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* 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 ______.
posted by Rich Miller
Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 10:29 am
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the epitome of irony…
Comment by Loop Lady Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 10:32 am
Is like Ray Rice saying “sometimes in life, you will get knocked down”
Comment by Nonplussed Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 10:34 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.”
Comment by Anyone Remember Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 10:36 am
Is like the mafia encouraging witnesses to tell everything they know.
Comment by Ducky LaMoore Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 10:38 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.
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 10:39 am
….like Jay Cutler saying quarterbacks shouldn’t turn the ball over.
Comment by Wordslinger Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 10:45 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.
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 10:47 am
Joe Walsh saying somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like Richard Nixon saying “I am not a crook.”
Comment by Charles Nelson Reilly Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 10:57 am
Like Dan Proft saying “local government should not be a cash cow for politically connected individuals.”
Comment by Gooner Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:00 am
Ya!
Comment by Beetlejuice Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:02 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.
Comment by DuPage Worker Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:03 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.
Comment by Gooner Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:05 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.
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:06 am
Joe Walsh asyng somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like MJM saying the legislative district map was drawn fairly.
Comment by train111 Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:08 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.
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:09 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
Comment by s Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:11 am
… Rod Blagojevich: “I’ve had one motto which I’ve always lived by: ‘Dignity. Always dignity.’”
Comment by ZC 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.
Comment by Carl Nyberg Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:14 am
…Bill Cosby giving dating advice.
Comment by Jocko Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:15 am
Joe Walsh saying somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like Michael Madigan denouncing nepotism.
– MrJM
Comment by MrJM 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
Comment by train111 Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:17 am
A tie in soccer.
Comment by Boring Boring Arsenal Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:18 am
Donald Trump telling her to “keep her ego in check”
Comment by Skeptic Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:19 am
It’s like hearing AL Sharpton talk about racial harmony.
Comment by VanillaMan Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:23 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.
Comment by Third Reading Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:26 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.
Comment by Anonymous 88 Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:29 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.
Comment by Stuff Happens Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:42 am
. . .like Bruce Rauner saying he will cut the tax rate.
Comment by truthteller Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:53 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.
Comment by Dan Bureaucrat Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:56 am
And from Belk!
Comment by Dan Bureaucrat Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 11:56 am
lsh, Glenn Frey and Don Henley sitting down in the same place for 10 minutes and no argument breaks out.
Comment by train111 Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 12:04 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
Comment by train111 Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 12:05 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.
Comment by dupage dan Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 12:09 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?
Comment by Wordslinger Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 12:21 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”.
Comment by A guy... Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 12:26 pm
Marc Trestman saying “first you’ve got to establish the run”
Comment by LizPhairTax Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 12:47 pm
Tim Mapes saying “aesthetics don’t matter, it’s just a building”
Comment by LizPhairTax Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 12:49 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.
Comment by Jeff Trigg Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 1:50 pm
Bill Cosby keeping his hands off an aspiring young actress.
Comment by Gabe Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 1:51 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/
Comment by Anyone Remember Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 2:26 pm
Joe Walsh telling someone that they should have kept silent is like Marcel Marceau telling someone to speak up.
Comment by Jake From Elwood Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 2:31 pm
“Like Lucy telling somebody not to pull the football away from the kid kicking it”
Comment by Demoralized Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 2:32 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
Comment by horse w/ no name Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 2:37 pm
…is like Bruce Rauner saying he never watched the movie Wall Street…
Comment by Skeptical Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 3:15 pm
Joe Walsh saying somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like the pot calling the kettle black.
Comment by Under Further Review Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 3:42 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.
Comment by Jeff Trigg Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 4:02 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
Comment by Jeff Trigg Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 4:06 pm
“….like Jessie Jackson, Jr. talking about ethics in government”.
Comment by Judgment Day Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 4:08 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.
Comment by Bill White Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 4:17 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.
Comment by Demoralized Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 4:27 pm
Joe Walsh saying somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like “Jeff Trigg telling somebody to be non-partisan”
Comment by Demoralized Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 4:28 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.
Comment by Jeff Trigg Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 4:39 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.
Comment by Jeff Trigg Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 5:04 pm
..is like finding out Arizona Bob pays IEA dues.
Comment by Arthur Andersen Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 5:19 pm
…is like finding out A Guy is really Cincinnatus.
Comment by Arthur Andersen Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 5:22 pm
…Jeff Trigg chiding folks to stop trolling.
Comment by Yellow Dog Democrat Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 7:43 pm
Joe Walsh saying somebody “should have kept her mouth quiet” is like Joe Walsh’s guitar weeping anything but gently . . .
Comment by Bill White Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 8:36 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.
Comment by Jeff Trigg Wednesday, Dec 3, 14 @ 10:34 pm
==I was beginning to think all of the commenters here had below average intelligence==
Well that isn’t arrogant at all.
Comment by Demoralized Thursday, Dec 4, 14 @ 7:35 am
== If you don’t like hearing the truth about your party==
And it’s not my party you dope.
Comment by Demoralized Thursday, Dec 4, 14 @ 7:36 am