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Because We All Need to Watch Something Just Darling
What, exactly, does the upholding of the parliamentary vote to impeach South Korea’s Park Geun-hye mean for the region? We’re all wondering. Fortunately, Robert E. Kelly, associate professor of international relations in the Political Science and Diplomacy Department of Pusan National University, is on hand to explain:
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I thought she was the nanny.
Haha. My comment completely shows my old-fashioned mindset. Of course the woman is the mom.
The closest I ever came to a nanny was being one. ?
I was sure it was the nanny haha! There was something so frantic about her movements and body language that she seemed to be a person afraid of her boss. Then again, maybe the husband IS the boss.
I just watched it with sound. The wailing through the door. Hilarious.
Someone has got to tell that man his kids did the world a favor, making everyone smile.
Just a delight! I saw it both on MSNBC and Fox News. Something both sides of the political spectrum can agree on!
Interesting little tangent on the video going viral.
https://waddell.wordpress.com/2017/03/11/on-going-viral/
And there is already a political cartoon
The baby knew how to push a door open and get traction!!
So much for professionalism. So how we are supposed to take this person seriously about anything? He can’t even control his house for the 5 minutes of an interview.
I am so tired of being on conference calls with people working from home screaming children being completely out of control in the background. If you can not be a professional and set up a quiet professional space to do business then go into the office where you will have to be professional. You are obviously not responsible enough to work from home. Stop inflicting your children and your problems with them on others.
Would you want your worldview informed or your most powerful people on earth to be advised by someone who didn’t know what it was like to be ruled by a toddler and an infant in a walker? It makes me feel much better to know these are people like you and me with families they adore (and who clearly adore them right back). It gives them skin in the game, if you know what I mean.
C’mon. Lighten up.
Yes. Children are the reason we care about the political drama, at home and abroad. It is good to be reminded that people are why we care about impeachments across the ocean.
That’s exactly how I saw it!
Claire,
Is there some subtle message in all of this for women. For every Abraham Lincoln there is a Richard Nixon. Power is not an end in itself. The President of South Korea has ended her career in disgrace. Would she have been better off taking care of Mr. Kelly’s children & household? She would have done a far better job than the nanny could. I am not trying to be insulting to women. They have the potential to be a Margret Thatcher or Theresa May but they also must consider the possibility of being Park Geun-hye.
There may be other things in this world more important. Would it be so terrible to suggest considering these other things.
Regards,
Jim
You’re all horrible people who are completely aware of how intersectionally problematic this is. I can’t even. The New Statesman:
“Once again,” you suspect, means “every moment of my miserable life.” The conclusion:
It’s possible it’s a parody, but it’s not funny enough and has just the right amount of frumpy miserabilism to seem genuine.
Yeah, right.
love.
Unbelievable. I hope at some point she can be saved from herself.
Seems like a straightforward division of labor here. “Honey, you wrangle the kids while I wrangle the BBC.”
(Whose nappies need changing more often, I wonder? Something to contemplate when next the sun slips beneath the yardarm.)
I just got back from 3&1/2 weeks of helping with grandchildren about the same age. The video is priceless.
Children inadvertently do so much to keep their parents and grandparents from falling into a kind of false dignity. They remind us, always, that there’s hardly anything beyond ourselves that we can finally control.
I don’t get the idea that the video illustrates patriarchy. Right now my son in law is somewhat more often the one frantic to keep the kids out of the way while their mother works from home.
When my son was about three, he burst into a piano lesson I was giving, screaming bloody murder with a stream of red coming from his nose. I thought he had somehow broken his nose (or more likely, one of his older siblings had broken it for him). Turns out he had found a Red Hot candy and shoved it waaayyy up his nostril, where it began burning his nasal membranes. It took a while for that particular piano lesson to get back on course…
He’s a Korea expert living in Korea, the older girl looks like she could be half Asian, the adult woman looks Korean to me. I vote for wife. Here’s my native-Korean daughter at about the same age as the baby in the walker.
When my same Daughter was two and half, still in diapers, I took her with me to buy a new oboe. The Dealer works in her lovely old Victorian home about three hours away so Daughter and I sang songs and listened to Colin Powell on the radio describing Saddam Hussein’s WMD programs as we drove. Arriving at the Dealer’s, I sat Daughter in her place with a book or something and proceeded to try oboes. When Daughter began to stink, I excused myself and changed her diaper, not realizing that a little bit of diaper debris has fallen onto my shoe. I proceeded to track said brown stinking material onto the Dealer’s white carpet, leading to a horrified shriek from the Dealer and some unhappy words. I ended up paying an extra $100 for the oboe to cover the steam-cleaning costs.
At least I liked the oboe.
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Oh so beautiful !
It’s hard to identify the single funniest element of the video. Is it the Saturday Night Fever strut of the first child? The floating entrance of the second? I’d probably vote for Risky Business Mom entrance (socks and a hardwood floor?) but the additional layers of the one armed yank of the first child, the fact that the door managed to close before mom could drag them out, requiring them to reverse course- but wait she’s going to drag them out before finally lunging on her her knees to close the door. I’ve watched it 20 times and keep laughing.
No one has mentioned yet the no-look almost-shove the dad gives the first child. Cracked me up.
Also, apparently the Left can’t keep from being melodramatic about some people thinking she was the nanny (turns out she was the wife).
I knew that would happen. They’re so triumphant when they find something to be irate over. There happen to be perfectly logical reasons for thinking she was the nanny.
At first, I thought she was the nanny, too. The leftbots can get stuffed.