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Thursday, October 19, 2006

Man, I Am Tired Of This Bitch


Sally Quinn is a nasty bitch, a creepy little non-entity who slept her way to comfort and influence. Sally Quinn is a dark-faced little gorgon, with the breath of a poorly-bred carrion bird and the conscience of a psychopathic incubus. Sally Quinn has the morals of an immoral succubus and the manners of Baphomet on a bad day.

From today's WaPo

Don Rumsfeld is the shrewdest person in Washington. He understands better than anyone that somebody has to be in line to take the blame when things go wrong. So far he has been willing to do so. But not much longer.

The drumbeat to get him out of the Pentagon has reached deafening proportions. Republicans and Democrats, the generals, the media, Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Andy Card, the first President Bush, and even Laura Bush all want him gone. Until now George W. Bush has resisted all of the pressure to get rid of his defense secretary. But those in the know say that the president may have reached the point where he realizes that Rumsfeld has outlived his usefulness.

Still, the president must be aware on some level that once the pugnacious, outspoken and flak-attracting Rumsfeld leaves the stage, the focus will be on the president. Whether Bush realizes it or not, this is about a scapegoat.

In the Bible, the high priest would transfer the sins of the people onto a goat, and, as it was written, "the goat shall carry all the sins of the people into a land where no one lives, and the man shall let it loose in the wilderness."

(The word for scapegoat in Hebrew means, literally, "into hell.")
[See? Sally stoops to conquer; explaining to the morons who she's never met at Citronelle for lunch and who must, therefore, not know, what a scapegoat is! And they say that Medusa has no manners!]

Rumsfeld has seen others take on the role of scapegoat. Look what happened to Nancy Reagan. When she was first lady, she rightly realized that Donald Regan, the chief of staff, was causing her husband enormous damage. What she hadn't realized was that Regan was filling the role of scapegoat for the president. When Don Regan was finally fired, Nancy herself was made the scapegoat. She then took the brunt of criticism for the errors of her husband's administration.

It is hard for the American people to turn completely against the president. It seems tantamount to patricide. We're much more comfortable being able to blame someone else for the president's mistakes. Laura Bush will never be the scapegoat. For now, it's Rumsfeld.


Listen, Little Miss Marduk, the American people have, in fact, turned completely against the Bush junta. You may have married Daddy, but the rest of us aren't looking for a big pappa to make our delicate bits wet, just a competent, caring human to work for us. That's likely why you weren't able to get the rest of us to join you in a smelling-salt and Grey Goose cocktail when Bill Clinton got a blow job. And it figures you'd write paeans to Laura I-Killed-My-Boyfriend-Now-Let's-Have-A-Cig Bush. You're collaborators of a feather, aren't you?

Now shut the fuck up and take Rummy with you. You're not shrewd, you're not scapegoats, you're just plain, old disgusting goat fuckers. And Ben Bradlee can take that lack of a final comma any way that he likes.

4 comments:

olvlzl said...

Sally Quinn, she slept her way to the middle.

This writing is on a level of bad that you would see on your typical Clown Hall blog. That little thing about the scape goat, so original, Sally.

WaPo, the paper that sort of makes the nyt look less bad some days.

Interrobang said...

I'm trying to figure out what the hell she means by that translation quip, since as far as I'm aware, there is no literal analogue in Hebrew to the term "Hell." There's a term that used to be the placename for the Jerusalem town dump, there's a term that means "place of bones," there's a term that means "place of punishment" (that may be what she's thinking of?), and there are some names of minor evil entities.

The Jewish conception of the afterlife isn't really like the Christian one; it's considerably more humane.

Besides, five gets you ten she's repeating a spurious etymology, rather than actually translating herself...

Anonymous said...

From a Google search - http://www.answers.com/topic/scapegoat

Hebrew Bible
Two very similar-appearing male goats were brought into the courtyard of the Temple in Jerusalem on Yom Kippur as part of the Holy Service of that day. The high priest cast lots for the two goats. One goat was offered as a burnt offering, as was the bull. The second goat was the scapegoat. The high priest placed his hands on the head of the goat and confessed the sins of the people of Israel. The scapegoat was led away and let go in the wilderness according to Leviticus 16:22, although the Talmud adds that it was pushed over a distant cliff.

In modern Hebrew Azazel is used derogatorily, as in lekh la-Azazel ("go to Azazel"), as in "go to hell". (Azazel is the word translated as "scapegoat" in the King James Version of the Bible.)

From the same website: Azazel (əzā'zəl, ăz'əzĕl) , in the Bible, an obscure term found in the ritual of the scapegoat in the Book of Leviticus. Azazel may be the place to which the scapegoat was sent, the scapegoat itself, or the desert demon to whom the scapegoat was sent. Most modern commentators prefer the last explanation. The name is later applied to a demon in 1 Enoch and to the devil in Islam.

Not quite a literal translation as "into hell." But then, I'm sure Ms Quinn doesn't know there is such a thing as Google.

Anonymous said...

Excuse me...has she seen the polls lately?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls/

58% disapprove of Bush.

Seems like many of those who were not against him from the start have finally had the blinders taken from their eyes.