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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Mark Morford On Laura Bush: Nearly Useless, Prim, Sexless, Docile, And Bad For America

Here he goes again.

To Mark Morford, who is apparently what passes for a liberal pundit at SF Gate,what I think is the internet version of the San Francisco Chronicle, she’s all that and worse:

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.

Here’s more Morford wit:

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.

I’m not even going to bother quoting the rest of the very insulting gibberish this guy writes about Laura Bush. I’m no huge fan of Mrs. Bush, but I think she’s shown a certain dignity in place of the screeching harpies from the left she’s being compared to by Morford.

I have to wonder, though, just what would prompt an attack on someone that, by his own statement, is virtually innocuous, who doesn’t take stabs at anyone or ever appears to hold others in disdain - even if they deserve it. What was his motivation in mounting this attack? Part of it may be in one of his own phrases in which he describes her as a “limp wallflower”.

Based on the tone of his piece, if I had to hazard a guess I’d say that the word “limp” probably has an application here and it has more to do with Morford than with Laura Bush.

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Who is this guy?  Mark Morford?  Hugh, never heard of him.  Just another vile rant by a “compassionate” liberal.



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dougee on April 30, 2008 at 05:54 pm

It would seem that hate and negativism is all a lefty has.  We certainly see a lot of that from the liberala that comment here.


You don’t have to be a moron to be a liberal Democrat but it sure helps.

docdave on April 30, 2008 at 06:26 pm

This clown is from San Fran, what does he know about women? He could be a fartknocker for all anyone knows.

Mickey on April 30, 2008 at 06:46 pm

I can’t imagine anyone disparaging the wife of a president like that.

I wonder if it ever happened during the last presidency?

If there was only some way we could look up old news stories…


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realitybasedbob on April 30, 2008 at 06:55 pm

rbb:  Hahahaha!  .... that would be Hillary Clinton, but I have no idea how to search for any old news stories of abusive comments about her. 

Perhaps you could be of some help.....


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pparets on April 30, 2008 at 07:02 pm

I suspect Mark Morford has issues with librarians; probably because so many kicked him out of libraries.

Kevin on April 30, 2008 at 07:14 pm

Maybe Al Gore could invent some kind of spider web that could trap info and other stuff and like we could ya know look at stuff and read it like it was people magazine or something. He knows her or something.

I’ll call him right after I get tomorrows assignment from Mr. Soros.


“If a conservative is still a republican after the last 13 years, he is blind to the fact that his party of choice has failed him utterly.” – Realitybasedbob

realitybasedbob on April 30, 2008 at 07:17 pm

I suspect Mark Morford has issues with librarians; probably because so many kicked him out of libraries.

Or maybe a friend of his went driving with one, one time.


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realitybasedbob on April 30, 2008 at 07:18 pm
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I’m an early middle-ager that says this guy is a crack pot

RebTex on April 30, 2008 at 07:20 pm
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Or maybe a friend of his went driving with one, one time.

You beat me to the pun. 

I was just about to say that I don’t really dislike her that much.  And I especially don’t hold it against her that she accidentally drove a man to his death by breaking the law.....on two counts.  That is the sort of thing those “compassionate” conservatives do.....strike below the belt.

I am glad that in times like these, I can proudly know that I am better than them.  And I might even enjoy my arrogance on top of knowing this as well.

Sorry Kennedy haters.  (you know who you are)

Hannitized on April 30, 2008 at 08:47 pm
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Mark Morford exemplifies the impotent rage of BDS sufferers (like some on this blog! and theyknow who they are!), as they can’t lay a glove on the lame duck Bush, so after seven years, they decide to pick a fight with his woman. Pathetic.



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Proof on May 1, 2008 at 06:04 am

Exactly why should anyone care what a homosexual has to say about women?


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2Hotel9 on May 1, 2008 at 06:08 am

What, no sniper fire in San Fran for a first lady to dodge?

Mickey on May 1, 2008 at 06:22 am
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I was just about to say that I don’t really dislike her that much.  And I especially don’t hold it against her that she accidentally drove a man to his death by breaking the law.....on two counts.  That is the sort of thing those “compassionate” conservatives do.....strike below the belt.

I am glad that in times like these, I can proudly know that I am better than them.  And I might even enjoy my arrogance on top of knowing this as well.

So, a 17-year-old-girl ran a stop sign and, as a result, accidently killed a high school friend. And that makes you feel superior. Wow.

Caser on May 1, 2008 at 06:44 am

Sorry Kennedy haters.  (you know who you are)

Ah yes, so “running a stop sign” and having an accident is equivalent to “driving drunk, crashing into a river, abandoning your passenger to drown, paying off the victim’s family and covering it up”?

subbob on May 1, 2008 at 09:43 am
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It appears that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, even in this intangible case of a people in a society.  There has been a fiery and bombastic onslaught of negative attack and embrace of national division, though this time from the opposite side.  To me it looks like the left, having been prodded, then pushed, then stepped on in very dubious and disingenuous ways for 8 years is finally as pissed and uncivil as the right.

Not saying it is a good thing, division is far from what we need.  It’s just something observed, and to answer your question, why people are trouncing even Laura Bush, who truly has been pretty dang quiet.

RR on May 16, 2008 at 04:33 pm

"To me it looks like the left, having been prodded, then pushed, then stepped on in very dubious and disingenuous ways for 8 years is finally as pissed and uncivil as the right.”

You are kidding, right? The political left has always been uncivil and pissy.


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2Hotel9 on May 17, 2008 at 06:05 am
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