Tina Fey, like other Hollywood-created stars including Lena Dunham, is showing herself to be a box office bust.That's Ben Shapiro, who goes on to tell Fey that though she's "very talented... her pokes at Palin did her no good with mainstream America, and her cutesy 'too-smart-for-the-room' routine does her no favors with audiences." No, really: Ben Shapiro's giving Tina Fey career advice.
Dunham Alert also for this Maurice Black column:
Although Girls never fails to find humor in its characters’ haplessness, it also reflects the disturbing reality that more than half of college graduates under 25 are now unemployed or working jobs that don’t require a degree.The title is "HBO'S 'GIRLS' OFFERS STARK FISCAL LESSONS IN AGE OF OBAMA." According to Black Dunham "unwittingly lends credence to moves by governors such as Pat McCrory in North Carolina or Rick Scott in Florida to shift higher education funding into fields that have better job placement rates." Maybe he's thinking of Laverne & Shirley.
(Black, BTW, is Vice President of the Moving Picture Institute, progenitor of that "youthful pop music video that alerts the hipster set to the perils of artificially low interest rates" we were talking about the other day; given his obvious commitment to agenda-driven entertainments, it must drive him nuts that Dunham isn't aware of what a conservative message she's sending; I imagine him yelling "You're one of us and you don't even know it, Lena!" at his TV while masturbating furiously.)
There are many other Dunham dumps at Breitbart.com, but let's close with one about an older favorite: The communist menace that is Law & Order. Wingnuts have had a hard-on for the show and its treasonously topical story lines for years, and now Warner Todd Huston brings the fist-shaking fury as L&O makes hay of Todd Akinism:
A character sitting in the witness box then says, "It's nearly impossible for a victim of legitimate rape to become pregnant." This is followed by looks of disgust by the two female lead detective characters sitting in the courtroom gallery.Jesus Christ, people, do I have to spell it out for ya?
To subtly drive home an allusion to a politician like Todd Akin, on the lapel of the character testifying is a prominent U.S. flag pin, just like one a conservative politician might wear. How often do you think characters on Law & Order: SVU have worn flag pins?Yeah, they may act regular, but that guy who played Lennie Brisco? He was in musicals!
UPDATE. Some extra culture-war nuggets for you: Our old friend Mark "Gavreau" Judge at Acculturated, musing on gay marriage, gives us the line of the week:
It is important to celebrate tolerance, while keeping watch to make sure that the tolerance itself doesn’t become oppression.The rest of the column never equals this, though it does tell us that Dan Savage is the real bully. Second place winner: Tevi Troi at Real Clear Politics, in his brow-squeezer "Can Republicans Close the Pop Culture Gap?" --
A move towards hipness must come from the party leaders themselves...Comrades, the hipness of mere apparatchiks will not suffice -- the party leaders must themselves be hanging and banging. Draft a memo!
The same Breitbart that stands for all that is good and right--like reporting where the presidential children are spending spring break.
ReplyDeleteHow often do you think characters on Law & Order: SVU have worn flag pins?
Probably about as often as the average viewer would take time to look for such a thing. WTF is wrong with these people?
Hard to find 'approval ratings' as such for someone who doesn't hold public office or, really, do anything important, but this ABC poll says only 8% of voters would vote for Palin, for anything: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/31/why-sarah-palin-s-reputation-has-plummeted-as-bill-clinton-s-has-grown.html And that was in 2010! Don't you have to at least break the single-digit mark before you can claim to speak for Real America?
ReplyDeleteThe same way she made sparks fly around Rich Lowry's living room, Palin makes all the male conservative shut-ins think she's the MILF of America's dreams.
ReplyDeleteIn their minds she speaks for America just as they so desperately wank for America.
After reading his silly 9th grade essay for composition class serious column about the hipness quotient in stodgy old white man politics, here's the shorter Tevi Troi:
ReplyDelete"Obama knows waaay too much about popular culture. Mitt Romney knows exactly enough."
I guess they don't recognize anything "ripped from the headlines" unless it was from Der Angriff.
ReplyDeleteMy wife used to work on a reality show called Starting Over, in which women down on their luck lived in a mansion with a shrink, a social worker, etc. and had sessions of self-improvement until they "graduated." One of the gurus was an impressive woman named Iyonla Van Zant, a totally charismatic black woman who told residents, when they asserted one hapless defense or another, "You're makin' that up!" Which they were.
ReplyDeleteRoy, as regards Tevi Troi: You're makin' that up. "A move toward hipness" is something Bruce McCall (or I) would write for a humor piece for the New Yorker. It can't be true.... Or can it...?
Again we have to take it as read that Hollywood is a giant monolithic entity, much like AM and precisely as evil, who says "YES, THIS WOMAN NOBODY LIKES, LET US PUT HER INTO POPULAR CULTURE. LET US DO THIS VIA TV, WHICH WE ARE NOT TRADITIONALLY ASSOCIATED WITH. WE SHALL DO THIS EVEN THOUGH IT SHALL LOSE US MONEY. BWA HA HA."
ReplyDeleteAnd when Tina Fey was popular and Lena Dunham apparently is popular - is she? I hear she's got a popular show, but most of what I hear about her is "GRAR ARAR GAGARGSGH OBAMA" - that was the claw of the gigantic Hollywood machine, which is voiced by Harlan Ellison. But now that Tina Fey's apparently not popular, according to Ben Shapiro, and when Lena Dunham's star fades, that will be the unimpeachable will of the people.
It is the ancient and unbreakable principle of principes ego vincere caudis tu perdis.
Apart from it being a nightmare of a boot stamping on a human face forever, there's a lot to like about Ben Shapiro's world. It's simple, and runs according to very understandable principles, with no chaos to muddle up the mix. One is tempted to say that tides go out, tides go in, and Ben Shapiro can explain that. It's comforting.
Remember when Tina Fey turned the surreal experience of looking like the hilariously inept Republican vice-presidential candidate into a hilarious episode of her show, with plenty of indication that she knew exactly how the absurd thing is?
ReplyDeleteBen Shapiro does not, because he his a culture-less dipshit.*
*which is not to say that not being a 30 Rock obsessive makes you a culture-less dipshit. You can not like the pop culture things I like. You just can't be a whiny dorklord about the pop culture things I like.
"A move towards hipness...."
ReplyDeleteDelivered with the same gravity as the Politburo reporting on the dangers of imperialist rock and roll in 1956.... ("We must not allow a mineshaft stringed instrument gap!")
Now, I know that most of the wingnutz are too young to remember Dobie Gillis being generally superior to his addled friend, Maynard G. Krebs, but their obsession with "hipness" seems to stem from something out of the `50s (which also indicates that they're never going to catch up).
But, I do look forward to Reince Priebus in a ponytail, dressed all in black, juggling his iPad, iPhone, iPod and iPad mini all the while bemoaning Green Day losing their edge.
That wouldn't be nearly as silly as what he's been doing lately.
that was the claw of the gigantic Hollywood machine, which is voiced by Harlan Ellison
ReplyDeletethis is literally the best thing said by anyone, ever
In Ben Shapiro's world, Dagny Taggart's trains run on time, too.
ReplyDeleteLena Dunham has starred in exactly one, count 'em, one art-house movie. Which she also wrote and directed, and which made $389,000 at the box office. Which is about $389,000 dollars more than any film of Ben Shapiro's, if anyone's counting. From this single data point he draws a line straight to....oh, who gives a fuck? You can draw any line through a single point. Shapiro's just seizing the opportunity to wring out another hate-wank over somebody he's convinced is his moral inferior making more money than he is.
ReplyDeleteOnce again, Mark Judge reveals more--much more--than he intends.
ReplyDeleteIt is important to celebrate tolerance--
Hold it. Celebrate? Did he really say celebrate?
That is a first-class slip of the lip there. First off, anyone can celebrate anything. Recently, there was a holiday where a whole lot of people celebrated a mythical saint driving all the serpents off an island by swilling cheap beer with green food coloring in it. You didn't have to be Catholic or in Ireland or even remotely Irish. Celebrating something means you didn't have anything more pressing to do that day.
The verb you want to use around "tolerance" is practice. As in difficult, time-consuming, and thankless practice. Astonishing how Judge isn't using that word.
Not that I go looking for these things (shame, because I could get a prime blogging space) but I can recall seeing many characters on the various iterations of L&O wearing flag pins, especially since 9/11. But there I go again, basing my statements on the shows that air in real life and not the ones that air in my head.
ReplyDeleteI Have No Clue And I Must Blog
ReplyDeleteThis is immediately evocative of the old Something Awful joke, "I have no brain and I must post" but it's just obvious enough to avoid accusations of plagiarism while still being hilarious enough that it compels an upvote.
ReplyDeleteI especially love this line:
ReplyDeleteHer Date Night with Steve Carell performed well, but worse than initially expected (it did not break $100 million domestically).
Unlike all those other comedies that clear nine figures in the U.S, I suppose.
Shapiro:
ReplyDeleteTina Fey is very talented; her writing is often incredibly sharp. But her pokes at Palin did her no good with mainstream America, and her
cutesy “too-smart-for-the-room” routine does her no favors with
audiences.
I love that it's become accepted practice (not solely among conservative culture critics, but especially among conservative culture critics) to try to invent a reason why every movie/TV show/genre does well or poorly. Apparently, it's no longer enough for people to avoid a certain movie because it doesn't look very good - we have to use science on this thing. And by "science," I mean "shit I made up to confirm my pre-existing beliefs."
Oh, and of course Shapiro's reason is about the dumbest I've ever heard. You know, I think it would be nice if one of these people rambling on about what "Red America" thinks had actually spent some significant period of time here. But there I go again, rambling on about knowledge.
Maybe as a gesture of good faith to culture-war rightists, Law and Order could at some point have one of its stars be a former Republican senator!
ReplyDeleteGreat FSM almighty, I will vow not to make fun of Red Dawn anymore if they stop writing this crap. They are constitutionally incapable of enjoying art and pop culture, and can only piss all over it in an attempt to mark it as their own.
ReplyDeleteIt is important to celebrate tolerance, while keeping watch to make sure that the tolerance itself doesn’t become oppression.
ReplyDelete…Wow. That is… poetry. (Vogon poetry, but still. Remember, kids, when they say "freedom," they really mean privilege!) That Mark Judge line should be their new slogan. They can even do variations:
It is important to celebrate emancipation, while keeping watch to make sure that emancipation itself doesn’t become slavery.
It is important to celebrate labor, while keeping watch to make sure that labor doesn’t get a living wage.
It is important to celebrate women, while keeping watch to make sure that women themselves don’t become uppity.
(Oh, who are we kidding? They'll never celebrate that stuff!)
Hey, judge not, lest ye be Mark Judge.
ReplyDeleteActually, I would bet real money that Ben Shapiro's response to the word "work" is exactly the same as Maynard's: (Recoils and shrieks in horror): "Work!"
ReplyDeleteOh I would so love to see Santorum and Gingrich move toward hipness.
ReplyDeleteBut it's so obvious that her mocking of Palin in 2008 is the reason her sitcom got canceled in 2013!
ReplyDeleteTechnically, it should evoke the first one in that vein..
ReplyDeleteBet if Gingrich doesn't take off a few lbs. he'll be moving toward hip replacement sooner than hipness.
ReplyDeleteDon't be dissing the Völkischer Beobachter.
ReplyDeleteShorter Ben Shapiro: Tina Fey is a Friend of Hamas. No exaggeration.
ReplyDelete...on the lapel of the character testifying is a prominent U.S. flag pin, just like one a conservative politician might wear.
ReplyDeleteumm...haven't all prominent politicians been wearing the flag bling since Bush & Company looked the other way on September 11, 2001?
posted before reading others.
ReplyDeleteI see that I'm not alone in catching this tell from the conservatoid Huston slips, giving us a (not rare enough) glimpse into the bizarre haze these folks shamble around in.
Maybe he said exactly what he meant. You can throw a party for tolerance without being its friend, or even inviting it.
ReplyDeleteHer real appeal for nitwits like Shapiro lies precisely in his criticism of Fey: "her cutesy 'too-smart-for-the-room' routine", No one would ever say that about Palin. No matter that there's not only no replacement for her Fox gig in sight, but that it became a running joke; she shows up at the CPAC circle-jerk brandishing a hogshead of sugar slurry, defending her kids' right to lose their teeth even faster than if they started getting into the Wasilla meth, and they don't care if her new book about the war on Xmas goes straight to the remainder tables; she still has that certain quality that makes everyone think, damnit, if she can grab the national spotlight for a few years, why can't I? Can Tina Fey do that for them? You betcha not.
ReplyDeleteA little bit of context for Judge's "Dan Savage is the real bully" thing: Michele Bachmann's husband, Marcus, works the "reparative therapy" scam, in which gay men who are uncomfortable with their sexuality (almost always due to family and/or religious pressures) are told that they can become straight, or a reasonable facsimile thereof, through therapy, sometimes involving expensive retreats. Not only does this pseudopsychology not do what it promises, and sometimes does significant harm, but the ranks of its practitioners contain a lot of men who insist that they themselves were "cured" as "proof" that their quackery works. If it seems like dirty pool to go after Bachmann by pointing out that he not only is practicing the sort of bad medicine favored by deeply-closeted, self-hating gay men--and, really, it is--then it's also important to balance that against not only the harm done to individuals but also the maintenance of the myth that gay rights aren't important because LGBT people can choose not to be that way.
ReplyDeleteYes, like how the right celebrates Remington Gamemaster Martin Luther King day.
ReplyDeleteIt's a stupid, stupid mistake. He could call tolerance an aspiration or a goal or make a comparison to the shining city on the hill or murmur nostalgically about William Penn's colony. But saying exactly what you mean (and not having an editor catch it) is exactly why Acculturated is a backwater, and is going to stay a backwater.
Coming September 2013: Lena Dunham is Dagny Taggart!!
ReplyDeleteBen Shapiro's Atlas Shrugged III: The Shruggening
Yeah, well, I Have No Ass And I Must Shit would also fit that context.
ReplyDelete"For with what Judgement ye judge, it shall be Judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be taxed at the Eisenhower-era rates."
ReplyDeleteObvious Anagram and the Topdown Hipsters
ReplyDeleteActually, I do recall at least one of the detectives wearing a flag pin on LAO regularly.
ReplyDeleteHmm...I wonder - purely theoretically, of course - how Sarah Palin would have done if she'd had a TV show like Tina Fey? Oh, wait...
ReplyDeleteBut interestingly, they do have mouths, they just don't laugh.
ReplyDeleteWell, it's true, that for anyone who aspires to be a wildly successful grifter, despite being hampered with ignorance, lack of grace, and petty mean-mindedness, Sarah Palin is a helluva role model.
ReplyDeleteA move towards hipness must come from the party leaders themselves...
ReplyDeleteI just had a fleeting and utterly horrifying vision of them doing a Harlem Shake video at a CPAC panel...and Jonah and K-Lo were...oh god no, I can't, it's just too awful...
Although Girls never fails to find humor in its characters’ haplessness, it also reflects the disturbing reality that more than half of college graduates under 25 are now unemployed or working jobs that don’t require a degree.
ReplyDeleteThis is, of course, a national scandal. But Black can't be assed to know that corporations are sitting on hundreds of billions in cash and demand is what is lagging. One might be able to tease out the need for, oh I don't know, stimulus here -- that and rapine taxations of piles of unused corporate profits -- but that's far beyond Black's schtick.
"...her pokes at Palin did her no good with mainstream America..."
ReplyDeleteCorrect me if I'm wrong here, but didn't Palin actually bask in all of the attention that Fey's impersonation brought her? Come to think of it, I seem to vaugely recall Palin even had a cameo on Saturday Night Live - either that, or at the very least she and Fey appeared on stage together somewhere - where Grifter Bitch was all but visibly preening in the additional spotlight time and opportunity for self-promotion that Fey's rather gentle spoof was generating for her.
Of course, Palin being Palin, once that source of whoring had dried up for her, she immediately flip-flopped and started blubbering non-stop about how cruelly she had been treated by eve-ull Hollywood for the sake of gulling her support base of rubes.
<> "...and her cutesy 'too-smart-for-the-room' routine..."
Uh, this asshole did just defend Sarah Palin, right?
How many times do I have to post the link to Mitch McConnel's staff (sic) doing the Harlem Shake? Don't make me do it again, people. I have a hard time finding the links now that I've gouged my eyes out.
ReplyDeleteIts totally the case that the right wing would happilly grant Dan Savage all the rights he wants if he just wouldn't be so smug and agressive about it. Its like the way they love to talk about
ReplyDeleteI'm reminded of the distinction drawn between the good black leaders, and the bad ones, as in this pricelessly badly written answer to an internet question:
Summary: Booker T. Washington focused on having education for real life jobs and not asking for equality from the whites. He just focused on getting help from the whites and accepting their place as blacks on earth. WEB Dubois focused on the exact opposite things that of Booker T. Washington. Dubois focused on a strategy called the gradualist political strategy. The gradualist political strategy tells that Dubois was very focused on blacks being book smart to get any where in life. Back in the days when racism was a huge problem there were two main leaders that stepped into play to help control the issues. Even though they were completely opposite both of them made huge changes in the segregation of the United States of America, their names will never be forgotten, Booker T. Washington and WEB Dubois.
Hm...talk about pricelessly badly written. I blame gremlins.
ReplyDeleteActually it all comes together in this one post: I've been saying for years (to the indifference of millions) that, while Tine Fey's Palin imitation is pretty good, the actress who really looks most like Palin is Mariska Hargitay.
ReplyDeleteDoes this stuff ever remind me of my younger days as a church-going, god-fearing teenager who desperately craved validation for my favorite "Christian rock" acts. Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I left all of that stuff behind. For whatever reason, these folks haven't been able to do the same.
ReplyDeleteBreitbart comments are an endless source of fascination for me.
ReplyDeleteWorld Net daily and Conservative New Source aren't bad, either.
These people exist, folks. I think they do, anyway...
I thought Tina Fey was the MILF of America's dreams. Then again, when someone told Tina Fey that she was the thinking man's Megan Fox, Tina said that Megan Fox was the thinking man's Megan Fox. Which is Tina Fey is the MILF of America's dreams.
ReplyDeleteEdit buttom! Err, button!
ReplyDeleteGood catch Hank: "Celebrate" = lip service.
ReplyDeletedefending her kids' right to lose their teeth even faster than if they started getting into the Wasilla meth,
ReplyDelete"If"?
I see we're on the same page.
ReplyDeleteDetective Mike Logan, played by Chris Noth from 1990 to 1995. He wore a flag pin for more than 100 episodes. I suppose someone should point that out to Ben but really, what would be the point of introducing him to an actual fact at this point?
ReplyDeleteTo subtly drive home an allusion to a politician like Todd Akin, on the
ReplyDeletelapel of the character testifying is a prominent U.S. flag pin, just
like one a conservative politician might wear.
How dare they use the words of real-life Republican candidates for US Senate to tar someone who's obviously conservative, based on his use of an actual conservative argument and his shallow ostentatious version of patriotism.
I mean, that's what WTH is all up in the bows about, right? Yet another installment of "How dare you quote us accurately in your factual portrayals of us as stupid or mendacious reactionary psychopaths?"
Except maybe for the last line of the same post.
ReplyDeleteGingrich is more in the "hip fracture" territory these days.
ReplyDeleteThat's a tough call. It could be argued that the original is well enough known that you're allowed to allude without citation, as would be the case if you were riffing on, for example, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" or "To be or not to be" or "I am aware of all Internet traditions."
ReplyDeleteI figured he was borrowing the term from the "Celebrate Diversity" posters you used to see around campuses and stuff - I thought it sounded dumb on those, too, but at least it was a nice idea and more sensible than celebrating tolerance.
ReplyDeleteBridesmaids made $169 million domestically. Why can't Tina Fey be more like Kristen Wiig?
ReplyDeleteLaw&Order has been a burr under the conservative saddle from the first days.
ReplyDeleteIn the nineties, they did a devastating takedown of a fictional independent counsel investigating white house doings, who in a torrent of zealotry started investigating the witnesses subpoenaed to testify about those doings, and then started investigating the witnesses subpoenaed to to testify about the witnesses' doings, and then started investigating witnesses subpoenaed to testify about those witnesses' doings, and finally wound up subpoenaing Jack McCoy, who was prosecuting a tangential matter involving a white house aide.
Any of this sound familiar?
The L&O writers were unable to resist the obvious cliche, and thus Jack McCoy got to trot out the "have you no shame" line while testifying before the overzealous independent counsel, but they were right, and they also gave McCoy, if I recall correctly, a line about "$40 million investigating nothing."
" 'Repent, Harlot!' Said the Breitbartman."
ReplyDeleteMy God, you're right! And the actress who looks most like Paul Ryan is Amy Poehler. Wheels within wheels, man.
ReplyDeleteBut hospitals are where his marriages go to die.
ReplyDeleteWe could hope for a matter/antimatter reaction.
ReplyDeleteThere's a reason "ripped from the headlines" is a thing. If you don't want L&O to use it, don't say it.
ReplyDeleteWhich version of Red Dawn? Because my chortling about the all-powerful invasion of the Norks will continue until Hollywood remakes it again with a combined Tibetan/Taiwanese invasion force.
ReplyDeleteIs this where I register my disappointment that Roy didn't include anything from The Umlaut in this go-around?
ReplyDeleteAt first I thought at the time Savage was being a little dickish with that, but then I remembered that grownups don't consider being misidentified as gay as anything to be upset about. Marcus could just lisp "No I'm not, I'm as heterosexual as the average Republican who's all worried about gays all the time" and go on about his day.
ReplyDeleteIt's widely rumored that her oldest child, Track, went into the National Guard (and thence to Iraq) as a way of escaping some of the trouble that he got into in his hometown, but I don't know if there have ever been any particular details provided.
ReplyDeleteIn Fey's book, she describes Palin as being cordial and offering to make on her kids babysit Fey's kids during the show.
ReplyDelete"Get stuffed," the Harlot replied.
ReplyDelete"Love Ain't Nothing But Zhdanovism Misspelled"
ReplyDeleteAha! Chris Noth, who went on to play Mr. Big in Sex and the City, which has been darkly reimagined, in Brooklyn further down the income scale, as Girls; something, something, Agenda 21. Connect the dots, sheeple!
ReplyDeleteWhat was the culture con take on Bridesmaids, anyway? I know they've spent the last few years trying to claim crude comedy for the cause, but I don't know how they'd respond to a crude comedy with a principally female cast.
ReplyDeleteTo be fair, I think the whole Todd Akin-alike thing is a bad idea, but for a very different reason. The "ripped from the headlines" thing has been a disaster ever since they started focusing on political and pop culture references over actual crimes. It's lazy and gimmicky, but for some reason the culture cons never feel a need to write about that aspect. That's what happens when you start dwelling on politics in fiction - you blind yourself to whether or not it's actually good or bad as fiction.
ReplyDeleteThe sad thing is, I think the L&O writers were actually trying to appease conservatives the last few seasons. They did a lot of episodes on partisan political controversies, with the right-of-center ones (Climategate and ACORN spring to mind) played mostly straight, while many of the left-of-center ones received adjustments to make them more conservative friendly (e.g. turning Karl Rove into a Democratic consultant for the Valerie Plame episode). Somehow, it never occurred to me to take to the Internet and whine about it, and I don't think MSNBC would have broadcast my beliefs if I had. The only thing that offended me about those episodes is how lazy they were.
Exactly. Not to mention that it wasn't the flag pin that made the allusion to Todd Akin kind of the opposite of subtle.
ReplyDeleteIn fairness, I'd respect that move, if true.
ReplyDeleteNah, too obvious. Just keep with the same simplistic moral dilemmas and the red staters will follow you wherever
ReplyDelete"Comrades, the hipness of mere apparatchiks will not suffice -- the party
ReplyDeleteleaders must be themselves be hanging and banging."
And that's when they're not out runnin' and gunnin'. Oh, the burdens of office.
the myth that gay rights aren't important because LGBT people can choose not to be that way.
ReplyDeleteWell, after all, in exactly the same way, religious freedom isn't important being fundamentalists can just choose to become high-church Episcopalians.
"It is important to celebrate tolerance, while keeping watch to make sure that the tolerance itself doesn't become oppression."
ReplyDeleteOh, aren't you just ADORABLE (pats Mark on the head, pinches his cheeks)!?!?! Now why don't you go play in traffic.*
*I'm sorry... did that cross the line between tolerance and oppression?
"The Whimper of Whipped Douthats"
ReplyDeleteBoehner should just declare himself the mayor of 1600 Pennsylvania Av. on Foursquare. That'll bring in the youth vote.
ReplyDeleteThis is one of those instances where it's probably best to take one's cue from Ionesco's The Bald Soprano: "I don't know. Let's not try to know."
ReplyDeleteMickey Rooney's still alive - break out the yellow face make-up and get him to play the sadistic Kuomintang colonel!
ReplyDeleteKnew that would get your attention.
ReplyDeleteHey, that's pretty funny! You just reminded me how my churchiest friends in high school were hellbent on getting me to agree that the Christian rock band Petra was every bit as good as my Satanist bands. Why, if you would just give Petra a fair try, you'd realize there was no need to ever listen to Led Zeppelin, Ozzy, or the White Album!
ReplyDeletePaul Ryan should be louder, angrier and have access to a time machine.
ReplyDeleteI used to think that there was some obscure point to the wingnutz going on and on about the culture wars, something vaguely totalitarian and mechanistic in origin, but, lately--at least in the case of the Breitbots--I'm beginning to think that they're just carrying on the tradition of Breitbart himself. He started Big Hollywood because he wanted to put his thumb in Hollywood's eye, mostly because he was a talentless shit and a bore and the industry had him accurately pegged (the only skill he'd shown was a rather clumsy understanding of editing, after all). So, young Ben and crew are just continuing in The Big Asshole's footsteps, wanking about being outsiders.
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty much the schtick at Big Government, as well, since Breitbart had long had a reputation as a leaping screamer rather than an insider. So, yes, dumb remarks substituting for analysis are always part of the Big/Big ballgame. Like Breitbart himself, they imagine themselves to be artistes and insiders when they've never been anything more than poseurs.
Nope, Little Ben, you're not going to get the lead in the next remake of "The Judy Garland Story."
"Pretty Maggie Gallagher Moneyeys."
ReplyDeleteMultiple identities?
ReplyDeleteTry not to get banned to the Facebook section here, DA, because there is no Facebook section here.
I imagine him yelling "You're one of us and you don't even know it, Lena!" at his TV while masturbating furiously.
ReplyDeleteSee, conservatives just don't have this kind of imagination.
Awwwwwwwwwwww. Reeeeeeeeeaally?
ReplyDeleteIIRC, it was vandalizing (slashing tires, smashing windows) on Wasilla's school buses.
ReplyDeleteI think she looks more like Alfred E. Newman.
ReplyDeleteIs.
ReplyDeleteA crunchy new dessert topping from the Makers of Cool Wuss?
ReplyDeleteSorry, Denny Boo-Boo, what's your problem again?
ReplyDelete"A move towards hipness must come from the party leaders themselves"
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm sure some of them could use a hip transplant... ;)
Still suffering from butthurt, Denny Boo-Boo?
ReplyDeleteSNL did an opening sketch with Palin replacing Fey onstage and if I heard them right they exchanged "bitch" and "slut" while passing one another.
ReplyDeleteOMG. My eyes!
ReplyDeleteOh, Tevi Troy gets my first place vote:
ReplyDeleteWhen Romney tried to get more contemporary, though, he faced a backlash from a hostile Hollywood. After Ann Romney noted that she and Mitt watched Modern Family, the show’s creator ungraciously tweeted a dig at Romney’s position on gay marriage, writing that “We'll offer her the role of officiant at Mitch & Cam's wedding. As soon as it’s legal.” Needless to say, fellow Modern Family watcher Obama got nothing but accolades and financial support from the show’s bigwigs.
If they wanted Mitch & Cam's vote, they could support gay marriage. Instead, they'll keep fucking that homophobic chicken, but with a phresh new soundtrack.
A move towards hipness must come from the party leaders themselves, like Marco Rubio, a hip hop fan, or Paul Ryan, who is partial to heavy metal.
Perhaps Tevi Troy has a germ of a point. While the fact that Marco Rubio merely likes Tupac is unimpressive (Biggie is better; this is not remotely controversial), if he starts his RNC speech with "I ain't got no motherfucking friends," I'll be impressed.
Utterly hilarious. The Breitbartnous of Fail.
ReplyDeleteEverything you write gets my attention, Herr Montag.
ReplyDeleteI was almost grown when I discovered that "Thelonius Monk" was a real person.
ReplyDeleteI've seen that movie! ...I don't recommend it.
ReplyDeleteWhen Tina Fey first started impersonating Sarah Palin, I could have told her that the American people would ostracize her for it in somewhere between four and five years.
ReplyDelete"Shapiro Like a Glass Goblin"
ReplyDeleteMike Logan (Chris Noth) wore an Old Glory pin for most of his time on the original show.
ReplyDeleteThat is not going to stop Shapiro from laying claim to the flag as an exclusively conservative signifier of identity, and to patriotism as an exclusively conservative virtue.
ReplyDeleteYour new temporary name, DA, are you sure you wanted that to be "Hawk 'then' thousand", or "Hawk 'ten' thousand"?
ReplyDeleteLook, I know you probably think being a liberal and getting banned time and again from liberal blogs is really embarrassing, but it's not the end of the world. Maybe they just don't quite understand you.
"The Silicon Tit" is more like it.
ReplyDeleteWhat's your problem, Denny Boo-Boo?
ReplyDeleteWhat's your problem, again?
ReplyDeleteHey Boys
ReplyDeleteBen in Cali
Hey Dark Avenger,
ReplyDeleteYou do know that you have now broken the law and committed Identity theft just like your buddy "Burn" did? As what happened with Burn, I will submit a message to Mr. Ed and let him know that if he doesn't eliminate you from posting now and in the future, well then I will advise the person you name above to call his local authorities.
This has become fun, getting you banned from all these "liberal" blogs. You are a 50 something, unemployable, stalker LOSER.
Get a life cowboy.
Ben in Cali
DA,
ReplyDeleteYou are a disgrace. You seriously need to get a life.
Ben in Cali
DA,
ReplyDeleteYou are a walking case of mental issues, serious mental issues. Why don't you tell everyone on this blog about "your very healthy relationship" with Ms. Marcotte?
Ben in Cali
what about me?
ReplyDeleteBen in Cali
Ed,
ReplyDeleteyou seriously need to remove The Dark Avenger from this blog. He steals peoples identity and really jeopardizes your blog.
Ben in Cali
Ben, why don't you fess up to being Thomas Dufner of Glen Rock, NJ? Thanks.
ReplyDeleteEd,
ReplyDeletePlease post your e-mail address so I can contact you or feel free to e-mail me since you have my e-mail.
Ben in Cali
I'll take that into consideration, Tommy Boo-Boo.
ReplyDeleteTommy, what's the problem now?
ReplyDeleteHey Dark Avenger or Hawk or whatever else you want to be called, how about asshole or ass munch?,
ReplyDeleteIt must be a sad life that you live, fantasizing about fat ass Amanda and worrying about whether or not you have to go outside to kill a squirrel for your next meal. I really feel sorry for you, NOT. You are a complete and utter asshole who has no fucking life.
Do us all a favor and go away, you loser.
Ben in Cali
I'm sorry, Denny Cowboi-Boo-Boo, but you're the one following me around the Internet like a homeless person asking for some change. I'm sorry that you can't get quit of me.
ReplyDeleteNo, I don't see him. There is a woman here named Rebecca who is going around offering blowjobs, I'll ask her when she comes around here again.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing again, Tom.
ReplyDeleteExcuse me, but I was talking to hawkthenthousand.
ReplyDeleteI believe his name is hawktenthousand, you might want to get your eyes checked, Denny Boo-Boo.
ReplyDeleteWhy do you keep trying to butt in to my conversation with the hawk man, DA?
ReplyDeleteIt's almost like you want to speak for him.
On his first post, that's how he spelled his name. I'm sure there's a reason why.
That's how I've always spelled my name, Dennis. I think that you're starting to get mental, maybe you have paresis or something.
ReplyDeleteIt's spelled the same way on all his posts, cowboi.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why you can't seem to accept that simple fact.
Dark Avenger, what did you do that was so embarrassing that you changed your name to hawkthenthousand?
ReplyDeleteWhy are you ashamed of that identity?
I don't know what you're talking about, Dennis.
ReplyDeleteHow many different identities will the blogowner allow you here before he bans you, too, DA? Are you going for a personal record or something?
ReplyDeleteYou wouldn't be asking that question if you understood how Disqus works, Denny Boo-Boo.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe I'm in any danger of being banned anywhere that matter, Denny Boo-Boo, but your concern is most amusing, to say the least(as is usual when you're the subject at hand.)
ReplyDeleteHave a good day, cowboi.
Why are you so butthurt, Dennis?
ReplyDeleteIt's fairly evident which of us is butthurt, Househusband DA.
ReplyDeleteYes, Dennis, you right about that one, Denny Boo-Boo.
ReplyDeleteDennis, he is a fook face.
ReplyDeleteBen in Cali
Hey asshole. I want to come stick your own finger up your cow hole. You are a disgrace and loser
ReplyDeleteYou are banned asshole
ReplyDeleteYou fucking fudgepackingnasshold
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