That's a new expression I'd like to coin. Acceptable mutations of this expression could include (to your dumb coworker) "stop being a lili ladaga" or "your idea is about as smart as a lili ladaga".
Why my dislike of lili ladaga (who's name I refuse to capitalize)? This article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_pl267
Read it first- then read my anger over lili ladaga's relativism and broad strokes.
Finished? OK- so what's the difference between Obama's "special education" comments and all the others she references in her article (3 for Bush, 1 each Palin, Quayle, Reagan and Biden. 6 republicans, 1 democrat but that doesn't surprise me as lili ladaga is probably too dumb, too lazy and too biased to research any additional democrat faux pas). The difference is that their errors are GRAMMATICAL. They made mistakes in spelling, in syntax and in pronunciation.
Obama disparaged an entire class of people, and the least fortunate class at that.
Show me the "slip of the tongue" is which Reagan mocked Jews or Bush mocked the Chinese? Did Palin ever make a crack about the blind? Probably not as her son Trigg hopes to participate in those "Special Olympics" which our President finds so comical.
To paint with such a broad stroke, lili ladaga, and to once again excuse Obama with the "everyone does it" justification, is intellectually, journalistically, morally and humanistically SHAMEFUL. For that reason, lili ladaga is now synonymous with dumbass.
Why can't this freaking 4th estate just call him out once? The cabinet appointments, the tax evaders, the AIG debacle, walking through the window, whacking his head on the Marine I door, thanking himself in the teleprompter or even APPEARING on a late-night talk show have not earned Obama the slightest criticism from his adoring journalist fans.
Instead we get more lili ladagas circling the wagons, reminding us that "it's Bush's fault" and telling us to be courageous and take the Obama pledge.
lili ladaga- you are such a lili ladaga.
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Just another batshit crazy ,republicant hack calling someone else stupid!You are one paranoid freak,she was damn fair in the article and this is just par for the course!We now expect this idiocy from the right,it's all that you have!
ReplyDeleteHey, urlnts, get a life. Enough with the juvenile name calling, ok?
ReplyDeleteNow to something more serious... This article makes a good point about Ladaga and the media going too easy on Obama. (Even SNL mocked the media coverage of Obama during the campaign, so this is not created out of thin air.)
Today (4/28) on Yahoo.com, Ladaga has an article about the highs and lows of Obama's first 100 days. In the "Lows" section, she left out some obvious negatives.
- She mentions the tax problems that Geithner and other cabinet nominees had, but made no mention of Obama spoke about high ethical standards for his cabinet members and then turned around and signed a waiver (sounds like an "indulgence") to allow Geithner not to have to live up to those standards. A lot of good standards do if you don't enforce them.
- She mentions Sarkozy's praise of Obama (all those politicians compliment each other at the big conferences), but did not mention Sarkozy's significant criticisms of Obama. (I read about them in the UK Guardian, NOT in an American newspaper).
- There is no mention of the controversy about Obama's bow to the Saudi prince, embrace of Hugo Chavez and acceptance of an anti-US book from him, and non-reaction to an anti-America rant from Daniel Ortega. (About the latter, apparently the anti-American diatribe did not bother Obama. He was just glad that Ortega had not blamed HIM for the Bay of Pigs invasion. How self-absorbed is that?)
As for the CBO projecting over $9 trillion in added debt over the next decade from Obama's budgets, somehow that does not qualify as a low. Geez, doubling the national debt in one decades doesn't merit a mention?? Incredible!
I could go on, but maybe I should write about a book about all the screw-ups - there is enough material.
Charles