Rapunzel Rapunzel Let Down Your Hair, So I Can Climb Up and Get Into Your Underwear
By John Cole February 25th, 2012
DougJ touched a nerve earlier, and I’ll just say you won’t see this kind of shit too often outside the red light district in Amsterdam:
Full disclosure: my husband once had a fellowship with the Charles G. Koch foundation, and works for Reason Magazine, which has been a recipient of funds from Koch charitable organizations. We also sometimes use Vanity Fair paper napkins and Dixie brand paper products, which are owned by the Kochs.
Say what you will about fluffers in the porn industry, but they’re not afraid or ashamed to admit whose dick they are sucking and know better than to pretend that that really isn’t a dick in their mouth- not to mention they would at least have the professional courtesy to know better than to try to slap this sort of flaccid bullshit in your face.
Criminy. How long before the Fonzi of Freedom has a job at the Atlantic?
In McArgle-bargle’s defense, it is very hard to find paper products at the grocery store that aren’t manufactured by Koch…
Of course, that has nothing to do with whether you have a vested interest in presenting one side of the debate…
February 25th, 2012 at 6:51 am
Here’s the punchline:
“Not that that will influence my vote, mind you. I vote the issues.”
Now that them there’s some pure f*cking comedy gold!
The next issue that this twit understands, will be the first one she ever understood.
And I’m not putting any money on THAT happening!
Rattlesnakes will throw curveballs in the Major Leagues before any rational thought enters her steel-reinforced concrete cranium.
February 25th, 2012 at 6:56 am
So she knows which paper products they own, but isn’t aware of how extensively they are involved with her husband’s employer? “Has been a recipient of funds” makes it sound like Planned Parenthood getting 0.005% of their budget from Komen. The past tense also makes it sound like they don’t receive funds anymore, which I’m sure was intentional on her part.
February 25th, 2012 at 7:02 am
Someone at The Atlantic should tell Megan, “stop using our website to defend your husband’s pimp, it makes all of us look bad.”
February 25th, 2012 at 7:09 am
The cognitive dissonance…it hurts my braine!
February 25th, 2012 at 7:18 am
She being a whore whoses idea of earning money is being married to a Kock sucker, she has first hand experience learning to perform for money what ever her pimp the kock sucker brothers desire. Oh, after learning that others know she is a paid whore for the kock sucker brothers, she finally notes this after pointing out she whores her children as well by forcing them to use kock sucker brother products. Nice.
February 25th, 2012 at 7:20 am
@Cermet: Now you tell us how you reeeally feel about her. Don’t be shy.
February 25th, 2012 at 7:42 am
Not the way I pronounce it.
February 25th, 2012 at 7:42 am
I have to say I’m not comfortable with the phrase “Koch sucker”. Fellatrices are wonderful people performing a wonderful service, whether it be as amateurs of professionals. It seems unfair to compare them with anything unseemly.
February 25th, 2012 at 7:42 am
Looks like o’rly taitz got her ass kicked. Again… in IN.
So which judge has the cajones/boobs to throw her sorry birther ass into the slammer ?
Or better yet, deport her racist ass back to russia or whichever shithole she came from ?
February 25th, 2012 at 7:45 am
Honestly, it took me a while breezing through the comments of the earlier DougJ post to realize that the part about the Vanity Fair paper napkins etc wasn’t DougJ’s added snark, but McAddled’s original.
Thankfully, there are people who monitor McAddled or Sullivan etc, so I don’t have to.
February 25th, 2012 at 7:46 am
While I can understand the whore analogy here, on some readings it carries a slight whiff of misogyny. One which people like Cermet pick up on a little too well.
February 25th, 2012 at 7:46 am
@MikeJ: Sorry, no disrespect for them – kock sucker is its own class(less) low life.
February 25th, 2012 at 7:46 am
Aw, you’re just jealous of DougJ’s Moore nomination.
February 25th, 2012 at 7:47 am
By the way, Obama’s once again failing to pal around with terrorists sufficiently. (H/T GOS.)
At the moment I haven’t decided whether or not this will become the outrage-du-moment, and if the decision will be rescinded if it does, but at least for the moment it’s a decision in the category of sane.
February 25th, 2012 at 7:54 am
Y’know, I feel that mcbabble used the line “We also sometimes use Vanity Fair paper napkins and Dixie brand paper products, which are owned by the Kochs” to downplay and/or mock the idea the Kochs pay money to her husband could be a conflict in interest.
The problem is, as ideas go, mcbabble doesn’t seem bright enough for such tactics.
On the other hand, it was such a piss weak attempt, it does seem like her work.
It’s not so much as an enigma wrapped in a puzzle. More like an idiot wrapped in a corporate whore.
February 25th, 2012 at 8:01 am
@mr sketchy:
She’s just not very bright. Period.
February 25th, 2012 at 8:15 am
The Koch brothers are bad.
February 25th, 2012 at 8:23 am
Hooray!
February 25th, 2012 at 8:23 am
@El Cid:
So I guess that makes Ben Ali a Kach-sucker?
February 25th, 2012 at 8:27 am
@El Cid: I hope they’ll stick with the decision. One would think that they knew what they were doing when they reached that decision. I am assuming that refusing a visa to a Knesset member is not a decision made by a low level officer. I am not sure why is the organization considered a terrorist, but placing an Israeli organization on a terror list is not something that’s done lightly. I’ve noticed from the article that Haaretz didn’t take a stand one way or another.
February 25th, 2012 at 8:32 am
I have no use for McArdle whatsoever, but I am bothered by the whore analogy. It gives some a full license to showcase their misogynistic attitudes.
February 25th, 2012 at 8:40 am
I wonder if she’s embarrassed that she came out in favor of the mandatory intrusive ultrasound in Virginia.
I think that’s always difficult for paid pundits/advocates. When they knee jerk defend a policy or politician as “reasonable” and then the politicians themselves run from the policy as too radical, as happened here.
She’s to the Right of the Right wing Virginia governor on state-mandated testing for women, which is really saying something, for a “libertarian”. She’s out there in Texas-territory, on state sanctions on women. Wow.
February 25th, 2012 at 8:43 am
Well, it’s a free country and a free market and nobody can say that I can’t profit from my opinions. Even if ‘profit’ means someone slides a bill into my undies, since it’s not legal to actually touch, at least while anyone’s watching.
February 25th, 2012 at 8:56 am
@Anya:
Organizations and people affiliated with Kach and Kahane (the founder of the movement) were put on the State Department’s terrorist group list probably at the request of the Israeli government itself in order to prevent them from raising money in the United States. These are groups that are, after all, officially banned from participating in Israeli elections for both supporting violence and inciting racism.
Guys like Ben-Ari, in Israel and elsewhere, dance around the fine line between mainstream politics and ultra-nationalism, so the question as to whether or not he deserves to be on the list is one that could probably be debated forever.
February 25th, 2012 at 9:04 am
@kay:
I seriously doubt that McMegan is even capable of embarrassment. About anything. Ever.
February 25th, 2012 at 9:06 am
@Riilism: Well, one always has the option of buying Dart brand styrofoam cups (instead of Dixie cups), owned by the gazillionaire brothers Dart, who gave up their American citizenship to avoid taxes, and bought a country (Belize) in order to become certified under diplomatic immunity as consular officers in the US. Didn’t work, tho’. St. Bill Clinton put the air brakes on that ploy, IIRC.
February 25th, 2012 at 9:08 am
@SiubhanDuinne: Good catch.
February 25th, 2012 at 9:08 am
I personally think all her posts are exactly the right height, and that’s all I have to say about her, but on the topic of the Atlantic – I hate to say this because I have admired Fallows’ writing since the 80’s when he was reporting from Japan and I think I am exactly the same age he is, which sort of makes it strangely personal, but I just don’t think he is a blogger. Just something about the way it feels. It reminds me of seeing Edwin Starr on Soul Train in the late 70’s doing disco. Or when older American guys let their hair grow after the British Invasion in the 60’s.
February 25th, 2012 at 9:09 am
@kay: People like McMegan think that everyone says whatever they need to say to make money and they don’t understand what the beef is. Principles don’t figure in the discussion.
February 25th, 2012 at 9:11 am
I’m doing my best to avoid any Koch products, as I find the brothers to be one of the biggest scourges on Earth and I feel its incumbent to do anything I can to not aid them, and hinder them where I can. As such, here’s a list of Koch commercial brands. Please boycott!
Georgia-Pacific paper and pulp company, maker of “Brawny” paper towels, “Angel Soft” toilet paper, “Mardi Gras” napkins and towels, “Quilted Northern” toilet paper and paper towels, “Dixie” paper plates, bowls, napkins and cups, “Sparkle” paper towels, and “Vanity Fair” paper napkins, bowls, plates and tablecloths. The Atlanta-based company has operations in 27 states.[18]
Invista, a polymer and fibers company that makes “Stainmaster” carpet, and “Lycra” fiber, among other products.
February 25th, 2012 at 9:23 am
@redshirt: That’s all well and good but I’ll bet that their competitors are just as dirty with their donations.
ETA: Perhaps we should all just make our own products from scratch.
February 25th, 2012 at 9:32 am
I’m not comfortable with the whore anaology, either. Whores are legitimate business people. Isn’t being McMegan be insult enough in itself?
February 25th, 2012 at 9:33 am
I still say that boycotting Bounty paper towels would get some kind of message across. I’m happy to say that I’m walking the walk; Scott is the soul-sucking corporate entity we use on messes.
February 25th, 2012 at 9:43 am
She’s even responding to random tweets.
Methinks someone is in trouble.
February 25th, 2012 at 10:00 am
It feels dirty knowing that all of McMegan’s expensive kitchen appliances were purchased with the proceeds of Koch whoring. Just shows you how lucrative the sin trade is.
And yet even with the Koch brothers’ largesse at her disposal, this woman still isn’t proficient at separating eggs.
February 25th, 2012 at 10:01 am
@WereBear: Bounty seems to be one of the few paper towel brands that are not owned by the Koch’s so I’m not sure what message boycotting Bounty would send.
February 25th, 2012 at 10:03 am
I agree with Gin & Tonic. This is a complete pandering to the Moore Award panel of Fogies and Fuddy Duddys at Andrew Sullivan’s Institute for Pearl Clutching.
Still, it is awards season and I wish you the best of luck.
February 25th, 2012 at 10:08 am
She’s off her meds. This is going to be entertaining.
February 25th, 2012 at 10:12 am
@Anya:
According to Wikipedia:
Edited to fix formatting and FYWP
February 25th, 2012 at 10:13 am
@beltane: What! Don’t tell me the Internet has something wrong…!
February 25th, 2012 at 10:17 am
Beastie Boys title
Awesome!
February 25th, 2012 at 10:20 am
@Sly: @Roger Moore: Thanks! I hope the Obama administration sticks with their decision.
February 25th, 2012 at 10:23 am
@SiubhanDuinne: Inability to experience shame is a defining characteristic for rightwingers since at about Sept. 11, 2001.
February 25th, 2012 at 10:23 am
@BDeevDad: It looks like our Dougj is getting under her skin.
February 25th, 2012 at 10:25 am
I’m having a Dowager Countess response to the revelation that McMegan uses paper napkins.
February 25th, 2012 at 10:27 am
@Clark Stooksbury:
FTFY. I don’t think I’ve ever seen these fuckers show a hint of shame.
February 25th, 2012 at 10:33 am
@BDeevDad: She’s not only responding to random tweets, she’s staying up all night to do it. That one was posted a little after 2:30 am.
February 25th, 2012 at 10:33 am
Shorter McMegan,
“The fact that over 80% of my recent posts have been dedicated to defending the people who have supported my husband’s livelihood over the years is purely a coincidence and you’re stupid for mentioning it.”
But to be fair, she’d probably support her Galtian overlords no matter what.
February 25th, 2012 at 10:33 am
@mr sketchy:
No shit, Sherlock. She had a good ol’ hissyfit about people who pointed out that the bullshit-libertarian wingnut welfare operation pretty much owes its existence to Koch money.
February 25th, 2012 at 10:33 am
The weird thing is that McArdle doesn’t even seem to recognize that reasonable people can wonder about the conflict of interest. I’d expect someone to start off a blog post with a disclaimer, and it wouldn’t make light of the relationships but would say, “My husband has held a Koch Fellowship and works for Reason Magazine; David Koch is on Reason’s board of trustees.” She writes as if anyone who thinks she could be biased in writing about the Koch brothers is an idiot.
February 25th, 2012 at 10:40 am
@SiubhanDuinne:
In this case the correct terminology is; Kach-Sapper.
February 25th, 2012 at 10:42 am
Your money’s on the dresser, Megan. You and your husband can get dressed and get out now.
February 25th, 2012 at 10:52 am
Or is it Kach-ah?
February 25th, 2012 at 10:53 am
@kay: “I wonder if she’s embarrassed that she came out in favor of the mandatory intrusive ultrasound in Virginia.
I think that’s always difficult for paid pundits/advocates. When they knee jerk defend a policy or politician as “reasonable” and then the politicians themselves run from the policy as too radical, as happened here.
She’s to the Right of the Right wing Virginia governor on state-mandated testing for women, which is really saying something, for a “libertarian”. She’s out there in Texas-territory, on state sanctions on women. Wow.”
I think that it’s an indication of just how bought-and-paid-for she is. She’s in the ‘libertarian’ niche, so she could get away with not supporting it. In the end, either (a) she’s paid by the article and needed the money, or (b) the right-wing hack world operates on the basis of ‘if you’re dirty, you’re dirty all the way’; that the glibertarian end is actually just one branch of the same root that the social right-wingers are a branch of.
February 25th, 2012 at 10:56 am
@SiubhanDuinne:
Agreed. After all these years watching her trot out her third-grade grasp of economics and get smacked around publicly for it, and come back for more?
She clearly has as much self-respect as she does intelligence.
February 25th, 2012 at 11:09 am
Koch is pronounced “Coke” so, “Koch head” is the best.
February 25th, 2012 at 11:12 am
@SiubhanDuinne: I suspect she may be embarrassed by not owning sufficiently expensive things, but I’m not going to pick though her written output to find out.
February 25th, 2012 at 11:12 am
@RSA:
That’s because she assumes anyone who has read her work would know she’d suck up to TPTB whether they’re paying her or not. It’s not as if she’s completely changed her writing or something. The only thing that makes this case noteworthy is that she’s focusing on one specific issue instead of spreading the kowtowing more evenly.
February 25th, 2012 at 11:28 am
@Anya – bothered by the whore analogy, but not by the gay bigotry inherent in the ‘koch sucking’ jokes? Only had one strand of pearls to clutch?
February 25th, 2012 at 11:35 am
She really is a shining combination of glibness, arrogance and bone-deep stupidity. Why the Atlantic lets her piss all over their brand name day in and day out remains a mystery to me. Sure, she attracts some of the worst comments outside of Freeperland, but is having the worst blog in the MSM really worth it? If so, surely this kind of grade-school thinking can be had for free?
February 25th, 2012 at 11:45 am
Undoubtedly, but your average grade-schooler has more self-respect.
I think the irresistible combo of Proper Birth, Alliance by Marriage, rudimentary literacy, and genuine obsessive fascination with the minutiae of snobbery is what puts McMegan over the top in this particular field. And with the New Media’s attitude of “an eyeball is an eyeball” the horrified disgust and fascination is the New Fandom.
February 25th, 2012 at 11:50 am
@Brian R.:
I don’t think that billionaire fuckheads earn the benefit of having their names pronounced according to their wishes, but if you really want, “addicted to Koch” takes care of both.
February 25th, 2012 at 11:52 am
@mark: Are you saying only gay guys perform fel!*tio (spelling to avoid moderation)?
February 25th, 2012 at 11:52 am
Kochroach.
February 25th, 2012 at 12:03 pm
Don’t drink the Koch!
Just to make it clear, a fellowship means that the Koch Foundation paid Peter Suderman’s salary for a year or so. He’s at least in his mid-20s, probably older, so I expect it was a substantial salary.
...and how can Reason claim to have anything to do with freedom if the Kochs are paying their bills? What in Reason is actual political analysis and what propaganda?
February 25th, 2012 at 12:04 pm
@mark:
And this, my friends, is why conservatives always win.
They bring out the big money and blast attacks at us, and in response, we devolve into a Wesleyan faculty seminar on PC speech.
February 25th, 2012 at 1:38 pm
oh, i think he will get there before Kain does.
in spite of you and Sully pimping the little creep 24/7.
E.D. Kain is excited.
is Brave “inherently conservative”?
;)
February 25th, 2012 at 1:45 pm
@Brian R.:
conservatives, “One minute, your saving the married heterosexuals , the next your chugging koch…”
February 25th, 2012 at 1:53 pm
Thanks to the lady for the update on Vanity Fair napkins and Dixie Cups. Didn’t know the Koch bros. owned those companies. Won’t be buying their crap anymore.
February 25th, 2012 at 2:31 pm
@pseudonymous in nc:
Nor do orange House speakers.
It’s like they think someone might notice America getting screwed.
February 25th, 2012 at 3:08 pm
@SiubhanDuinne:
Well, if her $1500 Thermomix blender were to break down just when her husband’s bosses were coming to dinner…
McArdle’s a devout glibertarian. Leaving aside defensive late-night tweets, she’s getting paid a lot more to be wrong on the Atlantic’s internet than John Cole is for snarking about her, so by her standards, she is WIN!
February 25th, 2012 at 3:43 pm
Brian R – you got me wrong. I was pointing out that on a thread about what a bunch of whores republicans ares, someone called out not the republicans but instead called out those who call out republicans.
February 25th, 2012 at 4:00 pm
@Ronzoni Rigatoni: Lovely. Hadn’t heard about that one. And they wonder why I hate them for their freedoms…
February 25th, 2012 at 4:49 pm
Brian R is right. If you think calling someone a “cocksucker” is misogynist you’re a fucking moron who just likes being offended and/or getting attention. An attention WHORE, you might even say. Oops just insulted ALL WOMEN EVERYWHERE AGAIN, OOPS.
February 25th, 2012 at 6:44 pm
@Anne Laurie: yuppers.
what do you think sully is grooming “Our” EDK for?
Sullivan made sure Friedersdorf got his old slot at the Atalntic.
If McMegan is the “economics editor” while knowing nothing about economics, im pretty sure Kain could be the “culture editor” since he knows nothing about culture.
;)
February 25th, 2012 at 9:38 pm
“Cocksucker” isn’t misogynist, it’s homophobic.
February 26th, 2012 at 1:48 pm
Methinks DougJ hit a nerve…
February 27th, 2012 at 8:55 am