August 28, 2010

• This Week in Ugly

  Ugly Americans have rights, too. One they exercise all too often is freedom of speech. Now, the ugly I refer is in their hearts and/or minds but, in many cases the inner ugly manifests itself, sneaking onto a face in an unguarded moment, moments such as these....

  Newt Gingrich
  This bloated serial philanderer really thinks America has forgotten that he vacated his seat in Congress after leading the republicans to a disastrous loss in the '98 elections, and that we have been hoping he would run for President. Actually, I hope he does, he's a guaranteed loser for the republicans.

  I almost forgot why Newt is being mentioned at all. Here he is this week expounding on the Cordoba House, the Islamic community Center slated to be built near the site of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center...

  [T]he Ground Zero mosque is all about conquest and thus an assertion of Islamist triumphalism which we should not tolerate. … It is simply grotesque to erect a mosque at the site of the most visible and powerful symbol of the horrible consequences of radical Islamist ideology.

   

  The Moors ruled Cordoba for 700 years. During that time, interfaith harmony was the rule. There were Catholic churches and Jewish synagogues in Cordoba. Cordoba even had a jewish mayor for 30 years. When the Moors were driven out, the Jews were forced to convert to Christianity or leave the country. They sought and received refuge in Muslim countries. Does Newt really think the minds behind the Cordoba House picked the name to praise the terrorists as some secret message only Muslims and a zillion right-wing bloggers could decipher? Newt exemplifies one of the requirements for listing here; he leaves ugliness in his wake. Do us a favor, Newt, leave another wife (Hey, how hard can it be?), and run away to New Guinea* with....

   

  Sharron Angle
  seen here channeling whatever demon makes her spout barely intelligible fountains of stupidity and meanness, such as her disturbing campaign strategy in her bid against House Speaker Harry Reid. An' I quote....

  "....you know, if this, this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies, they're saying my goodness what can we do to turn this country around? And I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out."

  This week, the candidate refused to take back a claim that there are 'Domestic enemies' in Congress. If she wins, there will be one more. Please, Nevada, don't elect an idiot who advocates killing elected officials, as that would make you even more batshit-crazy than....

  Mel Gibson
  I used to like this guy, and I still would had I not heard about him saying this to his ex-girlfriend and mother of his child, Oksana Grigorieva....

  "...you go out in public and it's a f#@%ing embarrassment to me. You look like a f#@%ing bitch in heat, and if you get raped by a pack of niggers it'll be your fault. All right? Because you provoked it." (A 4th transcript full of evil rants was released this week, but these gems are from an earlier tape.)

  Later, in the same phone call, Mel tries a little tenderness...

   Shut the f#%k up! You should just f%#&ing smile, and blow me! 'Cause I deserve it!

  I don't think it's gonna happen, Mel. But you might try sweet-talking....

   

  Ken Mehlman
  ..who this week made official what Bill Maher told us in 2008, namely, that he is gay. Ken led Bush' second re-election campaign, one of the themes of which was that allowing gays to marry would destroy the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman. In answer, I refer you to Newt Gingrich. Ken, as do most self-loathing, republican-voting homosexuals, fought hard for the Republican positions  vis a vis gays, including support of the ridiculous 'don't ask, don't tell' policy for handling gays in the military. Now he wants to see gay marriage become the law of the land, a concept which he vigorously fought against from the safety of the closet. Mehlman is the one I least dislike here, at least his talking about his gayness will make it easier for others to come out. So I would be willing to introduce him to someone....

  Governor Jan Brewer (R. Az)
  What? Not a man? Are you sure? Yeah I see the dress, the hair, but I thought that lacking any other feminine qualities, Brewer was a cross-dresser. After all, Jan is a man's name in Scandinavian countries, and I know the governor has no problem with vistors from THAT portion of the world. The bill Mr. Brewer pushed that requires the police to become immigration officers is needed because, you know, police have so little else to do. That 11-80 (accident-major injuries) can wait while the officers check out those suspicious guys with the lunch buckets and rope belts. This week, Brewer is upset that the bill is mentioned in a US report on civil rights submitted to the UN. Too late, Jan, the world knows you signed another bill that bans Mexican-American studies in Arizona schools. Youse ugly, inside and out, and so is the bill.

  Illegal immigration is down, it peaked in 2007, and seizures at the border are way up. Legal Mexican immigrants have increased in number, so maybe the Governor is just seeing too much brown skin for her taste. What else? The bill was written by a white supremacist, pushed by the company who manages the facility in which the illegal immigrants who are apprehended will be processed... there was something else... Oh yeah, on a per capita basis, Arizonans of Mexican descent commit less crime than do whites.

  Now, if Brewer was to craft a bill to keep out....

  
  Gerard Depardieu
   ...Who made news a few years ago, not for his reputed acting abilities, but for this comment:

  "I don't understand why rape is seen as bad in this country. In [France], I've raped several women."  

  What the hell, the first one's the hardest, right, Gerard? It has been dismissed as a translation problem, but what could he have really meant? Foot-rubbing? Just in case a little rape doesn't make him ugly enough, this week he had this to say about..... 

    Juliette Binoche, (Not ugly, not even a little)
    "I would really like to know why she has been so esteemed for so many years. She has nothing. Absolutely nothing!"

  Juliette has been in 50 films, and has won acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. She won an Oscar, was nominated for another, and has won numerous other awards over the years. Why Depardieu disses her is a mystery. Maybe she didn't succumb to his charms.

   

  * They still have cannibals, right?

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