The oh-so-chic Tina Brown wrote a vile column today for The Daily Beast, her version of The Huffington Post. Brown is the former editor of Tatler, and Vanity Fair. In her column, Brown compared Hillary to Sarah – Clinton’s elegance and experience versus Palin’s bitter, backwoods, novice politics.

Brown described the swearing-in of a former Hillary Chief-of-staffer, Melanne Verveer, to an Ambassador position, in full Vanity Fair mode: The scene was a great snapshot of two battle-tested empty nesters, both handsome blown-out blondes in their early 60s, both wearing consummately safe alpha-female pantsuits (Hillary in self-possessed powder blue, her new ambassador in respectful grey), both dedicated policy wonks who worked on behalf of oppressed women in unpronounceable places long before it was fashionable, both mothers (a grandmother in Verveer’s case) with hunky husbands (anchorman-handsome Philip Verveer is a powerful communications lawyer in Washington and soon to be the State Department’s U.S. coordinator for international communications with the rank of ambassador himself).  

Oh my! Be still my beating heart. Tina Brown left me breathless (and a little jealous) of Hillary and her alpha-female suits. However, she fails to mention Hillary’s ever-expanding derrière and nasty cankles as the need for the pant-suit wardrobe. And for the record, I too am an empty-nester, am 47, and prefer wearing skirts and dresses above-the knee. And unlike Hillary, I don’t see women as “oppressed,” unless she’s referring to women whose husbands sleep around.

The female-dog tone Tina Brown uses demonstrates the raw fear that Leftist women have of Sarah Palin. Often described as hokey, stupid, unsophisticated, white-trash, the left have proved they must reduce themselves to petty, bitter name-callers instead of arguing substantively… say… against Palin’s politics or policy? Brown knows that with her straight-talkin’ style and real-woman life experience, Sarah Palin can make Tina Brown and Hillary Clinton look like the uppity, condescending, middle-age liberal feminist harpies they are. Who do the waitresses, the dental hygenists, hair stylists, store clerks or the stay-at-home-moms in America look up to? Not Hillary Clinton and not Tina Brown.

There’s so much work to do!” Hillary exclaimed to me in the receiving line, her eyes sparkling at the thought of the impending avalanche of briefing papers heading her way from her new global women’s issues czarina. Is Brown writing a Harlequin or covering a news story? Czarina? It’s not only Hillary’s derrière that's getting bigger. 

She might get somewhere in the long run if she would just go away in the short run and read some books. Her problem is that she thinks the popular culture is the culture. She has no context, no knowledge of the world to offset her obsessive Nixonian flailings about how everyone is belittling her stature as the hardworking governor of Alaska.. Did I already mention the female-dog-tone? And Tina Brown accused Sarah Palin of being “Intellectually dishonest?” I thought she said Sarah needs to hit the books… how can she also be intellectual?

When I thought Tina couldn’t get any more ludicrous without getting moronic, Brown actually throws in Nancy Pelosi as an example of a sophisticated, female politician: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is a mother of five who translated what she wanted for her kids into fighting for affordable health care and clean air. Palin has a disabled child, one of a sadly ignored subset of Americans whose chances to live a better life desperately need her celebrity spotlight. Teenage mothers could use a leg up from Palin, too, but she’s too busy ginning up celebrity feuds. She actually played the disabled child card? Despicable given what an advocate for mentally disabled children the Palin family has become since Sarah Palin gave birth to her 5^th child – developmentally disabled Trigg. One can bet that had Tina Brown discovered she was pregnant with a developmentally disabled baby, she would have made a quick call to Planned Parenthood.   

Before you believe that Michelle Obama has successfully reinvented herself into a softer, happier White-House soccer mom, Michelle Malkin reports that “with intervention from Michelle Obama, the Americorps inspector general was given the boot and replaced — for doing his job too well, it seems, and uncovering squandering of funds by favored contributors, educational institutions, and left-wing groups.”

Malkin reports that this Associated Press article only scratches the surface:

President Barack Obama plans to fire the inspector general who investigates AmeriCorps and other national service programs amid a controversy between the IG and Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, who is an Obama supporter and former NBA basketball star.

This little-noticed story in Youth Today yesterday points to another example of Walpin blowing the whistle on fraud:

The inspector general (IG) of the Corporation for National and Community Service is being removed by President Barack Obama, a week after the IG questioned the eligibility of the largest and most expensive AmeriCorps program, and while the IG was contesting the “propriety” of a settlement made with a mayor for alleged misuse of AmeriCorps funds.

The “Mayor” referred to is Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, and big Obama supporter.

Byron York at the Examiner.com interviewed Walpin about the firing:

The White House’s decision to fire AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin came amid politically-charged tensions inside the Corporation for National and Community Service, the organization that runs AmeriCorps. Top executives at the Corporation, Walpin explained in an hour-long interview Saturday, were unhappy with his investigation into the misuse of AmeriCorps funds by Kevin Johnson, the former NBA star who is now mayor of Sacramento, California and a prominent supporter of President Obama. Walpin’s investigation also sparked conflict with the acting U.S. attorney in Sacramento amid fears that the probe — which could have resulted in Johnson being barred from ever winning another federal grant — might stand in the way of the city receiving its part of billions of dollars in federal stimulus money. After weeks of standoff, Walpin, whose position as inspector general is supposed to be protected from influence by political appointees and the White House, was fired.

Walpin learned his fate Wednesday night. He was driving to an event in upstate New York when he received a call from Norman Eisen, the Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform. “He said, ‘Mr. Walpin, the president wants me to tell you that he really appreciates your service, but it’s time to move on,’” Walpin recalls. “Eisen said, ‘You can either resign, or I’ll tell you that we’ll have to terminate you.’”

What is going on? What is Sacramento’s Mayor caught up in?

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The drama of Miss California, Carrie Prejean, is inescapable, and undeniably representative of a very divided California. 

The issue of marriage has hit shrieking levels in the state, and dragged a beauty queen into the fray.

Long before America started holding Beauty Pageants, it was custom and tradition to choose symbolic kings and queens for May Day and other festivities in ancient Europe, in which beautiful young women symbolized their nation's virtues. The key word besides “beauty” was “virtues.” America started the modern-day beauty pageant, Miss America Pageant, first held in Atlantic City in 1921.

The vile, vulgar and cruel, Hollywood papparazzi cretin Perez Hilton, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Perezhiltonorange.jpg who started the attack on Miss California with his politically-charged gay marriage question during the Miss USA competition, is celebrating her ousting: It was just last month when Donald Trump unwisely decided to allow Miss California, Carrie Prejean, to keep her title despite her breaking her contract repeatedly.

Well, the small-minded Prejean finally lost her title and crown today!!!

Yay! Happy dance!

Hilton is an aberration of a man, and makes one wonder why an openly gay, flamboyant and vile guy even wants to judge a female beauty contest?

The reason that the Miss California issue matters is because her answer to Hilton’s question about gay marriage in America during a Beauty Pageant competition, was not politically correct. Now she is being vilified, assailed, assaulted and her reputation is under siege. Liberals and most of the gay community want her ruined, and they won’t be happy until she has been publicly flogged or burned at the stake.

They hysteria surrounding this issue is irrationally emotional. The left is fallaciously fixated on legalizing gay marriage, and because they do not respect the rule of law in America, even the California Supreme Court decision upholding the vote on Proposition 8 is not the final word.

So what is?

Liberals are so irrational and emotional, that unless they win, the fight is never over. The fight is also never fair with liberals – they use any means to fight their causes (legal or not), attack, invade, infiltrate, and assail good people. They don’t care who they hurt, or how they do it, as evidenced by the brutal and vicious attacks on Carrie Prejean.

California is divided down the middle between the two political parties. However, when it comes to really liberal issues such as gay marriage, there is no divide – overwhelmingly Californians have voted to uphold traditional marriage as well as vote down gay marriage.

But the left won’t stop – even with California honoring Civil Unions and Domestic Marriages.

A California Domestic Marriage affords a same-sex couple most of "the same rights, protections, and benefits, and shall be subject to the same responsibilities, obligations, and duties under law..." as married spouses: Parenting, adoption, property rights, medical, wrongful death, dissolution and alimony. What’s left out?

-Domestic partners must have a common residence This is not a a requirement for marriage license applicants;

-Domestic partners must be 18 or older, whereas minors can be married before the age of 18 with the consent of their parents.

-California permits married couples the option of a confidential marriage, but there is no equivalent institution for domestic partnerships.

-Married partners of state employees are eligible for the CalPERS long-term care insurance plan, domestic partners are not.

The real issue however is that most supporters of same-sex marriage also argue that the use of the word marriage itself, constitutes a significant social difference.

I agree that the word marriage constitutes significant social difference. Part of the fallacy of the argument for gay marriage is that in a society that rams “diversity” down our throats and forces everyone to be recognized for their differences, why not embrace the “social difference” and diversity of being in a gay marriage?  We know why – because diversity is really code word for  “racism” and “affirmative action” – not about being culturally different and assimilating.

And, the real issue is because people like Miss California believe in and prefer traditional marriage. Because traditional marriage supporters find the majority of gay lifestyles, vulgar and immoral and do not understand the same-sex attraction. Consequently, heterosexual parents don’t want their children exposed to information about the gay lifestyle in school because heterosexuals believe that the gay lifestyle is deviant and unnatural. Legalizing gay marriage – calling it “marriage – will never change the beliefs of heterosexual men and women.

Ideological beliefs cannot be legislated.

That’s why Miss California matters.