Hey, remember when Bill Kristol’s idiot son-in-law wrote:
What would happen, though, if a website covered the left in the same way that the left covers the right? What picture of the world would one have in mind if the morning paper read like the New York Times—but with the subjects of the stories and the assumptions built into the text changed to reflect a conservative, not liberal, worldview? What would happen if the media wolf pack suddenly had to worry about an aerial hunting operation?
You are about to find out. The Washington Free Beacon is here to enter the arena of combat journalism. Our talented staff will add to the chorus of enterprising conservative reporters, publishing original stories, seeking out scoops, and focusing on the myriad connections between money and power in the progressive movement and Obama’s Washington. Our research and war room divisions will supplement that reporting with context, additional materials, and breaking video. At the Beacon, you will find the other half of the story, the half that the elite media have taken such pains to ignore: the inside deals, cronyism cloaked in the public interest, and far-out nostrums of contemporary progressivism and the Democratic Party. At the Beacon, all friends of freedom will find an alternative to the hackneyed spin, routine misstatements, paranoid hyperbole, and insipid folderol of Democratic officials and the liberal gasbags on MSNBC and talk radio. At the Beacon, we follow only one commandment: Do unto them.
Well, here is some of that hard-hittin’ journalimism from the Bacon under the headline: FLOWTUS:
The overflow crowd of women at a pricey campaign fundraiser hosted by First Lady Michelle Obama in New York City Thursday spilled into the men’s bathroom, according to pool reports leaked to the Washington Free Beacon:
The vast majority of the crowd were women. This apparently resulted in a long line for the women’s restroom. One group solved this by commandeering the men’s room.
“We’re using the men’s room right now, we’re taking it over. We have a long line for the women’s room,” one of them said.
I’m pretty sure that the Freeb was created to make Breitbart.com look like the London Review Of Books.





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Oh noez, ladyparts in the men’s room!
“At the Beacon, you will find the other half of the story, the half that the elite media have taken such pains to ignore:”
So, the other half of the story must be men’s parts in the lady’s room. I have a feeling the elite media wouldn’t ignore that story.
“Water”gate?
Now that’s some hard-hitting urinalism!
I wonder if they left the seat down? How could the hard-hitting urinalists at the Washington Bacon miss that?
makes perfect sense to me ..and vice versa … unisex bathrooms is the only way to go …
lol.. extra points to ‘creature’ for the urinalism pun …
Because FSM knows there’s a shortage of conservative “reporting.”
Too bad Bill Mauldin’s gone — I really miss his Willie and Joe ‘toons.
Oh Jeez. This means that Michelle Obama’s future book store signings will be plagued by a bunch of male “freedom fighters” hopping around with their legs crossed, elbowing through the ladies, wetting their pants, and exposing themselves while destroying the merchandise; all in the spirit of the Tea Party.
Or the Brotherhood of the Traveling Pantload.
And by the way, is that a real book? If it “hurts when I poop” you need a gastroenterologist, not a childrens’ book author.
This has happened at almost every large gathering I’ve ever attended, esp. where women outnumber the men. Often, it was the men (well, the ones who weren’t insanely frightened of play-doh-and-bacon ladyparts) who offered the empty men’s room to the women standing in line.
Or maybe the Brotherhood of the Traveling Pants-Pissers.
This has been a problem forever, mostly because most architects are male. So the plans for the new arena include exactly the same number of toilets for women as toilets/urinals for men, which inevitably leads to long lines outside of the women’s restroom.
In architecture school, I once had a male prof question why the ladies’ room in my theater design project was twice as large as the mens’. I told him, “because women have to partially undress and sit down, so it takes longer for them to use the restroom. If you make them the same size, women will still be waiting in line when intermission ends.” I could tell by the look on his face that this had never occured to him.
Eh? I think the point of this pants-pissing conservative viewpoint is this: had it been Cindy McCain’s book (no doubt entitled Helpful Etiquette Tips for Peons or How to Bow ‘n Scrape to Your Betters) – given a world where McCain “won” the Pres – all the good pants-pissy conservative little wimmin-folk woulda *known their place* and stayed the heck outta the MANLY room.
Puh-leeze. NO icky nasty lady-parts in the toe-tapping
glory holewide stance area.Whew. Thank Jeebus for the brave knights of the 4th estate (ver. 2.0 — now with extra strong stupid) who volunteer to keep track of all of this important stuff for the rest of us. It’s pulitzer-grade reporting like this that keeps our democracy vibrant and relevant and the citizens informed and involved.
Can we flush now?
I first encounters women in the men’s room about forty years ago, and the prof hover noticed? I guess not. I continue to see long lines in new facilities. Ridiculous.
The helpful reporter told us that the Pierre is “swanky”, too. Who knew?
Sounds like the Porkchop Picayune is jealous no one invited them to the fancy soiree.
I wannabe wolfpack…
I had a thing about bathrooms when I was in school. We had our studios scattered around in different buildings and all of those buildings remained unlocked round-the-clock. By the time I got to 4th & 5th year, our studios were in the university’s old library building, and for whatever reason, there were no restrooms upstairs, only a men’s restroom on the ground floor, and the women’s restroom was down in the basement, where no one was at night and the lights were all turned off, etc. I decided quickly that I wasn’t going to venture down to a dark, deserted floor in an unlocked building at 2, 3, 4 in the morning every time I was working late, and commandeered use of the men’s facilities on the ground floor. Before going in, I’d crack the door open and call out. If someone came in while I was in a stall, I’d say, “zip ‘em up, boys, I’m coming out!” Some of the guys were a little testy about it; I told them, “seriously guys, I’d much prefer not to need to use a bathroom that smells like a subway from 60 years of guys missing the mark, but better that than getting attacked by a creep in the dark downstairs.”
They got over it.
Wingnut Welfare: Providing cushy gigs for otherwise-unemployable scions of right-wing one-percenter hacks since 1955!*
*The founding date of the National Review.
Free Bacon!! Woo-hoo!! What? Oh, never mind.
The byline on every article over there reads “Washington Free Beacon Staff”.
It’s telling that even their staff knows enough to leave their names off of this drivel.
Maybe, being conservative, “seeking out scoops” has a different meaning for them….
Yes, it’s pretty standard practice. What I like in the story is this quote:
One group solved this by commandeering the men’s room.
“One group” – I suppose it was a battalion of armed Feminazis in camouflage, wearing high-heeled combat boots?
When of course in reality it was probably the event organizers making a decision to open the men’s room for the women guests.
Looking at his bio, this is as close as he’ll ever be to combat. 101st Keyboard Commandos, indeed!
When are you going to post the Olde Dead Breitbart Photoshoppe Thinges, TBogg? Can’t wait to see what all the evil geniuses cooked up.
Friday night, because I want to ruin date night for everyone.
Sorry for stopping short of the punchline, but — “folderol”? What the fuck kind of 30-year-old uses the word “folderol”?
The Freeb writes: according to pool reports leaked to the Washington Free Beacon:
Uh, “leaked?” The Freeb article actually links to the Hunter Walker piece at Politicker from which they derived the cut-n-pasted “leak.”
What the fuck is the matter with these people?
Was the prof single? What married man doesn’t know that women take longer in the bathroom of necessity? Or heard his wife make a comment about the long line at the ladies room? He never took his wife or girlfriend to the theater or the movies, and while each went into their respective restroom at the same time, he ended up waiting outside because she had to wait in a line???
Heck, we had a trial in Houston (“Pottygate!”) when a woman at a concert used the men’s facilities because the line for the women’s was too long. (She was acquitted after 23 minutes of deliberation.)
No, he wasn’t single…but he was in his 60s.
Back when I went to architecture school, there were very few women in attendance – less than 10% of the students were female. It was in some ways a not completely-unhostile learning environment for women; there were definitely some faculty members who felt like women didn’t belong in the profession, though they only slipped up and let it be known on occasion. I had one class in which I set the curve on a test with over 90% and pretty much everyone else flubbed it; in castigating the class for their poor performance, the prof pointed out how easy the test was by saying “an interior design student set the curve.” Because, you know, as a girl I must have been an “interior design student,” and also, “how hard could it have been if a girl did this well on it?” There were other small things as well over the years.
But the prof who asked about the bathrooms was married. I really think he was just of that generation who assumed that women took longer in the bathroom because they were primping – that, plus, standard practice had ALWAYS been to size the bathrooms the same.
The Washington Free Bacon with each purchase of play-doh.
The wingnuts should protest by refusing to piss until men’s free dumb is restored.