Laura Bush hatred at the SF Chronicle
Mark Morford of the San Francisco Chronicle’s website is one of the MSM’s most unhinged, hate-filled columnists. Today he earns his pay by railing against Laura Bush because she isn’t an obnoxious, left-wing elite bigmouth like Teresa Heinz Kerry and because she doesn’t believe, as Hillary Clinton did, that her role as First Lady gives her the prerogative to plan the massive government takeover of huge swaths of the private sector.
Here’s your daily allowance of bile:
Laura Bush, docile doormat
Behold, the ideal Republican wife: Prim, sexless, nearly useless, lets the men do the real thinkin’. Hot!By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
I fondly recall, just before the tragic Bush/Kerry presidential election, an impassioned discussion I had with a family friend, a conservative Catholic mother of four and grandmother of six, headstrong, outspoken, hilarious, a real no-BS matriarch of her big crazy messy family and clearly the wearer of the pants in her marriage and a woman whom I always liked for her wit and her outsized personality, despite her unfortunate choice of religious and political affiliation, a woman who, it turned out in our discussion, absolutely hated — hated — John Kerry’s wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry.
Remember her? Controversial. Fiery. A little weird, prickly, unpredictable. Also: headstrong and outspoken and didn’t take any crap from any men, no matter how powerful.
Heinz is also rather amazing, in terms of sheer accomplishment and self-made acumen: world traveled, highly educated, spoke multiple languages (she was an interpreter for the United Nations, early on), took over the philanthropic arm of the Heinz empire when her husband died unexpectedly, almost ran for senate, raised her enormously accomplished, well-adjusted sons to adulthood by herself, and so on. I thought she was great.
And my friend hated her. And why? Well, ironically enough, for most of the reasons I list above. Apparently, Heinz had too much personality. She was too strong, too in your face, too fearless and outspoken, something was “just not right about that woman.” All this, of course, made Heinz into “a total bitch.”
(And yes, this completely echoes the right’s hatred of Hillary Clinton during the Bill Clinton years and up through today, because she dared to be the opposite of meek and quiet, dared to try and actually do something progressive and radical as first lady. Yes, she botched it badly, overshot her abilities and overestimated her powers to revolutionize health care. But the real problem was how badly she underestimated the violent, inbred misogyny and anti-feminism of the old-boys network in Washington).
I was equal parts appalled and amused. And not only because my brash, blunt friend and Heinz obviously had far more in common, personality- and attitude- wise, than she cared to acknowledge. No, I was stunned because my friend far preferred, as the perfect counter to Heinz, as a role model and a woman and the ideal presidential wife, one tepid, timid, thoroughly useless Laura Bush.
Wait, what? You mean docile, prudish, former librarian Laura Bush, she of the nonexistent inspiration and dull-as-dishwater personality? Yes indeed, that Laura Bush. Here was my friend, brash and funny and who spoke her mind without the slightest reservation, and who could drink and think and opine with the strongest of men, and yet she admired this … limp wallflower? I didn’t get it. I still don’t completely get it, to this very day.
All of this comes to mind as I see, skirting across the newswires, a handful of generic photos and sidebar stories of Laura Bush out on tour recently with her twin Styrofoam peanut daughters, Jenna and Barbara, promoting a new children’s book they all apparently, and yeah right, wrote together and isn’t that sweet.
There is Laura, looking exactly as she has looked for the past eight insufferable years. Prim, a bit glassy, reserved, her hair some sort of ironclad helmet of awkward architecture, the very epitome of nice, meek, domestic Republican female, not making the slightest wave and hoping no one really notices because, well, she’s just a woman…
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Wow!! Talk about stunted adolescence.
Someone dis’ed a person he admired so he has to skewer someone on the other side of the political fence. And his photo looked almost like an adult.
It’s guys like this that give the whole genre a bad name. At the same time, he is quite deserving of pity.
If you forget politics or the merits of his argument for a moment, what tenet of “opinion journalism” makes targets of those people that may choose simply to *not* interject themselves into the limelight of national discourse?
Mrs. Bush (and Daughters) did not run for or win elected offices, what could motivate some simpering whiner to take umbrage that they would not then try assume the duties of same?
I think our poor writer suffers from the envy reserved for those that cannot choose their own persona. Emasculated and shackled by the constraints of leftist thought, he can’t imagine that someone would voluntarily defer fame and notoriety to another.
Compounding his horror is the fact (at least in his view) that the deference is shown in a “traditional” relationship by a Woman to her Husband.
So enraged is he by his own impotence and inability to engender such devotion from anyone in his own life, he must project his angst onto someone who has done what he can neither do for another, nor receive for himself.
His howls of rage, while posed as scorn heaped upon another, are the manifestation of his realization that he is not a Man; not even a being capable of comprehending the honor of choosing to serve.
He is a Shrew; and is trapped, by accident of birth, in the wrong place, at the wrong time, in the wrong skin.
Does Mrs. Bush still smoke? No, that’s not a criticism. I’m just asking out of curiosity.
If she’ isn’t interested my daughter might be?!
You both sound fabulous!
And on topic, such vitriol is to be expected from the left when things aren’t going their way. Heck with them.
Ask here. Report back with your findings in 30.
She was Smokin’ the last time I saw her.
If I want my Wife to know I said that I’ll tell her myself thank you.
Can’t seem to find a definitive answer. I hope she’s quit or at least cut down dramatically. My dad is a lifelong smoker. Three packs a day. And he’s paying for it now with every deep breath he tries to take. I’ve gone seven years now without one but still get the craving once and a while. It’s a miserable, ugly habit.
the Clintons.
You are correct, docflash. I would extend that to say that both GWB and The First Lady brought real class back to the White House. Do you notice that, BDS excluded, there is never any controversy about the personal actions of GWB and the First Lady?
The drama associated with the Clintons is reason number 2 why I won’t vote for her. Reason number 1 is her socialist desires for the country. When she cried in New Hampshire and said “I have so many plans for the country” I cringed and checked that my checkbook and guns were both still secure.
I think Laura Bush is the classiest, and most beautiful first lady since Jackie Kennedy.
SHE DOES NOT DESERVE THE INSULTS THRUST UPON HER. She isn’t a politician, and it’s childish to personally insult the wives of politicians, especially when it’s vile.
This thread topic is curious:
On April 28th, 2008 at 7:52 pm, JWS said:
Slightly off topic. Anyone hear B. Husseins disgusting, racist, lying, wife’s speech about how the bar is constantly being moved in this here country? What a filthy animal. This country has given her riches beyond most peoples dreams, and she rages about it? This candidacy needs to end…
On April 28th, 2008 at 11:51 pm, JWS said:
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State your defense of this POS. Please. Ambiguous? It will be nothing more than the usual PC. We have heard it ALL before and are sick of it. WE ARE SICK OF IT. Change that-I am sick of it.
On April 28th, 2008 at 8:50 pm, Gabe said:
I totally agree with the “filthy animal” comment. This witch and her foreign Muslim husband Obama went to this church knowing 100% what Jeremiah Wright stands for.
On April 28th, 2008 at 11:48 pm, Mookie said:
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“Hey, if people on the right want to hold Arianna Huffington accountable for what readers post on her site, why should Michelle be any different?”
Agreed Mookie, I also think it’s unhinged go refer to the wife of Barack Obama as a Piece of Sh&# (POS) or a Filthy animal.
Yes this is on topic. Do you condone this language on your blog’s Mrs. Malkin?
mistressjustice.
I wonder what the left would say about JackieO?
These people wouldn’t recognize love and devotion nor class if it was in front of their noses. Sorry for them.
This “man” just hates classy women. He is attracted to the “strong” Leftist elitist which would identify what his role is in any male relationship. Johnny Bench would be proud. Batter up!
That was an immature, extraordinarily silly article that a real newpaper would decline to print.
This guy must hate women who shave their legs or something.
What is wrong with the left?! Do they not support Laura Bush’s choice to live her life as she wishes? I wonder what they’ll think of Cindy McCain.
Reminds me of someone else, hmmmm….Based on his criteria Condie Rice must blow him away. I’m sure he would write a fawning article like that about her.
Sorry! My heart already belongs to a man who is deploying to Iraq in May, and I will be waiting for him, but I am very flattered.
I do think it’s quite humorous that this “liberal,” playground journalist thinks a woman is strong and exciting only if she shouts her opinions out loud…makes her own way in the world…likes to be in front of a crowd and a camera…sounds like he would like a date with Ann Coulter. It is too bad he cannot appreciate the individuality of a woman who chooses not to be in the press all the time, because she doesn’t need to massage her own ego.
Here’s a celebrity analogy:
Laura Bush:Teresa Heinz Kerry
as
Rachel McAdams:Paris Hilton
Which one is stronger?
To all the other lovely Conservative ladies out there:
Let’s just keep doing what we do best -
succeeding.
This clown is an adult? The more I see this garbage and see these guys and gals behavior the more I am persuaded to vote against gay marriage and oppose gay adoption…..what an ass!
So, besides being as dumb as a box of rocks, Mr. Morford is another anti-Catholic bigot.
He’s not gay.
I know………but he writes like he should be…lol
It was a joke…you know sanfran and all that?
I am actually a supporter of gay marriage and adoption and he’s still an ass!
Again with the Catholic Bashing… Why is that OK but God forbid we say anything about Islam.
Well I will… Islam is the Poorest choice for a religion that anyone can think of choosing…
PS.. Any Radical Islamic Extremists want to meet me. let me know.
I’m one of them Cling to your religion, cling to your GUN hillbillies from a small town in PA. That goes for the leftist commies in San Fran as well
He’s definitely an ass. Laura Bush couldn’t be more harmless. If Morford hates her husband, take it up with him. Leave her out of it.
The Chronicle did decline to print it. I happen to live in the bay area for grad school. Morford’s column, which is only bi-weekly, is printed on varying pages the Datebook section, somewhere between the humor column, theatre announcements, and the comics. Today all that was printed was a note informing readers that his column was online. Y’all are taking him way more seriously than anyone in the bay area does, and are probably significantly boosting his readership for the day. Yeah, his columns are crap, but it isn’t crap that more than a handful of people in the Bay area pay much attention too. Getting angry and complaining to the Chronicle about him is only going to make him seem more important.
What a pathetic excuse for a human being. Truly, the Left “unhinged”…
There’s nothing unfortunate about the one, true religion of Roman Catholicism. The writer seems to have missed that Kerry and his wife are Catholic. At least in word, not so much deed.
It’s to nice see the tolerance of the left though.
Anyways, Laura Bush isn’t a doormat. She’s actually been pretty active, it would just be nice if liberals wouldn’t beat on handicapped teenagers at her presentation.
Mr. Mark Morford
Mrs. William J. Clinton is the brash arrogant exception rather than the rule for fist ladies. Even Elanor Roosevelt was not a dominatrix. You neglected to determine if your friend had a strong dislike for all women in power positions or just the ego maniacal ones like Mrs. William J. Clinton, Teresa Heinz, and Ms. Helmsley. Your friend’s evaluation of these female personalities is not unique. How many news stories have there been regarding these women that echo your friend?
What is really wrong with Laura Bush? Just because she is in stark contrast to Mrs. William J. Clinton does not in and of itself make her bad and evil.
Do you hear mommy calling you to dinner?
libertybelle and englishqueeon01 and Michelle–the story of my life: I meet (metaphorically speaking here) a great woman, and her heart is with another. Glad that y’all are out there making the country better.
It seems that Morford just can’t accept that many dislike Hillary Clinton because of her penchant for dishonesty and extreme leftist policies. It must be misogyny - it couldn’t be policy differences or the normal desire to have trustworthy people in positions of leadership.
I guess that it is actually good for our side if the opposition persists in its delusions.
I loath the SFC. My only consolation is that only pin heads read the derned thing. That paper ain’t fit to wipe with.
This guy is a creep.
This limp wristed mentally twisted Moford is what in SF passes for a male. LOL! Why it wasn’t so long ago that we were all being told how brave and progressive the librarians of America were for defying the Patriot Act - if a mid-eastern man named Mohammed X was checking out all the books on bomb making the librarians would fight for his privacy no matter the cost in lives! Now he mocks Laura B for being a librarian. Shame on Moford. Also the reason conservatives disliked Hitlery and Heintz had something to do with them NOT being elected but acting as if they were very important people who should be listened to (and obeyed!) Both married psychopaths and became millionaires/billionaires in the process. OK to vomit now.
Mookie my “str8dar” is on and it tells me morford is gay!
GSP
So, I wonder…he must be a huge Ann Coulter fan, since she’s not “docile” or whatever.
Whadda maroon.
GSP:
Morford’s as straight as Jim McGreevey, Anderson Cooper or Ed Koch.
Your str8dar needs a tuneup.
Here’s the only point with which I can agree with this sick and witless turd:
You never will get it because God did not put you here to get it. Get it? Oops, obviously you cannot get it, Mark Morford.
Morford’s an uninteresting, unfunny, uninspired, non-intellectual who gets his jollies making fun of other people, particularly those with manners, intelligence and passion for helping others.
If I tell you that he will relish every single letter written in opposition to his hate-filled column, that would be an understatement of gargantuan proportions.
As with my recommendations regarding lgm yesterday, it’s better to ignore the cretin.
The best way to get back at people like this jerk is to act as if you’re not the least bit affected by them. It drives them nuts!!!!!
Here’s hoping Mrs. Bush keeps right on smiling when confronted by jerks like this. Being nice can be so much fun knowing it makes guys like Morford crazy!
Wasn’t Teresa Heinz Kerry the one who married into money? Or something. Yep. That’s a GREAT role model and feminist go-getter right there. You bet.
Please. The lady also married John Kerry. That’s pretty low for someone who is “highly educated.” Hmmm… her Wikipedia (I know, they’re rarely accurate but…) profile says she was formerly a registered Republican. I wonder if this guy has heard about that. I bet he would be retracting his statements right about now. Can’t have a Republican woman be well-educated and controversial! Nope. Gotta be a doormat.
Even this loon can’t come up with positives to describe Teresa Heinz
almost ran for senate, raised her enormously accomplished, well-adjusted sons to adulthood by herself, and so on.
What the heck does that mean?
Does anyone have a search on what this dweeb’s take was on the Hillary book, “It takes a Village?” Did he think that Hillary wrote it? Does he think that Bill wrote his books?
San Francisco can slide on out, and good riddance.
It is such a shame, that the Bush’s…especially Laura were basically robbed of so much that every other Presidencies get to have. That is, they were not really given the opportunity to share so much of who and what she is simply because of R-tards like this hate-filled jerk.
We have not been treated to televised tours of The White House under Laura’s tutelidge…what she has done to make it their family’s home, the China they picked to be theirs, the State Dinners, her dressed to the nines as she greets and entertains World Leaders and their spouses, their Christmas decorations etc.
Instead, even their Inaugurations were destroyed by these hate-mongers. Does anyone even know what she looked like at the various parties that they attended after their Inauguration Balls? No. All because the Media has never really treated them…especially Laura…like they are even supposed to be there. Heck, this jackass doesn’t even believe that she and Jenna wrote that kid’s book together, yet we are all supposed to buy into Hill-Dawg having wrote the Communist Manifesto called “It Takes a Village (to ruin a child)”
Instead, this is nothing more than another hit piece on Laura and the Bushes in general, showing the author to be nothing more than another hate-filled and bitter Liberal, who would not know or understand a woman with distinction and class if she actually gave him the notice to bother to ask him the time of day.
I, personally, have enjoyed having a First lady who is intelligent, well spoken, well educated and who, even after she made her husband promise not to have her make speeches and public appearances throughout his political career, has always presented herself as completely professional, well-spoken and well-read. My wife once made the comment years ago that you can tell you are getting old when you can find the First Lady very attractive….which I always have.
And for the record, you dirt-bag…we didn’t despise J. F’n. K’s ATM machine because she was “outspoken, in-your-face” and whatever else you said were her “redeeming” characteristics. Not at all. We despised her because she was a freaking lunatic who was losing her cool and compisure at every turn along the campaighn route, often to the embarrassment of her “husband” who more often than not, then had to make excuses for or interpret all the things she said and insane outbursts to the media and the American Public in general.
You, sir, and those like you, may enjoy completely unhinged women who don’t know when to stop or shutup, but there are those of us who prefer women who are strong, intelligent and know exactly who they are without constantly having to “prove” themselves to anyone.
Mark Morford seperated at birth from the bug scientist of Silence of the Lambs.
How does Mr. Morford get away with saying this? Does he really think this of all Republican women? What did Laura Bush ever do to deserve this? What bug is up this guy’s butt?
If Mr. Morford supports the the Teresa Heinz-Kerry vision of how women are supposed to be, then I’ll take Laura in a heartbeat. There is something to be said about not being a loudmouth, having grace, class, and dignity, instead of many liberal women out there who think they’ll have better prospects or opportunities in life if they: forsake men, have loose morals, have multiple sex partners, trash men every chance they get, and think that not having personal responsibility in one’s life is for losers.
Yeah, Mr. Morford, if you think that Teresa Heinz-Kerry is the hallmark of true feminism, think again. There are people like me, a conservative feminist, who believe that there are other kinds of feminism that don’t need to sacrifice the family unit in search of personal glory and power.
Mr. Morford, you are a pinhead.
Are you talking about Morford or Laura Bush?
If you referring to Laura Bush, and you have the childish audacity to make such a below the belt remark, then you’re in the same category as Morford: a liberal moron who thinks nothing of tearing down people (especially Republicans and Conservatives) just to get a cheap laugh.
Or perhaps you’re breathlessly anticipating David Letterman calling you up to be part of his crack team of comedy writers?
Another poster took a crack at it but I will also add a comment.
How do you qualify Laura Bush as not doing anything? Really, what is your problem?
Would you put stay-at-home moms in that same category?
How would you classify military spouses?
Women who both work and take care of their children and families?
You know absolutely nothing about women to make such a statement.
Is Obummer still smoking these days? What’s your point?
Smoking is a nasty habit (I used to smoke) and had a grandmother die of emphazema. Do you have any inside knowledge or proof that she smokes? Even if she did… or still does… it’s still her choice, even if it’s a nasty habit.
This is odd coming from someone who said that another contributor was pimping out his wife.
Funny, that. Perhaps, people cut to the chase a little too bluntly for your sake, MJ. It’s not language I’d use… but I’ve noted that Mrs. Obummer’s take on America is very much mistaken.
I think you already shot yourself in the foot because you already condone such language yourself.
Michelle, thoughts?
A bit off-topic, but your comment reminded me of this: I have one of the episodes of the Sam & Max game series (an old-school, point-and-click adventure in the same vein as the old Lucasarts and Sierra stuff), and there’s a scene in the Oval Office where one of the shelves of White House memorabilia has “Roosevelt’s boxing gloves encased in Lucite.”
Its clear to me that Teresa Heinz and John Kerry are two parasites feeding off the fortune of the Heinz family. Henry Heinz III (Teresa’s previous husband and a republican senator) and his ancestors are probably spinning in their graves. Teresa is the primary parasite and John is the secondary parasite. How Mr. Morford can admire these two people, who never did an honest day’s work, nor accomplished anything noteworthy, is inexplicable. At least Laura Bush isn’t obnoxious and pretentious.
Sad and silly little man.
Emjem you are a very interesting character. I wouldn’t believe some of you folks if I didn’t see it for myself.
Everyone is free to check this out on the Jive Talk Express thread.
That’s right, when somebody makes a silly point referencing myself as “liberal scum”, and types hysterically how their wonderful wife has had to overcome liberal scum, and how she is working on a PHD, and how she is a trained concert pianist, blah, blah, blah. Yes, I call that pimpin your wife, and I think she’d be very embarrassed by such bragging(pimpin), when she had nothing to do with any of the topics at hand. It was beyond bizarre and hysterical. Pimpin. That’s “JIVE” talk lady, as is “Pimpin ain’t easy”. You can pimp yo ride(MTVtm), and you can verbally pimp your wife.
I’ll state again, I only insult those who insult me first. Maybe you are used to masochistic liberals, who get off on taking abuse. Staying above it all. That’s John Kerry crap. Maybe some of you are used to bullying people w/o getting a taste back. Although, I have let plenty of insults toward me slide, I have ONLY insulted those commenters who have insulted me FIRST. If you’re bored, run a search for MJ’s comments. I defy any of you to find an insult levied by me that isn’t in response to an insult received. It’s just not there. Treat me respectfully, and I’ll return the favor. It’s quite simple. I don’t get off on personally insulting you, so just don’t personally insult me. This isn’t rocket science. Please try to be honest.
Mrs. Obama is not my mother, and I could personally care less what any of you call her. However, Mrs. Malkin has made a point to talk about how her blog is different from blogs on the left when it comes to content and language. I had 7 headshakes and 11 snorts when I saw this thread within a week of Michelle permitting commenters to leave references to Michelle Obama as a Piece of Shi#(POS) and a Filthy Animal. I mean you have got to be kidding me. If this is the way she wants her blog to go, then own it, and don’t act like you have moral highground over some yahoo with the SF Chronical. This blog has changed. Beside the Michelle Obama
comments, it’s now okay to call Obama’s church a “Darkie” church, and Mexicans wetbacks. Just own it Mrs. Malkin. Things have changed. I don’t know if Rick Moran is still a moderator, but the bar has been lowered. Whatever, just own it. Thoughts Michelle Malkin?
Accuracy matters. Try it.
I know this is a an ole tyme song, but it’s as passe and offensive as eni meenie myni moe catch a nigger by the toe. Does Obama want to refer to Barack’s church with the phrase “darkie Sunday school on this blog. Just wonderin. If the answer is yes to everything I’ve mentioned, so be it, just own it.
So when Malkin and Coulter speak up, and they are b*tchy she-males…
But when Lady Bush is demure and reserved, and is a limp wallflower.
Face it, liberals are just jealous that Conservative women are attractive, shave their armpits, and are not fat or lesbian.