The Right-Wing Media's Obsession With Debbie Wasserman Schultz's Hair

[Judi Lynn]

The Right-Wing Media's Obsession With Debbie Wasserman Schultz's Hair
January 12, 2012 10:18 pm ET

Figures in the right-wing media have a puzzling habit of attacking Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz's hair. They have coupled this with other sexist attacks -- for instance, Rush Limbaugh's description of her as "one of those women you're happy somebody else married."

Conservative Media: "Frizzilla"; "She Of The Angry Perm"; She Uses "Mayonnaise" In Her Hair
Greg Gutfeld Calls Wasserman Schultz "Frizzilla." From Fox News' The Five:

GUTFELD (co-host): So, in my mind, which is made of felt and potatoes, Debbie Wasserman Schultz is the best thing to happen to Republicans since Ronald Reagan. Seriously, I've had wedgies less irritating than her. And that can only chafe the Democrats. Case in point: Once again the DNC chair links the Tea Party to the Tucson mass murder. So, Frizzilla, I bet you think the discourse in America, the discourse in Congress in particular, has really changed. [Fox News, The Five, 1/12/12]

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[applegrove]

1. The GOP always rips apart any future Democratic star. They attack like a pack of wild dogs.

[jberryhill]

2. They call Biden "Plugs" as a reference to hair plugs

Water.

Duck's back.

I would bet Ms. Wasserman Schultz is unlikely to waste a nanosecond of concern about it.

I'd rather have a bad hair day every niw and then, than to have what's inside my head screwed up 24/7.

[LeFleur1]

3. Hair

I like her hair as well as her brain power.

Criticism like this is pretty common for RWers. Their lack of thinking skills usually leaves them with inane comments about a whole raft of things.

[BlueCaliDem]

11. Yep. Rwingers are as shallow as a puddle after a drizzle.

And they're terrified of strong, opinionated, and intelligent women. I don't always agree with Wasserman-Schultz (too friendly with the GOP), but she's tough and she tells it like it is. Well, on teevee, she does.

[opihimoimoi]

4. Thats their level...reduced to the lowest denom...MOOT!!...HAIR is it?

Thats nit picking...

What else they got to whine on??

Just for that....NOBODY FOR PRESIDENT

[Luminous Animal]

6. Hello? The multiple posts and snarky remarks about Callista Gingrich's hair?

And DUers regular provided snark about Laura Bush's wardrobe and "vacant" eyes (whatever that means).

[opihimoimoi]

8. Trading WHINES is an art form these daze....its all fair in love and whines

[Luminous Animal]

9. So are ye fer it or agin it.

[opihimoimoi]

10. for/agin nit pickin?? Neither...I try to solve with perspectives and that

view of dueling Nits is not conducive to gooid thoughts...so corrosive

must be better ways....like Reason, Logic, Sanity/ Clarity,

[Luminous Animal]

5. DUers obsession with Callista Gingrich's hair. It is embarassing.

We are not immune to the idiocy.

[BlueCaliDem]

12. I'm sure Newtie is tickled pink you feel you need to defend his wife.

This is the second post you've put up in defense of a Republican. You do know you're on the Democratic Underground, right?

[Nye Bevan]

16. I didn't see it as either defending Newt's wife or defending Republicans,

just a comment on the irony of DUers attacking Republicans like Christie, Palin and Coulter based on their physical appearance and then acting shocked and horrified when Democrats are attacked in the same kind of way.

[jberryhill]

14. I have only praise for that accomplishment of technology

Vermin Supreme wears a rubber boot on his head.

He wears a rubber boot on his head because he put it there and he likes it that way.

If Ron Paul sported a Mohawk, I think we'd talk about it.

If Barack Obama died his hair purple, I think we'd talk about it.

There is a difference between a busy working person having messy hair, and someone who, in all likelihood, spends a lot of time making it look a certain way, as an expression of their aesthetic vision.

What is striking about Callista's hair is not that it is poorly executed. The amazing thing is the effort that must go into - intentionally - making it look the way it does.

It is quite a striking feature, and it is a CHOSEN one.

One's sense of aesthetics does relate to one's values. If a political figure wore fur as an iconic emblem of their image of themselves, I'm sure we would talk about it.

You are kidding yourself if you do not believe that hairstyles don't say something about the individual who chooses them.

If you dispute that point, then I would certainly like to hear your explanation as to why one of the signal cultural expressions of the zeitgeist of the late 1960's was titled HAIR.

Why have songs from a play about HAIR become anthems of a significant cultural element?



I earnestly solicit your response to that question.

[FarLeftFist]

7. Have these idiots ever been to Florida?! It's frizz central. Frizzy hair is the norm with the

HUMIDITY.

[Shankapotomus]

13. I thought Limbaugh said

"Conservatives love people"?

Really Rush? Then why are you calling Wasserman-Shultz unattractive on national radio?

[Javaman]

15. republicans: the party of heathers. nt

[graywarrior]

17. Her hair is spectacularly epic