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January 29, 2014

Oh, By the Way, France's Biggest Power Couple Is Splitsville
— Ace

I know interest in this is limited, but just to update the story I mentioned a couple of weeks back, l'affaire Closer (so called because the French celebrities-and-scandals glossy Closer broke the story) has come to an end.

Saturday night, French President FranÃ§ois Hollande announced -- singly, not jointly -- that Valerie Trierweiller would no longer be the First Lady of France.

Bill Clinton sent him a congratulatory email. Not really, but you must know he thought about it.

The president announced this Saturday the end of "his shared live" with ValÃ¨rie Trierweiler. The former first lady had expressed all of "her gratitude" to the personnel of the ElysÃ©e [the presidential palace] on Twitter.
She had been the "woman of his life." It was as such that FranÃ§ois Hollande described ValÃ©rie Trierweiler in an interview in the magazine Gala in 2010. He regretted not having added "as of the moment," out of respect to SÃ©golÃ¨ne Royal, with whom he has four children. [That is, he wished he had said "as of now" so as not to slight his ex-girlfriend who was also the mother of his four children.] FranÃ§ois Hollande announced this Saturday night to AFP the break-up with the First Lady, ValÃ©rie Trierweiler, after eight years together.
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The break-up of the presidential couple had been expected after the revelation by the celebrity magazine Closer of photos that revealed the liaison of FrancÃ§ois Hollande and the actress Julie Gayet. According to the report of the Journal this Sunday, FranÃ§ois Hollande and ValÃ©rie Trierweiler, who spent these last few days in the presidential residence of Laterne, at Verseilles, near Paris, had worked out Thursday, during lunch, the details of their separation.

For a country that supposedly got rid of their aristocracy and committed themselves to equality, France sure does seem to have a lot of presidential palaces and presidential residences (in former royal palaces).

For the first time, the former first lady must live in her apartment in the fifteenth arrondisement [district], added the magazine. ValÃ©rie Trierweiler left Sunday as a simple citizen for Bombay, on a humanitarian mission organized by the NGO Act Against Hunger.

Okay I'll spare you the rest. She's given a few interviews about turning the page and such, and she says she's eager to go to India on her anti-hunger tour as a simple citizen, rather than as a journalist (as when she first went to India) or the first lady (as on her second trip).

There's a certain kind of idiot who despises people he doesn't know based on stereotypes. He only knows these stereotypes because he's ignorant.

On the other hand, there's another kind of idiot who praises people he knows nothing about based on stereotypes. He, too, only knows these stereotypes, because he's ignorant.

I'm speaking of Bill Maher here. One of Bill Maher's stupidities consists of claiming all sorts of stupid shit about Europeans -- about whom he knows little, except that they're not Americans, and he hates Americans. So he claims, for example, that America could be a European country, but for the 100 million "stupid people" in America. He claims, apparently seriously, that Europe has very few "stupid people."

At any rate, Bill Maher will almost certainly make a crack about the elevated attitude of the French to this affair, and how they don't care about it, and how that's so awesome.

In fact, the French papers have had saturation coverage of this tawdry episode for three weeks. There is a video -- I tried to re-find it, but couldn't -- of ValÃ¨rie Trierweiler's car absolutely besieged by papparazzi, so crowded by photographers the car could not move, being strobed by dozens and dozens of camera-flashes as she was essentially held prisoner by celebrity photographers.

It was a mob scene. I think she was just driving to her apartment (for the first time in ages).

But Bill Maher doesn't know this, and so his ignorance will permit him to say all sorts of ridiculous things, like "This is the difference between Europeans and Americans, they don't care about things like this."

And his ignorant audience will applaud these things, because they're even more ignorant.

Posted by: Ace at 03:07 PM | Comments (127)
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1 Was she even his wife, or just a shack-up?

Posted by: Paladin at January 29, 2014 03:08 PM (LtaK3)

2 So they waived the white flag on the relationship?

Posted by: too easy? at January 29, 2014 03:09 PM (TB/3z)

3 He's never married. This guy must have a 20 inch dick.

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 29, 2014 03:10 PM (0FSuD)

4 Top Dog gets his pick of the littler?

Posted by: Paladin at January 29, 2014 03:10 PM (LtaK3)

5 There's nothing like getting clobbered with a $50,000 Ming vase to make you reflect seriously on the direction of your life.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 29, 2014 03:10 PM (8ZskC)

6 Greg Gutfeld once described Maher's audience as "retarded sheep". He was being kind.

Posted by: Reggie1971 at January 29, 2014 03:10 PM (S11Oq)

7 That or a 20 inch tongue.

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 29, 2014 03:10 PM (0FSuD)

8 Aaaa the French...eating smelly cheese and making love with their faces.

Posted by: Paladin at January 29, 2014 03:11 PM (LtaK3)

9 How do you say Wendy Davis in French?

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at January 29, 2014 03:11 PM (mlEid)

10 At any rate, Bill Maher will almost certainly make a crack about the elevated attitude of the French to this affair, and how they're non-plussed about it, and how that's so awesome.

I think you mean they're plussed, or something. Completely full of plus.

Posted by: pep at January 29, 2014 03:12 PM (6TB1Z)

11 >>>Was she even his wife, or just a shack-up? just his shack-up.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2014 03:12 PM (/FnUH)

12 La PremiÃ¨re Dame a quittÃ© le bÃ¢timent.

Posted by: François Hollande at January 29, 2014 03:12 PM (8ZskC)

13 There's nothing like getting clobbered with a $50,000 Ming vase to make you reflect seriously on the direction of your life. There is a reason why they don't let French women own guns ...

Posted by: Adriane... at January 29, 2014 03:13 PM (qoKTg)

14 Foreign investment in France has dropped 77% in the past year due to Hollande's policies bwhwhwahahahahahahha

Posted by: thunderb at January 29, 2014 03:13 PM (zOTsN)

15 Also breaking up with France, foreign investors:

"... said that while foreign investment in the European Union increased from 2012, inflows to France fell by 77% to $5.7 billion (in 2013 ), extending a decline that began with the 2008 financial crisis and was briefly interrupted in 2011. Foreign investment was last lower in 1987, and as recently as 2007, it peaked at $96 billion."

Posted by: weft cut-loop[/i] [/b] at January 29, 2014 03:13 PM (cxs6V)

16 I was just about to say what @10 did. Nonplussed means shocked or taken aback -- they *are* nonplussed, but Bill Maher thinks they are not.

Posted by: sunny-dee at January 29, 2014 03:14 PM (EBoCD)

17 So an inarticulate socialist nebbish gets the kid glove treatment from the press because of his _bien-pensant_ politics, then runs the economy into the ground while personally living it up in quasi-royal style at public expense?

Whew! Glad we're talking about France. Thank goodness nothing like that could ever happen in the good old USA.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 29, 2014 03:14 PM (gqT4g)

18 >>> La PremiÃ¨re Dame a quittÃ© le bÃ¢timent. Quel Elvis!

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2014 03:14 PM (/FnUH)

19 ( Shakes tiny fist at Thunderp !!!)

Posted by: weft cut-loop[/i] [/b] at January 29, 2014 03:15 PM (cxs6V)

20 This fucker lived with a woman for ten years had kids by her, she helped him get elected. Gets elected, drops her for twit. Now, he drops twit for the new c*unt. The guy must have some big balls.

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 29, 2014 03:15 PM (0FSuD)

21
Actress Julie Gayet has posed in topless photo shoots and bared all for the cameras in a string of racy movies. She appeared nude twice in 2004 Clara Et Moi and then again six years later in Sans Laisser De Traces (Traceless)

"Je veux tes seins sur mon visage."

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 29, 2014 03:15 PM (kdS6q)

22 ah I see on non-plussed. Okay I guess I don't really know what that word means. I changed it. Thanks. I always thought it meant like "not shocked." I guess it's the opposite.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2014 03:16 PM (/FnUH)

23 Whew! Glad we're talking about France. Thank goodness nothing like that could ever happen in the good old USA. Posted by: torquewrench at January 29, 2014 07:14 PM (gqT4 Me too!

Posted by: Bill Clinton at January 29, 2014 03:16 PM (0FSuD)

24 I guess socialists are fucked up all over.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at January 29, 2014 03:16 PM (mlEid)

25 What's French for Shack-Up Bunny?

Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2014 03:17 PM (R7Lcy)

26 "Je veux tes seins sur mon visage."

Vous aimez les bateaux Ã moteur ?

Posted by: François Hollande at January 29, 2014 03:17 PM (8ZskC)

27 For the first time, the former first lady must live in her apartment in the fifteenth arrondisement [district], added the magazine. #ValÃ©riesHardKnockLife

Posted by: The Hobo Hooker Waitress Model Actress Wears Prada at January 29, 2014 03:17 PM (GeVLX)

28 25 What's French for Shack-Up Bunny? Monica

Posted by: Bill Clinton at January 29, 2014 03:18 PM (0FSuD)

29 Forget it, Jake, it's ~~Chinatown~~ France.

Posted by: huerfano at January 29, 2014 03:18 PM (bAGA/)

30 The guy must have some big balls Women love big balls.

Posted by: Randy Marsh at January 29, 2014 03:18 PM (R7Lcy)

31 The French care so much what their politicians are up to because their actors suck.

Posted by: logprof at January 29, 2014 03:18 PM (X3GkB)

32 he never married the mother of his four children who he left for Treirweller (who was a leftist journalist, big shock) who he left for the latest trick so no pity for journo-ho

Posted by: thunderb at January 29, 2014 03:18 PM (zOTsN)

33 He's never married. This guy must have a 20 inch dick.

Being the socialist president of a country with nukes adds about a foot and a half.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 29, 2014 03:18 PM (30eLQ)

34 Have you ever tried to follow or track French celebrity dating? Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon--doesn't even come close. Basically everyone in France has swapped bodily fluid's by some degree with Carla Bruni.

Posted by: tasker at January 29, 2014 03:18 PM (RJMhd)

35 Why is it that when France is having problems, nobody really cares?

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at January 29, 2014 03:19 PM (mlEid)

36 #ObamasHardKnockLife

Watching as the French President does all the cool shit I wish I could do.

Posted by: SCOAMF at January 29, 2014 03:19 PM (TB/3z)

37 Treirweller is very unpopular anyway, who had large offices and a staff of 17 paid for by the French people. She liked to throw her weight around a cautionary tale for FLOTUS?

Posted by: thunderb at January 29, 2014 03:20 PM (zOTsN)

38 Ya think the Mooch just got nervous?

Posted by: Dang at January 29, 2014 03:20 PM (MNq6o)

39 My knowledge of Europeans goes as far as snorting coke off an Austrian hookers ass.

Posted by: Bill Maher at January 29, 2014 03:20 PM (Aif/5)

I stand corrected. Gutfeld called Maher's audience a "trained seal audience of retarded nutbags" Good description

http://tinyurl.com/lelvrbf

Posted by: Reggie1971 at January 29, 2014 03:20 PM (S11Oq)

41 Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon--doesn't even come close. Six STDs of Carla Bruni?

Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2014 03:20 PM (R7Lcy)

42 no pity for journo-ho Posted by: thunderb at January 29, 2014 07:18 PM (zOTsN) You got to keep trading up, that shit will get loose. Just saying, ever had a snapper?

Posted by: Bill Clinton at January 29, 2014 03:21 PM (0FSuD)

43 It's because Bill Maher is a bitter God hating, simplistic, nihilistic idiot who will die alone.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 03:21 PM (bXdYS)

44 women do not like big balls opportunistic women like big bank accounts and big power he had France's check book

Posted by: thunderb at January 29, 2014 03:21 PM (zOTsN)

45 Hollande is my hero.

Posted by: Bobby Petrino at January 29, 2014 03:21 PM (X3GkB)

46 Actually, the French are NOT nonplussed. Look up words before you use them!

Posted by: docweasel at January 29, 2014 03:22 PM (gW7Y2)

47 based on the post below this, I guess they are all journo-hos

Posted by: thunderb at January 29, 2014 03:22 PM (zOTsN)

48 "And his ignorant audience will applaud these things, because they're even more ignorant."

Christopher Hitchens is/was the only person to adequately address a Maher audience. He called the mob idiots to their faces and there wasn't a thing they could do about it since they knew he was right.

My only regret was that he never clobbered Maher with a scotch. Oh, rhetorically he did, but it's just not the same as with a bottle.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at January 29, 2014 03:22 PM (eHIJJ)

49 I don't think the French put all that much stock in this whole fidelity thing.

Posted by: navybrat at January 29, 2014 03:22 PM (AW7Gr)

50 I got it from Agnes ...

Posted by: Tom Leher at January 29, 2014 03:22 PM (qoKTg)

51 41 Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon--doesn't even come close. Six STDs of Carla Bruni? Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2014 07:20 PM (R7Lcy) ********* Ha! And she's not even French--she's Italian.

Posted by: tasker at January 29, 2014 03:22 PM (RJMhd)

52 Actually, the French are NOT nonplussed. Look up words before you use them! Posted by: docweasel at January 29, 2014 07:22 PM (gW7Y2) They are non-nonplussed if this bemuses you.

Posted by: The Hobo Hooker Waitress Model Actress Wears Prada at January 29, 2014 03:23 PM (GeVLX)

53 Islanders v Rangers at Yankee Stadium starts up on NBCSN in 20 min or so.

Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2014 03:23 PM (R7Lcy)

54 Europeans go ape-sh*t over any royalty. Diana-worship was only one aspect of a widespread intense curiosity / adoration of any sort of royalty ( including former royals )

Some countries still put titles on passports and other official documents; I once met an Austrian 'princesse' on a train; second-class compartment, but...

Posted by: Manny from Mannheim at January 29, 2014 03:24 PM (omBWL)

55 Hitchens was almost full circle in his conversion to Moronhood. Too bad he never allowed God into his heart.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 03:24 PM (bXdYS)

56
Reportedly breaking $3 million worth of historical stuff in a snit fit will get you kicked out of the first ladyship in a hurry.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 29, 2014 03:24 PM (n0DEs)

57 Trashed the place, no? Hell hath no fury...

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 29, 2014 03:25 PM (aDwsi)

58 And she's not even French--she's Italian. Posted by: tasker at January 29, 2014 07:22 PM .....................You could tell by the Fragile tattoo on her ass.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 03:25 PM (bXdYS)

59 I thought the deal was we get cheesecake pics with these obscure French posts.

Posted by: Waterhouse at January 29, 2014 03:25 PM (DNB5Z)

60 Other relationships[edit] It has been claimed that Bruni has been involved with Louis Bertignac, Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, LÃ©os Carax, Charles Berling, Arno Klarsfeld, Vincent PÃ©rez[69] and former French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius.[70][71]

Posted by: tasker at January 29, 2014 03:25 PM (RJMhd)

61 They are non-nonplussed if this bemuses you.

Am I a clown to you? Am I here for your bemusement?

Posted by: Tommy DeVito at January 29, 2014 03:25 PM (6TB1Z)

62 So what was the damage this time to bid Madame Trierweiler adieu? After her trashing of state property earlier, would expect a big smashing send off from her.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 29, 2014 03:25 PM (wL/ra)

63 the most important thing in this story is that it illustrates that the communist, and his cronies, who claims to fight for the "little guy" is a craven liar, who demands power and privilege all on the backs of the people, while destroying their economy

Posted by: thunderb at January 29, 2014 03:26 PM (zOTsN)

64 53 Islanders v Rangers at Yankee Stadium starts up on NBCSN in 20 min or so. Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2014 07:23 PM (R7Lcy) *********** Thanks! I love those outdoor games.

Posted by: tasker at January 29, 2014 03:26 PM (RJMhd)

65 She's not a real Italian. She's from Turin!

Posted by: The Italians from a few threads back at January 29, 2014 03:27 PM (R7Lcy)

66 My Grandfather was a WW2 Vet. And they had a little ditty about the French. The French The French, a peculiar race. They Fight with Their Feet. And Fuck with their face!

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 03:27 PM (bXdYS)

67 'smashing' Indeed.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 29, 2014 03:27 PM (aDwsi)

68 53 Islanders v Rangers at Yankee Stadium starts up on NBCSN in 20 min or so. Ice from ALT storm melting tonight, check it out on some stupid fucking website. Just as exciting.

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 29, 2014 03:28 PM (0FSuD)

69 She's not a real Italian. She's from Turin!

I hope the shroud is locked up.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 29, 2014 03:28 PM (8ZskC)

70 Ladies! If it's good loving and macho power you want come to Big Papa Putin and not some dickless French nancy boy.

Posted by: Big Papa Putin at January 29, 2014 03:28 PM (dvRYt)

71 Wow, Hollande's new squeeze Julie Gayet has an extensive entry on Mr. Skin. I mean, so a friend tells me.

Posted by: Waterhouse at January 29, 2014 03:28 PM (DNB5Z)

72 It ain't always so simple: During the 60s and early 70s, until deGaulle departed and Pompidou and his puritanical hag wife were out of office, the French were officially more modest than Americans

There was a French edition of Playboy--only partial nudity, even in the fold-outs. Going through French customs was risky.

In 1974, when Giscard swooped into office, all the limits were discarded and T + A was visually everywhere

Posted by: Manny from Mannheim at January 29, 2014 03:29 PM (omBWL)

73 At any rate, Bill Maher will almost certainly make a crack about the elevated attitude of the French to this affair, and how they don't care about it, and how that's so awesome. In fairness, I don't care about it either.

Posted by: toby928© at January 29, 2014 03:29 PM (QupBk)

74 Yeah, wtf is with this "Europeans are totally chill with sex scandals"? Buncha fuckin bullshit, I tell ya.

Posted by: Silvio Berlusconi at January 29, 2014 03:29 PM (3a584)

75 Nip - 14.5 here. Probably will make single digits again tonight.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 29, 2014 03:29 PM (aDwsi)

76 I love those outdoor games. Posted by: tasker at January 29, 2014 07:26 PM It's how hockey should be! The little Minnfidels are out there on the lake playing hockey as we speak. I had to come in and take a break from playing because I was up at 4:00 a.m with the new puppeh. And I am old with hamburger left for a knee.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 03:29 PM (bXdYS)

77 I look forward to FLOTUS giving Ms Gayet the stink eye when she is at the state dinner

Posted by: thunderb at January 29, 2014 03:29 PM (zOTsN)

78 >>I think she was just driving to her apartment (for the first time in ages). Peasant.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton, Queen of NY at January 29, 2014 03:30 PM (zDsvJ)

79 No guillotine?

Posted by: Jean at January 29, 2014 03:30 PM (4JkHl)

80 >>How do you say Wendy Davis in French? Posted by: LoneStarHeeb Pute

Posted by: Aviator at January 29, 2014 03:31 PM (DI+ja)

81
BTW -- Michele Obama also did some nude modeling in college:

Pic http://tinyurl.com/cld3kvr

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 29, 2014 03:31 PM (kdS6q)

82 She was only the soi-disant "First Lady." (I just wanted to use soi-disant.)

Posted by: Beagle at January 29, 2014 03:31 PM (OMxeO)

83 I look forward to FLOTUS giving Ms Gayet the stink eye when she is at the state dinner Resting Bitch Face isn't a Choice!

Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2014 03:32 PM (R7Lcy)

84 I think she was just driving to her apartment (for the first time in ages). Posted by: Hillary Clinton, Queen of NY at January 29, 2014 07:30 PM ..............Damn, that's like 10 tours in Afghanistan!

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 03:32 PM (bXdYS)

85 L'affair da Tut-tut-tutweiler oui?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 29, 2014 03:32 PM (wL/ra)

86 So Cee Lo Green has no talent?

Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2014 03:33 PM (R7Lcy)

87 Soo, now that France has set the precedent does Michelle pack up and leave?

b) If she were to leave does she join the list of dark horse potential Dem POTUS candidates?

Posted by: palerider at January 29, 2014 03:34 PM (dkExz)

88 @75 Yeah, except for sun, nothing melted. I guess low 20's in CLT. 27 now. I did get to the club. Fuck kids everywhere, forgot the cancelled school. By Sat? Nada.

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 29, 2014 03:34 PM (0FSuD)

89 >> My knowledge of Europeans goes as far as snorting coke off an Austrian hooker's ass.

Posted by: Bill Maher

To be honest, if you had to just know one thing about them....

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 29, 2014 03:34 PM (wNF3N)

90 Yea, all the stupid people left Europe and somehow managed to build the most powerful, wealthiest and most charitable nation the world has ever seen. How do people get as stupid as Maher? Are there courses you have to take?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 29, 2014 03:35 PM (g1DWB)

91 86 So Cee Lo Green has no talent? Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2014 07:33 PM (R7Lcy) I guess the change in my pocket wasn't enough...

Posted by: Cee Lo Green at January 29, 2014 03:35 PM (WlWt+)

92 86 So Cee Lo Green has no talent? Well most Blacks can say "Fuck You" in at least a hundred variations. Cee Lo just figured out how to say it on camera.

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 29, 2014 03:36 PM (0FSuD)

93 How do people get as stupid as Maher? He keeps bumping his head on countertops.

Posted by: toby928© at January 29, 2014 03:36 PM (QupBk)

94 Hey mon amour, it's never too late in life for a Dreyfuss Affair.

Posted by: Richard Dreyfuss at January 29, 2014 03:36 PM (8ZskC)

95 It's how hockey should be! The little Minnfidels are out there on the lake playing hockey as we speak. I had to come in and take a break from playing because I was up at 4:00 a.m with the new puppeh. And I am old with hamburger left for a knee. Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 07:29 PM (bXdYS) ********** Damn je suis jalouse. Lucky!!

Posted by: tasker at January 29, 2014 03:37 PM (RJMhd)

96 BTW -- Michele Obama also did some nude modeling in college: Pic http://tinyurl.com/cld3kvr Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 29, 2014 07:31 PM (kdS6q) THAT'S your lead in for people to go to the link?

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at January 29, 2014 03:37 PM (bCEmE)

97 How do people get as stupid as Maher? He keeps bumping his head on countertops. Posted by: toby928Â© at January 29, 2014 07:36 PM ..................Well when you're not wearing your glasses and you go in to snort a line it happens.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 03:37 PM (bXdYS)

98 55 Hitchens was almost full circle in his conversion to Moronhood. Too bad he never allowed God into his heart. Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 07:24 PM (bXdYS) --Well, ya don't need god to be a Moron.

Posted by: logprof at January 29, 2014 03:38 PM (X3GkB)

99 How do people get as stupid as Maher? Are there courses you have to take?

He was born an idiot savant. Without the savant part.

Posted by: pep at January 29, 2014 03:38 PM (6TB1Z)

100 89 >> My knowledge of Europeans goes as far as snorting coke off an Austrian hooker's ~~ass~~ Adam's apple. Posted by: Bill Maher Fixed.

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at January 29, 2014 03:39 PM (dvRYt)

101 93 How do people get as stupid as Maher? He flunked his Hebrew class in the Bronx and never has been the same since.

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 29, 2014 03:40 PM (0FSuD)

102 Remember during Monica, we were told that the French did not care about sex scandals. I remarked on this on FB, and a Dem friend who lives in Sweden said "I was thinking about the exact same thing!"

Posted by: sexypig at January 29, 2014 03:40 PM (dZQh7)

103 BTW -- Michele Obama also did some nude modeling in college:

Pic http://tinyurl.com/cld3kvr

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 29, 2014 07:31 PM (kdS6q)

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Do you expect us to actually click that? Puhleeze.

Posted by: Soona at January 29, 2014 03:40 PM (93fIs)

104 Best takedown I've ever seen of Bill Maher was done by Wayne Brady a few years ago.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 29, 2014 03:41 PM (ZPrif)

105 State Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, delivered a ferocious defense Tuesday night of her life story and her parenting of her two daughters, declaring that Attorney General Greg Abbott has Â“picked a fight with the wrong Texas gal.Â” Â“I wonÂ’t let anyone take my familyÂ’s truth away from me,Â” said Davis, speaking even as President Obama was delivering his State of the Union speech. It was the most passionate and powerful defense of the now-contested personal narrative that has been central to her message as a candidate for governor. Â“Greg Abbott can sink as low as he wants, but I wonÂ’t let him drag me down with him. He can run a campaign about my past; IÂ’m going to run one thatÂ’s about your future,Â” Davis told the Travis County Democratic PartyÂ’s Johnson-Bentsen-Richards dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel. Â“But thereÂ’s one thing I have to say before I leave Greg Abbott and his allies to play in the gutter once and for all. And I want to say it right here, right now, with Texas listening Â– because I want to make sure our opponents can hear it loud and clear. You can attack my record. You can challenge my ideas. You can play holier-than-thou with my life story. But I draw the line when it comes to lying about my family.Â”

Posted by: thunderb at January 29, 2014 03:41 PM (zOTsN)

106 It has been ten days since a story in the Dallas Morning News, challenged details of her biography, and led to a frenzy of reporting and commentary about Davis, whose candidacy has drawn great national interest. Davis has blamed the Abbott campaign for generating the negative stories, though both the Abbott campaign and Wayne Slater, who wrote the original story in the Dallas paper, said he never talked to the Abbott campaign before publishing his story. Davis is particularly incensed by reports that she had Â“abandonedÂ” her daughters. Amber and Dru, by attending Harvard Law School, or that she had lost custody of her daughters after her divorce from her second husband.

Posted by: thunderb at January 29, 2014 03:42 PM (zOTsN)

107 is "my family's truth" somehow at variance with the truth?

Posted by: thunderb at January 29, 2014 03:43 PM (zOTsN)

108 Sure, sure that guy almost died in Afghanistan.

But I was really off my golf game a few times as I was dithering about taking my general's advice about sending more troops to a war I really didn't care about anyway. THAT is tragic.

Posted by: SCOAMF at January 29, 2014 03:43 PM (TB/3z)

109 @105 So, if you yell enough, being a fucking ho for money will make your ho for money story off limits? Nice try C*nt. Texan are not that fucking stupid.

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 29, 2014 03:43 PM (0FSuD)

110

Don't you mean "totes splitsville"?

Posted by: Chris M at January 29, 2014 03:43 PM (TJ8HB)

111 Posted by: thunderb at January 29, 2014 07:41 PM (zOTsN) --Did Greg Abbott or anyone from his campaign directly "attack" her? I thought most of the attacks were freelance.

Posted by: logprof at January 29, 2014 03:44 PM (X3GkB)

112 Oops posting in the wrong thread. #ObamasHardKnockLife

Posted by: SCOAMF at January 29, 2014 03:45 PM (TB/3z)

113 Drop the puck, eh?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 29, 2014 03:45 PM (g1DWB)

114 Well, ya don't need god to be a Moron. Posted by: logprof at January 29, 2014 07:38 PM ..........Nope, you don't. I meant his hostility to God was sad though.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 03:45 PM (bXdYS)

115 Davis is particularly incensed by reports that she had Â“abandonedÂ” her daughters. Amber and Dru, by attending Harvard Law School, or that she had lost custody of her daughters after her divorce from her second husband.

Posted by: thunderb at January 29, 2014 07:42 PM (zOTsN)

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Karma can be a bitch, huh, Wendy?

Posted by: Soona at January 29, 2014 03:48 PM (93fIs)

116 You can attack my record. You can challenge my ideas. You can play holier-than-thou with my life story. But I draw the line when it comes to lying about my family.Â” Posted by: thunderb at January 29, 2014 07:41 PM ...............................No Wendy. We're not attacking your family, nobody has said anything bad about your kids. That's what the left does (see Sullivan Andrew) We're attacking your bullshit meme and the fact that you either gave up custody of your kids or relinquished it. Either way it means you're a train wreck and a scrunt. Probably both.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 03:49 PM (bXdYS)

117 thunderb, I think at the next Wendy Davis rally a lot of people should start waving $100 Monopoly bills.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 29, 2014 03:49 PM (wL/ra)

118 86 So Cee Lo Green has no talent? Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2014 07:33 PM (R7Lcy) Fuck you-ou-ou!

Posted by: Cee Lo Green at January 29, 2014 03:52 PM (UAMVq)

119 O.K. Wendy. You either lost custody or gave it up. Which is it? If you lost it, it means you were completely FUBAR. Or you gave up custody. In either case you're a gold digging whore who is apparently not fit to be a parent.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 03:52 PM (bXdYS)

120 He's a commie. They have "party marriages" aka, shacking up. He really gave her the boot. I was going to comment a few days ago that she was officially shut out. I wonder if all her shit was thrown out on to the curb and the locks changed at les Palaises?

Posted by: Judge Pug at January 29, 2014 03:54 PM (E4MKN)

121 is "my family's truth" somehow at variance with the truth? Posted by: thunderb at January 29, 2014 07:43 PM (zOTsN) Miya Angelou specializes in what she calls "autobiographical fiction". Wendy must know why the caged bird sings. For a check and free cheeses according to a deep background source.

Posted by: The Hobo Hooker Waitress Model Actress Wears Prada at January 29, 2014 03:55 PM (GeVLX)

122 Wendy....were you lying then or are you lying now?

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at January 29, 2014 03:57 PM (bCEmE)

123 Wendy....were you lying then or are you lying now? Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2014 07:57 PM ..........I'll take gold digging unfit mothers for $400.00 Alex.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 04:01 PM (bXdYS)

124 That link was just too French for my blood.

I started to feel I had to surrender to someone, somewhere.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (13th Level SoCon) at January 29, 2014 05:02 PM (LSDdO)

125 Greetings: Les Francais absolutely care about cette affaire, but they do it in their "beard" and "merkin" way by referencing the British and American presses "obsession" with it. Viva l'internet. Aujourdhi et toujours.

Posted by: 11B40 at January 29, 2014 05:08 PM (kTigT)

126 For sale: One French First Lady. Never fired. Dropped once.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at January 29, 2014 05:12 PM (G7Yr9)

127 How's this for the next pay per view: Scumbag Mahr locked in an elevator with Sarah Palin's husband and oldest son.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at January 29, 2014 05:16 PM (G7Yr9)

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