{"id":377899,"date":"2010-03-01T23:00:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T04:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=69945"},"modified":"2010-03-01T23:00:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T04:00:58","slug":"late-night-how-do-you-say-%e2%80%9cbitchslap%e2%80%9d-in-dutch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/377899","title":{"rendered":"Late Night: How Do You Say \u201cBitchslap\u201d in Dutch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-69950\" href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2010\/03\/01\/late-night-how-do-you-say-bitchslap-in-dutch\/catfight-3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-69950\" title=\"catfight\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/03\/catfight.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a>Tom Tancredo, insane xenophobic failed politician from Colorado, had harsh words for the angry Arizonan, shouting-at-the-clouds codger and the sociopathological <a title=\"grifter from Alaska\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nrc.nl\/international\/Features\/article2493254.ece\/Tea_Party_prominent_Palin_not_presidential\">grifter from Alaska<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>Former Republican congressman Tom Tancredo was the opening speaker at the    recent Tea Party conference with Sarah Palin. In an interview with NRC Handelsblad, he spoke his mind about Palin. &#8220;I really don\u2019t have this    feeling about her as being presidential.\u2019\u2019 He referred to John McCain as a    \u201cnasty, mean\u2019\u2019 and \u201cpeculiarly unstable\u2019\u2019 man.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, snap! Who died and left Tancredo <a title=\"Heather Chandler's red scrunchie\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0097493\/\">Heather Chandler&#8217;s red scrunchie<\/a>? Dude sounds a bit like the protagonist of <a title=\"Prometheus Unbound\" href=\"http:\/\/andromeda.rutgers.edu\/~jlynch\/Texts\/prometheus.html\"><em>Prometheus Unbound<\/em><\/a>, struggling to bring down the House of Zeus, only exponentially more batshit crazy, and without the impressive bloodline.<\/p>\n<p>There is also something innately comical about the Political Flame-out King calling the likes of McCain and Palin &#8220;unprincipled politicians,&#8221; &#8220;not Presidential&#8221; material, and &#8220;unstable.&#8221; It&#8217;s like Imelda Marcos calling Carrie Bradshaw a shoe whore. Seriously, don a rain poncho and whisper the word &#8220;Mexican&#8221; in front of Tancredo, and watch as he foams at the mouth faster than a freshly-opened can of Scrubbing Bubbles\u2122.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-69945\"><\/span>Moreover, the 15-watt <em><strong>keynote speaker at the Tea Party Convention<\/strong><\/em> proves he still doesn&#8217;t comprehend the way the interwebs work:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p><strong>Do the Tea Party people realise that you supported the bailout?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>And if they knew, wouldn\u2019t they be angry with you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I am sure that would take the lustre off.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Mijn god<\/em>, doesn&#8217;t he understand that even the Dutch newspapers have online editions accessible around the world? Or is he so blinded by his own stupidity that he believes just because he doesn&#8217;t know how to use teh Google, his racist teabagger fans don&#8217;t know how, either?<\/p>\n<p>I guess we&#8217;ll have to wait and see whether the Tea Party bestows the red scrunchie on someone more . . . politically pure.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Postscript:<\/strong><\/em> And on a somewhat related note, it is with great sadness that I have report the death of Harold Ford&#8217;s <a title=\"non-campaign campaign\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/exclusive_ford_decides_not_to_run_2TESB8IEh8ghNQEozskVkL\">non-campaign campaign<\/a>. Farewell, Count of Carpetbaggerton, Duke of Douchebaggery.\u00a0 I shall wrap myself in black and purple bunting and strew rose petals on the sidewalk outside the Hotel Regency, crying fat, salty tears all the while.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, now Larry Kudlow can <a title=\"step up to the plate\" href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5482889\/every-mediocre-person-in-america-running-for-office-in-new-york\">step up to the plate <\/a>. . . assuming he&#8217;s not currently incapacitated, grinding his teeth down to the gums in a crackhouse somewhere on the Upper East Side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagList\">Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/harold-ford\/\" rel=\"tag\">Harold Ford<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/republican-hypocrisy\/\" rel=\"tag\">Republican Hypocrisy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/republicans\/\" rel=\"tag\">Republicans<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/sarah-palin\/\" rel=\"tag\">Sarah Palin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/tancredo\/\" rel=\"tag\">Tancredo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/tea-party\/\" rel=\"tag\">Tea Party<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=69945&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_69945\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Tancredo, insane xenophobic failed politician from Colorado, had harsh words for the angry Arizonan, shouting-at-the-clouds codger and the sociopathological grifter from Alaska: Former Republican congressman Tom Tancredo was the opening speaker at the recent Tea Party conference with Sarah Palin. In an interview with NRC Handelsblad, he spoke his mind about Palin. &#8220;I really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}