Kathleen Parker: Obama & Edwards are Teh Gay!
By Nicole Belle Friday May 16, 2008 9:00pm
When it starts looking bad for them, count on conservatives to making ridiculous smears that show how bigoted they are. Fresh from the "liberal media" pages of the Washington Post, courtesy of our friends at Sadly, No!:
Welp, here's yet another low reached by Fred Hiatt's allegedly prestigious op-ed page:
By Kathleen Parker
Well, at least they didn't kiss.
I was bracing myself for the lip lock Wednesday when John Edwards endorsed Barack Obama.
Don't look at me. David "Mudcat" Saunders, Edwards's former rural adviser, came up with the idea, saying Obama should kiss Edwards on the lips "to kill this 41-point loss," referring to Hillary Clinton's landslide victory in the West Virginia primary.
Instead, the two men exchanged a manly air-hug to commemorate the moment when Edwards threw Clinton under the upholstered sofa on his grandmama's front porch.
As Edwards gave what amounted to a stump speech highlighting his favorite subject - John Edwards - Americans were reminded of why the North Carolina son-of-a-millworker won't be their presidential nominee.
Enraptured by his own message, Edwards seemed reluctant to hand over the microphone. He finally relinquished the stage, after describing, yet again, the "wall" that he says divides Americans: "There is one man who knows in his heart that it is time to create one America, not two. And that man is Barack Obama."
The "wall" refers to the one Edwards erected in the hearts and minds of Americans who hadn't yet realized they were miserable, disenfranchised and seething with rage - not the wall that used to run through Berlin.
It's tough to list all the things that make this column so mind-crushingly stupid, but let's give it a shot: Read on...
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The first man to have sex with Kathleen Parker will officially inaugurate the end of the world.
And, for the record, when it comes to politicians, Vladimir Putin is teh Hawtness.
Eff Kathleen and Thank You Nicole.
Wow, the inmates are currently running the asylum. That may change soon. Thanks John.
Thank goodness there are no pics of Bush and McCain hugging...
i believe the gop reichwingneocons have proven beyond a doubt
they are the biggest group of sexual perverts and bigoted diviates.
let me count the sex scandals in the gop, running around 50 to date.
She looks like this guy I went to high school with. I wonder if she blows like he did
Amazing, another dumb blonde heard from. Sometimes I wonder how they select what appears on the Op-Ed page. Paper, Rock, Scissors perhaps.
dadams @ 5:
It's the usual corollary of being a True Believer. The Stalinists and the Nazis were full of pervs, so were the Imperial Japanese government and even, it seems to judge by the news out of the UK, the Prime Ministerial governments.
If Obama and Edwards kissing would undo all the damage the GOP has done to our nation, bring back our budget surplus, bring back 4000 plus dead US soldiers, bring back the hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians, bring back our constitutional freedoms and the rule of law as well as our moral standing in the world, I would personally push their two heads together and force them to kiss!
If Kathleen Parker wants a kiss, she need look no further than President Flight Suit's lip lock with Joe Lieberman
Why does the Republican party hate North Carolina millworkers? Oh yeah! That's right! Their elitists right? snark ~ Thank gawd for millionaire salt of the earth corporatist Republicans protecting the average American from teh evil working class! ~ /snark
"Tell the Children the Truth Right Now" ~ Robert Nesta Marley.
You go KP you air brushed cup cake.
General_Rennenkampf @ 1:
Yeah, my paper runs this idiot's column occasionally. Even she can't shill for the chimp anymore and apparently has a lot of free time since Fred Thompson's campaign imploded for lack of interest. Mostly by him. She can't quite decide if she's going to be Coulter Lite-less caustic but with that great wingnut aftertaste, or the heir to Peggy Noonan. Flowery, insipid praise for cons, and condescending, down to earth sarcasm directed at the Democrats and liberals. Total sellout.
That's a pretty precarious stance--no reference to Senatorand partime mens room troll Larry Craig--to take, considering it was the Bush White House that allowed part time gay hustler Jeff Gannon frequent visits, while communicating weekly with Pastor Ted "Will-you-pound-me-in-the-ass-while-I-snort-meth" Haggard for "inspiration" and "moral guidance."
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If anybody needs to get a room it's these two http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blbushmccainhug.htm
Ruthless People @ 9:
Agree, that about sums it up right there.
While they worry about what they perceive as admirations of affection, same-sex people marrying each other and dumb lapel pins, the country continues to spiral down as it looses ground on the real issues that matter. Republicans are so out of touch with reality.
Kathleen, like many GOPers, might want to have her eyes checked. GOPers in general have a major problem with believing their lying eyes, but Kathleen has an issue with believing her lying imagination.
If she is looking for some humpa-humpa public male bonding rituals, Kathleen should check out Dubya walking hand in hand with Saudi Slim and I do believe they lock lips now and then. Of course as already mentioned there's the Huggy Bear McBuch moment where McCain appears to hug and snuggle with Bush, then we have Mark Foley, Jim West, Larry Craig, and many, many more.
joed @ 4:
Or pics of shrubby holding hands with foreign visitors...
LOL XD Yeah.
I guess when Kathleen GROWS UP, she wants to be JUST LIKE Maureen Dowd.
Oh Kathleen, you can't do BOTH, sweety.
jwf @ 14:
Yeah. Right-Wing "Intellectualism" is bullshit, and deserves to be called such.
And I think she's not Coulter-Lite, but Diet Coulter. She's even worse for you than the real Coulter because she couches it in more reasonable terms instead of Joe McCarthy-is-so-awesome stuff.
She writes a much worse column here, in the Chicago Tribune:
The rest is here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Parker
"Personal life
Mrs. Parker grew up in Florida, is the mother of three sons, and currently resides in Camden, South Carolina with her husband and one son.[1] Her mother died when she was young, and she has had 4 stepmothers, and has been a stepmother herself."
That's it. 4 stepmothers make you insane.
Ruthless People @ 16:
....or these two http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blbushliebermankiss.htm
Ruthless People @ 23:
....or even these two http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blbushabramoffbrokeback2.htm
Absolutely nothing is beneath the Repubs. They can say anything they want and then offer up some weak ass apology. Accusations of appeasement, being gay, being unpatriotic. And to round things off, hint that Barack should be assassinated. The so called news media pretty much goes into hibernation when they say this crap.
Kathleen should have used the time she spent writing this to get her roots highlighted. What is with conservatives and bleach blondes?
Hell even PNAC's going down the tubes.
http://www.newamericancentury.org
Bush and Jack sitting in a tree http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blbushabramoffjack.htm
The GOP's desperation is showing.
That their corporate mouth pieces would trot out the tried and true homophobic angle is not at all surprising, nor unexpected.
What gets me is that they totally missed the opportunity to take a swing at cross-racial couples.
The GOP's fear is making them sloppy.
OK. They wingnuts are really scraping the bottom of the barrel now. Parker is launching direct, open attacks on both racial and homophobic fronts. They really have completely run out of ammunition and have resorted to throwing their weapons at the Dems. It is really getting pathetic out there on the right.
NEOcon Repugnicons might as well dive into their pathetically desperate M.O.
They know no other way of doing things, so trash away idiots,
You've dug a hole so deep, NOTHING is going to pull your sorry asses out
Remember to laugh at their pitiful attempt to cling to their "re-branding" strategy.
Never heard of her.......and I think I understand why. What the hell is she talking about? Someone send her a box full of gay porno - seems that is what she was thinking about - for whatever reason - during a political speech and endorsement. Throw Clinton under the what? Huh? No wall dividing America? Well, how about the one the dumbasses are forcing military personnel to put up all over Iraq, a la the Berlin Wall or the Israelis boxing in the Palestinians.
Are there any real journalists any where?
A Nit without the wit.
Alice Hussein @ 33:
Yeah, her argument's lousy.
Government of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations… and their buddies.
Then there are the 99% of the citizens.
Then there is the wall between the citizens and the government, that one, the corporate government.
General_Rennenkampf @ 21:
I have just come to hate this country and its people.
Wow, this isn't even up to high school newspaper standards. And she gets paid how much to write this bullshit???? I expect this shit from Mann Coulter, Rush Lamebrain, and the rest, but this was in the Washington Post??? This isn't even fit for the NY Post.
You guys are too hard on Kathleen. That's a lovely vintage oil-painting of her.
General_Rennenkampf @ 1:
zomg biest first EVAH
Um Kathy?
I think your flop sweat is showing
Eric in Austin
And Kathleen Parker is Teh Stupid
I was using the mens room at the Dulles airport last week, when I heard someone next to me clear their throat. As I glanced over in that direction I saw Parker standing next to me, unzipping her zipper. You can imagine my surprize when she reached inside her pants and pulled out something that looked like a penis, only much,much smaller. I became frightened and fled the restroom with some very deep fear growing in my heart, for I had stumbled onto the biggest secret of the republicans and now faced great danger of catching a rare disease, a one car accident or worse, I might commit suicide. tell everyone you can, spread the word, republicans have tiny dicks and the-the women...hav..have them too
CEO,citizens,eyes,open @ 45:
O.o
But do the Republicans have their presidents running with their shirts off? On second thought, scratch that. Any Republican since TR with his shirt off in the White House would have produced nightmares and killed kittens.
Cas@24: "Four stepmothers make you insane."
OR Wicked.
joed @ 4:
Or Bush and LIEberman kissing.
The only thing Conservatives know how to do is lie, not only to other people, but to themselves. They know how to feed the lie, how to nurture it and how to protect it when it is threatened by reality.
These days they just imply it and the conservatives swallow it.
joeedugan @ 47:
Another damaged repuglican exorcising their inner demons onto the rest of us.
Well, for a hetero, she's not really all that great either - She Doesn't Swallow. She spits. So dissatisfying. And getting her to cum is next to impossible. Arf. Total waste of time. And otherwise - she just LIES THERE. God - what a boring screw.
Kathleen,
I would tell you I was gay just to prevent from doing your boring, used car looking ass. You could make a vibrator lose it's erection.
I'll grant her only this two men hugging must be properly done or it will look like this: http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/mccain%20bush%20hug%20twn.jpg Which, to me, looks like a reach around. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Hoo boy! repugs had to scrape the bottom of their shit jar to come up with this bullshit.
Dowd wrote this?
repugs still kill, steal and lie.
wow....pretty desperate...rapid repugs clinging to their lowest pathetic scum...( they're just jealous because they don't have anyone that looks good to pair with McSame....)...on another note Obama and Edwards look great..and are young and full of energy...that must sting...
General_Rennenkampf @ 8:
chimpy has to be a mental prev to torture and then claim it works.
...shock and awe is from a mental perv
...sending troops in Iraq for endless tours without proper gear is a mental perv
...letting 911 happened is no doubt a mental perv
It's nice to see that people writing with a 6th grade mentality can get published also.
Who ever said bigotry has an IQ above 40? You should read her earlier article on "bloodlines, americaness, etc. It was even more sickening.
so lieberman kisses bush full on the lips....mccain cups bush's balls...lieberman repeatedly sux bush's and mccains cocks on national tv
but obama and edwards appearing together at a rally is teh gay
hmmmm....yup...thats it
they have nothing to attack them on....nothing
you gotta hear hannity screaming that the repugs need another contract with america
ya...aint that the american way...break one contract...just write another
november will be so sweet
i personally hate one party rule, and i dont think it will last more than 2 years, at the most 4....but to watch the repugs crying in november will make all the bs we have had to endure for 8 years worth it
So who is this Kathleen Parker? Can anyone come off the street and write inane, boorish pieces about Democrats or are only white blond chicks allowed?
Vincennes @ 60:
Chemical blondes. Emphasis on chemicals.
I hope she looses her job as a mindless hack and works at her local Wal-Mart.
Maybe she'll see what lays on the other side of that 'wall'...
joed @ 4:
...or Bush kissing Liebertool...
...or Bush holding hands with King Asshole-ah...
Bottom line. These conservative hacks are soo afraid of the power of Edwards' message, that they have to try and smear him.
BTW Kathleen Parker--standard issue Repug female pundit-- pump in the peroxide, pump out the brains...
Anney@23
This chick is definitely a racist. Pure American-blood? Damn she was nibbling all around Sen. Obama but was too chicken to say his name. (typical repug nonsense.) she has the nerve to say Obama just got off the boat.
No facts just fiction.
Obama stated several times his grandfather fought in a war.
mcsuezcanal was born in Panama, you dizzy racist repug bullshitter.
she will never understand diversity because she has the values of the kkk.
I'll be glad when common sense rules again.
Go Obama!
Go USA!
NICE OVERBITE KUNT! Get a real dentist.
uncle joe hussein mccarthy @ 59:
I agree with you about one party rule, but every time the repugs get the majority, average Americans get hosed. On virtually every statistic, republican rule is a disaster. At least now with the internet tubes there is a way to (try) to keep the Dems honest.
Hiatt must be screwing her.
No other reason she can be on WaPo's editorial page.
Wow! This is the lowest of the lowest. When is she going to blame the jews for the mess the US has gotten itself internationally? This whole scenario, starting from the twins towers is a repeat of what happened in Nazi Germany. This type of propaganda and the bush admin are the scum of the earth.
She brought up the sex thing because she's clearly not getting any. Two handsome, brilliant, popular men who wouldn't give this dull mutt the time of day. Classic overrated bitch and no one buying her bullshit. I've been out with ladies like Kathleen...all talk with lame pussy.
Somebody please throw a bucket of water on this witch so we don't have to put up the vile, insipid trash that she calls journalism. If the waPo thing doesn't work out she should have a great future at the National Enquirer.
You only have to see a pair of Repugs on stage and they are ahugging and agroping each other.
They said this same shit about Edwards and Kerry. They can't even make up new slanders, they just recycle the old ones.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GWYE,GWYE:2...
She's spouting nonsense - it's nothing more than diarrhea of the mouth. And she says Edwards is too self-aware?
She's pretty impressed with herself and for no apparent reason.
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When in doubt - and without any real fault to exploit - attack their sexuality.
Classic re-PIG-lic move.
Terribly immature and simplistic. Just like all the other GOP bobble-heads.
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Poor, poor Kiki. A desperate third-tier, rightist, bottle-blond character assassin.
You'll never be up to Mahn, Laura the Unloved or even those soul-less, nameless Fixed News tawking headettes. It must be killin' ya.
How many republican's does it take to come up with an original thought?
And why don't republican's ever want to talk about the issues?
God are these people boring!
The ironic thing about this story is that it is generally the Republican men (and the wanna-be Republican Joe Lieberman) who seem to do all the same-sex hugging and kissing. George Bush, Chris Shays, Prince Bandar, John McCain, Lieberman, etc. etc. Choose any two at any given moment. They seem to spend much more ime hugging and kissing each other than they do their wives. At least in public. Parker's probably amazed that Obama and Edwards didn't kiss since, in her culture, it's the norm.
marie @ 78:
And all traceable to the Bohemian Grove male only summer (power elite) party.
Ah the joys of skipping through the woods with flowers in their hair hand in hand and worshiping Moloch (the owl demigod)
ABC's 1981 'fun and games' Bohemian Grove video report
Never again did the MSM cover this, just listen to the names quoted.
Adolescent sex jokes about Parker make it apparent how many on the Left are as intellectually challenged as are all those Right-wing nutjobs.
Attacking her looks, sexual performance, etc. is much worse than a waste of time. It's pathetic.
The real problem here is not that hacks like Kathleen Parker exist to write such grotesque drivel. That's a given. No, the real problem is that the Washington Post would publish even as much as a sentence of this dreck, unless it was quoting her to show how degraded so-called conservatives in this country have become.
Zenrage @ 49:
Well.....
Many of them do know how to force themselves on children. Do not ever forget that the Republican Party is the Party of Pederasts. And there are numerous fat, pasty Republicans behind bars for fucking children.
Fact not fiction....in case you forgot.
A new low, even for Hiatt.
Wonder if WaPo is going to hire Coultergeist next?
I suppose the good news is, if this is all they've got (this sort of tripe) Dems will take everything in November. She can write about that in December.
(signed: more American than you-- see post 23 anneyhussein Says: She writes a much worse column here, in the Chicago Tribune:)
Uh ... them's fightin' words ... not just to the recipients, but to anyone who respects them.
WaPo is has become nothing more than a corporate rag. And they scratch their heads and wonder why they and the NYTimes are going down the toilet.
When I picked up my Cincinnati Enquirer yesterday and saw the opening line, I immediately
stopped reading. She's paid to write mindless trash. We should be paid even more to read it.
CEO,citizens,eyes,open @ 45:
I guess that would make her, Peter Parker?
You'd think Parker could at least have those black and gray roots taken care of. Being a bottle blond takes commitment.
Another example of how conservatives immediately paint liberals as pervs... From City Journal's review of Al Gore "The Assault on Reason":
But Al Gore is like one of those guys at a party with whom, once you get a few drinks in him, you never know what’s coming. He’s liable to strip to his underwear or start spewing expletives or waddle over with an outstretched hand and ingratiating smile and suddenly go for your ear like Mike Tyson.
By Kathleen Parker
Well, at least they didn’t kiss.
Unlike sooo many republican men do when they get together.
this is ignorance on display in every way possible. Sadly it does reflect or perhaps guides the thinking of middle America. Remember they get their news via Fox sound bites.
She's just pissed neither one of them would step to her even if she begged.
She's also pissed that Democrats look so damn good, while her Republican candidate looks like the Crypt Keeper.
abiodun @ 58:
Hi abiodun. Parker's editorial " Roots of America can't be simply dismissed"
was her worst & she never writes a sensible column. Hitler couldn't come
up with the racist piece of crap that Parker wrote but she would have made
him proud. She interviewed a 24 yr old pure-blood from West Virginia who
sounded like he was ready to put down his banjo & grab the guy tied to the tree.
Oh my gosh, can't these shills do better than this? And to think this woman is treated with such legitimacy by major newspapers. Unbelievable. I guess they run out of things to bash, so really have to scrape the bottom of the barrel. What, is this the new strategy: Democrats are all gay, while GOP men are macho. Give me a break. I think this country has had enough of the blustering belligerence. Seems like over compensation to me.
Kathleen Parker is the voice of privileged, Republican, stay-at-home trophy-mom's everywhere. Every since my local rag went Gannett, it has featured her idiotic rantings. The fact that this type of hit piece is allowed in major papers clearly demonstrates the leeway allowed reich-wing writers. Can you imagine a liberal op-ed piece wondering when Bush and McCain will give each other the Nazi salute? Seig Heil !!
Calling a person a neo-fascist is outrageous, but ghey? That's just funny!!! Sickening.
Just one more asskissing Rethuglican shill. I guess having sex with your dog is just not satisfying enough.
Jesus, that article was so stupid it hurt to read it. She is trying to say those two are gay? John Edwards and Barack Obama obviously love their wives - you can see it in the pictures, and hear it in how John talks about Elizabeth.
Kathleen Parker's excuse for a column is worthy of a supermarket tabloid, not one of the nation's papers of record. Lo, how the mighty Washington Post has fallen.
Lucky me, my local paper publishes this bimbo's column at least once per week. Which usually results in me scanning it, spitting on it, ripping it out of the paper, wadding it up and shitcanning it. I can't stand this bitch.
Although, I can't say she's the only one. George Will's column gets the same treatment.
Spicegal @ 95:
This is EXACTLY the image that the GOP wants to portray to their homophobic base.
Is she in the 3rd grade?
She really think she is being witty,someone please tell her she is not in Kanasa anymore (lmao).
Chicken "Hussein" Little - Not!! @ 3:
Hear hear!
oh really @ 80:
Good points. We should either be attacking Ms. Parker's statements and assumptions or criticizing the forum which gives her a voice. Attacking her looks and calling her a "boring screw" just make "progressives" look as bad as reactionaries.
thats ok, her hair sucks and shes obviously fat and judging from her makeup, a whore.
You know, I think I'm over C&L.
It's really become a sort of "Entertainment Tonight" of progressive blogs.
Maybe that's what it always was and it just took me 3 years to realize it.
I'm just saying that 90% of the content these days is just "he said, she said" garbage, and recycling of the recycling of the recycling
of the latest scandal or slip-of-the-tongue.
You can be left-leaning, liberal, libertarian or whatever and you can point out again and again
how you can see through the vacuous corporate controlled MSM.
But at some point, doesn't it become a never-ending spectacle and utter waste of time?
If it's a guilty pleasure to surf here, more power to you.
I just can't enjoy this crap anymore.
But thanks for the laughs, C&L.
take care
Oh Kathleen this article makes your underbelly show. How pathetic!
Ya know, perhaps this is why the right wing is so frustrated. They are looking to self absorbed macho jerks to satisfy them. Perhaps if they tried a real man, one who wasn't worried that other men might not find them manly enough, they'd find a lot more satisfaction.
Really, you get the choice of Edwards, Obama or Bush (who makes up bullying nicknames for everyone), Rove (what female would touch that?) or McCain. Frankly, I'd even take Hillary over any of the three of them. Conyers, Gore, all men with cheerful, strong, happy wives. Kills those damn repubs.
I have never seen any of this idiot's articles about the issues. It is always some type of personal assesination. can someone sue this bitch? And these people are religious? How?.
Kathleen Parker is an absolutely terrible columnist. The Maureen Dowd of the right.
Kathleen Parker, forever dull and predictable. Aside from the fact that Obama is a Democrat, I suspect the engine that fuels her true hatred of him is his success at finessing the financial and political power of the Internet. A few years ago she wrote a column about her distaste for the blogs. According to Parker, successful internet writers are unsupervised and haven't "earned" their seat at the pundit's table. In other words, she loathes the competition from the lesser folks. And she's really pissed because those blog people are inclined to tell her how totally full of shit she is, in an unsupervised sort of way. To Kathleen, that's just unseemly. And now Barack Obama, with the help of those unseemly denizens of the net, is clobbering the hell out of Kathleen's gated community of priviledged hacks and dummies.
It's enough to make her want to clutch the pearls. Poor thing, she really does need to open a boutique in Camden.
oh really @ 80:
People like you piss me off almost as bad as the awful Conservatives. After all these miserable years suffering with what most of us knew were lies, fear mongering and blatant racism, what's wrong with making fun of these mother fucking murderers who deserve much worse? Go take the imaginary high road jerk, OK. There's nothing wrong with releasing years of frustration by making fun of these assholes.
ashton @ 7:
They throw chicken bones on the floor to divine who's writings shall appear in the op.
She's a vitriolic Bush-bot. I could drudge up the 'ol archetype of Eva Braun and call her that, but I won't do that (unless I already did), although I didn't.
She's another propagandist and Bush appologist.
She has no credibility as a journalist.
Just another stupid, Reslug whore who had her face surgically stretched out and mangled.
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