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Two-Minute Townhall
Shorter Phyllis Schlafly: Only commies and traitors could disagree with some guy’s research vindicating Joe McCarthy.
Shorter Doug Wilson: The fact of the matter is, freedom will die if President Bush’s tax cuts are allowed to expire.
Shorter Star Parker: Upon closer analysis, Fred Thompson’s campaign failed because he just wasn’t conservative enough.
Shorter Matthew Ladner: We’d have better graduates and fewer dropouts if we made students pay their own damn tuition.
Shorter Amy Ridenour: Class-action lawsuit websites are destroying patients’ confidence in their prescription drugs; also, a lot may depend on what the definition of “safe” is.
Shorter Kathryn Jean Lopez: Sure, Barack Obama is charming, but he’s still a baby killer.
Shorter Frank Gaffney: Right-wing Democrats are becoming scarce, with the result being the impoverishment of our politics.
Shorter Dinesh D’Souza: Bush so did not lie, you liars!
Shorter Bert Prelutsky: Back in my day, movies didn’t show homo buttfucking.
Shorter Carol Platt Liebau: All things being equal, I’d rather the Republican nominee be a total asshole.
Shorter Rich Galen: I don’t approve of racial politics, but as a Republican, I’m happy about the South Carolina Democratic Primary.
Shorter Suzanne Fields: Clintons aren’t human beings; they are animals.
Marco said,
January 29, 2008 at 5:31
that’s one lovely yet crazy-ass scary lineup of screed, although I am still laughing like a fool over the Townhall subhead.
I’d LOL but that is so interweb nerdy, right? :) :) :)
gbear said,
January 29, 2008 at 5:32
Isn’t there a small asteroid around somewhere with Town Hall’s address on it?
The Return of The Attack of Arky Cthulhusexual said,
January 29, 2008 at 5:35
Nope, but they’ve already taken delivery of many large hemorrhoids.
And pardon me for saying this, but isn’t it way the hell past time for a farmhouse to make a 4 pt landing on Phyllis Schlafly?
gbear said,
January 29, 2008 at 5:38
Maybe a bucket of water would have the same effect…
Marco said,
January 29, 2008 at 5:39
I am still wondering how Star Parker can get all “stay tough against baby killing” after having four abortions
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
January 29, 2008 at 5:43
All things being equal, I’d rather the Republican nominee be a total asshole.
Never fear, Ms. Liebau.
Dagoril said,
January 29, 2008 at 5:46
Compared to Bush talking, those people come across as fucking geniuses.
I don’t know how you mods regularly read that crap though. You guys have way more intestinal fortitude than I do. And I live in L.A., and eat burritos regularly; you’d think my intestines could handle anything!
fardels bear said,
January 29, 2008 at 5:46
Not only did Bert Prelutsky not like “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” but he expresses surprise that people are murdered in “Sweeny Todd.” That is the kind of insight and grasp of reality that we’ve come to expect from the Townhall Crowd.
pedestrian said,
January 29, 2008 at 5:48
Carol Platt Lebau looks even more melanin-deficient than your average Republican voter. There, I said it.
J. A. Baker said,
January 29, 2008 at 5:50
Is it just me, or does Carol Platt Liebau’s ClownHall pic bear a strong resemblance to The Joker?
LiberalFascistLover said,
January 29, 2008 at 5:55
I don’t know how you mods regularly read that crap though.
No, I am not in any way connected to this website, but I do the same thing, with more of an emphasis on Middle Eastern issues (FrontPageMag, Arutz Sheva, DhiminiWatch, Gamla, LGF, &c.). Frankly it is a lot of fun to see what the opposition is saying and then punch holes all through it.
The one interesting thing is that it totally validates our - as in the far Left’s - positions. For example, I was active with our local “Transform Columbus Day” protests - http://www.transformcolumbusday.org/ - and while the organized right-wing media denied a racist, anti-Native American spin, if you went to Free Republic and read the comments there, it completely validated out position that Columbus Day - at least here in Denver - has become a barely veiled white supremacist event.
pedestrian said,
January 29, 2008 at 5:58
On closer inspection I see that Carol Platt Liebau has recently escaped from a Marshall’s display window, and is most likely being held hostage by a crazed wingnut writer who is using her identity as a pen name. God only knows what he is doing to her.
nightjar said,
January 29, 2008 at 5:58
“Right-wing Democrats are becoming scarce, with the result being the impoverishment of our politics.”
Gaffney hasn’t been paying attention. Earth to Frank, haven’t you heard, liberals have jumped the shark and are now fire breathing fascists. We are now officially bigger ass-kickers than pussy conservatives.
porndog said,
January 29, 2008 at 6:15
I’m happy to say I’ve never heard of any of these schlubs except for the Dragon Lady Schlafly. Interesting that she is joining the McCarthy revisionists. McC’s right hand man was Roy Cohn, who was as gay as Schlafly’s son.
Hey, maybe that should be the title for a rebuttal book to Liberal Fascists. Not Conservative Communists. But Conservative Queers.
Schlafly herself, I can see her sucking plenty of fish…plus she carries teh gay gene!
Righteous Bubba said,
January 29, 2008 at 6:19
Bert deserves some credit for writing about movies from the very start of his column to the very bottom.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
January 29, 2008 at 6:20
KayLow sez:
They hate the dirty tactics of the Clinton campaign against him — using his middle name, Hussein, against him; whispering untrue rumors about his past; trying to hang him on confessions about his past.
Isn’t that what the Republicans were doing?
And will no doubt being again in a couple of months, should Obama win the nomination?
Righteous Bubba said,
January 29, 2008 at 6:21
the very start of his column to the very bottom.
Otherwise known as top to finish.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
January 29, 2008 at 6:25
Righteous Bubba said,
January 29, 2008 at 6:21
the very start of his column to the very bottom.
Otherwise known as top to finish.
Soup to nutz.
the_millionaire_lebowski said,
January 29, 2008 at 6:29
I was trudging through the ruins of Ye Old Internet, and I happened to stumble upon this. It’s sorta cool taking a look at old stuff like this. It’s also good that you guys have been hating on Sowell for at least the last 5 and a half years.
Legalize said,
January 29, 2008 at 6:41
Shorter entire Clown-Hall: Dave Matthews is so much more relevant than the Clash!
Jennifer said,
January 29, 2008 at 6:41
Someone on the last thread commented, incredulously, on the Unitard’s touting of our exports, and wanted to know WTF we export.
Dollars, silly.
Marsupial said,
January 29, 2008 at 6:43
OT, but, I saw that during the SOTU speech tonight, Bush mentioned that he was very upset at the results of the primaries on Saturday. Specifically, he doesn’t think that Miss Michigan is qualified to run the country for the next four years.
Jeff Gilooly said,
January 29, 2008 at 6:43
Virgin Ben ? Ou est mon Virgin Ben ???
Jennifer said,
January 29, 2008 at 6:50
Shorter SOTU address:
“Suck it, bitches!”
LiberalFascistLover said,
January 29, 2008 at 6:50
Someone on the last thread commented, incredulously, on the Unitard’s touting of our exports, and wanted to know WTF we export. … Dollars, silly.
That was me, and of course you’re right. Realistically however, that particular export is losing its marketability today. Now that Russia, Venezuela and Iran have allowed for non-dollar denominated oil exports; much of the developing world has rejected the IMF & World Bank (which operates exclusively through dollars); and our own reductions of the interest rate (which directly leads to inflation as we have far too many dollars circulating in the global financial system); the market for this most important of exports is collapsing quickly. The real issue now is who is going to get caught holding too many dollars, thus you see all the major dollar-holding states using their sovereign wealth (state controlled) funds to buy up tangible property in the US and other dollar denominated economies (like Belize).
Notorious P.A.T. said,
January 29, 2008 at 6:57
I’m happy to say I’ve never heard of any of these schlubs except for the Dragon Lady Schlafly. Interesting that she is joining the McCarthy revisionists.
But. . . but. . . but Jonah Goldberg says McCarthy was a liberal! So–why are conservatives defending him?????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Bullsmith said,
January 29, 2008 at 7:13
We’d have no dropouts at all if we disappeared kids who fail.
Tim (the other one) said,
January 29, 2008 at 7:15
“And pardon me for saying this, but isn’t it way the hell past time for a farmhouse to make a 4 pt landing on Phyllis Schlafly?”
She’d just wear the farmhouse as part of her hair-do. Never knew what hit her…
lobbey said,
January 29, 2008 at 7:35
o/t, Good take down of Jonah in slate:
http://www.slate.com/id/2182871/
particularly liked:
Liberal Fascism, then, is a howl of rage disguised as intellectual history. Some mean liberals called Goldberg hurtful names, so he’s responding with 400 pages that boil down to: I know you are, but what am I?
bob said,
January 29, 2008 at 7:51
Virgin Ben was on Thom Hartmann last week. Amazing that that kid went to Harvard Law with his concept of American history. Appalling assumptions of what simply isn’t true fill his conversation. I couldn’t imagine how Thom could keep a straight face.
Smiling Mortician said,
January 29, 2008 at 8:24
Ladies and gentlemen, the nostalgic stylings of Burt Prelutsky:
Thank blog that’s the last line of his column. I totally do not want an explanation.
ahem said,
January 29, 2008 at 8:55
Also, scientists and other smart people.
the_millionaire_lebowski said,
January 29, 2008 at 9:05
No! I’m still here!
Oh, wait…
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
January 29, 2008 at 9:08
Someone on the last thread commented, incredulously, on the Unitard’s touting of our exports, and wanted to know WTF we export.
Bombs.
Just like Jesus wanted.
WWJB?
The Oracle said,
January 29, 2008 at 9:29
I’d like to report a typo.
Shouldn’t that be Clownhall instead of Townhall???
(I know, I know, this joke has probably been made thousands of times already, but I can’t help but be reminded of some twisted, warped Twilight Zone town whenver I see their website name…a town filled with Killer Klowns).
Jeff Gillooly said,
January 29, 2008 at 10:38
Neil Stevens or RedState is God !!!
Well, not really.
obsoleziphelicopter said,
January 29, 2008 at 12:42
You guys have been busy. And talking the WH into letting you take over this week’s Ask the White House is genius. Pure Comedy Gold.
I love the format, you guys ask the questions and the preznit gets to answer the question. Himself. Cool.
…I did not want to distract from the delicate political process that is now moving forward, and therefore on my trip I spent time with the leaders of the Middle East, strategizing on how best to help the Lebanese solve their problem of Syrian involvement and secure their own democracy.
…As for the U.S. doing business in the Gulf states, I support open and fair trade and investment. I also understand why the Gulf states would want to develop civilian nuclear power, it is a much more cost effective way to desalinate the water. After all, water is a precious commodity for these countries. Thanks for your question.
…Thank you for your questions. It’s been my honor to answer some of them. No question we’ve had a great trip — but it’s also no question I’m happy to get home. I’m looking forward to seeing Laura and Barney and Beazley and the Kitty. After all, there’s no better place to lay your head than in your own bed with people you love.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/mideast/notes/Jan16.html
Smut Clyde said,
January 29, 2008 at 12:54
I find myself longing for the good old days when… a guy could be humiliated and still keep his pants on.
Don’t worry, it’s still possible, although the hourly rate is generally higher.
Qetesh the Qaveat Qat said,
January 29, 2008 at 13:20
Not only did Bert Prelutsky not like “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” but he expresses surprise that people are murdered in “Sweeny Todd.”
This is “Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street”, yah? Paean to a serial killer?
What the buggeryfuck does he expect, sugared ponies? Jeebus, he makes me feel like I’m a cranky old man.
Shoot the messenger, problem solved « Writhe Safely said,
January 29, 2008 at 14:24
[...] Very true. We are compelled to point out Jeffrey Dahmer had a soft side, too. H/T: Sadly, No! [...]
pedestrian said,
January 29, 2008 at 15:17
From the end of obsoleziphelicopter’s link:
After all, there’s no better place to lay your head than in your own bed with people you love.
~ George W. Bush
How many people, exactly?
Nimrod Gently said,
January 29, 2008 at 15:19
Does Bert Prelutsky ever say anything else?
Nimrod Gently said,
January 29, 2008 at 15:22
Wait, hang on, he hated “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” based solely on its premise? What the fuck?
pedestrian said,
January 29, 2008 at 15:27
,i>The truth is, after wasting 20 minutes trying to figure out what the heck Depp and Helena Bonham Carter were saying and singing, I simply threw in the towel.
Ehh? Ehhhhh??? SPEAK LOUDER PLEASE! Bahh, you kids!
I hope he literally threw a towel at the screen. Also, I like to imagine that he had an ear horn.
Dr. BDH said,
January 29, 2008 at 15:36
Dinesh has the newest, greatest defense of Bush/Cheney’s lies about WMDs: the Nazis weren’t actually close to making an A-bomb, but we built one anyway! So there, Bush was right even if he was wrong! With his usual total blindness to the implications of his argument, Dinesh doesn’t consider that if FDR hadn’t pushed us to make the first atomic weapons, the world might be a safer place today. So being wrong about your enemy’s weapons research has terrible consequences. Get it, Dinesh? You’ve grafted the scourge of nuclear weapons onto the stupidity of unprovoked war and made Bush look worse. Go collect your check, idiot.
OB-GYN Kenobi said,
January 29, 2008 at 16:01
SOTU? Don’t you mean STFU?
tigrismus said,
January 29, 2008 at 16:03
pedestrian said… From the end of obsoleziphelicopter’s link:
After all, there’s no better place to lay your head than in your own bed with people you love.
~ George W. Bush
How many people, exactly?
Did you notice that most of the names he listed were those of animals?
Susan of Texas said,
January 29, 2008 at 16:11
I want to get paid to make up crazy stuff like D’inesh. Although if you substituted “yeti” for “nuclear program” and “me and my hunting buddies” for “Bush,” it makes perfect sense.
Legalize said,
January 29, 2008 at 16:19
“Maybe the point of [Daniel Day Lewis'] homage [to John Huston] was that whether a man’s insatiable greed is for water or oil, he will inevitably wind up with the exact same voice.”
I love reviews written by senile old cranks.
“Another problem I had with the movie is that it’s extremely dark. I don’t mean its subject matter, I mean its lack of illumination. It’s one thing when the action, such as it is, takes place below ground level, but even after the villain is very rich and living in a mansion, it appears that he can’t afford anything but 20 watt bulbs.”
Someone please revoke this man’s right to go to movies. Evidence again that wingers serve only to ruin EVERTYHING,
mightygodking said,
January 29, 2008 at 16:21
I love that Bert Prelutsky, in his rant about how homo-butt-rape is dominating the movies nowadays, lists five movies, including Deliverance. Which was made in 1972. So he’s basically complaining about an average of homo-rape movies of about one every seven years.
moondancer said,
January 29, 2008 at 16:25
That list is what the army calls a target rich environment. I thought Schlaflys’ head exploded a couple of years ago. Didn’t realize that vicious bitch was still with us.
MzNicky said,
January 29, 2008 at 16:56
Ehh? Ehhhhh??? SPEAK LOUDER PLEASE! Bahh, you kids! … I like to imagine that he had an ear horn.
pedestrian: I was thinking the exact same thing—also picturing him with a white pointy beard that comes down to his knees, wearing a ratty Homberg and hobbling around with a crooked cane. I think I’m remembering a pervy old coot from the way-old “Katzenjammer Kids” comic strip. I’d Google it but I can’t find my reading spectacles. Oh wait, here they are on top of my head. Now, what was I going to do?
Blue Buddha said,
January 29, 2008 at 17:20
Almost sounds like a plot to a bad 80’s romantic comedy.
Blue Buddha said,
January 29, 2008 at 17:22
You mean a movie about a serial killer has murder scenes?!?! zOMFGBBQBUSCUIT! What is this world coming to?!!11oneone1
tigrismus said,
January 29, 2008 at 17:34
“I was always struck by the fact that my readers would insist that I never liked movies, even after I’d just written a rave about, say, “The Apartment” or “Some Like It Hot” … To tell you the truth, I find myself longing for the good old days when every movie didn’t last close to three hours and a guy could be humiliated and still keep his pants on.”
OK, has he actually ever seen Some Like it Hot?
Blue Buddha said,
January 29, 2008 at 17:37
No, he hated it based solely on it being French.
Hugely said,
January 29, 2008 at 17:43
regd bad movie: cue Mickey Thomas / Grace Slick:
“And we can build this dream together,
Standing strong forever
Nothing’s gonna stop us now…”
i wish i was in the Airplane Demographic rather than Starship…
White Male, Jew of Liberal Fascism said,
January 29, 2008 at 17:55
Hey, maybe that should be the title for a rebuttal book to Liberal Fascists… Conservative Queers.
Great idea, but can I suggest a better name: “Conservative Closetboys”???
TR said,
January 29, 2008 at 17:56
I love Schlafly’s logic — Hoover’s FBI suspected someone was a communist, so they must have been, and McCarthy was right! Yeah, hell of a track record there.
Does that book vindicate the fact that McCarthy campaigned as “Tail-Gunner Joe” who’d been on 30 bombing raids in WWII when the real total was zero? Or are the Air Force records part of the evil liberal historian-journalist-military conspiracy?
Jackson said,
January 29, 2008 at 18:00
I find myself longing for the good old days when… a guy could be humiliated and still keep his pants on.
Senator Vitter has a nice lead on places where you can be humiliated with your diapers on, if that’s close enough for you. He’s a good ol’ fashioned family-values conservative, too! Just ask his pimps for a letter of recommendation.
D.N. Nation said,
January 29, 2008 at 18:07
I’m still wondering why newspapers haven’t dropped Super Star en masse, or why her and her wingnut welfare front group (Urban CURE) haven’t been properly labeled as a hate group.
The woman sounds like your garden variety I’m-being-vague-about-how-much-I-hate-gay-people pundit hack, which is cause enough to be dropped from Op/Eds around the country, but when she actually speaks in public is when the crazy really comes out. No lie- the woman wants to put gays in internment camps for “curing.” Again, no lie. This is what she believes. This is what she preaches. This is what she says at various wingnut forums when she thinks moderate America isn’t listening.
That this woman is offered the blessing of mainstream punditry is unacceptible. We can totes LOL at the Pantload’s nonsense, but Star Parker is *dangerous*.
D.N. Nation said,
January 29, 2008 at 18:11
Ahh, classic Sowell.
We drive on parkways but park on driveways. Language is funny like that. You can learn language in school. If only the liberals would let you learn language at school. Ted Kennedy is a drunk. Klinton Klinton Klinton!
The man is just not really there.
Quaker Oates said,
January 29, 2008 at 18:12
Suzanne Fields? I bet Totie Fields was a better and more incisive political observer.
jimmiraybob said,
January 29, 2008 at 18:23
Liberals can’t be fascists. It’d be impossible to get a consensus on a shirt color.
Auguste said,
January 29, 2008 at 19:06
Carole Platt Liebeau:
And here I thought that civility was a first principle of the right! It’s almost as if they’re dissembling about that!
Me said,
January 29, 2008 at 19:27
As Smiling Mortician notes above, Prelutsky says:
I find myself longing for the good old days when every movie didn’t last close to three hours
This is actually a sentiment I can get behind. It seems that every noteworthy film nowadays is so bloated with ambition and a sense of its own importance that it can’t possibly tell its story in the traditional two hours. I don’t know about you, but my back and kidneys aren’t what they used to be. If you need three hours to say what you’re gonna say, give us a fucking intermission please.
Robert M. said,
January 29, 2008 at 19:44
You’d think I’d learn. Every time S,N! does a Two-Minute Townhall, I click through to a couple, thinking “Well, they can’t possibly be that bad.” Being fans of irony, you all probably already know what happened next.
(Prelutzky actually tosses off a reference to the O.J. Simpson trial, just to show that he’s really with it. He and Oven Mitt should go on tour together.)
mark said,
January 29, 2008 at 19:49
D’souza’s argument is that Bush didn’t lie, because he would have been afraid of being caught. Flawless logic! Likewise, Ponzi didn’t lie, because he was also afraid of being caught.
D.N. Nation said,
January 29, 2008 at 19:52
Ooh man, just got a whiff of that Prelutzky stuff. Yikes.
Theme of No Country for Old Men: Evil generally endures.
Theme of pretty much half the books ever written: Evil generally endures.
Makes no sense at all? WARNING: SPOILERS.
An oil prospector semi-cheats a family out of their land, builds some rigs, fights with the family’s son (he’s a preacher), gets rich, disowns his adopted son for competing with him, then kills the preacher in a crazy rage. Then the credits roll.
How, exactly, did this movie not make any sense?
And what’s with airline peanuts these days?
Bill Belichick said,
January 29, 2008 at 20:15
Star Parker is dead on! I thought Fred didn’t conserve anywhere near enough energy for the long haul. If he didn’t get all tuckered out in South Carolina I bet he would have had enough left in the tank so that he could have dropped out in FL.
Jake H. said,
January 29, 2008 at 20:52
Prelutzky actually tosses off a reference to the O.J. Simpson trial, just to show that he’s really with it.
It was probably the most up-to-date reference in a column full of lame name-dropping indicating that he was reviewing movies sometime before Edison invented them. I can only assume O.J. is his last coherent memory.
Seriously, Some Like It Hot? Someone who reviewed Some Like It Hot is still alive and giving his opinions on things? Isn’t that sort of astounding? It’s like reading a column on the troop surge from someone who fought in the Spanish American War.
Blue Buddha said,
January 29, 2008 at 21:08
Shorter Prelutsky: Man Washing Horse was a full eight minutes long! That is far too long for a moving picture feature. What will happen to the cinema next? Moving pictures that talk?… and *gasp* in full color?!
Bill Belichick said,
January 29, 2008 at 21:24
What is Bert on about? He says there was little man love in his first 25 years. Then, in order to prop up a Strawman he goes back *36* years in order to introduce Deliverance into the mix, he goes back 17 years for Prince of Tides. And then it’s 94, 2003, 2007. Yup, sounds like a trend to me.
anangryoldbroad said,
January 29, 2008 at 21:29
Umm,guys? D over at Lawyers Guns and Money has a little Jonah related surprise you’re gonna just adore…..
Jake H. said,
January 29, 2008 at 21:29
Shorter Prelutsky: Man Washing Horse was a full eight minutes long! That is far too long for a moving picture feature. What will happen to the cinema next? Moving pictures that talk?… and *gasp* in full color?!
Additionally, I must protest the shocking and disturbing realism of the new French film, The Arrival of the Mail Train! My fellow theatergoers and I ran terrified from the theater as the train approached! Of course, the manager (an immigrant of Mediterranean extraction, if you catch my meaning) refused our demands to refund the exorbitant admittance fee of one penny! And not a phosphate in sight to calm the disquietude of my humors!
anangryoldbroad said,
January 29, 2008 at 21:34
Ok,I’m gonna try to give you a link(again),because it’s truly fucking precious…
http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/2008/01/dear-jonah-i-am-not-serious-either.html
actor212 said,
January 29, 2008 at 21:37
Right-wing Democrats are becoming scarce, with the result being the impoverishment of our politics.
In other news, stem cell research received a shot in the arm when Joe Lieberman was kidnapped by the Mengele Brothers for cloning purposes…
NobodySpecial said,
January 29, 2008 at 21:51
Off topic, but I now understand why Cheetos are the weapon of choice for wingnuts - You see?
Anton Chigurh said,
January 29, 2008 at 21:51
Re: DN Nation as movie critic
I think There Will Be Blood was making a larger point about the origins of the American versions of religious fervor, energy development and the nexus between rampant capitalism and religion among other things. Simply viewing the movie as a sordid little tale of small scale greed and violence I think misses the point a bit. It is drawn from “Oil!” by Upton Sinclair.
As for “No Country” are you making the point that books about evil enduring have no point? Or that we know this and the point does not need to be made? As a meditiation on the nature of evil, godlessness and the randomness of the universe, I think the movie was well done. A lot of McCarthy’s work is like this. Probably best if you avoid The Road, friendo.
t4toby said,
January 29, 2008 at 21:53
WTF???!!!111???
edgyspice said,
January 29, 2008 at 21:57
To tell you the truth, I find myself longing for the good old days when every movie didn’t last close to three hours
Yeah, why can’t they make zippy little films like Lawrence of Arabia or Doctor Zhivago these days?
islmfaoscist said,
January 29, 2008 at 22:13
Shorter President Bush final SOTU:
“…the war situation has developed not necessarily to
Japan’sAmerica’s advantage, while the general trends of the world have all turned against her interest.”PeeJ said,
January 29, 2008 at 22:19
That’s the first and dear god I hope last time I read that Butt Postloonie wanker.
But that (delayed) fuck was a. consensual and b. only implied.
Or maybe you mean the thing about pants.
He proves that the wingers general non-grasp of things metaphorical extends to the visual realm. As far as irony goes, look at his picture then read : W. Burt Prelutsky is an accomplished, well-rounded writer
Thank you Buttboy, thank you.
actor212 said,
January 29, 2008 at 22:32
Bert deserves some credit for writing about movies from the very start of his column to the very bottom.
And he stayed within the lines when he colored in the illustrations.
Smut Clyde said,
January 29, 2008 at 22:37
I find myself longing for the good old days when every movie didn’t last close to three hours
“Good old days” = “before 1922″, when Fritz Lang brought us 5 hours of brilliance in the form of “Dr Mabuse the Gambler”.
Rightwingsnarkle said,
January 29, 2008 at 22:40
Two minutes for Townhall is two minutes of my life that I’ll never get back.
D.N. Nation said,
January 29, 2008 at 22:42
Well, of course. I was merely responding to Burt acting like he had no clue what was going on. For the record:
- Me, written somewhere else. Additionally for the record, I loved TWBB.
Neither. My point was Burt whining about NCFOM’s violence and dark message was wholly moronic, seeing how similar themes are everywhere.
Agreed. My second-favorite of the year. Well, maybe third…Zodiac was also solid.
(Reading my post twice might have saved you all this hassle.)
Five of Diamonds said,
January 29, 2008 at 22:49
Dinesh:
Whatever you think of this analysis, there is no evidence that Bush made his decision about the Iraq war in bad faith.
When he says “no evidence” I’m pretty sure he means “I have my head stuck so far up my ass I can’t see the mountain of evidence. Since this is the standard of proof Bush used for the war, it’s good for this article.”
Smut Clyde said,
January 29, 2008 at 22:50
I find myself longing for the good old days when every thread didn’t last close to 200 comments.
DAS said,
January 29, 2008 at 22:59
Before I became aware of Bert Prelutsky, I thought Grandpa Simpson was an over-the-top parody of a certain kind of alter-kocker. Now I know that Grandpa Simpson is actually underplayed.
Does Burt Prelutsky wear an onion in his belt?
DAS said,
January 29, 2008 at 23:02
Shorter Carol Platt Liebau: All things being equal, I’d rather the Republican nominee be a total asshole.
When Democrats say things like this, we get slimed on the so-called-liberal media as unhinged. Yet, IOKIYAR I guess?
Kinda like how there was a phase when everyone was all aghast at how 527s, etc., were shifting the Dem. party to the left but everyone seemed to have forgotten that a similar thing occured in the GOP, and that “Club for Growth” didn’t kill the GOP.
Don’tcha just lurve you some “librul media”?
Anton Chigurh said,
January 29, 2008 at 23:14
Apologies. I didn’t read all of the town hall gibberish. It looked like you were setting off his quotes and then making some separate related point, rather than doing your own “shorter” version of the town hall comments. The digressions in these threads often move away from the source material and become their own subject. See yesterday’s thread on supersonic bombers…
PeeJ said,
January 29, 2008 at 23:18
Butt whatshisname:
Didn’t he learn anything from Larry C? Like, that most of the communication in “such places” is non-verbal. Toe-tapping and the like,
D.N. Nation said,
January 29, 2008 at 23:21
Anton- Just messin with ya.
Smut Clyde said,
January 29, 2008 at 23:42
scenes taking place in public restrooms had become commonplace.
“Fuck him, I thought. With a bit of luck, it’ll ruin his life–forever thinking that just behind some narrow door in all his favorite bars, men in red Pendleton shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he’ll never know. Would he dare to suck a sleeve? Probably not. Play it safe.”
Rightwingsnarkle said,
January 30, 2008 at 3:20
“Fuck him, I thought. With a bit of luck, it’ll ruin his life…”
Ah, how I miss the good Doctor.
Corey said,
January 30, 2008 at 4:51
There’s really only one shorter Phyllis Schlafly.
“Hi…I’m an old whore whose dessicated cunt dried out so long ago that the Sahara was still lush forest.”
Matt Janes said,
January 30, 2008 at 21:39
The amazing thing about Burt Pretlutsky, is that he is a WGA TV writer with credits from M*A*S*H, Mary Tyler Moore, Family Ties, The Rockford Files, and Rhoda, (and the god awful Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and the like) but not really the usual bad TV fare. That he managed to get these telescripts shot, only mystifies me more to his incredible stupid, simplistic, inane, and out right wrong movie reviews and his lack of understanding film, drama, and media in general. Truly bizarre.