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Hurl-Blogging The Inaugur-A-Palooza, The Dry Heaves

Local reader helpfully designs an Inaugural Celebration sack, as Bush declares the Inaugur-a-palooza an federal emergency. NYT. Anxious not to be stuck with the blame for another Katrina, Bush puts the federal disaster response into motion ahead of time, mobilizing FEMA bucks. 

OK, we’ve chundered our way through Hurl-Blogging the Inaugur-A-Palooza and Hurl-Blogging the Inaugur-A-Palooza, Reflux. On Day Three, the dry heaves kick in with the responsibly hurl-worthy … 

Green Inaugural Ball. Thank Gaia someone’s thinking about the planet. Someone needs to total up how climate-changing the rest of the Inaugur-a-palooza is going to be. “Maximum Celebration, Minimal Impact” slogan sounds like they’ll be distributing their own bags in case anyone gets too green.

More on the earnest greenness of the Inaugur-a-palooza from WSJ:

“Making the inaugural balls as low-energy and low-carbon as possible won’t stop global warming, but it is a very important symbol about the direction of the incoming administration,” Dan Weiss, director of climate strategy for the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, told the Chicago Tribune.

Delusional and full of it?

In other environmental concerns, visitors warned to expect bitter cold and no indoor plumbing.

He hasn’t taken office yet. How many Obama-proximate scandals are we up to now? I forget. This one’s a present from the Clintons. It’s new, but feels like something bad we ate a long time ago coming back up again.

Slightly of the menu, but also sick-making, Cheney’s observation that the ”domestic spying” … you know, al Qaeda suspects overseas chatting with their fellow travelers here, or using phone lines that happen to run through the U.S. … was working great until earnest Pulitzer-hungry NYT scribblers gave their terrorist pals the headsup. 

Apparently it is now appropriate for this guy, friend of Barbara Bush or former friend of Barbara Bush, to make snide and judgmental remarks about his host, the President of the United States, because George Bush was gracious enough to share some private, unguarded family downtime with him and two months after 9/11 wasn’t sufficiently mournful, serious, signing bills, attending funerals or ordering air strikes, whatever kind of show this guy thought he should be putting on for him. Also, he is upset with the president because he is gay. The writer, not the president. No word on whether he intends to hold his sexual preference against the gay-rights ambiguous Obama. I hope Vanity Fair paid happy boy well. Possibly it is in anticipation of this long-awaited payday, seven years on, that the writer is smiling vacuously, and not frowning righteously at the wrongfulness all around him, in the photo of him with Bush.

Look who came to dinner. Bush-Clintoncon Obama dines with neocon Kristol and iffycon Brooks at indycon George Will’s house. It must be my raging indigestion issues that kept me off the guest list. Either that or they didn’t feel like they needed a raving tabloid warmongercon.

In other business, Obama may have peddled the broadcast rights but took the high road and opted not to sell corporate sponsorship to his Inaug events. But money, like life and water, will find a way. USA Today: advertisers are angling other ways to horn in.

NEW YORK — President-elect Barack Obama decided not to sign corporate sponsors to help pay the projected $40 million cost of the official events around the Jan. 20 swearing in. So many marketers are working other avenues to get their brands before the millions of people who will attend the festivities or watch on TV. Among them are such well-known names as Pepsi, Ikea, T.G.I. Friday’s and Dunkin’ Donuts. From the airwaves to the streets of Washington, D.C., big-name marketers are trying to find ways to ride Inauguration Day enthusiasm.

“Wherever there is an opportunity to put your brand in a good light, especially at an event as important as this, it’s good,” says Walt Guarino, professor of advertising at Seton Hall University. “Right now (Obama) is being regarded as the hopeful answer to a lot of problems that we’re facing. To be identified with him right now is a good thing.”

Which raises the question of when “He’s The Real Thing” is going to morph into ”Plop, plop, fizz, fizz.”

News outlets look to get in on the national onene$$. NYT:

The inauguration coverage by the cable news channel MSNBC will be projected onto movie theater screens in 21 cities next Tuesday. The channel is also planning to announce a partnership with Starbucks to simulcast its coverage in 650 of the company’s stores.

MSNBC and other news outlets are looking to capitalize on the heightened interest in the inauguration of Barack Obama, as watch parties are being planned in cities across the nation.

On Monday, a line of people encircled the American Film Institute’s theater in Silver Spring, Md., where 400 tickets were distributed for an inauguration simulcast. The institute plans to show the coverage from the TV One cable channel. Murray Horwitz, the director of the theater, said witnessing the inauguration with other people, even in a theater setting, was an appealing prospect.

“Not to $ound too corny about it,” Mr. Horwitz said, “but it’$ a time to come together a$ American$.”

OK, that’s not exactly how he said it.

AP vid: Obama’s Kenya grandma, the one he didn’t throw under the bus, comes to DC. Hey, where’s Aunti Zeituni?

Uh oh. Bono’s on the playlist. Watch your wallet while reaching for your Inaugural sickbag. Irish wailer may be one of the world’s richest men, but he wants you to pony up for third-world debt. He’s pretty much a harmless pol groupie, though.

Rip-off! CSM calls it Obama-palooza. Not hurl-blogging it, but helpfully suggests the potential for trainwrecks and internationally broadcast eff-bombs. I don’t think by “trainwreck” CSM is looking forward to Obama’s Inaugural Express going off the rails, by the way.

Just what any state wants in tough economic times. BaltSun: Inaug to cost Mayland $11 million. Sounds … hurtful double entendre not intended … conservative. 

This is more like it, via the Other McCain, the news that the whole hurl is pegged at … aim for the bowl … a record $145 million. 

Cal Thomas on the deep pit of high expectations Obama and his acolytes have dug from him, and themselves. He counsels … hope.

Next up: Hurl-Blogging the Inaugur-A-Palooza, Iranian Edition

UPDATE: Power-Outage Blogging the Inaugur-a-palooza

Topics: Obama

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:46 am on Wednesday, January 14, 2009

6 Responses to “Hurl-Blogging The Inaugur-A-Palooza, The Dry Heaves”

1. Vodkapundit » Someone Want to Hold His Hair? Says:
   January 14th, 2009 at 11:52 am

   [...] Posted by Stephen Green on 14 Jan 2009 at 09:52 am Jules Crittenden is sick of the inaugural already. Literally. [...]

2. AW1 Tim Says:
   January 14th, 2009 at 4:50 pm

   I may be ill.

   My advice to the nation is to start drinking heavily.

3. mojo Says:
   January 14th, 2009 at 5:33 pm

   “Keep working, keep drinking and, most importantly, take your television’s advice. You know, most TV’s recommend FAITH IN THE SYSTEM.

   Yes, FAITH IN THE SYSTEM - in easy to swallow propaganda form, or new fast-acting thought control…”

   –Firesign Theatre, 1971 (ahead of the curve AGAIN!)

4. Mary Stella Says:
   January 14th, 2009 at 7:26 pm

   Recalling Media’s foul cry when GWBush celebrated his inauguration with 40 million; how children were going hungry and with all the suffrage in the world, all these rich mean, greedy, heartless Republicans, meaninglessly wasting world’s poor resources.
   Where is the same media? Now the celebration festivities is over hundred million more. In a way, the wheel always comes to full circle, circumstances and humanities in the world has not changed, but the Media are now wearing a different blinders, and Obama is the equestrian.

5. The_Real_JeffS Says:
   January 14th, 2009 at 11:35 pm

   Does anyone know a good drinking game to play while watching the inauguration?

6. markthom Says:
   January 15th, 2009 at 12:16 pm

   Is it too early to start talking about the “failed Obama presidency” yet? If so, please let me know THE MOMENT we can do that. I’m rarin’ to go.

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