Mark Steyn tops even himself in dissecting our celebrity president
Bookworm on Jun 09 2012 at 6:13 pm | Filed under: Barack Obama
However often I’ve I written that if you go here or go there, you will read the best Mark Steyn column ever? More than I can count. Steyn is one of the great political satirists, especially when he has material as rich as Obama’s endless dancing for money before the .001% of Hollywood and Manhattan. Witness today’s Mark Steyn column:
Any American can attend an Obama event for a donation of a mere $35,800 — the cost of the fundraiser hosted by Dreamworks honcho Jeffrey Katzenberg, and the one hosted by Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, and the one hosted by Will Smith and Jada Pinkett, and the one hosted by Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas, and the one hosted by Crosby, Stills, and Nash. $35,800 is a curiously non-round figure. Perhaps the ticket cost is $36,000, but under Obamacare there’s a $200 co-pay. Those of us who grew up in hidebound, class-ridden monarchies are familiar with the old proverb that a cat can look at a king. But in America only a cool cat can look at the king.
However, there are some cheap seats available. A year and a half ago, big-money Democrats in Rhode Island paid $7,500 per person for the privilege of having dinner with President Obama at a private home in Providence. He showed up for 20 minutes and then said he couldn’t stay for dinner. “I’ve got to go home to walk the dog and scoop the poop,” he told them, because when you’ve paid seven-and-a-half grand for dinner nothing puts you in the mood to eat like a guy talking about canine fecal matter. And, having done the poop gag, the president upped and exited, and left bigshot Dems to pass the evening talking to the guy from across the street. But you’ve got to admit that’s a memorable night out: $7,500 for Dinner with Obama* (*dinner with Obama not included).
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I read Mark Steyns column this morning and I agree, it´s soooo very good. I can really imagine the scene in the Providence home after Obama left. It also says a lot about Obamas character. No warmth there. I hope he lost some voters that night. Obama is getting really embarrassing for the Democrats. I wonder what kind of “Wag the dog” spectacle they are planning to try to turn the tables. So I hope Romneys campaigners are quick on their feet and use everything that comes up, for example the degrading things Obama does for money.Just imagine, the President dining with the likes of that horrible Anna Wintour and the woman who gave shopaholics a face, Sarah Jessica Parker. Celebrities and luxury in these dire times of unemployment and crisis. Oh, dear.
I realized when I was a kid that anyone kid could grow up to be President but the smart ones grew up to own one. Many can only afford a Congressman or the occasional Senator but, you’ve arrived when you have the ultimate 0.0001% possession, a president.
BTW, don’t miss this post by Ann Althouse http://althouse.blogspot.com/2012/06/dont-sell-yourself-well-think-of-you-as.html
The Jib Jab superhero video is hilarious
The Dragnet episode is so much of what is wrong with the Progressive agenda. From the deadpan of the victims commenting on what happened to society, to the fat kid who was the only one in class without a father. It is a wonderful, obviously unintentional, moral story that we sadly see the true ending these days.