Chelsea Clinton and America Ferrera: Dumbing down politics
Warning: Your IQ may drop 30 points watching this campaign video of Chelsea Clinton and TV actress America Ferrera campaigning for Hillary in Nevada last week and playing the gender card to the hilt (hat tip - Lonewacko). At least you have 30 points to lose–which is more than most of the people in this video seem to possess.
Like the supporter who backs Hillary because “she’s a lady.”
A lady.
And Ferrera, who giggles and gloats about Hillary with Chelsea during a car ride that she “was soooo happy and excited and I, I, I just felt so much pride for her and I thought ‘My God, like, this is a woman running for president.’”
A woman.
Like seriously.
Can American politics get any dumber?
These women give women a bad name.
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Liberal talk show host Ed Schultz appearing on Hardball with Chris Matthews today. He tells Bill Clinton to stop lying about Barack Obama on the campaign trail. He uses Clinton’s lies about Monica Lewinsky as an example.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-X9tEOp19o
John Kerry says he will work to counter the Clinton’s swift-boating of Barack Obama.
A quote from his piece…
“The fight is just getting warm — we won’t let them steal this election with lies and distortions.”
John Kerry’s post at the DailyKos from earlier today:
Link
You gotta love it. A well known Democrat using the swiftboating reference against the Clintons. LOL!
I couldn’t watch more than 50% of that video. I wanted to keep my IQ intact.
I wonder what would’ve happened if I entered that room in an INS baseball cap while Chelsea was speaking.
There goes the audience.
So why not Edwards?
Uhhh… Meanwhile… Chelsea proves that the value of a Stanford Education has been over-estimated by the minions from the State University Classes.
Sadly, this will probably work with young females.
OMG - totally, fer real - she makes me want to be a woman - I’m almost ashamed to be a man. but, I’m also proud that, in this great
countycountry I can throw my support behind a real lady. Oh.My.Goddd.I’m like, Oh My God, it’s just so, totaly awesome that Hillary could be our, you know, president. That is soooo cool!
Now there is some solid reasoning!
My image of a Hillary of supporter.
Like, OMG, I’m like, sooo totally psyched about a woman running for president! She’s so, like, womanly. She’s got, like, breasts, and ovaries, and wow, I’m just so, you know, proud of her!
Mrs. Malkin, these are not women; these are girls. 20-something girls, perhaps, but girls nonetheless.
I’ve overheard more intelligent conversation between teenagers in the mall … but don’t worry folks … as I said on another thread earlier today … if HRC and Bill get back in the White House they will find somewhere for Chelsea to get elected to Congress so she can be the next Clinton to get elected as President in 8 years … count on it …
I much prefer when actors keep their politics to themselves. I’ve enjoyed Miss Ferrera’s work for the most part. Now, I’ll have to look at her differently…
Is it my imagination or are there always a number of Hillary look-alikes at her events? I always see a number of older women with the same sex neutral clothes and shortish hair with lots of attitude in their body language. Perhaps that is the recommended look for her staff. I just hope she is not being cloned.
I actually feel bad for Chelsea. Wait a minute….I share a birthday with the girl, so basically, I’m just embarrassed. My psychic Feb 27th powers tell me that the poor girl is weary. You can see it in her eyes. —As if she doesn’t exactly know what her role is, or what she’s supposed to be doing. At 27, and with the life she’s led, what really does she have in common with those college students? And….too many Oh My God’s, like, like oh-my-God !!!! Hard to tell if these legitimate women voters, or a platoon of Valley Girls .
Ms. Ferrera has really opened my eyes. And honestly, I don’t understand why Islamo-fascists always have to shout, “Death to America.” She’s as cute as a button!
That was a horrendous video. Hillary is a horrendous candidate. Ugly Betty should stick to sitcoms.
Am I the only person worried that the preening of Hildebeest II has begun? We may never be rid of the Clintons.
After watching the video I felt so dumb that in order to respond i had to steal material from the movie Billy Madison
D-u-u-h-h, what?
Ugly Betty, indeed! Sharp, too!!!
Anyone else here feeling a one Mr. Tom Jones?
This is the young vote that old hag Sliccary is courting? Ahahhhaa! Gotta laugh at these mindless simpletons the Klintahns are parading as the youth vote. Was Madelyn Albright there, or Wesley Clark? Now that Chelsea is officially on the campaign trail with Sliccary and Slick she is fair game for pundits and all others. Hopefully we will get to see this “air-head” squad in action much more often and that the junior Sliccary will be forced to answer some real questions. If you play as an adult, you have to pay, otherwise stay out of the fight. Do not allow a freebie to the Clinton machine of slime, divert, distort, destroy, lie, subterfuge, (add your own pejorative) and Win.Power.At.All.Cost corruption. Slick and Sliccary, what a pair of…
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hillary nor that daughter has a clue about the terrorists threat to the western world. Didn’t the Clitons put the matter on the back burner during their eight yrs in the White House? Who needs health care when you are decapitated or living under Islamic law? I wish the Clintons and their supporters would explain.
Having Ferrara as a political spokesperson for POTUS (SIC!) is as ridiculous as having Brittany Spears speak for a parenting counselor.
This is obscene - in a nice way, of course, but still obscene.
Another argument to raise the voting age for non-military to 35.
She’s a lady!
Cue Tom Jones!
Whoa whoa whoa, She’s a Lady!
Heh!²
I hate when the english language is trashed like this. Stanford, indeed!
What could be the hidden agenda with this story….?
Hidden? Please.
I don’t think it’s gonna shock the pants (suits!) off this crowd that MM doesn’t care for Hillary.
Poor Mookie.
Why poor me? One of the main storylines in Ugly Betty is immigration. Betty’s father came to the U.S. illegally and his immigration status was used as a cliffhanger in Season 1. The show gained a lot of media attention for that storyline as it obviously portrayed those against illegal immigration in a negative light. By courting America Ferrera and having her make campaign appearances, Hillary gets to play the immigration card without having to actually put it on the table.
Interesting. Thanks for the background. I’ve never watched the show.
Hey Michelle, I’d ask why you’re up so late but I’m just as guilty. Here’s the background on Betty’s father and how the immigration situation was handled.
Ignacio Suarez
If you remove the politics, it’s a cute show and I think there’s a good message in it for young girls about having self worth and not having to be Paris Hilton clones.
Chelsea…a physically grown girl, soon to turn 14, mentally. Well, we don’t know how soon, just sometime in the future. She’d be right at home with the Pelosi bunch.
Well, at least her father had good taste in names. Too bad she has poor taste in candidates.
God Bless America, and please allow her the power and wisdom to keep Hillary from ruining her. (This applies for the girl and the nation.)
Is this not a cry for help? This is more proof that not only is public education standards have dropped but that of higher education as well.
If this does not make one stand and vote for school vouchers and charter schools. Then we might as well submit to Islam now.
Knowledge is power and power is being able to think for ones self.
Gag me, Please. These are the people who will choose your nursing home when you are old. Scary.
Regarding this drivvel, I am reminded of a quote from one of America’s elder statesmen, Forrest Gump…
“Stupid is, as stupid does!”
I have never heard of the show “Ugly Betty”. I think the video demonstrates, at least from a political sense, the state of American higher education. Pray for our country.
Countless reason #304 not to watch TV, and to never consider what the Hollywooders tout in the political arena. ‘Betty’ (never heard of her ’til now) can’t really speak without a script, and Chelsea didn’t really sound so convinced that her mother was up for the job.
Danged interesting times in which we live.
Flash + Pan = Ferrara
That stupid show is hardly original; it was running in the 1990s (”Betty la Fea”) on Telemundo and someone had the bright idea to adapt it to network television. *yawn*
Brilliant stroke though: cheap star power and a free pander to the Hispanic voters. Hillary la fea.
Didn’t notice “all walks of life” in the video though, and I’ll bet once the circus moves on, these “supporters” be home on election day with the rest of the lazy Democrats. “I’m voting for her” — right, they already voted for her, they said so on YouTube!
Since this is about Hillary -
I see some posters thoughts went to Tom Jones & “She’s a Lady” - perhaps it’s my pre-coffee, early morning rambling mind - but the first thing I thought of was the old rap favorite:
I’m with Ann Coulter on this one. Time to take back the vote.
Yup, people should have to pass an IQ test to vote. When many people can’t even make change in a store, should they be able to vote?
Ugly Chelsea??
The only Democrat that has acted like a man during the entire primary process I have seen so far is “she who must be named.” I am still waiting for the metrosexual candidates to act like men, which includes a couple of RINOs too.
I’m sorry, but Hillary Clinton is not a lady. She is a female in the biological sense of the word but she - and her feminist supporters - work frantically to deny pretty much everything that makes them female (childbearing, childrearing, manners, genteel nature, etc.)
This reminds me of the election of 2004. One of my college classmates criticized me for disliking Theresa Heinz Kerry, saying I was “jealous because she’s a real woman.”
Okay. Forgive me while I chuckle.
Mookie – I know I’m a bit behind on this topic, but I just wanted to say that I had definitely noticed that theme in the show as well. I had only seen a few episodes of Ugly Betty, but I kind of liked it. It’s like a campy, over-the-top soap opera.
But then I saw an episode where Betty’s illegal father has been deported and is having trouble getting back to the U.S. So, he tells his daughter he is going to sneak in, again. I believe his words were something like, “If they are going to treat me like a criminal, they force me to act like one.”
That was too much for me.
And I believe you are right. Bringing America Ferrera on board is a way to pander to the open borders crowd without Hillary actually having to come out and say it.
I’m putting my “Ugly Betty” dvd’s in the shredder right now.
englishqueen01 - I have often wondered why feminists use that term on their quest to systematically erase everything feminine about women. Can anyone help me out? Why is a movement designed to make women into men called feminism??
I lasted 1:05 before I threw up in my mouth and swallowed it. Ferrera is a poster child for stuck on stupid!!!!!!
This may be unkind, but wouldn’t the suspected love child of Webb Hubble have been a better pick to be Ugly Betty?
Because modern-day “feminists” have taken everything original feminists worked for, turned it on its ear and pretended to be continuing the good work of the *true* feminists.
Original feminists wanted to give women true opportunity and equality where equality was due. They, however, did not deny or hide what was feminine about them.
Modern “feminists” are no longer about “choice”, in any sense of the word. Any women who dare wander off the feminist farm are demonized, criticized and attacked.
Just look at how feminists treat women like Michelle Duggar who - of her own free will - has 17 children. Or how they treat any woman who leaves a job in order to raise her child(ren)…here’s a hint: they call these women “stupid” and say they’re “wasting their time.”
Or how they treat conservative women like our admirable Hostess, Michelle Malkin.
Or how they have no problem polluting our daughters’ bodies with strong chemical contraceptives, or ignoring the trauma inflicted on women who’ve had abortions (they are horribly cruel to women who’ve had abortions and regretted them).
And then the wonder why women like me want nothing to do with “feminism”…it digusts and disappoints me.
Everyone doubtless recalls how protective the Clintons were of Chelsea when they were in the White House. Now that Chelsea has made herself fair game by inserting herself into this process, how long will it be before Hillary starts crying foul because people don’t like her spawn any more than they like her?
Don’t stop now!
You other brothas can’t deny
When a girl walks in with an itty-bitty waist
And a round thing in your face
You get sprung!
[OK, back to work]
englishqueen01 - Well, I have definitely experienced some of that.
A couple of years ago in my first job out of college I was talking to my manager about life plans.
Here was a thirty-something woman who was living with her fiancee of 5 years, but she called him her husband - because, “Living together is the same thing anyway.” They were pregnant and still had no plans of getting married. And she was the customer service manager of a small furniture company with a CS dept. of 3.
When asked about future plans I proudly stated that when I am married (this was right before my engagement to my now-husband) and have kids, I will stop working and be a full-time wife and mother. She looked at me with shock and disdain and said, “Then why did you even bother to go to college?!”
She was not the first or last woman to treat my career goals that way, but she was the first to question why I would attend college when I had such lowly goals.
America Ferrera has buck teeth, good for eating corn on the cob.
Is Chelsea really that dumb? I thought she was a learned one?
“Miss” Hilary Clinton…?
Lowly goals? that women was obviously brain dead. When my wife had our 3rd and last child (daughter) I told her I wanted to stay home and raise one of my kid’s since she got to raise my boy’s while I worked 12 to 16 hour’s a day and did’nt have a lot of input. She agreed and I started a home based business and she went to work everyday. I must say I have a lot more respect for what Mom’s do, it’s not an easy job especially taking care of a baby, a grade schooler and middle shcooler, keeping the house up and making sure everbody eat’s breakfast, making lunch’s and dinner’s, paying the bill’s, doing laundry. Ok what did I miss.
I did’nt work that hard roofing house’s and that’s a tough job. I salute your decision and good luck cause your gonna need it. 
These types are idiot’s and don’t appreciate their kid’s or other women, I think the hardest job for a women is being a Mom and they just don’t get it.
Not just hard but also (so, I’ve heard) fulfilling. I think it’s especially sad that women like my manager there have been taught that raising children is something to do on the side. That it’s not enough somehow. I will never understand that.
Sorry for changing the track of this thread.
My wife stayed home and raised my two boy’s and I stayed home and raised my daughter (now 14) it was as you say fulfilling I had a lot of fun doing it and so did my wife.
And here I’ll change the track back
Fererra and Chelsea are a couple of idiots. fixed it happy now
I watched and enjoyed the Ugly Betty series until the guilt trip inducing (didn’t work on me) episode about her father. That was the last show I watched. It is getting harder every day to find something on TV or a movie to watch but I cannot sit idly by while they spew their propaganda at me. I have Netflix and enjoy watching older movies and some very good English mysteries. If you get a chance, check out Gilda, starring Rita Hayworth. She doe’s a strip tease dance in it that is the most sensual thing I’ve ever seen and takes off exactly one glove. Simply amazing. I believe Rita’s family immigrated from Spain (legally) and danced together in vaudeville. Actually, the less TV I watch, the more fulfilling my life is. I don’t even miss Fox news. I get plenty of news right here and at other Blogs etc.
I saw bits of this on Entertainment Tonight last week - yes, you read right. ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT.
I find it interesting [read:tragic] how women support Hillary simply because she is a woman, without even thinking about who she really is.
She spent most of her career - which was largely built on the back of Bill’s - lying to cover for her husband’s infidelity, then stood by idly as the media dragged Bill’s women through the mud, with everything from their integrity to their physical appearance fair game. You want to talk about sexism in the media? And these women were telling the truth the whole time.
I know “feminist” is a curse word around these parts, but you don’t have to be one to be offended by this.
Simple question of political mechanics the MSM will never ask of Hillary: did her camp reach out to stage Ferrerra and Chelsea together, or did Ferrerra reach out to the Clinton camp? It’s not like Ferrerra and Chelsea were school chums and these things don’t happen by accident. Did Chelesa make the call or was she simply informed of her latest gig with Ferrerra? What phrases were used when discussing this with Ferrerra?I would have like to be a fly on the wall during the meeting between the ferrerra and Clinton people. This is yet another low step proving once again that, behind the scenes, the Clintons, by virtue of their bloodlust for power, are simply morally and ethically unfit to run this country.
* Imagine the MSM questions if Ferrerra, had she been a star then, was seen touring around with the Bush sisters: How? Where? Why? Questions suspicious by their absence when involving the Clintons.
*Ultra left-leaning ABC has a pro-illegal immigrant show (it is, I saw the episode)with an hispanic star whose first name happens to be “America”. Am I the only one who finds that too cute to stomach?
This is a link to the role Bill Clinton is playing in his wife’s campaign. I think this is a great graphic of the many headed dog Cerberus. You know the dog that guards the gates of hell.
http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2008/01/yellin-at-yellin.html
Again with the name BS. How is that any different from the crap Olbermann pulled with Michelle’s maiden name?
Wow, I imagine the Avenue Capital must be in a bit of a bind, now that their $150,000.00 per year high finance analyst has been “out of the office” and campaigning with her mother.
Hopefully, there are others at that hedge fund who can, like…umm, pull the rest of the weight, and stuff…
Folks, I think you’re being too judgmental. First these young women have clearly been taken out of context.
One cannot judge a person’s IQ just from a YouTube clip. C’mon!
Yeah, it can get dumber, just need to add a little violence. Winston Churchill supported giving women the vote. Even with his support he was still constantly harassed by suffragettes, and was thought to have coined the word “henpecked” in response. Early in life he recorded his apprehensions, writing that once women got the vote “all power passes to their hands.”
In 1909 a female suffragist attacked him at a train station with a dog whip, shouting, “Take that you brute!” as his wife jumped in to save him from being pushed under a train.
In 1910 while aboard a train he was attacked by a male suffragist using a dog whip, shouting, “take that, you dirty cur.”
Yeah, seems the “dirty dogs” never change, but how about the loony lefties of either sex?
Olbermann is far left and I’ve never know Michelle’s middle name. I’m not sure of the point here.
One thing to watch for, incidentally: watch Ugly Betty’s ratings start to drop. Every time a star in a narrative format (comedy and drama, not talk shows) makes partisan statements to the left, a hefty chunk of the population turns away, over and over and over again - it isn’t like Fox news and talk radio can compensate for the torrential rains that is the mainstream media, and people have a very low threshold for left wing endurance, now. Oh, and give the actor in question some kind of fawning dramatic award after they do it, too, if you want to make sure that half the population rejects them and whatever show they star in.
A wiley trick on the Clinton’s part to appeal to the youth. Sick, manipulative and unconscionable, but wiley. And like everyone else the Clintons use for short-term gain, Ferrarra will pay a price for it, too.
#70. Oops. I meant maiden name.
(If it’s highly derogatory don’t say it here out of respect for the host. Isn’t important)
Nobody asks Hillary Clinton the following questions: “Do you think that you and or Bill Clinton should apologize to Gennifer Flowers for stating and implying that Gennifer Flowers lied for cash?”. Isn’t it obvious now that Gennifer Flowers was telling the truth and did not lie?
Why would you stay with a man who had lots of sexual dalliances, often right in front of your nose and had an affair with a teenage intern when he was a 50 year old president? Is it a sign of “woman power” that you not only stayed with him but actively defended him when it was obvious he was straying?
Democrats:
the single-issue-voters party of
Pretty Men and Ugly Women
Thank you all for being here so I may finally vent my LOATHING of the term, “like.” About 13+ years ago when I was a younger 20-something, I had that habit. An adult in my life sat me down and told me how stupid it makes me sound. She challenged me to be cognoscente of my use of the word. Once I started paying attention, it was pretty mortifying. From that point on, I re-trained my language to never use it. Maybe these “girls” never listen to their interviews, but if I were them I’d be pretty embarrassed.
Vent over, carry on…
RaisedRight:
Whenever anyone questions why I went to college, and am pursuing my Masters’, when my ultimate goal is to be a very part-time employee or at-home employee and devote more time to my growing family, I tell them an education is NEVER a waste (as if you didn’t know that, right?
).
I tell them that if - heaven forbid - my husband died, then I’d still have a skill set and a degree with which to get a job and support myself. It really is a cyclical argument - they criticize women who don’t go to college as being “ill prepared” to care for their families if their husbands die or leave them, but then they turn around and accuse women who go to school first, then become stay-at-home mothers of “wasting” their education!
I get so tired of the attitude that she is the ‘first’ woman to have run for president. Not true.
and her vice presidential candidate was not white but a former slave.
Obama is not the first Black man to run for president either. The revision of history by the media is pathetic.
There are a long list of women who have run for President. Hillary is not the first. There is one difference between these ladies and Hillary. They did not ride the wave of their husband’s coattails. They were self-made women.
Just got around to losing my 30 points and i can’t afford that…i feel simple enough to become a liberal now. MM, you didn’t warn me I’d get this awful headache.
englishqueen01 (if you’re still checking this thread) - that is a very good point. I wonder if pointing out that I may (God forbid) someday need those skills to support my family it would shut people up.
By the way, what are you pursuing your Masters in? I assume that englishqueen01 refers to getting a Bachelors in English in ‘01? English was my major, graduated in ‘04. (Although sometimes you wouldn’t be able to tell it from my ramblings on this site.)
Is it me, or did Chelsea look way under-enthused going door to door with America and speaking in front of the gathered crowd at the Expertise Cosmetology Institute?
Was waiting for them to break out the word ‘awesome’…
RaisedRight -
Usually, the response I get when I point out that my education will benefit me if I suddenly need to support my family solo is, “Well, yeah, I guess…”
You are exactly right. I am pursuing my Master’s in English with a Writing Concentration. I have a BA in English. The only slight error is the year - ‘01 refers to when I graduated high school. I received my BA in Dec. 2004.
Keep your chin up. It isn’t easy being a conservative woman. Liberals hate it when we wander off the pasture and start thinking for ourselves.
Thank you englishqueen, and good luck with the Master’s. (It looks like you are about the same age as me then. I too received my BA in Dec. 2004.) I appreciate the kind words and I am pleased to be on the same team as you. I always enjoy reading your comments on this site.
You’re welcome, RaisedRight. I couldn’t imagine life without the blogs and the “alternative media” - I have met more likeminded people through the Internet than I would ever hope to meet in real life. And it gives me hope, because many of the people into this technology are young…
Some day I’ll have to share my “conversion” story with you…would you believe that, at one time, I was an irreligious, raging, quasi-BDS suffering liberal?
NOOOOOOOOOO…not Ugly Betty!!!!
englishqueen01 - I don’t even believe it now that you’ve said it! But I always enjoy hearing what turns people from the dark side. I would love to hear your story some day.
Seems like a strong argument for repealing the nineteenth amendment. At the very least, it would seem like an IQ test ought to be required in order to be qualified to vote. If that were the case, the Democratic party would be doomed.
I’m very surprised that Clinton, Inc would agree to associate their campaign with anyone from Ugly Betty, let alone the star! It’s such a sleazy and family unfriendly show.
(I don’t watch the show, but I did accidentally happen upon a SATURDAY AFTERNOON marathon of it last fall on ABCFamily; I was shocked they would air adult fare like this show on a day when kids are home watching television - Walt would not approve!)
RaisedRight:
If you’re reading this thread, e-mail me and I’ll tell you!