This made me laugh out loud.
Archives for September 2010
Governor Brown
Who knows if Whitman did much of anything wrong here or not, but this could be a killer politically:
The California governor’s race took on a circus-like atmosphere Wednesday as a former housekeeper for Meg Whitman alleged the Republican gubernatorial nominee employed her for nearly nine years, even though Whitman knew the housekeeper was in the country illegally.
Flanked by attorney Gloria Allred, former Whitman employee Nicandra Diaz made the accusations at a tearful Los Angeles press conference Wednesday. Diaz said she asked Whitman for help with her immigration status in 2009 and Whitman refused. “I felt like she was throwing me away like a piece of garbage,” Diaz said.
Whitman responded to the charges in a statement Wednesday. “After nine years of faithful service, Nicky came to us in June 2009 and confessed that she was an illegal worker,” the statement reads. “Nicky had falsified the hiring documents and personal information she provided to the employment agency that brought her to us in 2000. Nicky told me that she was admitting her deception now because she was aware that her lie might come out during the campaign. Nicky said she was concerned about hurting my family and me.”
Update. Commenter Pangloss sums up
In fairness to Whitman, she shouldn’t be criticized for this episode, because for the first nine years she employed the illegal alien she didn’t know that she would someday need to demagogue the illegal immigration issue.
Reese writ large
In the comments yesterday, someone said that Colbert made a Reese witherspoon crack when he was talking to Chunky Bobo last night. I don’t have the right version of flash player on this computer to watch the clip….so did this really happen?
Update. The Reese Witherspoon joke took place right before Douthat came on, apparently.
Bonnie Parker et Clyde Barrow
I find early ’70s American movies fascinating, so many interesting influences converging at once — television, French New Wave, ’60s Americana. I didn’t love Bonnie and Clyde or Little Big Man as much as some people did, but I’ve always wanted to see Mickey One.
(h/t bazzfazz)
O’Keefe’s CNN Secksytime
The next generation of conservatives is just as stupid as the current one:
A conservative activist known for making undercover videos plotted to embarrass a CNN correspondent by recording a meeting on hidden cameras aboard a floating “palace of pleasure” and making sexually suggestive comments, e-mails and a planning document show.
James O’Keefe, best known for hitting the community organizing group ACORN with an undercover video sting, hoped to get CNN Investigative Correspondent Abbie Boudreau onto a boat filled with sexually explicit props and then record the session, those documents show.
The plan apparently was thwarted after Boudreau was warned minutes before it was supposed to happen.
“I never intended to become part of the story,” Boudreau said. “But things suddenly took a very strange turn.”
I got nothing to say other than TBOGG’s tag for this is genius.
The Charade Continues
Allahpundit announces: “Takeover: 71% of Republicans now tea-party supporters.”
Attached to the piece is this poll and analysis:
In the survey, 71% of Republicans described themselves as tea-party supporters, saying they had a favorable image of the movement or hoped tea- party candidates would do well in the Nov. 2 elections.
Already, the tea-party movement has helped to oust a number of incumbents and candidates backed by party leaders in this year’s GOP primaries amid complaints that they lacked commitment to small-government principles. The poll findings suggest that the rising influence of the movement, with its push to cut spending and oppose the Democratic agenda, will drive the GOP to become more conservative and less willing to seek common ground on policy.
“These are essentially conservative Republicans who are very ticked-off people,” said Republican pollster Bill McInturff, who conducted the survey with Democratic pollster Peter Hart.
***Mr. McInturff said the tea-party movement had not necessarily drawn new people into the GOP. Rather, he said, “a substantial chunk of the Republican Party is rebranding themselves.”
Look, I know our idiot media is too silly to figure this out, and even if they could, they wouldn’t bother to cover it in detail because then they would miss out on all the breathless reports about the upsurge in tea party patriotism, but this is just sheer idiocy. The tea party IS the fanatic wing of the Republican party with a new name. They are funded by the usuals suspects, they are fluffed by the usual suspects, the use the same right-wing rhetoric and give lip-service to the same issues (but don’t mean it), they are running in Republican primaries, their leadership are elected Republicans or “former” Republican operatives. For christ sake, the Heather Chandler of the Tea Party movement is Sarah Palin, the last Republican VP nominee.
Claiming the tea party is taking over the Republican party is like claiming Xe took over Blackwater or that KFC took over Kentucky Fried Chicken.
I’m not wearing a freaking wire, man
I wonder what Andy Alexander will make of this:
James O’Keefe, best known for hitting the community organizing group ACORN with an undercover video sting, hoped to get CNN Investigative Correspondent Abbie Boudreau onto a boat filled with sexually explicit props and then record the session, those documents show.
[….]When Boudreau arrived at the address, a house located on a tributary of the Patuxent River, (conservative activist) Santa approached her with a tape recorder in her hand and said she wanted to talk in the car, Boudreau said.
“I noticed she had a little bit of dirt on her face, her lip was shaking, she seemed really uncomfortable and I asked her if she was OK,” Boudreau said. “The first thing she basically said to me was, ‘I’m not recording you, I’m not recording you. Are you recording me?’ I said, ‘No, I’m not recording you,’ and she showed me her digital recorder and it was not recording.”
Santa told Boudreau that O’Keefe planned to “punk” her by getting on a boat where hidden cameras were set up. Boudreau said she would not get on the boat and asked Santa why O’Keefe wanted her there.
I don’t need to remind you that James O’Keefe was, for a time, the de facto assignment editor for most establishment media.