Hilarious Hypocrisy: Whiney Liberal Goes Bonkers over Rep. Paul Ryan’s Expensive Bottle of Wine, Silence on Pelosi’s Liquor Parties, Obamas’ Pricey Indulgences
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on July 9, 2011
I’m not a big wine drinker. When I’m being less frugal than usual, I’ll go for a cold bottle of Killian’s Red or Fat Tire every time before I’ll consider indulging in a bottle of expensive wine.
But that’s me. I’m not Michelle Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Valerie Jarrett, or Paul Ryan.
And if they use their own money (key here) to indulge a personal preference, so be it. It’s a free country — we are still allowed, if we can afford it, to spend our own money on what we choose to spend it on.
Unless we’re not liberals.
Great post about Rep. Paul Ryan’s pricey bottle of dinner wine (which he paid for with his personal card, and he’s a decent tipper) while out dining at Bistro Bis, and how a snoopy liberal reacted to it, over at Ann Althouse’s blog… here’s just the opening:
Some busybody business professor named Susan Feinberg pulled this trick on Paul Ryan and Talking Points Memo is lapping it up:
When [Professor Feinberg] saw the label on the bottle of Jayer-Gilles 2004 Echezeaux Grand Cru Ryan’s table had ordered, she quickly looked it up on the wine list and saw that it sold for an eye-popping $350, the most expensive wine in the house along with one other with the same pricetag.
Feinberg, an economist by training, was even more appalled when the table ordered a second bottle….
“We were just stunned,” said Feinberg…
She was outraged….
So, Feinberg was appalled, stunned, and outraged. That’s got to hurt.
[Feinberg] approached the table and asked Ryan “how he could live with himself” sipping expensive wine while advocating for cuts to programs for seniors and the poor. Some verbal jousting between Feinberg and the other two men ensued. One of the two men said he had ordered the wine, was drinking it and paying for it. In hearing how much the wine cost, Ryan said only: “Is that how much it was?”
The clash became especially heated when Feinberg asked the men if they were lobbyists.
“F—- her,” one of them replied and stood up in a menacing way, according to Feinberg’s account. Feinberg said her husband then “puffed out his chest” in response before the manager and a waiter came over and Feinberg decided she had said her piece and it was time to leave.
Time to retreat and reposition. Enough of making a show of yourself and your puffy-chested husband in a fancy restaurant that you’re about to get thrown out of. Get this story to TPM where it can go viral on the internet, where lots of folks stand ready to get appalled, stunned, and outraged.
Heh, heh. Good one, Ann.
If Pres. Obama can serve multiple bottles of expensive wine at a state dinner to the Communist Chinese that cost $399 each, what’s with the sputtering upset and outrage (and rude snoopiness) over Ryan’s cheaper bottles? Did Dear Leader whip out HIS card to pay for all those bottles of Quilceda Creek Cabernet Sauvignon or DuMol Chardonnay “Russian River”?
I think not.
From RedState, Possibly Drunk Rutgers Economist Susan Feinberg Whines To Susan Crabtree Who Is Hard Up For A Story:
What happens when a whiney drunk liberal economist runs to a whiney lefty former journalist hard up for a story of something on something to salvage her reputation? You get salacious nonsense like this from Talking Points Memo.
Horror of horrors, a possibly drunk and possibly crazy left-wing economist Rutgers named Susan Feinberg, and her husband who she probably calls her partner, saw Representative Paul Ryan and two other economists drink a $300 bottle of wine.
And all the lefty economist got was whine.
So she whined to Susan Crabtree, a former reporter turned lefty hacktivist, to write up a whine list lamenting Paul Ryan and friends daring to use . . . wait for it . . . no seriously, wait for it . . .THEIR OWN DAMN MONEY to buy the wine.
Ms. Crabtree felt the need to go to DEFCON 1 for this outrage that a member of Congress and his two economist friends would buy expensive wine with their own money. She’s never, ever written horribly about Barack Obama using taxpayer money for fancy wine at State Dinners. She’s never written salaciously about the liquor bills on Nancy Pelosi’s government funded plane.
But by God you get some failed Rutgers economist out on a birthday date with her husband at a hotel restaurant who gets all jealous that she’s not cool enough to hang out with Little Eddie Munster and his econ pals and . . . well . . . fire up the broom stick and quill pen, we’ve got a hot story and a little scandal on our hands.
We didn’t hear any liberals’ squawking when dethroned (lush, perhaps?) Queen Nancy Pelosi’s in-air bar and food bill on her taxpayer-funded private jet (thank you, taxpayers!) was nearly a thousand smackers — every bloody week. For more than two years. Or when the liquor bill for Team Obama was reported to be double that of Team Bush.
And did any liberals EVER squawk about that flippin’ jet of Nan’s???
We didn’t hear but maybe one or two liberal media sources being critical when FLOTUS Michelle Obama took 40 of her best friends on a lavish vacation in Spain, stayed in the Villa Padierna (a 5-star hotel), closed down an entire beach (yes, we reportedly had to pay the Spanish police bill for that), and dined on lobster. Nor about her $495 gardening boots. Nor about her ugly, expensive outfits — how many bottles of Rep. Ryan’s pinot noir would it take to pay for any one of these fashion disasters?
Which, if FLOTUS uses her own money, is perfectly acceptable. Not logical or in good taste, but acceptable.
This ill-fitting, strangely tiled FLOTUS cardigan outfit was designed by Sophie Theallet and cost $1,925
This weird radioactive number of Michelle's must have cost a fortune... where are my sunglasses?
We didn’t hear any liberals’ squawking when Barack’s Broadway date with Michelle back in May 2009 cost more than a quarter of a million dollars. But the liberal media did have harsh words to say about Nancy Reagan and Laura Bush buying new White House china (with private donations, not taxpayer dollars) to replace chipped sets.
How much does a bottle of wine cost when a Kennedy goes out dining, or Sen. John Kerry, or any other well-off Democrat? Would this idiotic woman check out the label of their bottles of vino and then pounce on them if she felt they were too expensive? How much was spent on the wine served at Chelsea Clinton’s lavish wedding, Susan?
Wonder how outraged Susan Feinberg’s would be to this mind-boggling, stick-it-to-the-taxpayers expense, reported by Judicial Watch. Would she rudely approach the former Speaker and “give her a piece of her mind” like she proudly did to Rep. Ryan?
Better still, would a leftist at Talking Points Memo write about Pelosi or Obama buying only “the good stuff” and billing America for it… EVER?:
Speaker Pelosi used Air Force aircraft to travel back to her district at an average cost of $28,210.51 per flight. The average cost of an international congressional delegation (CODEL) is $228,563.33. Of the 103 Pelosi-led CODELs, 31 trips included members of the House Speaker’s family.
One CODEL traveling from Washington, D.C. through Tel Aviv, Israel to Baghdad, Iraq from May 15-20, 2008, “to discuss matters of mutual concern with government leaders” included members of Congress and their spouses and cost $17,931 per hour in aircraft alone. Purchases for the CODEL included: Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Bailey’s Irish Crème, Maker’s Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewars scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniels whiskey, Corona beer and several bottles of wine.
From Mediaite, Economist Sees Red Over Rep. Paul Ryan’s $350 Wine Choice:
This is the kind of story that the political media eats up, like the time John McCain couldn’t remember how many houses he owned while he was calling then-Sen. Barack Obama an elitist, or all of those eco-conscious celebrities who fly around on fossil fuel-guzzling private jets. Fair enough, Ryan was drinking some pretty expensive wine.
However, Washington, DC is just an expensive place to eat, period. That’s why, unless I’m mooching off of a more well-heeled colleague, or there’s an open bar, you’ll always see me nursing a light beer and scarfing bar nuts. If I saw Paul Ryan, or any other legislator, at a place like Bistro Bis with an Amstel Light in hand, I’d probably sneer, “Poseur!”
Be that as it may, I think we all have the right to eat dinner without being annoyed by some other patron of the same upscale restaurant (the federal minimum wage won’t even get you a plate of fries at Bistro Bis) who thinks we’re spending too much on dinner.
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Unfortunately for us, Michelle’s stylists believe that the ticket price of a dress qualifies it as a work of beauty or something. Someone should tell FLOTUS and the rest of the gang that it is not the price tag that makes it or breaks it when it comes to fit or class.
Feinberg should get a life. I don’t drink high priced wines, but $300 compared to what the WH spends on their lavish parties is a drop in the bucket. Let’s not forget the Wagyu beef served at a “stimulus package” WH cocktail party.
Obama’s Wagyu beef – heh, heh had forgotten about that, although I’ve written about it several times. That’s a favorite of Dear Leader’s, and costs $100 a pound. You can buy a heck of a lot of tofu or arugula for that.
It’s so confusing being a Rep. Fan Boy these days. I hate liberals an their Lattes and I hate election time when Beer prices skyrocket because all my Reps suddenly get a taste for the lager. But damn. FRENCH Wine in a Bistro ( I had to type the “o” with my ring finger cause my pinky got locked on up tilt when I typed that word)
http://www.wiswine.com/
Try some of these from Wisconsin Sir or should I say Monsier