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Friday, November 6, 2009
Politics "Do You See Anyone Here With Nutsacks On Their Face?"
Posted by Dave Bow on Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:21 PM
Remember when this whole tea-bagging thing started and it just seemed too silly to gain momentum? Well who's silly now, comrade Liberal Doubtevski? All indicators say that this snowball of unfocused populist rage is just going to keep rolling until someone's getting ice down the back of their coat.
Peep this article by Christopher Beam over on Slate about Michelle Bachmann's anti-reform freedom SuperBowl. While the real heart of the article is the fact that top-tier Republicans are stoking a fire they don't really control, there's plenty of other details to get your hands wringing. Like this paragraph:
Some of [the attendees] dressed for the occasion. Before the speeches started, a man in a death costume grabbed a bullhorn and introduced two protesters dressed up as Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. Each was bound in chains and their clothes were spattered in blood. Baby dolls hung upside down from their chains. Around each wrist they wore bracelets made of what looked like small plastic fetuses. "Whyyyy?" moaned the Pelosi character. "Why did I kill the babies?" Nearby, Nancy Murphy of Annapolis, Md., complained that they were making the rally look bad. "We want you to write about this," she said, indicating the rest of the protest. "Not about that." Indeed, many protesters were still livid over media coverage of the 9/12 protest, particularly the phrase teabagger. "Do you see anyone here with nutsacks on their face?" said one man to me.
Or this excerpt from actor, Jon Voight's, speech:
"President Obama has his own obsession with trying to ram this health bill through and create a socialist America," he said. "We as freedom-loving Americans must not be scared into Obama's radical Chicago tactics. His agenda is not for the poor. It's solely for his political gain. His lies and propaganda are all very blatant, shown to us by those who exposed ACORN, which is as corrupt as all the president's czars."
Nice little cluster of fear-mongering buzzwords there. Which legacy will Jon Voight's family have a harder time living down: his career as a conservative talking head or his co-starring role in David Zucker's An American Carol?
Don't cry for me, Angelina!
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That all sounds about exactly the same as every liberal protest I attended during the Bush Administration.
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Well, every movement is going to have it's outliers. The difference here is that this movement is essentially being led by them.
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Oh boy. David Zucker of Airplane!, The Naked Gun series, Top Secret!, KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE....what hath become of you?
That movie looks.......about as bad as you'd think a conservative comedy could be. But worse. So much worse.
Sad.
That movie looks.......about as bad as you'd think a conservative comedy could be. But worse. So much worse.
Sad.
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@two squatting women: When I heard that the David third of the legendary ZAZ was making as "conservative comedy" (that they had to actually use the qualify the word 'comedy' should have been a big red flag to those not in the choir that it wasn't really one
kind of like songs and albums with the words 'rock and roll' in them blow) I felt the same sort of despair that I used to fell when I'd find out that hot supermodels became conservative as they aged (but were still hot).
It's a little hard to describe, actually.
It's a little hard to describe, actually.
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The most amusing thing about the apres-release reaction for "An American Carol" was the boasts about further "conservative comedies" from Zucker until it became obvious that the movie was teh suck, and left out that one essential ingredient for comedy - it had no detectable humor. Obvious jabs at hack jokes and strawmen do not teh funnay make.
Now indeed it can be told: the real reason "conservative" films don't get play isn't because Hollywood is liberal (which it always is until conservatives need it for money or publicity).
It's because they blow.
Now indeed it can be told: the real reason "conservative" films don't get play isn't because Hollywood is liberal (which it always is until conservatives need it for money or publicity).
It's because they blow.
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Agreed. These comedies fail because they're missing the core ingredient-humor. To wit, the Half Hour Comedy Hour-fox news' answer to The Daily Show. Don't remember it? No one does, either. It was a humorless display of failure.
The worst part of Zucker's fall from great comedy heights is how baselessly inane is his (and the movie's) commentary. When you start with the premise that Moore (and all liberals) "hate America," you're just another dumbass conservative clod who once made great movies. Nothing more.
There's certainly room for a Michael Moore parody that could work on some level, and could make money. But Zucker's got no clue how to do it. It seems he's blinded by retarded ideology. Good luck with that, dickbag. I doubt he'll make any money on that load of a film.
The worst part of Zucker's fall from great comedy heights is how baselessly inane is his (and the movie's) commentary. When you start with the premise that Moore (and all liberals) "hate America," you're just another dumbass conservative clod who once made great movies. Nothing more.
There's certainly room for a Michael Moore parody that could work on some level, and could make money. But Zucker's got no clue how to do it. It seems he's blinded by retarded ideology. Good luck with that, dickbag. I doubt he'll make any money on that load of a film.
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