Archive for September 25th, 2010
HillBuzz on the Radio: The Megan Fox Show, 11pm EST/10pm CST tonight!
We’re going to guest on The Megan Fox Show tonight, at 11pm EST/10pm CST.
The topic will be “Operation Samantha Stevens” and what the Left has been doing to Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell, joining forces oddly enough with the Cocktail Party GOP establishment to keep this Tea Party-backed woman from being elected Senator.
If there’s time we might even get to talk about Brian Austin Green a little as well (kind of had a crush on him in high school).
Join Megan’s chat and be sure to listen to the show!
LeNa JaBrowski engaged in full-court aggressive publicity press for her write-in campaign
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Ophelia Goodies, famed Boystown drag queen, has taken on the role of LeNa JaBrowski’s press secretary in her doomed write-in campaign for the Senate in Alaska. ”Hey, it’s a job, and those are hard to come by these days. Besides, you can’t do drag for over thirty years and not be accustomed to dealing with delusional princesses and queens who just won’t get off the stage no matter how sad and sorry they are, how loud people are booing them, or even when the music’s stopped and people are packing up to go home. So, if Miss LeNa’s going to make a damn fool of herself, who am I to stop her?”
Ophelia’s been keeping us plugged into the latest absurdities emanating from JaBrowski Campaign Headquarters (the rear seating area of the Arby’s on Muldoon Road in Anchorage, where the curly fries are always crisp and the Jamocha shakes are “to die for”).
Today she sent us a new blast of the most recent publicity shots LeNa JaBrowski has taken, in her door-to-door push to convince Alaskans to write her name on their ballots on November 2nd.
“Not your bottoms, dummies, your BALLOTS. Write my name on your BALLOTS, and make sure to spell it right. L-E-N-A-J-A-B-R-W-S-K-I. Spell it right!”
Whatever Ophelia sends us, we’ll dutifully pass on to you!
Michelle Antoinette Gives UN Dignitaries Things She Didn't Want From Her Potemkin Garden
Where did all these vegetables come from...and why are they all the things we imagine Michelle doesn't like or want?
Here’s the gift baskets that Michelle Antoinette gave to dignitaries at the UN on her recent visit to New York, accompanying Dr. Utopia to a meeting there.
First off, we need to acknowledge that Michelle gave people something…which is an improvement on her usual behavior.
Giving people a picnic basket when the summer is over is strange, but it’s a quality basket, and someone on the staff of each dignitary will most likely have this re-gifted to them so someone will use it as a hamper or wastebasket, we’re sure. It won’t, like the iPod (full of Obama talking) Michelle gave Queen Elizabeth II and the DVDs the Obamas gave Gordon Brown (who is blind, and can’t watch TV, especially because the videos were the wrong region-coding to play in England), go to complete waste.
But the choice of contents for the baskets is strange: it sure sounds like things Michelle Antoinette doesn’t like and wants to get rid of.
Sort of like when someone comes over and mentions today is his birthday, when you had no idea and weren’t prepared. Unless you are someone who keeps gender-neutral, non-perishable “emergency presents” in the closet for just such an occasion (or, for when you yourself get sad and need cheering up…since after a while you forget what’s in each of the wrapped boxes and can enjoy a surprise too), you race through the upstairs looking for something you don’t especially like that you can give to your guest as a “reasonable” gift.
It’s the thought that counts, right?
Inside the basket, Michelle Antoinette (not personally) put tomatoes, some bell peppers, pickled okra, carrots, cucumbers, and herbs…all supposedly from her “organic miracle garden” at the White House.
When we were in DC for the Restoring Honor rally, we went to the White House specifically to see if we could have a look at this “garden”.
What we found was a tiny plot of land that looked like no one had particularly been there in a while…and the White House lawn looked DREADFUL.
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If the White House grounds team can't manage to keep the grass alive, we have a hard time believing they are capable of generating massive produce yield from Michelle's "organic garden"
We just have a hard time believing the same grounds crew that can’t seem to keep the White House lawn looking good is able to turn that “organic garden” of Michelle’s into a magic cornucopia of reliable gift-basket generating proportions.
The whole thing is so strange to us, but like we said at the top, at least Michelle Antoinette gave those people in New York SOMETHING.
She most likely received all manner of personally selected, meaningful and historic, one-of-a-kind original presents from everyone she met at the UN…while she had Reggie Love or whomever hand people these baskets of pickled okra they didn’t want, claiming “I grew that”.
Sure you did.
Whatever you say, lady.
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UPDATE: We have to show you the Longaberger Headquarters in Ohio…which is, in our opinion, the coolest building in all of Ohio.
Longaberger is the company that made the baskets that Michelle Antoinette gave away at the UN.
We’re curious now if the company was forced to donate the baskets, or if the Obamas paid for them.
Is Longaberger getting product placement in the White House gift shop for this…or was it a call that went something like “we need baskets, and you don’t need an audit”.
It reminds us of the times the White House makes pizza parlor owners in Missouri or wherever fly down to Washington and make their pies for Obama, because even though he has Cristeta Comerford working for him as his personal chef, with her entire staff, he needs to spend taxpayer money flying in random people to serve him.
Does anyone out there work for Longaberger who could find out if they did indeed donate the baskets…and if the baskets are for sale in DC now…and if there’s a special write-up about all of this in the Longaberger newsletter…because we want to know if the canned produce came from Longaberger too, as that looks like their jars, and they do sell canned vegetables matching the description of those “organic” Michelle Antoinette-grown wares.
Jon Stewart is a sad, sad clown
h/t shortermer
Here’s a fun graphic a reader sent in, inspired by Jon Stewart’s appearance on O’Reilly last night. Laura Ingraham called him a “sad clown”, because Dr. Utopia is failing so badly in the White House, his presidency is crumbling, and he’s leading Democrats to a midterm election that will be the biggest political disaster for a party since 1896.
Yesterday, his cohort in shenanigans, Stephen Coldbear, made an absolute ass of himself at a Congressional hearing and humiliated the Democrats who invited him to testify (as a migrant worker, no less). Stewart and Coldbear will join together the day before Halloween to make further asses of themselves at the Lincoln Memorial, where they will attempt to make fun of the Restoring Honor rally we went to last month.
These guys are ridiculous, but not in the way Comedy Central wants or needs.
BUMPED: Big Bird tells it like it is on Sesame Street — you really need to watch this, because it's very funny
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Someday, our most sincere wish is to have the skills to create things like this.
Hopefully, before 2012, because we need conservatives nationwide to get crash courses in manipulating video and making little bits like the above that take viewers by surprise and deliver the message in the most thought provoking and original way possible.
It is how we will defeat the Left, by using their best skills and tricks against them.
Just imagine how great the Tea Party could be if the Resistance acquired the tech, graphics, editing, and humor skills to surpass the Left in all things hip, savvy, and fun.
INPUT NEEDED: Help us tweak this "How to use Gravatar" graphic and instructions so that it's fool-proof
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At least once a day, someone tells us they don’t know how to use Gravatar to get a free avatar for commenting on posts.
We had Chrissy-the-Hyphenated make the graphic above, and she even created a thread talking about the step-by-step instructions for getting avatars.
But, people keep saying “it’s too complicated”, “I don’t understand”, and “I need better directions”.
Some people have excellent skills at writing training materials and teaching others how to do things.
We’d like some of you to step forward here and write up easy to follow, step by step, instructions for getting an avatar at Gravatar.
Those of you who had trouble understanding how to do this, please chime in and write down what you were doing wrong, or what was hard for you to understand. That insight and feedback could be the key to making a set of instructions for this that everyone can follow…so we don’t hear “it’s too complicated” anymore.
The reason we keep bringing this up is that you have no idea how much easier avatars make handling the comments for this site. They literally saved us hours a day when sorting out the spam that comes in. We want to keep moving towards the day when we no longer have to read what’s in the spam filters, but just start visually scanning it and deleting everything that doesn’t have an avatar attached to it automatically. Then, all we need to do is a quick double-checked of the avatar comments left to make sure no spam bots have snuck through with avatars, and we’re done with comment moderation.
THAT will then eliminate the other major point of frustration around here, which are the comments some of you leave complaining about something not posting immediately, or “gremlins eating things”. Being able to sort through the comments visually means we can sort them almost instantly…which means anything caught in spam would be freed much faster if everyone commenting had an avatar. People would then not be frustrated because their comments would get through faster, and we’d be so much happier since we’d never have to again see those complaints about “something not getting posted” or “something being eaten”.
Please get an avatar.
And please help us help others get one by using this thread to write up YOUR best instructions for how to do this, so we can tweak the above graphic so that it’s impossible for someone to not understand.
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Here’s a great Gravatar tutorial from Val Taylor…trust us…she’s a great teacher and has a terrific, cheerful voice that walks you through this with ease:
MAKE THIS AD HAPPEN: Carl Paladino standing before the Ground Zero Victory Mosque site, surrounded by construction workers, saying HELL NO, THIS WON'T BE BUILT
*** Here’s Carl Paladino talking about the government officially recognizing the radius of where the WTC’s dust cloud reached as being the site of human remains, since the cremated and vaporized bodies of those in the Twin Towers pushed the remains into the crevices, nooks, and edges of buildings that were pelted by that cloud. We remind you that this site’s dear friend Jane’s body was never found, and is part of the remains we’re talking about. No mosque should be built on land where Jane’s remains could be, not after Muslims murdered her nine years ago and Muslims today wish to build this sick and twisted monument to conquest. Not on our watch. Not on yours either, we hope. ***
We want you to commit to a mission — something we believe can net conservatives the Governorship and at least one Senate seat (but probably both of them) in New York state.
Carl Paladino, the Republican nominee for Governor in New York, needs to make a TV commercial hitting the Democrats hard for their support of the Ground Zero Victory Mosque. This is something the Cocktail Party GOP establishment is skittish about, because the media will HOWL and RAGE at Paladino for doing this…because Democrats strongly support building the Ground Zero Victory Mosque and call anyone opposed to it a bigot, a RAAACIST, and any other vile thing they can think of. Republicans, traditionally, have been too terrified of Democrat name-calling and media disapproval to ever hit Islamization and those who support it hard…but we firmly believe New York voters are looking for a candidate for office who will stand up to this abominable project and directly commit to making sure the Ground Zero Victory Mosque is never built.
Here’s the ad we want Paladino’s team to create:
* Paladino walking on the street in lower Manhattan, talking about the Ground Zero Victory Mosque project. It’s a shot of him, in a shirt and tie, no jacket, telling voters that Cordoba House, the shell company behind the Ground Zero Victory Mosque, takes its name from Cordoba, Spain — where a massive mosque was built to tower over the site of a battle in which Islam claimed a conquest. Cordoba is known throughout Islam as the westernmost push Muslims ever made in conquering the West. This name was deliberately chosen by the people behind the Ground Zero Victory Mosque, just as the site for this mosque was deliberately picked because it is where part of the second jetliner’s landing gear hit after it was plowed into Tower Two of the World Trade Center.
* As Paladino walks, he’s joined by New Yorkers…families and friends of those who were murdered by Islam on 9/11. Paladino continues speaking, and tells voters that the people personally affected by the 9/11 attacks do not want Islam to build a symbol of conquest at Ground Zero. Paladino, with the 9/11 families behind him, holds up a map of lower Manhattan that shows all the buildings that filed insurance damage claims because of the 9/11 attacks…it is a very large circle, where remains were found and the cremated ashes of victims were scattered. This area clearly includes the Ground Zero Victory Mosque site.
* As Paladino and the others walk down the street, more and more people join them…business people, merchants, cab drivers, children, firemen, cops, you name….Paladino tells voters that Andrew Cuomo, Kristen Gillibrand, and Chuck Schumer all back the Ground Zero Victory Mosque…and that President Obama is one of the most eager and enthusiastic supporters of building this mosque at Ground Zero.
* Paladino and the others reach a crowd of construction workers in their hard hats. They are standing in front of the site of the Ground Zero Victory Mosque. He comes before them and he tells the construction workers that New Yorkers don’t want this Ground Zero Victory Mosque built. He asks them if the construction workers of New York want to build a symbol of Islamic conquest on the grave of so many New Yorkers who died nine years ago when those planes were flown into the World Trade Center. The construction workers shout, HELL NO.
* “HELL NO”, Paladino says, directly into the camera, as the construction workers mix with the rest of the crowd and they all surround Paladino.
“Hell no, as your Governor I will dedicate myself to preventing this abomination from being built at Ground Zero and will use the weight of my office and every agency at my disposal to see to it that the Cordoba House project is prevented from victimizing the families of 9/11 survivors again. As your Governor, I believe the people behind this project need to show tolerance and sensitivity to the people of New York who were forever changed that horrible day nine years ago when 3,000 New Yorkers were murdered not far from here. I’m here today saying what needs to be said, while Democrats in the White House and here in New York are siding with the builders of this Ground Zero Victory Mosque. Well, I say this ain’t right, this ain’t respectful, this ain’t the way we should do things in America and as your Governor I’m going to listen to the people and put an end to this madness. I’m Carl Paladino, and if you make me your Governor, I’ll make sure this Ground Zero Victory Mosque is never built”.
We don’t think we’ve ever seen an ad like this…because, as we’ve said, Republicans have always been so scared of fighting back and hitting hard. If Paladino made this ad, here’s what would happen:
* Instantly, the media would excoriate Paladino. They’ll call him a RAAACIST. And a bigot. The talking heads on all the news networks would run the ad over and over again, each time with new experts telling viewers how despicable “Crazy Carl” is for doing this. George Will will scoot his glasses high up near his brow and articulate a thesis on Paladino being a Cro-Magnon. Bill O’Reilly will hate the ad, and call Paladino “Crazy”. Blah blah blah. The end result will see the ad airing, for free, almost nonstop for probably a full news week.
* Paladino’s ad will make him a household name coast to coast, and will definitely get him on the lips of all New Yorkers. We think New Yorkers will, in fact, love the ad. Because New Yorkers by and large agree that Ground Zero Victory Mosque should not be built. Most New Yorkers don’t know the significance of the name “Cordoba House” or that Islam dictates a mosque needs to be built on ground conquered from an enemy, where blood has been spilled, and where the weapons of Islam have damaged an enemies’ structures. Once people hear this, and learn what’s behind this project, they will be horrified. Once horrified, when they see that Democrats support this project, there is no way in Hell they are going to vote Democrat this year. Paladino’s ad, when played nationally, could very well help Republicans coast to coast.
* The Cocktail Party establishment in the GOP is so terrified of upsetting the Media and “giving them ammunition” to say terrible things about Republicans. For too long, the GOP has not pushed hard on issues like this because they’ve been scared of a blowback from the press. Great Merciful Zeus, don’t you see that’s exactly what you want here? The more the Left and Democrats try to demonize someone like Paladino for fighting this Ground Zero Victory Mosque with everything he’s got the more the media will make Paladino a champion of the people…because the people do not want this mosque built. Democrats, in pushing for this mosque, will reveal just how out of touch with both voters and reality they are. The end result will be a gaping chasm between Democrats and the electorate.
* We believe this chasm is waiting to form…and voters want it to form…but it just needs an earthquake triggered by something like Paladino’s ad in New York state. Voters need to be angry with Democrats. They need to lash out emotionally at them at the ballot box. An ad like the one we suggest would accomplish this, because New Yorkers for the most part feel this way…they just need license to vocalize what they are feeling.
Families sitting around the TV watching this ad will start talking about it. Things they might not have said to each other will bubble to the surface. They will be disgusted that Democrats want to build this mosque at Ground Zero. They will be revolted that Democrats are siding with Islam against the 9/11 Families. They will be angry that Democrats and the media attack Carl Paladino for telling the truth.
When it’s time to vote, these people will line up bright and early to vote Democrats out of office…and we think those lines will extend coast to coast.
This is a ballsy, in your face, take no prisoners ad…at a time when Americans are desperate for ballsy, in your face, take no prisoners people to win elected office and kick ass big time in state houses, governors’ mansions, and Congress.
Chime in with what you think.
We’d love help storyboarding and piecing this ad together.
If anyone is in New York and can get this directly to Paladino, we’d appreciate it…because if he did this, Andrew Cuomo would go absolutely insane. Democrats would LOSE IT, and would more likely than not do something stupid and self-destruvtive in response. Paladino wouldn’t just win the election…he’d win it BIG.
We don’t think we’re wrong here, but if you’re in New York, especially, let us know how you think this would go over.
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UPDATE: H/t Davette for writing the above idea up as a script. Can anyone storyboard the visuals on this for us with photoshopped images to complement the setting we’ve established and depict Paladino and those around him the way we’ve envisioned?
EXT. LOWER MANHATTAN – DAY
Paladino, dressed in a shirt and tie, sleeves rolled up, walks alone down the street in lower Manhattan.
PALADINO
(directly into camera)
In 784 AD a massive mosque was built to tower over a battle site where Islam claimed a conquest. It was in Cordoba, Spain, which is known throughout Islam as the furthers conquest Muslims made in the West.
People start filtering into the shot behind him as Paladino walks. These are the families and friends of 9/11 and Ground Zero victims, some of them, such as Debra Burlingame, recognizable.
PALADINO (CONT’D)
The name, Cordoba House, was deliberately chosen by the people behind the Ground Zero Victory Mosque, just as the location for this mosque was deliberately picked because it is the site where part of the second jetliner’s landing gear hit after it plowed into Tower Two of the World Trade Center.
An increasing number of people, cops, firefighters, mothers with children, etc., join in walking behind Paladino as he advances through the street. One of the recognizable victims walks at his left shoulder.
PALADINO (CONT’D)
Most of the people whose loved ones were murdered in the attack do not want Islam to build a symbol of conquest at Ground Zero.
Paladino continues walking, holding up a map of lower Manhattan showing all the buildings that filed insurance claims due tot he attack. A large circle shows where remains were found and the cremated ashes of the victims were scattered. The Ground Zero Victory Mosque is clearly indicated within the circle.
PALADINO (CONT’D)
Andrew Cuomo, Kristen Gillibrand, and Chuck Schumer all support the Ground Zero Victory Mosque. President Obama is one of the most enthusiastic supporters of building this mosque. All in the name of “fairness”.
Paladino and the crowd approach a number of construction workers in hard hats standing in front of the proposed site for the Mosque.
PALADINO (CONT’D)
(to the workers)
Most of these people do not want the Victory Mosque built here. Do you want to build a symbol of conquest on the grave of the many New Yorkers who died here nine years ago?
CONSTRUCTION WORKERS
(shouting)
Hell, NO!
Paladino turns back to the camera as the construction workers join the crowd behind him.
PALADINO
Hell, no!
Rudy Giuliani and Ed Koch join Paladino behind his right shoulder.
PALADINO (CONT’D)
As your Governor I will dedicate myself to preventing this abomination from being built at Ground Zero and will use the weight of my office and every agency at my disposal to assure that the Cordoba House project is prevented from victimizing the families of the 9/11 survivors again. I believe the people behind this project need to show tolerance and sensitivity to the people of New York who were forever changed that horrible day. I’m saying what needs to be said, while the Democrats and the White House are siding with the builders of this mosque.
Close in on Paladino.
PALADINO (CONT’D)
I say that ain’t right, it ain’t respectful, and it ain’t the way we should do things in America. As your Governor I’m going to listen to the people and put an end to this madness. I’m Carl Paladino, and if you make me your Governor I’ll make sure this Ground Zero Victory Mosque is never built.
