Posted on 07/20/2017 2:29:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A few years back, my father and I voluntarily submitted ourselves to an episode of Question Time, a long-running program on the BBC on which sundry British politicians try to sound as indignant as possible while expressing nothing whatsoever beyond the day’s conventional wisdom. On the panel that evening was one Louise Bagshawe, a Tory MP from London who had a gig on the side as a writer of teen-girl books. “That woman,” my dad said to me about half-way through the show, “is one of the dullest people I’ve ever seen. Even for Question Time.”
So much for plus ça change.
Today, Louise Bagshawe is Louise Mensch, a show-woman and a fantasist of world-class ability. No longer a member of Parliament, Mensch now lives in the United States, where she spends at least 18 hours a day filtering current affairs through the mind of Edward Lear. Over the last six months, Mensch has unleashed her unfiltered stream-of-consciousness on the denizens of her new country — both in short-form on Twitter, which she uses in much the same way as a woodpecker uses a wall, and in longer episodes on her Patribotics blog, which describes itself as “Pro-America, pro-democracy, pro-NATO, pro-Russia, anti-Putin,” but which seems most consistently to be pro-clicks. In both arenas, she has made sure to set herself at the thriving center of a hive of unfastened theorizing and molten-hot dudgeon....
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
A lot of people on both sides think she is a gop operative... Including milo.
I don’t know who she is, but I might find out. Sounds entertaining.
I enjoyed reading this. Cooke has a way with a phrase.
” Twitter, which she uses in much the same way as a woodpecker uses a wall, “
Priceless. I am so stealing that.
I think you heard, maybe even fell for, a knee slapping joke. Louise is not helpful to anyone but Louise.
At best, she might kiss a shark posing as a Republican, while actually a UniParty straw man.
I have no idea about milo...pretty sure he wasnt joking but not going to look.
I know people on the left aren’t joking. Several have laid out their case for it.
More apt analogy than the one given: she uses her head like a woodpecker uses a tree.
I don’t have any idea what her motives are, or if she has any motives at all (sometimes, crazy is just crazy). But what I do know is that many on the Left have adopted her brand of crazy, hook like and sinker. Hell, the (failing) NY Times published an op-ed she wrote, just a few months ago:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/opinion/what-to-ask-about-russian-hacking.html
Maybe she is Sorcha Faal ...for those that understand that reference I am just kidding
She’s a world class troll, but I think she may have gone over the top in her latest tweet.
What was her latest tweet?
Something about Putin giving McCain cancer through GPS with Trump’s approval.
She didn’t include the Bush family in there?
Not this time.
Same here - love when a good analogy/simile/allegory pops up... recently read a description of a man on the verge of losing it described as “an over-coiled spring held together with last years cord” and filed it for some future use.
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