Townhall: Michelle Obama is a Bitch, Get It?

By GottaLaff

My buddy Mark Karlin at Buzzflash forwarded me this piece from HuffPo. It's wrong on a million levels, but it is especially disappointing to Mark and me. We are both former Prelutsky readers. We used to appreciate his writing. But he is not the Burt we once knew. Not at all:

Burt Prelutsky was a TV writer a long time ago. Then he aged out of it and became a crank. [...] Now he writes a column for Townhall.com, the popular website owned by a Christian radio network.

Here's something from his current offering:

Take Michelle Obama...please.

Ohgod, wasn't that hilarious? Ya see what he did there? He took the Henny Youngman line and applied it to the first lady! See that? What a wit. Or should I say "half wit".

Every time I turn around, there she is on a magazine cover. Now, normally, like the Mafia, I lay off the spouses, but inasmuch as this particular spouse attended the same racist church as her hubby for 20 years, I'll make an exception in her case. After all, in spite of the fact that affirmative action got her an Ivy League degree and a $7,000-a-week salary and, moreover, has sent billions of dollars for no particularly good reason to Africa, she insists this is a mean country. The burning question in my circle is: if the First Family gets a female dog, will she be the First Bitch or will she have to settle for second place?

Get it? Because "bitch" had two meanings!

Disrespectful doesn't even begin to say it. Neither does rude, insulting, offensive, or disgusting.

You can read the rest at Townhall. The Internet home of culture warriors Dennis Prager, Bill Bennett and Michael Medved.

(Who have all, by the way, written about Barack Obama's horrible, shocking association with that racist hatemonger Jeremiah Wright. Who called America an ugly black bitch. Oh wait, he didn't.)

(They've also all written columns bemoaning how angry and mean liberal humor is.)

You'll have to follow the link for more of Burt's pearls of wisdom. I won't waste space here, nor will I soil TPC with more of his words.

The executive editor of Townhall is Hugh Hewitt. His current column is about how terribly offended he was when Barack Obama made a joke about the Special Olympics:

We should hope President Obama makes more than apology. We should hope he makes good.

Obama made a bad joke, yes, but it wasn't intended to disparage. He apologized to the chairman of the Special Olympics before the Leno show was even aired.

On the other hand, Townhallers, those paragons of virtue, what with their carefully-crafted attempts at humor and all, have yet to acknowledge their bile. "Making good" isn't on their agenda.

Conversely, the president has "made more good" in the weeks he's been in office than we've witnessed in the past 8 years... unless you consider a secret dictatorship and blatant war crimes "making good".

Oh, the Christian broadcasters who own Townhall, the site that says Michelle Obama is a bitch and Will Smith is lucky he's not picking cotton is Salem Communications. You can thank them here.

Be extra crispy specific. Sincere thank yous should always be specific or they don't count.

UPDATE: The piece was removed with no indication of it being altered, per my Twitter pal Cody Kessler.

Barone: Media trashed Palin because ‘she did not abort her Down syndrome baby.’

By GottaLaff

Let's review: Being pro-choice is not being pro-death, pro-abortion, or pro-stupid. You want pro-stupid? Here's your pro-stupid:

Speaking before a roomful of academics in Chicago yesterday, U.S. News and World Report’s Michael Barone claimed that “the liberal media attacked” Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) during the presidential campaign because “she did not abort her Down syndrome baby.” “They wanted her to kill that child. … I’m talking about my media colleagues with whom I’ve worked for 35 years,” Barone said. Politico reports that “[a]bout 500 people were in the room, and some walked out.” Barone did not dispute his remarks, saying he “was attempting to be humorous and, as many in public do, went over the line.”

I missed the "humor". It went, woooooo!, right over my head. Imagine that. Me. A comedy writer, being too dense to get the joke.

For the record: Nobody in my world faulted Palin for choosing--choosing-- to keep her baby.

Now, schlepping it around the campaign trail as if he were a rag doll prop was a little disconcerting. But choosing to bring Trig into the world was absolutely fine with my liberal gang-o'-pro-choicers.