Comments for LOL of the day

LOL of the day

2008-09-13T20:32:26Z

Not to bite off of Andrew, but this is just too good. From Kaus:

You lost me at "de": Headline/byline of an op-ed in yesterday's WSJ--
Democrats Need to Shake
The "Elitist' Tag
By Lynn Forester de Rothschild
Does Lynn Forester de Rothschild actually exist, or did Paul Gigot invent her?

Comment from msw on 2008-09-13

2008-09-13T20:44:43Z

She exist and she has more money than brains.

Comment from Jack on 2008-09-13

2008-09-13T20:50:41Z

That is Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild to you.
Probably the daughter of a sharecropper.

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/10/lady_lynn_forester_de_rothschi.html

Comment from Adam on 2008-09-13

2008-09-13T21:05:01Z

Hey, if anyone knows about elitists, it's her. Sounds like an expert on the subject.

Comment from Robert M on 2008-09-13

2008-09-13T21:12:38Z

She is for real. She is a very succesful business womean in the technology field. She sold her business prior to obtaining the moniker. She is fairly well hated in england(think Madonna) because she speaks w/ a false accent and other English quirks but she isn't English

Comment from MikeCee on 2008-09-13

2008-09-13T21:16:03Z

she's real alright, a real peice of sh**.

How they print this crap and still call themselves news is beyond me.

Comment from Ray on 2008-09-13

2008-09-13T21:29:41Z

What a great place to talk strategy to Democrats, as we all know the Wall Street Journal is a Liberal bastion of Progressiveness. /cackle

Seriously, only an elitist would write an article for a magazine that is marketed to the elites.

Comment from AdrianLesher on 2008-09-13

2008-09-13T21:37:18Z

"When 67-year-old British banking scion Sir Evelyn Rothschild first set eyes on 44-year-old Lynn Forester at the 1998 Bilderberg conference—the matchmaker was none other than Henry Kissinger—she was already a woman of major means."

http://www.portfolio.com/views/columns/the-world-according-to/2007/10/05/An-interview-with-Lady-de-Rothschild

She's apparently a PUMA type:

"Defiant Clinton Women Refuse To Support Obama"

http://www.observer.com/2008/politics/defiant-clinton-women-refuse-support-obama

Comment from AlexG on 2008-09-13

2008-09-13T21:47:49Z

You hear that SEIU workers? YOu need to stop being such elitists, the Lady de Rothschild hereby commands it!! Now, have the Lady's eunuchs prepared her milk bath?!?

Comment from Nquest on 2008-09-13

2008-09-14T00:12:01Z

I have to steal and share this one. On another board a question about the founding fathers was posed. One of the response went like this:

Most of them [the founding fathers] were very learned intellectuals. Many people today revere them, but they yet disparage scholarship and intellectualism in government. If there is one thing I think was great about them that could be applied today, it was this one thing that is so disparaged today. None of them would be electable today, because they were thinkers who used big words.

So, I got to thinking... The "elitist" tag Republicans like to use which is so dripping in anti-intellectualism could very well be used against them. An ad showing the founding fathers waxing intelligent in high-minded, substantive debate juxtaposed to one of the crash-test dummies bumbling around and pushing the button while trying answer the 3:00 p.m. intercom...

Well, you can learn a lot from a dummy.

As Clinton says (with the dummy Pres. Bush in the background): No Way, No How, No McCain!

Comment from David Rothschild on 2008-09-14

2008-09-14T12:55:13Z

Her great accomplishment is distinguishing herself from the large number of people who share her surname, but no connection to the banking family, and are sick of answering questions about it and having their self-googling being ruined by anti-semetic conspiracy theories. We can now answer "the ones you want have 'de' before their last names.