Rude and in the News

... but we do think it's funny!

We know that President Obama is probably not the Wall Street Journal's all-time favorite commanders-in-chief.  But, he's still the president ... and it's still pretty darn rude to mock his physical features in a headline about healthcare.  (Don't you even try to tell us you didn't do it on purpose!) 

Ah, The Donald.  What a dependable font of rudeness delights.  Our only complaint is that usually he's being intentionally rude -- and, as you know, we're much less interested in getting more publicity for the deliberately mean than in enjoying the comedic potential of unintended oafishness. 

With the first boardroom of his latest Celebrity Apprentice, though, Mr. Trump managed to deliver on both.

The deliberately rude part -- starting with gratuitous disparagement of Cyndi Lauper's friend Rosie O'Donnell -- comes just before the neoclassical oafishness.  (Click to visit, then jump to 68:40 to watch. NBC forces you to watch a commercial or two before loading the vid - also just a little rude.) 

After slamming Rosie, Trump goes on to ask Holly Robinson Peete why her team failed to generate more tips in their diner challenge than their male counterparts -- after all, "you're beautiful women -- many of you."  Quite a stealth ouchie for the less beautiful few -- whomever Donald meant.  (We haven't a clue -- they all seem to have their charms to us.)

But, good news for us: with a full season of this show just beginning, we can count on a nice stream of cloddish anecdotes from Trump for many weeks to come.

Politics on every level -- state, local, national -- seems to have degenerated to mostly uncivilized tribal warring.  But, San Francisco supervisor Chris Daly may have achieved the impossible -- a new low in political behavior -- with his rude, juvenile promise to drop an F-bomb in every meeting.

San Francisco Supervisor Makes F-Bomb Promise [NBC]
Daly Vows to Use Profanity [SF Examiner]

Rudest politician in America hailing from the city of tolerance? 

We've always suspected that rudeness is catching. Tom Ammiano, a Democratic California State Assemblyman who had up until recently embarrassed only San Franciscans, seems to have caught a case from Republican Congressman, Joe Wilson.

Ammiano, thought it worthwhile to shout down the California State Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, with the now all-too-familiar, "You lie!" He then added with characterstic charm, "You can kiss my gay ass!" 

Much to our chagrin, it made the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/us/politics/09calif.html