03.28.07
Posted in Politics, Media Morons at 5:56 am by JB
I don’t check the Puffy-Ho often, and I admit it. Life is too damn short. But does it bother anyone else that it is basically occupied by mindless celebrities and no-name, know-nothing scribes ? I don’t see any real debate. I see a buncha over-paid morons spouting. But it’s a lotta liberals, so I suppose that is redundant.
I read this thing a few minutes ago. I must warn you… it’s profanity laced, but in the cute “Hollywood” way. It makes no sense at all. And if you are allergic to metaphors, you will be in shock in the first paragraph.
I found it hilarious and very sad all at the same time. Here’s an actor who was awful terrible horrifically bad on one show, and has done exactly nothing else but hire someone to write blog posts for him. That must be a really sad existence, but he and his minions need something to do until the get the call from NBC that their show sucks donkey balls, is canceled, and Aaron Sorkin needs to get off the ’shrooms and get a real job.
Here’s a taste of the self-important Mr. Weber:
The Bush administration checklist of disgrace lengthens faster than the penis of a minister on crystal meth. I won’t go into my Cranky Liberal rant, moving down the list with a grease pencil, ticking off each egregious offense against the gullible, too-trusting American people. Instead I will offer my Cranky Liberal response to those who have said “Yeah, you’re mad.
Big deal. What do we do?” And keep in mind I have just finished a cool glass of white wine, so make of that what you will. Fuggit. It’s five o’clock here. I’m an adult, dammit. Here goes:
So what to do? First, triangulate your news sources. Since most of the news services are owned by Thomas Nast-like caricatures of swollen carpet baggers and cigar-sucking plutocrats, one must sift through the news like a grizzled miner panning for the bleak glitter that, once refined, can be turned into an ornate broach on the freckled bust of an aging dowager. Check and double check.
You really have to read the whole thing to appreciate the absolute and blithering idiocy. And I especially like the fact that he keeps having to mention the white wine he has consumed. Is that supposed to be an excuse for being a moron, or some sort of hat-tip to Hollywood chic ?
(Stevie, baby, real men don’t drink white wine except at dinner… if you were dining with Selma Hayek and had some chicken enchilada’s, I’d forgive you…. I bet you were swigging 75 dollar bottles of Pinot Grigio straight out of the ice bucket….. not something to brag about)
Ya gotta cool off the metaphors, buddy. I know you are getting almost painful pats on the back now that you have joined the stable of Arianna’s studs, but really…. there are two kinds of people who read that dreck, and I’ll give you a run-down on both.
There are people who have seen you act, and think you are great, and love every single word of it…. those people will finish reading your archives as soon as they get back from kindergarten or get the curtains put out from the unexpected bong fire.
Then there are those who have seen you act and are having a very serious internal struggle as to whether the character Lowell (Thomas Hayden Church) or the engine to the plane from Wings is smarter than you. To call your acting abilities untalented is an insult to the untalented, to call your pseudo-success unfathomable is an insult to the fathoms… To put your abilities from the pilot of Wings against your performance on the last episode of Studio 60 is to watch a career and ability growth that can only be matched by a mosquito. From .2 mm to about 2 mm, and over in a day.
Sorry- I read your dreck and I went metaphor happy. But at least I didn’t insult 80% of the nation with a cheap and disgusting “minister” crack.
Please let the rest of us know what your next show will be after the Studio 60 thing crashes and burns, so we know when we can schedule to be away from the TV. Although, personally, I’d like to see you on an 8pm eastern show, so I can see O’Reilley kick your ass directly. And I don’t like him either, but…. lesser of two evils.
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Posted in Politics, Media Morons at 5:25 am by JB
I don’t know why the WaPo thinks the government, which deals with millions of more important issues than Marion Barry’s latest escapades, thinks the accuracy should be better than this:
Headline: White House Spokesman’s Colon Cancer Has Returned
Later in the story: “‘Seventeen days after the diagnosis, we go in and take the whole colon out and throw it in a garbage bag,’ he told Cincinnati Gentleman, a magazine in his home town. He also received six months of chemotherapy.”
I know, it’s a small thing, but it’s a sign of a bias…. it’s a sign of poor writing and even more poor editing. So lemme get this right…. Tony Snow had his colon removed 2 years ago, and now has colon cancer ? Does that mean I need to start looking for cervical cancer ? Or maybe ovarian cancer ?
All of those are terrible and dreadful diseases. I wish only the best, and long and happy lives for any woman suffering and living with those afflictions. But…. I’m not gonna check, because I have neither a cervix, nor ovaries. Tony doesn’t have a colon anymore. I’m pretty sure he doesn’t have colon cancer.
He has cancerous cells that have metasticized to his liver. And yet, in typical media fashion, the story is about everything BUT Tony. It’s about Dana Perino and Elizabeth Edwards. It is really ok, guys, to sometimes just tell the story, and not try to twist it into your worldview.
Overall it’s not a bad story, but at the same time it stinks. It smacks of the liberal bias that the WaPo is famous for, and has lost so much ground in- the NYT eats your lunch every day in silly liberal bias.
Just write the facts.
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03.17.07
Posted in Politics, Media Morons at 2:35 pm by JEG
The Washington Times engaged in some poor editing on this one.
I was interested in the event itself, not the wardrobe of the individual providing testimony. This segment is crappy journalism:
The 90-minute testimony took on the atmosphere of a circus trial; two dozen photographers scrummed and elbowed to snap shots of the petite bleached blonde, clad in a low-cut white blouse, beige herringbone jacket and snug brown slacks.
The fact that Ms. Plame is a “bleached blonde,” and wore a “low-cut white blouse” is so completely immaterial that its inclusion in a NEWS story (not an editorial or opinion piece) is inconceivable to me. And describing her “snug” brown slacks??? The reporter may as well have just said she had a nice ass and wore a shirt to show her boobs to the panel! This type of shabby, petty writing does nothing but give ammunition to those who view the Washington Times as a wacky, far-right, amateur rag. It does nothing but discredit a paper that has some extremely talented and saavy reporters and columnists (like Bill Gertz, for instance).
In a news story, you stick to the facts. The Washington Times isn’t unique - most major newspapers have lost sight of the idea that the news pages ought to be dispassionate and objective. Without question, they ought not to include references to fashion - particularly in the subtle-yet-obvious way that the Times portrayed Ms. Plame as a bimbo wearing tight pants. Absolutely disgraceful journalism.
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03.06.07
Posted in Politics, Unhinged, Democrats, Media Morons at 4:53 am by JB
It’s the smell of vapidity and nut-jobbery preparing to assemble in the Big Apple.
On behalf of People For the American Way and Political Clout Productions, we are proud to invite you to be present for an historic first. An extraordinary public servant, Valerie Plame, will be interviewed by a champion of the First Amendment, Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC’s “Countdown.”
So let me get this straight. Keith Olbermann, who hasn’t said anything worthwhile since leaving ESPN is going to interview Plame-Wilson, who hasn’t done anything worthwhile in… who knows how long. She’s got a couple of kids, and so far (if only age 6) they haven’t knocked off a bank or anything, so that’s worth something I suppose.
This event, I’m afraid, will be worth exactly nothing.
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03.05.07
Posted in General, Media Morons at 2:25 am by JB
Joel Surnow, the wildly successful producer of 24 has started a new show on Fox News called The Half Hour Comedy Hour. Or something. He talks about it here.
It’s been on for three weeks, I think, and I’ve watched part of it every week. It opens with a…. staple ?…. of Rush Limbaugh as President and Ann Coulter as VP, and then goes into a news-cast type of satire situation, similar to Weekend Update on SNL or…. I dunno.
It’s just not funny. I have yet to laugh at anything they do. There have been a few amusing things, but nothing that is just laugh-out-loud funny.
The laughter is canned, the jokes just aren’t funny. There are dozens of very very funny conservatives. P.J. O’Rourke, for an easy example. Dennis Miller. Larry Miller, who writes for the Weekly Standard occasionally is a riot. And that’s the “comedian” list. Bill Bennett is funny. Jonah Goldberg is hilarious. One of the reasons “The Corner” at NRO is so widely read is because it is populated with some very funny folks.
This show just tries too hard, and as such it fails.
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03.04.07
Posted in Politics, Unhinged, Media Morons at 9:15 am by JB
Evidently the top-3 GOP candidates have tried (at least a little) to distance themselves from the idiocy that Ann Coulter has become.
And I realize a lot is being made of this, but I think it’s warranted. Ann Coulter has gone beyond being a help to the conservative cause. She rarely if ever has anything constructive to offer anymore that would have any value to the country. She wants to hawk books and raise her speech fees.
I just don’t see what worth she has to the conservative agenda anymore. She has no ideas, she’s become a yap-dog at the heels of things that are really important. I used to get a chuckle from her rants from time to time, but in the last few months (or maybe a year) it’s just become painful to see the spiral she’s taken.
A once-valuable voice is now valueless, and even hurtful to the very cause that made her famous. What she doesn’t seem to realize is that the party, and the conservative movement, are much larger than she is, and can and should move ahead without her.
She’s become a LaRouche-ian character, a zealot who actually deserves much of the mockery that she tries to shower on others. A sad shell of a woman who once commanded affirmative nods of the head is now reduced to a publicity whore who barely deserves more than the sympathetic head-down, side-to-side “oh my God, why does she say stupid stuff like that” reaction.
It’s time for the GOP and the conservative “world” to disavow her for good. Let her go the way of David Brock and Arianna Huffington, two others who went off the deep-end and became policy and movement has-beens. Not the greatest of fates for anyone, but one that she has invited. And she can always get guest gigs on MSNBC. Olberman and Matthews love washed-up and wacky nutjobs like her.
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03.03.07
Posted in Politics, Unhinged, Media Morons at 4:57 am by JB
I really don’t understand why anyone still listens to this crazy woman anymore.
Singlehandedly, she does more harm to the conservative cause sometimes than any huge team of Democrats could ever do. Her hate and bile sometimes, couched in what she thinks are funny jokes, can in one stroke inflict as much damage to true conservatism as any Ecstasy-and-’shroom-laden full-weekend comment fest that the whacko’s and whiners at HuffPo or DailyKos could ever muster.
Here’s what the Creepy Coulter had to say in the closing moments of her CPAC spew:
“I’d say something about John Edwards, but if you say ‘faggot’ you have to go to rehab.”
Yes, I do think that CPAC needs to very quickly distance itself from these comments, as does the rest of thinking-conservatism.
It is very well time for the GOP, conservatives, America in general to distance themselves from this dragon-lady, and turn (full force) to someone more (*** CODE WORD ALERT ***) articulate, effective, strong, and coherent. Someone who can stand up to scrutiny without flying off the handle, flailing at the wind, or walking off the set. And, if I might add, someone who is not too bad to look at herself.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you my new favorite Commentato-Babe: Michelle Malkin
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10.11.06
Posted in Politics, Democrats, Media Morons at 1:36 pm by JB
And I’ve been saying this for years…. just ask my dear Ma.
Some background. Susan Estrich, the hyper-liberal professor/lawyer/operative has a new book out called “Soulless” which is some sort of polemic against Ann Coulter, and the cover art is a direct rip-off of Ann’s book “Godless”. Of course Susan thinks that real conservatives take Ann seriously, which is just a genuflection to all the liberals who think conservatives take marching orders from Jerry Falwell and the NRA…. but that’s beside the point.
As a quick aside- and this is a bit of a ramble, I know…. How come the NRA is horrific for protecting the heart and spirit of the 2nd amendment, but the ACLU is saintly for (supposedly) protecting the 1st ? I just don’t get it. Well, actually I do, but anyway….
Am I the only one who has always thought Susan Estrich looks and sounds like a Muppet ?
UPDATE: David Gergen sounds like a Muppet too.
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Posted in Media Morons at 1:18 pm by JB
Mr. Moonves,
Thank you for taking the time to peruse my submission to you. In light of the recent debut of Katie Couric as your new evening news anchor, and your slipping ratings in said show, I have this proposal for you.
As Ms. Couric has been less than stellar in her performance, as evidenced by her ratings:
Five weeks into her tenure at the “CBS Evening News,” Katie Couric’s broadcast continues to slip in the ratings, falling into third place last week for the second week in a row.
With an average of 7.04 million viewers, Couric’s audience last week was the smallest she’d had since taking over the evening news anchor desk, and it’s lower than the number that tuned in for her predecessor Bob Schieffer’s last week on the air in late August, according to Nielsen Media Research.
My understanding is that she is being paid a reported $15 million a year for her services.
I would be more than happy to offer my services to your organization for a mere…. let’s say $3 million a year, which saves you $12 mil, and I can come in third as well as she can.
I look forward to a call from your office.
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