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Thanks for the Imagery, Eleanor
The Left is following the Rahm Emanuel admonition to “never let a serious crisis go to waste” by filling the blogosphere with ideas to take advantage of the BP oil spill. Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift, heir apparent to Helen Thomas, has weighed in with hers.
The Left is following the Rahm Emanuel admonition to “never let a serious crisis go to waste” by filling the blogosphere with ideas to take advantage of the BP oil spill. Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift, heir apparent to Helen Thomas, has weighed in with hers:
Capitalizing on the crisis the way the administration did with the economic meltdown, advancing health-care reform even as the economy was tanking, requires bold ideas. With thousands of fishermen out of work and offering, even begging, to help with the cleanup, why not have the government do direct hiring with a modern-day Work Projects Administration modeled after the FDR-era agency that put millions of people to work during the Great Depression. Everybody is into branding these days, and it would be a great way to brand the government as a positive force in the cleanup.
The administration missed an opportunity with the stimulus money to have projects and workers that benefited from government intervention clearly identified. When the FBI storms onto the scene, agents wear shirts with “FBI” lettered across the back. Why not use the EPA as a brand, or find some other logo that would identify government workers saving the environment—and send BP the bill?
Great! Convert the figurative jack-booted thugs into the literal!
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Pete| 6.7.10 @ 2:43PM
If you insist on publishing pictures of Helen Thomas, I can no longer visit this site. For the love of God, it is lunchtime where I live.
Anyone remember the movie "The Dark Crystal" from the 80s?
Jeff Perren | 6.7.10 @ 6:00PM
Sorry, I can't do without my daily dose of AmSpec.
I sympathize, but there's another alternative. Right mouse click with your browser focused on the page and Block images. Then, make up for the loss of ad revenue to AmSpec by a donation.
Anyway, thanks for the hearty laugh!
Heatpacker| 6.7.10 @ 2:57PM
Bring back the WPA? Don't you just love the party of new ideas?
Eleanor Clift is now Helen Thomas' successor as the most physically and intellectually repellent female member of the MSM. People on the Gulf Coast are having their livlihoods destroyed and Eleanor is worried about turning their tragedy into a PR bonanza for Obama and Co. What a skank!
Jeff Perren | 6.7.10 @ 6:02PM
Amazing isn't it. Progressives never tire of spending other people's money. Oh, but then I forgot. It's not anyone's money. The Feds just take it out of a big magic box that never runs dry, at no cost to anyone.
Nick| 6.7.10 @ 7:35PM
Heatpacker,
"Eleanor Clift is now Helen Thomas' successor as the most physically and intellectually repellent female member of the MSM."
I would put the Painted Lady, Mo' Dowd, into the running. Also, Keith Olbermann.
Grzmlyk| 6.7.10 @ 3:40PM
I've watched Elearnor Clift on and off over the years on The McLaughlin Group.
I've never ceased to marvel that this idiot, this piece of debris, has a job - let along a job as a journalist - let alone a job as a journalist to whom people look for an opinon.
One might as well consult the contents of an infant's diaper. It would be more informative and less less disgusting.
Tim| 6.7.10 @ 3:50PM
It's disgusting the way you kiss up to her.
Grzmlyk| 6.7.10 @ 4:01PM
Honestly, she's worked at Newsweek for, what, 20 years?
I've never seen anything come out of her mouth or off of her pen that wasn't unadulterated propagandistic crap with less wisdom than you'd find in an slightly below-average fifth grader's current events report.
J.C.Eaton| 6.7.10 @ 4:18PM
Grzm MY MAN! Aces!!!!!!!!! El Clift is a smirking, hectoring, pus-ridden carbuncle nestled agonizingly in the soft armpit of society. Truly a world-class harridan. Mean, homely, spiteful. You handled her with charitable compassion. Best,
Grzmlyk| 6.7.10 @ 4:39PM
Gracias, as they say in Arizona.
Yes, hatred is Eleanor's fuel.
Which is why she'll always be a Liberl in Good Standing.
jomo2009| 6.7.10 @ 5:33PM
Since Newsweek isn't long for this world, it's time to euthanize ol' Eleanor so she can rejoin the two husbands she buried.
Nick| 6.7.10 @ 7:24PM
If you look up "crone" in the dictionary, you will find Eleanor's picture.
I'm going to have nightmares about those two pictures, above, tonight. It's like a casting call for the role of Madusa.
Nick| 6.7.10 @ 7:59PM
Oops! That should be: "role of Medusa."
One time visitor| 6.7.10 @ 8:50PM
Not exactly a site that attracts many gentlemen, is it?
Did it occur to any of you people that you don't have to be vulgar jackasses when discussing someone with whom you may disagree? Did any of you attend school? Did your mothers teach you any manners? What a lousy discussion.
Nick| 6.7.10 @ 11:14PM
The truth hurts, doesn't it Eleanor?
Er...I....mean "One time vistor?" Ha-ha!
J.C.Eaton| 6.7.10 @ 9:11PM
One timer! Sister Clift is self-evidently a mean, homely, spiteful world class harridan. Her schtick is firmly lodged in the soft armpit of sociey, which is to say: liberalism. She hectors without restraint. What's vulgar about any of that? Precise I'd trow. Leave moms out of this; Clift and the concept is disturbing.