Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Infrastructure week. at last.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

After roe, women are no longer free.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

You cannot shame the shameless.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

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  3. 3.

    Ash Can

    WHAT? DID YOU SAY SOMETHING? I’M SORRY, JENNIFER RUBIN JUST BLASTED A FUCKING DIESEL HORN IN MY EAR AND I CAN’T HEAR A THING NOW. BY THE WAY, I HOPE I’M NOT SHOUTING.

  11. 11.

    David Hunt

    Not weird. Just immune to cognitive dissonance when it serves their political purposes. If Obama doesn’t wear the purest white suit at all time or doesn’t bow before the shrine to Winston Churchill in the Oval Office whenever he enters, he’s the black thug tearing up the joint.

    Water’s wet, the sky is blue, and conservatives are hypocritical (and hypercritical).

  12. 12.

    brent

    @Alexandra: Yeah… I don’t know. Actually, things seem to be unraveling pretty quickly since the convention and the next big moment, the debates, are likely to go very badly for RMoney. Aside from that, her act and the act of those like here, tends to be funny at first but then get very tired, very quickly. Its not just that they are objectively crazy. Its that they are given a megaphone by the largest companies in the media to shout their craziness at us on a daily basis. My tender nerves can only take so much of this nonsense.

  14. 14.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Won’t someone please, please find a pretext to accidentally drop a piano on this foul woman?

    Please?

  15. 15.

    burnspbesq

    @Cacti:

    I’m surprised she hasn’t called him a schvartze yet.

    I’m sure she has, just not in print. She’s pissed that she can’t vote for Netanyahu for President.

  17. 17.

    Violet

    Get you rear end off JFK desk, Mr. president

    The wording of that is astounding. It’s not the President’s desk, it’s JFK’s desk. Message: Obama shouldn’t be there.

    They really are desperate.

  21. 21.

    Roger Moore

    @David Hunt:

    If Obama doesn’t wear the purest white suit at all time or doesn’t bow before the shrine to Winston Churchill in the Oval Office whenever he enters, he’s the black thug tearing up the joint.

    And if he does dress perfectly, he’s putting on airs and not being black enough; if he worships at the Winston Churchill shrine, he’s showing too much respect for a foreign leader. Nothing he does is right because there’s a (D) after his name.

  22. 22.

    Cacti

    @kd bart:

    Mitt would never be seen in the Oval Office without a sweater tied around his neck.

    In a Romney presidency, the black people would be dusting off the White House furniture, as God intended.

  24. 24.

    kay

    @Efroh:

    They do it constantly. I could start a countdown from the moment they issue one of these ridiculous attacks to the inevitable photo of the Republican doing the same thing.

    Talk about slovenly. She’s too fucking lazy to look anything up, and she’s paid for this. Add “good work ethic” to the list of myths about conservatives. The Obama campaign is outworking the Romney campaign, just like they outworked the McCain campaign. It drives them crazy, but it’s undeniable on the ground. We’re simply working harder.

  25. 25.

    General Stuck

    When the nutters start calling out the wardrobe police, then stick a fork in them, they are done.

    I Can’t help but adore Jennifer, and long ago used to troll her posts at Commentary for fastidious nonsense like this. when Bush was Prez.

  26. 26.

    PsiFighter37

    I’m going to enjoy swimming a victory lap in the ocean created by Jennifer Rubin’s tears of sorrow on November 7th. How has she stayed gainfully employed as a journalist?

  28. 28.

    Jeffrey Kramer

    @Alexandra: I don’t know. Rubin strikes me as likely to go postal if her perfect, darling Mitt is denied his rightful office. I see her announcing her conversion to Islam, then shooting up a shopping mall, leaving behind a note saying “You see! Didn’t I tell you what those we people were like?”

  30. 30.

    Alexandra

    @brent:

    My tender nerves can only take so much of this nonsense.

    I try not to follow things too closely, day to day. Besides, the likes of Jennifer Rubin are preaching to the converted. When they’re whining about Obama wearing jeans, you know they’re scraping the barrel.

  32. 32.

    Jay in Oregon

    From our esteemed ABL:

    [email protected] JFK fucked everything that moved on that desk, lady. How many Democrats did you skin to make the suit you’re wearing? #ABLC

    I would probably replace “Democrats” with “Palestinians”, but otherwise I think she’s got Rubin’s number.

  33. 33.

    Violet

    OT–Hey, look Smug Chipmunk wants to know what you thought of his program this morning:

    David Gregory ‏@davidgregory
    __
    My thoughts after this morning’s #MTP http://nbcnews.to/RA2du9 – with a writeup from @mpoindc – what did you think of the program?

    I hope folks on the twitters are letting him know!

  35. 35.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @kd bart:

    Oh, I can see Obama wearing the most preppy of preppy fashion imaginable. Izod shirt, navy blazer, chinos, boat shoes. In lieu of the blazer, the sweater tied around the neck, of course.

    If only to drive OvenMitt and Rubin absolutely fucking to the next order of magnitude insane.

  36. 36.

    Violet

    @kd bart: Crocs are very practical in the garden and also in the operating room (that blood and guts just washes right off). They do have their place. But out and about…not so much.

  37. 37.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Violet:

    If Dancin’ Dave is ever accused of being a journalist, all he has to do is roll the tape of this show to demonstrate that he’s no such thing.

  38. 38.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Jay in Oregon:

    I would probably replace “Democrats” with “Palestinians”, but otherwise I think she’s got Rubin’s number.

    I think she saves the Palestinians for lamp shades, myself.

  39. 39.

    Judy in SD

    I went and looked at the photo to which Rubin refers and it is not the President who is wearing the jeans but an advisor.

  41. 41.

    Violet

    @Judy in SD: Not only that, but the date on the photo is July 31, 2011. So now she’s bitching about something that happened over a year ago? Way to bring the cutting edge news!

  44. 44.

    Nutella

    The people in the photo had come into work on a Sunday to try to prevent the Republicans from destroying the US economy and Rubin can’t think of anything to comment on except what clothes and seating they chose?

    She’s got a wonderful sense of what’s important, doesn’t she?

  46. 46.

    trollhattan

    @kd bart:
    I’m certain he’s met Mario Batali, and as we’ve been informed, anybody he’s met or even been near has had a BAD influence on him.

  47. 47.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Judy in SD:

    Well, then, that one is NOT enforcing the sacred Oval Office dress code!

    I LIKE the idea of a President coming back in from a run, in a running outfit, entering the Oval Office and dealing with some urgent matter that came up when he was wrapping up the 26th mile of the run at around 2:50 or so and, without even bothering to wipe his forehead off with a towel, issues the necessary orders to address the matter, then saunters off to the residence to take a shower and have his morning bagel.

    Dress codes in the workplace are great for those too insecure in their own skins to not being blaring their rank in everyone’s faces. REAL leaders don’t need fashion props.

  50. 50.

    Patricia Kayden

    @Violet: Good catch. President Obama is the president. Therefore that desk is his desk.

    I beg of you DougJ, please don’t torture us with every stupid tweet these Rightwing idiots put out there. We’d be wasting all our time and energy responding to their stupidity and it’s way too much effort.

  52. 52.

    scav

    Re: PubicLickins.

    Can’t decide if the proper oval office attire for Dems is pants on or pants off? No matter, just yell. Now there’s a game changer / plan. You think your boy’s pretty when he get the punchline wrong?

  53. 53.

    Spaghetti Lee

    Nanny Rubin needs to get a fucking life. I can’t believe anyone wants to read this woman’s political insights. You’d learn more from casting bones.

  55. 55.

    ? Martin

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    I LIKE the idea of a President coming back in from a run, in a running outfit, entering the Oval Office and dealing with some urgent matter

    That’s just stupid. When Israel is being attacked by Iran, it’s most important that the President preserve the dignity of the office by heading upstairs for a shower, blow-dry, and a proper suit – no clip-on! Jennifer Rubin says so!

  56. 56.

    kay

    @Julia Grey:

    It’s regular as rain. Twenty minutes to disprove whatever the Photo Lie of the Day is.

    You now work harder at Jennifer Rubin’s job than she does.

  57. 57.

    GxB

    @Alexandra: I had this nagging feeling I’d seen 27 in a long forgotten algebra lesson. Sure enough Euler’s constant e = 2.71828…

    Turns out my memory has gastritis.

  59. 59.

    bemused

    Rubin reminds me of a couple of very mean teachers I had in grade school. One of them had a booze bottle in her desk drawer, just saying.

  60. 60.

    Paul

    @kerFuFFler:

    Reagan wore jeans in the Oval Office!

    I guess the problem is wearing jeans while blah…..

    Amen. Could she possibly be any more open in her racism? I’m so sick of these folks who still think they live in the 1950’s in a segregated America.

  61. 61.

    RSA

    @kerFuFFler:

    Reagan wore jeans in the Oval Office!
    I guess the problem is wearing jeans while blah…..

    70-year-old white guy wearing jeans in the Oval Office: manly.

    51-year-old black guy: slovenly.

    Alles klar.

  62. 62.

    Ruckus

    @kay:
    We’re simply working harder.

    We’re the 99. We have to work. We have get our hands dirty. It’s expected of us.

    They are the 1%. They expect us to get our hands dirty. Usually cleaning up their shit but that’s a different storyline.

  63. 63.

    Hal

    Is this a repeat? I could swear someone else bitched about Obama wearing jeans in the Oval Office before.

    Slovenly inside and out wapo.st/QsE4vf

    Why not just call him a lazy n**ger and get it over with. But then again, I guess your intended audience gets it without being so direct. Or maybe I’m just irritated because I have to work on a Sunday.

  64. 64.

    Violet

    @trollhattan: Oh, good Lord. That is the most ridiculous thing I’ve read in ages. He even invokes Burke:

    Edmund Burke — what he would have thought of the denimization of America can be inferred from his lament that the French Revolution assaulted “the decent drapery of life”; it is a straight line from the fall of the Bastille to the rise of denim — said: “To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.” Ours would be much more so if supposed grown-ups would heed St. Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, and St. Barack’s inaugural sermon to the Americans, by putting away childish things, starting with denim.

    Burkean bells! Burkeans bells!

    And then this:

    (A confession: The author owns one pair of jeans. Wore them once. Had to. Such was the dress code for former senator Jack Danforth’s 70th birthday party, where Jerry Jeff Walker sang his classic “Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother.” Music for a jeans-wearing crowd.)

    Jerry Jeff Walker sang at Jack Danforth’s 70th birthday party? That must have been one bizarre party. Bunch of entitled, rich guys pretending they’re poor white trash for a night. Ugh.

    And no, George Will, you did NOT “have to” wear the jeans because you didn’t “have to” go to the party in the first place. So-called journalists do not “have to” go to the birthday parties of the people they’re supposed to be impartially covering.

  66. 66.

    aimai

    Maybe someone else has said it but the current slogan, as exemplified by Jennifer Rubin is

    “Who are you going to believe? Me or your Lyin’ Eyes?” Romney/Ryan 2012.

    aimai

  68. 68.

    Culture of Truth

    They did the whole “jeans in the oval office” thing when Clinton was President. The Bush restored dignity to the office by putting his fucking feet on the desk.

    But in the same vein I would invite Rubin to get out of the office that once reported on Watergate.

  70. 70.

    PurpleGirl

    OT: Who got renamed Honey Boo Boo? Krugman uses the new name in a post at his blog this morning?

  71. 71.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker

    @Culture of Truth: But when he wiped his ass with the Constitution, he did it in the powder room, cause the Bush’s are like well bred and shit.

    @Violet: if memory serves, Robespierre was actually quite natty, never sans his culottes.

  74. 74.

    grandpa john

    @Hal: Slovenly is when you are too fucking lazy to do any research and wind up showing the whole world what a gigantically stupid asshole you really are

  75. 75.

    Revanch

    Am I fucking missing something? Obama’s not even wearing the jeans in that photo. What in the good fuck is Rubin getting exercised about? Was he supposed to send the be-jeaned man home to change and postpone the meeting?

    Seriously, what the fuck. Is Rubin so dismayed by Romney’s diminishing prospects that she went troweling through WaPo’s old photo stash for something to piss her off?

    U GET OFF JFK DESK SLOVENLY BLACK MAN! ALSO TOO JEANS!? INTERROBANG, SHIT MYSELF I HAVE!?

    Where is that goddamn meteor already.

  79. 79.

    Spaghetti Lee

    I have never seen a bigger fuck-up job from an offense than these first few series for the Bears. This does not bode well for the rest of the season.

  81. 81.

    Suffern Ace

    @Culture of Truth: Earrings though was the big sin of the Clintons. The rumor was that there were young men with earrings running the place. Although there were never any pictures. It widely assumed to be true.

  83. 83.

    danah gaz

    Sweet merciful Christ. I googled Jenifer Rubin because I forgot who she spews for, and “Amazing Jenifer Rubin nude in hard sex on bed” appeared near the top of the search results.

    /brain-bleach

  84. 84.

    Mandalay

    @Patricia Kayden:

    I beg of you DougJ, please don’t torture us with every stupid tweet these Rightwing idiots put out there.

    This.

    Ditto for the perpetual pearl clutching and constant poutrage about the Sunday morning shows and conservative journalists. These are known quantities. Once the point has been made, how many times does it bear repeating? After every Sunday show that offends? After every Brooks article that offends? After every conservative tweet that offends?

    Sheesh.

  85. 85.

    Anoniminous

    Daily I talk with Europeans on professional and social levels.

    The WaPo is one of the top three premier newspapers in the US. (At least that’s what their advertising says.)

    Can anyone else guess how embarrassing my life is going to be next week when I have to explain this horseshit?

  88. 88.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @danah gaz:
    I actually enjoy the chance to occasionally debunk these lies. A lot of liberals have been lied to so many times they actually think Alwaki was killed without due process of law. In fact he did have due process of law, and a judge ruled that his execution was legally correct because it was not possible to bring him to trial. That’s an established part of the legal system!

    EDIT – Legally the big debate was whether Alwaki could be tried with his brother acting as his stand-in. The judge said no way, that would cause chaos, while killing dangerous criminals who can’t be brought to trial is already established law.

  96. 96.

    PaulW

    Jennifer Rubin just said something bad about a non-Republican President?

    Must be a day that ends in “y”!

    Color me unsurprised. The only thing upsetting me is that there are morans in the media elite circles who still take her seriously.

  97. 97.

    Stacy

    I left her two nasty Twitter messages but I doubt she’ll read them or care. But it was nice to get them off my chest. They weren’t as creative as Angry Black Lady’s response tweet however.

  99. 99.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @scav:

    Can’t decide if the proper oval office attire for Dems is pants on or pants off?

    Isn’t John Cole really the best person to answer that?

  100. 100.

    JWL

    A very similar criticism was leveled by another republican idiot a week or so after Obama first took office. If memory serves, that one had to do with him not wearing a tie in the Oval Office.

  101. 101.

    Culture of Truth

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Can’t decide if the proper oval office attire for Dems is pants on or pants off?

    Isn’t John Cole really the best person to answer that?

    In all honesty probably not.

  102. 102.

    scav

    @SiubhanDuinne: JG doesn’t leave enough ambiguity on the matter to keep them hyperventilating. I mean, we’ve supposedly got photographic evidence of new shirts, but . . . . nether-garments? I’m sure Gregory covered this in his hard hitting interview: “So, Mr and Mrs Prophesied President: Pants on or off in the Oval Office? And, thank you Mrs P for assuring us that the amusingly unstiff future leader does, in fact, struggle to put them on one leg at a time. No need to ask if he puts the right one in first, heh heh.”

  103. 103.

    Soonergrunt

    @Frankensteinbeck: Yes, an extra step that wasn’t legally necessary, because nation states have had the right to kill members of enemy military (and terrorist) organizations, regardless of where they might have been born since the treaty of Westphalia, and nothing in the US Constitution or US law contravenes that. But he can keep fucking that chicken all he wants.

  107. 107.

    dance around in your bones

    Good Gawdamn why anyone bothers reading anything this woman says is totally beyond me.

    She’s just SO WRONG on EVERYTHING that I just don’t see wasting the time giving her even a fraction of my eyeball.

  108. 108.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker

    @dance around in your bones: Because she’s Jennifer Rubin, she deserves mockery, and it’s fun. Because Donnie Graham has given her the “respectable” platform of the Washington Post, it’s necessary. IMHO and YMMV.

  109. 109.

    gelfling545

    It is perhaps better not to inquire what JFK may have been doing on or around that desk on occasion.

  110. 110.

    Petorado

    What the hell is it with conservatives and the optics of things? It seems like their only interest is in putting a veneer of propriety on a system they think is all about ruthlessly preserving the social and political order, with them on top of course. Style covering over evil substance, I guess.

  111. 111.

    SFAW

    @Cacti:

    I’m surprised she hasn’t called him a schvartze yet.

    Why, does she think he’s an Injun a Native (i.e. “Native” NOT in the sense of having a non-forged long-form birth certificate, of course) American?

  112. 112.

    Anya

    @Jay in Oregon: No a fan of unnecessary dem on dem violence. Why not attack the hateful idiot who wrote the original tweet instead of unfairly attacking JFK? And yes, I get that JFK cheated on his wife, but how is that the point?

  113. 113.

    dance around in your bones

    Also, for some inexplicable reason, I am watching Press The Meat (leftie coast time)
    I just wanna punch Mitt and his Barbie doll in the neck.

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker: I respect your opinion, but I have NEVER read ONE thing by her that wasn’t disingenuous or a a blatant fucking lie. I mean, I’m glad the FP’ers here read her so we don’t have to, but…… she is a crazy person.

    Also, Press the Meat is making me crazy. I might just have to change the channel (Wuh??)

  114. 114.

    Suffern Ace

    @trollhattan: Was she also this critical of msnbc when it was the house organ for ge against those vile Clinton’s? I would agree with her on many points, and would warn liberals against relying too much on msnbc. At the same time, it seems like this ship sailed in the late 1990s. I assume that was when she first started to write about these concerns.

  116. 116.

    SFAW

    @Anya:
    I’m a-guessing that, had J-Rube not called it “JFK desk” [sic], ABL would not have mentioned JFK’s (presumed) dalliances.

  120. 120.

    Chris

    @Petorado:

    What the hell is it with conservatives and the optics of things? It seems like their only interest is in putting a veneer of propriety on a system they think is all about ruthlessly preserving the social and political order, with them on top of course. Style covering over evil substance, I guess.

    Yep. Same as Don Corleone prattling on about respect. When you and your goals are as patently immoral as that, you cover it up with whatever you can…

  121. 121.

    MikeJ

    @gelfling545: Sort of irrelevant though. It doesn’t matter that JFK doesn’t live up to his saintly memory. Even if he did, the thing that made JFK special was that he was president. Just like Obama is.

  123. 123.

    trollhattan

    @MikeJ:
    Not to mention JFK should have booted that pesky unpatriotic boy right out from under the Holy Desk. Kids in the Oval Office–it’s…unseemly.

  126. 126.

    Omnes Omnibus

    It is a fucking office. A place where people work. Okay, it is Jennifer Rubin – a fucking loon; I have already spent too much time thinking about this.

  127. 127.

    dance around in your bones

    Ok, just can’t take anymore of Peggy LooLoo and BillBigButt.

    I rarely tune into the Sabbath Gasbags (as someone here memorably said) and now I remember why.

    Off to find a Property Brothers (I like looking at them (cute !) and also watching people take sledgehammers to the walls of their “new” house.

    eta: Oh shit! Since when did they start re-running Up with Chris Hayes at noon? I might just have to stay on this channel, only muted until Chris and then MHP come on. I have been DVR’ing it for fucking ever, since in my timezone it comes on at like, 5 friggin’ AM.

  128. 128.

    gene108

    Jennifer Rubin ‏@JRubinBlogger @TexasTruBlu never ever in oval office.. bush made his chief of staff stand outside oval office on a saturday when not wearing a jacket

    Jennifer Rubin’s response to a tweet on the subject. Basically, the President should enforce a prep-school dress code for adults.

    And I guess the womenz need to wear make-up, skirts and high-heeled shoes; no pant suits allowed.

  129. 129.

    FlipYrWhig

    @Petorado: As Tom Paine said about Edmund Burke’s laments on the French Revolution, “he pities the plumage but forgets the dying bird.”

  131. 131.

    Julia Grey

    Why not attack the hateful idiot who wrote the original tweet instead of unfairly attacking JFK? And yes, I get that JFK cheated on his wife, but how is that the point?

    The point is (to my mind) that the whole issue of ANY particular detail of “decorum” in the Oval Office is IRRELEVANT to the governance of the country, up to and including the doing of illicit dollies.

  133. 133.

    FlipYrWhig

    @gene108: IIRC that whole thing is a myth, and there are plenty of pieces of evidence documenting jacketlessness and denim-wearing in the Bush Oval Office. Like how after every gathering of conservatives there are stories about how there wasn’t a single piece of garbage left behind, despite the fact that there are always plenty of pix of garbage left behind. Conservatives like to tell themselves stories about their own fundamental neatness and order.

  134. 134.

    trollhattan

    @rikyrah:
    This. At a minimum, she and the odious Krauthammer should be placed on a sliver of (rapidly melting) Arctic Sea ice and shoved northward, with vigor.

  137. 137.

    PurpleGirl

    @SFAW: I’m surprised she hasn’t called him a schvartze yet.

    Schvartze is the Yiddish/German word for black. I heard it much of the time growing up being said by my paternal grandmother and my father.

  138. 138.

    Julia Grey

    Jennifer Rubin ‏@JRubinBlogger @TexasTruBlu never ever in oval office.. bush made his chief of staff stand outside oval office on a saturday when not wearing a jacket

    Huh. Why do I see pictures of Bush and others in shirtsleeves in OO, then?

    (I think the “jackets always” rule must have been early on in his reign. Like the first couple weeks or months.)

    Here’s a great one of him in a freaking GOLF SHIRT with PM Schroder.

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Schr%C3%B6der_and_Bush_in_the_Oval_Office.jpg

  139. 139.

    Hal

    @trollhattan:

    This. At a minimum, she and the odious Krauthammer should be placed on a sliver of (rapidly melting) Arctic Sea ice and shoved northward, with vigor.

    That won’t work because there’s no such thing as melting arctic ice or global warming, at least according to Krauthammer:

    Look, if Godzilla appeared on the Mall this afternoon, Al Gore would say it’s global warming, because the spores in the South Atlantic Ocean, you know, were. Look, everything is, it’s a religion. In a religion, everything is explicable. In science, you can actually deny or falsify a proposition with evidence. You find me a single piece of evidence that Al Gore would ever admit would contradict global warming and I’ll be surprised.

  140. 140.

    SFAW

    @PurpleGirl:

    Do tell.

    I’m guessing you’re under 30, because otherwise my comment would have gotten a different response.

    Hint or two: I wasn’t being literal (in/both neither the literal nor Joe Biden sense).

    ETA: Although, I guess technically, and to comport more with my allusion, I should have questioned whether J-Rube is Injun Native American. My apologies for my addle-brainednessitude.

  142. 142.

    trollhattan

    @Hal:
    Quelle shock Chucky is a non”believer.”

    Conversation could go something like this: “Nothing to worry about, Jen, this ice will get thicker. Now pass the caviar, would you? There’s a good girl.”
    “Gosh, Chuck, you’re just so smart!“

  146. 146.

    AA+ Bonds

    Jennifer Rubin is a pretty shitty person

    She seems to have a pretty big personal problem with dark-skinned people

  147. 147.

    Cerberus

    @Paul:

    The problem is a lot of them are living in a 50s segregationist society.

    It’s the problem with suburbs essentially. All the whites fled out to the suburbs and surround themselves with other middle class/upper class whites who all go to the same sort of church and have their lives micromanaged by a housing society to ensure that appearances always come first and those nasty little children know their place. There are still informal rules in place that are hostile to non-white, non-traditional families that move in and a lot of them casually enforce a separation that is little removed from 1950s segregation.

    And the problem is, is that for the first time in 60 years, those 50 segregationists, who fled to their segregationist gated communities with proper CC&Rs to keep the “dangerous element” out, are peeking out into the wide world and finding out that while they stayed behind, the world moved on without them. Everyone got used to other races doing their thing and contributing to culture, women working outside the home, gay people forming relationships and raising their kids next door.

    And those minorities are now also even sometimes moving into the suburbs and living that life too. There’s nowhere to run and the people who want the fantasy of 50s segregationist society just aren’t nearly the majority anymore. And they are releasing the fevered howl of someone who deliberately put themselves in stasis and now are left behind, anachronistic and afraid.

  148. 148.

    Tehanu

    @Julia Grey:

    I seem to remember when Dubya’s administration came in that they instituted a faux 1950’s dress code and made a Big Fucking Deal about how these were the grownups, etc. Can’t remember if they forbade women to wear trousers, but it wouldn’t surprise me. So obviously, if you want to trash the economy while funneling the money to your Kochsucking friends and kill hundreds of thousands of innocent brown people while you’re at it, you must be properly dressed!

  150. 150.

    WereBear

    @Cerberus: Fascinating; I hadn’t realized it because I was always feeling suburban culture, even when I lived there.

    Though I always felt the fuss over censoring music was because “gasp!” the teens liked it… for the love of art, just listen to your teen’s music and decide for yourself.

  153. 153.

    Nellcote

    Isn’t one of the advantages of working at HOME supposed to be that you can wear anything you damn please? We should be grateful they’re wearing pants!

  154. 154.

    Mnemosyne

    @Anya:

    IIRC, the Secret Service takes the lead of the president. If the guy asked Obama if he could hug him, and Obama said yes, the SS isn’t going to go nuts over it.

    Plus, let’s face it, if the guy is the owner of the restaurant that they’re in (which is how Gawker makes it sound), I’m sure they already did a background check on him so they at least know he’s not dangerous.

  157. 157.

    Quaker in a Basement

    @Julia Grey:

    Jennifer Rubin ‏@JRubinBlogger @TexasTruBlu never ever in oval office.. bush made his chief of staff stand outside oval office on a saturday when not wearing a jacket

    And that’s what made the Bush presidency so successful, right?

  158. 158.

    bootsy

    Let’s be fair. This is the first time Jennifer Rubin has said something truthful about the president. He was wearing jeans. She has justified her featured standing at the Post, truly an heir to Woodward and Bernstein, speaking truth to power.

    When are the Pulitzers on? After American Idol? I want to text my vote for her.

  162. 162.

    J R in WVa

    @Donut:

    I very much doubt that the racist bitch is fucking. Who would do it for her? Would she be willing with the sort of slovenly incompetent who might be willing? What if she proposed such a thing and was turned down?

    She strikes me as the sort of person who doesn’t enjoy that kind of thing. I’m sure the pr0n mentioned above was a coincidence.

    But racist? oh yes, so racist. And a monster ego, too large for her head. And completely unaware of how ethical people feel about her obvious racism. I wouldn’t associate with such people in any way I could avoid.

  163. 163.

    hells littlest angel

    You’ll all be sorry when Jennifer Rubin is found dangling from her kitchen ceiling come November 7.

  166. 166.

    PanurgeATL

    @WereBear:

    Seems most people by now try to “flee suburban culture” at least once in their lives. Of course, we could try to have a livable one instead…

    Does it ever seem to anyone that in contexts like this, “the ’50s” is really a way of saying “before the ’60s” without actually acknowledging the ’60s?

  167. 167.

    dww44

    @Violet: The fact that journalists actually go to the birthday parties of those that they write about is exactly what’s wrong with the 4th estate and the caliber of journalism that we citizens get.

    Oddly, a few years back I remember Brian Lamb on his Sunday evening show interviewing a young female out-of- the- mainstream journalist. She had strong opinions about her profession and the need to be truly objective. She repeatedly said that she did not get chummy with the people and subjects that she covered. He was somewhat combative with her. More than that he treated her with disdain. Since that interview I view him with a bit of a jaundiced eye. I do wish I could remember who she was.

  168. 168.

    Phoenician in a time of Romans

    “slovenly inside and out”?!?!?

    Now, I get that she doesn’t like jeans – but what could it possibly be about Obama that makes her consider him INHERENTLY “slovenly”?

    What on earth could be coloring her impression here?

  169. 169.

    Phoenician in a time of Romans

    @David Hunt:

    If Obama doesn’t wear the purest white suit at all time or doesn’t bow before the shrine to Winston Churchill in the Oval Office whenever he enters, he’s the black thug tearing up the joint.

    If he DID wear a pure white suit, he’d be putting on airs and trying to show himself as a European-style elitist, unlike good old Americans who wear je- fuck.

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