Fifty-First President of the United States Tagg Romney is hopping mad at the liberal media! This is what he perceives the hit AMC period piece Mad Man to be. On last night’s episode — THIS IS NOT A PLOT SPOILER, JUST A CUTESY ASIDE — Betty’s Republican operative husband, working for then-New York Mayor John Lindsay, was overheard telling the telephone that Lindsay wouldn’t be going to Michigan because “Romney’s a clown and I don’t want [Lindsay] standing next to him.” Get it? All of the Romneys, throughout time, have been Political Clowns.
Check out Taggage, just goin’ nuts:
Seriously, lib media mocking my dead grandpa? @aburnspolitico: “Well, tell [him] not going to Michigan. Because Romney’s a clown”
— Tagg Romney (@tromney) April 2, 2012
George Romney was as good a man I’ve ever known. Inspirational leader, worked for civil rights, promoted freedom. We need more like him
— Tagg Romney (@tromney) April 2, 2012
It’s true, George Romney was a pretty good fellow. So was John Lindsay! But both are generally understood to have been political clowns. So maybe the joke’s on Betty’s husband for not realizing that liberal Republicanism was a sinking ship taking down his own boss too… whatever, it’s a teevee show about people in fancy clothes.
And in another fifty years, we’ll all laugh when Sino-American Outer Space State Virtual-Reality Television makes fun of Tagg Romney as a “clown” and his grandchild, Chotch Romney, whines about it on autotune from his home in the Rebel CyberCaves (Delaware).
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Fine, then I'll trash talk your gramps: George Romney liked to fire people too.
Poor Wilard Mittens if he is'nt digging up dead relatives others are doing it for him.
Did he re-baptize his dead dad?
Zombie Romney has a nice ring to it.
My religion allows us to declare dead people to be clowns. I hereby declare George Romney a clown, retroactively and for all eternity.
End of argument.
I'm glad Tagg caught it. I laughed so hard when Henry said it I had martini coming out of my nose.
P.S. Wonketteers: If you mistakenly ;) write a former half-term governor's son in place of Tagg you too can get bitch slapped by the adminstrator!.
You can get bitchslapped by the administrator for naming Roy Rogers' horse, too. Try it and see!
Back when Republicans believed in the Republic, not the oligarchy misleading the proto-Tea party buffoonery.
Oh, no, the old school moderate republicans always believed in oligarchy, they only fucked up when they tried to use the bornagains to get elected, the bornagains then hijacked the party and this led to the teatards, who are really just the racists.
Tagg is right. George Romney was a MUCH better man than Tagg's dad.
We're gonna need a bigger clown car.
AMC Pacer?
Javelin
No, wait! Rambler.
I lost my virginity in a Rambler! Apropos of nothing.
"The first wide, small car."
Germlin?
Mirthmobile!
Licorice me!
With a dog carrier lashed on top.
It's an opinion of one of the characters.
Considering the fantasy world that Mittens has carved out, I, for one, am not surprised Tagg believes Mad Men is real.
Fictional characters are people, too.
Needs more Dan Quayle.
Well, Mormon gals do wear pretty similar clothing to the females on Mad Men, so I can see how he slipped that up. Oh, except the Mad Men girls have pretty, unmagical underthings.
They're pretty magical if I get to see them coming off!
George Romney was as good a man I've ever known. Inspirational leader, worked for civil rights, promoted freedom. We need more like him
Well, good luck finding more people who fit that description in *your* party, asshole.
OT: I see the late, great Kortney has been replaced by someone named Shawna…
This Shawna has the wide-set eyes, reminiscent of trisomy-21, of Britney Spears.
Is Kourtney OK?,… have you heard from her?
What are "things Mitt Romney isn't", Alex? (also self-made: father was, Mitt is anything but)
Seriously, lib media mocking my dead grandpa?
Sooooo, fictional cable shows count as liberal media now? Mmmkay.
Well, of course; for example, Game of Thrones is liberal propaganda for presenting the products of brother-sister incest, AKA real Americans, as obnoxious smackable douchebags.
Yet the show is still somehow less grim than actual US politics.
Does he own that body spray that drives the girls crazy?
Summer's Eve?
Lysol?
Body spray could also literally mean pressurized santorum.
Note to pretty girls with awful personalities, fear the gingrich sized Betty Draper.
The Ice Queen has turned into the Abominable Snowman.
Body image snark is not allowed here!! Oh wait, this isn't Jezebel.
While both George Romney and Lindsay were typical Repubs of the time: wealthy, privileged, expecting to be deferred to, either of them were Pericles of Athens compared to the current bunch of idiots in the GOP.
So… it would be OK if he were still alive?
I swear folks are way to thin skinned these days… it is probably a personal attack on you Tagg… you should go to your room and cry, then write how upset you are in your diary.
(You do know that men have journals right?)
I'm pretty sure his is a diary.
Calling Mad Men "liberal media" is like calling Ashley Judd a bigtime movie star. I'm afraid Young Tagg just doesn't understand things.
Wynonna and Naomi, that you?
1. John Lindsay would make every Republican in the US appear to be a Neanderthaliensis by comparison; and so they are.
2. "Chotch Romney" – excellent. And his collection of houses would be "tchatchkerei."
LOOK AT ME, I'M NOW PART OF THE LIB MEDIA MAKING FUN OF YOUR DEAD GRAND FATHER!!! CUT ME A CHECK HUFFINGTON POST!
"Mexico" George "I Moved Michigan Jobs To Wisconsin, then Rubbed Michiganders Faces In It" Romney was a clown, Tripp or Tregg or whatever the fuck your big-shoed name is…
Actually, George tried not to rub their faces in it, which is more than I can say of Mitt "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt" Romney.
Tagg is quite the pompous young inheritor, isn't he? The rich are different, and one of the ways they are different is that they actually do believe in "blood," in "good breeding," and "good stock," they quite literally believe that they are superior people by birth. That is, I suppose, how they can internally justify the inherent injustice of their utterly un-earned wealth, in comparison to the poverty of so many, they have a need to believe that they actually "deserve" the wealth they did nothing to earn.
In some cases, though, I suspect that children of wealth such as Tagg become smug simply because they can commit date-rape with impunity, and with very beautiful girls. It would seem that would go to ones head.
William Kennedy Smith Libel!!
That was another smug little shit.
Heh — someone's getting covenentally sealed to Jan Brewer in the afterlife.
Tagg here's my advice: write, produce, cast and distribute your own sleeper hit show that demonstrates the cool virtues of your eliminationist, white supremacist, fuck the poor worldview. Good luck with all that. The downside is you'll be too busy boffing receptionists, production assistants, and aspiring performers to have time to register your stupid fucking complaints.
Hey Tagg (if that's your real name, and if it is, I'm so sorry), they weren't mocking your dead grandfather; they were mocking your brain-dead father.
Isn't "Tagg" a Palin kid? Or maybe they are all one organism.
I'm still waiting for my apology from Murphy Brown.
The original Lindsanity was much better as well.
Mad Men vs. Romney.
It's boring on boring crime!
Joans tits libel !!
Clownz in the Rethuglican Party? Say it ain't so.
I love those. Thanks for that link.
"George Romney was as good a man I've ever known. Inspirational leader, worked for civil rights, promoted freedom…"
"…and my dad would love to do away with those things ASAP."
Clown.
Mad Men? Oh, like Ad Men but with an extra 'M'…those Ad folks are so creative…
The M/Mad is also for "Madison Avenue," which used to be shorthand for the ad business, because all the big NYC agencies were there. You are now disqualified from watching the show!
Do you think they trolled the Hollywood old folks homes for writers, or did all the writers have to go to a retreat and watch Whose Afraid Of Virginia Wolf and The Man In the Grey Flannel Suit and shit like that for a week?
Updike. (I'll just casually throw that out there, like I'm hugely literate, to fake you out.)
Oh yes, of course, Rabbit. (I never read it, bored me to tears).
"look son, that's where we buried Hoffa."
So George Romney can't be mocked cuz he's dead? Oh, OK. I look forward to never hearing anything bad again about JFK, MLK, etc. from the Right.
And, seriously Tagg? You're it, sucka!
Republicans just resent it so much, that pretty much all succesful creative and intellectual people are liberal. They think its a conspiracy, when really its just a natural phenomenon, similar to the way cream rises to the top.
Chuck Norris libel!
Are you forgetting a little known street artist named Galleghar? The crappy brother on 2 and a half men? Reformed Robert Downey Jr.? That guy who was Frasier and then Frasier in all those other shows that weren't Frasier? That flabby judge from Law and Order?
The winnowing process isn't perfect. Frasier, you mean the kiddie rapist? The 50 year old man who has a thing for 17 year old babysitters?
BREAKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kissing Angelina Jolie Was 'Awkward, Sweaty, And Not Very Nice' (StyleBistro)
I find that very hard to imagine, well, the "not very nice" part, at least.
Quit bitchin' and go enlist, pansybot.
A guy named "Tagg" bitching about the librul media…are we sure that he's not a Palin?
I tried to say Tr-g\Tagg 2036, but I was blocked.
What? What?! What did I say that time?! "Steuf"?
deit: Nope. Clearly not "Steuf".
The most terrible thing was that the first Mad Men was 2 HOURS LONG!
2 HOURS? Are you kidding me? No TV series has any right to be 2 HOURS LONG!
If I'm going to spend 2 HOURS in front of the TV watching something, I'm going to watch something that will help me, like a Kung-Fu movie or one of my How to Meet Women videos!
It's time to have a candidate that doesn't have any fucking mouthy children.
His name is Barack Obama.
Though Sasha has the "bitch, please!" look down pat
http://images.smh.com.au/2011/04/26/2326063/art_o…
Notice how throughout all this time, Sasha and Malia are STILL charming?
"Dead grandpa" is such an emotionally charged term.
Anagrams for "Dead grandpa" include "Ad Draped Nag"
even Mormon Jesus didn't see that shit comin'.
It sure is.
He's my favorite Family Circus character.
Will Chotch Romney marry Crotch Palin?
Tagg might have pointed out that his grandfather never infected Florence Henderson with crab lice. Advantage Romney clan!
Not that we know of.
He hasn't denied it. So I'm going to just assume he did.
Okay "Tagg". We won't mock your grandpa. We'll mock you instead.
If Tagg didn't have the gravitas of that second "G" in his name, I'd have a hard time taking his fake outrage seriously.
The next generation of Romneys will be named in a series of grunts and burps
Fucking liberal media…fuck those fucking fuckers (…that will simply not fly in Arizona internet space)
G Romney, Lindsay, Rockefeller – those were the GOOD Republicans.
Never watched that show, never listened to whiney pussyfart punks, never gave a fuck about anybody named Romney or Bush, so there.
Mad Men…Isn't this a show about the 2012 GOP presidential race?
Hey Tagg, pretend grandpa is a murdered black teenager. Mocking is fine then.
As for the "clown" line, it was a throwaway line in a subplot. Hardly a "liberal media" conspiracy. Get a life, "tagg' (if that is your REAL name).
Put your big-boy Mormon underpants on, Tagg, nobody called Mitt's mother a porn model or his father Malcolm X.
Um, Tagg? You might want to check the source material before you get your Golden Granddad Boxer Briefs in a bunch. Just sayin'.
You rang?
Uhhhhhhhhhh. (Or however "You've got to be fucking kidding me!" is spelled in Lurch)
It's funny because it's true! After George gave a TV interview during the '68 Presidential campaign claiming he had been "brainwashed" by American Generals into supporting the Viet Nam War…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Romney_presid…
That's a lot of angry tweets you're gonna have to issue, Tagg! Just get the Church to say they all posthumously apologize.
This is just awesome:
Senator Eugene McCarthy, running against Johnson for the Democratic nomination, said that in Romney's case, "a light rinse would have been sufficient."
If only there were a pee-point time machine…
Someday son, all those tree-fucking empty burnt out factories will be yours…
Maybe the Mormons can posthumously marry George Romney and John Lindsay to make it all better?
Mad Men is the Greatest Thing Ever in The History of the Universe! My title for it is "The Adventures of WaspMan, the Great White Hope." It portrays a society as alien to us today as the most isolated tribes of New Guinea. A culture in which everyone smokes cigarrettes, everywhere! In the office, in the train, on the bus, on the toilet, in the shower, while having sex, everywhere, all the time! A culture in which white anglo saxon protestant men reigned supreme! No papists, nor jews, allowed. Every one of the annointed WASP executives, even the junior ones, had a bar, or at least a bottle of bourbon or rye, on their credenza or in a desk drawer.
Men were the Bosses, women provided administrative support. The chicks were decorative, and deferential. They took dictation! And boffing the secretaries was the only thing that happened almost as much as smoking cigarrettes!
It was a Golden Age, a Valhalla, peopled by Giants! Men were men, instead of the whimpering mushy creampuffs they have become. And women were Women, instead of the castrating harpies they have become!
You do know that's not the point of the show, don't you? You must not watch it, if you don't see how the show subtly undermines all of that.
Oh, I watch, with a wistful feeling, Minniver Cheevy-ish.
And my wife is in a visible, seething rage the entire time she is watching it, yet she cannot take her eyes off of it, because, that Draper guy.
We grew up with acquaintances that lived that life. It did exist, only with more smoking.
I smirked at the line too but only because of what it meant in the context of the current campaign. In reality, in Repube politics of the mid to late 60's, John Lindsay and George Romney were both east coast lightweights, looked on with disdain by the emerging southern and western Repube right wing that finally carried Nixon to office in '68, with aspirations for higher office that were more ego than reality. But the writers really didn't need to call Gramps a "clown" to make that point. It was a bit of a cheap shot. True, but still a cheap shot at a dead guy.
Dead guy? Why, he is God of his own solar system, now. An All-White solar system, too!
Delightsome!
George Romney was a decent fellow. If only his spawn could have inherited a little bit of his gumption.
Taff – just keep saying to yourself, over and over: It's only a story. It's only a story. It's only a story. A fictional story about a political rival dissin' the competition. Shocking.
To be fair, Betty's husband is kind of a dick.
To be fair, the show really needs to be more focused on Joan's heavy-eyelids expression, which is great, and also her butt.
Liberal media…That's like Fox and Friends, right?
Twitter makes fools of us all.
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