Wonkette
- Depending on which poll you read, the presidential race is either perilously tight or fixin’ to be a blowout. [New York Newsday, Pensacola News Journal,]
- Barack Obama has pretty much written off West Virginia, which is not surprising, given the pack of astonishing quotes here from racist Bitters who at least had the good sense not to give the reporter their names. [Baltimore Sun]
- Republicans are privately expressing fears that a $150,000 sartorial spending spree for their “average hockey mom” was maybe not such a fantastic idea. Here’s an idea, REPORTERS: Put all this “ladies have to spend six digits their clothes, sexist” talk to rest by calling up Hillary Clinton and asking her how much she spent on her vast closet full of pantsuits for her grueling 18-month primary. We will bet it was not as much as the Republicans spent for Sarah Palin’s eight weeks of glory. [New York Times]
- New laws appear to temporarily dampen state foreclosure rates, but some foreclosures are now bouncing back, robust as ever. [Birmingham Business Journal]
- Why is John McCain busy campaigning for New Hampshire’s four electoral votes? Laying the groundwork for a 2012 run, perhaps? [Nashua Telegraph]
- The New Guns N’ Roses album will be out next month, maybe, finally. [New York Times]
By 5:01, one listener had already posted a comment on a fan discussion page, mygnrforum.com. “Its awesome!!!,” the post said.
Sure, that’s ’cause the listener has probably been listening to a bootleg copy since 2006… just like the rest of the songs on the album.
BTW… does this mean that our favorite naughty librarian, the original Tina Fey lookalike, SKS, is a GNR fangirl? ’scuse me while I go take a cold shower.
Isn’t the point that the RNC spent 150K on clothes for Palin in one fucking month, not that she has $150K in clothes? I don’t think most people would give a fuck if she spent her own damn money.
The RNC/McCain could have spent that money on other things, like:
- ads
- robocalls
- new corrupted diebold machines
- de-jowling for McCain
- down-ballot races
- etc.
Jesus, save us from your followers!
Trick question: Hillary’s wardrobe came off the “Designing Women” set, and had already been substantially depreciated on Linda Bloodworth-Thomas’ tax return.
MargeSimpsonsBlackFriend: Don’t forget “vetting.”
“Axl Rose”? At first I thought you were implying David Axelrod was a cross dresser. But Manolos probably don’t come in trannie sizes.
[i]“I’m not voting for that n–, and I ain’t no racist when I say that either.”[/i]
Are you fucking serious, West Virginia? That’s like saying “Your mother’s a lovely person, but I would gladly piss on that worthless whore’s grave, no disrespect to your mother”
You’re all forgetting the best part of the upcoming GnR album, which will disappoint on a Hindenburg scale after 10 years
Dr. Pepper is giving away FREE CANS OF DR PEPPER TO EVERYONE on the release date, to hold up their end of their bet! Mmmm! That’s some good sugar-water!
Q: What’s the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull?
A: $150,000.00 of 5th Avenue couture.*
*Oh yeah: and lipstick… can’t leave out the lipstick.
Now whenever I see Bible Spice I’m going to be wondering how much her outfit cost & thinking “Damn, I saw that jacket at JCPenney for $39.99. The RNC didn’t even get taken out to dinner before they got screwed.”
Serolf Divad: And what’s the difference between a racist, well dressed, shrew of a Republican VP nominee and me? My HOUSE didn’t cost $150,000, botch!
Sarah Palin gots what is takes to fill out those new chlothes. Va-va-va-va voom! thats what I say when seeing her picture.
I still want to know what was purchased for Palin (or her family) from Atelier. For those not familiar with it, Atelier is an avant-garde store selling weird, extremely pricey garments from Japan and Belgium that mere mortals would not understand how to put on (seriously).Is this what they were in Alaska? http://web.mac.com/ateliernewyork/iWeb/Site/ANN%20DEMEULEMEESTER%20%20FW%202008_files/IMG_2081.jpg
mattbolt: The racist stuff is just depressing, HuffPo posted some of the messages left at ACORN offices that was fucktarded evil…
So many glorious quotes from the NYT article that it’s hard to know where to start. However:
“She had a legitimate need to purchase clothing to get her through three months of grueling campaigning in the constant spotlight of television cameras,” said William F. B. O’Reilly, a Republican consultant in New York. “No one would blink if this was a male candidate buying Brooks Brothers suits.”
I’ve been to Brooks Brothers. I’ve bought suits from Brooks Brothers. And I can safely say that there is NO WAY IN HELL you can drop $150K at Brooks Brothers, unless you buy up the entire fucking store. Twice.
West Virginia is the only state that has not had an increase of Hispanic residents over the last 20 years.
Chicken or the egg: is the lack of immigration there due to racism of the locals, or are the locals racists because they are not exposed to minorities?
queeraselvis v 2.0: Also, PALIN could have gotten her clothes at Brooks Brothers, which is the equivalent of Target when compared to fucking Barneys and Saks.
William F. B. O’Reilly, a Republican consultant in New York…
Wait a minute, Bill O’Reilly, where do I know that name…
“I’m not voting for that n–, and I ain’t no racist when I say that either.”
Seriously, Baltimore Sun, grow some balls and print the word! Such pussies.
This whole campaign is Palin’s audition for her role in The Devil Wears Prada 2–The Shining.
Actually, at this point, I’m sure she thinks of the whole campaign as a slo-mo version of one of those contests where the winner gets to keep all the shit she can cram into her shopping cart in 15 minutes in the supermarket.
At least there’s one state where West VA will always dominate:
http://www.statemaster.com/graph/hea_ora_hea_los_of_nat_tee-health-oral-loss-natural-teeth
The Obama campaign launched statewide television advertising last week, and vice presidential candidate Joe Biden is scheduled to visit tomorrow.
“My argument is, until I see Obama come, this is still a McCain state,” Rupp said. “There’s a saying I like to use: Everything in West Virginia is political except for the politics, which is personal.”
I think that Obama “coming” would probably swing a great number of closeted West Virginian voters in his direction.
MargeSimpsonsBlackFriend: True that. Also, you think she forgot about going the outlet route?
Guns & Roses… I remember that band… they had that one album, way back when Reagan was President.
Yeah, there’s no way Hillary spent that much. I saw that same goddamn canary yellow blazer with black trim like 5 times. Jesus, Hillary, we get it. You’re excited. You want it real bad.
Serolf Divad:
Yes. The world needs more dirty librarians…
As for the headline, Axl probably spent about that amount on replacing his hair (or at least from what I’ve heard.)
Hell, I wrote off West Virginia years ago, and I’m not even running for anything.
MargeSimpsonsBlackFriend:
The smarter move would be to shop at Target and then go off on the “elitist liberal media” when some moron from The Globe called her on it. Instead the RNC decides that want to turn he into a U.S. Eva Perón, which is fitting given that Peronism is basically South American fascism. But in attempting to do so they’ve merely diminished her “small town hockey mom” image, in much the same way picking Palin in the first place negated the whole “Obama is too inexperienced” narrative they were cultivating.
Basically, the McCain campaign is one of the most inept major political campaign’s we’ve ever seen in this nation’s history, and if McCain is not down by 50 points right now it’s just because a significant segment of the voting public doesn’t “identify with Obama’s cultural values, especially the whole ‘being a black guy’ cultural value thing.”
Aw, poor WV is only 15th in terms of “Total black lynched, 1882-1968″
Any guesses about #1? Place your bets!
http://www.statemaster.com/graph/cri_lyn_bla-crime-lynchings-black
Holy shit. I just read the Sun article and found this gem: “He’s going to take my gun and then give my money to his own people.” Erm, clinging to guns and religion, anyone? Anyone?
carerer: Given a choice, would you move to WV, or elsewhere. I think it shows impeccable taste on the part of the minorities in this country that they make the same decision that most all humans capable of using the majority of their brain have made when faced with that same decision.
carerer:
It’s because there are no jobs there. West Virginia’s biggest exports? Coal (highly mechanized industry now that they just blast the top off the mountain to get at it) and people. Honestly, Go to DC or Baltimore and talk to poor or working class white people. You’ll find that they or their parents came to town from WVa or Pennsylvania.
queeraselvis v 2.0:
Sounds kinda bitter to me, too.
Oh lord. Every time I see a reference to a raciest West Virginia article I get this awful feeling in the pit of my stomach because I know that every single time they are going to reference some idiot in the glorious town of my birth. And they always do. I have nothing to say for myself. I turned eighteen and got the hell out of there. There is nothing you can do with those people.
mattbolt:
Mormons are totally fucking crazy:
http://www.statemaster.com/graph/hea_pre_of_poo_men_hea-health-prevalence-of-poor-mental
West Virginia is Utah without the magic drawers. Polygamy isn’t necessary either once you keep it all in the fambly.
queeraselvis v 2.0: Robin Givhan in the WaPo has an interesting take, noting that Hopey has some custom made Hart Schaffner Marx suits, (his convention one was $1500, which, since I am an elitist, I do not find that expensive for a custom made suit), but she nicely defines the differences here.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/22/AR2008102202187.html?hpid=features1&hpv=national
heronimule: is she DID spend that much, she got ripped off big time and she needs a personal shopper with better taste.
What Palin didn’t mention are these other official duties of the Vice President of the United States:
1. He manages the White House Kitchen.
2. He manages the Office of White House Protocol.
3. He manages the secretive National Intelligence Agency (NIA), a division of the Executive Branch, that sends clandestine spy teams to rough spots to wipe out terrorists, rogues, operatives, insurgents, gangsters, spies, ruffians, arms traffickers, drug dealers, murderers, mobsters, villians, dictators, gunrunners, pirates and jewel thieves.
4. He manages the White House Gift Shoppe.
mattbolt: too easy. Gee, my Ole Virginny beat out WVa. What a nice heritage.
West Virginia: beautiful country…but you can’t shake the song from Deliverance as it does the earworm thing in your head all the way through the Blue Ridge Mountains; not, I mean NOT going canoeing in that country…especially with Beatty and Voight…though he is a Republican…
I once spent $150,000 on a house in Saginaw, Michigan. I am now a smelly hobo able to use the intertubes at the Public Libray and can only stay if I wash in the sink. So I don’t think it’s far-fetched she spent that kind of money. The bathroom here is unisex so she is welcome to join me in joyful sponging.
So, is Axl Rose a genius? Did he wait until the homies from Beijing took us over to release Chinese Democracy?
Serolf Divad: Agreed, but just a few minor corrections:
Basically, the McCain campaign is one of the most inept major political campaign’s we’ve ever seen in this nation’s history, and if McCain is not down by 50 points right now it’s just because a significant segment of the voting public number of fucking retards doesn’t “identify with Obama’s cultural values, especially the whole ‘being a black guy’ nigger/half-breed muslin cultural value thing.
Oh, it messed up my strikeouts. FAIL.
Mebbe the race is a perilously tight blowout. Again, I trust Pollyvote. They were right in 2004, which was a tough call.
And there seems to be more difference between a hockey mom and an attack dog than lipstick or else that’s a damned expensive lipstick.
queeraselvis v 2.0: Buehler?
queeraselvis v 2.0: A quick back of the envelope calculation on spending in bulk at Brooks Brothers:
For a lot less than 150,000, assuming one doesn’t take advantage of any sales, specials, etc but just walks in and pays retail–
50 suits 50000
100 dress shirts 10000
40 ties 6000
25 sport coats 12500
50 dress slacks 12500
5 pair shoes 3000
2 sets of formal wear 6000 (including shoes and accessories)
2 wool topcoats 2000
2 trench coats 1800
Leaves >40,000 for casual clothes, accessories and whatever else you would want.
The 40 ties would be 3000 not 6000 if anyone is keeping score.
Doglessliberal: OMG! He is a Marxist!!!
Imaginary conversation over a breakfast table in Alaska:
“Mommy, do I have to give back the clothes and shoes I got for you being President, uh, I mean Vice-President?”
“Well, yes you might dear, because the socialist, liberal, media elite says you can’t have them.”
“But why Mommy? I really like these new clothes. They’re so much nicer than the flannel-lined Wranglers you make me wear at home. And I hate wearing Willow’s hand-me-downs.”
“Well, darling there’s nothing wrong with hand-me-downs, you’re lucky to have a big sister to share clothes with.”
“Do Willow and Bristol and Trig also have to give back their new clothes?”
“Yes, I suppose they will Sweetheart. You see the nice Republican Party gave you the clothes but the mean ol’ nasty Democrats, who aren’t real Americans anyway are making you give them back. It’s how they spread the wealth around.”
Willow has now joined the conversation.
“But Mom, we learned in school that socialism is when the government provides all of your needs. Isn’t that what the Republicans did when they bought us all these nice clothes?”
“No darling, that was an “economic stimulus package” in which we supported the economy by buying stuff far beyond our own means.”
“Oh.”
“Mommy can I have some moose bacon for breakfast?”
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Palin lost me when she stopped wearing her snowmobile suit . . .
bearbait: oooh, shit, I missed that. A Marxist Muslin Half-Breed Terrorist!
She wouldn’t have had to shop at Barney’s and Saks if Macy’s hadn’t closed down a bunch of Filene’s Basement stores. And if Obama had debated McCain in 10,000+ town-halls.
Oh c’mon, you know that Republican women NEED to spend all of that money so that they can look at themselves in a mirror. Well, not themselves — so that they have something ELSE to look at when they stand in front of a mirror.
Joe the Plumber makes $44,000 a year. Sarah Palin spent over three years of Joe’s salary on clothes in three months.
In fact, according to a report issued this month by the Rockefeller Institute of Government, West Virginia has led the nation in economic growth since May.
We are so screwed.
Tra: bet it is coal-related.
kirkaracha: Amazing how much it costs to keep a hockey mom in proper equipment. They grow out of it so fast
I’m no expert on womens clothing, but I know one when I see one.
I’m betting Hils bought all those pantsuits ON SALE at JC Penny.
She’s no elitist, she feels our pain. Or she knows someone who does, anyway.
Remember Pat Nixons “sensible republican cloth coat”?
If it was good enough for Pat Nixon, It should be good enough for the Klondike Barbie.
Doglessliberal:
True. Probably because people are eating it.
MargeSimpsonsBlackFriend: Precisely why nobody should give a crap what Hillary has spent on hideous clothes (even though, yeah, it’s probably under $150k seasonally). Hillary is super rich and can certainly afford to spend half of Bill Clinton’s one-off speaking fee on clothes, big deal.