This is the city: Los Angeles, California. I work here. I'm an ex-mayor. Los Angeles is a magnet for people from all over the world. Some of them run for public office. Inevitably some of them stray from the golden rule and rule for those that have the gold. That's when I go to work. My name is Yorty. I'm a dead pol.
Mid-Day Briefs on the Los Angeles Political Machine (and Beyond) for Monday
The Los Angeles Progressive Activist Community is in shock following the untimely Death of former CD-1 City Councilman Gil Cedillo Communications Director and Mario Beltran's Principia Group Vice-President Jay A. Cortez, who was found deceased in his apartment on January 26.
The late former CD-1 City Councilman Gil Cedillo Communications Director Jay A. Cortez who was Mario Beltran's Principia Group's Vice-President at the time of his Death.
The normally reasonable--for a dem-- L.A. Councilman Dennis Zine, voted to condemn local talk radio. Nada about Maher, Garofolo, Moore, etc. C'mon, Zine! LA City Council passes resolution condemning demeaning talk radio--gave examples, but Maher's use of the "c' word for Palin did not make the cut.
However, Limbaugh, Kobylt and Chiampou have been garnering huge ratings for decades because there is a significant enough audience for their type of programming. On the other hand, broadcasters such as Larry Elder, John Phillips, Doug McInytre and Dennis Miller may also fall on the right side of the aisle, but present a more measured approach leaning more towards wry witticisms and irony than the man cave like observations of Rush/John and Ken. Both types of formats appeal and all of these radio hosts have been extremely successful.
Meghan has emerged as a thoughtful, elouquent spokesperson for the conservative movement that is based in her Arizona DNA, a state that gave us Barry Goldwater and of course, her dad. Meghan is far more effective at spreading the Republican message to others as opposed to hateful shrews like Ann Coulter or Michelle Malkin or past their time blowhards like Rush Limbaugh. There certainly is a place for humor, wry wit and sarcasm of a conservative bent - Tammy Bruce, Dennis Miller, Doug McIntyre and John Phillips do it well. But it can be done without the often racially charged and homophobic rhetoric of the previously mentioned shrews and blowhard.
Dr. Flap says that Meghan appears uneducated (not true, she went to an elite prep school and Columbia University) and that she "expresses a generational angst and frustration but to think she is any future voice of the Republican Party is to fail to consider the source." Hello, McFly? Doc, don't ya think that the best person to ask how to get young people to the Republican party is a young person? Or would you suggest we ask Pat Boone?
The Republicans are not going to get ahead hating on the gays, bitching about the Mexicans and telling the Jews they must be "perfected." It's not going to draw disaffected Democrats, moderates, Libertarians and other to the GOP to have Rush Limbaugh quoting Obama in a voice imitating Amos and Andy. That schtick went out with Nixon. We have to focus on core Republican values of lower taxes, less government, strong national defense, personal responibility and individual freedom. With many Democrats around the country embroiled in scandals and shadiness, the Republicans could become the party of reform. But first we have to rebrand and drop the Phyliss Schafly act. Otherwise the party will continue to lose good conservatives such as this burro who recently dropped his GOP voter reg.
Addendum: Add to the shrew list Ann Coulter wannabe Laura Ingraham. Following the modus operandi of a Mayor Sam reader who can't debate the issues but throw personal insults Ingraham calls Meghan fat. That's great - a middle aged, left at the altar twice harpie calls a 24 year old woman fat. Great work! Way to represent!
"The fact that your stated first impression of [Mayor Villaraigosa] was to consider him "a shoeshine boy" instead of the elected mayor of America's second-largest city speaks volumes about your view of America and the role or status of people who do not fit your preconceived notion of what an elected official should be," Trasviña wrote.
BREAKING P.C. ALERT: Rush Limbaugh calls Mayor Villaraigosa a "SHOESHINE BOY"
The Office of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is expected to release a statement regarding the comments of Conservative Commentator Rush Limbaugh that included calling the Mayor a "SHOESHINE BOY". (Update at noon, no comment will be forthcoming from the Mayor's Office, see below for possible reason.)
Yesterday on his show, Limbaugh was regaling the listeners with the story of his New York dinner encounter with the former President Bill Clinton and the role of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in distracting Limbaugh while Clinton makes a "play" for Limbaugh's Dinner Date.
Limbaugh describes his meeting of Mayor Villaraigosa and his mistaking the mayor for either a Secret Service Agent or flippantly, a "SHOESHINE BOY".
Posted by Rick Orlov at 12:17 PM Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has decided discretion is the better part of valor.Or, you don't get into a shouting match with the man who owns the microphone.Rather than respond to the slight by radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, the mayor is letting pass a slur being seized on in the blogosphere.Limbaugh, on his radio show, was talking about a recent time when he met with former President Clinton and Villaraigosa:"I shook [Clinton's] hand, he left, comes back [with] the mayor of Los Angeles," Limbaugh said. "I thought it was a Secret Service agent, maybe a shoeshine guy. Turns out he gives me his card, I said, 'Oh, my gosh, it's the mayor of Los Angeles.'"Villaraigosa aides said the mayor had heard the story several months ago and didn't believe it merited a response. "He's been called worst than that," one aide said.
Updated statement:
Alex Nogales, president of the National Hispanic Media Coalition, says this:
"What can I tell you?
It's the same kind of nasty, bigoted, racist type of comment that has become so prevalent in today's society, as practiced by Lou Dobbs, as practiced by [Sean] Hannity, [Bill] O'Reilly, [Michael] Savage -- all these guys who are appealing to a particular bigoted audience, and fanning the fires of bigotry and racism by doing these kinds of things without real concern about the consequences of their words. And the consequences are that these kinds of comments have helped in raising the rate of crimes against Latinos 35 percent in last three years." (He attributes that figure to the FBI.) "These guys have no civility in their makeup, no compassion, and very little intelligence when it comes to opening their mouths."
****Rush was right, at least about the "POLITICO FORMERLY KNOWN AS MAYOR ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA, tony villar.
From "BlogDowntown" On stage with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Councilman Jose Huizar were the Bringing Back Broadway Trustees, a group of roughly two dozen local stakeholders assembled to guide the new organization. The Mayor and Councilmember expressed their deep love for Broadway and their connection to the street as a child. Huizar recalled watching Bruce Lee films, while Villaraigosa hearkened back to shining shoes outside Broadway department stores.
National "BLUE MUD BOWL" continues in Indiana and North Carolina
The national version of the "BLUE MUD BOWL" continues on the ground in Indiana and North Carolina.
Leave it to Matt Drudge to find this picture of a parade float in Europe. On the subject of getting bit on the rear, Republicans are turning out in masses to vote Democrat. Pundits are giving grudging credit to Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos", a brilliant ploy to get Republicans to vote Democrat to extend this "BLUE MUD BOWL" to the Democratic Convention in Denver.
