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According to Erick the RedState Erickson’s twitter feed (which is like a Pez Dispenser of Dumb):
White House makes sure only rich people can attend the Easter Egg Roll at the White House
Okay, I’ll bite.
The link takes you to RedState and a post by Moe (who, in the 3 Stooges World that is RedState is… Moe) who writes:
I’m going to sum up The Enlightened Redneck’s post here about what happened to the White House Easter Egg Roll ticketing system this year (not because there’s anything wrong with his post: read it!): The new administration, having decided that the old system of having people engage in the time-honored tradition of physically camping out in line for tickets was somehow “unfair,” instead decided to make the registration process online. The process didn’t work properly – Shock! Surprise! – so people got tickets essentially via being lucky enough to be able to register before their session timed out.
Okay. Let’s unpack this.
According to Erick & Moe, in the old days only poor people could camp out for days (because poor people don’t have jobs) in order to get tickets so that their ragamuffin spawn could get ANOTHER GOVERNMENT HANDOUT. On the other hand, rich people couldn’t very well take a few days off (aka Going Galt) from running the world just to get John Galt Jr. and Dagny Jr. tickets … which, by the way, they should have camped out and earned for themselves , the little parasites. Under the Socialistic Easter Policies of Obama the ElitistMarxist, only rich people can get tickets because everyone knows poor people don’t have computers; choosing instead to blow their foodstamps on big screen TVs, granite countertops and vodka.
Why this bothers Erick is beyond me. If it involved killing brown people with his bare hands and then having naughty librarian sex with Sarah Palin, he’d think he had died and gone to heaven. Or Atlanta.
But, to bring this back to the person who started this tempest in a teabag pot, here is "Enlightened Redneck" Danny Glover, in his own words:
Change has come to the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, and our family is not happy about it. The end result is that we won’t get to go for the first time in nine years.
So Glover is, like, an egg-rolling Deadhead.
President Obama thought outside the box and decided it was better to move the ticketing process online — and predictably, the system didn’t work as advertised. I know because I tried off and on all day to get free tickets for the event. Most of the time I couldn’t even access the system; the two times my wife and I did, we were booted from it right as we placed our orders.
By 7:45 p.m. Thursday, we were rewarded for our efforts with this message: “Tickets are no longer available for the 2009 White House Easter Egg Roll.”
Assuming there wasn’t a secret password to get in (my guess is either Allahu Akbar or Death to Israel!!1!) it must have been awfully difficult to log on and register because Danny Glover :
… is the managing editor of National Journal’s Technology Daily, an online publication from Washington focused on technology policy and political issues.
So, Technology Fail. For Danny.
What will he tell the children?
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Well, he was great in “Lethal Weapon.”
*g*
Maybe Erick can get his Red State Strike Force to mail a bunch of plastic Easter eggs to the White House. That will show them.
Wait a minute. If every egg is a potential life, and every life is sacred, why didn’t the Bushies stop this demonic practice? It’s almost like they were hiding aboted fetuses around the lawn (after dying them in god-awful pastel patterns).
And as for Danny G., isn’t he getting too old for this shit?
Nine consecutive years? His kids are what..in their thirties?
Gee, maybe it’d be more fair, considering the limited number of kids who can participate any given year, for Danny to stay home and hide his own eggs for his own kids and give someone else’s kids a chance to go to the White House do. Talk about a sense of entitlement.
“I tried off and on all day to get free tickets for the event.” Ah, nothing like a hard day at the office. Thank God wingnut welfare doesn’t actually require that you *do* something productive with yourself.
Oh, and being bummed that you can’t get *free* tickets from the *government* while parading around in your “I’m In On the Neo-con Con” t-shirt? Ideology Fail.
If chickens could blog, would they bitch about not being able to pick through the dumpster at the local DFH gay abortion clinic?
Seriously, though, this is one tradition I wouldn’t miss. Leaving hard-boiled eggs out on a lawn invites outbreaks of salmonella and E. coli due to improper food handling. Substituting candy will only make the kids of those griping, pasty-faced Cheeto-muchers fatter; which of course means they’ll use more than their fair share of health care. Plastic eggs are made of fossil fuels. Al Gore III could evade the LAPD for a whole year in his Prius on the hydrocarbons used to make plastic eggs for the White House Easter Egg Hunt. We won’t even discuss the issue of cockroaches. The lawyers would be offended.
Did Mr. Technology consider that the site was overwhelmed by demand and that is why he had trouble getting on? Imagine that – people from all over the country could try to get tickets for the first time, without having to go to DC and camp out.
Yeah, everybody knows poor people have no access to computers. Except all the poor people who come into my library to use the computers. Which is a well-kept secret to conservative pundits who apparently don’t read.
I think they ought to distribute the tickets by dropping them from helicopters, over a demographically, economically designed region to be completely consistent with the characteristics of the U.S.
Maybe someone can help me out, did Jesus lay eggs or did the Easter Bunny rise on the third day?
Tsk. Tsk. Mary was the one who laid eggs.
Jesus and the Easter Bunny eloped and were last seen in the jungle of Costa Rica eating communion wafers and peanut butter.
It is true. I have laid a few eggs lately on FDL.
Thanks to you and marymccurnin for clearing that up.
Listen, there’s precious little that women can do. We must retain our monopoly over eggs.
Don’t touch my god damn eggs!!!!
but Mr TBogg, you left out the scalping horrors – oh the inanity !
Great minds think alike!
Are the Obamas gonna webcast the easter egg roll?
I went to the Egg Roll for my one and only time in 1995 when you could still get in by rising at Oh-Dark-Thirty and standing in line with a grouchy preschooler all day. He had a good time that he can’t remember now, but we did snag one of the rare eggs with Sock’s pawprint on it.
So he must be a teen-ager now? Do you have photos? What a great story.
Are they saying that because ticketing was handled online that only “rich” people could get tickets? If that is true, isn’t Redstate, then, by definition only available to “rich” people since it is also only available online?
Or could only rich people go because the site wasn’t working properly? If that is the case can someone explain the logic of Broken site = rich folks only?
Or, is this just Danny’s roundabout way of telling us he’s poor?
I’m sorry. You seem to think that there’s actually logic behind redstate’s rants.
What a bizarre evening. It’s only 52 degrees, but a real summer thunderstorm going on outside. And Calvin Trillen’s on Book-TV. Pretty outre.
Life is so short. Why do we give a flip what the self-inflicted with low information pawns of the banker-looter-fascists say or write?
Like one of their former queens I don’t wanna taint my beautiful mind either..
Please!
Never put “Babs Bush” and “taint” in the same paragraph! It’s too much…