Calling Sarah Palin a murderous twat gets you patted on the head over at MSNBC. Whereas calling the President a dick? No good. At least, now that George Bush is out of office.
This would be, in the scheme of things, a tempest in a teapot — humorous only in that Mark Halperin rushed to denounce himself once he’d heard the White House wasn’t at all pleased with their comrade’s jibe. But what’s remarkable about this story is that the White House actually responded and made their displeasure with both Halperin and the network known to MSNBC.
And that to me suggests that the office of the presidency has lost both stature and dignity in contemporary America, and that it is now seen more or less as a celebrity post, guarded by PR flacks, with our political media nothing more than a sort of snide, self-important, mostly imbecilic paparazzi who crave access.
We’re in the last days of Rome here, people.
In other news, Hammie makes the case against the evil ATM in this lovely vid.
In my usual lunchtime back-and-forth political sparring, my cow-orkers frequently fall back on “Bush did it!” or “Bush started it!” or “Obama inherited it from Bush!” defenses. I usually counter with observations that Obama has continued Bush’s war policies, doubled down on Bush’s worst economic policies, and generally pissed off our allies in ways Bush never dreamed of.
Lately, I’ve taken to adding “At least Bush had dignity” to my usual responses. I’ve been surprised at how much that observation seems to sting. I can only imagine the cognitive dissonance my cow-orkers must live with.
I would LOVE to see the list of things President Bush was called on MSLSD without anyone batting an eye.
I liked how Time magazine also had to release a statement making it clear that calling our whorish cocksucking piece of shit president a dick is like way out of bounds.
Manning writes a heck of a column.
According to the Press, all of this never existed. It’s too unsuitable to exist.
But opinion? Suitable to actually get you a reprimand from a sitting US President and thrown off the job.
Rome? Yes.
Squid, are you the only adult in that room?
I’m looking forward to the next presser:
“The People have got to know whether or not their President is a dick. Well, I’m not a dick.”
That’ll have em tittering in their seats! Yeehaw!
steph, Dick Nixon couldn’t have said that… ;-)
Squid, are you the only adult in that room?
Let’s just say that it’s taking a lot of time and effort to show my cow-orkers just how far and to what extent their long-loved DFL has abandoned them. More and more of late, it seems they argue with me just out of habit. You can tell their heart really isn’t in it any more.
This, by the way, is why I still have some hope that we can win.
I think a lot of Dems in MN spout the ideology more out of habit than anything else. Since it is the Midwest, there is still a streak of self-reliance running through many of them.
What struck me strange yesterday morning as I read about Halperin’s comment was that almost nowhere could I find any specificity as to what it was Halperin had in mind as exemplary of Obama’s dickishness. That was in part due to the clip being shown totally jerked out of its entire context and follow-on explanatory speech, I assume. Wasn’t ’til later in the day that I heard Rush play the better part of Halperin’s complete statement. Even then though, I didn’t come away with a sure sense as to what it was Halperin was pointing to in particular. Haven’t bothered to go back to see though.
Finally, a real example of speaking Truth to Power!
my cow-orkers frequently fall back on “Bush did it!” or “Bush started it!”
“Then why didn’t Obama stop it? He signed up for this job, after all.”
“Was it wrong when Bush did it? Then it’s still wrong when Obama does it.”
Oh, totally, di. “But I thought your guy was supposed to be better than Bush…”
Last days of Rome? Where’s my orgies and vomitorium?
Last days of Rome? Where’s my orgies and vomitorium?
A good four-and-a-half centuries in the rearview mirror.
Is the better question where’s the new Christianity?
So I missed it by just a bit? Damn.
Yes.
To both.
This is chuckleworthy.
By way of Ace of Spades.
not a parody 2
link
So now Global Warmists have their own fast days to go along with their
carbon creditsindulgences.[sigh]
Time to start rolling out all of Halperin’s awards and best sellers and critics’ praises – “Halperin has a gift for describing the political arena in a manner that brings you right into the back rooms” etc. etc.
Because Halperin, being the successful and great writer he is, searched through his inner-database for the just the perfect word to describe Obama and he found it. Was he no longer at that moment the wordsmith that put him in the spotlight in the first place?
Ooooh.. Now that’s hitting below the belt. It’s true of course but that just makes it hurt all the worse. I’m so stealing that….
I’m stealing it, too. It’s clearly time to start hitting below the belt…the left has been doing it for
yearsdecades.