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Crappy Hour with Latoya Peterson, July 9, 2009
 
8:32
LatoyaPeterson -  Yo! I'm back from my sojourn to the South and ready to talk politics.
8:35
Megan -  Ah, the South. I hear it's lovely this time of year, but I have to admit I'm enjoying the unseasonable coldness up North.

Well, we could talk about how no one really knows why Sarah Palin resigned and it's freaking everyone out not to know why why why...
8:37
LatoyaPeterson -  ...
Megan, we have had this discussion.   No Palin.   No mas.   Not ever.   The only time I will consent to give Palin any more attention is one of the following three scenarios: (1) She runs for Prez in 2012, (2) she reinvents herself as Joel Olsteen and becomes a mega-televangelist or (3) she is hosting a wilderness reality show on the Outdoor Network.   If none of those things are happening, she's dead to me.
8:40
LatoyaPeterson -  Besides, there are more interesting Republicans to talk about.   Like this Ensign person.   Did someone tell him that hetero sex scandals are way passe?   He can't top the Sanford Opera...this one only has one interesting twist.
8:42
Megan -  I know! It is that's the only other news happening in Washington -- health care reform is, like, sooo boring . First the husband of the woman Nevada Senator John Ensign was fucking is all over the news and admitting he wanted $1 million for Ensign having fucked his wife. AND Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn told Ensign to pay it! And then they sat him down with a bunch of other Bible-thumpers and made him write a letter to break it off.Ensign letter
But he told her that the husband made him do it and they kept up with the fucking. Which is husband claims she couldn't resist, possibly because her husband is an enormous tool.
8:43
LatoyaPeterson -  Wait, wasn' t this the plot for Indecent Proposal? Because if it wasn't, it should have been.
8:43
Megan -  I know! Oh, and since Ensign did pay her severence out of his own pocket (supposedly), that's possible an illegal in-kind donation to his own campaign staff because campaign finance laws are so crazy fucked up and since it was so much, it's possibly a felony.
8:44
Megan -  (And if you're not familiar with Coburn, he's a crazy mega conservative known for enticing interns to a lecture with free pizza, shutting the door and showing them slides upon slides of STDs to try to convince them all to stop fucking. He's also a gynecologist. Don't ask me why the gynecologist lawmakers are all the crazy right-wingers.)
8:45
LatoyaPeterson -  I did not need to know that.   Why are old those fuckers on Capitol Hill so damn creepy?
8:45
LatoyaPeterson -  Hmm...that should be "all those fuckers" but "all those old fuckers" also works.
8:48
Megan -  Maybe there's something in the water? Or it's just an excuse for Coburn to show a bunch of 21-year-olds pictures of vagina?

Speaking of creepy, did you check out Iowa Congressman Steve King's reason for voting against the bill acknowledging the slaves that built the Capitol? All us mean liberals haven't acknowledged God's role.

Steve King is the one who, during the immigration debate, showed up on the House floor with a paper maché model of the wall he wanted built between us and Mexico.
8:48
LatoyaPeterson -  If I remember my history correctly, some folks were using God to justify why we should stay enslaved.  
8:49
LatoyaPeterson -  Does he live in Georgetown while Congress is in session?   Maybe we should have some sort of summoning of the slaves buried there.  
8:51
Megan -  Well, see, so in King's mind, since God wanted you (and let's acknowledge that King might well say "you people") enslaved, and slaves built the Capitol, ipso facto God built the Capitol. Obviously.

I'm betting King is one of the ones living in Senatorial squalor on Capitol Hill.
8:53
LatoyaPeterson -  I wonder if God will let me take my 40 acres and a mule out of his ass.   A pound of flesh isn't too liquid these days...
8:54
Megan -  Plus, in King's case, that pound would be really, really bitter and probably not have any resale value.
8:54
Megan -  It would taste of the slow decline of white male privilege, hate and dill. Just because I hate dill.
8:56
LatoyaPeterson -  LOL.   Before we dive back into the nasty brew of Washington politicians, mind if we take a quick trip around the world?   A little item on Michelle Obama caught my eye for all kinds of reasons.
8:59
Megan -  Well, um, the first thing that I notice is that despite the fact that Obama supposedly stands out in that crowd because she is black, I notice several other women of color. I'm also not sure how playing a ceremonial role of a wife with no other job is resolving sexism in Italy.
9:01
LatoyaPeterson -  Well, I find it interesting that Michelle becomes the symbol for...oh...just about anything a reporter can dream up.   Now I love Robin Givhan.   And Michelle is fab.   But this:

Into this tangled web of ambivalence over female identity walks Michelle Obama, a career woman who recognizes the pleasure of pretty but who would also prefer it if people stopped focusing on her clothes. She is the woman with big thoughts who, for the next two days, is referred to as "spouse." Yet much of her popularity here in Italy grows out of the way in which she has signaled an archetypal shift for an American first lady. Much of that change has come by way of style.

I don't know if I can cosign that.   Can Michelle just do Michelle and not worry about how other nations perceive her swagger?
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