Carly & Meg, In Every Important Way, Are Dianne & Barbara
by Ken Layne 8:47 am June 10, 2010
Meg Whitman, who hit “buy it now” on the most expensive GOP primary campaign for the unwanted job of Governor of California, is much like Carly Fiorina, who cut the market value of Hewlett Packard by a remarkable 60% during her dismal reign as CEO of that company before spending millions of her own fortune to win the GOP primary for a California Senate seat. But both Republicans are, in the most important ways, exactly the same as Democratic Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, who both won their historic races in 1992, and are liberal Democrats instead of flimsy Republicans momentarily disguised as hard-right anti-Mexican dingbats. Why is America so sexist as to not recognize how these four people are all, legally, the exact same thing? Did you not know each of them has lady parts? Did you not know 2010, like only 1992 before it, is the Year of the Womens? (Super-rich California Republican ex-tech-CEO womens, anyway.) [Los Angeles Times/Washington Post/New York Times]- The Southern white girl student in South Carolina has bravely gone on local teevee news to describe how some sketchy unemployed creeper was hanging around the university computer lab trying to make her look at Internet pornos. That creeper, of course, was new Democratic star Alvin Greene, who nobody but this girl ever saw before yesterday, when the poor black country fellow with the sex-felony charges mysteriously won the Democratic primary that will certainly lead to triumph against beloved wingnut Senator Jim DeMint. [News 2 Charleston]
- Confused Catholics hope to honor the long-dead corpse of Mother Teresa by … lighting up the Empire State Building in a special way that means the long-dead Mother Teresa is still famous to these people. [ABC News]
Rebecca Schoenkopf (424)
Kirsten Boyd Johnson (927)
Sulagna Misra (4)
Kris E. Benson (11)
Liz Colville (170)
John Schoenkopf (7)
Jim Newell (5640)
Josh Fruhlinger (646)
Erik Jay (27)
Blair Burke (181)
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Samantha Bee reports on how the country is turning to its Mommies to help clean up our messes: http://bit.ly/9KM3YI
“Greene was talking to her he suddenly asked her to look at the computer screen which displayed pornographic images. She says that’s when Greene asked if they could go to her dormitory room. McCoy says she told him no and left the room.”
Wait – that’s a crime in SC? If so, there are a lot of felons writing in to Penthouse Forum.
Glad to see plans to commemorate the life of a wingnut Catholic advocate of Papa and Baby Doc has been aborted.
I don’t trust anything that bleeds for 5 days and doesn’t die.
Confused Catholics? Naw, read the article. It’s just that wack job, Bill Donohue, writing letters from the world headquarters of the Catholic League (a desk in his basement).
Oh I see, they have to dumb it down as a “Big Story”
Does anyone remember when ebay was cool and useful? You can’t do anything on there now, it’s just a bunch of big retailers flooding the listings with crap they sell on their own website. It’s like every other online retailer except you have to haggle like you’re in Somalia or some shit.
Meg Whitman would be the perfect candidate for California as she has direct experience managing something that was once innovative and is now a bankrupt shell of its former self.
Aaaaaaaaaaallllllllvvvvviiiiiiinnnnnn!!!!!
Yes Dave?
[re=595967]Terry[/re]: Bill Donohue is a special creature. He consumes attention more desperately than a banner ad.
Wonkette gave us all the treat of his WaPo editorial where we found out that the real mission of all leftists and gays and all foreign nations and terrorists, as well as Jews and “Hollywood” is the Roman Catholic Church in America, because it is the heart, the cultural heart and grand treasure, of western civilization.
To say that he’s crazy is dubious. He is a lussus naturae so far as I can tell.
i continue to enjoy hearing people talk about whitman and fiorina as the harbingers of republican fortune as though they were the only people somehow preventing the republican party from losing its own primaries.
[re=595967]Terry[/re]: It’s the latest wingnut fad: Ask the Empire State building to light itself in honor of [fill in blank wingnut cause], and send out press releases (and fundraising letters) when the Empire State Building predictably says no.
[re=595964]ph7[/re]: Well, it is for a black man, because they know his intent was to violently rape this young Southern flower. A white kid would just be asking her to come read Bible verses condemning such horrible images, so it’s all good.
[re=595966]Katydid[/re]: I heard that their periods attract bears.
I thought everybody wrote off Mother Theresa when they found out she was an atheist.
The Republicans run guys like him all the time and are proud of it. What’s the big deal? Maybe he’s Chauncey Gardener in black face.
[re=595967]Terry[/re]: Donahue is a special form of asshole, who claims to speak for Catholics everywhere and takes great offense at imagined oppression like people saying that there’s something wrong with covering up for raping children, or openly disagreeing with the Church’s medivel dogma.
The big problem, though, is with the media, which always treats the Catholic League like it actually is a mainstream group of spokespeople instead of one guy screaming for attention, and gives him that attention he craves.
[re=595964]ph7[/re]: So Greene’s crime was hitting on a woman in a sleazy manner. Which makes him a douche, but how the hell is that an arrestable offense?
Oh wait, I forgot, this is South Carolina; a black man hitting on a white woman, in any way, is still a crime there.
[re=595975]ph7[/re]: Why do they hate private enterprise so much? Don’t they understand that private businesses get to do whatever they want with their private property, no matter what? It’s in the Constitution, I’m pretty sure.
To be fair, though, I’m sure if it were something trival, like Woolworths refusing to let Black people sit at the lunch counter, they’d be willing to give it a pass. Not not something Super Important and completely non-intrusive, like forcing a building’s owner to put up christmas lights to commemorate your special thing. If you’re a white dude.
The one thing the Republican Party loves more than a CEO is a crappy CEO.
“…flimsy Republicans momentarily disguised as hard-right anti-Mexican dingbats.”
That’s a WIN!!!
Well played, Sir! Well played!
[re=595980]WELCOME THRILLHO[/re]: And she will become the Catholic Church’s first atheist saint.
“Saint Teresa, we beseech thee to intercede with God on our behalf, if you can find him.”
She said she thought the nightmare was over until she got a call today that the same man who had taken advantage of her in the college computer lab won the Democratic nomination for US Senate.
“Taken advantage of”? I’m missing something here.
It is illegal to for a black man to hit on a white woman in a computer lab in South Carolina. Everyone knows this.
The text in the first Meg Whitman bullet is so awesome.
[re=595997]Tundra Grifter[/re]: Precisely!
[re=595978]Canmon (the Inadequate)[/re]: It’s twue, it’s twue, here comes one now! AAACK!
[re=595965]gaystorm[/re]: Too bad you couldn’t have been aborted.
It is a “given” that Christopher Hitchens is a douche, but his “Missionary Position” book about Mother Theresa is a fun read. I’m suprised that Bill Donahue hasn’t issued a catholic fatwa against Hitchens over it.
I laffed at the “buy it now” gag.
[re=595985]JMP[/re]: Donahue is a special form of asshole, who claims to speak for Catholics everywhere and takes great offense at imagined oppression
So he’s sort of an Abraham Foxman for Catholics.
[re=595971]BaconTime[/re]: Following your logic, she also would be qualified to take over as CEO at HP.
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