Irony alert!
Wednesday, Dec 3, 2014 - Posted by Rich Miller
* You’ve probably already seen this story about Elizabeth Lauten…
“Dear Sasha and Malia, I get you’re both in those awful teen years, but you’re part of the First Family, try showing a little class,” she wrote in a Facebook post. “Rise to the occasion. Act like being in the White House matters to you. Dress like you deserve respect, not a spot at a bar.”
The remarks didn’t go over well. After a wave of negative publicity, Lauten on Monday resigned her position with Republican Rep. Stephen Lee Fincher of Tennessee. “After many hours of prayer, talking to my parents, and re-reading my words online I can see more clearly just how hurtful my words were,” Lauten explained in a statement, saying her comments had been extemporaneous.
* The Tribune talked to her former boss…
The staffer, Elizabeth Lauten, has been working for Rep. Stephen Fincher of Tennessee after a 2011 stint as the congressional spokeswoman for controversial one-term U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh, an Illinois Republican.
Walsh, now a radio talk show host, told the Tribune on Monday that “Elizabeth should have kept her mouth quiet.”
Fill in the blank: Joe Walsh saying somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like ______.
- Loop Lady - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 10:32 am:
the epitome of irony…
- Nonplussed - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 10:34 am:
Is like Ray Rice saying “sometimes in life, you will get knocked down”
- Anyone Remember - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 10:36 am:
Rod Blagojevich saying “By the way, I should say if anyone wants to tape my conversations, go right ahead, feel free to do it.”
- Ducky LaMoore - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 10:38 am:
Is like the mafia encouraging witnesses to tell everything they know.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 10:39 am:
Joe Walsh saying somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like Pat Quinn saying someone should stop grandstanding.
Joe Walsh saying somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like Bruce Rauner saying someone should stop being a phony.
Joe Walsh saying somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like William J Kelly saying someone should stop begging for attention.
Joe Walsh saying somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like Ron Sandack saying someone should stop asking who is responsible.
Joe Walsh saying somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like Tribune asking other newspapers to be consistent with reporting and editorials.
- Wordslinger - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 10:45 am:
….like Jay Cutler saying quarterbacks shouldn’t turn the ball over.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 10:47 am:
Joe Walsh saying somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like Dan Rutherford saying a politican should unlock an internally, publicly funded, report.
Joe Walsh saying somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like Sheila Simon lecturing someone about Loyalty.
- Charles Nelson Reilly - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 10:57 am:
Joe Walsh saying somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like Richard Nixon saying “I am not a crook.”
- Gooner - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:00 am:
Like Dan Proft saying “local government should not be a cash cow for politically connected individuals.”
- Beetlejuice - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:02 am:
Ya!
- DuPage Worker - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:03 am:
Joe Walsh saying that somebody should have kept their mouth shut is like…anyone shocked at pension crisis yet hiring double dippers and giving salary boosts.
- Gooner - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:05 am:
Like Bruce Rauner claiming to have no knowledge of alleged financial irregularities at a company that he now (or in the immediate future will) runs.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:06 am:
Joe Walsh saying somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like Jim Oberweis saying someone should stop running for office after office after office.
- train111 - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:08 am:
Joe Walsh asyng somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like MJM saying the legislative district map was drawn fairly.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:09 am:
Joe Walsh saying somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like Sen. Heather Steans saying someone should know if they have the votes to pass before calling their Bill.
- s - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:11 am:
Joe Walsh saying somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like Joe Walsh saying somebody needs to accept the responsibilities of being a parent and pay their child support
- ZC - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:14 am:
… Rod Blagojevich: “I’ve had one motto which I’ve always lived by: ‘Dignity. Always dignity.’”
- Carl Nyberg - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:14 am:
Joe Walsh advising people to desist from bombast is like Clinton or Obama counseling people to eschew violence.
- Jocko - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:15 am:
…Bill Cosby giving dating advice.
- MrJM - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:17 am:
Joe Walsh saying somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like Michael Madigan denouncing nepotism.
– MrJM
- train111 - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:17 am:
Joe Walsh saying somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like Joe Walsh running for congress as an opportunist bomb-throwing tea partier after previously running for congress as a moderate pro-choice Republican
- Boring Boring Arsenal - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:18 am:
A tie in soccer.
- Skeptic - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:19 am:
Donald Trump telling her to “keep her ego in check”
- VanillaMan - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:23 am:
It’s like hearing AL Sharpton talk about racial harmony.
- Third Reading - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:26 am:
Related:
Let’s set the Wayback Machine to Rush Limbaugh circa 1993, shall we?
“Socks is the White House cat. But did you know there is also a White House dog?”
— while holding up a photograph of 13-year-old Chelsea Clinton on his 1993 television show, Rush Limbaugh
Source: http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1882947,00.html
I’m outta here.
- Anonymous 88 - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:29 am:
Joe Walsh saying somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like Jeffrey Dahmer telling his grocer that pickled beets are a really gross, disgusting food product that should never cross human lips.
- Stuff Happens - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:42 am:
Joe Walsh saying somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like Bruce Rauner telling someone to be more specific about the details.
Joe Walsh saying somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like Rahm Emanuel telling someone not to swear.
- truthteller - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:53 am:
. . .like Bruce Rauner saying he will cut the tax rate.
- Dan Bureaucrat - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:56 am:
This is the most important paragraph in terms of irony. Lauten was arrested as a teen:
The path Lauten charted to this point is not without controversy. In December 2000, she was reportedly arrested on misdemeanor larceny charges in Onslow County, N.C., according to court records reported by the Smoking Gun. “Lauten, then 17, was collared for allegedly stealing from a Belk department store in her North Carolina hometown,” the Web site reported. Charges were eventually dismissed.
- Dan Bureaucrat - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:56 am:
And from Belk!
- train111 - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 12:04 pm:
lsh, Glenn Frey and Don Henley sitting down in the same place for 10 minutes and no argument breaks out.
- train111 - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 12:05 pm:
.. is like Joe Walsh, Glenn Frey and Don Henley sitting down in the same place for 10 minutes and no argument breaks out.
fixed
- dupage dan - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 12:09 pm:
Where’s Pot Calling Kettle when you need him/her?
Fascinating that this minor event is being overwhelmingly splashed all across the media. Anybody hear of Donny Ray Williams, Jr? One could ask Rep Schakowsky - she could tell you. Now that’s news with an Illinois connection.
To the post: Joe Walsh saying somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like Al Sharpton telling somebody to be truthful.
- Wordslinger - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 12:21 pm:
DD, do you mean the Donny Ray Williams who’s been in newspapers and broadcasts all over the world in recent days? And before that, two years ago when he was indicted?
Yes, I’ve heard of him. What’s your point?
- A guy... - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 12:26 pm:
Joe Walsh saying somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like “proof that anyone can see that this was a bad thing to say”.
- LizPhairTax - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 12:47 pm:
Marc Trestman saying “first you’ve got to establish the run”
- LizPhairTax - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 12:49 pm:
Tim Mapes saying “aesthetics don’t matter, it’s just a building”
- Jeff Trigg - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 1:50 pm:
is like Michael Madigan telling somebody they should follow our Constitutions.
is like Michael Madigan telling somebody that they should believe in democratic elections.
is like Steve Preckwinkle telling someone they didn’t earn a pension that humongous.
is like Glenn Poshard telling someone their huge pension is robbing from our children.
is like Louis Atsaves telling someone that American voters deserve to actually have a choice on their ballot.
is like John Fogarty telling someone that trying to kick candidates off the ballot over trivial minutiae shows a lack of integrity and poor content of character.
is like just about any Illinois Democrat telling someone they should care more about the poor people of Illinois who have the second highest tax and fee burden of any state in this country.
- Gabe - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 1:51 pm:
Bill Cosby keeping his hands off an aspiring young actress.
- Anyone Remember - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 2:26 pm:
Jeff Trigg
” Illinois who have the second highest tax and fee burden of any state in this country”
You miss this?
https://capitolfax.com/2014/12/01/indiana-booster-resorts-to-red-baiting/
- Jake From Elwood - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 2:31 pm:
Joe Walsh telling someone that they should have kept silent is like Marcel Marceau telling someone to speak up.
- Demoralized - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 2:32 pm:
“Like Lucy telling somebody not to pull the football away from the kid kicking it”
- horse w/ no name - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 2:37 pm:
is like Derrick Smith telling someone to think before you act.
PS - it’s stunning how many of you don’t get the basic structure of the joke
PSS - LizPhairTax Wins
- Skeptical - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 3:15 pm:
…is like Bruce Rauner saying he never watched the movie Wall Street…
- Under Further Review - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 3:42 pm:
Joe Walsh saying somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like the pot calling the kettle black.
- Jeff Trigg - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 4:02 pm:
Anyone Remember -
What does that link have to do with the amount of taxes and fees that poor people pay in Illinois? You must be confused, or just blindly partisan without much care for the poor of Illinois. Perhaps you missed this too.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/09/21/the-state-that-taxes-the-poor-the-most-is-a-blue-one/
“Washington takes the top spot by a sizable lead. For the poor in Illinois, 13.8 percent of their income goes to paying state and local taxes.”
Nothing to do with Indiana, so you should probably take your socialism straw man link somewhere else where it might make a lick of sense.
- Jeff Trigg - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 4:06 pm:
Anyone Remember
Here’s another link showing the high tax levels poor people in Illinois are paying under Illinois Democrats, in case you don’t like the Washington Post. A pdf report from the National Center for Children in Poverty. (Nothing about socialism in there either.)
http://www.nccp.org/publications/pdf/text_1093.pdf
- Judgment Day - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 4:08 pm:
“….like Jessie Jackson, Jr. talking about ethics in government”.
- Bill White - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 4:17 pm:
Joe Walsh saying somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like Jeff Trigg being against the progressive income tax.
= = =
That is a good link, Jeff Trigg, and demonstrates why Illinois should consider a progressive income tax.
- Demoralized - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 4:27 pm:
== just blindly partisan ==
Pot, meet kettle.
==high tax levels poor people in Illinois are paying under Illinois Democrats==
Yep. It’s all the Democrats fault. All of it. As I said, pot meet kettle. Don’t throw stones at glass houses (i.e. ridiculing somebody for partisanship) when you are overtly partisan yourself.
Dope.
- Demoralized - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 4:28 pm:
Joe Walsh saying somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like “Jeff Trigg telling somebody to be non-partisan”
- Jeff Trigg - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 4:39 pm:
Bill White - Thank you. A much higher standard deduction would also work to reduce the income tax burden on poor people and is something that probably could be changed much easier and much sooner than amending the state Constitution. Yes, there’s an EITC, but it isn’t enough and doesn’t really help single poor people much at all.
I’m not necessarily opposed to a progressive income tax if it eliminates the state income tax on ALL poor people. I’d probably make that compromise if I had a vote.
The high sales taxes and electricity taxes and gas taxes and phone taxes and other taxes/fees on things poor people need, especially in Chicago/Cook, is another matter entirely that our “leaders” should change if they really do want to help the poor.
- Jeff Trigg - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 5:04 pm:
Demoralized, which party is it exactly that I am promoting or defending? You might want to look up the definition of partisan again. It is entirely possible to criticize one political party without promoting another one.
And last time I checked, the state Democrats haven’t needed a single Republican vote to pass anything in this state since January 2003. But you go right ahead and get mad at me instead of Madigan, Cullerton, and everyone else responsible for taxing Illinois poor people at a higher level than almost any other state. If you don’t like hearing the truth about your party, that’s your problem.
- Arthur Andersen - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 5:19 pm:
..is like finding out Arizona Bob pays IEA dues.
- Arthur Andersen - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 5:22 pm:
…is like finding out A Guy is really Cincinnatus.
- Yellow Dog Democrat - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 7:43 pm:
…Jeff Trigg chiding folks to stop trolling.
- Bill White - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 8:36 pm:
Joe Walsh saying somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like Joe Walsh’s guitar weeping anything but gently . . .
- Jeff Trigg - Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 10:34 pm:
YDD finally found one that makes logical sense, except the fact I’m one of the few around here that uses their actual name, but I’ll grant you that, close enough.
I was beginning to think all of the commenters here had below average intelligence and it wasn’t worth my agitations any longer, but YDD saves the day. Its just too bad I’m more likely to encourage trolls and join them, than I am to chide them. Thanks for playing.
42% Independents and growing. 31% Democrats and shrinking. 25% Republican and shrinking. Why are many of the poor and young rejecting the two parties at levels not seen since the Civil War I wonder? I see why right here every week day, thanks Rich. The post right before this one will surely knock a few more out of the D column as well.
- Demoralized - Thursday, Dec 4, 14 @ 7:35 am:
==I was beginning to think all of the commenters here had below average intelligence==
Well that isn’t arrogant at all.
- Demoralized - Thursday, Dec 4, 14 @ 7:36 am:
== If you don’t like hearing the truth about your party==
And it’s not my party you dope.