Posted on 12/28/2009 12:07:43 PM PST by Michael van der Galien
When Media Matters warned readers on Christmas Eve that “posting will be light for the next week and a half,” who knew they meant both quality and quantity.
Apparently at a loss for something important to write about — and we all know what a slow news week it’s been — today Media Matters’ Eric “the Excitable” Boehlert posts another vapid, hysterical squib, this one entitled “Surprise! Breitbart’s Big Government doesn’t understand pop culture”.
Well, that certainly would be a surprise, since Big Government/Big Hollywood founder Andrew Breitbart lives in Tinseltown, and his site boasts contributors like Saturday Night Live alum Victoria Jackson, film critic Burt Prelutsky, Emmy winning actor Michael Moriarty and numerous working screenwriters and musicians based in California and New York.
As opposed to, say, Eric Boehlert, who types about Beltway goings-on from an office in DC’s Chinatown. Like today, where he writes:
A random White House Christmas tree ornament, of unknown origin, featured a world famous image of Mao as interpreted by Andy Warhol. But because Breitbart and his bloggers are so clueless about pop culture and art (they seem to have no idea what Warhol’s “Mao” is), they wrote up a blog post in which they proudly advertised their ignorance.
A few things: first, I’m guessing a number of Breitbart’s friends and colleagues own genuine Warhols, and that Eric does not.
Next: the ornament is hardly of “unknown origin;” the White House Christmas tree was decorated by “controversial designer Simon Doonan.” The creative director of Barney’s New York “has often caused a stir with his design choices. Like his naughty yuletide window display of Margaret Thatcher as a dowdy dominatrix and Dan Quayle as a ventriloquist’s dummy.”
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“...Surprise! Breitbart’s Big Government doesn’t understand pop culture..”
Surprise! The synchophants of the Obama Government don’t understand repeated symbols have meaning and leadership is not pop culture.
Surprise! Tea Parties are summed up by what the left conjures up, while the syncophant media has to continually make excuses for this pathetic group of communist/socialist nirvana loving light weights and re-state what has been shown and said.
Surprise! Even Europe has tired of the “pop-TART” quality of this administration...well rag, tag group of bureaucrats.
Surprise!
Not.
My Chinese brother-in-law told us on Christmas that his father and entire family are up in arms over this. It has been all over all the Chinese language newspapers in New York and on the East Coast. My BIL’s parents fled China when Mao took over, as did thousands of others who are still living in the U.S. This is a HUGE insult to all of them and they all hate Obama now.
IF NObama wanted those ‘ornaments’ on his own private tree inside the private white house quarters, then I would’t care.
The WHITE HOUSE Christmas tree represents every one of the USA citizens.
Therefore, it was another tasteless event in the lives of both of the NObamas.
Just have a R. E. Lee ornament and watch the little news piggies squeal.
She got more than an earful from the Peruvians, so much she had to apologize for wearing that shirt.
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