skippy the bush kangaroo: why can't ann althouse be more like judy tenuta?

Sunday, October 21, 2007

why can't ann althouse be more like judy tenuta?

prof. althouse gets serious

in her latest piece, why can't hillary be more like ellen degeneres? ann althouse follows the hardly-ever-right wing's latest fairy tale meme: hillary clinton got rid of socks the cat, ergo, she's cold.

to be fair, ann is only repeating the made-up suppositions found in an article on the times online, in which the second paragraph uses carefully chosen verbs to indicate cold-bloodedness on sen. clinton's part:

once the presidency was over, there was no room for socks any more. after years of loyal service at the white house, the black and white cat was dumped on betty currie, bill clinton’s personal secretary, who also had an embarrassing clean-up role in the saga of his relationship with the intern monica lewinsky.

notice three things here: first, there's no source or cites to really give a sense of whether or not there was "room for socks any more." secondly, the use of the word "dumped," rather than "given to" or "adopted by." and thirdly, nice use of the lewinsky strawman to remind everyone that the clinton = blow jobs!

(where we come from, there's a name for people who talk about sex and animals in the same sentence, and it ain't animal husbandry.)

luckily for us, internet ronin clears up the issue in a comment on ann's site:

i get a kick out of both of these stories. sox went to live with betty currie because buddy kept trying to turn sox into a chew toy and it was one or the other. ("you wanted the damned dog" was probably something bill heard said more than once in the white house.) besides, sox was chelsea's cat not hillary's cat, and chelsea was a "big girl" when her parents left the white house and could have taken sox to live with her, wherever that was. but she obviously didn't want to, so it was better for sox to go live with betty currie than end up being the reason buddy didn't have an appetite for dinner. as for buddy's subsequent demise, it is a bit hard to pin on either of them because they were both away when an employee accidentally let the dog out. (why does the woman of the house always gets blamed for these things?)

by "both of these stories," internet ronin is also referring to the other wingnut meme that hillary let buddy the dog get run over by a car, which althouse also refers to, by linking to an obviously parody piece in slate comparing the death of buddy to conspiracy theories about the death of vince foster.

then again, perhaps althouse herself is being tongue-in-cheek and satirical, witty and erudite.

yes, just like when she was angry at theat girl for having breasts. it's all a joke, right?

Labels: animals, clinton, hillary, punditry, right hypocrisy

posted by skippy at 7:54 PM |

5 Comments:

Sexism, still alive and well in America.

commented by

No Blood for Hubris, 9:33 PM PDT

The real undercurrent of Althouse's piece, tho, was Hillary's alleged lesbianism (after all, she could have compared Hill to Michael Vick).

Althouse calling Hillary out of the closet is like Fred Thompson calling Rudy "pro-choice"...while working for a pro-choice group as a lobbyist!

commented by

Carl, 7:51 AM PDT

then again, perhaps althouse herself is being tongue-in-cheek and satirical, witty and erudite.

But since we can't really tell, she failed miserably? Kinda like if you have to explain the joke, it wasn't funny to begin with?

My favorite was her attempt to coin a neologism...WOMANOSITY. Seriously!

I swear! If my kids were U of W law students, I would sue...

commented by

--Blue Girl, 12:14 PM PDT

why can't we just ignore the attention-craving althouse altogether?

remember, onion rings are obviously vaginas.

commented by

Anonymous, 10:05 AM PDT

My ears have been burning, and a friend said it must be because you mentioned my name. Always a pleasure to come across a complimentary reference, particularly here as you were the first person to welcome and link to me when I started my old blog. All the best to you, skippy.

commented by

Internet Ronin, 8:22 AM PDT

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