The Alice in Wonderland Presidency
The big news over the weekend, that the Obama White House had a secret Alice and Wonderland-themed Halloween party, really didn’t surprise me. The taxpayer-funded event featured Johnny Depp in full Mad Hatter costume prancing on tables in the White House State Dining Room. Someone wore the actual Chewbacca Wookie costume, while guests drank punch from blood vials. (An aside: why is Halloween such a big event for some people, requiring excessive decorations and festivities?) The State Dining Room was turned into a Lewis Carroll-themed house of horrors for the invited guests.
Not surprisingly, the White House deliberately concealed the existence of the grotesque party from the public and the press corp. That pesky 16% real unemployment rate required stealth.
The Alice in Wonderland party won’t surprise anyone who has read my book Injustice, for Chapter Seven is actually titled “Through the Looking Glass.” The Justice Department held a similar bizarre party at the Mellon Auditorium courtesy of the taxpayers on April 27, 2010. They called it a “retreat,” but it had skits, singing, dancing, and of course free lunch for nearly 800 DOJ employees paid for by you. It also featured a bizarre agenda, almost as strange as Johnny Depp in Mad Hatter makeup dancing on tables:
Between the breakout sessions at the retreat, outlandish comedy took center stage. Like a campfire program at Cub Scout camp, all the Civil Rights Division’s sections participated in a skit contest. For weeks leading up to the retreat, DOJ employees spent work time writing scripts, singing songs, and rehearsing. Despite the festive nature of the skits, all scripts had to be submitted well ahead of time to a designee of the assistant attorney general for approval. The Civil Rights Division leaders couldn’t help themselves—their instinct to control extends even to bad community theater.
In all there were twelve skits to fill the day. The Voting Section sang songs about elections. Another section presented a faux TV newscast featuring clips from the TV show Glee. Lawyers took the stage to sing, dance, and act out.
The retreat was more than a frolic and detour. It was a policy rally right out of Wonderland:
There were breakout sessions discussing topics such as “emerging areas” in civil rights practice, “outreach to Muslims,” and “environmental justice,” as well as a session of the “LGBT [lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender] Working Group.” A session on “collaboration opportunities” included speeches on “collaboration with sister agencies,” “anti-immigration discrimination,” and something called “place based initiatives.” These are hardly pressing civil rights issues for most Americans, but like Lewis Carroll’s March Hare, many in the Civil Rights Division have “murdered time.” To them, it’s always 1964, with Jim Crow devising new schemes
– the our Republic is dead.
That is the last straw for Johnny Depp. He is now on my list of people that I will not pay to see their movies or rent their videos. My list gets longer everyday.
This whole scenario gets more ridiculous everyday.
OT Christian I really admire your guts.
No excess this administration commits is a surprise to me. After all, they feel they are owed whatever they want. They are entitled. Now, the real big question is will the eventual Republican candidate use this or will he play nice.
By the way, I am still waiting for all my free stuff Obama promised back in 2008.
The titanic debt is “free,” or so the Left thinks so.
Surpringly, AOL/Huffington Post actually had a link to this story. However, I noted it was a link to FOX News [another surprise, but I suppose it was to discredit it among the Huffers]. Probably no HuffPo reporter could bring themselves to write anything critical of the Messiah in Chief.
This administration appears more and more out of touch – a combination of Marie Antoinette, Ludwig II, and Nero. They party, we suffer.
You mean this guy: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/291730-1
Are you sure this was a costume party, or a staff meeting? Very hard to tell.
Pretty unbelievable story: one could posit the exact opposite of those skit’s themes and come much closer to justice for all. And that’s just a reflection of policy. Include the taxpayer money spent which should have been in the form of contributions from the workers and include the Wonderland event and it is depravity piled on top of depravity.
I’d love to see the L.A. Times now further defend the “racism” of the Marie Antoinette piece about the First Lady given the amount of money probably spent on the Depp event.
Good work Mr. Adams. I really wish this event was on one of the hour long networks news magazine shows and double that for 60 Minutes. If the MSM weren’t so far in the bag it’d be lovely to see 60 Minutes openly questioning the Wonderland event during these economic times and asking Obama’s people, by ambush interview if necessary, where the money came from.
Amateurs.
They don’t even have solid gold faucets like in Ceausescu’s home.
Yet.
“Yet”…. or perhaps “as far as we know.”
We’ve seen what Obama did with the Oval Office, but we have almost no idea what he and Michelle have done in the residence.
We do know that Michelle completely redid the Yellow Oval Room, but she hasn’t shared the redecoration with us. There are many photos of Michelle entertaining first ladies, dignitaries, etc. in that room BEFORE the change, but nothing afterwards. It’s as if someone doesn’t want us to see it.
In timp, in timp. Rabdare!
The acorn does not fall far from the tree! Carney Gets Completely Shellacked Over WH Party Cover-Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQRhSvtfKtE&eu…
Right down the rabbit hole.
Mr. Transparency working his con yet again.
Homeland Security Training Exercise Startles Locals Sunday, 08 January 2012 08:59
http://www.dailycommercial.com/News/LakeCounty/010412shield
Remember this? NDAA: Open Season for the Police State
[Section] 1021 has NO exceptions. There’s not even a hint of an exception. Remember, that section gave the President the authority to arrest you and a set of options on how you were to be handled. These choices are completely divorced from the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th Amendments, as well as the Treason provisions of Article III. The President’s new alternatives are…
1. Detention without trial by the military
2. Trial by a military commission
3. Trial by some other court of the President’s choosing
4. Shipping you off to a foreign jurisdiction
This is why I do not and never will, support Civil Rights. Since I as a White man have none and never will. The whole point of the Civil Rights movement was to take Black people from the back of the bus and put them up front, and make White people stand in the back. Well, ordinary White people. That’s it. King and the rest NEVER wanted a color blind society (that was boob bait for bubbas) — just ask John Lewis or Jessie Jackson or Andrew Young. They worked with King, joked with King, drank with King. They knew him better than anyone and knew what he was about.
Civil Rights is nothing but the oppression of ordinary White people by elite Whites allied with fringe groups and non-Whites.
So no I don’t support it. A White 13 year old girl was beaten into unconsciousness in Ocala FL, last week, by a mob of Black kids on the bus. Where are her civil rights? Oh yeah, she’s White, they’re Black, she has none. Any more than Reginald Denny had civil rights at Florence and Normandy, or the White girl abducted and murdered in South Carolina (by a Black man). No Civil Rights prosecutions THERE, because Whites HAVE NONE. ZERO. ZILCH. NADA.
The ENTIRE Justice System is corrupt, filled with anti-White bias, and about as morally legitimate as Prohibition. Civil Rights is a code word for anti-White discrimination. Nothing more or less. Hence the party catering to fringe groups at the expense of people like me.
Gross–real racism!!
anti-white rights are gross racism..
consider that 7.5% – 8% of the whole world is white..
take a good look around.. where you see no whites, do you you see freedom in any sense whatsoever?
just saying..
Just remember, the most racist people on the face of the whole earth are Arabs.. especially because their racism is codified into their ideology of hate, islam
Depends- do Jews count as white?
Gross, a real Maddy. Idiot.
On the other hand, disprove what he says. I would not argue for the inherent “superiority” of any one race or ethnic group, although I would refer you to Jared Diamond’s “Guns, Germs, and Steel.” However it seems to me that the people in power, particularly the Democrat party, have deliberately swung the pendulum too far in the other direction and wrapped race and class warfare up into their strategy.
Record unemployment, housing & automobile industry crises, bailouts, stimulus, nightmare deficits, spending/entitlements through the roof . . . and Alice in Wonderland at the White House. Finally, it all makes sense.
This is REPARATIONS writ large.
I’m afraid to see what they did for Valentine’s Day that year! Disgusting.
True to form, marxist pigs always shove their snouts into the trough. November is the perfect time for a cochon de lait.
The public paying for Hollywood parties, frequent trips to Hawaii for him and his family (wtf is wrong with Camp David or going to Chi-town for holiday?)and his public education…the arrogance of Soetero and his seemingly more arrogant wife is pathetic, when will the public see through this bullsh1t?
I apologize. I have been reminded that most of you probably have no idea what a cochon de lait is.
http://generalhorticulture.tamu.edu/prof/recipes/cochon/cochon.html
Parties, Dissensions, and Eruptions at the White House
Writer Jodi Kantor had better watch her back. Her simply-titled book, The Obamas, set to be released January 10th, is simply a blockbuster which could bust the White House.
Described in part on Amazon as, ”Filled with riveting detail and insight into their [the Obama] partnership, emotions and personalities, and written with a keen eye for the ironies of public life, THE OBAMAS is an intimate portrait that will surprise even readers who thought they knew the President and First Lady,” the book does far more than that.
The tell-all book based on interviews with 30 administration aides exposes the First Couple as frauds and dissemblers, liars and back-biters.
Pre-release details of The Obamas have been leaking out in little dribs and major drabs and one of the latter is that during the depths of the Great Recession in 2009, Obama and Company threw a Halloween party at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue that would have rivaled anything Hollywood or Broadway could have ever conceived.
In fact, Hollywood may have conceived it. At least Tinseltown was well- represented at the Alice in Wonderland-themed event, with megastar Johnny Depp, director Tim Burton, and Star Wars’ Chewbacca along with White House staffers, military families, and D.C. kids in attendance as well as the mainstream media.
Sounds like an extravaganza, right?
Well, it seems to have been–with the state dining room decorated by Burton in full Halloween regalia, Depp decked out as the Mad Hatter, Michelle Obama as a black and yellow cat, fruit punch served in blood vials, huge stuffed animals, etc.
Yet, it was as if it never happened since only one member of what BigJournalism.com calls Obama’s Palace Guards–the MSM–reported on the festivities. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=12062.)
I agree candide: Johnny Depp is dead to me.
MOTUS has a few other,ah, entertaining pictures of the party: http://www.michellesmirror.com/2012/01/one-of-these-days-alice-one-of-these.html
Heh, love the comment section.
Racists and people who say that a party with Johnny Dep is the definition of Marxism…
Sure there might be some outrage at the money spent… but I bet this isn’t the first expensive party a president has thrown. Compile a run down of those and get back to me.
Josh, if that’s your idea of ‘paraphrasing’ I recommend you consider changing your poster’s last name.
Depp made $100 million in 1 year alone recently. I don’t think he’s of the ‘pro bono’ type.
This occurring when unemployment was HIGHER, when supposedly were ‘recovering’ from a recession, again with high unemployment, houses devalued, mortgages underwater, food stamps not being made quickly enough, annual salaries being lessened, topsy-turvy market, Iraq, Afghanistan U.S. casualties..
Rather than use the ‘buh buh Bush may have done it..’ knee-jerk reaction, don’t you expect more form the man who will supposedly ‘..moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal..’?
People are usually “pro-bono” when invited to a party with the President.
So while you’re at it, prove he didn’t come for free.
“People are usually “pro-bono” when invited to a party with the President.
So while you’re at it, prove he didn’t come for free”
No…YOU made the assertion that he played for free. The onus is on YOU to prove that he did play for free.
Again, you ignore the poste directly above pointing out the tin ear of this President holding outlandish parties during a time of economic hardship and huge debt.
“Josh, if that’s your idea of ‘paraphrasing’ I recommend you consider changing your poster’s last name.”
It’s true that he’s no scholar, but that’s why he uses the first name “Josh.” Yes, he’s full of crap, but he’s openly full of crap. It doesn’t get more Post-modern than that.
His approach is like that cartoon on the FX network, “Archer”. That show is, ostensibly, a light thriller in the vein of James Bond. But the give-away is in its title. According to my OED, to be “arch” is to be “self-consciously or affectedly playful or teasing.” So, to be “archer” is to be even more self-consciously playful or affectedly teasing. In other words, that show intends to subvert the spy genre, which is why it presents us with a portrait of the hero as a hyper-sexual sociopath, and the concerns of his spy organisation (ISIS) as no different than those of the typical workplace sitcom.
Our correspondent “Josh Scholar” is engaged in the same self-parody. He doesn’t expect you to take him seriously, and that’s okay with him. For all of his “playing” with language, he just wants to confound the argument. There has always been something very vicious in the Post-modernists’ concept of “play”, the only concept that any of them respect absolutely, in aid of the only proposition they respect absolutely: “The truth is there is no truth.”
For a couple of good reviews of “Archer”, which, for all of that, is a pretty entertaining show, go to http://www.dvdtalk.com It’s a useful site.
Hearing about the Alice in Wunderbar party thrown by the misfit communists highlighted by ODumbo and wifey just gets me mad as a hatter. And there doesn’t seem to be anything I can do about it, short of ranting and raving.
Oh, well, in four more years, he can’t run again. Or can he? I mean if there’s a law against a third term, Obama won’t have the nerve to simply figure a way around it? Will she?
My oh my, anybody who voted for BigEars must feel mighty stupid right now. Or do I misread the 53% who voted for him as realizing they killed this nation by being so ignorant?
Does it surprise anyone that nobody, family or not, ever mentions politics anymore in my presence? Which really shouldn’t be that surprising. I mean, who wants to be verbally gutted like a fish?
It is truly shameful that the reporters, all of them, are so complicit in covering up damaging news. That is truly the biggest story here. It simply demonstrates what most have suspected and that is the full and complete marriage of the msm and the marxist, democrat party. This story reveals them as absolutely nothing but the marxist propoganda arm.
It doesn’t suprise me that barry and company would do this. They are immoral reprobates of the highest order. Considering they are working toward ending the last stand of Western Christendom, this is rather small by comparison.
The shameful administration is trying to say they invited the military to this party. I want to know who and how many exactly were invited. Probably none as the Obamas don’t like the military. And they don’t like “white Irish Catholics” and “Bible and gun carrying” Americans.
The best part of this story is that the press who were covering it promised to keep it a secret. We have had press that gave up military secrets and names of personal that put them and their family in danger but no, we can’t do anything that would harm Lord Obama.
Prince – Let’s Go Crazy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdEE5Ph4p3A&feature=related
Some of the comments here seem a bit over the top. Sure, throwing a big White House Halloween party is insensitive during a recession (after all, that’s why the courtiers of the MSM didn’t write up the social event). But it’s not a crime. I’m sure it cost a lot less than the billions of dollars this administration has wasted chasing the chimera of “green jobs”. There’s a whole long list of Obama administration screwups that I am more upset about than this party. Though it does give off a certain Marie Antoinette vibe.
As for Johnny Depp, he’s just an actor, if a very successful one. The President called him in for a gig — did you expect him to refuse? I don’t know why anybody even asks actors their political opinions; most of the time you get pure nonsense. Stick to expecting good performances from actors and you’ll be disappointed less of the time.
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/405669/january-10-2012/malice-in-blunderland
Heh, it turns out this “secret” scandal party was held publicly, it was for the children of the troops, the press was invited, and pictures of it were posted on the white house web page.
Well don’t get all tongue tied, you don’t need a valid reason to hate the President – you never needed one before. You can always just make more stuff up.
Also movie of it was posted on the white house web page. The clip on tv showed the president putting candy in kids’ pumpkin-shaped baskets.
The president was giving candy to the children of the troops! Proof that the comments in this thread are right and he is subverting our army with candy Marxism
Someone tell Rush to start ranting about “The Obama Youth” with references to Nazi Germany. If he won’t I’m sure Glen Beck has been ranting about that for years in his sleep, ever since he stopped taking his medication. You could just record his nocturnal mumbling and I’m sure he’s already mentioned White House Halloween parties being the gateway to Nazism.
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