The Old Red Lady of the Old Gray Lady Comments on Losers: Clinton and Kim

Abstract: Maureen Dowd acts as if she has inside information on what North Korea has received or is owed for this recent generous act of getting rid of two political thorns in Kim’s backside. Bill Clinton has apparently secured some kind of diplomatic miracle with Kim despite Hillary’s nasty comments just a few weeks ago.  The price for this was a few hours with an unsmiling Billy? Dowd appears to manufacture or conceal inside information from the rest of the world in this article.  What was the payment? We need to wait and see what Kim does with his weapons programs and how he interacts with his neighbors in Asia. Bill Clinton deals in bribes, ideological racism and raw sex—none of which might interest Kim in either his present condition or his past. Dowd blows bubbles into the wind this time.

We are always entertained by the scribblings that appear like truck-stop restroom hieroglyphics in the NYT—aka the Walter Duranty Papers[1]-- as they attempt to ‘form public opinion.’ Or, as they heap the pyres with synthetic praise for the antics of their far left benefactors--their ideological partners in Congress—by endorsing new and sweeping changes that ultimately lead to socialism, inflation, debt and the loss of our Constitutional Rights.  In a previous screed[2] she savagely bit into the image of Sarah Palin and demonstrated how much venom she can extrude in one episode on her keyboard. She mellows today.

But, today, we are treated to an unusual  critical analysis of the magical works of Bill Clinton and his little stage puppet in North Korea by the Old Red Lady[3][4][5] of the Old Gray Lady[6] [Dah Dowdy Dowd]. [7] Aside: [Does Maureen cook her hair in the microwave??[8] Where does that color come from? As a chemist, I know that some chemicals that color can eat through glass, flesh and concrete. [9] Oh well, some mysteries of the universe are too frightening to understand in detail.]

Dowd is no fan of Slick Willie as she was one of the first of the far left to dump on him in his first term.  She called Hillary “Godzilla” and Obama was “Obambi.”[10] Maureen has certain journalistic freedoms that are unusual and praiseworthy in the halls of the New York Times. Unlike others who whose intellectual sandals are mired in congealed leftist drool, or other bodily emissions, she stands above and apart from  pedestrian-grade chum-chuckers like Frank-the Crank[11][12] or the protosimian racist Herbert[13]or even the Babbling Brooks, an imaginary token of the right. [14] Today she exercises her wide literary freedom and resumes her legendary attack on Clintoonery.[15]

Launching off with spite and venom:

“When I look at the incorrigible Kim Jong-il, an insult hurled by the incomparable Billy Wilder comes to mind… Wilder announced: “That man should go hang himself from a bonsai tree.”

The diminutive North Korean leader has been known to use lifts in his shoes. This time, he demanded some special stature in the form of a diplomatic cameo by our top diplomat’s husband.”[16]--Let the Big Dog Run By Maureen Dowd Op-Ed Columnist Published: August 4, 2009 [Emphasis is mine in all quotes unless specifically indicated as in the original.]

Some in her camp would automatically praise Kim as they did Pol Pot and Fidel Castro, but times change.

“The price set by Kim for releasing the two captured American journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, was a few hours basking in the presence of the ex-president who most wanted to visit North Korea. Bill Clinton was willing to bow but not scrape.”-- By Maureen Dowd August 4, 2009

Really?

With some literary license our Old Red Lady seems to be in receipt of information unavailable to the rest of us. Billy had time for several North Korean-instigated sexual escapades in the weeks of preparation time before this circus performance and we can only guess that he has more favors coming from the hapless Kim. But, maybe Maureen has a spy inside Bill’s group of groupies.

“It was a moment unique in the annals[sic[17]] of diplomacy. Bill was being hailed as a dazzling statesman [sans cigar this time we think ed] who might have changed the stormy weather between the U.S. and North Korea, just as Hillary was beginning an 11-day trip to Africa designed to highlight the subjects she most cares about: do-gooder development and women’s issues.”-- By Maureen Dowd August 4, 2009

Is Kim that frantic? Billy has been bought for very little such as a small sack of soiled bills at Tea Time in the White House. We can only wonder what Kim has offered him.

Spite:

“It’s fun to speculate whether Bill and Kim discussed the exchange of insults with Hillary. (North Korea issued a jibe back that Hillary was “a funny lady” and that “sometimes she looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping.”-- By Maureen Dowd August 4, 2009

Well, give us your speculations! You usually do. Oh! Next paragraph.

“Bill Clinton will bring back valuable information [??] about Kim’s mental and physical health. If we’d had that sort of information about the snubbed Saddam, we would have known that he was in his own spiral of doom, trying to bluff his neighbors, with no need for our shock and awe.

Hillary and President Obama look bigger when they share the stage with other talented players. And Barack and Bill may have finally started to put South Carolina behind them — without the need for a beer summit photo-op.”-- By Maureen Dowd August 4, 2009

This hokum sticks to the very walls and prompts us to wonder how this will turn out.  The invasion of Kuwait and the war with Iran were not exactly bluffs, but this paper deals in revisionism so we must accept this comment. In the Obama political theater we need for Kim to get back to 6-party talks on his nuclear program in the midst of this new Era of Leftist Fascism.[18] Kim needs to offer the world some more lies before he expires and make false promises that he will allow inspectors to peruse his nuclear weapons programs again. This will buy his regime time and the opportunity to troll for alms. This is a very big payment, if it happens, on something else. We can only wonder if Kim was promised a lot of money, since we are printing tons of the stuff.

The oblique comment about “South Carolina” and “need for a beer summit” just stokes the fires of racism so essential to the future of the Obama and the NYT.  The notion that Bill can be compensated for his wife’s presidential campaign loss and personal loss of $11 million dollars and the waste of $250,000,000 dollars of loyal leftist contributions with some photos with the fragile Kim is a joke.  The notion that Obama can forget the overt racism Bill displayed for this gesture  in South Carolina is a bigger joke.

Kim is too smart to just give up two wandering fruit loops who stooge for Al Gore[19] for just a mere photo-op and some kimchi at a dinner with Billy. He will get much more for this little intermezzo or we have to lower our expectations of Kim. We can only wonder what it will be but the Obama Reverence for Marxism has to be considered.

And a final question here: Who is the Big Dog in this piece? Kim or Clinton??

rycK [a 5^th generation Californian in exile]

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Rewarding Bad Actors by More Bad Actors and Higher Taxes: A Krugman Gem

 Abstract: Krugman of the New York Times maintains his reputation by focusing only on higher taxes and more regulations or ‘rules’ from government.  He offers anecdotes with condemnations on speculation and big profits but seems to ignore the salient fact that many liberals also make big bucks too.  He ignores that salient fact that many liberals make huge profits and escape target taxes.

The assembly of propaganda pieces[1][2][3][4][5] and other blends of disinformation are designed to sway the reader with some guarantee of money, justice or, more appropriately: the notion that justice will claw-back some of the ill-gotten money or hides of evil doers and capitalists.  Victims must be identified, praised and the wrongdoers punished, at best, with higher taxes or more legislation.

Today, for our amusement, our esteemed non-economist from the New York Times, who is known affectionately as Dr. Paul Krugman of the Walter Duranty Papers,[6] squeezes off another propagandistic offalette[7] sanctioning the enduring confiscation of more private loot by suggesting that we truncate remuneration  in the investment banks, or what is left of them, on Wall Street.

To wit:

“Americans are angry at Wall Street, and rightly so. First the financial industry plunged us into economic crisis, then it was bailed out at taxpayer expense. And now, with the economy still deeply depressed, the industry is paying itself gigantic bonuses. If you aren’t outraged, you haven’t been paying attention.”[8]-- Rewarding Bad Actors By Paul Krugman Op-Ed Columnist Published: August 2, 2009 [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

Could we recall that Franklin Raines too away gigantic bonuses after cooking the books at Fannie Mae and was not condemned for this by the NTY or investigated, rewarded with some unknown function in the Obama election committee and received only praise from Maxine Waters?

Krugman appears to be blissfully unaware that the CRA [the phony Community Communist Reinvestment Act][9][10]  forced banks to lend out money at a loss and that this contributed to the collapse of the credit markets. The phony mortgages were bundled and sold as ‘investments.’ Fanny Mae was the toilet where bad loans could be flushed and Franklin Raines[11] made a cool $90,000,000 dollars off this scam. Oh, he is black and works for Obama? Oh, yes. Is Raines a fat cat under your definition Paul? This was all a vision of Greenlining.^[12]

Maxine at her very best:

“Maxine Waters: "We do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac and particularly Fannie Mae under the outstanding leadership of Frank Raines."—[comment  by Waters during a hearing in 2004 ] http://blog.beliefnet.com/reformedchicksblabbing/2008/09/maxine-waters-we-do-not-have-a.html Monday September 29, 2008 [Note the video showing Maxine was removed under threat of legal action.] Too bad the media has to be so crass as to filter out stuff like this.

Maxine at her second best:

“This liberal will be all about socializing….ah ah ….ah …taking over…….government running all of your companies…. ah … ah. .. ”[13][14]—Maxine Waters on stage in a video.[15]

We wonder how Krugman might sanction this criminal action and justify the huge bonus for Raines?

Two pointless Krugmaniacal anecdotists follow on the issue of “profits from high-frequency trading” and “speculates on oil and other commodities.”

“yadda yadda yadda”-- Rewarding Bad Actors By Paul Krugman

Could we wonder where we could have lost Krugman’s reference to George Soros here and comments in his currency speculations?? Did he try to sink the British pound? Oh! His actions do not belong in this article about greed and high profits and speculation! I understand.

Oh! This must be it:

“Just to be clear: financial speculation can serve a useful purpose. It’s good, for example, that futures markets provide an incentive to stockpile heating oil before the weather gets cold and stockpile gasoline ahead of the summer driving season.”-- Rewarding Bad Actors By Paul Krugman

And what can we predict Krugman will advise as a ‘solution’ to these ills?

“What should be done? Last week the House passed a bill setting rules for pay packages at a wide range of financial institutions. That would be a step in the right direction. But it really should be accompanied by much broader regulation of financial practices — and, I would argue, by higher tax rates on supersized incomes.”-- Rewarding Bad Actors By Paul Krugman

Does this theme bypass Warren Buffett and George Soros?? I think it does. These are ‘friends of the left’ thus immune to abuse or condemnation or targeted taxes.

“Neither the administration, nor our political system in general, is ready to face up to the fact that we’ve become a society in which the big bucks go to bad actors, a society that lavishly rewards those who make us poorer.”-- Rewarding Bad Actors By Paul Krugman

This last sentence references a routine propagandistic turn-of-the-crank message alluding to the zero-sum theory where those whose assets are above the median must have gotten them unfairly. How many starve in Africa because Oprah or Michael Jackson or Barbara Streisand or made 100-+250 million per year or so?? How many starved in America when Joe Kennedy ran booze during the depression and made millions while escaping taxes and justice?

Krugman fails to mention that many traders in the speculative world have low salaries or work on a contract basis and will get little or nothing if they don’t perform and deliver high profits. Strangely, the NFL and NBA, hookers on 8^th Avenue, fisherman and most lawyers operate in a similar manner.  The illogic of selecting certain careers and blandishing them with selected social abuse labels fails to demonstrate to us a level playing field and undermines the notion of a progressive tax for all.

The underlying message here is that the ‘enemies of liberalism’ require a punitive tax and that ‘friends of liberalism’ may continue making millions in the meanwhile.

rycK

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This comment on Herbert was submitted and was summarily ‘moderated’ by the New York Times

On Herbert and his columns:

Justifiable Anger and Racist Police Actions Duly Explained by the NYT http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2009/08/01/justifiable_anger_and_racist_police_actions_duly_explained_by_the_nyt.thtml

The ideological racism machines grinds on at the NYT where the purity and innocence of Afro-Americans, not to mention their manifold social problems, such as crime, are bathed in vast pools of excuses. Whites are guilty again. Even in cities where whites have had little control of anything, like New Orleans, we must always seek new excuses for the exercise of reverse racism and blame whites for the failure of leftist government.

 Murder in the Cities: The Triumph of Liberalism. http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2008/04/12/murder_in_the_cities_the_triumph_of_liberalism.thtml

Herbert turns an old rusty crank that has produced nothing but more sloth, sodomy, street crime, drug addiction and racial hatred and will continue to do so in the best disinformation traditions of Walter Duranty and other NYT icons. If Gates had been civil instead of launching off in rage the matter would have ended there. Gates is just what we expect from an AA graduate: too noisy, lacking any identifiable intellectual credentials, undignified and prone to howl before thinking. This is now a mere propaganda exercise for the NYT. The Party of Democrats cannot survive without 90% black votes and it is the solemn duty of the NYT to keep the race pots boiling as Mayor LaGuardia mentioned decades ago.

 Herbert and Rich fan the fires as often as they can.

This is good city politics.

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rycK