Beastiality vs Reality
Bill and Hillary Clinton both hate Barack Obama, and when they’re in close proximity, neither Clinton can help displaying that hatred with a hot, angry intensity that dwarfs the radiation emitted by 20 million exploding supernovas. And why wouldn’t they? Obama personally neutered every member of the Clinton household. He killed poor old Socks the Cat to mark the first month of his administration, and Socks wasn’t even a threat, having been placed in a witness protection program years earlier. But that’s Chicago politics for you.
As everyone knows, wingnuts are the most astute observers of Democratic politics, so it’s no surprise that Colonel Mustard was the first to notice Obama’s vicious abuse of Secretary Clinton, as noted here last week. Then the choir director at Our Lady of Perpetual Grievance, Amy Siskind, pounced on The Colonel’s observation like a house cat on an unattended tuna salad sandwich, posting a “Where’s Waldo” image on her blog with the following plaintive question: “On the world stage: Where’s Hillary?”
Scuttling around under a drop-cloth—that’s where. Or so says Dead Princess Di stalker and Daily Beast cash cow milker Tina Brown. In a screed entitled “Obama’s Other Wife,” Brown says:
It’s time for Barack Obama to let Hillary Clinton take off her burqa.
The title and first line combine to portray the president as an evil Muslim wimmyn oppressor who has made a second-rate concubine out of poor Hillary, which is an impressively economical smear in just 16 words. But aside from that, the piece is mostly a tiresome rehash of Mustard’s and Siskind’s bogus talking points, which Clinton herself refuted here.
There are a few extra inaccuracies thrown in, like the implication that somehow Obama orchestrated shunting Bill Clinton off to Haiti when in fact the UN asked The Big Dawg to go, and he was eager to do so. Possibly to burnish his “I’m Mister Black People!” cred or likely because he genuinely cares about the sorry plight of the Haitians. Either way, there’s no evidence of a Chicago shiv in the appointment, nor is it at all unusual for presidents rather than secretaries of state to dole out plum ambassadorships to supporters, which Brown surely knows.
The motives of those who are spreading the “Our Girl Is Being Dissed!” meme are mostly clear: The wingnut shit-stirrers like Colonel Mustard want to undermine the Obama administration. Duh.
The sob-sisterhood shares that goal while also laboring under the delusion that infantilizing women—including one of the most powerful females on the planet—promotes feminism. (And it’s all good for the wingnuts since they see the infantilization of women as a feature, not a bug.)
But what’s Brown’s angle? Is she framing another plot twist in her upcoming tome on the Clintons? Could be. Last year, she told The View ladies the disappointing (for the Clintons) outcome of the primaries was actually a boon to her (Brown’s) budding narrative because it dramatically book-ended the Clinton years.
Maybe the spectacle of Hillary Clinton working cooperatively with her former rival is just too drab a story line for the woman whose last literary success entailed digging up salacious details about the long-dead Princess Di. It seems Ms. Brown will have her beastly clash of the titans, even if she has to manufacture it herself.
[H/T: Jason]
Posted by Betty Cracker on 07/14/09 at 09:15 AM • Permalink
Categories: Politics • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Our Stupid Media • Skull Hampers •
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