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Thursday, March 8, 2012
Who My Audience is
These are the search terms that bring people to my silly little blog:
Things May be looking Up
A couple surprising things have happened recently.
1. The "Million Mom" boycotts have been utter, thudding failures. First they tried to pressure J.C. Penney into dropping Ellen DeGeneres. Then, they tried to start a boycott of Toys 'R' Us because they were selling an Archie comic book featuring a gay wedding. And J.C. Penney and Toys 'R' Us and whoever publishes Archie Comics said basically "nope. No thanks." Not only didn't they cave, they didn't even feel the need to pretend that the Million Morons had some kind of point, or that their complaints were valid and were being considered carefully. They just said nope! We like Ellen. If you hate her, that's your problem.
The CEO of Archie Comics issued this statement:
Finally, someone from the corporate media, and from the Cowardly News Network, no less, calls bullshit on right-wing liars instead of just accepting their bullshit at face value. Unfortunately, no one did this when Breitbart was still alive. Every time he put out some phonied-up piece of video, the media acted like he was Captain Journalism with the Super Scoop, and someone lost their job. This interview may go down in the annals of journalism as the moment when CNN finally started to grow a pair and call a lie a lie. I don't necessarily hold out a lot of hope that this is going to become a pattern, but maybe.
3. Advertisers are FINALLY leaving Rush Limbaugh's horrible hate-fest of a radio show. They are pulling their ads in such large numbers that some stations have actual dead air during commercial breaks (not the good kind of Dead Air)
via Think Progress:
I know, I know Rush is never ever going to be driven off the airwaves. There will always be enough gas-huffing troglodytes to keep his show on the radio. But at least maybe he might get taken down a notch? Down maybe to the point where sitting congressmen don't feel the need to kiss his ass? (looking at you, Phil Gingery!)
1. The "Million Mom" boycotts have been utter, thudding failures. First they tried to pressure J.C. Penney into dropping Ellen DeGeneres. Then, they tried to start a boycott of Toys 'R' Us because they were selling an Archie comic book featuring a gay wedding. And J.C. Penney and Toys 'R' Us and whoever publishes Archie Comics said basically "nope. No thanks." Not only didn't they cave, they didn't even feel the need to pretend that the Million Morons had some kind of point, or that their complaints were valid and were being considered carefully. They just said nope! We like Ellen. If you hate her, that's your problem.
The CEO of Archie Comics issued this statement:
We stand by Life with Archie #16. As I’ve said before, Riverdale is a safe, welcoming place that does not judge anyone," he said. "It’s an idealized version of America that will hopefully become reality someday. We’re sorry the American Family Association/OneMillionMoms.com feels so negatively about our product, but they have every right to their opinion, just like we have the right to stand by ours. Kevin Keller will forever be a part of Riverdale, and he will live a happy, long life free of prejudice, hate and narrow-minded people."
Yeah, "prejudice, hate and narrow-minded people." The CEO of Archie Comics called an asshole an asshole. No need to pretend that the assholes are anything but assholes. Good on him!
2. Soledad O'Brien pushed back against one of Breitbart's flunkies.
Finally, someone from the corporate media, and from the Cowardly News Network, no less, calls bullshit on right-wing liars instead of just accepting their bullshit at face value. Unfortunately, no one did this when Breitbart was still alive. Every time he put out some phonied-up piece of video, the media acted like he was Captain Journalism with the Super Scoop, and someone lost their job. This interview may go down in the annals of journalism as the moment when CNN finally started to grow a pair and call a lie a lie. I don't necessarily hold out a lot of hope that this is going to become a pattern, but maybe.
3. Advertisers are FINALLY leaving Rush Limbaugh's horrible hate-fest of a radio show. They are pulling their ads in such large numbers that some stations have actual dead air during commercial breaks (not the good kind of Dead Air)
via Think Progress:
There were four separate instances during this afternoon’s broadcast on WABC 770 AM in New York City where the network fell silent. During the lead in to the show, two and a half minutes of silence was broken up by a single, solitary ad before Limbaugh hit the air. Then, towards the end of the first hour of Limbaugh’s three hour program, a public service announcement was followed by an additional minute of silence before Limbaugh returned. Another minute of dead air came in hour two, and a fifth minute in hour three followed that.
I know, I know Rush is never ever going to be driven off the airwaves. There will always be enough gas-huffing troglodytes to keep his show on the radio. But at least maybe he might get taken down a notch? Down maybe to the point where sitting congressmen don't feel the need to kiss his ass? (looking at you, Phil Gingery!)
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Ralph Reed has got some fuckin balls
Ralph Reed Rush: apology accepted. Let's move on and talk about the issues. We're with you.
Oh, YOU accept Rush's "apology?" You accept? You're as big an asshole as he is!
Newt Gingrich's Favorite Movie Lines
May I use your phone? I need to call home.
I coulda been someone who could contend for the championship!
What's so bad about greed?
Frankly, my dear, I don't think I really care anymore.
Get away from me, you stupid monkey!
I'm super mad, and I can't take much more!
Show me how much money I'm going to make!
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Newt Gingrich is not good at quoting movies
(via LA Times)
Really, Newt? Do you really think anyone is stupid enough to think that you could lower gas prices to $2.50! No one could possibly be that dumb. . .
And Mr. McGuire was right, by the way. There was a lot of money to be made in plastics. Companies like Dow, DuPont, BASF, and Mitsubishi have made billions from plastics. So what's so funny?
Also, Dustin Hoffman does not spend the rest of the movie going "I don't quite get this." Can you imagine how shitty a movie the Graduate would have been if it had been a movie about a young man trying to decipher an older man's career advice? Have you even seen the Graduate?
Yeah, what a doofus! Why can't he concentrate on something more realistic, like a moon colony?
Gingrich mocks Obama's algae energy comments as 'Cloud Cuckoo Land'
Newt Gingrich, whose well-developed sense of sarcasm always goes over well with his Republican supporters, was on a roll Monday evening as he regaled a ballroom of supporters near Knoxville with his account of President Obama's energy plan, and his own vow to reduce gasoline prices to $2.50 a gallon, which has evolved into a campaign slogan.
Really, Newt? Do you really think anyone is stupid enough to think that you could lower gas prices to $2.50! No one could possibly be that dumb. . .
About 200 supporters filled the airport Hilton hotel ballroom, some holding signs that said, "Newt=$2.50
Oyyyyyyy. . . .Can we give this guy back to the Baptists?
Gingrich also delighted the crowd with a riff on a recent speech the president delivered at the University of Miami. On Feb. 23, Obama said that gasoline and diesel fuel are being developed from algae. "If we can figure out how to make energy out of that, we'll be doing all right," Obama said. Gingrich has been having fun with that ever since.
Okay, Newt, you do know that this is a real thing, right? There really are algae that excrete diesel fuel. This is a fact. As of now, they aren't really a viable fuel source, but someday, maybe. So, what's so funny about this?
"Do you all remember in the movie, 'The Graduate,' the moment where Dustin Hoffman is just graduating and he goes to a party welcoming him home and this older gentleman comes over to him and says, 'I have a word that will change your life,' and the word was 'plastics?' And Hoffman spends the rest of the movie, going, 'I don't quite get this?'
Yes, I remember The Graduate. Apparently, you don't.
And Mr. McGuire was right, by the way. There was a lot of money to be made in plastics. Companies like Dow, DuPont, BASF, and Mitsubishi have made billions from plastics. So what's so funny?
There's at least a couple mil right here!
Also, Dustin Hoffman does not spend the rest of the movie going "I don't quite get this." Can you imagine how shitty a movie the Graduate would have been if it had been a movie about a young man trying to decipher an older man's career advice? Have you even seen the Graduate?
"Well, the president the other day in Florida had a word that I thought was a quite magical one. Does anyone here remember his solution?"
Many in the crowd yelled: "Algae!"
"Algae," Gingrich confirmed. "I think this is a 'Saturday Night Live' skit. You don't often get presidential speeches that could literally be delivered on 'Saturday Night Live' and you wouldn't realize it was a fake. But presidents are supposed to, like, run the country today,"
Yeah, what a doofus! Why can't he concentrate on something more realistic, like a moon colony?
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