First, praise: Amazing piece by C.I. this morning, "Demonized or ignored, the 21st century American woman." Simply amazing.
That's all the praise I'm serving up because I'm now going to take on an ass.
I don't like whores.
John MacArthur, whose worked so very hard at turning Harper's magazine into a hallmark of sexism, has a column where the little whiney ass wants to end with, "Are there any adults left in the Democratic Party?"
Kiss my ass, you chicken s**t bitch.
The premise of his column is that Barack Obama is a total failure.
He is. But damned if I wasn't saying that, damned if C.I. wasn't saying that, damned if we weren't saying it when it mattered.
For those who don't know, Johnny Bitch was whoring.
The most important to A Bitch Named John was to destroy Hillary Clinton's campaign. He didn't give a damn about checking out Barack or calling for fairness or anything.
He was a disgusting piece of trash. Let me also note, I'm damn tired of this dual voting. If he's going to vote in France's elections, he shouldn't vote in the US elections. You shouldn't be able to go back and forth on this. Naomi Klein's another one of those -- voting in Canada and then rushing to the US to vote here.
But the piece of trash wanted to get rid of Hillary and worked overtime to do so. (I am not a Hillary fanatic or a Clinton-ista. Check my archives. By the time it was a two -- or three person race -- Hillary was the best candidate in the Democratic field.) (In part because the other two were so awful but also because the campaign reawakened a sense in Hillary of what mattered. She was also a fighter, which we sure could have used.)
Now you may say, "Elaine, sour grapes over the fact that John MacArthur wants to sneak in and act like he didn't whore for Barack?"
No.
I know John. His whoring has never surprised me. (Remember last night when I was explaining C.I. and I can disagree and it's not the end of our friendship? Until the summer of 2008, C.I. wouldn't have said a bad word about John. She never attacked me for my feelings towards him. But today, she can't stand him either.)
But that should be self-whoring.
His whoring for others whores really does surprise me.
He writes, "As evidence of a failed Obama presidency accumulates, criticism of his administration is mounting from liberal Democrats who have too much moral authority to be ignored."
His two examples?
Whore Bill Moyers and Whore Barbara Ehrenreich.
Bill Moyers, as Ava and C.I. repeatedly documented, whored non-stop for Barack. It was 'historic' he would say over and over during the primaries -- Barack was. A woman doing what Hillary did -- which was get the most votes -- he never cared.
Ava and C.I. also documented the way the whore revealed that he wasn't a journalist and what especially led to his most recent round of problems with PBS.
New Hampshire.
Cheating Bill wanted to laugh about Hillary's "moisty moment." Then he told the viewers he wanted them to see it.
He didn't play it. He played the attack response from the Obama campaign that Jesse Jackson Jr. did.
Bill Moyers is cheap trash and always has been. It's doubtful right now he could even get a show covering religion on PBS. He broke every rule -- and he knows he did and so does PBS -- in 2008 to whore like a cheap little hooker.
Some of Ava and C.I.'s coverage of Moyers.
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May 17, 2009 – The Third Estate Sunday Review focuses on politics and culture. ... TV: Bill Moyers Locker Room. We could call out Bill Moyers Locker Room every week. .... Third Estate 2009 archives by week · Third Estate 2008 archives ...Third Estate Sunday Review: TV: The Dead and Missing Persons
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The Third Estate Sunday Review focuses on politics and culture. ... This week Bill Moyers Journal examined a corpse: the Dennis Kucinich presidential campaign . ... So this isn't just an issue for 2008, when he passed over an anti-war ...Third Estate Sunday Review: TV: The Beauty & The Grump
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May 4, 2008 – Bill Moyers inability to adapt led to his Punked. We wrote about it last week (" TV: Mission Impossible"), his embarrassing stroking of crackpot and hate .... Posted by Third Estate Sunday Review at Sunday, May 04, 2008 ...Third Estate Sunday Review: TV: The facades
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May 22, 2011 – The Third Estate Sunday Review focuses on politics and culture. We're ..... FAIR sold out their good name in 2008 and never bothered to recapture it. ... FAIR was paving the ultimate faker, the biggest facade of all, Bill Moyers. ...Third Estate Sunday Review: TV: Strength greeted with confusion ...
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BILL MOYERS: The national press was cynical. Clinton is hoping that showing that other ..... Posted by Third Estate Sunday Review at Sunday, June 15, 2008 ...As for Barbara Ehrenreich, the woman is nuts and a damn liar.
She's been nuts forever. She's a closet case and an ugly, ugly woman.
With chin hair, by the way.
THE WIT AND WISDOM OF PROGRESSIVE “ELITES:” Do you enjoy being played for fools? If so, let us give you a few more reasons to appreciate Barbara Ehrenreich. Last week, Ehrenreich warned you about Hillary Clinton’s “ever-shifting hairstyles” (and distant affiliation with Hitler) in a deeply unfortunate piece at The Huffington Post. (See THE DAILY HOWLER, 3/21/08.)
In our view, progressive, liberal and Democratic Party interests have long been harmed by the hapless ways of liberal and progressive “intellectual leaders.” Ehrenreich’s piece helped show us again: Until our movement is cleaned of certain corrosive elements, liberal and progressive interests will be at a disadvantage in our electoral politics.
Back to that unfortunate, but revealing, piece at The Huffington Post:
In her piece, Ehrenreich was helpfully letting readers know that Clinton is a right-wing tool—that she’s been drawn “into the sinister heart of the international right.” Her evidence for such a remarkable statement? For starters, Clinton attends the Senate Prayer Breakfast, thereby allying herself with Hitler—and then, there’s all the right-wing legislation which the solon has pimped. In the following passage (we’ll quote at some length), Ehrenreich turns readers into a play-toy. In substantial part, this is how Democrats lose elections—and conservative interests prosper:
EHRENREICH (3/19/08): Clinton fell in with the Family in 1993, when she joined a Bible study group composed of wives of conservative leaders like Jack Kemp and James Baker. When she ascended to the senate, she was promoted to what Sharlet calls the Family's "most elite cell," the weekly Senate Prayer Breakfast, which included, until his downfall, Virginia's notoriously racist Senator George Allen.
This has not been a casual connection for Clinton. She has written of Doug Coe, the Family's publicity-averse leader, that he is "a unique presence in Washington: a genuinely loving spiritual mentor and guide to anyone, regardless of party or faith, who wants to deepen his or her relationship with God."
Furthermore, the Family takes credit for some of Clinton's rightward legislative tendencies, including her support for a law guaranteeing "religious freedom" in the workplace, such as for pharmacists who refuse to fill birth control prescriptions and police officers who refuse to guard abortion clinics.
What drew Clinton into the sinister heart of the international right? Maybe it was just a phase in her tormented search for identity, marked by ever-changing hairstyles and names...
It should be appalling to see someone like Ehrenreich typing that crap about Clinton’s hair-styles—but, as we will see below, Ehrenreich has been pushing political porn of this familiar type for a very long time. And sadly, Ehrenreich wasn’t kidding when she said that Clinton has been drawn into “the sinister heart of the international right.” The example she gave? That troubling “law guaranteeing ‘religious freedom’ in the workplace.”
Let’s understand the extent to which “progressive intellectual leaders” are willing to play you for fools.
The (proposed) law at issue is fairly complex. But let’s keep things fairly simple:
The (proposed) law to which Ehrenreich refers is the Workplace Religious Freedom Act (WRFA). Variants of the bill have been presented in Congress for years; it may be a bit of a Potemkin measure, repeatedly offered as a way of pandering to certain groups. But the WRFA is a bipartisan bill, with somewhat unusual blends of sponsors and opponents. In 2005, for example, the bill was introduced in the Senate by Rick Santorum—and by John Kerry, a Democrat from Massachusetts. (In 2004, Kerry was the Democratic Party’s nominee for president.) In the House, the bill was introduced by Rick Souder, the Indiana Republican—and by Carolyn McCarthy and Anthony Weiner, two Democrats from New York.
Has Clinton been drawn “into the sinister heart of the international right?” If so, Kerry (and McCarthy) seem to be there too—a point Ehrenreich absent-mindedly forgot to mention in her unfortunate rant. For the record, Kerry has introduced some variant of this bill every year since 1999, after two of his constituents got fired for refusing to work on Christmas Day. Ehrenreich omitted that too.
Our question: Will liberals and progressives (and Democrats) ever tell “intellectual leaders” like Ehrenreich that they can’t play the game in this manner?
She's been kicked to the curb by the Real Media but whores like Johnny will always try to bring political closet-case Babsie in from the cold.
I agree with C.I.'s suggesting in 2008: Democratic primaries are for Democrats. Those endorsing who are not Democrats need to come out of their political closets. Republicans did, those who supported Barack. Communists and Socialists hid in closets. (That includes Matthew Rothschild who only came out in 2009.)
"Iraq snapshot" (The Common Ills):
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