It appears that Elizabeth Lauten will be resigning today.
Who is she? She is (or was) the communications director for US Congressman Stephen Fincher (R-TN).
It appears that after Elizabeth Lauten watched Obama at the annual (2014) White House Turkey Pardon (an exceedingly solemn and somber event) she wasn’t very happy with the way that Malia and Sasha (Obama’s two daughters) were dressed and she didn’t like their demeanor either. She’s also very troubled by the fact that Malia and Sasha made “faces” at the Turkey Pardon (what the fk?).
Elizabeth published her thoughts on Facebook:
Dear Sasha and Malia, I get you’re both in those awful teen years, but you’re a part of the First Family, try showing a little class. At least respect the part you play. Then again your mother and father don’t respect their positions very much, or the nation for that matter, so I’m guessing you’re coming up a little short in the ‘good role model’ department. Nevertheless, stretch yourself. Rise to the occasion. Act like being in the White House matters to you. Dress like you deserve respect, not a spot at a bar. And certainly don’t make faces during televised public events.
First I’d like to say that I advocate the 1st Amendment and free speech. Elizabeth Lauten has that right to publish her thoughts regarding the Turkey Pardon and the First Family.
I also find her intolerant-like remarks to be racist. It appears that the First Family and their actions just may not be white enough for Elizabeth Lauten.
I remember in the early 1990s my father told my siblings and I that we were not to wear baggy jeans because that was black a thing.
Nowadays blacks wear tight jeans and it seems that most whites (aside from the very young generation and other trendy whites) are wearing baggy clothing (including my father).
In any event, I find Elizabeth Lauten to be racist (not that I give a crap what she is, racist or not racist). However, her statement is fully and thoroughly covered by the 1st Amendment.
That being said, why would Lauten take the Turkey Pardon so seriously? In my opinion there is nothing serious (televised event or not) about the Annual Turkey Pardon.
And what’s this about, “At least respect the part you play.” Is there a part to play? Reminds of politicians and political commentators (especially white American ones) who preach out against drugs (Rush Limbaugh), or who advocate abstinence and family values (Mark Souder, R-IN), or Tom Ganley (married and father of 3) who was a candidate (R-OH) for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010 and was indicted on seven counts of sexual imposition with a woman he met at a…Tea Party Rally!
Then there is Mark Sanford (R-SC). In 2013 (last year) he won a special election for US Congressman (1st District) in South Carolina.
He also represented the same district in South Carolina from 1995 thru 2001.
As readers may know he was also Governor of South Carolina from 2003 thru 2011.
On June 24, 2009 he he publicly revealed that he had engaged in an extramarital affair with María Belén Chapur, a woman from Argentina. (It should also be noted that he misused state travel funds to conduct his affair.)
He once told his wife that he was hiking the Appalachian Mountain Trail when really and truly he was traveling to have sex with his mistress (María Belén Chapur) in Argentina.
Also, why did he confess on June 24th (2009)?
Because on June 25, La Nación, a Buenos Aires newspaper, identified an Argentine woman, María Belén Chapur, a 43 years of age divorced mother of two with a university degree in international relations, who lives in the city of Buenos Aires, as the woman who South Carolina Governor Mark Sandord was having an extramarital affair with.
Mark Sanford (Marshall Clement “Mark” Sanford, Jr. – born May 28th, 1960) met María Belén Chapur at a dance in Uruguay in the year 2001.
In any event, style changes. It seems that ‘class’ was once depicted (until some point maybe in the 1960s?) by US Presidents wearing top hats and homburg hats.
I didn’t see anything that wasn’t classy, or anything that was disrespectful, in the video of the 2014 Annual Turkey Pardon at the White House. Furthermore, since when is a Turkey Pardon supposed to be a stony-faced and humorless event?
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Is this an image of class?