MONDAY, MARCH 9, 2026
We won't mention this again: As soon as Kristi Noem got sacked, the piling-on got started.
In Sunday's New York Times, Maureen Dowd took her turn at the helm of this ship. Along the way, she joined a cast of thousands in retyping the highlighted script:
‘Wuthering Heights,’ MAGA Style
Eat your heart out, Emerald Fennell.
You may have the alluring stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi cavorting on the moors in your crimson adaptation of “Wuthering Heights.” But for radioactive romance, you can’t beat Washington.
Emily Brontë’s Cathy and Heathcliff are selfish, manipulative creatures, destroying each other and all around them as they indulge their passions and egos. But their damage was kept to one windswept village.
With MAGA’s version of “Wuthering Heights,” the far less alluring but equally intertwined Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski have been cavorting over the swamp, scandalizing the capital as they’ve spread their cruelty far and wide. (To Lewandowski’s credit, he didn’t try to kill a dog like Heathcliff did. That’s Noem’s department.)
Holiday Barbie, as Robbie’s Cathy has been dubbed for her ostentatious dresses and hairstyles, pales in comparison with the costumes and Rapunzel extensions of ICE Barbie. Imprisoned in her marriage to Edgar Linton, Robbie’s Cathy gleams in elaborate gowns and necklaces. But Noem topped that. When she went to see migrants in prison in El Salvador, she sported a baseball cap with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement logo—and a gold Rolex Cosmograph Daytona that’s worth $50,000.
And so on from there.
It's true! Incessant costuming seemed to prevail during Noem's adventures at DHS. That said:
To our eye, the point of the costuming at that gulag-style prison was plainly not the gold watch.
To our eye, the El Salvador shoot looked like a scene straight out of some sequel to Apocalypse Now. The half-naked male prisoners were all half naked. Quite plainly, the lady was not.
We don't think the focus was really the watch! We promise not to roll our eyes at this timid bit of scripting again.
Additional bonus disclosure: We thought Emerald Fennell was right on target with her 2020 directorial debut, Promising Young Woman.
We haven't seen her version of Wuthering Heights.
Somerby is correct.
ReplyDeleteAll Republican voters are bigots.
Somerby-haters claiming that's not what Somerby meant, in 3...2...1...
DeleteSo much fucking winning!!! "One week into President Trump’s war on Iran, the most severe shock to energy markets since the 1970s is cascading through the world economy. The disruption quickly fed into higher gasoline and diesel prices at the pump, and higher mortgage rates and borrowing costs for the U.S. government, endangering Trump’s economic priorities." Also too, no fertilizer for crops. Just goes to show what a horrible prejudiced sadist David in Cal is. All these mangled brown Muslim bodies are worth the cost to me. But I am a grad of Uni of Chicago and career man, so I got mine, fuck you. Also helps I will be dead before SS& Medicare goes tits up.
ReplyDeleteApocalypse Now was a total sausage fest. You want Noem in a movie, just go with anything Sybil Danning or Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS.
ReplyDeleteThe ridiculous ad campaign that got her fired was a cowgirl fetish look that was all hers.