Ann Althouse channels Sigmund Freud?

[elfs]

About half a year ago, I blogged about something that became known as L'affair d' Ann Althouse, in which law professor Althouse ran in tears from a legal conference in which one of the topics on discussion was the legal harms that had emerged from civil rights laws in the 1960s. Althouse was horrified to learn that there were legal scholars who believed that the federalization of state's powers through the Interstate Commerce Clause via the Civil Rights Acts had had detrimental effects on society, that there are people who "take moral and political ideas seriously." You can read about it in the link above, which goes into much greater detail, and has links to the original material.

Ann Althouse has once again confirmed why Brad DeLong, a popular blogger and centrist economist, has repeatedly nominated her The Stupidest Person Alive, an award he dishes out once in a while to people who say extraordinarily silly things.

Her latest is about the silly, "humanizing" YouTube video Hillary and Bill Clinton have put out, some kind of spoof on the last episode of The Sopranos, in which Hillary serves Bill carrot sticks.

Bill says "No onion rings?" and Hillary responds "I'm looking out for ya." Now, the script says onion rings, because that's what the Sopranos were eating in that final scene, but I doubt if any blogger will disagree with my assertion that, coming from Bill Clinton, the "O" of an onion ring is a vagina symbol.

She then goes on to discuss the symbolism of Hillary denying vagina Bill. In a follow-up in which Althouse puts on her dumb "I don't know what all the fuss is about" face,

Here, Bill, in retaliation for all of your excessive "O" consumption, you may have a large bowl of phallic symbols! When we hear him say "No onion rings?," the camera is on her, and Bill is off-screen, but at the bottom of the screen we see the carrot/phallus he's holding toward her. Oh, yes, I know that Hillary supplying carrots is supposed to remind that Hillary will provide us with health care, that she's "looking out for" us, but come on, they're carrots! Everyone knows carrots are phallic symbols. But they're cut up into little carrot sticks, you say? Just listen to yourself! I'm not going to point out everything.

Sometimes a carrot really is just a carrot.

Comments

[kenshardik]

Sounds like someone learned about "bad touch" in a Burger King bathroom....

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

From the 'Burger King'.

Damn he's creepy.

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

Someone needs a jolly good rogering.

I'm going to go listen to "Stuck in a Closet with Vanna White" by Weird Al. :-)

You need to correct a false statement.

[(Anonymous)]

Elf, you've made a false statement about me that you need to correct. I did not "run" out of a "conference" crying. I left a dinner table after a long dinner at about 10 pm after a conference and cried while speaking in private with someone outside of the restaurant. Much of the rest of what you've got there is distorted, but you really must correct the part that is flatly, factually wrong.

Ann Althouse

Re: You need to correct a false statement.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Very well; I stand corrected, and I apologize for misrepresenting your view of events. I provided links to the original material, both yours and Ron Bailey's, for those who wished to follow it, and readers can read the story in whatever depth they wish.

Y'know, though, I don't spend my afternoons trolling through google or technorati looking for obscure bloggers with sub-thousand readerships "to set a record straight."

Re: You need to correct a false statement.

[bolindbergh]

This reminds me of a Carly Simon song.

[nbarnes.livejournal.com]

Elf; now you know one of the other reasons that people feel that Ann Althouse is a self-obsessed, narcissistic lunatic.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes I do.

[damiana-swan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I read her "onion ring" post.

The woman seriously needs therapy; she's got a truly unhealthy fascination with everything Clinton. If she doesn't get control of it and soon, she's altogether too likely to end up as the subject of some grad student's clinical psych dissertation.

[kenshardik]

That girl could use some carrots, if you ask me.

[ewhac.livejournal.com]

Here's another example (http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2007/3/14/socialCommentaryACloserLookAtDickInABox) of over-analyzing cultural ephemera.