stand by me, friends, and send me those prayers. I sure need them.
K.D.
