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We'll always have liberals
Saturday, July 16, 2011 at 05:44PM 
What's she hissy-fitting about this time? You are likely asking yourself.
Allow me to elaborate.
Here's looking at you, kid
My daughters Audrey and Erica cooked up an entertaining outing for themselves several weeks back. Sisters! Single and living la dolce vita.
Erica, who lives in the Atlanta area, noticed that Turner Classic Movies was hosting TCM at the Symphony, an evening consisting of an open-air screening of the 1942 classic Casablanca.
Some people believe Casablanca is the greatest movie ever made. I myself would have to go with Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl.
Second-place honors would be shared by a close tie of Singin' in the Rain and the expletives-deleted versions of Ferris Bueller's Day Off and My Cousin Vinny.
Make 'em laugh!
But to each his own.
As time goes by
Anyway, the event took place last Friday night at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Alpharetta, Georgia. The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra was on hand to play the movie's score while the film in all its black-and-white glory flickered on three huge screens.
Audrey left work in Knoxville at lunchtime and drove down to Erica's place in time for dinner and the one-hour trip to Alpharetta.
The girls had opted for "inside" pavilion tickets rather than rusticating on the lawn. The place was packed out.
Ben Mankiewicz was in the house to introduce the movie, which in my opinion needs no introduction, but that's just me. TCM has a human intro for most of their movies.
You're lucky the bar's open to you
Although I think the manky-monkey qualifies only as sub-human. On a good day. But then I doubt he has many good days.
The way of transgressors is hard (Proverbs 13:15). That's my proof text. Let God be true but every man a liar (Romans 3:4) would be another.
A perfunctory perusal of the Twitter stream of @BenMank77 will sum up for you nicely what a brain trust he is. Not.
This, folks, is his Twitter bio: Turner Classic Movies host. I like gambling, long walks on the beach at sunset, Bruce Springsteen and gambling. I don't like mean people and gambling.
All crass, no class. I would imagine putting his flippers on the floor every morning and getting out of the rack is a gamble. But I digress.
By way of introduction, the mankster-prankster explained how the Casablanca project began casting at Warner Brothers early in 1942, shortly after the events at Pearl Harbor that got America into World War II.
Or aren't you the kind that tells?
He said an early contender for the role of Rick was Ronald Reagan.
Now, Manky could've left it at that and gone on to point out the obvious: Humphrey Bogart was eventually chosen for the lead, alongside Ingrid Bergman.
Themselves poster children for the godless immoral adulterous commie pinko liberal ideologic agenda. And Bogie was a drunkard into the bargain. Once again I digress; apologies.
But Mankless either did not possess or could not locate the inner strength to resist. He had a live audience heavy on libs (read: light on grey matter) for whom he was itching to show off. The rest -- like, for example, my girls and I'm sure at least ten or twelve more people -- he was eager to rankle, Mankle style.
So he went on to opine in his trademark homely-boy whine that it would've been better if Ronald Reagan had stayed in Hollywood and kept on being an actor.
Because then Ronnie never would've become Governor of California, and he wouldn't have been elected the 40th President of the United States, and then George H.W. Bush never would have become the 41st President of the United States, and then of course George W. Bush wouldn't have been the 43rd President of the United States ... and then of course -- of course! -- there never would have been a war in Iraq or anywhere else.
Just like any other liberal, only more so
*sigh*
Talk about your amoeba-shaped reasoning.
First let me get this out of my system: Ben Mankiewicz taking a pot-shot at Ronald Reagan is like an anemic gerbil hurling its six-ounce carcass against the blade of a six-ton Komatsu super-dozer.
Utterly ridiculous on its face and ultimately devastating in its result.
Tempting as it must have been to stand and deliver his petulant mini-jeremiad a la The Dixie Chicks (look what happened to their career) and throw his itty-bitty stones at arguably the greatest president in modern American history, in this case restraint would definitely have been the better part of valor.
When's the last time skanky Manky (a/k/a American Zero) put his precious Hollywood hiney on the line for his country like American heroes Reagan (who survived an assassination attempt), Bush 41, and Bush 43 did, both in the military and as lifelong public servants?
And what makes this pea-brain believe there is a single living breathing human being of any consequence who gives a flying flip what he thinks about Ronald Reagan, the Bush family, or the war in Iraq?
We don't even care what he thinks about the movies he introduces.
You are becoming your own best customer
Is it lost on anyone that when showbiz libs living in the land of fruits and nuts aren't lecturing the rest of us about how we're destroying our delicate ecosystem, they're holding forth on the evils of our imperialistic warmongering society?
As if capitalism has not been very, very good to all of them.
Don't forget that Hollyweird celebrities (of which the mankmobile, I admit, is a decidedly marginal variety), with their immoral and decadent lifestyles, are among the most conspicuous consumers of goods and services on the planet.
The energy and resources required to fulfill their every whim for a single week is more than I'll use at my house in an entire year.
In other words, liberal America-haters indulge in profligate waste of the majority of that for which much finer Americans laid down their lives.
So quit preaching -- or should I say reaching -- you idiot lib, about Ronald Reagan, whose memory you are not fit to even remember.
Keep amongst yourself and your peurile, mouth-breathing, bottom-feeding co-conspirators your asinine belief that if Ronald Reagan had stayed in Hollywood with the rest of your nitwit ilk, America wouldn't have eventually had a lethal showdown with those who despise all we stand for.
We said no questions
What, you think the mooselimb terrorists would've taken a pass on their "Death to America" jihad and started singing Kumbayah at the top of their lungs, holding hands, turbans toward the setting sun, if there'd been a liberal Democrat in the White House on 9/11?
Is that what you parasitic narcissistic hypocritical traitors tell yourselves?
And if we had had the misfortune to have a Dimocrat in the White House on 9/11 when the terrorist attacks went down, do you really think that president would NOT have been obliged to recognize that event for what it was: an ACT of WAR?
Do you? Do you think?
I think not. Because thinking would require morality and decency and actual intelligence, and whatever spark of any of those things you ever had long ago dissolved into the soft mist of a utopian dreamworld where pastel-colored unicorns frolic while spoofle dust swirls in sparkly clouds around their little prancing hooves.
And the rarefied air you breathe makes you so superior to those Americans who now lie in early graves -- having given up their right to breathe at all -- to ensure that you continue to enjoy freedoms unprecedented in the history of mankind; right?
Right.
Pathetic presumptuous pointy-headed prig, thy name is Benny Mankiewicz. You're not worth the suicide bomber it would take to blow you to kingdom come.
Round up the usual suspects
I'm sick of the socialist progressilibs' elitist stake-claiming of the arts. Liberals did not invent and do not own exclusive rights to beautiful music and good movies and great paintings and other forms of creativity instilled in human beings by their Creator.
But since libs're convinced they are the primary purveyors of and principal partakers in all things artistic, why would the muling manko-brat think it necessary to ruin a perfectly lovely evening by bringing up politics (which, by the way, he kept insisting he "hated to do, but ...")???
I know why. Because there's a little speck on the horizon called a presidential election and it gets closer every minute, and they are terrified.
Why else all the agitation, the name-calling, the mud-slinging, the hand-wringing, the intimidation, the muckraking, the invective-hurling, the lie-spinning, the general sturm und drang that seems to attend liberals' every waking moment?
I'll say it again: They're quaking in their five-thousand-dollar boots at the mere contemplation of their useless O'bummer opposite just about anyone we care to run against him.
Why, I bet we could put the late Ronald Reagan on the ticket against Obama and the mere mention of his name would take Texas and the entire Southeast, if not win the whole banana by a respectable margin.
This time I know our side will win
So they'd better be scared. Because there's something else coming around the bend like a two-mile-long freight train and it's called Conservative America.
Casablanca ... White House ... get it? I don't think the oblique reference is coincidental.
Well, they're all about to get it. Permanent letters of transit, as it were. Just be patient.
NObama 2012. This could be the start of a beautiful friendship.
Oh, and Bruce? Mr. Springsteen? Word to the wise. Manky-panky's got a man crush.
Reader Comments (15)
Oh, whew, I am so relieved. What with the facebook thing and the compost tub I keep on my counter (that was reeking decidedly of onions this afternoon) I was beginning to think our love was not meant to be! But we are in agreement again. I watched the final episode of Friday Night Lights today and was very disappointed that they had to plop in a brief derogatory reference to the great Sarah Palin. Honestly, I was ticked, as it had no relevance to the plot, just a gratuitous liberal insult. Like they couldn't help themselves. And I do love that show, so it was doubly disappointing.
P.S. Who the he$# is Benny Weikiwhatsit? I'm not even going to give him the pleasure of being Googled by me, in light of his remarks about the late great one.
P.P.S. You are funny when you rant.
@Hobbit ... surely you wouldn't hold it against me that I hate Facebook? I don't hold it against you that you like it. Absurd, darling! And compost is just a non-issue. I'm far too prissy for an in-house compost tub. You know that. As for Sarah-bashing, well, that's de rigeur in Hollywood now. You don't get your little gold stars and brownie points unless you take your shot. The left is so scared of her.
LOL~ ! Wow! Like I said, could not have come anywhere NEAR putting it the way you did. I hope he reads this. He really frosts me.
Love the new look on your blog. Really cool. You're so artistic and you're not a liberal. *GASP* : )
Wow! I'm tired out from all this reading! I've got to say the comments are good too. I don't know who this Benny guy is, but it appears I'm not missing anything.
I'm so sick of the Hollywood folks thinking they know better than the rest of us normal people, and proclaiming what should be happening. And I'm sick of them blaming the conservatives for everything that isn't right in the world!
..Oh yeah, loved the Casablanca/White House correlation you made. Never would have thought of that! Goooood one.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so, so, so, sick of all the Liberals. The Hollywood kind. The Washington DC kind. The Chicago kind. The West Coast kind. The East Coast kind. The college of education kind. The kind who say they are moderate, but STILL can blame everything in the economy, on Bush.
YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And especially, when the Holly-weird kind inject their mucky opinions into something that people paid money to attend. Like your daughters and the lovely event they wanted to see. That is like stealing. Grrrrrrr...
-sighhhhhhhhhhhh-
Repeat Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...
~♥~
I understand your wishes for 2012. I have them too.
But...
I am still so afraid that the unwashed, un-read, un-thinking masses, will prevail again. I fear. I do. I shouldn't but............ I didn't know how O could have gotten in, the first time. So, I'm scared, again.
You younger people - Please - Carry the good banner into battle. Please. I'm tired. I'm so tired. And I'm scared that I'm living to witness the fall of us, like people lived to see the fall of Rome, ages ago. I fear there is so much rot, from the inside, that...... It will be Rome-all-over-again.
I'll stop.
YOU WILL NOT LET US DOWN! YOU the younger citizens, will work and will prevail. I must be positive!
~♥~
...omgoodness...Aunt Amelia's response about Broke my Heart!! I think I wanna cry!! I Too am afraid of the same thing Amelia! But I will continue to ask people if they are registered to vote...talk about issues....and generally make a nuisance of myself where it involves politics. I go to the Tea Party events proudly.....Don't be afraid Amelia...We Stand Together!
Wonderful post Jenny Girl! As usual, you are Spot On! Poor Girls...to have to listen to that garbage! Wish you and I had been there...Hahaaaa...Can you say Duck and Cover???
Oh, and did you read that on Friday morning, the House Defunded the Light Bulb Ban????Hahahaaa.....love it!
hughugs
@Audrey ... leave the ranting to me, LOLOL! I'm sorry you had to listen to that idiot but I'm glad you told me about it so I could work him over. Glad you like the new Shep-inspired blog design!
@Mari ... thanks for doing the reading! Once I got started I had a hard time cutting off the deluge of righteous indignation.
@Auntie A ... I agree with you that taking people's time at such an event to inject your political views, thus making some paying customers uncomfortable, was like stealing. Perhaps someone should complain even more loudly to TCM for allowing this to have happened. Don't worry about the future, sweet lady. We'll keep fighting. You just keep being the great conservative American that you are.
@Donna ... Auntie A's angst brought tears to my eyes too. We all need to stand on the wall and in the gap for the rights of all Americans. The problem is, we've ALLOWED the libs to run roughshod over us for too long. That time is over and they'll do it no longer without us pushing back. Yeah, one more year with my incandescent light bulbs ... oy vey, I cannot seem to keep up with all the liberal legislation.
You outdid yourself on this one, preaching to the choir.
I have noticed that some of the lefty movies haven't done so well lately, good.
As to having a Democrat on 9/11, I shutter to think how things would have been handled.
As to 2012, we absolutely cannot allow Obama another term.
Debbie
I can't wait to come back here in 16 months and see Auntie A and her ilk in tears.
The type of candidate you people would prefer - the insane Bachmann woman and her ilk stand no chance as independents wouldn't touch her with a barge pole. Dems are not 'afraid' of such candidates , they really hope the wackos in flyover land put one such in, as that will ensure a landslide.
Re the fall of Rome - you are right there - all empires fall, this one is no different and taht is not a bad thing.
Have a nice day !
@Debbie ... God willing we'll toss him out. Must be on our toes.
@Democrats Abroad ... my we like the word "ilk" don't we? And the fact that you would dare to say it would not be a bad thing if the greatest country that has ever existed "fell" only proves my point. You do not deserve the freedoms this country affords to you and YOUR ilk, but I am willing to pray and work earnestly so that you are allowed to keep them.
"an anemic gerbil hurling its six-ounce carcass against the blade of a six-ton Komatsu super-dozer."
ROFLMAO!!!!! I am so sorry girl...I read the whole post but couldn't get past this comment, lol!!!! What were u saying again?! Lol, u crack me UP!!
And before I forget, I LOVE watching old movies!!! They are so much better then some of the trash out there now. I've got my favs though ;))
@Crystal ... baaaahahahaha you likey that visual? Poor sucker wouldn't have a chance. And old movies? Get out! Truly wonderful and definitely better than most of what's out there today. We'll have to chat sometime about our favorites. Thanks for reading and happy Monday!