Tampa, Day Something –
We had just gotten a small glass of Bulleit (the greatest bourbon) from the very sweet twenty-nothing barkeep, when a lady, who just moments before had gotten what looked to be a lovely pinot grigio, walked over and told us the bar was closed. Oh, okay, certainly! we said as we paused to take a sip. “No the bar is closed now,” she explained, and the dozen people standing with their drinks waited for us to put down our glass and let security escort us to the elevator. Apparently, we got kicked out of a Politico party for tweeting mean things? That is weird, right? Is that weird? Like, don’t put a hashtag in front of people and then expect them not to call you barfy? That is just how hashtags work!
Politico is talking about teleprompterz. On whom do I vomit?
#polhub— Rebecca Schoenkopf (@commiegirl1) August 29, 2012
Hmmm, that was kind of mean! Then there was this:
At the Politico party, they are not showing the speeches. They are showing these 3 yapping people? I would like to watch Rand Paul?
#polhub— Rebecca Schoenkopf (@commiegirl1) August 29, 2012
This one might be the meanest, because of how we noticed a thing that was true, and then said it.
At the Politico party. Right now on camera, four men, zero women. Is ANYBODY looking at the optics of this. VOMIT EMOTICON.
#polhub— Rebecca Schoenkopf (@commiegirl1) August 30, 2012
Well, soon the producer, who was a tall, gorgeous blonde in a bitchen black sheath dress, came out to ask if we had noted that there were many female lady type people reporting from inside the convention center, and had we noted that, huh, huh? And we were like sure we guess maybe I don’t know, martini?
And then Jim Vandehei (he’s the young one, right?) came over and was like YOU ARE FROM WONKET HELLO I AM SAYING HELLO TO YOU BECAUSE OF HOW YOU SAID YOU WERE LONELY BEFORE (oh, because we had tweeted that we were lonely before) and before we could really reply he had turned around and left and gone back to his friends and we had TURDED ALL UP IN THEIR PUNCH BOWL.
Then they had security throw us out, but joke’s on them, because we had already made out with him earlier, and he totally left and came with us, the end.
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{ 137 comments }
How do you tell which security guard to make out with? Is he the one wearing the Vadge badge? Just curious. Did you get his phone number?
Maybe it was a her? did you even try to get to third base?
Why would anyone want to go to a Politico party to begin with? Just sayin'
Because it is there. And free. And free booze.
Douchefest with free alcohol is still a douchefest.
Well, yea, but the choice was free booze or the hotel minibar. I'd choose the free and snark any day
My entire social life for a decade has consisted of attending open-bar, goumet dinner douchefests. There is no snark, exxageration, or hyperbole to this comment, its just true. Being places I don't want to be, smiling and chatting up people I don't want to know.
Oh, Wonkette–home of the free and the snark.
Douchefest with free alcohol is still free alcohol.
FUCK YOU TYRANTS!!!!
So much for freedom of tweets.
So you drank their booze and insulted them in public while still there?
That does seem a little rude. Proper hypocrisy should have lead you to be snarky after you'd drained the free bar.
It was rude.
It was also magnificent! Draining the bar and then snarking is kind of cowardly, but to brazenly drink their booze AND insult them to their faces is something a seasoned pro– like me– would do.
I can't bring myself to be rude to people when there might still be a free drink in it for me. It's against my nature.
I get high on snark.
Hi. I'm Generation[redacted], and I'm a snarkaholic.
me neither, it's the Irish genes
Welsh genes here, same thing.
I blame the parents for this type of behavior.TV,video games,and porn can't take all the blame.
I blame the patriarchy
"I blame white males!"
It's Obama's fault.
Like Poltico deserved anything but rude. The only way Editrix coulda done better was to fill up several flasks with the super bitchin' whiskey when no one was looking. Her conduct was exemplary, and highly commendable. Politico wussies had to call their renta-cops, why cuz Editrix looked so dangerous and formidable? I mean, little do they know, but just sayin' she doesn't LOOK fierce and tough as twisted spring steel.
You have to ask yourself: WWHSTD?
What Would Hunter S. Thompson Do?
I'm not sure, but i think it would involve napalm and psychedelics.
To paraphrase the legendary Jesse Unruh:
"If you can't eat their food, drink their booze, screw their men and/orwomen and then tweet against them, you have no business being up here."
You, my fair maiden, have excellent taste in bourbon.
I'm a Rebel Yell man, myself. With Vernor's.
Bulleit has also added a rye to their line-up. Quite tasty, though unfortunately not available in my local state stores.
Some people just have no sense of humor.
Politico is a very serious journalismic enterprise. Must show proper decorum in its presence.
Can't ..stop….laughing…
That's just it; it's very rude not to take them as seriously as they take themselves.
Rebecca, you been naughty, and now ChernobylSoup and I will give you a proper spanking.
Proper decorum = shaving your ballz.
If you didn't get kicked out, you wouldn't have been doing your job. Duh.
Well, at least Mike Allen didn't hit on you.
Eeoow.
Wow, those are the mean tweets of Tampa?
They oughta come here and let us take a crack at them
In the immortal word of someone "They ain't seen nothing yet!" Are they thin-skinned enough to join the Victims Party?
That was precisely what I was thinking. We'd have them going all fetal in about two seconds.
You've arrived.
I think I am smitten with lust for the Editorix. She loves very good bourbon, is sexy hot in her red dress, and is very witty. And she was ejected from a social function. My kind of lady.
Considering that Politico fired Ben Smith, the only writer they had that didn't suck, you should be proud to get kicked out of their party.
Waitasecond, they did? Good.
Now I don't have to feel conflicted about liking Ben Smith.
Gangsta Rap has become the new English of America`s youth. With eyes closed and ears open you will be in Detroit’s ghetto. Jay-Z, DMX, and 50 Cent have stolen the nation`s conversation, honky gals love the talk and walk.
Please show us on the doll exactly how your pole got nicked.
I am guessing it was Karl Rove's gold toof that done it.
I had an ice cream sandwich once that wasn't very good. Don't you hate it when your fly won't stay up? My dog is very flatulent. It was vanilla, and kept getting stuck in my foreskin, and then my balls froze to the cookie, also too. The end.
I'm sure that made more sense in the original Tardeese.
Original Tardineese is till spoken by senior inmates in maximum security prisons. It is being taught as a second language in NYC colleges.
I just kicked the entire Politico team out of the party in my head.
Well, better to go to a Politico party than to go to their website.
I hope you still managed to drop acid in the punch bowl.
There's always acid in Politico's punchbowl.
Yeah, sulfuric.
hydrocyanic.
Oooh, goin' all Walter White on us, are ye?
Full Schroedinger, actually. But does the experiment work with the soulless undead? Don't know.
Grace Slick Libel!!!
(She knew Julie Nixon and was invited, then uninvited, to her wedding at the White House. She really planned to drop acid into the punch bowl.)
This is surely the first time that Politico has ever been criticized, so it must have been a real shock to them.
The entire Tampax convention has been one long insult to Obama, interrupted by insults to truth, and Politico gets on you for tweets? Who the fuck reads tweets? No offense, valiant editrix, but tweeting is the most harmless, impotent medium in all the digital universe.
Now I need a bourbon in my coffee cup.
Rebecca, I think it is way past time for you to go all O'Keefe on Politico's ass.
Whom should she dildo first?
I nominate Prince Rebus.
Does Rebecca have access to a boat full of dildos?
You seen that dress she wore to the drunky thingie, and you still have to ask?
Bulleit is a pretty good bourbon. Pretty good.
*taking notes*
….pret….ty….good…
Go on?
It's just that if I'm going to call something the greatest, I'm going to drinking either Jefferson or Woodford.
OK, I'd
downed an entire bottle oftasted Woodford Reserve and did find it to my liking, but my only other experience with bourbon…that I can remember…is with JD, so I'm always open to newfall-down drunkenexperiences.Someone someday should rate bourbons on how bad your hands shake the day after.
Politco, whose motto is kinda like Virginia's: Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus-"Always Faithful to Large Dinosaurs like Barney."
Mmmmmm…Bulleit…
Oh, yeah- Steve McQueen, the car chase…great movie!
I'm so proud of you, Becs!
Just curious, Editrix. I don't see any hash tags mentioning Politico and I don't see where you "@ed" them out. So how did they know it was you tweeting?
She @ed the yappy people individually, I think.
the hashtag was #polhub; i had a bunch of em
You shouldn't of called him Jim Vandewannagethei
This story would only be better if you had vomited on someone before you were kicked out. Maybe you could work on that for tonight.
Or at least thrown her drink on someone.
Sara!!!
That is a bang-on metaphor for Politico. You want to like them, you try, but they won't let you.
Vanderhei is pretty new at this.
Brother be tripping trying to front on us, knowImsayin'?
Maybe they were pissed that you weren't sharing that big gnarly spliff that's posing with you in your Twitter avatar.
I'm sure you've been thrown out of classier joints than a Politico party.
If you made out with Jim Vandehei, Politico must have had some rocking drugs & booze at that party.
Rebecca, you won the evening.
Editrix tweeting mean things? What are the odds?
Come to my place, Rebecca, I'll console you.
There, there, it'll be okay.
[how's that?]
At least you weren't at a party thrown by Politico commenters. All the free drinks in the world wouldn't deaden someone enough for that.
Ain't no party like a Politico party cuz a Politico party don't stop (except for bloggers).
Is it me, or is monitoring the twitter hashtag for your own party, during your party to see what people are saying about your party the most pathetically insecure thing ever?
Just fucking party, people.
When your party is a pity, just confiscate everyone's mobile devices at the door and be done with it.
Our media is supposed to be full of people who ask the tough questions and stick to their guns and don't back down.
Instead, we get a pack of insecure wussies who are still mad they didn't get to sit at the Kewl Kids table in high school, but are convinced that now — NOW! — they're the In Crowd.
Of course, they're really not, so they go around to see who wrote impolite things about them on
bathroom stall wallsthe Internet.Sweet fucking Christ on a pogo stick … our media sucks.
it does strike me as remarkably junior high in its tone. "becca can't come to my party because i am totes mad at her for what she said about my hair on facebook."
also, being shocked in 2012 that wonkette or her affiliates would tweet snarky things about pretty much everything and anything (or politico in particular) seems incredibly naive. if you invite wonketteers, expect the snark.
Rebecca, you failed to mention any of the Wonkette themes in those tweets. Not a single mention of Trucknutz, buttseks, etc. Shame on you.
Is that the guy who looks like the creepy helicopter pilot from "Beyond Thunderdome"?
I thought 'Trix had better taste than that.
Is it drinky time already? Oh wait, never mind, this is Wonkette.
I remember when Wonkette was a Warblog. Back in the day, we wouldn't have taken this lying down.
Did anyone follow you to the Politicave?
Did they at least say "Tits of GTFO" before they threw you out?
Maybe if you weren't such a fucking pinkosocialistlibrulhouseonunamericanactivities commiegurl in a red dress they may have let you stay. Then again, maybe the clam who kicked you out just didn't want the competition.
Where are you? The National Socialists conventions? Fucking Nazis.
Hey at least it's a fucking ethos!
Shut the fuck up, Donnie!
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FUCK POLITICO IN THE ASS!
Needs moar blonde producer.
Yea, Blonde Tits or GTFO!
This will surely give me nightmares, tonight. Of having to walk away from a freshly poured tumbler of Bulleitt. *shudder*
Becca, you just don't understand how the systems work. Ask yourself, would they have done such a thing to Matt Drudge?Answer, HELL NO!!!. Why? Because Drudge has SIRENS!!! Much as I love Mistress Cat Suit BullWhipper, she's no match for fucking SIRENS!!! Wonkette needs to have SIRENS and they would be falling all over themselves to dress your ass in satin and whore diamonds.
Yay! If you didn't get thrown out I'd be sooooo disappointed.
Did she get off a hearty "don't taze me bro" before she was led away?
I wouldn't want to join any party that wouldn't kick me out after reading my tweets. Or something something Groucho something.
i would give wonkette more money to make that 'command brand' loud ad thingee would go away.
From these tweets I have learned that I must become a Handsome Security Personnel.
This morning's POLITICO Playbook from Mike Allen says 'Spotted at the Politico Lounge in Tampa…"
In the comments section I added "Rebecca from Wonkette.com. Until she got tossed out for sending mean Tweets."
I wonder how long they will leave that one up…
haha linky?
As Todd Palin sez, "It won't be long now…"
http://www.politico.com/playbook/
–SPOTTED at the POLITICO Lounge in Tampa: Tim Daly … Stephen Baldwin … Evan Handler … Liz Cheney … Rachel Harris.
Wait. You were in the presence of a Baldwin and a Cheney, and you didn't manage to kick at least one of them in the balls before being kicked out? I HAZ A SAD.
The Lesser Baldwin. Why is it always The Lesser Baldwin?
What an abysmal lack of class and taste. Kicking Rebecca Schoenkopf out of a party is not something I'd ever want on my resumé.
"I been thrown outta better places than this!"
Silly rabbit. You knew you had to show a photo ID before drinking Politico Bulleit.
I would consider being thrown out of a Politico party a rite of passage…. A passage to what though?
Geeze, the Wonkette editrix herself attends the Politico party and she's supposed to not be snarky? Are they delusional? From AMC to the present that would be highly unusual, non-Wonkette behavior. I'm sensing they have rather large, but delicate egos. Keep up the good work, Rebecca!
Damn–I know jobs are almost impossible to get, but unless the next step is sleeping under a bridge and selling your blood, no one should fall so low that they work security for Politico.
Should have used the Secret Politico Password" "HAIL CHENEY!"
I would have knocked back the grain spirits, placed the empty on a coaster, given her the reverse finger it's an opposite, the middle finger under the thumb, the other three extended, polite way to say fuck off) and asked her, which finger is missing? Yes that one is for you.
Bulleit makes me talk to empty chairs.
If you didn't chug that bourbon and belch on the way to the elevator, you deserve to be kicked out of the world.
I'm gonna sound like an asshole (which is not that hard for me, to be honest), but putting up with bullshit to get free stuff must be one of those American traditions that hasn't quite grown on me yet.
Sounds like work to me. Literally. (I did similar for fifteen years or so).
I don't do it for the free stuff, jesus christ.
Smiling at people that you can't stand
You're in demand
Your fifteen minutes of fame
Doesn't matter, kick one one of them in the balls they'll all feel it at the same time.
Poison the punch, then lock the room? Sheer genius!
Nobody can touch you, so long as they're simultaneously dead and alive.
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