Times' Columnist: Laura Bush Resembles Deranged '24' First Lady & Evil Harry Potter Character

n ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Bush hatred has taken on a new, virulent mutation: animus towards First Lady Laura Bush. Witness today's New York Times column by Judith Warner, ‘24’ as Reality Show [subscripton required].

Warner's jumping off point is Kiefer Sutherland's response to a question about the advent in this coming season's "24" of a woman president. Observed the actor who plays Jack Bauer: “I can tell you one thing. We had the first African-American president on television, and now Barack Obama is a serious candidate. That wasn’t going to happen eight years ago. Television is an incredibly powerful medium, and it can be the first step in showing people what is possible.”

That prompted Warner to write:

I giggled a bit nastily over this at first. What was next — claims that fingering China as a one-nation axis of evil on “24” had presaged the country’s exposure this spring as the source of all perishables tainted and fatal? That screen first lady Martha Logan’s descent into minimadness anticipated Laura Bush’s increasingly beleaguered late-term demeanor? (Has anyone but me noticed her astounding resemblance to Dolores Umbridge in “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”?)

"24" aficionados know that Logan is a former First Lady gone mad who is currently institutionalized at a mental health facility. According to Wikipedia, "a quick scale of squeaky notes would accompany the background soundtrack whenever her character appeared, known affectionately among fans as the "cuckoo music.'"

As for Dolores Umbridge, she was one of Harry Potter's antagonists. She was the High Inquisitioner at Hogwart's School, known [per Wikipedia] for "cruelty and abusive punishments against students; she stands out especially for forcing Harry and Lee Jordan, and, it is assumed, other students who get detention from her, to write lines using a quill that magically causes the words to be cut into the skin on the back of the writer's hand and uses their blood as ink."

So Laura Bush reminds this Times columnist of deranged, cruel and abusive-to-children characters. I might suggest that the derangement resides in this author, prey to a particularly pernicious new form of BDS.

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[governsleastgovernsbest]

New strain of BDS: Laura-hatred. Ping to Today show list.

[Jaysun]

The First Lady is off bounds, you whore.

[M1Tanker]

Just when you thought BDS could not get worse...... Baseless and tasteless attacks against the First Lady!

[jacquej]

Un-freaking-believable! How low can they go?

[Mr. Jeeves]

Please. Hillary’s resemblance to Bellatrix Lestrange is much stronger. ;)

[dforest]

I haven’t been too happy with Bush lately, but there is no reason to pick on Laura.

She is a nice and gracious lady.

[Pharmboy]

...and Judith Warner is ugly. Inside and out.

[maryz]

As for Dolores Umbridge,

I've always thought of her as the prototypical liberal government bureaucrat! Can it be a coincidence her initials are DU???? ;-)

[I Drive Too Fast]

Times Columnist IS Deranged.

I thought I'd fix that headline for you.

[Dixie Yooper]

This is insane! Laura Bush is one of my two favorite First Ladies, and they both happen share the same last name.

[Rennes Templar]

“...Laura Bush’s increasingly beleaguered late-term demeanor?”

Wha????? Anyone have a clue what she is talking about?

[bray]

The Surge is Working and PravdABDNC is in a Deathspin
Laura is by far the most Beautiful First Lady we have had.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[BunnySlippers]

Sounds like they read DU.

[Liberty Valance]

This was in the NYT? If there were even some tiny bit of similarity to the ‘24’ first lady or the Potter lady I guess some might find it amusing but it’s just gibberish made up from thin air ... between the ‘journalists’ ears one must suppose. BDS has a new patient at the NYT. There is apparently no cure. Sad.

[M Kehoe]

Sheesh.

5.56mm

[StAnDeliver]

Schadenfreude!

[ishabibble]

Nice catch! If Laura Bush is demonized by the likes of Judith Warner, what does that tell you? The old term, “grasping at straws” comes to mind. They(the moonbats) don’t have anything to hang on to, and so they would attack the best part of President Bush’s life to what?
To make a point? To further a goal? What, EXACTLY, is this woman doing by attacking Laura Bush?

My guess is that with the news of the Brookings Institute Report, the wingnuts are FRESH OUTTA AMMO!! *it would be a real big problem for us*

http://hotair.com/archives/2007/07/31/clyburn-it-would-be-a-real-big-problem-for-us-if-petraeuss-progress-report-is-good/

[paudio]

Has anyone but me noticed her astounding resemblance to Dolores Umbridge in “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”?)

Naah. If you watched the movie, you'd know that Umbridge is a Democrat who doesn't acknowledge the danger of Islamofacist a.k.a. Lord Valdermort. She even disarmed the whole school!

[tioga]

Judith Warner? Who the heck is she to insult our First Lady? Are they nuts? Do they wish to send all conservatives back to Bush to defend her honor?

[in hoc signo vinces]

Please tell me someone has contacted this elitist journo-hack and called her on it...

[gridlock]

I gotta admit, I always saw a strong psychological resemblance between Sherri Palmer and Hillary! Rodham _(Clinton>.

[drew]

Liberal humor. There’s an oxymoron for you.

[Doc Savage]

That would be arrogant, useless, demented Liberal Jew Judith Warner I believe. Obviously hates Christians and women who have achieved more than her miserable status!

[SIDENET]

I like your response.

Brief, accurate, and to the point.

[metesky]

Not really.

A First Lady who plays a traditional role as Mrs. Bush usually does, is out of bounds.

A First Lady who tries to openly play a partisan political role and control an entire industry is open game, imo.

And please stop maligning whores.
:O)

[Ditter]

Anyone who could hate Laura the Librarian is truly deranged.

[Theresawithanh]

Maybe she's been reading The Globe, the gossip rag, which likes to feature articles about how the Bush marriage is falling apart. Of course, I don't read that stupid thing...

[StAnDeliver]

The MSMoonbat of the minute:

Our most gracious First Lady:

[chae]

Sorry, I think Hilary looks more like Voldemort.

[gogeo]

B!TCH!!!

[SirLinksalot]

How about this gem from one of the premier liberal blogs in the blogosphere — WONKETTE :

http://wonkette.com/politics/rumors-on-the-internets/let-the-sunshine-in-284096.php

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“Chief Justice John Roberts has died in his summer home in Maine. No, not really, but we know you have your fingers crossed.”

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I bet a lot of the libs did too.

[Wallace T.]

Even the most loony right-wing rants from the 1960s and 1970s, right out of the depths of Conspiracy Central, spared Jacqueline Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson, and Rosalynn Carter from attack. Liberalism is indeed a mental disorder, manifested in such scurrilous attacks such as this one by a leftist hack. An hour's tour of DU will provide additional evidence of the venomous nature of liberals.

[13Sisters76]

None of us should be the least surprised. Don’t we all wish that this was the most evil they would stoop to?

[1035rep]

Well now we see the problem. It’s just more liberal jealousy.

[windcliff]

That’s putting it mildly.

[stop_fascism]

If you don’t have a sense of humor, people will think you’re a leftist. From the excerpt, she’s making fun of Kiefer Sutherland.

[TChris]

Un-freaking-believable! How low can they go?

There is no depth that can't be taken lower. These dems would literally sell their nation and their children down the river if it meant Bush's and/or Cheney's head on a platter. They're that foaming-at-the-mouth maniacal about it.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Wots up with the NYT? It’s gone from not having competent editors to not even having adult supervision.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

She might be making fun of Kiefer, but Warner is expressing her own opinion when she writes of “Laura Bush’s increasingly beleaguered late-term demeanor. (Has anyone but me noticed her astounding resemblance to Dolores Umbridge in “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”?)”

[james500]

““I can tell you one thing. We had the first African-American president on television, and now Barack Obama is a serious candidate. That wasn’t going to happen eight years ago. Television is an incredibly powerful medium, and it can be the first step in showing people what is possible.””

So something ostensibly provided as entertainment has a hidden motive of shaping the public perception to further a political agenda?

[gridlock]

Ok, so who’s kid is Judith Warner?

Whenever you see somebody in a high profile position who is this rock-hard stupid, they inevitably are somebody’s kid.

Senator John Warner’s perhaps?

[Dragonspirit]

Even though I think a President should only serve two terms, it’s times like this when they are so filled with bile and venom that they have to attack sweet Laura Bush that I think how enjoyable it would be for W to win yet another election and put it in their faces. I think their little heads would explode from hatred.

[Mr. Mojo]

Just another angry, bitter, fugly feminist that despises traditional women (like the first lady).

[ConservativeStatement]

Note to journalist, buy yourself one of these:

[sanjacjake]

The dirty rat-finks. Has anyone posted the Daily Kos
picture that O’Reilly had and discussed about Joe
Liebermann??? We need to show this again and again,
it typifies the whole Democratic party and their perverted
supporters, especially the internet ones...the B......
need to be exposed again and again...JK

[nyyankeefan]

this ugly bee-itch has gone over the top...

consistent with the rest of the nyslimes!!!

[princess leah]

Well, now, I think that the only response would be to announce that Laura Bush has decided to run for President in 2008...Wouldn’t THAT just send the democrats into an upheaval...No way would she ever do that of course, but it would be fun to see the fallout!

[liege]

““I can tell you one thing. We had the first African-American president on television, and now Barack Obama is a serious candidate. That wasn’t going to happen eight years ago. Television is an incredibly powerful medium, and it can be the first step in showing people what is possible.””

I thought Hollywood has repeatedly said TV didn't have any influence on people, ie violence, smoking. I stopped watching 24 last season and will not watch it this season, either.

[Beckwith]

I hope everyone — right now — send your thoughts to the New York Times — this woman is beyond contempt:

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