Archive for November 17th, 2010
I think Willow Palin is great. I support her. And I think someone who was the target of rape jokes from David Letterman at the age of 15 deserves some slack, at the age of 16, for mouthing off on Twitter and Facebook.
The Huffington Post is trying to gin up another weird nontroversy against the Palin family. Must be Wednesday!
On Sunday, when the first episode of Sarah Palin’s Alaska aired, some very clearly jealous classmates of future First Daughter Willow started talking smack about the Governor, the Palin family, and the TV show.
So, Willow — and I do love this — smacked back hard.
She called the guys doing the Palin-bashing losers, called them “so gay”, and really let into all of them, hitting them all where it hurt most.
It’s actually pretty hilarious, because the girl has her mother’s ferocity and strong spirit.
HuffPo took a screengrab of the Facebook flame war that ensued between the teenagers, with Bristol and Willow tag-teaming the Hell out of a bunch of bullies and punks.
After one guy complained about the show, said it was terrible, and went on to say no one should watch it, Willow piped in and said, “Well, don’t watch it then, dumb shit. Oh and Matt, Your effin fat as Hell. Stfu”.
First off, I’m struck by how differently kids write today. It’s all abbreviations and odd spellings…so a very real, new language is developing just a decade or two below me, and that’s pretty scary. Will actual English soon look like Shakespeare compared to Twitter and Facebook-speak? I wonder.
But, then I get into reading what Willow wrote and I realize how big I’m smiling.
She reminds me a lot of myself, actually, because she really hits back hard whenever anyone attacks her.
She also, like me, needs to learn how to control those grizzly bear swipes.
Sometimes, when I am reading hatemail or the troll comments we get here at HB, I am very tempted to fire off responses similar to Willow’s to people. If it’s a bad day, and I’ve been reading hundreds of these nasty letters, sometimes I just crack and smack back hard at someone…and it might not have even been the worst of the hatemail that day…but it just was the one that broke my patience.
For that reason, I really try not to read the hatemail and let other people do that because I am too close to the target, since I am the target. It’s really never a good idea to respond to any of this stuff. And, at 33, being thrust into this weird circumstance where I get 1,200 emails a day from people all over the world, I’m learning how I should and should never respond to even the most vile things tossed my way.
Willow, Bristol, Track, and Piper are all having to learn how to deal with the hate that has been thrown at their family since 2008.
They all clearly love their parents very much, and vice versa. They also seem to be an extraordinarily tight sibling bunch…and they protect each other. They remind me of a big pack of huskies that are on a mission together in harsh climes…and the only way to survive is to band together and fight against the world.
You remember last summer when David Letterman told that joke about Alex Rodriguez raping Willow between innings at a Yankee’s game. Letterman later tried to claim he was making the joke about Rodriguez raping Bristol instead, but the only Palin daughter on that New York trip with the Governor was Willow. The joke made no sense if it was meant to be about Bristol, since Bristol was in Alaska at the time, and no matter how well-endowed Madonna claims A-Rod is, there’s no way he could have done anything to 18 year old Bristol. Then-15 year old Willow, a minor child, was the only person Letterman could have been making the rape joke about.
So, when I see the HuffPo lashing out at Bristol for smacking back against people attacking her family, I think about how it must feel to be a 16 year old girl who was brutalized by a 60 year old “comedian” on Late Night TV. That must have just killed her inside. And it also must have made her hyper-attuned to attacks coming her family’s way.
And we don’t even have to get into everything that has been said about little Trig Palin. Just imagine how that makes his big sisters feel.
HuffPo is making a big deal about Willow using words like “gay” and “faggot” as pejoratives…and I say Willow needs slack cut for her on both of these words.
If you read her flame battle with the classmate creeps, Willow’s speaking their language, which is a little alien to us. “Gay” has meant a great many things through the years, as has “faggot”.
“Gay” used to mean happy and airy. Then it meant homosexual. It still means that, but it’s also come to mean other things besides homosexual. It, to teenagers, means “lame” or whatever slang word kids are using for that today.
Frankly, this is the gay community’s own fault for taking a word that already existed and meant something else and then adopting it as their own…but then being mad when teenagers take the word and make it into a third thing, all on their own, with no driving gale of prejudice or animus behind it.
“Faggot” used to mean a parcel of wood. Then it became a pejorative for gays. Now, teens have apparently started using it to mean “lamebrain” or something like that.
Clearly, Willow is not claiming the classmates she’s fighting with are gay. There’s no references to them liking men. She could have used “dork”, “dweed”, “jackass”, “jerk”, “Obama voter”, “fool”, “ignoramus”, or anything similar in that vein, but her generation does not use those words.
It does not, also, use proper spelling and punctuation or cooling down periods before battling back in Facebook forums.
The Palin girls are still young girls. They are teenagers. Piper is even younger. They are growing up in front of us, and it’s sad they live in the 21st Century where they are not allowed to just be teenagers because Facebook and Twitter are so ubiquitous and broadcast their fights and disputes to things like HuffPo.
These girls should be allowed to have their teen battles without anyone reporting on it. Just like the Obama daughters should be allowed to pass notes in class disparaging other students if they want, whenever they want, or get on Facebook themselves if their parents let them. They are two girls growing up in America and should be allowed to be two girls growing up in America…just as the Palin girls should be allowed this too.
It’s really sad when we have to see anyone’s child suffer just because lunatics hate that kid’s parents. Governor Palin is a mighty grizzly and can take your fire, so direct your aim at her. Leave the children alone. Let them grow up as normal as possible with all the adventures and misadventures they are entitled to.
As a gay man, who has been called a “f***ing faggot” by no less than the Chair of the Cocktail Party GOP in Illinois (when I actually considered him a friend, all because I took aim at the Cook County Cocktail Party and its shenanigans), I can tell you that I am not at all offended by a single word Willow or Bristol wrote on Facebook.
While I would have to tell them that unfortunately they need to be more mindful that everything they do will be scrutinized — which is not fair, but reality — I would also have to tell the girls how much I love their spirit.
These two are not afraid of anyone.
Or anything.
These two have gone up against the Leftist national media. They have both been berated and maligned by David Letterman. They have stood in the center of the media hurricane directed at their family and they have held their ground.
I really admire Bristol and Willow, immensely.
I also really like them, as people.
I have no problem whatsoever with the two of them going to battle on Facebook, using whatever language they want to express themselves, because they are two private citizens, TEENAGERS, and they should be allowed to do whatever other kids are allowed to do.
Is it the smartest thing in the world for them to be doing?
No.
Is what they are doing causing their parents embarrassment?
Yes.
Did YOU only do smart things and never cause your parents embarrassment as teens?
I’ll just let you answer that for yourselves.
BREAKING CONTROVERSY: Could DNA test disqualify woman impersonating Jennifer Grey on Dancing with the Stars, because she is not, in fact, the REAL Jennifer Grey?
The woman ABC claims is "Jennifer Grey" (left).
The real "Jennifer Grey", in the 80s (left). Oddly enough, the man sitting next to her claimed to be "Derek Hough" for a while, but only when ordering prostitutes.
In a turn of events as bizarre as the mystery surrounding what name’s actually on Obama’s birth certificate, ABC is currently locked down in crisis control mode as DNA tests are rushed into labs to determine if the sour-faced, often-pouting woman featured on Dancing with the Stars this season as “Jennifer Grey” is actually, in fact, the “Jennifer Grey” who once starred in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”, “Dirty Dancing”, and other movies in the 80s before being suddenly replaced by this unidentified “False Jennifer”.
Rumor has it, one day promising actress Jennifer Grey walked into the forest in the hills above Los Angeles, still on a career trajectory that would have made her, essentially, “Renee Zelwegger” should “Renee Zelwegger” not have lucked into this niche with the strange disappearance of the real Jennifer Grey.
Just as in alternate universes Cary Grant starred in “The Maltese Falcon” and Eric Stoltz was Marty McFly in the “Back to the Future” trilogy, there are other dimensions where Jennifer Grey took the lead role in the “Bridget Jones” films and “Jerry Maguire”.
A world where, instead of wandering into a forest and never being seen again, Jennifer Grey returned home that fateful day and told her agent to “start booking me in good movies because people still recognize me and I look exactly the same right now as I did in the movies people love me in”.
It seems that once her family discovered she was missing, and it was determined it would be too much effort to go look for her, her father, actor Joel Grey (who is notoriously lazy), just called his own agent and asked her to cast a replacement.
“You know, like they did on Bewitched, and then like they did again on Roseanne, where they made fun of what they did with the Darrens back then, only sometime both girls would alternate Becky in different episodes to really drive home the joke. I have no idea where my daughter is, but if she ever shows up again, that’s what we’ll do. In the meantime, let’s just recast her and hope no one notices, like with Dicks York and Sargent. I sure couldn’t tell them apart, and I think I slept with both of them! Ha ha ha ha ha!”.
So, that’s what they did, and though people realize something’s wrong with this “False Jennifer”, no one’s bothered to check if she’s really Jennifer Grey at all.
UNTIL NOW.
Our sources reveal DNA samples obtained from both Joel Grey and preserved wardrobe samples from Jennifer Grey’s old movies will conclusively reveal the woman impersonating “Jennifer Grey” on this season of Dancing with the Stars is not, in fact, the real “Jennifer Grey”…who is presumed to still be lost in the forest somewhere high above Los Angeles.
Experts believe her ability to speak has severely atrophied after so many years in the wild, reducing her more or less to a “Jodie Foster in Nell” state of mumbling “tay inada weened, tay inada weened” repeatedly, while pointing to the slender outlines of skyscrapers in the distance. Which she now thinks are just big, far-flung, trees.
Coincidentally, around the same time the “False Jennifer” began impersonating Grey around Los Angeles, a mysterious wild woman, in ragged, torn legwarmers, was sometimes spotted at night, answering alternately to “Jeannie” or “Baby” when startled in the dark by couples headed to various inspiration points.
“Tay inada weened! Tay inada weened! Nobody am baby put inada cornear! FERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRISSSSSSSSSSSS!”.
“Method actors,” most LA residents encountering the mystery woman shrugged, so accustomed to the oddities of living in La-La-Land.
It’s unclear, as of press time, how ABC is going to resolve this dispute.
Enormous controversy has been generated by the Washington Post and CNN’s discovery that people have been voting multiple times for Bristol Palin in a reality TV show competition where multiple voting is allowed and encouraged.
If this is a shocking “controversy” rocking the nation enough for every major network and newspaper to devote front page articles to it, we’ve been informed the Emergency Broadcast Network itself will be invoked to announce the woman impersonating Jennifer Grey on Dancing with the Stars is, in fact, not the real Jennifer Grey, but a “False Jennifer”, thus forfeiting the mirror ball trophy ABC has worked so hard to set her up for (Crying jag and tear-jerking Patrick Swayze montage in the very first episode, ABC? Really? Foreshadow much?).
“There’s going to be pandemonium out there,” an ABC executive noted. “It’s going to be great for ratings, of course, but people just went nuts when they realized the second Darren wasn’t the first Darren on Bewitched, though they had the same first names, and many people thought the actor just got married or something between seasons, and that he might have actually been a woman because men very rarely change their names, unless they are in the witness protection program, but then, of course, why would he be on TV. UNLESS, being on TV was the one place the mob would have never looked for him, because who would become a sitcom star if the mob was after them and they had to hide in the one place the mob would never look. Damn, this is actually a great idea for a new show. It’s sure better than anything we have on the air right now, at any rate. Call my agent! Let’s see if we can get Toby Maguire for the lead, and if not, that loser Wes Bentley, because I never could tell those two apart. Put them both under contract in case something happens to one of them and we need to just switch them out, because that always works so great”.
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NOTE: For those of you coming here from the DWTS site, ABC.com, CNN.com, The Today Show, or the Washington Post, the above is a shoutout to all of you who keep saying “he doesn’t even really believe that’s Jennifer! He keeps saying it’s a conspiracy and that’s a stunt double or something!”.
That’s ridiculous.
You’re ridiculous.
And, no, that’s not the real Jennifer Grey. As explained, she’s lost in the woods somewhere, perhaps forever, dancing in a forest glen under the stars, not with them.
Here's that little HillBuzz bit on CNN
h/t TheRealMSU for catching this for YouTube.
This is too funny.
The reporter and I talked for ten minutes on the phone this morning…mostly about Democrats committing voter fraud in actual elections.
And they only used two sentences from me, but at least they got me calling the media out for being so nasty to Bristol.These were my two quotes, out of ten minutes, that got on the air:
“It’s not scamming a game show…what it is, it’s a way for people to show their fervent support for her.”
“I think is actually cool to do to the contest because the media has been so horrible to this young woman.”
The Team Bristol cookies from GetCookiesByKatie got some screen time, too, along with some of the comments made in threads about how much fun it is to vote hundreds if not thousands of times for Bristol every Monday. Which IS fun.
Can’t wait to do it one last time on MONDAY!
Have you started planning a Monday night Dancing with the Stars watch party yet?
Sarah Palin offers to buy crazy people a new TV
http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2010-11-18-DWTS18_ST_N.htm
I think what I love about the Palins is stuff like this: some nut shoots his TV out because he’s mad Bristol is still on the show.
Funny, I didn’t know Elvis was still alive. Is he mad HE isn’t on the show?
Well..the Palins have offered to buy him a new TV.
So he can watch Bristol win next Tuesday.
Hilarious.
Nancy Pelosi tells Obama to go to Hell. Obama tells Pelosi he is already there. "Look who I am married to".
A lot of this article by Ulsterman is junk.
For starters, he thinks Steny Hoyer is a moderate, when in fact he is a proud Leftist. He is just smart and politically astute enough – unlike Pelosi – to not let people know how crazy he really is.
Then there’s this nonsense about Pelosi being in the fight of her life.
Ridiculous.
Pelosi’s allies are the far Left, who survived 2010 in gerrymandered Leftist enclaves immune from challenges no matter what Pelosi does. Her enemies are the blue dog Dems who were wiped out in the November 2nd extinction level event.
So, the only Democrats left in Congress are those who love Pelosi and want her to do even more crazy things.
How is that bad for her?
I do think Pelosi will spend the next two years in open war with Obama, though.
She’s apparently saying he can go to Hell, which I believe.
But, if you are married to Michelle Antoinette, isn’t your concept of Hell pretty damn relative?
As in, the proud of her country for the first time in her adult life woman you are related to by marriage?
Hilarious: just did two more print interviews on the Bristol Palin "controversy"
I just did phone interviews with the AP and USA Today on the Bristol Palin “voting controversy”.
This gave me the opening I wanted to talk about my favorite topic: the voter fraud Democrats commit in every election but nobody cares about.
The Left gets upset when it thinks I have somehow rigged a TV show’s voting (with my magical elfin powers) but the media never says boo about the voter fraud and intimidation the Obama campaign engaged in back in 2008, including the Black Panther case Eric Holder dismissed to help Obama allies.
So, let’s see how many quotes of mine are used.
I keep saying “I am teaching Republicans to vote like Democrats, again and again and again using every trick they can think of to get dead people, animals, and imaginary friends to vote, just like Democrats do in real elections and no one calls them on it”.
We’ll see if that gets reported, or if it’s more of the I am so terrible for aggressively pushing for Bristol tripe.
President Palin? YOU BETCHA
http://abcnews.go.com/m/screen?id=12170631
This is great.
Governor Palin told Barbara Walters she is “probably” running for president.
Remember: she can’t definitively announce until 2011 for finance reasons, and because she is right now getting 8 hour long campaign commercials aired on TLC for the next two months.
And after that she gets a free campaign bus tour paid for by her publisher to promote her new book on American values.
On February 6th, 2011 – Super Bowl Sunday – Governor Palin will announce her intent to become the 45th president in a clever and patriotic ad that honors President Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday.
It will be the most talked about Super Bowl ad of the year, you betcha.
Obama and Kal Penn and/or Reggie Love will pause their Sunday tickle fight just long enough to stare up at the screen and shout, “Nooooo!”.
You betcha!
