Via Percy, this bit of surreal asininity:
A Maine TV news anchor who bears a resemblance to the Republican vice presidential nominee says she’s been getting “hate mail and nasty phone calls” from viewers who think she’s trying to copy Sarah Palin’s signature style.
Cindy Michaels from WVII-TV has long brown hair that she sometimes wears up in a style similar to Palin’s, and she also wears glasses on occasion.
Michaels says viewers recently began accusing her of trying to copy Palin’s style or, worse, somehow trying to subliminally sway votes.
Prediction: it is only a matter of time before Ms Michaels wakes up to find a hacked off moose head in her bed.
At which point, I’d suggest she have authorities question Judith Warner or Kathleen Parker.
Of course, should they go that route, I suggest they bring some kind of professional grade reciprocating saw. Trying to cut through such condescension with anything less would prove difficult — with most blades likely to fail at that initial layer of faux earnestness.
O!
Katleen Parker is a cooze I think. Something about that stale little magazine attracts coozes for some reason. I think maybe cause the guys there are mostly pussies. National Review would never survive any reasonable sunset commission I don’t think.
*Kathleen* I meant. Dopey-headed junior league wannabe I think.
ur smarter than this Jeff
don fall for teh IQ BAIT!1!
o wait wrong meme
not tall enuff
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Man, I always thought that Maine was trying to copy CA’s progressive style. Of course, I moved from there to Chicago, so I don’t know what that says about me…. (Seriously, this was before I became aware of the politics of IL, or really anywhere.)
Yeah, Maine. Really. This talking head woman on a local news channel in MAINE is getting hate mail about imitating Palin?
Are you sure this wasn’t caused by skip on a lowband VHF channel to someplace like Indiana, that caused such outrage?
Oh good Baracky’s piano recital is on:
“The McCain campaign is resuming all activities and the Senator will travel to the debate this afternoon. Following the debate, he will return to Washington to ensure that all voices and interests are represented in the final agreement, especially those of taxpayers and homeowners.”
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Another href=”http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/the_enemy_withi.php”>data point for the emotional state of Left America.
I’ve never given it much thought, but when ever I’ve watched videos of Code Pink or other wackaloon outfits marching, it always seemed to me that the demonstrators were making more noise than the spectators.
That’s to say nothing of the fingers. And the hate.
Data point.
Sorry about that.
Geeze. Go to Americandigest.org and scroll down to “The Enemy Within”.
And have a fine weekend, while you are at it.
Hmmm. I think I might try and get out of my New York trip for January. I will have to try and think of something.
You need a gas powered wet saw, like the one’s used to slice concrete, to cut through Warner’s condescension…
These deluded wackos see subliminal messaging, nefarious alterior motives, and politicization in everything! Hmmmmm, I wonder if it’s a serious case of projection..?
Or maybe, they all just smoked way too much dope during their mis-spent-youth..? Funny, it didn’t have that effect on me, though ;)
Maybe it’s an effect of O!s jedi mind trick !
Maine must be pretty dense to counterbalance Alaska like that.
If I were younger, I’d take a flamethrower to Warner and Parker…
No, really. There’s lots of blue there, and lots of people on some sort of Government assistance, so the party that promises to continue that assistance wins. Plus, lots of people who moved up from MA and other nanny states. They like to cause trouble and get stupid laws passed. I’m really not surprised. Saddened, not surprised.
Jeff-
None of what you wrote makes any sense.
Saws? Flamethrowers? Nothing beats heavy ordnance.
The Democrats should demand in the name of “fairness” that stations should hire a Joe Biden look alike. He can give the news by wandering aimlessly in the English language searching for an un-cribed coherent thought and never finding it.
Then they can have an Obama look alike with shorter and more concise sentences than the Biden model but with extra added “uh-uh-uh” and “ah-ah-ah” for flavor.
KP has lost it.
3…2…1 to some leftwing blog accusing you enticing people to decapitate Judith and Katheen.
I tried to tell ya, Jeff. This world only makes sense if it’s a simulation ala Bostrom’s ‘Simulation Argument’…or if Anu is the Lord Above All Lords and has Enlil and Enki fighting about who’s really in line for the throne.
Otherwise, we need to look for a little feller wearing a cheap suit, standing in a corner, smoking a cigarette …and talking to himself.
Either one of those, or start looking for the arrival of our blood-sucking, alien, Dragon Over-Lords.
To say that what’s happening in the world today is ‘surreal’ and ‘bizarre’ just… doesn’t… cover it.
There’s got to be a rational explanation, like one of the propositions I posed above, for example.
On the way out the door:
Isn’t hating on someone because of what they look like an awful lot like, you know, racism?
In Hofstadter’s essay on the paranoid style, he noted that this wasn’t exclusive to either the left or right, but was noted to be prevalent in a group that has lost power, or has perceived itself losing power and lashes out in anger rather than introspection.
“Comment by McGehee on 9/26 @ 10:26 am #
Saws? Flamethrowers? Nothing beats heavy ordnance.”
Indeed.
Check behind the sofa cushions…
Oh, wait. Just clicked over to Xanthipas’ site. Seems he fancies Kathleen Parker some sort oracle.
She should use a Greek name, I think. For extra gravitas.
Milwaukee Sawzall, baby. Slap a carbide grit blade in that puppy and it’ll cut through damn near anything.
Maine?
Haven’t heard of it since the 70’s.
Is Maine still one of the 57 states?
Cuz I thought it was part of Canada now.
Are you sure Maine is not in Canada?
I think it’s in Canada.
Fucking Mark Steyn doesn’t even talk about Maine.
It’s gotta be in Canada.
Kathleen Parker is in dire need of a good vibrator.
Ok, ok…I denounce myself as SEXIST!!!11!!! for suggesting Ms. Parker just needs some deep dickin’.
Seriously though…
Somebody call Kathleen and take one for the team.
Jeff- if somebody volunteers, throw ’em a T-shirt or teach ’em a heel hook or something.
I volunteer. I’ve done worse after a half a bottle of Jack.
Sweet Benedick.
I’ll loan you my brown paper bag.
I glued blonde pig tails on to it to help you think good thoughts.
You’ll get the MOH for this.
God speed, sir.
#25 Maj. John(now Lt. Col.):
Problems: There are few that can’t be solved by a sustained application of high explosives.
The Ordnance Ordinance.
@ #33: After seeing your comment I checked MAJ/LTC John’s website and saw nothing about his promotion being finalized. What have you heard?
“Problems: There are few that can’t be solved by a sustained application of high explosives.
The Ordnance Ordinance.”
Decades ago (when I was a kid) our nieghbor was a retired Marine, full bird. He had six (dead) claymores facing out from his flower beds to the front lawn.
Dad: “Why the hell do you have those there!?”
Col. Young: “Scares the shit out’a the front lawn…now I only have to cut it once a month.”
I never saw a weed in his flower beds either.
Kathleen Parker.
Kate.
Kathleen Parker.
Hate.
There’s something just wrong with that woman. No manners. Kathleen Parker is an ill-mannered woman.
#34 McGehee:
I saw that he had posted at ‘Miserable Donuts’ that he got promoted. I thought it was a done deal. If I got that wrong then mea culpa. I’m sorry.
In my own defense my little bro is RA and got promoted to major a few months back. When he told me it sounded like it was confirmed, and I thought the same thing applied with Maj. John.
I say again, if I was wrong then mea culpa.
#38 haps:
What really rubs me wrong is the entire ‘I am a syndicated columnist and you are not meeting my expectations so you should quit and go home’ thing.
Ms. Parker is entitled to her opinion, but she is not entitled to respect for her opinion. And when all is said and done her opinion on this subject is worth the same as mine. She has not demonstrated why I should give her opinion any weight on the subject of politics. Mike Gravel is a lot of a loon, but he actually has run for and held elective office. His opinion, Dennis Kucinich’s opinion, on running for elective office is more valid.
(I can’t believe I said I would accept either Gravel or Kucinich’s opinion, but in a field where they have some accomplishment, I have to take some note of it.)
#34 McGehee:
I took the (P) on his moniker as ‘promoted’, not ‘provisional’. And I did give my congrats then.
I should say that I am in the USCG Auxiliary (uniformed civilian volunteers) and I went very carefully through my records to make sure I am wearing the correct ribbons in the correct order of precedence. I spent about an hour looking up what each one looks like, and where it is suppossed to be, and I made a little list. These things must be done properly, no matter what level you are at.
My understanding from his blog post about the promotion was that he’d been informed he would be promoted and that the paperwork was in the pipeline. I figure once a major’s actually formally promoted, he goes by LTC rather than MAJ (P).
In Alaska I worked a part-time job with a guy who worked in the medic unit at Fort Wainwright. I asked him his rank and at first he said something like “E-4 (P),” with the P meaning (he said) “promotable.” I don’t remember what was involved to make him promotable as opposed to not, but when I saw the (P) on Major John’s new handle I knew something must be up, which was why I went looking for a post on his blog about it at the time. I gathered from that it wasn’t quite the same as CPL Khan’s.
In my youth. I spent many happy years in Maine (Forest city specifically) fishing,gardening,hunting and pretty much just learning to live.
That was many years ago, but I cannot even recall a TV station capable of reaching us. Even today when I go back home? NO local stations.(except Canadian,sorry they were there back then too)…