She won’t send advance teams. She won’t provide an itinerary. She hasn’t phoned ahead to the local GOP headquarters to let them know she’s coming. She doesn’t tell the media where she’s going to be or when she’ll be there. And it’s driving the mainstream press to distraction — giving her the media coverage she needs, on her terms, because they just can’t quit her, and because they can’t help but take offense at her audacity in ignoring them, which serves to remind them, uncomfortably, that their cultural significance is based solely on people’s willingness to believe in their power.
David Brooks and George Will (among others) may want to rethink who comes to count as an imbecile in this new paradigm — those who blindly follow the same broken and unproductive rules laid out by a feckless establishment class ubiquitously demonized and on the defensive from a hostile media they try desperately to woo; or those who, you know, don’t.
How dare that snowbilly hoochie!
“DON’T YOU KNOW WHO WE ARE!!?”
For a stupid, hillbilly, non-candidate, she sure do get a lot of ink.
Driving them to distraction is putting it mildly. She’s playing them for fools (as they eagerly comply) and surely loving every minute of it.
PDS is a terrible thing, and she is so cruel, cruel, cruel.
;^)
The thing I love about that CBS producer plaint Hot Air linked? He just outed the mainstream media for the celebrity chasing paparazzi whores that they are.
She really hit em where it hurts with that whole “styrofoam pillars” thing. She hit their little tin-horn jesus right in the dick.
They hate her for that. It’s a shame her back is such a pincushion. A damn shame.
p.s. – I just searched styrofoam pillars and it autocompleted “obama styrofoam pillars”. heh.
“The presidency is not a personal journey of discovery.” Damn…for one golden night she and Rudy owned that little bitch.
The MBM has become the National Enquirer, without the honesty.
The MBM is upset because they don’t have any democrat women that look good on a Harley.
Take a look at this instant classic: http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/34830#more-34830
As Surber says: “The Internet can be so cruel.”
I was just thinking about how brilliant this woman is, and here you go posting on her media strategy. GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
And can someone clue me in on MBM – this is getting embarrassing.
“Make Believe Media”
I like road trip comedies. The joke this time is all on the media.
Make-Believe Media.
It’s been their new nickname since the invented story about the Tea Party protesters supposedly shouting racial slurs at black Congresscritters when Queen Nan paraded them though the crowd outside the Capitol.
#4
Yeah.
They’re doing exactly what she wants them to do.
Stupid like a fox, that girl.
Metro Bullshit Mayer
Media complains that Palin caravan puts reporters at risk
Actually, if an accident were to happen I think it would be a net positive for this country. Feel free to update the old joke about a busload of lawyers going over a cliff with “a caravan of MBM reporters following Palin getting in a multi-car pileup”.
Clearly, the Palin team member forgot to end that statement with “Idiot”.
(And for those who may not know the old “what do you call a busload of lawyers going over a cliff?” joke, the answer is “a good start”)
“I just hope to God that one of these young producers with a camera whose bosses are making them follow Sarah Palin as a potential Republican candidate don’t get in a car crash, because this is dangerous,” he said.”
Such posturing twittery. I can hear that spoken with a Foghorn Leghorn accent and his thumbs in his suspenders.
Will no one think of the poor young producers?
[…] line update! Jeff puts his finger on the button: David Brooks and George Will (among others) may want to rethink who comes to count as an imbecile […]
Car crash? <slaps own forehead> I wonder if I can return this rocket launcher for a full refund?
the mbm are alot like: Wile E Coyote, Super Genius
I’m surprised that happyfeet hasn’t showed up just because you invoked She Who Must Not Be Named.
“what do you call a busload of lawyers going over a cliff?” joke, the answer is “a good start”
The variant being: what do you call a busload of lawyers going off a cliff with one seat empty?
A terrible tragedy.
I’m surprised that happyfeet hasn’t showed up just because you invoked She Who Must Not Be Named.
Feets had his decoder ring revoked awhile back because of his antics on SWMNMB threads.
What if they gave a
warmedia blitz and nobody came?Why are you talking about that hoochie Palin? She’s a big quitter and besides she supports McCain who has a hoochie daughter what writes stupid stuff.
There are more important things to discuss. Cupcakes, for instance.
Happyfeet is allowed to post here again I think, but I’ve only seen him once since then.
It’s not the young producers with cameras that Corsaro should be worried about — it’s the young producers texting Corsaro on their CrackBerries from behind the steering wheel. Wanna bet that when one of these jeeniuses drives into a bridge abutment that we’ll hear all about the irresponsibility of Palin, and not one word about the status of the driver’s cell phone or Twitter account at the time of impact?
Anyone who needs their fix of “dumb hoochie cumslut” nostalgia can just head over to well, damn near any thread on Frey’s place. Our old pikachu is nothing if not consistent. So much so that the commenters over there who aren’t named ‘Eric’ are all like “dude, shut up about Palin already; this is a thread about Andrew Weiner’s cock, for god’s sake!”
[…] Jeff Goldstein finds that her failure to play by the traditional rules of political travel is. . . . . . driving the mainstream press to distraction — giving her the media coverage she needs, […]
You are a cynical man, Squid. Then again, so am I.
Palin not only spanked the media, but has also managed to suck a lot of press away from other GOP contenders.
Anyway, reading between the lines, Palin called MBM lazy. She actually told MBM if they want to cover her, MBM will have to work at it a little bit. Whereas MBM thinks they’re entitled to know who what and where before who what and where happens.
It’s a lot easier to
fill inwritePalin Hate Template #125the article using the AP stylebook when the who, what and where is known in advance.I like that, Blake. Makes sense. Does anyone remember the name of the guy who wrote about the climate conference a couple of days before it happened?
“Palin called MBM lazy. ”
well there’s this:
link
“the name of the guy who wrote about the climate conference a couple of days before it happened?”
lewis lapham wrote about the 2004 gop conv. before it happen.
link
newrouter, interesting, the story is now about not being able to cover the fundraiser, rather than about cost per plate, venue and attendees.
MBM could easily come up with cost per plate, venue and attendees if they were so inclined. Yeah, not being able to attend is newsworthy, but, the attendee list and cost is also very interesting.
Easier for MBM to complain.
palin should ditch the bus
and continue the tour in the
oscar meyer weinermobile
oh my the donald is part of the tour:
link
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2011/05/post-19.html
Wolcott’s back looking for some trouble…
“Wolcott’s back looking for some trouble”
old white pedophile
…or maybe he’s just looking for a restaurant supply company that sells butterscotch pudding in those big 2 gallon cans.
vote squicky in althouse’s wolcott poll
link
pd!!!
Yet another thing Wolly the Outrage Seal is wrong about: pace Pee Wee Herman, the Alamo actually does have a basement.
Poor, poor MSM.
Payback is a real bitch,isn’t it?
via sweetness and light: weiner-
link
oh i left this out:
“The statue, crafted more than 100 years ago, is supposed to depict civic virtue, triumphant over the twin sirens of vice and corruption…”
Democrats to save the sirens of their foundational principles. Weiner to the rescue.
the moosehunter made the donald, i’m rich richy rich i tell ya, eat pizza. slaying objects left and right:
link
sister sarah leading the gop and it’s squishes out of the mbm narrative.
As you know stuff like this, Mike, an actual question here: was it for the gun powder or the vegetables? Or something else entirely and/or put in later for some reason?
[…] In a somewhat related post, Jeff at Protein Wisdom has some thoughts on just who are the imbecile’s in this whole thing. […]
I wrote in, “Humongous.”
And according to inside sources, he is, indeed, the fungus humongous.
Hey, Kids !
Let’s put out a paper !!
I was asking Mike but if anyone else knows about the basement at the Alamo, I’d be much obliged.
My curiosity has been poked with a stick. Or, in Wolcott terms, I just found a stick of butter in my box of ice cream treats and I’m now at a loss even though I’m slightly happy about the turn of affairs.
And how might you feel about blowing my Bobby Orr breast-reduction surgery comment?
Ummm, you have me at a loss, guins.
(I wasn’t busting your balls about your not answering my question, in case that came across accidentally. Nor do I necessarily think you’re busting my balls here. I’m just a bit confused.)
Really, the most amusing thing about this bus tour is not necessarily the “punking” of the MBM, but a much larger “punking” taking place; Palin “punking” Obama. Run with me here a bit…
Times are tough. Oh, Obama can give good speeches, although increasingly they are not. He’s often phoning it in, more likely to be found playing golf instead of being Presidential. And when not golfing, there’s a good chance that he’ll be bowing to some foreign leader or apologizing for America’s eeeeeevollllll past somehow. And more and more it’s become CW that he and his “crew” think that $5 gas is ok, as are higher prices; because that’s what America and Americans “deserve” for the past sins of selfishly consuming more the rest of the world-more than we deserve…
I mean, we should be spreadin’ the wealth around, maynge.
And here’s Palin, in tough times, traveling around the country and stopping at various memorials located in important historical location; and at each location speaking to what a great country we were than, and can continue to be in the future if we get back to living by our foundational compact. She’s cheerily “preaching” the Constitutional message, assuring people that everything’s going to be jake once again, as long as we get back to doing what we should be; living within our means, being a nation of laws and not men, and being a beacon of freedom for the rest of the world. Kind of like that shining city on the hill that Reagan used to speak of when using that famous quote.
She’s acting more Presidential than the President, doing what Reagan did in tough times, what FDR did in tough times, what Presidents have generally done in tough times. Talk about America’s exceptional nature, and how good times were right around the corner if we would only reach down deep and be who we really are.
It an uplifting message, delivered above thge media’s head. With the added bonus for conservatives that they get to watch her madden the media.
And I say all this believing that she isn’t necessarily running, but is just moving the conversation in the direction it should go; of spotlighting liberty, our founding, important historical “tests” we passed with flying colors, and a real message of hope for the future.
And delivered in her upbeat cheerful style, instead of a condescending professorial scolding demeanor.
She’s “punking” more than the MBM.
link
Never ball busting, rather button busting.
See #35.
And why not begin another sentence with “and” for the hat trick, while I’m at it.
Hat trick !!!
“And I say all this believing that she isn’t necessarily running,”
yes the moosehunter has t-paw, rick, michelle and herman to do that. she’s SETTING the terms of the debate. she’s the debate LEADER. because the gop establishment’s narrative is fixed between 2 rino Mormons and a blue state con who has trouble attacking commies directly. i like t-paw but he’s got to be more trump with baracky.
Ahhh, I got it, guins.
Btw, I just mentioned it at some point here recently but if you watch The Friends of Eddie Coyle you get to see a drunk Robert Mitchum say, “Number four, Bobby Orr.”
That might be the equivalent of some random 20 year old guy telling me that Brett Favre is in There’s Something About Mary though. Hard to say.
Oops, sorry bh. I just saw your question right now. Newrouter is correct. There are two basements, both likely built long after the Battle of the Alamo.
I’ve never seen the basements myself, but my mom has. She’s a member of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas (our version of the DAR), which is in charge of the Alamo, and thus spends a lot of time there volunteering.
Thanks to both of you.
If the basements came later, it was probably just because you couldn’t add space inside, outside or up. So they went down.
It’s odd to think about boxes of gift shop items or random stuff like that under the Alamo.
Famous Famiglia Pizzeria near Times Square
Never heard of it in my life. Then again I quit Times Square when they got rid of the porno theaters.
“Then again I quit Times Square when they got rid of the porno theaters.”
ahh the good olde days ;)
Across the Alley From the Alamo
Frijoles washed in Duz and Lux.
I’ll announce this front page later, but I’ll be making 3 trips this summer. I’ll be in New York Tues June 21, leaving noon on Saturday June 25; I’ll be in LA and SD Mon July 25-Sat July 30 (beginning of the week will be spent in LA area); and I’ll be back in Baltimore in late September, roughly the 21st to the 25th.
If anybody wants to organize a meet up, let me know and I’ll see what I can work out.
“Never heard of it in my life.”
taking trump to chuck e cheese’s would have been a large brick through the mbm narrative
I concur nr.
As long as there are actual conservtives in the race, like Cain or Bachmann she doesn’t feel like she needs to run; she’s said as much directly in the past.
Now if the field is reduced to a “shoot out” between Mittenz and Huntsman, I have a feeling she might feel a bit more froggy.
I’m not sure where she “is” on the candidacy of Pawlenty or the possibility of a Perry run. That will remain to be seen.
Isn’t it supposed to be the original New York pizzeria? Or is that a joint in Brooklyn (who’s name eludes me)?
The ultimate Alamo tune: San Antonio Rose by Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys.
“a “shoot out” between Mittenz and Huntsman, ”
special underwear @ 40 paces
She’s even in their wheelhouse on this one – they just don’t know it yet. She picked a run of the mill touristy meh pizza place. Some of the reporter type NYers are making fun of her selection as “that hick doesn’t even know where to go for good pizza.” Which, tomorrow she will castigate all those elitists NYers for being snotty pizza connisseurs (sp, I’m too lazy to look it up). “The kids had a friend who recommended, so that is where we went.” Momma Grizzly strikes again.
I’ll be in LA and SD Mon July 25-Sat July 30 (beginning of the week will be spent in LA area)
Yikes, boss … the Guinness on me!
I hit NY more than just about anyplace else so that’s probably my best bet.
If Abe could pick out a classy, newly-gentrified porn theater, I say we do it there.
Yeah, there’s a 90% chance I’ll be watching South Korean shipping or developing Ukranian mining at that point. We all know this. I could paypal a round of drinks and an appetizer though. That could be a wild time if we Skyped it and drank a bottle of cough syrup.
if you take an expansive view of the snow billy hoochie tour, wouldn’t make more sense to orchestrate the plan where by the gop takes house,senate and prez? you can’t do that eating chicken in south carolina or iowa?
if you are in the area rick santorum is declaring on june 6, 2011 at the somerset county court house where his grandfather pledged allegiance to the united states.
Either LA or SD is good for me.
I think this is the pizzeria I was thinking of: Lombardi’s. It was featured in some History Channel or Food Channel program a while back.
Sorry to say, but I’ll be in Ocean City starting about the same time you’ll be in NYC, through the middle of July.
Maybe Baltimore in September will be better.
if she could orchestrate a filibuster proof majority in 2012 with an gop prez., most of the last 80 years is up for discussion?
Isn’t it supposed to be the original New York pizzeria? Or is that a joint in Brooklyn (who’s name eludes me)?
You’re probably thinking of Grimaldi’s in Brooklyn.
“pdbuttons posted on 5/31 @ 4:55 pm
palin should ditch the bus
and continue the tour in the
oscar meyer weinermobile”
I first saw the original OM mobile in NY State in the mid seventies. I had no idea that this thing existed, and thought, as I came up behind it, that it was the biggest BBQ tank in the world.
As I passed it, and realized what it was, I had to laugh. I still do whenever I think of it.
How cool would it be to have a job driving a giant metal hot dog perched on a giant piece of metal bread?
Cooler than driving the Jaegermeister bus, if I had to choose.
If Abe could pick out a classy, newly-gentrified porn theater, I say we do it there.
This would be my Welcome to New York bar (note the awesome bathroom) for you. I’d never do that to Jeff though, for his visit a classy place formerly frequented by Trotskyists with odd facial hair and monocles would be more in order.
Oh, this I meant.
designs on the future
link
When you get to the half-way point between LA and SD please come on by. Or I’d be happy to meet up somewhere else, as long as I don’t have to drink Guinness.
That place is a bit east of where I think I’ve been sober, Abe. But, I’m not sure, really. Maybe by about a block?
New York is a city of mysteries. Mainly because it’s far less mysterious if you never accidentally wake up there some morning. Like if you were kidnapped on a whaling boat. Or giving out dollar handjobs in the Bay of Two-Bit Handjobs.
I didn’t really understand that, bh. Are you saying that you’re afraid of people from the Orient who use massage parlors as fronts to harvest kidneys from unsuspecting tourists?
Didn’t make all that much sense to me when I wrote it either, Abe.
There was a bit of mystery though, wasn’t there? Whaling boats. A fear of not being able to compete with globalization. Myself, this is what I look for in a late night comment.
If we’re to make sense of it, I don’t think I’ve ever been on that block east. So I imagine that sea dragons and strange, overpriced handjobs live there.
Fear of the unknown, really. Like the mythical European grip.
That neighborhood is like Wicker Park was 10-15 years ago. The ugly and nondescript is strong, but the heroin addicts are increasingly college educated ones.
That’s strangely reassuring.
How do you know that Wicker Park was what it was around then? You’re right, of course. But how did you know that? Is this common knowledge?
I don’t know if it’s common knowledge. I’ve just been there a number of times over the years, the first time being in ’97 I think. I like that neighborhood a lot, though the staggered Chicago bar closing times annoy the shit out of me.
Will you be touring in a bus, Jeff? Maybe with a big picture of an armadillo on it? And a picture of the Declaration of Independence, annotated, “We the OUTLAW People…” (okay, it should be a photoshop, yes, I’m lazy)
NY is a possibility. If you can get up to Boston, I’ll take you paddling on the Concord River–we’ll go right under the Old North Bridge (“the rude bridge that arched the flood..”)
Keep us posted!
Biden is off the radar because he is begging like a panhandler, and admitting that “maybe we went to far”. He is trying to regain sentient moderates who know that Obama is an off his rocker Marxist. Good luck with that, eh?
Biden? BIDEN????? BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!
Good luck, you stupid fucking morons! Sending out a man who can barely complete a sentence to mend fences that have been nuked into oblivion, is, in my book, a REALLY good way to raise a billion dollars. WHOOOT! WHOOOT! WHOOOT!
My father lived in Dover, Delaware (no state taxes), and when I would visit him, we would always marvel at what kind of people would elect such a blithering moron to the senate. We never did figure it out. I still can’t believe ANYONE would vote for someone who claims Deleware as his home state, but obviously resides in South Park…..
#92 and #93 – you can imagine my surpirse when drilling with a Guard unit near Wicker Park in 1998, when I had recently come home from Sarajevo…had a couple of flashbacks, or so I thought.
Wolcott:
He always leaves us hopeful, but disappointed.
“bh posted on 5/31 @ 10:13 pm
That place is a bit east of where I think I’ve been sober, Abe. But, I’m not sure, really. Maybe by about a block?”
New York is a city of mysteries. Mainly because it’s far less mysterious if you never accidentally wake up there some morning. Like if you were kidnapped on a whaling boat. Or giving out dollar handjobs in the Bay of Two-Bit Handjobs.”
I have one word for NYC (which I have visited countless times in my younger days – I was even a courier there, driving from CT three times a day for two years)).In the sixties, it was only slighty scary. Filmore East? Every weekend. The one word I have for NYC?
NEVERAGAIN!
Now?
One in ten speaks English. Yeah. I know. I am condemned to hell By Debbie Wasserman Schultz for thinking that illegal aliens should be considered illegal. What a stupid tool I am for thinking that “illegal” means “illegal”. I am such an asshole!
NYC? NEVERAGAIN!. People who actually like NYC are totally insane, and one with, and completely connected to the insanity we are experiencing. These morons can negate the votes of the whole state of New York, and consistently do. Upstate NY is starving, but the assholes in NYC live six-to-a two room apartment, and they aren’t even illegals!
My favorite part of NYC is watching a bum take a shit on the sidewalk in Times Square, and NOBODY EVEN CARES!.
And I LOVE Mommy Blumeberg! No sugar, trans-fats,salt, or McDonald’s for YOU< YOU STUPID ASSHOLES!YOU ARE TOO STUPID TO BE EXPOSED TO THE DARWIN PRINCIPLE!
To repeat: NEVERAGAIN!
Blumeberg, Bloomberg, it’s all the same to me…
The Jokes on the Media. Haha Video Production