See, this is why we can’t have nice things. Background: Vincent Sheheen, the slowly-drowning Democratic nominee for South Carolina governor, had this to say yesterday about Governor Nikki Haley.
http://youtu.be/tLwiKhGtcHg?t=14s
Continue reading OK, let us address Vincent Sheheen calling Nikki Haley a ‘wh*re.’
…because the technical term here would be ‘divorce.’
Yes. Fox News reports that the source of the misogynist attack is now alleged to be no less than Anne Gust Brown herself, who is both wife and campaign aide to Jerry Brown. This is ‘alleged’ because there is some indication that this may be, of all things, a deliberate attempt by the Brown campaign to fix blame on the one person that cannot be fired or reprimanded by the candidate… because how can somebody go after one’s own wife*? And what makes this so stereotypically… well, Democratic… is that there’s a hint – just a hint – that Moonbeam himself may have uttered (or at least repeated) the slur in the confusion. Which, if true, means that Brown is making his wife take the fall for his own vicious, anti-woman attitudes.
Yeah. That’s one big hero that the Democrats have running over there in California. I’d suggest that Californians ask him about this, but Brown’s reportedly canceled all of his public appearances until the next debate.
As I said: one big hero.
Moe Lane (crosspost)
PS: Yes, definitely, Meg Whitman for Governor. Aren’t you tired of THOSE PEOPLE yet?
*Although Sanford Bishop (D, GA-02) certainly managed. Relatedly: Mike Keown for Congress.
Legal Insurrection noted this little detail from Brown’s Whore Incident, and it’s well worth noting: Brown doesn’t like him the police departments very much.
Beginning at 3:10 of the audio, Brown and his aides begin a discussion of Whitman’s proposed budget cuts. A female voice says “Yeah, Jerry, we’ve got to focus on the police chiefs, we got to get them [inaudible].” Another female voice in the background says “[Inaudible] I just want to make sure we talk about this.” Brown then says (at 3:20):
“I’m going to hit that out of the park, not that they read.”
Charming guy, huh? And by ‘charming’ I mean ‘sneering elitist who probably looks down on any person who voluntarily agrees to risk taking a bullet in the pursuit of protecting society.’ Hey, I like to pack a lot of meaning into my words…
Moe Lane
PS: Whitman for Governor.
I was sent this, and it is impossible to excerpt: you’ll just have to read the whole thing. It’s sort of about the nature of television programming, and sort of about this freaky, too-surreal-to-be-not-true situation that the author found himself in, but mostly sort of about being a awesome blog entry.
You’ll love it. Trust me. Although why you should trust random people on the Internet when they say ‘Trust me,’ given that 85% of the stuff you get sent on the Internet – by people that you have actual emotional relationships with, no less – is unfunny crap, is an exercise left to the reader.
