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12/11/09
He'll be happy she wore bright blue. He's told me he thinks softer colors wash her out. And that is the one and only thing I have ever heard him say about fashion other than "I don't get it."
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"I feel there are certain people who are systematically ripping [feminism] down because of their lack of regard and their ignorance about what the women before us had to go through." Is she referring to Hollywood power brokers, or to starlets like Jessica Simpson and Paris Hilton, whose fame plays on certain stereotypes? She doesn't even pause. "I don't think these women are stupid. I think they're selling a personality that's very marketable: 'Wouldn't it be fun if we were all gorgeous and didn't have a care?' But creating a cultural icon out of someone who goes, 'I'm stupid, isn't it cute?' makes me want to throw daggers at them! I want to say to them, 'My grandma did not fight for what she fought for, and my mother did not fight for what she fought for, so you can start telling women it's fun to be stupid.' Saying that to young women, little girls, my daughter? It's not okay."
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It's a culture that's promoted by these highly educated (so-called) "elites", too, as though they just want a brainless following who won't actually dare get personally involved in politics, but simply go along with whatever they're told.
Essentially, it's a big "fuck you" to a group of people perceived by their "leaders" as stupid, uneducated, poor, desperate, and "un-improvable" - only disguised as a hug and a cup of hot chocolate. Which I guess would also explain all that bullshit the Republicans were throwing around when Obama made his "notorious" "stay in school!' speech - and how the "outrage" was justified because kids might actually develop the capacity to make decisions for themselves. And why all these wealthy, educated Republicans spend so much time convincing people without medical insurance that socialism is EVOL.
This kind of blind political dogma is just so fucking terrifying. You have to wonder what these people really want, because talk about a fucking Master Plan.
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Sorry, that's all I got.
I knew "Fox and Friends" was bad, but after those clips...man.
If she's "faking" stupid in order to say stupid, fearmongering things about Obama, she sold me. The ends here are the same, regardless of the means, yes?
And here's the thing--SHE wanted to work on Fox. They can't have someone with intellectual integrity or dignity sullying up the tone of the show, can they?
I get it--she's despicable because she (if not Janet and Jack--HA!) should know better. It's like Jon (swoon) pointed out--the stupidity and self-congratulatory, hateful ignorance Fox manufactures is doubly bad when spouted by people who pursued an higher education in their past and should otherwise probably know better, but exaggerate or bald-faced lie to indulge an audience with base or fear-influenced instincts.
If she wants this job so badly or actually, personally dislikes Obama so much that she thinks it's kosher to to imply Obama is some sort of tyrant (or, at least, in league with them), why should that Stanford degree get in her way?
It's brilliant--she can express irrational or indefensible loathing for Obama passively aggressively (Chavez DOES have a point; I won't say he's IGNORANT, but he IS a lawyer, so uh...you make up your mind, folks, one goes with the other).
Guess it's harder to play shit like that when, you know, you also have to pretend you're literate. I have plenty of problems with Obama, but I'll take Rachel Maddow's criticisms over this twit (don't care if she studied at Oxford, she plays a twit to work on this show and that's all that matters) any day.
Another thing---isn't an "ignoramus" just a word of ignorant PERSON, period?
How come the other non-Fox 24 hour networks (other than Maddow, Olbermann and--though my hormones might be talking--A Coop, a little) do what the Daily Show and the Colbert Report can?
I guess a variety show doesn't face the same restraints or the penalties that come with "professionalism" in contemporary media, huh?
12/09/09
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That's the only connection Ignoramus has with lawyers, ignorant or otherwise.
12/09/09
I found that play reference too. Girlfriend doesn't just lie about being stupid, she lies about Google...or at least, lays on the stupidity extra thick by being (pretending to be?) illiterate. Had to work extra hard to legitimize an accusation from Chavez without actually owning her agreement.
Ugh...what shitfaces they all are.
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Plus, it's doubly disingenuous that she's using her ditz act to attack the "liberal elite", of which she was arguably a member.
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Seriously- I MET her back when she was Miss Minnesota, and she is a fucking genius and had she not won Miss America, she would have had a full ride at Julliard- or a Rhodes Scholar. She had all that going for her and now she is this..Blech.
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Fox exec: Okay, Gretchen, we loved your audition. You have a face for TV, babe! There's just one thing.
Gretchen: What's that?
Fox exec: You're too smart. We're going to need you to dumb it down.
Gretchen: But I went to Stanford and Oxford! The British one.
Fox: We need watchers to identify with your folksy soccer mom charm.
Gretchen: But this is the 21st century; women are allowed to have opinions and think for themselves. I joined the show to talk seriously about my political opinions.
Fox: *Chuckle* That's real cute, Gretch.
Gretchen: I don't even know how to be dumb.
Fox: Remember that girl growing up that you never wanted to be? Be her.
[Fox executive exits. Gretchen wipes her eyes, fixes her makeup and exits. End scene.]
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(1) Graduates of Stanford don't know what "czar" or "ignoramus" mean.
(2) Graduates of Stanford are willing to pretend not to know what "czar" or "ignoramus" mean in order to condescend to the uneducated and pick up a fat paycheck on a national news program.
Discuss.
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It's funny that they are both intellectually outshined by the monopoly of common sense on Fox, Shepard Smith, who went to University of Mississippi.
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She spent the next ten years alternately twirling, googling, and frowning.