RESTORING HONOR TO THE WHITE HOUSE  9:57 am April 25, 2012

Barack Obama Equals Rielle Hunter’s Baby Daddy, According To Woman With Pulitzer

by Rebecca Schoenkopf

CourageKathleen Parker won a Pulitzer Prize once for her op-eds, and is it any wonder when she pens such beautiful columns as this one, decrying the president’s schedulers for letting him go to North Carolina when Democrats have Behaved Badly there? It is not the audacity of hope, but the Incompetency of Arrogance (real thing!) that has caused Barack Obama not to run away in girlish terror from one of the 57 states over which he presides.

It isn’t that Obama has anything to do with either [John] Edwards or [Jay] Parmley, but he risks being dragged into the fray. You don’t want to be in the same camera frame or news cycle with the least attractive members of your party. Moreover, plenty of media will be on hand to ask uncomfortable questions, such as, for example: “Mr. President, will you be visiting the grave of Elizabeth Edwards while in the state?”

Oh, please, that is not a Thing. He ran against Edwards, not with him. And if any idiot asked him, he would say something about how Elizabeth was very loved and is very missed, because he is not a moron and it is not a hard question to answer unless you are Kathleen Parker and you really really want it to be. But George W. Bush would never have done such a stupid thing as visiting a state that was in turmoil, says Parker. Yes, we feel like we sort of remember that, and that perhaps it was a decision by the precisely tightened ship that was the Bush White House that was maybe not very well-received? Something about flying over a state in turmoil and looking at it out the window instead, because that is how you show Leadership?

This sort of attention to detail, as well as to decorum, characterized the tight ship known as the Bush White House. Whatever one thought of Bush’s policies, his administration’s management was a tribute to precision.

Is she trying to get hit with Mussolini jokes? Or Katrina jokes (too late)? Oh well. Would she perhaps like to explain in just one phrase why everything that flows forth from her perfect fingertips should not be taken seriously by anyone with a brain, or, alternatively, the Pulitzer committee?

The media simply do not come after Obama in the same way they did Bush, notwithstanding recent research showing that Obama received the most negative coverage of any presidential candidate during the Republican primary.

For fuck’s sake, Kathleen Parker, it’s right there in your own sentence! Oh well. Probably added by an editor, who hates America, for Freedom. [WaPo]

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Barb April 25, 2012 at 10:00 am

"Obama not to run away in girlish terror from one of the 57 states over which he presides."

I'd like to point out that John McCain thought he was visiting the 13 colonies when he ran for POTUS.

DeeJayKitteh April 25, 2012 at 10:09 am

In his defense, that's what the country looked like when he was born.

James Michael Curley April 25, 2012 at 10:38 am

el Senadore Juan McCain was born in Panama so his birth place looked like a colonia española.

actor212 April 25, 2012 at 10:19 am

"Why am I campaigning in the Northern Territories, again? Have Lewis and Clark even *finished* here?"

prommie April 25, 2012 at 10:02 am

Kathleen Parker is a steaming pile of freshly shat shit. She is truly stupid, and blatantly racist behind her "butter wouldn't melt in my mouth" sweet southern gentility. Fuck her. 'Member, she was the one in 2008 who suggested Barry wasn't "American" (white) enough to be president, that he didn't have the right "blood."

ifthethunderdontgetya April 25, 2012 at 10:27 am

Of course, that is exactly what qualifies her to write for The War Criminal Post, where Little Richie Cohen and Dana "I'm doing my best MoDo impersonation" Milbank are described as "Left-Leaning".
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actor212 April 25, 2012 at 10:51 am

In fairness to K-Pax, they actually stand straight up, but they look like they're leaning left when she's in her cups.

horsedreamer_1 April 25, 2012 at 10:50 am

But, did she add, "Not the right blood 'cause he's a crip"? No? Therefore, not racist.

tessiee April 25, 2012 at 1:33 pm

"She is truly stupid, and blatantly racist behind her "butter wouldn't melt in my mouth" sweet southern gentility."

That's known in the south as "nasty nice", and don't be fooled by it.

starfanglednut April 25, 2012 at 2:42 pm

One drop libel!

el_donaldo April 25, 2012 at 10:03 am

This sort of attention to detail, as well as to decorum, characterized the tight ship known as the Bush White House.

I thought it was the vacuum seal against reality that characterized the tight ship of the Bush White House.

Serolf_Divad April 25, 2012 at 10:09 am

No, it was the night-sweats brought on by alcohol and cocaine withdrawal that characterized the tight ship of the Bush White House.

prommie April 25, 2012 at 10:14 am

Teeth-grinding, too.

MarionNYNY April 25, 2012 at 10:15 am

C'mon, leave Laura and the girls out of it.

actor212 April 25, 2012 at 10:20 am

No, it was the fastening grip of Darth Cheney, allowing systems to slip between his fingers

yrbmegr April 25, 2012 at 10:41 am

And the suitcases of cash and crates of drugs smuggled into Iraq.

BerkeleyBear April 25, 2012 at 11:40 am

I thought it was the plastic bag that W used to try and simulate the highs of his youth, not a true vacuum.

tessiee April 25, 2012 at 1:34 pm

I would have said either:
1. the complete, sociopathic sense of entitlement and absence of any decent sense of wrong-doing
or
2. the spending of the first surplus in decades into a record deficit
— but yours is good, too.

fuflans April 26, 2012 at 12:20 am

all presidents are in a bubble, but the boy king was so insulated he was in a thermos'

yeah that's why modo still has a voice.

Reginald_Perrin April 25, 2012 at 10:04 am

This kind of crap only appeals to turds who have their heads deeply implanted up their FOXholes

BaldarTFlagass April 25, 2012 at 10:04 am

Yes, and current Republican politicians are falling all over themselves with the Bush-love.

actor212 April 25, 2012 at 10:24 am

Who?

horsedreamer_1 April 25, 2012 at 1:08 pm

Jeb.

tessiee April 25, 2012 at 1:37 pm

Until the second he comes out of [snicker!] "retirement" to endorse one of them — then they'll run away so fast and so far, you'll think they were the Road Runner.

ThundercatHo April 25, 2012 at 10:05 am

Kathleen Parker won a Pulitzer, notwithstanding the fact that she is a total hack serving up leftover oatmeal for the semi-literate.

TheGyrus April 25, 2012 at 10:06 am

The media simply do not come after Obama in the same way they did Bush

Maybe she's referring to years of constant fellatio the media gave Bush after 9/11? If that's the case than, no, they have not come after Obama like that.

actor212 April 25, 2012 at 10:24 am

In fairness to the media, Obama hasn't fucked up the entire job for eight years.

Serolf_Divad April 25, 2012 at 10:07 am

Seriously, why the fuck is Barack Obama even staying in the same country as John Edwards? It's not that he actually has any connection whatsoever to the former North Carolina Senator, but surely the POTUS must realize that by remaining in the same hemisphere he risks guilt by association. Hell, merely inhabiting the same Planet as Edwards is a clear indication that Obama's hands are likely not clean in the Rielle Hunter affair. Can't the guy just take a flight on the International Space Station until this all blows over?

prommie April 25, 2012 at 10:15 am

How dare he walk around being MALE like John Edwards! All men should castrate themselves immediately, to atone for sharing a gender with John Edwards!

actor212 April 25, 2012 at 10:25 am

*crossing legs*

Um. No.

You can have my penis when you can pry it from my cold dead hands.

Generation[redacted] April 25, 2012 at 12:22 pm

We can't allow the government to ban pistol grips and high capacity magazines.

starfanglednut April 25, 2012 at 2:44 pm

Will you be in your bunk?

tessiee April 25, 2012 at 1:40 pm

I, personally, am embarrassed to have been fooled by John Edwards; and I wouldn't be at all surprised if there were some men who were embarrassed to share a gender with John Edwards…
But to do away with perfectly good peen?
We're not going there.

actor212 April 25, 2012 at 10:25 am

He should run for President of Newt's Moon Colony

That way, Newt loses TWO elections in the same year.

OneYieldRegular April 25, 2012 at 10:07 am

I hope someone sent copies of this to every member of the Pulitzer committee.

Maman April 25, 2012 at 10:07 am

Oh yes, George W. Bush was a model of political tact and decorum. What is Kathleen Parker smoking? I want some.

BaldarTFlagass April 25, 2012 at 10:08 am

"the [Bush] administration’s management was a tribute to precision."

Well, precision bombing, anyway. Of brown people.

anniegetyerfun April 25, 2012 at 10:45 am

This is the only kind of precision that our country needs. Otherwise, carefulness is for queers.

BerkeleyBear April 25, 2012 at 11:45 am

Well, if you define precise as not dropping too many munitions on our allies, anyways. I always thought we had higher standards, but I must be wrong since a Pulitzer winner says so.

prommie April 25, 2012 at 10:08 am

Kathleen Parker is the only "journalist" who is such a dumbfuck she would ask the Prez if he is gonna visit the grave of Elizabeth Edwards. This is a rich white chick "thing" that has her up in arms, its all this suppressed fear and suspicion that their husbands cheat, and it makes them go full shrieking denunciation mode when there is a public display of adultery, and thinking of it, and John Edwards is now the poster child for adultery, apparently made Parker go into "ALL MEN ARE ASSHOLES" mode. Doesn't matter that Obama went to North Carolina, when a chick is in "all men suck" mode, its an offense to be male.

Abbystinence April 25, 2012 at 10:09 am

KP is in need of a good slow jam.

horsedreamer_1 April 25, 2012 at 10:53 am

Aw yeah. It's Wednesday, & Wednesday's the nite when we make love. Tuesday, we go to your mother's house & I try to show her how to program the VCR, but Wednesday — Wednesday's the nite when we make love.

Mumbletypeg April 25, 2012 at 10:55 am

I know what you're trying to say!/ You're trying to say it's TIME for "BUSINESS" ~

horsedreamer_1 April 25, 2012 at 11:13 am

I'm down to my socks, which means it's time for business. That's why they call 'em business socks.

Chet Kincaid April 25, 2012 at 10:39 am

Takes two to tango, and nobody ever goes all ragey about ripping the uteri out of pretty young women (as a group) who have no ethical problem using their advantage against their "older sisters."

Nesnora April 25, 2012 at 10:50 am

That's because it takes a lot of self-hate to stuff yourself full of whore diamonds and Newt's fleshy bic lighter…

prommie April 25, 2012 at 10:52 am

Kathleen Parker may be the conservative Chelsea Handler? Except with no talent, I mean?

tessiee April 25, 2012 at 1:43 pm

"apparently made Parker go into "ALL MEN ARE ASSHOLES" mode. Doesn't matter that Obama went to North Carolina, when a chick is in "all men suck" mode, its an offense to be male."

I don't claim to know what Miss Parker… um, "thinks", if I may so flatter her… but I don't remember hearing of her throwing a tantrum about any white Republicans being assholes — although it must be admitted that at least some of them are — so I'm wondering if her comments don't have a touch of the "blah men are too sexay" in their subtext.

chascates April 25, 2012 at 10:09 am

"Mr. President, will you be visiting the graves of fallen Confederate heroes while you're in North Carolina or do you not treasure their sacrifice?"

OneYieldRegular April 25, 2012 at 10:22 am

That is an astonishingly good Virginia Foxx impersonation.

EtchySketchy April 25, 2012 at 10:10 am

"You don’t want to be in the same camera frame or news cycle with the least attractive members of your party."

Look forward to Mitt Romney never setting foot in South Carolina, Arizona, Texas, where you can't walk around without being engulfed by drooling hordes of very unattractive Republicans

anniegetyerfun April 25, 2012 at 10:46 am

See, I thought that the whole point was to get your picture taken with the fugs, so that you look good by comparison. At least, I assumed that that is why everyone wants to have me in their photos.

Doktor StrangeZoom April 25, 2012 at 10:10 am

Whatever one thought of Bush’s policies, his administration’s management was a tribute to precision.

Yep, like that lightning-fast response to Katrina (including the smartly stage-managed flyover in Air Force One), the impeccably well-thought-out "Mission Accomplished" appearance, the flawless presentation and quick confirmation of Justice Harriet Miers to the Supremes, the Angela Merkel backrub (sexxxy!!!)…

prommie April 25, 2012 at 10:18 am

Hacky-ette Miers? Yes, that was masterfully done. I actually think that incidents like that were times when Rove was punishing W for refusing Rove's advice; staff do that sometime, when the Boss gets above himself and tries to make his own decisions, the staff hang him out to dry.

anniegetyerfun April 25, 2012 at 10:47 am

I have never really felt bad for anyone in the Bush administration, but that episode had me empathetically face-palming for days. Poor unbearably stupid President. Poor naive Harriet.

horsedreamer_1 April 25, 2012 at 10:55 am

Also hung out to dry? Jeff Gannon's wanger after the blow bang with Rove, Mc Clellan, Ashcroft, & just for kicks Condi.

Chichikovovich April 25, 2012 at 11:08 am

Though the Katrina and "Mission Accomplished" moments were extremely precisely planned, complete fuckups. They had plotted out every camera angle, chosen Bush's flight-suit for maximum crotch exposure, placed the sailors just right, and in just the right uniforms for the photos. And when the moment started having an undesired resonance, they even carefully calibrated the blaming of the sailors for hanging the banner themselves, out of an excess of enthusiastic love for the Prez., but totally without being noticed by the photographers and advance people setting up the visuals.

[But perhaps I'm wrong, Ms. Parker - perhaps this wasn't a shameful effort to blame a bunch of innocent servicemen, but rather a massive oversight. That is, either a huge hole is blown in your central claim, or else the Bush people were dishonestly dumping on sailors to cover their own cowardly asses. Please post a reply to let us know which you think it is.]

Katrina too, was carefully planned out, in accordance with the fundamental Bush administration principle: if people elect Democrats, fuck 'em and let 'em die. Remember, Bush did quickly get on Air Force 1 (though not before making sure he had a nice photo-op with McCain's birthday cake) and headed straight for an intense, personal visit …. to Mississippi, where he spoke with Republican Gov. Haley B. and chatted with Senator "I wish Strom Thurmond had been elected Prez in 1948" about his damaged house. The flyover of New Orleans was planned too, for political effect – any feet on the ground visit would involve meeting with Democrats and possibly helping them.

But finally, to everyone's surprize, the scale of the catastrophe and of the Bush admin's incompetence at actual governing became so evident that even the typists and blatherers of the MSM – even Shep Smith, for Pete's sake! – leapt up from their dutiful fellating and actually reported that – say – a major city was largely underwater and people were starving and left on bridges for days, or that the former head of the Arabian Horse association that the Bushies picked for the relevant FEMA post was a rank incompetent crony (though presumably one who was reliably anti-abortion). Then the Bushies rolled out their go-to defensive retrenchment: blame the Democratic governor of Louisiana, blame the Democratic mayor of New Orleans. And then, when it turned out that even the old standby of blaming Democrats wasn't flying and everyone knew exactly where the fault should be assigned, they wheeled out a coordinated offensive in which the phrase of the day was "blame game", and how awful it is that the media always play it. Even old pappy George was propped up in front of cameras to huff out his high-pitched patrician voice his complaints about the media and their darn obsession with "the blame game".

So Parker does have a point – those guys were complete fuckups as far as actually performing their responsibilities as the Executive, but when it came to massaging perception, their only equal was the Reagan syndicate. True, the disciplined, coordinated messaging failed every now and then, but a 10 man Chelsea will sometimes beat Barcelona too.

BerkeleyBear April 25, 2012 at 11:50 am

Upfist for the Champions' League reference (but you do know you can never visit real Amerika now, you dirty Canuckistani)?

Generation[redacted] April 25, 2012 at 12:33 pm

Also carefully timed, Rove's outrage to this day every time someone brings this up: "How dare you impugn the sailors on that ship! The 'Mission Accomplished' sign was for them, in recognition of their superb service to our nation!"

Doktor StrangeZoom April 25, 2012 at 1:30 pm

I'd forgotten about the vetting of Brownie on abortion…because, yeah, that's clearly a FEMA concern.

Excellent comment, Chich. Once again, your snark and mastery of detail is awe inspiring.

tessiee April 25, 2012 at 1:50 pm

"the former head of the Arabian Horse association that the Bushies picked for the relevant FEMA post was a rank incompetent crony"

Sometimes it's the little details that tell you all you need to know.
"Heckuva job, Brownie" while people drowned was not only callous, it was completely inappropriate in such a serious context — as though Brownie had just played on the winning lacrosse team at prep school — and made it glaringly obvious that Little Georgie Bushie wasn't a grown-up.
Whatever else you can say about President Obama, he's at least an adult.

DaRooster April 25, 2012 at 10:12 am

You know what they always say-
"Tight ships… um… er… War for OIL!!"

OkieDokieDog April 25, 2012 at 10:12 am

Kathleen Parker, Pulitzer princess turns hack reporter.

And if any media people are asking the POTUS if he's visiting EE's grave, then they're hack reporters too. No disrespect to the dead, but who gives a fuck? Why would he visit her grave?

prommie April 25, 2012 at 10:19 am

Why, in honor of all the victims of adultery, in honor of all the womens whose man done cheated.

horsedreamer_1 April 25, 2012 at 10:56 am

/pours out Aguardiente for all the hoes done wrong by Secret Service

donner_froh April 25, 2012 at 10:12 am

He should just fly over North Carolina in Air Force One and look out the window. It worked so well for GWB.

Designer_Rants April 25, 2012 at 10:12 am

Heckuva job, Parker.

FNMA April 25, 2012 at 10:12 am

It gets even worst. Barack Obama is occupying the same country as George Zimmerman. I'm sure that will lead to loads of tough questions from morons like Parker.

DerrickWildcat April 25, 2012 at 10:13 am

He better not go to Florida because of that Casey Anthony thing…or California because of that Charles Manson thing.

horsedreamer_1 April 25, 2012 at 10:58 am

& have you seen that one show, Mad Men? If Obama goes back to Chicago, he's endorsing the ritual murder of candy stripers.

ManchuCandidate April 25, 2012 at 10:13 am

This sort of attention to detail, as well as to decorum, characterized the tight ship known as the Bush White House. Whatever one thought of Bush’s policies, his administration’s management was a tribute to precision.

Sez "Swallows" formerly of the unlamented and cancelled CNN comedy show, Sptiz and Swallows.

philpjfry April 25, 2012 at 10:13 am

He is already black Maybe he should move out of the US entirely and have a sex change operation? Would that be enough seperation? Clueless moron

SteveMcCroskey April 25, 2012 at 10:15 am

Talk about the audacity of hope. Or is it the incompetency of arrogance?

I'll take horrible writers with an axe to grind for $500, Alex.

LetUsBray April 25, 2012 at 10:21 am

Plus, the word is 'incompetence', no -y. People harping on competence really ought to know the fucking difference.

tessiee April 25, 2012 at 1:53 pm

If she's seriously using "the incompetence of arrogance" about Democrats, I'd suggest that the word is "projection".

starfanglednut April 25, 2012 at 2:50 pm

Fuckin' srsly.

ManchuCandidate April 25, 2012 at 10:40 am

No, the answer is "Who is a being a bitch with Dunning Kreuger?"

widestanceromance April 25, 2012 at 10:16 am

Tell us, KP, about how precisely he ignored the pre-9/11 terrorist warnings and then somehow served two terms as the man who "kept us safe."

ManchuCandidate April 25, 2012 at 10:45 am

Or helped let Katrina destroy New Orleans, inflated the housing bubble even more, turn a surplus into a massive deficit, deny global climate change/thwart any attempts to reduce its effects and invade the WRONG country for 9/11.

But maybe that's just me…

widestanceromance April 25, 2012 at 10:54 am

Winning a second term by pretending to save the nation from the slaughterhouse of gay marriage (I say, 'pretending,' because he never believed that crap, but was all too happy to ruin lives pretending it was true).

I feel a list coming on that I'd rather not relive this morning, actually.

Biff April 25, 2012 at 10:18 am

That cunt.

actor212 April 25, 2012 at 10:18 am

K-Pax. She wasn't just a movie character.

freakishlywrong April 25, 2012 at 10:19 am

We're almost down to six more insufferable fucking months of this shit. I wish I could check my liver in to a kennel.

BaldarTFlagass April 25, 2012 at 10:23 am

I got up during last night to take a leak and my liver was already in the bathroom, throwing up.

actor212 April 25, 2012 at 10:26 am

My penis. He cries.

prommie April 25, 2012 at 10:30 am

I'm moving to a medical marijuana state.

LetUsBray April 25, 2012 at 10:22 am

The affectedly sad tone, the transparent concern trolling, the whitewashing of a brain-dead presidency: Parker's angling to be Cowboy Caligula's Peggy Noonan, isn't she?

prommie April 25, 2012 at 10:30 am

She already is. She has taken the role upon herself with shit like this.

tessiee April 25, 2012 at 1:55 pm

"Cowboy Caligula"

Fun fact: "Caligula" was the emperor's nickname, which translates to "little boot", from his habit as a child of putting on the grown men's boots and pretending to be an adult and a warrior. So "Cowboy Caligula" not only translates to "little cowboy boot", it's pretty much an encapsulation of Bush's entire worthless life.

metamarcisf April 25, 2012 at 10:25 am

Parker has a point. At all costs, Obama must avoid any association with the Charlotte Bobcats, losers of 20 straight games.

tessiee April 25, 2012 at 1:56 pm

Although he might want to go to a Carolina Mudcats game, if for no other reason than because their t-shirts (and name) are awesome.

jodyleek April 25, 2012 at 10:27 am

Pulitzer? Pfff. Should be the Babs Jansen Award for uptight twats who think their shit doesn't stink.

metamarcisf April 25, 2012 at 10:47 am

Is it supposed to be this soft?

jodyleek April 25, 2012 at 11:59 am

That girl is a prig. P R I G, prig!

mavenmaven April 25, 2012 at 10:28 am

We know, thanks to Glenn Beck and the tea bag intelligentsia, that Barack Obama is behind every single bad thing done by any democrat or minority ever, going back to Genghis Khan.
But if its a Republican that "erred", society is to blame because of liberal mores established by… Barack Obama.
So no surprise here, there will probably be a lot of this in the upcoming months.

tessiee April 25, 2012 at 1:57 pm

Also, Clinton got a blow job, so there's that.

prommie April 25, 2012 at 10:29 am

OK, I have to ask this question, its for all the married dudes here, tell the truth. Whenever there is a news story about John Edwards, doesn't your wife give you a hate-stare like YOU did something? And don't you wish you weren't in the room?

Not_So_Much April 25, 2012 at 10:32 am

No, but I go to a mirror and glare at myself out of shame for my gender.

actor212 April 25, 2012 at 10:42 am

If I was, she'd probably have good reason to.

prommie April 25, 2012 at 10:50 am

Maybe thats my problem, she probably does have reason to.

actor212 April 25, 2012 at 10:54 am

See, this is why I lobby hard to get more women into politics. I'm tired of defending assholes like Edwards to women. I want more women to get a taste of the aphrodisiac of power and fuck their marriages up.

Trouble is, the only women who seem to cheat are *koffkoffAmyKochNikkiHaleySarahPalinkoffkoff* Republicans…

anniegetyerfun April 25, 2012 at 10:49 am

I get sort of hot and bothered (in a good way) when I think about my husband schtupping another woman, but I have to admit that the case of Edwards just makes me sad.

Limeylizzie April 25, 2012 at 11:02 am

I don't give MrLL the hate-stare for that, our house is full of nudes( paintings) of women that posed for him, including me, so I trust him with the old adultery thingy, but I do hate-stare him when he mocks my accent.

prommie April 25, 2012 at 11:24 am

Right-ho, pip pip, cheerio!

BerkeleyBear April 25, 2012 at 11:56 am

Damn, LL, first the hand down your pants and now the knowledge that somewhere there's a nude of you? You are just crushing a large segment of the Wonkeratti this morning.

tessiee April 25, 2012 at 1:59 pm

Why do people do that?
Why do people think I'm going to think it's funny when they imitate my accent back to me, and always badly?
I'm not even that insulted, really, I usually just think they're lousy at doing imitations.

Limeylizzie April 25, 2012 at 2:07 pm

I have no idea, I really hate it when they do the Monty Python thing to me, wtf? It's always these clowns who know every single line of dialogue from Life of Brian or the Parrot Sketch, drives me smooth up the wall.

BerkeleyBear April 25, 2012 at 11:55 am

Nah, but then again, she was never into John-John and she really doesn't get that emotionally tied to anyone who isn't a blood relative. See, I think it mainly happens when the cheater was someone the wife found attractive and was emotionally invested in, because then the infidelity reflects back on their emotional investment and all their choices. So, Clinton, Edwards and Tiger Woods arouse their inner anger in a way that average old dude cheating can't.

MosesInvests April 25, 2012 at 1:28 pm

Well, my ex is about the *last* person who should be getting pissed off about adultery….

Texan_Bulldog April 25, 2012 at 10:32 am

Kathleen is about 10 years & a few Gin & Tonics short of becoming Peggy Noonington. Such a pity the only figure Kathleen has to wax poetically about is W. What is it with these RW women & their first crushes (W & Reagan, respectively)?

Guppy April 25, 2012 at 10:39 am

I dunno, she strikes me as being too provincial, too pastoral to become another version of the urbane, cosmopolitan Lady of the Manor.

James Michael Curley April 25, 2012 at 10:40 am

I think she also has to wax profusely about her upper lip and ears.

DonnyKerabotsos April 25, 2012 at 10:33 am

From the Pulitzer Prize webpage:

"Awarded to Kathleen Parker of The Washington Post for her perceptive, often witty columns on an array of political and moral issues, gracefully sharing the experiences and values that lead her to unpredictable conclusions."

I won't even bother to address the claims of perceptiveness, wit or grace, but "unpredictable conclusions?" Is that what we're calling bat-shit crazy now?

James Michael Curley April 25, 2012 at 10:42 am

"sharing the experiences and values that lead her to unpredictable conclusions" sounds like something written at the top of an English 101 composition right next the the F+

prommie April 25, 2012 at 10:48 am

"Quirky." Its a 90s thing, something to do with Meg Ryan. "Oh, that Kathleen Parker, she has the outward appearance of education and intelligence, yet here she is saying Obama isn't racially pure enough to be president, how charmingly quirky."

actor212 April 25, 2012 at 10:55 am

It sounds like she wrote her own precis for the Pulitzer people. That, or Jonah Goldberg owed her a whore diamond

Not_So_Much April 25, 2012 at 10:34 am

Seems like she could have written a far more interesting column out of pretend questions that nobody will ever ask the president. "Mr. President, F/Marry/Kill: Kathleen Parker, Virginia Foxx, Lizzard People. GO!"

Mumbletypeg April 25, 2012 at 10:37 am

It isn’t that Obama has anything to do with either [John] Edwards or [Jay] Parmley, but he risks being dragged into the fray. You don’t want to be in the same camera frame or news cycle with the least attractive members of your party.

What a preening disingenuous flagrancy of concern. If you substituted certain words I could swear it was my long-forgotten, busybody aunt:

"Not that you have anything to do with those girls'… reputations* but you're not doing yourself any favors being seen out with them!"

*'reputation' = either girlfriends of mine who lived in the sticks; or else those who played on athletic teams and cared less about femininity or dressing up (I looked up to them as a failed athlete myself) >> questionable sexuality

tessiee April 25, 2012 at 2:03 pm

"either girlfriends of mine who lived in the sticks; or else those who played on athletic teams and cared less about femininity or dressing up"

Funny.
Until I read that part, I just assumed that your aunt meant those girls who Fooled Around with Boys, because "then the boys will think YOU'RE like that, too!" (the horror!).
So the straight girls were in the closet, too.

Mumbletypeg April 25, 2012 at 2:28 pm

True enough — girls having a 'rep' mostly implies promiscuity — but I was sheltered enough that, stuck in a girls' school & never meeting any boys, becoming 'oversexed' was the *least* of their worries. Still, there was always something to carp about. Keeping up appearances was one of them. It took me a while til I could get comfortable w/ the opposite sex, for lack of experience during those formative years! And I wish I could go back in time and tell those nattering women in my life: "Why weren't you concerned, if keeping up appearances is sooo important, that I wasn't meeting any guys my age?!"

freakishlywrong April 25, 2012 at 10:38 am

We're at the point where if the entire cable snooze, lame-ass print "media" isn't roundly trashing the POTUS 24/7 a la' Fux, he hasn't been properly vetted.

ElPinche April 25, 2012 at 10:40 am

Sorry lady but Barry is not a work-from-home/plane/faux ranch kinda president.

Guppy April 25, 2012 at 10:40 am

You don’t want to be in the same camera frame or news cycle with the least attractive members of your party.

Oh, exploitable!

actor212 April 25, 2012 at 10:45 am

I always thought the advice was, you don't want to be the least attractive person in your photo?

Damn. I need to brush up on my Facebook protocols.

Dr. Nick Riviera April 25, 2012 at 10:49 am

Hence why nobody can be seen in a 6 mile radius of Dubya

Fare la Volpe April 25, 2012 at 10:41 am

I'm a little amazed that Madame Parker is not the love child of Dame Peggington and Thomas Friedman. She possesses all of Peggy's self-awareness and all of Friedman's accuracy.

actor212 April 25, 2012 at 10:43 am

And probably has his mustache, at least before the lip bleach

Mumbletypeg April 25, 2012 at 10:46 am

I knew that was a Nooning-gale singing between the lines of Parker's words. I just couldn't decide who the other component was til you posted .

4TheTurnstiles April 25, 2012 at 10:43 am

I don't think Kathleen Parker is getting a lot these days. She's awfully uptight and preoccupied with attractive, unattainable black guys.

actor212 April 25, 2012 at 10:56 am

Ergo, she's in a steamy lesbian affair with MoDo!

it must be true, I just read it on the Intertubes

Terry April 25, 2012 at 10:45 am

"This sort of attention to detail, as well as to decorum, characterized the tight ship known as the Bush White House. Whatever one thought of Bush’s policies, his administration’s management was a tribute to precision."

Two words: Mission Accomplished

anniegetyerfun April 25, 2012 at 10:55 am

Oh, this poor stupid bitch. You know, Kathleen, sometimes when I can't think of what to write, I just call my editor and mention that I am on an coke-fueled sex binge and won't be available for a couple of weeks. They seem to accept that.

NYCer2 April 25, 2012 at 10:55 am

It looks to me like the Pulitzer Journalism Committee that year should have done what the Pulitzer Fiction Committee did this year and award no one a Pulitzer, rather than settle on this idiot.

Steverino247 April 25, 2012 at 10:59 am

"Whatever one thought of Bush’s policies, his administration’s management was a tribute to precision."

Hmm. Like Walter Reed? My younger son was there while it was literally falling apart around him because the President and his brilliant, tight administration believed there would be no casualties. Fortunately, there were some there who knew better (an Army can't march across a parade field without some clown getting hurt) and prepared for it as best they could in a neglected and aging facility or we would have lost more guys than we did.

Tribute to precision? You've gotta be shitting me, you stupid bitch.

tessiee April 25, 2012 at 2:05 pm

Precision in publicity and whitewashing themselves, maybe.

horsedreamer_1 April 25, 2012 at 10:59 am

You know who else was named Andrew Young?

tessiee April 25, 2012 at 2:06 pm

Andy Dick?
No, that can't be right…

tessiee April 25, 2012 at 2:06 pm

Brigham Young?
No, that's not it, either…

Dr. Nick Riviera April 25, 2012 at 10:59 am

Yes, if there's one thing we could take away from the Bush White House, it's that it was a tightly run ship that never let him embarrass himself.

tessiee April 25, 2012 at 2:06 pm

Or wouldn't have, if he were capable of embarrassment.

Mumbly_Joe April 25, 2012 at 11:05 am

The media simply do not come after Obama in the same way they did Bush, notwithstanding recent research showing that Obama received the most negative coverage of any presidential candidate during the Republican primary.

This is actually a true fact! See, Bush deserved all of his negative media, so nobody people didn't have to make shit up to find something to criticize. So, totally different, qualitatively!

DocChaos April 25, 2012 at 11:12 am

I guess Obama should skip the Democratic National Convention being held in NC this year.
Wouldn't want to have Edwards and and Parmley crashing the party and molesting delegates and making babies while he's giving his acceptance speech.

As a bit of political ju-jitsu, I hear Romney will be limiting himself to campaigning only in states where Republicans have been in the news for behaving like douchebags. That's all of them, Katie.

SayItWithWookies April 25, 2012 at 11:19 am

Parker sure has an inflated view of the importance of shit that happens in North Carolina. First of all, nobody wants to hear another goddamn word about the goddamn John Edwards trial. John Edwards was and regrettably still is the most tedious, substance-free politician, and even his affair is boring and stupid. Nobody gives a shit. And as for Whatsisname Parmley, the head of the North Carolina Democratic Party — who the fuck cares?

So yeah, Kathleen — Obama's trip to North Carolina is fraught with all the terrifying danger of a visit to the grocery store where I once purchased some bananas that went bad sooner than I expected and ran into a person I wasn't really interested in seeing.

Dubya, on the other hand — I can think of a thing he did once where, when a neighbor threw a rock through his window, he went down the street to a completely different person's house and burned it to the ground. Not as precise to me, but whatever.

horsedreamer_1 April 25, 2012 at 12:02 pm

Bush was just Standing His Ground.

tessiee April 25, 2012 at 2:25 pm

"John Edwards was and regrettably still is the most tedious, substance-free politician, and even his affair is boring and stupid."

"Dubya, on the other hand — I can think of a thing he did once where, when a neighbor threw a rock through his window, he went down the street to a completely different person's house and burned it to the ground. Not as precise to me"

I am in total awe, good sir or madam.
Upfisted and followed.

Troglodeity April 25, 2012 at 11:21 am

Whatever one thought of Bush’s policies, his administration’s management was a tribute to precision.

BWAAAAAAAAH haah haah haah haah haah!!!!

Wile E. Quixote April 25, 2012 at 11:25 am

Yeah, she won a Pulitzer Prize, so fucking what. The Pulitzer was also awarded to New York Times hack and Stalinist ass-whore Walter Duranty. What a fucking twat, is there some way we can drive the Post out of business so she spends her remaining days living in a dumpster and giving blowjobs to support her crack habit?

Generation[redacted] April 25, 2012 at 12:50 pm

I'm upfisting your comment just because I like your name. Genius!

ttommyunger April 25, 2012 at 11:46 am

Absolutely! And BTW, my mom is buried in Missouri, Barry. I expect you and your million-dollar a day entourage to stop off there and pay your respects next time you swing through there. And Kathleen- fuck you very much, bless your heart.

Allmighty_Manos April 25, 2012 at 11:48 am

Obama better just stay out of North Carolina , better make it the entire East Coast until 2016.

BZ1 April 25, 2012 at 12:29 pm

"the tight ship known as the Bush White House" what, WHAT? W H A T??

Generation[redacted] April 25, 2012 at 12:37 pm

That Dorothy Parker sure knows how to deliver ironic humor, doesn't she?

Callyson April 25, 2012 at 12:37 pm

It isn’t that Obama has anything to do with any speck of mud we can find to throw in his direction, but he risks being dragged into the fray by the idiots and assholes who want to take him down any way they can.

/fixed

tessiee April 25, 2012 at 1:29 pm

One of my exes, who shall be known here as The Laziest Fuck on the Planet, grew up in Ireland.
I thought of him just now, because as I read the article, I could hear his voice saying, "Feckin' eeeedjit".

tessiee April 25, 2012 at 1:30 pm

A disgrace to all women writers named Parker.
Also to all writers.
Also to all women.

Bots Meat Commission April 25, 2012 at 1:51 pm

You don’t want to be in the same camera frame or news cycle with the least attractive members of your party.

YOU LEAVE HENRY WAXMAN OUT OF THIS, PARKER.

Beowoof May 8, 2012 at 5:57 pm

Although not normally a consideration for me, after reading this I have to ask who she blew to get a pulitizer. (If they gave this twit a prize they don't deserve to be capitalized).

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