Liz Trotta
“Female journalists envy Ann Romney because she followed moms’ advice: Marry ‘a good, preferably rich, man.’”
to task for mentioning Ann Romney’s $1,000 blouse,
Aug. 5, 2012
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Ah, those conservative Republican “traditional” family values are back, this time with a greed-is-good spin. Let every marriageable young woman be a gold digger. Let every prospective husband worth marrying be a well-heeled sugar daddy.
Play your “assets” right, girls, and you, too, could have four or five homes, one with multi-story garage and car elevator; an Olympics-contender dressage horse, secret overseas bank accounts, and all the $1,000 blouses you can load into the Lexus every time you go to the mall.
The way forward is clear. When husband shopping, never forget that Grand Old Party adage, “Kissin’ don’t last, but the joy of conspicuous consumption do.”
H/t Media Matters for America. Video here, if your stomach can take it.
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I made the mistake of clicking on the video. I’m speechless.
I always told my girls it was as easy to love a rich man as a poor man. Or else please marry an IT specialist, a mechanic and an electrician. The only one married has ignored my advice and the others are not likely to listen either. I will skip the video as I am already angry at everyone today anyhow.
After what Tom just commented and being a tad bit under the weather I think I’ll pass..
Tom, being embedded in the ground, the bar at Fox isn’t hard to get over for squawking heads seeking a camera, microphone and audience that thrives on lies, distortions and perverse nonsense. See the related post (linked above) for how low Trotta can go.
Blog Fodder, don’t leave out plumbers. They can easily cost as much as any two of the types you mentioned when you need work done, and they make a very good living.
I hope things brighten as your day goes on.
Demeur, there must be something going around. I think I’ve had a touch of the flu the past couple of days. I’m feeling better as today goes on. I hope you will too.
Happier today, thanks. Just some days I am so grouchy I could put my teeth in backwards and bite myself in the throat. And it is not always the nutbars on the right, just as often it is the ones on the left too.
Most plumbing I can do, also carpentry; the wish list was for talents I don’t have readily.
The motto is simple: Greed is good.
To expand on that, the basic philosophy is such:
Take whatever you can, and however you can get it. It’s every person for himself or herself. If it’s a dog-eat-dog world, then eat or be eaten. The amount of money and accumulated wealth one has is an indicator of how hard that person has worked (which is harder than the other 98% of us have). These people are the ones who deserve the best health care, the best education, the best retirement and the best of America. They are the ones who have earned their way. It’s their birthright. Blah, blah, blah.
Michael Moore once mentioned that there is a pretty big pie, and it’s pretty tasty. But it’s the Americans who have most of the pie. When more of the average Americans realize they can have some of that pie too, and that they SHOULD have more of it, then the rich will have to rely on religion… religion is what keeps the poor from killing the rich, after all.
Sorry to be cranky, but people like Liz Trotta just make my blood boil!! LOL
And this isn’t even Liz’s greatest hit, IMHO.
http://reconstitution.us/rcnew/?p=11884
Only meant that metaphorically SW. I ran out of bleach eyewash. A must when visiting rethuglicon websites.
Blog Fodder, I’m glad the storm has passed. Some days are like that.
Snave, since before the Gilded Age Republican ideology has always had a strong law-of-the-jungle strain to it: He who owns the mine gets the gold while everyone else gets the shaft; and the meek shall inherit the dirt. They laud selfishness and greed as vital motivators using sanitized euphemisms for both. They claim anything else amounts to socialism that makes people weak, lazy and dependent on government. Conservative Republicans like their black-vs.-white extremes with nothing in between. Pure communism is an unworkable, loser ideology at one end of a spectrum. Conservative Republicans’ law-of-the-jungle ideology is an unacceptable, ultimately self-destructive ideology at the opposite extreme.
J.R., that is outrageous but it’s the red meat Fox viewers want. I wonder if any of Fox’s self-styled super-patriot viewers realize Trotta was actually saying our military isn’t something any decent female who doesn’t want to be raped would or should serve in.