Sadly, one cannot help but see in this response some faint echoes of another, disheartening development: to wit, our present tendency to accommodate the thin-skinned and the intolerant and to permit their professed discomfort to interfere with our public debate.Oh, cannot one?
In our schools, in the media, and in all of our political arenas, we have of late become accustomed to kowtowing to hecklers, to fleeing from anything controversial, and to treating the outrage du jour as if it were representative of anything more substantial than rank self-indulgence and the desire to silence dissent.Speak for yourself, limey. In the same venue, Michael Auslin:
The truth is, we’ve been heading this way for a long time, starting with our response to Islamist assaults on those whom they believe blaspheme Mohammed. Now, we’re moving to another level.Who the fuck is "we"? I've been blaspheming that fuck Mohammed for years. I have no trouble telling Kim Jon Un to get stuffed either. (I don't have time to draw a cartoon of him right now, but if I did I would make him look fat and ugly. Pay tribute to my heroism, America!)
Capitalism doth make cowards of us all, but conservatives prefer to blame liberals because we're "politically correct" (i.e., polite to people with fewer privileges than ourselves). When a corporate board thought they'd rather not have Brendan Eich and his anti-gay cooties representing their company, liberals got the blame. When a TV network wanted some of the racist stank to wear off Paula Deen before they put her before the public again, ditto. When the NBA pushed out Donald Sterling, ditto; NFL Rice Peterson ditto. It's not just or even mainly because they're wired to pin every bad thing that happens to liberalism; it's also because they believe that the market is God and money His grace, and can't stand to see it proven otherwise.
You know what else? Every one of these fuckers who brings up The Great Dictator would, given the chance, have joined the red-baiters who kicked Chaplin out of America.
UPDATE. In comments, D Johnston: "I'm thinking that December -- the month we remember how Saint Bill O'Reilly saved Christmas -- is perhaps not the best time for conservatives to complain about a 'tendency to accommodate the thin-skinned.'"
It was capitalism that killed The Interview. Sony Pictures figured they could make back all of their money from their insurer by invoking the "act of God" clauses in their insurance contract.
ReplyDeleteYes, we must only kowtow to hecklers when it is appropriate.
ReplyDeleteFor example, the correct response to terrorist attacks is to blame gay men women in short skirts.
Shorter Cooke: Something happened that I don't like! It must be the fault of people I hate!
ReplyDeleteRemember when Hollywood was so brave to mock Bush and Palin? Now they’re scared of a dude with a douche hair cut.
ReplyDeleteGreat point about "The Great Dictator." Also, people who make that comparison tend to forget that we were practically in a shooting war with Germany on the high seas when it was released.
ReplyDeleteOddly, the boys from South Park had no trouble relentlessly raking the DPRK and Kim Jong-il over the coals with Team America (F#!CK YEAH) back in the day.
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This is always a dumb argument, but I'm thinking that December - the month we remember how Saint Bill O'Reilly saved Christmas - is perhaps not the best time for conservatives to complain about a "tendency to accommodate the thin-skinned." Just sayin'.
ReplyDeleteA wimp was re-elected and you're surprised people who donated to him are acting the same.
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Hey, I was just about to bring up Brillo the Falafel Man!
ReplyDeletehttp://mediamatters.org/video/2014/12/17/bill-oreilly-african-americans-should-wear-dont/201937
Bill O'Reilly: African-Americans Should Wear "Don't Get Pregnant At 14" On Their T-Shirts
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O'Reilly just wants to contribute to our public debate, I suppose.
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Great. Now Sony's calling Kim Jong Un "God." As if that hasn't caused enough problems already.
ReplyDeleteBut that's central to their point. Everyone should be accommodating them by singing "Happy Birthday Dear Jesus!" 24/7 while brandishing their 2d Amendment rights at feminazis and minoroqueers.
ReplyDelete"to wit, our present tendency to accommodate the thin-skinned and the
ReplyDeleteintolerant and to permit their professed discomfort to interfere with
our public debate."
I agree, Fuck these thin skinned intolerant conservatives and especially Fuck twice with a rust chain saw sideways people who use "to wit" in sentences
So the invisible hand temporarily stops stroking itself because its issue might stain the couch and this is proof America, under Obama, doesn't have the stiff resolve to jack off any more?
ReplyDeleteHave it got this right?
In our schools, in the media, and in all of our political arenas, we
ReplyDeletehave of late become accustomed to kowtowing to hecklers, to fleeing from
anything controversial, and to treating the outrage du jour as if it were representative of anything more substantial than rank self-indulgence and the desire to silence dissent.
TREASON.
What does Mitch McConnell have to do with anything?
ReplyDeleteI don't have a strong take on this, but one argument I've found compelling is this: even if the theater chains* wanted to make a stand against strongarm tactics and for freedom of expression, is it right for them to stake the lives of their employees on that moral stance?
ReplyDelete* Sony's role in this is secondary; it doesn't make any sense to 'release' a movie that won't show anywhere.
It wasn't "Hollywood" or America who pulled The Interview due to North Korean pressure, it was Sony, a multinational corporation
ReplyDeleteRepeated for emphasis.
Although I can't see a great deal of "North Korean pressure". The narrative seems to have bedded in that the hack of Sony's data was accomplished by technologically advanced North Koreans (rather than, say, a disgruntled ex-employee as in the alternative theory), but there is no actual evidence. Although we've been hearing promises that "the evidence for NK guilt is about to be released!" from the moment the hack was announced.
the "act of God" clauses in their insurance contract
ReplyDeleteAct-of-God clauses are the ones that insurers use to opt out from paying anything.
if only the north korea celebrated the great gatsby too.
ReplyDeleteWas there a credible threat to lives? In any case, the point was that conservatives shouldn't blame liberals for a decision made by a business.
ReplyDeleteI don't have time to draw a cartoon of him right now, but if I did I would make him look fat and ugly.[RIMSHOT]
ReplyDeleteEvery one of these fuckers who brings up The Great Dictator would, given the chance, have joined the red-baiters who kicked Chaplin out of America.Yeah, but red-baiting is such ancient history to these guys that the comparison---
"Obama is propping up the murderous Castro regime! SKREEEE! Just what you'd expect from this commie President! SKREEEEE! SKREEEEEEEEEEE!"
...Okay, I withdraw the objection.
Oh sure, S.C.
ReplyDeleteNext thing you'll be claiming that recognizing Cuba isn't an act of KENYAN MARXISM.
And linking to those notorious commies, the Chamber of Commerce, in a feeblie lieberal attempt to prove something or other.
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Was there a credible threat to lives?There certainly was. The lives of cybersecurity professionals and DHS officials are at risk from banging their heads repeatedly on their desks over how utterly goddamned stupid people are being about a toothless threat posted by North Korean hackers.
ReplyDeleteHere, we need to distinguish between threat and capability—the ability to steal gossipy emails from a not-so-great protected computer network is not the same thing as being able to carry out physical, 9/11-style attacks in 18,000 locations simultaneously. I can't believe I'm saying this. I can't believe I have to say this.--Peter Singer
"We have this capability to rain down death upon American civilians by the hundreds of thousands unless they bend to our will! What concessions shall we wring from them?"
ReplyDelete"I know! We'll demand that they not watch a movie!"
From the trailer it looks like capitalism would have killed it at the box office.
ReplyDeleteWell, to be fair, there are a number of folks in Colorado Springs who fit that profile.
ReplyDeleteApparently Paramount is drinking from the same toilet as Sony. Wusses.
ReplyDeletehttps://deadline.com/2014/12/paramount-cancel-team-america-1201329597/
another, disheartening development: to wit, our present tendency to
ReplyDeleteaccommodate the thin-skinned and the intolerant and to permit their professed discomfort to interfere with our public debate.
Does he refer to the sacking of tenured academics for anti-Zionist tweeting? Or the way you can't control gun sales for fear of offending the NRA?
Is there any merit to my suspicion that Tom Coburn and his hold on the Terrorist Risk Insurance Act reauthorization might have tipped Sony's hand?
ReplyDeleteThat Act makes sure that the the government covers private companies liabilities arising from terrorist attacks. (ok, so Sony has to take out first loss insurance itself probably for a billion and change, but for the kajillions that they could be sued for, Uncle Same covers the balance - yes indeedy, free market, fuck yeah).
If threats have been made against the studios and theaters and they show this film and an attack actually takes place, Sony and everyone else will face being sued into oblivion. Uncle Sam has been backstopping the oblivion piece... until Coburn dropped his procedural turd this week.
All true about Sony being worried about shareholder interest etc etc, but the decision to can a project in this manner had to have come in some measure from the Legal department. Who do many useless things, but also advise CEOs when they face the risk of being sued into oblivion.
The corporations are now refusing to screen that too.
ReplyDelete"We have this capability to rain down death upon American civilians by
ReplyDeletethe hundreds of thousands unless they bend to our will if Santa brings us a launch system that works! What concessions
shall we wring from them?"
Fixed.
Or the sacking of tenured academics for suggesting 9/11 was chickens coming home to roost.
ReplyDeleteHow else does he get a National Review gig?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, this gave me a flashback to one of my favorite wingnut moments ever, where a B-lister, after his bike was stolen, declared himself a racist.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/white-dude-at-the-daily-caller-sheds-white-guilt-because-black-dude-probably-stole-his-bike/
I wonder whether the theatre chains's business decisions were affected by the fact that just as this was unfolding, the US Congress failed to renew government-funded terrorism insurance, thanks to Tom Coburn.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/16/tom-coburn-terrorism-insurance_n_6337688.html
In our schools, in the media, and in all of our political arenas, we have of late become accustomed to kowtowing to hecklers
ReplyDeleteLike the Tea Party?
Now I want someone to re-cut Ender's Game so that it's about a L33T band of hot-housed NK hackers who take down Sony's black-ice cyber-defences even while thinking it's just a training exercise.
ReplyDeleteThat would emphasise the real-world seriousness of the threat.
You dared! You. Dared.
ReplyDeleteI said good day!
I know! Next thing, the cowards will be calling for the congressional torture report to be suppressed!
ReplyDeleteSee also Dixie Chicks, "watch what you say, watch what you do," et cetera, ad nauseum. Conservatives take projection past a mere psychological disorder and elevate it to a perverse art form.
ReplyDeleteSeconded. Any further discussion? All those in favor say Aye. Motion carried.
ReplyDeleteIf only we could conflate this kerfuffle with the cinematic juggernaut Atlas Shrugged. Oh wait. People are not watching that of their own accord. Never mind!
ReplyDeleteYeah, the whole thing is so weird and makes us look completely paranoid. Tiny, isolationist country that can't even feed its own populace engineers highly advanced SONYMAGEDDON. I mean sure, maybe. Anything's possible. But really?
ReplyDeletea rust chain saw
ReplyDeleteYOU THIEVING BASTARDS!!
I am disappointed by the failure to mention free-speech martyr Dinesh D'Souza, imprisoned for speaking $$$ truth to power.
ReplyDeleteDinesh wouldn't speak the truth on a bet. It would burn the forked tongue right out of his lying face.
ReplyDeleteThis.
ReplyDeleteI suspect that most of these small farts in a big wind are still whining about Ralph Nader and seatbelts.
ReplyDeleteThey can pin almost anything on the weak nanny state, and do, often. Gas prices up? Obama's fault. Gas prices down? Magic of the invisible hand of the market.
Still, this is all about that bombing jones of the right wing. They so very much wanted Obama's first response to be some military attack, when the odds are at least pretty good that the cyber threats were coming from the cast and crew of this awful movie masquerading as North Koreans. Who knows? It may actually be a capitalist stunt to drum up interest in an otherwise tedious movie!
What I really want to know, because this matter--if it is about anything--is all about superficiality, is where does Dennis Rodman stand on it?
..proving that Roy has defined Sony perfectly.
ReplyDeleteThe interesting thing about Team America is that there was no reaction (that I recall, too lazy to look; so sorry) from DPRK when it was released, and yet now there is a huge reaction to a stoner movie that's just as silly. Clearly, someone in the DPRK government now has access to the internet; any bets on how long that genie stays in the bottle?
His next "history" book will be titled Killing Pregnant 14 Year Olds.
ReplyDeleteBill should wear a T-shirt that says "After all the water I carried for the cops, they still boned my wife."
ReplyDeletei'm waiting for them to start bitching about the decline of the rouble.
ReplyDeleteI think the 101st Pants-wetters should show Kim Fat Son whut's whut by repeating the success of the Battle of Chick-Fill-A.
ReplyDeleteNothing says "pin a glittering patriot medal on that wheezy teabagist" like eating some some flash-fried chicken sausage in a flourescent-lit, siding-clad franchise near a turnpike somewhere, while armed with 'tactical' AK-47s for some reason.
Because Wolverines!
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Must have been a pretty damned recent acquisition, because I didn't hear any threats of retribution when the valiant kids of Spokane defended themselves against the Cuban North Korean paratroopers and the comically evil Captain Cho in the remake of "Red Dawn," and that was just a couple of years ago (although it seems much longer than that).
ReplyDeleteI wonder how they determined it was North Korea issuing the threats? Must have been the packet tags from Windows 95.
And you'd think the People's Republic of Judea (or whatever) would have been just a tad upset about Noah.
ReplyDeleteto treating the outrage du jour as if it were representative of anything more substantial than rank self-indulgence and the desire to silence dissent.
ReplyDeleteOkay, does anyone have a spare main CPU for an irony/bullshit meter, because all the magic smoke came out of mine.
Shorter Charles C.W. Cooke: Ann Coulter! John Derbyshire! Welcome back to National Review!
ReplyDeleteRalph Nader, pfffft. They're working on butthurt from Vietnam, the Great Society, the New Deal, the end of Palmer Raids and the Catholic censorship of films, the end of the Victorian era, the defeat of the Confederacy, Shiloh, Gettysburg, Anitietam, the burning of Washington, Ben Franklin's wick-dipping, the French Revolution, the Gunpowder Plot, the Crusades, the Norman conquest of Britain, the Crucifixion, the human race coming out of Africa instead of a proper country like Germany, and the fucking rise of eukaryotes.
ReplyDeleteand the fucking rise of eukaryotes.
ReplyDeleteOOH I HATE THEM SO MUCH.
Odd, one hasn't seen armed protests at all the Sony-owned cineplexes demanding they run the movie, in order to show their defiance of our North Korean overlords.
ReplyDeleteMust be too cold.
Oh, and as far as "kowtowing to hecklers", let's just examine the caterwauling that happens every time some Christian gets their nose bent out of shape, shall we?
ReplyDeleteThere's your answer - we kindly explain that we will refuse to show The Interview at our theaters, if and only if the North Korean theater industry willingly shows a feature run of all three Atlas Shrugged films, Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas, the most recent Left Behind film, AAAND An American Carol. In their entirety, nobody allowed to leave the theater until the movie's over.
ReplyDeleteOh, and so the kids don't miss out - The Oogieloves in The Big Balloon Adventure.
Threaten US, will you?
Similarly, I'm not taking this shit from the people who are going around changing textbooks, because they steadfastly refuse to accept anything existing, ever, that doesn't exactly align with their belief system.
ReplyDeletebut but but HAPPY HOLIDAGHAZI!!!
ReplyDeleteThey probably liked that one, since it showed their leader as basically a 21st century Napoleon, which matches up nicely with how all the Kims are portrayed in their personality cult(s).
ReplyDelete*patting back* We all do. We all do.
ReplyDeleteAnd Greenwald's next book should be titled Some Dare Call It Treason.
ReplyDeleteI sometimes wonder if this isn't some strange publicity stunt by the filmmakers themselves to save their (by all accounts) soon to be bomb. I mean, tons of people who never would have watched this in a million yeas are going to HAVE to see it now.
ReplyDeleteThe rot goes deeper than you can possibly imagine...
ReplyDeleteI misread that on first pass as "SOYMAGEDDON," and I liked it.
ReplyDeleteYeah, where's our 2nd Amendment "Let's Roll!" 9/12 warriors on this?
ReplyDeleteFart form, did you say?
ReplyDelete(which is, of course also the appropriate response to the UNKNOWN CALLER ID call where the caller tells you that you've won a fabulous prize)
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNW-Xl0xetc
ReplyDeleteSHOW ME SHORYU
Never mind that; if we're bringing in 1337 h4ck3r5 burning through a Japanese megacorp's black ice, why not finally greenlight a Neuromancer film? I'm thinking Ed Norton for Case, Brad Pitt for Peter Riviera, and Helena Bonham Carter for Molly.
ReplyDeleteSony could just release the movie directly to DVD/Netflix; what will Kimmie do, hack Netflix and issue non-grammatical threats to every customer based on their viewing history?
ReplyDeleteI suspect Sony's shutdown of the entire release has more to do with their brand new cyber security contractors telling them they've got a sieve of a network, and do they really, really know what other information they have at risk, and Oh, you need our now-much-more-expensive services for, well, ever now.
Prokaryotes? SPLITTERS!
ReplyDeletePlus which, the U.S. has huge numbers of covert gangnam-style defenders ready to don their powder blue dinner jackets at a minute's notice and commence psy warfare on the sleeper cells.
ReplyDeleteWe are determined that the Nork hackers will not penetrate the secret recipe of this year's Riddled Christmas Ale.
ReplyDeleteWhich begs the question: do the North Koreans watch "The Manchurian Candidate" and ask themselves, "what the fuck was that about?"
ReplyDeleteI suspect that a documentary about the events surrounding the movie would be a lot funnier than the original film itself.
ReplyDeleteGood write. And ya fuck kim jong un, that dumb humorless pompus egomaniac pig-looking pile of shit.
ReplyDelete...although the Alamo Drafthouse (I think it's called) in Austin, who were going to show The Interview, are now showing Team America. Like I said: Austin.
ReplyDeleteSold, and retail. Although HBC is a little old for Molly. Emma Stone? (Pitt as Riviera is inspired.)
ReplyDelete"to wit, our present tendency to accommodate the thin-skinned and the intolerant and to permit their professed discomfort to interfere with our public debate."
ReplyDeleteSee also: the modern conservative movement, a ridiculous band of thin-skinned and intolerant people who "profess discomfort" at things that shouldn't even still BE a "public debate" such as "are non-white people actually people" and "are birthing-vessels capable of independent thought".
Yeah, it's a bit perplexing, but, this country has had a hard-on for NK for a long time--part of that "truce" thing that prevented us from winning, I suppose. They're all supermen (even though they've had to reduce the minimum height requirement for admission to the military a couple of times because of malnutrition), and their leader is supremely dangerous (even though he's mostly interested in XBox games and basketball), and we have to take every threat from them seriously (even though they're the most backward of all industrialized nations in the world, have a military/security budget roughly six-tenths of one percent of ours and a GDP per capita of about $1000).
ReplyDeleteA lot of it, of course, is due to right-wing histrionics, the equivalent of John Bolton climbing on a chair, grabbing his skirts and screaming, "eek, a North Korean mouse!," while all the brethren are yelling, "bomb it into the Stone Age!" We simply have no sense of proportion when we're describing enemies, it seems.
psy warfare[RIMSHOT]
ReplyDeletemakes us look completely paranoid
ReplyDeleteNot just you; the British media bought into it too (if memory serves, it was a fact-free piece of opinion-disguised-as-news from the Daily Torygraph -- reprinted in our local fishwrap -- which first brought the Nork Cyber-Elite Menace to my attention).
The purveyors of the NK-SONYMAGEDDON link haven't even bothered to make up "anonymous intelligence-agency sources speaking anonymously on the basis of anonymity" to vouch for it. But the main reason we can be sure it's fictitious is that TPM is now treating the link as accepted fact.
ReplyDeleteHaven't you seen the historical documents?
ReplyDeleteGotta hand it to `em, that spaceship certainly doesn't look like it's made out flattened tin cans, does it?
ReplyDeleteXBox games
ReplyDeleteA-ha! Take that, Playstation!
We're the most awesome country in Western civilization, so our enemies must therefore be as inversely demonic.
ReplyDeleteWell said. Great post.
ReplyDeleteI guess that's a goodly part of it, but, geez, the North Koreans are even bigger stumblebums than were the Bushies. It's a bit like being terrified of the Three Stooges.
ReplyDeleteNope, Paramount would not let them show that either.
ReplyDeleteFalafel Payola: An Unauthorized Biography
ReplyDeleteALL YOUR SAUCE ARE BELONG TO US
ReplyDeleteWhat about the Stooges with Nukes?
ReplyDeleteYeah, this one will be re-released sometime in April 2015, where it will deservedly sink without a trace, even after the Chinese bootleg copies make it to the actual North Korea in February.
ReplyDeleteRemember the Sony rootkit scandal? Seems to me that hacking Sony is poetic justice. (
ReplyDeleteYou know what else? Every one of these fuckers who brings up The Great Dictator would, given the chance, have joined the red-baiters who kicked Chaplin out of America.
ReplyDelete(Paul Robeson's passport would also like a word.)
"Hell, Chester, I dunno. Protest something by not eating? I don't get it."
ReplyDeleteRootkit, Hog Or Die, and it looks like they chose the latter.
ReplyDeleteEspecially ominous to contemplate, because Iggy can surely survive a nuclear war.
ReplyDeleteWell, that presumes that the Stooges have nukes, and if they do, are somehow able to not blow themselves up with them first. Stooges be stooges. It's their nature.
ReplyDelete"Make like fallout and spread out!" *slap*
ReplyDeleteI can guess what a lot of American Muslims are saying to themselves now.
ReplyDelete"Hollywood totally caved into terrorism. But at least it was Koreans and not anybody from our tribe. So there's no way we can be blamed. Not unless this country has a lot of nativist morons and dishonest hatemongers leading them."
"Oh fuck."
O'Reilly just wants to contribute to our public debate, I suppose.
ReplyDeleteYes, the sort of contribution one makes after two coffees and a bran muffin.
Give him danger!
ReplyDeleteTerrific. More bores with bullets.
ReplyDeleteI was somehow thinking of the older, more world-weary Molly of Mona Lisa Overdrive. But I'm flattered you agree that Pitt fits well the drug-addled sadistic holograph artist who
ReplyDeleteOkay, I can't keep up the charade. I was merely riffing on my joke from the previous comment thread, transposing the Fight Club cast over to a Jesus psychodrama. And even for that, the original inspiration was smut clyde comparing Barabbas to Tyler Durden. I'm ... I'm a charlatan.
... Pitt as Riviera would totally work, though, wouldn't it?
Who to play what's her name, the heiress in Straylight, who tells her ninja bodyguard, "Hideo, *hurt* Peter"?
ReplyDeleteI prefer my bullets entirely away from the bore.
ReplyDeleteI'd've believed he was a martyr a lot more if he hadn't pled guilty, & had defended himself on that basis, or even if he'd mentioned it in his sentencing statement.
ReplyDeleteI'm more than cynical enough to be w/ you, but the racially tinged e-mails & the salary revelations, plus apparent wiping of data & world-wide shutdown of production won't be recouped by whatever profit they make from any of this.
ReplyDeleteAlthough the insider possibility makes me wonder if it was outsourced to people who couldn't help themselves from eating all the cookies once the jar was opened.
Let's do some crimes.
ReplyDelete'I don't have time to draw a cartoon of him right now, but if I did I would make him look fat and ugly.'
ReplyDeleteYou said draw a cartoon, not paint a portrait.
3Jane Tessier-Ashpool, played by a Big Lebowskiera Julianne Moore, or maybe Sarah Paulson.
ReplyDeleteCooke is just pissed that the movie won't be released and get some psycho killer shooting up a theater or two, so he can copy/paste his stellar column 'why liberals who want to take away your guns are craven coward stupids'.
ReplyDeleteAnd America was turned into a fascist state -- it is one -- by whom again?
ReplyDeleteMe, I accept and have used the comparison to "The Great Dictator. Because wherever you want to slap any blame for "the Interview" clusterfuck, naming a specific country and its specific leader added nothing to the movie and possibly weakened it. Then again, the hacks revealed, if nothing else, Sony, and its film operation is severely suffering from, even by Hollywood's low standards, gross ineptitude.
ReplyDeleteTo wit, by the voices.
ReplyDeleteGreat points, and well-written. To extend the metaphor of "hitting the nail on the head," I feel as though I've just watched an expert cabinetmaker knock in a dozen nails, all in quick succession with just one strike per nail.
ReplyDeleteI particularly like the definition of what conservatives like to call "politically correct." Being polite to people with fewer privileges than ourselves is something people should aspire to, not be ashamed of. It's time the Right realized that.
I'd watch that.
ReplyDeleteI think your theory is sound but speaking for myself, I'm still not going to watch this movie.
ReplyDeleteI mean, have you seen the trailer? Yeesh, what a stinker.
Yeah, I'm not buying it.
ReplyDeleteSeems unlikely. The Sony hack included the SSNs and medical records of employees, as well as several other Sony releases which are now floating around on pirate sites. Hollywood execs want to turn a profit, yeah, but there's a limit to how hard they'll punch themselves in the face to achieve that.
ReplyDeleteO'Reilly should wear a t-shirt that says, "Don't make sexually harassing phone calls to your co-workers."
ReplyDeleteHow about Emma Watson? Or Allison Pill.
ReplyDeleteGood, good ... Of course, if they had picked up my treatment more promptly, I would have suggested Charlotte Rampling.
ReplyDeleteI eagerly await the release of all of Roy's private email conversations by Korean hackers. Now that is going to be way more interesting than any gossip calling Angelina Jolie spoiled and talentless.
ReplyDeletePopcorn?
ReplyDeleteI have seen the face of god. Thank you Pere Ubu
ReplyDeleteBefore 9 months ago I've lost my job and then I was lucky enough to stumble upon an awesome site which saved me. I started working for them online and soon, I've started averaging ten thousand of dollars each month... The best thing was that since i am not into computers that much all that was required from me was knowing how to type and internet connection to start... If i could do it, so can you
ReplyDeleteSOMEBODY SET US UP THE TOFU
ReplyDeleteI'm saving them for the tell-all autobio.
ReplyDeleteThat's probably it.
ReplyDeleteAfter all, what's a superhero without any supervillians?
Where were these (presumably North Korean) hackers when that re-make of Reds came out, I wonder?
ReplyDeleteIt DOES sound kind of silly when you put it like that.
ReplyDeleteI refuse to do that.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to think that.
ReplyDeleteSOY BOMB!
ReplyDeleteHaven't the poor North Koreans suffered enough?
ReplyDeleteOh, I'm keeping The Room and Nicolas Cage's The Wicker Man back in case we need a second-strike capability. You can't be gentle when dealing with dictators!
ReplyDeleteToo late, it has been rebranded as "Napalm."
ReplyDeleteAt this point I should point out that the studio (ironically Columbia, since bought by Sony) forced the Three Stooges to add a disclaimer before their first anti-Hitler short, You Nazty Spy
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking that December -- the month we remember how Saint Bill O'Reilly saved Christmas -- is perhaps not the best time for conservatives to complain about a 'tendency to accommodate the thin-skinned.
ReplyDeleteI'd nominate December as National Self-Awareness Month, but I'm afraid I'd laugh myself into a coma just in time to miss Xmas eve, and that'd be, like, no fun at all. Next year, I'll do it. Someone remind me...
I was gonna make a crack about the Realism school of cartooning, but this is better...
ReplyDeleteAbsofuckinlutely. I have a hard time with the whole idea of a NorK-based comedy. What the fuck could possibly be funny about it? We can make funny vampire and zombie movies, because they don't exist. The Kims and their little private dungeon of a country are, unfortunately, real...
ReplyDeleteSmall-bore intellects, big-bore guns!
ReplyDeleteTiny, isolationist country that can't even feed its own populace
ReplyDeleteBecause their geek squads are getting all the good food, good apartments, good clothes. At least what Kim Fat Son (I am so stealing that, doodles) and his friends and family don't snarf up...
Nyuke-nyuke-nyuke...
ReplyDeleteFish heads, fish heads...
ReplyDeleteOr TDTESS? Slowly I turned, step by step...
ReplyDeletePersonally I don't disagree with the decision Sony made. Had Sony gone ahead with the premiere and NK or whoever was responsible actually followed through on their 9/11 type threats and blew up a few theatres everyone would be condemning Sony for blatantly ignoring the risks and opting for profits over the lives of their audience. It was a no-win situation for them.
ReplyDeleteMy money's on the sequel.
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