AMERICAblog: When she's the president, she won't do radio interviews but we'll all get free ice cream
moreleesafer
· 1 year ago
mmmmmmmmmm ice cream
mmedefarge
· 1 year ago
wow, it is like she copied the cartoon in terms of tone of voice, gestures, winks...
On the night of the debate, I had a hard time falling asleep. As I lay in bed, the word "Hitler' kept crossing my mind when I thought of Palin's performance. I only watched the cartoon once, but Betty morphs into this sinister character a couple of times, mirroring what my unconscious was telling me the other night---that Palin is not who she appears to be.
ComradeRutherford
· 1 year ago
"Betty morphs into this sinister character"
Do you mean FDR?
The first time she morhped, it was Herbert Hoover, the Republican incumbent that engineered the Great Depression and the second time it was FDR was the saviour of America that delivered us from corporate fascism. Those two were running for President that year.
This year it's no different, we have Bush-McCain promising to continue the exact same practices that created the New Depression America has just started, and we have the moderate Republican Obama who promises to not change anything too much, lest the GOP complain too loudly.
I'll have to write in a real Democrat this election, Cynthia McKinney.
An_American_Karol
· 1 year ago
Yep, Palin has set women back 40 years. I'm looking for my old cotton apron, fuzzy slippers, and pink hair rollers.
John Aravosis
· 1 year ago
You the mean the red and white apron?
An_American_Karol
· 1 year ago
Do you have it? lol
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Boo-boop-bedo... Mooselini's troubled star reminded me of NASA video of the Jules Verne spacecraft disintegrating over the South Pacific Ocean last week: http://www.esa.int/esaMI/ATV/SEM6TI6EJLF_0.html
BCPipes
· 1 year ago
OOOOOOO! AAAAAHHHHHHH! (clapclapclapclapclap)
DorothyGale
· 1 year ago
Yes, see how the condemned inmate turns into a fey girlyman after his pedicure on the electric chair.
Nice! Really effing nice!
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
John McCain is proving how dishonorable he is by claiming his fellow Senator Obama was palling around with terrorists. That is a LIE, a blatant dishonorable disrespectful lie towards a fellow Senator. How dare he clame he has some shred of honor! Sure, he didn't personally say it, but you can't tell me he didn't have his surrogate Sarah Palin say it. If he has any honor left, he should have Sarah Palin apologize publically for the lie. John McCain LIED about saying he would run an honorable campaign. John McCain is an opportunistic LIAR!
grandma
· 1 year ago
National Review has a post up titled....California Sarahnade..... It should be titled...California Charade
An_American_Karol
· 1 year ago
Palin knows better than to come up to Northern California. The women will throw fruit at her.
Why I can't believe the soul less scum wrote what he thought about Cindy while married to Carol. He really allows one to peek into his dishonorable, opportunistic soul. He was MARRIED to his mother's children when he wrote about his running around with Cindy. You would think he would at least keep those things private instead of just making it worse by rubbing his ex-wife's nose in it. Did he share what a sociopath he is to sell more books, or to make himself feel better? He should be ashamed!
"She was lovely, intelligent and charming, 17 years my junior but poised and confident. I monopolized her attention the entire time, taking care to prevent anyone else from intruding on our conversation. When it came time to leave the party, I persuaded her to join me for drinks at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. By the evening's end, I was in love."
As the child of divorced parents, I can imagine what my dad thought of the woman he cheated with when he was married to my mother, but thank God he didn't write about it and sell it in a book! DISGUSTING.
BCPipes
· 1 year ago
"Mr. Nobody" is oddly racial looking. Anyone else notice that?
John Aravosis
· 1 year ago
Yep, and did you notice Betty's evil twin politician having the accent and the big nose?
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
When she was rearranging her face, I was wondering if they were supposed to be parodies of living politicians, but I couldn't really tell.
The first time she rearranged her face, she looked vaguely Hooverish, so I figured she was doing another politician the second time--it certainly wasn't FDR, tho.
He was the '28 candidate and apparently gave FDR a run for his money in the 32 primaries. If this came out in early '32, the writers could have easily assumed Al Smith was going to be the nominee again.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Ah, it had to be him.
If Smith the candidate faced difficult odds, Smith the man faced impossible ones. To begin with, at the dawn of the media age, he looked more like a silent film comedian than a president with an oversize W.C. Fields nose and ever-present cigar and always wearing a derby like Oliver Hardy. He spoke with a pronounced New York accent that over the radio baffled and amused those in other parts of the country.
That cartoon came out in an election year, three years into the Great Depression which was created by the Republican Party in 1929.
The two candidates were Hoover, the Republican and FDR the Democrat.
So the second face was supposed to be FDR.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Wrong.
BCPipes
· 1 year ago
Yep. Times don't change much, do they? Scary how this shit keeps hanging on.
An_American_Karol
· 1 year ago
John, it's interesting to note all research points to Betty Boop as the personification of a New York Jewish young female of that era. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=... There is a great deal of research on this found on the web.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
That was weird.
ComradeRutherford
· 1 year ago
I vote for Betty Boop. She is honest, while PayLine is a liar.
elrod
· 1 year ago
My grandmother is the animator behind Betty Boop; Lillian Freedman was the first woman animator in any major studio in history. Sarah Palin doesn't have the moxie to be the real Betty Boop.
An_American_Karol
· 1 year ago
elrod, what a wonderful history you have. Is your grandmother living?
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
wow! Just read that Obama IS going to push back on the "associations" that Palin has been so fond of using to smear Obama. On Monday the Obama campaign will email people a link to a 13 minute documentary about McCain and the Keating 5. Wow! Wow! Wow!
those of us who get his emails are most likely going to vote for him anyway, so how does this help?
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
They are asking everyone who gets the email to forward to all their friends, families etc. Word on the internet travels almost faster than light so this should spread to millions in a short time.
mmedefarge
· 1 year ago
the people who need to see this the most probably barely know what the internet is.
Note the cigarette holder. A literal "trademark" of FDR was his cigarette holder.
That second character is Al Smith. The cigar was essentially his "trademark". Oh, and do not read anything anti-Semitic into the cartoon. Al was Roman Catholic, and that's a only slightly exaggerated NewYawk City accent. Youse gotta problem wit dat.
And the idea that the Fleischer Brothers would be anti-Semitic is laughable. They were Jewish, as were most of the artists and writers at the Fleischer Brothers Studios.
And as for the very nelly queen near the end. Yep. It's offensive, OK. Of course, SEVENTY FREAKING YEARS AGO society wasn't QUITE as enlightened as it is today. Don't let the "U.M. & M TV Corporation" logo fool you. This cartoon is as old as John McCain.
Chris_Tucker
· 1 year ago
One last thing, if the Fleischers intended "Mr. Nobody" to be a cartoon darky of the era, Mr. Nobody would have BEEN a cartoon darky of the era, with no ambiguity whatsoever. BIG white lips and rolling eyes and an exaggerated "negro" accent would have been used.
Really, people. Don't read anything into a 70+ year old cartoon that really isn't there.
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On the night of the debate, I had a hard time falling asleep. As I lay in bed, the word "Hitler' kept crossing my mind when I thought of Palin's performance. I only watched the cartoon once, but Betty morphs into this sinister character a couple of times, mirroring what my unconscious was telling me the other night---that Palin is not who she appears to be.
Do you mean FDR?
The first time she morhped, it was Herbert Hoover, the Republican incumbent that engineered the Great Depression and the second time it was FDR was the saviour of America that delivered us from corporate fascism. Those two were running for President that year.
This year it's no different, we have Bush-McCain promising to continue the exact same practices that created the New Depression America has just started, and we have the moderate Republican Obama who promises to not change anything too much, lest the GOP complain too loudly.
I'll have to write in a real Democrat this election, Cynthia McKinney.
Mooselini's troubled star reminded me of NASA video of the Jules Verne spacecraft disintegrating over the South Pacific Ocean last week:
http://www.esa.int/esaMI/ATV/SEM6TI6EJLF_0.html
Nice! Really effing nice!
It should be titled...California Charade
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/181628/...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/181628/...
The passage I'm writing about is this:
"She was lovely, intelligent and charming, 17 years my junior but poised and confident. I monopolized her attention the entire time, taking care to prevent anyone else from intruding on our conversation. When it came time to leave the party, I persuaded her to join me for drinks at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. By the evening's end, I was in love."
As the child of divorced parents, I can imagine what my dad thought of the woman he cheated with when he was married to my mother, but thank God he didn't write about it and sell it in a book! DISGUSTING.
The first time she rearranged her face, she looked vaguely Hooverish, so I figured she was doing another politician the second time--it certainly wasn't FDR, tho.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:AlSmithWaves...
He was the '28 candidate and apparently gave FDR a run for his money in the 32 primaries. If this came out in early '32, the writers could have easily assumed Al Smith was going to be the nominee again.
If Smith the candidate faced difficult odds, Smith the man faced impossible ones. To begin with, at the dawn of the media age, he looked more like a silent film comedian than a president with an oversize W.C. Fields nose and ever-present cigar and always wearing a derby like Oliver Hardy. He spoke with a pronounced New York accent that over the radio baffled and amused those in other parts of the country.
http://thestrangedeathofliberalamerica.com/al-s...
The two candidates were Hoover, the Republican and FDR the Democrat.
So the second face was supposed to be FDR.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=...
There is a great deal of research on this found on the web.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14302...
Note the cigarette holder. A literal "trademark" of FDR was his cigarette holder.
That second character is Al Smith. The cigar was essentially his "trademark". Oh, and do not read anything anti-Semitic into the cartoon. Al was Roman Catholic, and that's a only slightly exaggerated NewYawk City accent. Youse gotta problem wit dat.
And the idea that the Fleischer Brothers would be anti-Semitic is laughable. They were Jewish, as were most of the artists and writers at the Fleischer Brothers Studios.
And as for the very nelly queen near the end. Yep. It's offensive, OK. Of course, SEVENTY FREAKING YEARS AGO society wasn't QUITE as enlightened as it is today. Don't let the "U.M. & M TV Corporation" logo fool you. This cartoon is as old as John McCain.
Really, people. Don't read anything into a 70+ year old cartoon that really isn't there.