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New Wingnut of the Week: The Pilot Episode
Returning to snark, and in what we hope to be a regular Sunday feature, we bring you this week’s “New Wingnut of the Week.” Today’s NWOTW comes highly recommended by John J. Miller, the guy who created the list of the 50 Greatest Conservative Rock Songs at America’s Shittiest Website™, so you know this is one primo recommendation.
Let’s have the winner tell you a little bit about himself first:
[NWOTW] is a failed screenwriter living in L.A. hanging onto hope without the talent to justify it. Maybe by society’s standards he’s a loser — maybe even by his mothers [sic -- we assume NWOTW has only one mother] — but someone unemployed 6 years who still has a tin roof over his head and bootlegged cable is no piker. While the winners enjoy their commutes and quiet desperation, [NWOTW] likes to wake at the crack of noon, blog and porn from the library, see his “doctor” about his “disability,” and write about himself in the third person.
Well, that’s quite a curriculum vitae: apostrophe-challenged failed screenwriter, loser, unemployed, disowned by parents, porn addict, cable thief and disability cheat. So what do you think Harry does in his hours and hours of spare time, other than watch porn in his underwear? Why, he writes “conservative movie reviews.” Yes, indeedy, he does. And his nom de blog is “Dirty Harry,” which is odd since Dirty Harry probably would load a few rounds into this disability cheat and cable thief if he found him in an alley. But that’s another story.*
So, Dirty Harry, take a bow and take it away with your review of Pixar’s Wall-E:
For all its charms and wonders, one moment sticks in my head and, well, craw. It also confuses me. Why? Why go there? Other than the dark chuckles from the liberal critics around me, what’s to gain? And other than a lack of self-control or hubris on the filmmakers’ part, there’s no explaining it. But they did it. They actually had the President (Fred Willard) say about his failed mission, “Stay the course.”
Have we lost Pixar? Have we lost the wonderful studio who brought us The Incredibles and Ratatouille to Bush Derangement Syndrome? Here you have a winning streak going back ten-years, enormous amounts of public goodwill, equal amounts of credibility as serious storytellers, and they stop things cold, yanking you out of the story with the liberal nonsense. Quite a disappointment.
I think our touchy critic is setting the bar for BDS pretty low here. One little joke about Our Glorious Leader and it’s proof that Pixar has come down with a frothing-at-the-mouth, banging-head-on-cement-blocks, wild-eyed-shrieking-banshee case of BDS. How dare they? What will the children think?
At first there’s not much of an environmental message. The piles of garbage covering our planet come off as nothing more than a good idea to set up a cool alt-version of our world and the lead character. Unfortunately, this doesn’t last.
Fucking liberals. First they put in a naughty line about our President, and then they go and suggest that being swamped in our own refuse and garbage is a bad thing.
The humans are introduced as meaty, lazy, chair-bound consumers who live in a world run by a large corporation. The message about our consumerism, sloth, and addiction to visual stimulus is eventually beaten like a drum.
Naturally Harry takes accusations of sloth rather personally.
This may well be the fifth or sixth movie this year to depict our government as taken over by a corporation – as though that would be a bad thing.
Words fail. Really.
Anyway, that wraps up our pilot episode of NWOTW. If you have any suggestions for next week’s award recipient, email them to me at clif (the little at thingy) outsidethetent and then, you know, period com. If your nominee for NWOTW is used, then you’ll win something like, maybe, a free download of Firefox 3 or a lifetime subscription to “The Corner.” And remember, to be eligible, the NWOTW must not have previously been given the S,N! treatment.
* Gavin adds: Due to the site design at Libertas, the daily wrongness-dispenser of the Liberty Film Festival, there’s been trouble, historically, in figuring out which writer there is Jason Apuzzo, and which are Apuzzo epigones (if the world can contain such a thing, as it apparently can). Note, for example, the lack of a named post author here. This problem became somewhat less troublesome not long ago when Dirty Harry was allegedly kicked off the site. We look forward to a successful solo career. Another version of his personal bio is at the third link above. Which version is true? We think it’s not an either/or, but more of a both/and.
OTB said,
June 22, 2008 at 18:34
Wonderful! A most worthy winner for a most worthy award.
mikey said,
June 22, 2008 at 18:50
I think there needs to be some kind of additional categorization, here.
You know, something that might help us, the readership, differentiate between the New Wingnut of the Week and Just Another Stupid Asshole.
Huh?
Oh.
Carry on…
mikey
g said,
June 22, 2008 at 18:54
Love the comments at the review. Here’s one:
That’s what being a conservative moviegoer is like. You’re always slightly tensed up, waiting for the kick.
god, it must suck to be a conservative. You live your lives in fear that at any moment, your entire well-being is going to be impacted by….a joke in a cartoon movie.
g said,
June 22, 2008 at 18:56
Well, that’s quite a curriculum vitae: apostrophe-challenged failed screenwriter, loser, unemployed, disowned by parents, porn addict, cable thief and disability cheat.
And an impressive embodiment of the conservative values of personal responsibilities!
Libertarius ShadowLord said,
June 22, 2008 at 18:57
In one scene of the movie “Idiocracy” a moron has a barcalounger with a toilet built in so he doesn’t even have to get up from in front of the teevee. I bet Dirty Harry is on the waiting list for one of those. Oh Japanese, will you manufacture them in time for Christmas???
Mr. Wonderful said,
June 22, 2008 at 19:05
Nice art work. Not only does the viewer have his bowl of Cheetos, but
the tv has ITS own bowl, too. And that’s everybody!
Mephisto said,
June 22, 2008 at 19:06
As fantastic as this wingnut is, I’m more awestruck by that list of “conservative rock songs.” Really had to stretch on a couple of those. “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is based on the poem, so it’s conservative? Makes sense to me.
Righteous Bubba said,
June 22, 2008 at 19:11
Have we lost the wonderful studio who brought us The Incredibles and Ratatouille to Bush Derangement Syndrome?
Pixar’s in California so it may even be Reagan Derangement Syndrome. Those liberals can’t let go.
Omni Consumer Products™²³®© said,
June 22, 2008 at 19:12
We’d give DirtyHairySpice a job, if he didn’t suck so much.
mikey said,
June 22, 2008 at 19:14
Have we lost the wonderful studio who brought us The Incredibles and Ratatouille to Bush Derangement Syndrome?
Wait. I’m still trying to parse this sentence.
The studio brought the Incredibles to us and stewed vegetables to bush derangement syndrome?
I give up…
mikey
MzNicky said,
June 22, 2008 at 19:16
Wait — so you want us to go out and find more of these guys?
Righteous Bubba said,
June 22, 2008 at 19:17
I was referring to “Stay the course” but fuckety fuck.
Scott C. said,
June 22, 2008 at 19:19
Glad to see Harry is getting the attention his critical acumen deserves. We did a little bit on his reaction to the pending Red Dawn remake over at World o’ Crap, but I had no idea he blogged from a library! Quelle fancy!
A couple of questions, though: If you’re a conservative who’s getting the government to subsidize your porn consumption, does that make you feel more guilty than you ordinarily would about whacking off to I Spy Cameltoe.com? And does that make the eventual, furtive ejaculation into a used McDonald’s sack you found in a trash can outside the branch library all the sweet, sweet, sweeter?
Just wondering about the politics of the whole thing…
Omni Consumer Products™²³®© said,
June 22, 2008 at 19:20
That’s a nice artist’s conception.
It looks like ancient Beavis.
The Visigoth said,
June 22, 2008 at 19:21
On a related note, how the hell is it even possible that Wall-E has already come out?
g said,
June 22, 2008 at 19:24
Without being insensitive to those with disabilities, can I just ask one thing?
How is it that someone whose supposed profession is WRITING has become so disabled that he is no longer capable of sitting down in front of a computer and WRITING, which allows him to collect disability payments and spend his days in front of the computer WRITING?
Just askin’.
mikey said,
June 22, 2008 at 19:31
Pretty sure it’s a MENTAL disability, g…
mikey
Omni Consumer Products™²³®© said,
June 22, 2008 at 19:32
Come to thunk of it, pr0ning from the lieberry sounds a bit creepy.
Joe Max said,
June 22, 2008 at 19:33
Actually, wasn’t “stay the course” originally a Reaganism?
Jennifer said,
June 22, 2008 at 19:38
god, it must suck to be a conservative. You live your lives in fear that at any moment, your entire well-being is going to be impacted by….a joke in a cartoon movie.
See, that’s the thing. These people aren’t “conservatives” in any sense of the word; they’re professional victims. They simply graft that label onto themselves because of the (erroneous) notion that “conservatives” are all about being responsible. Ergo, if they call themselves “conservatives”, it’s not WHINING when they bitch about how everything isn’t the way they think it should be and they don’t always get their way; it’s merely responsibly pointing out the shortcomings of the rest of the world in not ensuring that everything is the way they think it should be and in not making sure they get their way. In short, they project like the octoplex down at the mall.
Jennifer said,
June 22, 2008 at 19:39
Joe Max – it was a Bush the first-ism. He coupled it with his “don’t change horses in mid-stream” campaign pitch.
Righteous Bubba said,
June 22, 2008 at 19:51
Jennifer: I remember it mostly as a Reaganism but Stay the the course has been around for a while.
Henry Holland said,
June 22, 2008 at 19:53
Paging Roy Edroso, paging Roy Edroso to this post….
OTB said,
June 22, 2008 at 19:57
g, I think porn addiction *is* a disabilitiy.
Ripley said,
June 22, 2008 at 19:59
He’s the feel-good blogger of the Summer!
Brandi said,
June 22, 2008 at 20:00
Oh Japanese, will you manufacture them in time for Christmas???
I think you mean the Chinese.
Susan of Texas said,
June 22, 2008 at 20:06
Thomas S. Hibbs on the new Get Smart. Money quote: “In a nearly perfect inversion of Feldon, Hathaway combines the model of the hyper-sophisticated careerist woman with a teeny-bopper quality in the arena of romance.”
Emily Karrs on the American Girl merchandising empire. Money quote: “Aside from a few weirdly out-of-place double entendres and a startling New Deal endorsement to “steal from the rich and give to the poor,” the movie is as wholesome and innocent as Vitamin D milk.”
I don’t know if they’re S,N! wingnut virgins.
D. Sidhe said,
June 22, 2008 at 20:15
Well, it could be a mental disability. Schizophrenia, for example, is pretty much an automatic if you want it to be. But it doesn’t have to be. I could make a reasonable living writing if it weren’t for the migraineclusterfuck complex I live with, which makes the concept of concentrating to the end of a page difficult if not near impossible. (Between the pain and the nausea and the double/blurry vision, there are days I couldn’t read, let alone review, a board book.)
On the other hand, rather than hit the taxpayer for my support, I’ve done the conservative values thing and whored myself to one person for room and board. It seems to work okay. My partner gets sporadic laundry and cleaning and cooking, and I get to live in a home that doesn’t say “Frigidaire” on the side.
mikey said,
June 22, 2008 at 20:20
My partner gets sporadic laundry and cleaning and cooking
And it certainly deserves to be said, in Sidhe’s case, this is NOT your grammaw’s cooking…
mikey
owlbear1 said,
June 22, 2008 at 20:38
They actually had the President (Fred Willard) say about his failed mission, “Stay the course.”
That’s right Harry, and for three generations that phrase will be used as a quick and easy way to identify evil and arrogant leadership.
So much for the ‘war of ideas’, eh Harry?
Oh and I’m sure FDR says, “You’re welcome for the safety net.”
I’m sure YOU think you are “getting away” with “IT” , but I think the rest of us feel much better knowing that you have something to do with your hands that doesn’t involve you having to go out into the streets.
Athabasca Mel said,
June 22, 2008 at 20:39
see his “doctor” about his “disability,”
The NTOTW also has comma issues.
I think maybe doctor means guy and disability means supply, going by people I’ve met who otherwise fit Harry’s self-description but don’t write conservative movie reviews.
Jennifer said,
June 22, 2008 at 20:48
OT: when candy design goes horribly, horribly wrong.
Jennifer said,
June 22, 2008 at 20:49
It just occured to me – those literally are a bag of dicks.
Julia Grey said,
June 22, 2008 at 20:58
Maybe by society’s standards he’s a loser
MAYBE?
Even if all he says about himself is true, he wouldn’t necessarily be a loser (at least not with a capital “L”) if he could write clever, unpredictable commentary.
But having
kittenscougars over a very, very small joke at Bush’s expense is about as BORING as it gets.Except the part where we beat on him with it, of course. THAT’S funny.
tb said,
June 22, 2008 at 21:15
I like his “top 5 western moments”, and can’t wait for the follow-up: “r-rememmer when DeNiro said ‘Did you fuck my wife?’ That was cool.”
Anne Laurie said,
June 22, 2008 at 21:31
“Hey!” say the Liberty Film Guyz, “Let’s do some of that kewl ‘satire’ stuff, where we make up a sockpuppet reviewer but — get this! — we give the sockpuppet all those luzer skillz what the Libruls say is bad about us True Patriotic Americans(tm)!”…
Antic japes ensue!
Which leads me to two observations:
(1) Will Joe-Bob Briggs sue for schtick infringement, or does he not want his name (further) associated in any way with this bagful of dicks?
(2) To use an idiom their tiny minds can appreciate: How is it possible for the Liberty Film Guys to both suck and blow at the same time?
Gundamhead said,
June 22, 2008 at 21:51
“This may well be the fifth or sixth movie this year to depict our government as taken over by a corporation – as though that would be a bad thing.”
Is he suggesting it would be a good thing? What the fuck?
O.K. maybe I’m just thick here, but how can you be an unemployed, stealing disability, uses the library computers, porn connoisseur (looking up porn in the library? ICK!) and call yourself a conservative? Doesn’t your very existence stand opposed to everything you believe in? I guess it’s all just to nuanced and serious for me to grasp.
Lesley said,
June 22, 2008 at 21:56
“On first glance, rock ’n’ roll music isn’t very conservative…” anymore than liberalism is fascism. Oh wait!
Scutch said,
June 22, 2008 at 21:58
This guy was a Hollywood Elsewhere wet blanket for a while. Here’s his response to the death of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi:
Dirty Harry [TypeKey Profile Page] says …
60′s Baby Boomers are so self-deluded and narcissistic they seem to have missed the fact that the term “Me Generation,” isn’t a compliment.
The only young people worth a shit in the late 60s were those working for Civil Rights, especially in the Deep South.
The rest just left us with a legacy of drug addictions and social diseases still blowing holes through millions of lives. And let’s not forget the holocaust in Southeast Asia… 2 million dead little brown people dead as a direct result of the anti-war crowd getting what they wanted. Sound familiar…?
Zuzu's Petals said,
June 22, 2008 at 21:59
Check out the insightful comments on the Iowa floods over at Libertas:
Seems white folks got it covered.
Bag of Dicks said,
June 22, 2008 at 22:01
We come in many flavors!
a different brad said,
June 22, 2008 at 22:07
He has comments open on his profile page.
It’s possible Rick Moran might’ve taken too long accepting my love.
Ahm a gunna gay marry Dirty Harry n becum a citizen!
Speaking of which, if I were gay and not in a relationship in Cali, I’d marry an illegal to give em citizenship and write Lou Dobbs about it.
mikey said,
June 22, 2008 at 22:21
2 million dead little brown people dead as a direct result of the anti-war crowd getting what they wanted.
Yeah, goddamit. If we had just left a hundred thousand troops, our B-52s, artillery and agent orange in S Vietnam for a couple more years, hell, babe, we coulda DOUBLED that body count…
mikey
justme said,
June 22, 2008 at 22:24
Love the lighthouses. That’ll go out to the friends.
For no good reason it made me think of the jello San Francisco.
Our NWOTW can now safely go eat a bag of dicks – as though that would be a bad thing.
Righteous Bubba said,
June 22, 2008 at 22:25
Speaking of which, if I were gay and not in a relationship in Cali, I’d marry an illegal to give em citizenship and write Lou Dobbs about it.
An Iraqi guy looking for immigration advice found me on Skype. I mentioned that there were more ways to marry into immigration status these days and he was very amused.
Alas, I am simply not convenient enough to rake in the gay marriage bux.
justme said,
June 22, 2008 at 22:39
OT, but as long as we’re posting cocks…
MzNicky said,
June 22, 2008 at 22:41
Come to thunk of it, pr0ning from the lieberry sounds a bit creepy.
I think someone should alert the local authorities.
Your Jewish Master said,
June 22, 2008 at 22:50
Thanks for the link.
And welcome, minions!
Fozzetti said,
June 22, 2008 at 22:50
I’d dubious about the artist’s conception. The guy has curtains on his windows! I think real wingnuts have a sheet thumbtacked oer the window. Or a tattered US flag. Or maybe cardboard filling in the broken panes. But Drapes AND Sheers? I don’t think so.
Lesley said,
June 22, 2008 at 22:58
Chris Muir needs instruction on buttock drawing.
Proteus454 said,
June 22, 2008 at 23:02
Lesley –
Chris Muir: How do I drawn anatomy?
Rob Liefeld: I dunno, lol
Fozzetti said,
June 22, 2008 at 23:03
Or perhaps a confederate flag-curtain.
Julia Grey said,
June 22, 2008 at 23:04
Drapes AND Sheers? I don’t think so.
He’s living under his MOTHER’s “tin roof.”
She put the curtains up, but for some reason doesn’t object to him eating Cheetos in the living room.
C’mon, Mom. A little tough love here.
mikey said,
June 22, 2008 at 23:08
That chix butt in the Day by Day cartoon looks exactly like the trunk lid of a Boxster….
mikey
Doctorb said,
June 22, 2008 at 23:08
Okay, so since when is “porn” a verb?
Mr. Wonderful said,
June 22, 2008 at 23:18
Jennifer is on fire here today. First this:
These people aren’t “conservatives” in any sense of the word; they’re professional victims. They simply graft that label onto themselves because of the (erroneous) notion that “conservatives” are all about being responsible. Ergo, if they call themselves “conservatives”, it’s not WHINING when they bitch about how everything isn’t the way they think it should be and they don’t always get their way; it’s merely responsibly pointing out the shortcomings of the rest of the world in not ensuring that everything is the way they think it should be and in not making sure they get their way. In short, they project like the octoplex down at the mall.
…which is cherce. Then the bag o’ dicks.
I’d only add to the above that they buttress (heh heh. I said “butt”) their “arguments” is by alluding to an imaginary past, its glories and triumphs and shit like that. That’s what makes them think, “Huh. I am a conservative.”
That, plus the pretentious/bonehead prose stylings, in which they mimic their elders and betters and feel all “mature,” “sardonic,” and “witty” as a consequence.
Mr. Wonderful said,
June 22, 2008 at 23:18
Delete that “is.” I know you know I didn’t mean it.
Oregon Guy said,
June 22, 2008 at 23:30
I didn’t even realize that she was supposed to be lying on her stomach and that was supposed to be her ass for about a good minute and a half. It was like one of those computer paintings that you’re supposed to stare at for five minutes (in which I can never see the fucking picture either).
On the bright side, I’m off to the store for a bag of Gummi Dicks!
kc said,
June 22, 2008 at 23:38
I’m with Oregon Guy – it took me two trips to realize that she even *had* buttocks, let alone how badly drawn (or unfortunately inherited) they were!
Lesley said,
June 22, 2008 at 23:48
Muir prefers backsides that resemble boats. To each his own, I guess.
Here’s Muir as he looks today. He describes himself as a dork. I wouldn’t disagree.
Simba B said,
June 22, 2008 at 23:58
In mid-February, Chris Muir, the talented cartoonist behind day by day,
Welp, it didn’t take long for them to lose me.
Cartoon Buttocks said,
June 23, 2008 at 0:01
I’ve been taken out of context
kc said,
June 23, 2008 at 0:11
.talented [sic] cartoonist …prevalent in the blogosphere…
sounds like a disease – not inappropriate…
tigrismus said,
June 23, 2008 at 0:15
Vero possumus = yes we can(or, as I prefer it, “truly we are able” TASTE THE ELITOFASCISM). And there’s about 6 inches between those cheeks, making his deformo-chick as lame ass as his “jokes”.
willsix said,
June 23, 2008 at 0:22
Is it even worth mentioning that “stay the course” was something attributed to George H. W. Bush by Dana Carvey on Saturday Night Live, and that it referred to his economic policies and had nothing whatsoever to do with a military operation?
It’s like discovering an entirely new level of meta-stupid. It’s stupid to attribute “stay the course” to “Bush Derangement Syndrome”, because even if he’s right about the quote, which he’s not because he’s too stupid to know the source of the quote, it would still be stupid, because “Bush Derangement Syndrome” is stupid and watching movies for any sign of the latest LIBERAL OUTRAGE is even stupider.
It’s like a stupid singularity, collapsing in on itself and sending out shockwaves of stupid.
Blue Buddha said,
June 23, 2008 at 0:23
Actually he’s copying a Cubist painting. Not Picasso per se, but maybe Duchamp.
Blue Buddha said,
June 23, 2008 at 0:25
Of course, those waves of stupidity are subject to the Dopeler Effect*.
—–
* The tendency of a stupid idea to appear more intelligent as it approaches the observer at a rapid velocity.
freepatriot said,
June 23, 2008 at 0:30
is there any limit on what kind of bait we can use to find there slothful blogers ???
like, if I were to, say, post a long screed calling for the banning of cheetoes, could I enter any nut-jobs that I discover thru such underhanded tactics ???
(I think it’s wrong to tease dumb animals like that, but we’re talking about freepers, the lowest form of vermin on the planet)
so if I turn in a bloodied and whining freeper who fears his food supply will be cut off, I’m not gonna lose any points, am I ???
(I’ll try an keep em alive, but I ain’t puttin em back. I caught em, I get to eat em))
Lesley said,
June 23, 2008 at 0:33
I’m waiting for Muir to draw the proverbial rapes-girlfriend-in-the-ass-in-front-of-everybody cartoon. He’s only been building up to it for years. (Muir is obviously sexually insecure and the drawrings are payback for some transgression on the part of womankind in Muir’s deep dark past.)
Lesley said,
June 23, 2008 at 0:44
Proteus454 said,
Chris Muir: How do I drawn anatomy?
Rob Liefeld: I dunno, lol
LOL indeed!
slippy hussein toad said,
June 23, 2008 at 0:50
Conservatives apparently believe that they possess a God-Given right to be free of hearing criticism of their God-Chosen leaders at ALL TIMES, and any hint of a gesture in the direction of making fun of a politician is OMFG! BIAS!
Additionally:
That one’s funny. The Ancient Mariner shot the albatross and lived through an eon of walking, zombie-like Hell, and his only release from that punishment was to be returned to earth, compelled to tell his tale over and over again with the moral:
Of course, that’s cultish environmentalism, so OMFG! We’ve lost Iron Maiden!!!!
goat or panic said,
June 23, 2008 at 0:51
My God, I thought her ass was a headboard.
or
My God, officer, I thought her ass was a headboard.
Blue Buddha said,
June 23, 2008 at 0:52
…and then there’s evil vs. more evil.
SalHepatica said,
June 23, 2008 at 0:54
His real name is Matt Foley. He is 35 years old, he is thrice divorced, and he lives in a van down by the river. (Must be a river that runs behind a Starbucks, where he can also steal Wi-Fi as well as cable.)
g said,
June 23, 2008 at 0:59
What river?
mikey said,
June 23, 2008 at 1:11
I’m going with Rio Hondo or the San Gariel….
mikey
mythago said,
June 23, 2008 at 1:19
I see Mr. Conservative Movie Reviewer managed to completely miss the hidden liberal messages in Ratatouille. Which was, you may recall, a movie that portrayed the French in a ridiculously positive light.
goat or panic said,
June 23, 2008 at 1:23
Ratatouille was a democRAT.
heh
justme said,
June 23, 2008 at 2:07
Damn. I can’t find the youtube, but you’ll get the idea…
“As God as my witness, I thought those buttocks could fly”
Also,
Perhaps since right about the time “fail” became a noun. I actually like the “made of fail” phrase, though.
A Very Serious Person said,
June 23, 2008 at 2:24
Is not the drawing of freaking enormous buttocks one of the Cornerstone Internet Traditions??
Shame on you!!
Brandi said,
June 23, 2008 at 2:42
if I were to, say, post a long screed calling for the banning of cheetoes
Could we keep these Cheetos? I gotta confess, they taste much better than the normal kind and don’t leave nasty orange stains everywhere.
Arky H8r of VürdPress said,
June 23, 2008 at 2:45
Maybe some people like sitting in their own waste. Did ya ever think of that? Huh? Did ya? No, you didn’t.
Elitist.
Rightwingsnarkle said,
June 23, 2008 at 2:47
Wow, this dude actually makes my poor old Uncle Ernie look good.
As for future NWOTW’s, I humbly nominate my namesake.
Athabasca Mel said,
June 23, 2008 at 3:06
So 72% of the population is suffering from a syndrome.
Very plausible, new wingnut, very plausible indeed.
And only a deranged person could believe the last 7 and one-half years of Republican rule have been a historic disaster.
Lesley said,
June 23, 2008 at 3:14
hah, Brandi, those communistical hippie cheetos with no transfats and artificial colouring don’t even rank on the neoconcheeto scale.
GOPnot4me said,
June 23, 2008 at 3:15
I just got done checking his site out. In the comment I left I congratulated him on his brilliant satire of a right wing loser.
http://dirtyharrysplace.com/?page_id=2
I think he’s onto something, it’s too spot on to be real, ain’t it?
joeyess said,
June 23, 2008 at 4:06
Lesley said,
June 23, 2008 at 4:12
Here’s one of my favourite exchanges
mikey said,
June 23, 2008 at 4:24
Let’s think this all the way through, shall we?
When the movie Dirty Harry came out, people were really unsure of their world, and their place in it, and what it might become. They were certainly tired of violent crime and the tendency (to whatever extent it was actually true and not just another story) for criminals to “get off” on a “technicality”.
If you weren’t there, you can’t get the fear/pessimism that wrapped itself around american society at the time.
So, from a legendary standpoint, Bronson and Eastwood came along to reassure us that the cowboy was still amonst us, that the rules, no matter how perverse, would not prevent the very simple task of punishing the wrongdoer.
See, the narrative was “WE KNOW who the guilty parties are. We most certainly do NOT need to try them in a court of law”.
Sadly, we’re both smarter and a whole lot stupider than we were back then. We don’t want to let local law enforcement get involved in the dispensation of justice, unless it’s summary execution, which is something they continue to become better at, but we’ll let our military torture complete innocents and support their protection from prosecution.
The net outcome? Dirty Harry was a toxic contribution, and it’s only gotten sicker. At this point, constitutional democracy in america is dead. And there’s nothing to be done about it…
mikey
Your Jewish Master said,
June 23, 2008 at 4:27
Mikey, buddy, leave the melodrama behind.
You’re a man for crying out loud!
Your Jewish Master said,
June 23, 2008 at 4:28
Oh shit!
I typed two lines and I came!
Where’s that old sock now?
mikey
Righteous Bubba said,
June 23, 2008 at 4:30
Ahem.
Your Jewish Master said,
June 23, 2008 at 4:31
Wow. A display of your grown up humor. Bravo!
Your Jewish Master said,
June 23, 2008 at 4:33
Mikey, Mikey.
Perhaps you should try to learn from Your Jewish Master.
I fuck poodles. No other dogs. Just poodles.
Poodles get me off. They have soft curly fur, and they seem to like it when I fuck them. Of course, my dick is tiny. But that actually works out when you get off on fucking poodles.
You see the symmetry here?
Your Jewish Master said,
June 23, 2008 at 4:34
There you go again, Mikey. Really, quality commentary.
Your Jewish Master said,
June 23, 2008 at 4:37
I know. It can be a tad, er, problematic.
My gramma used to catch me fucking her poodle.
She’d get SO mad! She’d swat me with a newspaper, and tell me to stop it.
But I’d be, like, you know, most of the there, so I’d just duck my head and keep on, like, keeping on.
Man, that old lady would get pissed. But her poodle, Misty was her name, she seemed to like it.
Rightwingsnarkle said,
June 23, 2008 at 4:39
Some people like pecan pie, but I think anyone who does should really try a variation based on maple syrup as the sweetener, and walnuts.
ifthethunderdontgetya™²³®© said,
June 23, 2008 at 4:44
I like pie, too. My favorite is spicy pumpkin pie.
Lesley said,
June 23, 2008 at 4:49
Is Carlitos in that comment thread Dirty Harry? He’s pouncing on every commenter as if it were his blog.
trizzlor said,
June 23, 2008 at 5:13
Is it even worth pointing out that Pixar’s Cars had an entire character based on the “hippie” as stereotype – portrayed as border-line retarded drug abuser, who, if memory serves me right, was even used to take a swipe at bio-diesel!
… oh no, I’ve become one of them
Gramma's neighbor's cocker spaniel said,
June 23, 2008 at 5:20
She won’t even look at me now.
Susan of Texas said,
June 23, 2008 at 5:52
Pumpkin pie is great with a little molasses and 3 eggs to make it extra custardy.
dim-witted badger said,
June 23, 2008 at 6:03
and i thought fucking pelicans was bad…
justme said,
June 23, 2008 at 6:08
Keep these cheetohs?
Aw, come now. We’re liberals around here. We eat Pepperidge Farm Goldfish instead.
g said,
June 23, 2008 at 7:34
Is Carlitos in that comment thread Dirty Harry? He’s pouncing on every commenter as if it were his blog
good question. Or he’s just a guy with nothing better to do.
g said,
June 23, 2008 at 7:35
I have another question. Is “Your Jewish Master” just – like, fucked up? What’s his problem?
Lesley said,
June 23, 2008 at 8:40
Maybe it’s just “Carlito’s Way” g. harhar.
Frito Pendejo said,
June 23, 2008 at 9:43
Go away! ‘batin!
Zuzu's Petals said,
June 23, 2008 at 10:03
How creepy is it that the Zed character is his fantasy self?
Ewww.
MzNicky said,
June 23, 2008 at 13:39
I second RightWingSnarkle’s nomination of MzSparkle for NWWOT treatment. Quite a buffet table of unearthly delights there!
MzNicky said,
June 23, 2008 at 13:40
NWOTW. You know.
Legalize said,
June 23, 2008 at 16:45
“This may well be the fifth or sixth movie this year to depict our government as taken over by a corporation – as though that would be a bad thing.”
But liberals are teh fascists!!!!
Mnemosyne said,
June 23, 2008 at 19:45
You know, I may be a failed screenwriter, too, but at least I can hold down a day job and pay my own goddamned cable bill.
And yet this guy will probably still complain that I’m the one leeching off society by, um, having a job and paying taxes. Yeah, that’s it.