Times' Columnist: Laura Bush Resembles Deranged '24' First Lady & Evil Harry Potter Character

n ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Bush hatred has taken on a new, virulent mutation: animus towards First Lady Laura Bush. Witness today's New York Times column by Judith Warner, ‘24’ as Reality Show [subscripton required].

Warner's jumping off point is Kiefer Sutherland's response to a question about the advent in this coming season's "24" of a woman president. Observed the actor who plays Jack Bauer: “I can tell you one thing. We had the first African-American president on television, and now Barack Obama is a serious candidate. That wasn’t going to happen eight years ago. Television is an incredibly powerful medium, and it can be the first step in showing people what is possible.”

That prompted Warner to write:

I giggled a bit nastily over this at first. What was next — claims that fingering China as a one-nation axis of evil on “24” had presaged the country’s exposure this spring as the source of all perishables tainted and fatal? That screen first lady Martha Logan’s descent into minimadness anticipated Laura Bush’s increasingly beleaguered late-term demeanor? (Has anyone but me noticed her astounding resemblance to Dolores Umbridge in “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”?)

"24" aficionados know that Logan is a former First Lady gone mad who is currently institutionalized at a mental health facility. According to Wikipedia, "a quick scale of squeaky notes would accompany the background soundtrack whenever her character appeared, known affectionately among fans as the "cuckoo music.'"

As for Dolores Umbridge, she was one of Harry Potter's antagonists. She was the High Inquisitioner at Hogwart's School, known [per Wikipedia] for "cruelty and abusive punishments against students; she stands out especially for forcing Harry and Lee Jordan, and, it is assumed, other students who get detention from her, to write lines using a quill that magically causes the words to be cut into the skin on the back of the writer's hand and uses their blood as ink."

So Laura Bush reminds this Times columnist of deranged, cruel and abusive-to-children characters. I might suggest that the derangement resides in this author, prey to a particularly pernicious new form of BDS.

Contact Mark at mark@gunhill.net

[governsleastgovernsbest]

New strain of BDS: Laura-hatred. Ping to Today show list.

[Jaysun]

The First Lady is off bounds, you whore.

[M1Tanker]

Just when you thought BDS could not get worse...... Baseless and tasteless attacks against the First Lady!

[jacquej]

Un-freaking-believable! How low can they go?

[Mr. Jeeves]

Please. Hillary’s resemblance to Bellatrix Lestrange is much stronger. ;)

[dforest]

I haven’t been too happy with Bush lately, but there is no reason to pick on Laura.

She is a nice and gracious lady.

[Pharmboy]

...and Judith Warner is ugly. Inside and out.

[maryz]

As for Dolores Umbridge,

I've always thought of her as the prototypical liberal government bureaucrat! Can it be a coincidence her initials are DU???? ;-)

[I Drive Too Fast]

Times Columnist IS Deranged.

I thought I'd fix that headline for you.

[Dixie Yooper]

This is insane! Laura Bush is one of my two favorite First Ladies, and they both happen share the same last name.

[Rennes Templar]

“...Laura Bush’s increasingly beleaguered late-term demeanor?”

Wha????? Anyone have a clue what she is talking about?

[bray]

The Surge is Working and PravdABDNC is in a Deathspin
Laura is by far the most Beautiful First Lady we have had.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[BunnySlippers]

Sounds like they read DU.

[Liberty Valance]

This was in the NYT? If there were even some tiny bit of similarity to the ‘24’ first lady or the Potter lady I guess some might find it amusing but it’s just gibberish made up from thin air ... between the ‘journalists’ ears one must suppose. BDS has a new patient at the NYT. There is apparently no cure. Sad.

[M Kehoe]

Sheesh.

5.56mm

[StAnDeliver]

Schadenfreude!

[ishabibble]

Nice catch! If Laura Bush is demonized by the likes of Judith Warner, what does that tell you? The old term, “grasping at straws” comes to mind. They(the moonbats) don’t have anything to hang on to, and so they would attack the best part of President Bush’s life to what?
To make a point? To further a goal? What, EXACTLY, is this woman doing by attacking Laura Bush?

My guess is that with the news of the Brookings Institute Report, the wingnuts are FRESH OUTTA AMMO!! *it would be a real big problem for us*

http://hotair.com/archives/2007/07/31/clyburn-it-would-be-a-real-big-problem-for-us-if-petraeuss-progress-report-is-good/

[paudio]

Has anyone but me noticed her astounding resemblance to Dolores Umbridge in “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”?)

Naah. If you watched the movie, you'd know that Umbridge is a Democrat who doesn't acknowledge the danger of Islamofacist a.k.a. Lord Valdermort. She even disarmed the whole school!

[tioga]

Judith Warner? Who the heck is she to insult our First Lady? Are they nuts? Do they wish to send all conservatives back to Bush to defend her honor?