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Thursday, January 13, 2011

November 11, 2004 by s.z.


Who Said It?


Yes, our last mystery guest (the one who said that while not all Democrats are on welfare, all people on welfare are Democrats) was the girl who made Objectivism zany, Amber Pawlik.
Now, who said this (and of whom were they speaking, and to whom)?
She’s a repugnant person who says the most vile things. She lies. She’s a liar and you know that. You just confronted her on ten different things. I mean, come on, man! Some people, you have to call them for what they are.   

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If They Didn't Have Flippable Hair, They'd Be Writing For 'The Rant'


I think I caught Lileks' cold.  I swear, he just claims to have these ailments so I can't report all my symptoms to you (because after reading how pathetic it makes one sound, it kind of kills the urge to share).
But in any case, today's post will be a gimmee.  We'll consider the latest columns by people who are really easy to make fun of: Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin.  Plus, the latest boobie news.
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Ann's column, "Olbermann Can Count Down, But Can He Count Up?" is an infomercial  about Michael Barone's Congressional Almanac.  Since you are all busy people with things to do (and pies to bake), here's a condensed version:
Fox News ... limited to nutcases...
Olbermann revealed that Bush's win in Florida -- and thus the election -- was "attributable largely to largely Democratic districts suddenly switching sides and all voting for Mr. Bush at the same time"!
A quick glance at the Congressional Almanac indicates that all five counties in Olbermann's conspiracy theory are in the Florida Panhandle ...
... Michael Barone ...  
 ... Ashlee Simpson ...
... the Congressional Almanac. ... 
No election in the United States can be discussed intelligently without reference to Michael Barone's Congressional Almanac.
 ... the Congressional Almanac. ...
So I guess we can add "math" to Keith's growing "I Don't Do" file, along with "Reading the Congressional Almanac," ...
One cable news network employs Michael Barone as an analyst; one cable news network does not own a copy of the Congressional Almanac.
... Americans are stupid. 
Now, if Ann doesn't get a gig at U.S. News and World Report, it won't be because she hasn't doen her best to suck up to Barone.

In other Ann news, our friend David E. reported that ol' Manhands was a guest on a recent ep of "Real Time with Bill Maher."  We found the transcript and selected what we feel are the highlights:
COULTER: Hey, is that Richard – is that Richard Belzer on the panel?
MAHER: Boy, is he.
COULTER: I thought it was Osama bin Laden.  
See, Belzer had just said something about Ann looking like she'd had some work done,which is the EXACT SAME THING that Osama said about her at their last meeting! 
MAHER: Well, speaking of Osama bin Laden [...]  A lot of us have been raising this point about the seven minutes. Now, I never got your take on this. But, really, if it wasn’t President Bush, if it was just a president, just a hypothetical president, would you be defending the idea of sitting there for seven minutes, in the nuclear age, after he was told the country was under attack? Would you?
COULTER: Actually, I don’t think a lot of people are raising this point. I think you and Michael Moore are raising this point, and I think there’s a reason for that. What? Do you want the president to run out of the school and say, “Let the planes hit me first?” [audience cheers] I mean, nobody – well, yes, I hope a lot of people are watching this. Those are your supporters, Bill.
MAHER: QUIET, HEATHENS! [laughter]
COULTER: When – you know, when the attack occurred, it was well known, public knowledge where the president was. They had to secure the school. They had to secure Air Force One. I don’t know what you think a president is supposed to do.
MAHER: [overlapping] No, but wouldn’t it have been more—
COULTER: [overlapping] Go run around the school like a puppy dog?
Because if Georgie HAD tried to take some action without Karen Hughes there to advise him, the possibilities are that he would have (a) run around the school like a puppy; or, (b) gotten drunk and then wet himself.  So, Ann is probably right that he did us all a favor by just continuing to discuss goat-related program activities with the kids.
MAHER: What do you think – do you think Rudy Giuliani would have sat there for seven minutes? [applause]
COULTER: Yes.
MAHER: You do?!
COULTER: Yes. [laughter]
MAHER: And what about your boyfriend, Ronald Reagan? [laughter] He would have sat there for seven minutes? You don’t think--
COULTER: The difference is Ronald Reagan—
MAHER: [overlapping] You don’t think you’re—
COULTER: [overlapping]—Ronald Reagan would not have been reading at a school. My objection is that the most powerful leader in the world is taking the time to sit in kindergarten classes and read textbooks as president. But I’m not the one who said women should have the right to vote.
Yeah!  Because back in Reagan's day, when women couldn't vote, you wouldn't have seen a President wasting his time having a photo op with kids!  Back then, Presidents just pledged to build expensive technology from out of George Lucas movies, and thus won both the Cold War and the votes of all male citizens. It was a more manly age, and so Ann felt more at home.

But, as David E. says, "Anyway, that's all setup. What I found most interesting is that Ann was wearing a cross around her neck. And it didn't seem to be burning her flesh."
Ba-bing!
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Our next guest is the loveless and talent-free Michelle Malkin, whose column this week is about how if the media loves Democratic minorities so much, why doesn't it marry them? 

Think of poor Michelle -- she's a minority, but you never see Andrea Mitchell calling HER a rising star.  And that's just so unfair!  Oh, and the media has also largely ignored a couple of elected Republican minorities who didn't give stirring speeches at a national convention this year.  Well, they weren't exactly ignored, but the point is: when will it be Michelle's turn to be the pretty one?
Obama's personal story is certainly impressive. The biracial Obama is son of a Kenyan immigrant and a rarely mentioned white mother (who raised him after his father ditched the family and returned to Africa when Obama was 2).
Of course, in reality (which isn't where Michelle lives), every story about Obama's background mentions his white mother. 

But (IMHO) what Michelle is REALLY saying is: undercredited white people do all the real work around here, while those much-touted black people just abandon their families and leave the country, proving that white people are so much better than all other people that we should just leave all the governing to them.  And Obama is basically white anyway, so he shouldn't get credit for being a minority.  And hey, media, if you admire Obama, then, under law, you have to admire these these Republican officials too, because they are also minorities.  That's how it works, right?
Republican Van Tran, a Vietnamese-American, is a staunch defender of the Second Amendment, immigration enforcement, traditional marriage, tax cuts, the war in Iraq and the sanctity of life. He is also a self-described "Reagan kid" and an outspoken anti-communist who escaped his native land when he was 10. He has been targeted for his views and carries a concealed weapon to protect himself.
Any guy who carries a concealed weapon is okay in Michelle's book!  Now, if he'd only shoot some people while they try to sneak over the border, Michelle would have an orgasm on the spot.
Republican Bobby Jindal, 33-year-old son of Indian immigrants, was elected to Congress with a whopping 78 percent of the vote in his Louisiana district.
[...]
Tran and Jindal are remarkable rising stars, but as New York Times editorial writer Adam Cohen seemed to suggest in a derisive profile of Jindal, minority conservatives are regarded by the mainstream media elite as "freakish" -- no matter how impressive their resumes or resounding their electoral victories or moving their personal stories are.
As Media Matters points out, what Cohen really wrote (in a passage that admiringly pointed out Jindal's many accompishments) was "At the age of 32, he has an almost freakishly impressive resume." 
But if the NY Times isn't writing glowing editorials about Michelle, then it proves that the media is biased against Republican miniorities.
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And speaking of boobs, here's a story about how you can get bigger breasts for a day via saline injections (you know, in case you anticipate being Tara Reid and having your dress fall off in public). 

But after seeing those photos (courtesy of Frederick, who runs the BeatBushBlog when not alerting people to these kinds of photos), I have to say that the saline injection method would probably have been a better bet for Tara than the cut-rate surgery she underwent.  Like the NY Post said:
As photos of peek-a-boo party girl Tara Reid and her bare breast made the Internet rounds yesterday, several questions arose:
Why didn't she realize her dress was falling off? How drunk was she? And: What about those gross purple scars?
Ever since the once-flat-chested actress blossomed last spring, Reid's booming bustline has become her most talked-about attribute.
But after Thursday night's mishap at P. Diddy's 35th birthday party, this much is clear: Reid should demand her money back.
 Poor Tara.  She is NEVER going to get to be Queen of England unless she starts getting better press.

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