Hilarious comment from James Wolcott on the Palin pregnancy fustercluck...

[johnfunk]

Say what you will about Al and Peggy Bundy, slovenly occupying the sofa lo those many seasons on Married with Children, but they negligently raised a fine, slutty, airhead, bare-midriff daughter--I speak of course of Christina Applegate's divine Kelly--who managed to make it through her teen years without a baby in tow. Which is more than can be said for the unfortunate daughter of the Republican Party's poster mom for abstinence only.

Read the rest of Wolcott's latest piece here .

[ironflange]

1. "The Bristol Stomp"

Zoicks!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Shows how well abstinence training works. The two obviously hit the point of no return and had no idea about what precautions should then be taken.

[ColbertWatcher]

2. YES! Well done, sir! n/t

[sam sarrha]

3. old Alaskan saying. "noth'n to do up here but Hunt an Fuck. an in the winter th hunt'n aint no good

[Danascot]

6. What you said

[Blue_Tires]

11. i'm going to hell for laughing too hard at that....

[Edgewater_Joe]

4. And More IS Coming!

If you heard John Nichols from THE NATION interviewed by Rachel Maddow today, you found out that the NATIONAL ENQUIRER is now in Alaska, and Nichols was practically squealing in glee at how deep this particular rabbit hole goes.

HA!

[seemslikeadream]

9. Was that on TV or the radio?

[Canuckistanian]

5. Thanks, I love Wolcott

It's been a while since I read any of his stuff.

And this one's a keeper.

[johnfunk]

7. Wolcott's been on a roll lately

Of course, it helps when the subject matter just keeps rolling in.

[yardwork]

8. This is the really important part, where he quotes Lawrence Austor:

All that the evangelical and Catholic conservatives care about is opposition to abortion. All that's required for them to be happy is an illegitimate or defective pregnancy, followed by birth. They have no vision of social order, no vision of an overarching good, but have reduced all goods to the good of avoiding abortion. Which means that they embrace every kind of disorder, so long as rejection of abortion is thrown into the mix.


As I've already pointed out, the subject here is not the personal situation of Bristol. The subject is that a woman with Bristol's situation in her family should not be running for vice president. A woman with an illegitimately pregnant 17 year old daughter should have kept it private by not running for vice president. Instead, she brings it before the world, requiring all Republicans and conservatives to approve of the situation in order to maintain their support for her.

The distinction between private and public has completely ended. The public sphere has been completely subsumed by the private sphere. So that if someone's messy private sphere meets the conservatives' requirements and presses their buttons (Palin's daughter's illegitimate pregnancy, followed by marriage and birth), then the conservatives celebrate that person and approve her for the second highest office in the land.

[kath]

10. Great article - one of the best on the Palin fandango

Thanks for posting it!

[johnfunk]

12. Ah, for the innocent days of "Married with Children"

Still one of the funniest series ever on the idiot box -- if only for for the way it skewered "heartland" suburban culture.