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18 Dec 2007 04:15 pm

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One wag, employed in a position too reputable to make such jokes under his own byline, emails in: "doesn't Jenna Bush qualify as the ultimate liberal fascist?" She is a teacher, after all. And female!

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Not to mention the Arabic Sesame Street logo she is posing with. Or the Middle Eastern nature of the name "Sesame" for that matter.

Cranky

doesn't Jenna Bush qualify as the ultimate liberal fascist

Doesn't the fact that she was immaculately conceived - like most children of Republican politicians - negate any fascist tendencies?

anyone notice that George seems to have gotten smaller (and redder) as time goes on?

Please don't stop!

Is it inappropriate to play "Marry, Eff, or Kill" with these three?

anyone notice that George seems to have gotten smaller (and redder) as time goes on?

Rosacea.

Well, it really isn't about whether or not she is female, or a teacher.

If she's liberal, then she is a fascist, although not a "classical fascist" but their "modern heir".

F: not Jenna
K: Jenna
M: Laura (she's probably good at entertaining or cooking or something)

Originally, I though of Dick Cheney as a bit of a fascist because of his penchant for secrecy/ lack of transparency, his support of detaining prisoners without due process, suspending habeus corpus, pro-illegal surveillance, etc...

But the truth is he's fascist because he has a gay daughter and isn't vocally against her right to marry her partner.

Yet it is hard to deny that modern progressivism and classical fascism shared the same intellectual roots - indeed.

Well, being a female school teacher is good start, but Ms. Jenna failed a few key tests:

--She supported the Iraq War, the invasion of a country that (demonstrably) bore no threat to the U.S. All fascists were against the Iraq War.

--She supports telecom amnesty. Obviously it's, like, totally fascistical to oppose telecom amnesty.

--She supports waterboarding, unlike the fascistas.

--She's in favor of an amendment to ban Gay Marriage forever and always. Just guess how the neo-fascists lean on that one?

To the untrained eye, sure, one might think that any female schoolteacher was a Liberal Fascist. But there's a lot more to it than that, as one can plainly see.

Jenna really got George's looks--that smirk is pure W.

Is Jenna pregnant?

Coming Spring 2008: "Elmo's Adventures in WASPland."

She went to University of Texas, not Brown or Swarthmore. So, no, obviously.

From what I have heard Jenna has had sex out of wedlock and enjoys deviant sex so she is definitely a liberal and therefore a fascist.

It would be just like the Bushes to pose with what has to be the lamest, most annoying Sesame St. character ever conceived. Elmo is the "Poochy" of Sesame St. muppets.

Tyro--

I take it you haven't seen Abby Cadabby yet.

Have any of you watched 'Elmo' on Sesame Street?

He's psychotic. He stands in one place, and believes that drawings, in crayon, of parts of some fantasy house he thinks he lives in are real.

He always refers to himself in the third person. And, that bizarre, hyped-up, inappropriate laugh. He's an addict; check out how thin he is.

An appropriate character to hang with the Bush family, no?

Normally I'd stay out of these sort of things, but-- Laura Bush seriously looks like the joker.

Did Laura get botox?

Bush kids under breath while smiling:

Mom, we discussed this ... we each wear a color that matches Elmo ... red, black and blue. so why did you put on that yellow dress? are you trying to match his NOSE or something? maybe we should talk with your doctor and decrease the Xanax dose just a wee bit ... we know it's tough living with Daddy, but there is a such thing as too much drugs ... trust us, we know from experience ... on second thought, strike that last comment

Is that Sesame Street in Arabic in the backround?!? Osama Bin-Elmo has won.

I ll give you one thing about Bush.

Laura was a very dignified first lady.

From what I have heard Jenna has had sex out of wedlock and enjoys deviant sex so she is definitely a liberal and therefore a fascist.

A good friend of mine dated Barbara (the first daughter, not the first mother) for a long time. There are some stories I could tell, but I don't want to die in a "car accident."

I don't know about Jenna, but I'm pretty sure Elmo is a facist.

You know, both fascists and decent folks resemble fish at a certain stage of fetal development.

Since everything a decent person does before reaching the age of 40 can be attributed to the mistakes of youth, my verdict is that with Jenna it is too early to tell. (I actually do not know what is the threshold for both sexes, I would guess 35 and 45 on the account of women maturing earlier).

For example, the teacher thingy could be explained by aping Princess Di, which, I think, is a venal sin rather than a mortal one.

It would be just like the Bushes to pose with what has to be the lamest, most annoying Sesame St. character ever conceived. Elmo is the "Poochy" of Sesame St. muppets.

Is that Sesame Street in Arabic in the backround?!? Osama Bin-Elmo has won.

Well, of course, it is well-known that Ernie is a member of the al Qaeda leadership:

http://www.mlcsmith.com/strange/bertsama_bin_laden/art/bert_osama_3_thumb.jpg

If the photographic evidence isn't enough for you, I understand that bin Laden's taxi driver confirmed this under waterboarding . . .

Tits on a boar.

From the smile on Barbara's face, I'm betting that's a Tickle me Elmo.

I'll take the red guy for $500.

You can keep the rest - ever seen such a lame group of "princesses" in your life?

Gimme a collection of porn stars or even ordinary actresses over this lot anytime.

Looking at this shot reminds me of the movies about the Victorian period where I always wonder how the human race continued to reproduce when all the females were buried under clothes and dates lasted ten hours of sitting in the drawing room discussing nothing of interest - with an old biddy chaperon present.

"He always refers to himself in the third person. And, that bizarre, hyped-up, inappropriate laugh. "

He's Sesame Street's version of Gollum.


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