"I don't know what a bondage club is." Mika Brzezinski, MSNBC's "Morning Joe" co-host.
Please. Is Mika THAT naive? But then again she was absolutely prudish when the "Morning Joe" conversation once turned to vibrators....
"He [Michael Steele RNC chairman] says he was going to get the party in shape and he's doing it." Eugene Robinson, Wash Post editorial writer and "Morning Joe" talking head.
Repub Tucker Carlson broke the story of the RNC's $2,000 Hollywood venture to Voyeur - a B&D nightclub and RNC Chairman Michael Steele's outrageous tabs. Tucker: "Our questions remain: Why did the committee spend more than $17,000 on private jets in the month of February? How and why was RNC business conducted in a bondage-themed nightclub, and how and why were the nearly $2,000 in charges that resulted approved by RNC staff?"
One RNC head has rolled - and it's not Steele's. Steele wasn't even at Voyeur. He was on an airplane from Honolulu.
The night started with a dinner for 50 as a recruitment tool for new RNC "Young Eagles" and wound up at Voyeur. The guy coordinating the effort to attract young Repubs picked up the tab later reimbursed by the RNC.
Dana Milbank Wash Post: "Quite a menu they have at Voyeur, according to write-ups in the Los Angeles Times about the new club: "Impromptu bondage and S&M 'scenes' being played out on an elevated platform by scantily clad performers throughout the night." Chairs "detailed with the metal hardware and bondage straps of leather fetishists. . . . One with a harness that designer Ted Nemeth calls the Restraint chair." "One female performer with a horse's bit in her mouth was being strapped to the wall by another." "The dark, leather-heavy interior is reminiscent of the masked orgy scene" from the movie "Eyes Wide Shut." "There is also a heavy net suspended above the club's lounge area where performers writhe above the heads of club-goers. Even more provocative scenes are played out in an enclosed glass booth area adjacent to the club's dance floor area."
Related: NYP "Kink Stink over GOP Pricey "Bonding" Wash Post: "RNC Spending Renews Criticism Over Michael Steele's Spending" NYTimes has two stories: "A Club With A Hollywood Tint" sidebar
The Huffington Post is writhing in rolling orgasms....
A svelte Karl Rove deftly dodges questions about Voyeur on Jay Leno - who joked earlier in his monologue that if Republicans are the party of family values, what are the Democrats doing that we don't know:
I'd blame it all on the Minority Whip.
ReplyDelete...and what was the Speaker really doing with those gentlemen before she brought the oversized gavel to the chamber?
ReplyDeleteI like Michael Steele are the Republicans fixing on shooting themselves in the foot? Tucker Carlson really thinks this is the most pressing concern of the Republican Party? The perception that they might, just might appeal to the young and hip? No need to let those young whipper snappers in the Party. How again do Republicans expect to replenish their ranks?
ReplyDeleteBeing the party of free enterprise, there's a reason most pole dancers and topless bar juggies are Repubs.
ReplyDeleteThe Republicans should go to more strip clubs and bondage bars. There's a lot of money to be raised in those places. Michael Steele should hire that guy back and ask him to get a list of similar venues throughout the country.
ReplyDeleteYou know Mika is a naughty girl! It's all about Plausible Deniability. You know how the game is played? Vibrator? What's that?
ReplyDeleteDid KJ really refer to "young whipper snappers"?
ReplyDeletejimbotalk said...
ReplyDeleteDid KJ really refer to "young whipper snappers"?
Jimbotalk, I was using Don Rumsfeld lingo "Hey you kids stay off my lawn" "Hey you kids stay out of those Hollywood bars"
We are 216 days out from the November 2nd elections. Someone tell Tucker Carlson, you don't change horses in the middle of the stream...this isn't even in the top 50 things the Republicans need to worry about. Michael Steele is the Chairman, they need to work with what they have....The Republican party is constantly being characterized as the party of stuffy old white guys...this incident just gave them some street cred LOL! And Tucker Carlson wants Steele punished? Really for flying in planes, and staying in hotels and attracting young doners? The RNC is now the Motel 6 budget Party? GRIN.
Hey Michael Steele, You Pitch That Big Tent!
Was Tucker Carlson one of the dancers at that bar?
ReplyDeletekeyboard jockey could not agree with you more, when I read that this was Tucker, I thought to myself he is sounding more like david brooks or david frum, bashing the GOP, you want to say to them SHUT UP your just giving amnnuntion to msm, they love this , having a conservative writer bash their own, but I do get some hints of that Tucker I remember on msnbc bashing alot of things in the last administration that would make me mad, one reason I ended up never watching him. Love Rove, he is so funny, I am reading his book and its well worth it, sounds like he really wrote it himself, not like many others who don't.
ReplyDeleteI guess it was the snapping whip image which attracted my attention...
ReplyDeleteI've got a great photo of a dominatrix snapping a whip! Actually it is a drawing.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Michelle Obama got all those S&M belts at Voyeur...
I was going to call this post MAN OF STEAL....
Oh, Lordy, Lordy, sounds like "Dana" knows whereof he speaks.
ReplyDeleteKJ, right. Pitch that big tent. LOL
Oh, Lordy, Lordy, sounds like "Dana" knows whereof he speaks.
ReplyDeleteKJ, right. Pitch that big tent. LOL
Apparently nothing's gonna happen to "The Man of Steele." http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/03/steele-faces-critics-but-gop-c.html?hpid=topnews
ReplyDeleteWash Post March 31:
The GOP is on the ascendancy, fundraising is way up (even though expenditures are WAY up) and Steele is a great fundraiser, right smack in the middle of fundraising season. He'd have to do a lot worse to get the boot.
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