P.S. You Suck!
What Brent Bozell meant to say in his “letter” to Oliver Stone:
Dear Oliver:
Remember when you and I were on Bill Maher? You know, back when he was funny. You know before he said something I disagreed with about the 9/11 terrorists after which nothing he ever said could ever be funny again. In fact, he could tell that hilarious joke about Al Sharpton and the watermelon — that joke still just slays me if anyone else tells it — and I wouldn’t crack a smile. No siree!
Well, anyway, as you might recall, you and I were on the Maher show together, and it was all fun until I quoted some interview which was in some paper that I’ve totally forgotten but I swear to God I didn’t make up. In that completely unfabricated and 100 percent real interview you said you were a historian and I said you weren’t a historian, you were a socialist which is the exact opposite of a historian. You got mad and said “Am not” and I said “Are too” and you said “Am not” and so I kicked you in the nuts under the table which totally shut you up for a minute.
Well, I’m writing this letter to apologize, not for kicking you in the nuts, but for saying you weren’t a historian. You are a historian. You’re a shitty historian. Isn’t this the best kind of apology ever? ROFLOL. I’m sorry I said you were prick. You aren’t a prick. You’re a syphilitic prick. I could apologize like this all day.
Well, anyway, let me stop cracking myself up and get back to my apology. You are a historian, leaving aside that movie W which I didn’t bother to see but which I absolutely know was nothing but 2 hours of filthy liberal lies. But you’re a bad historian because you were just on Bill Maher again and you quoted that RINO Richard Nixon as saying that St. Ronald was a “dumb son of a bitch.” Nuh-uh. Reagan wasn’t dumb and to prove it I asked a bunch of Republicans who worked in the Reagan White House and they all said, to the man, that Reagan was so smart he could do the Sunday New York Times crossword in ink while blind-folded, could recite the value of pi to the three zillionth digit and even had read Heidegger’s Being and Time. In German. What do you have to say to that, Mr. Smartypants?
Best of all, I talked to Al Regnery, now that’s a real historian if there ever were one, even if he made up a story about his wife getting raped by a black burglar and even though he told a tiny little fib, when he was on Reagan’s anti-pornography commission, about the pornography the cops found in his house when they were investigating that other little fib about his wife getting raped.
Oh, and I apologize for calling you a “lousy historian,” because you’re not a historian but a big fat liar who blasphemes the greatest President who ever lived in the history of the entire universe.
Your BFF,
Brent
What the cockslap? Next up from Bozell: that chick who dissed me in junior high.
So let me get this straight: To support his argument that Oliver Stone is a poor historian, Bozell consults people who 1) are not historians, but only make general references to (unnamed) historians’ work, and 2) were officials in the very administration upon which they’re being asked to comment, and so there’s absolutely no potential there for bias, no siree.
And I don’t regard Stone as an historian, personally. He’s an artist who draws upon history to make films. Not the same thing.
Oliver Stone is an excellent filmmaker who draws upon very, very lousy history to make his films. JFK is an good, if overly long, film; Nixon is an excellent film. Both are bad history. JFK has probably done more to make Americans stupid about their past than any other single film ever made (though Birth of a Nation set a pretty high standard back in the 1910s, there are simply many more Americans around today).
I assume that Nixon thought Reagan was dumb is objective fact and Bozell is just talking out his little troll ass?
No argument from me on that one. It’s funny; I saw JFK with a friend of mine back when I was in high school, and we both liked the movie a lot as entertainment. My friend commented something to the effect of, “You come out of that movie thinking, ‘That’s how it happened’, and that’s a little scary.”
How funny is it that a highly paid shill and dime-store sophist for Wingnut Nation has the audacity to question Oliver Stone’s veracity?
And if ever a S, N! PhotoShopped pic screamed for a HUGE, greasy sammich placed in a compromising position…Eh, you get my drift here–don’t leave that shiny keister unmolested!
Whew. I clicked and couldn’t believe how close the letter Bozell meant to write was to the letter he actually did write. And Al Regnery quoted for anything except comic relief? It’s a wonder Regnery didn’t mention the time Oliver Stone cut him with a butter knife and forced him lick a poster of Michael Jackson.
Laughing in an echo chamber with Ann Coulter. I hope he got his ears checked.
Sounds like Coulter, once smitten by Maher, has a grudge up her butt.
that is an amazing photograph.
Mr. Bozell, in his capacity as ninny-trying-to-be-smart, uses the construction “an historian”.
you were a socialist which is the exact opposite of a historian
I’m betting this is actually from Bozoll’s letter.
Those Hollywood elites are the creepiest.
I have to agree on ‘the Oliver Stone is not an historian’.
EXCEPT when contrasted with a wingnut liar/propagandist like Bozell the Fool, in which case just about any sentient, non-corrupt human qualifies as an historian.
Scuse mah finGAHs, Cornelius!!!!
Seriously though, Brent Bozell has a permanent look on his face like he just smelled doo-doo. It’s not like a shit-eating grin, it’s more like a shit-sniffing grimace.
Oliver Stone is an excellent filmmaker who draws upon very, very lousy history to make his films.
Of course, in a non-insane country, we wouldn’t be pretending that our entertainment was anything but entertainment.
My bad. From this angle Cornelius and Dr. Zaius look remarkably alike.
Is THAT what they’re calling it these days?
From Mother Jones, November 15, 2007, regarding a recently released Nixon tape transcript:
President Nixon: What’s your evaluation of Reagan after meeting him several times now.
Kissinger: Well, I think he’s a–actually I think he’s a pretty decent guy.
President Nixon: Oh, decent, no question, but his brains
Kissinger: Well, his brains, are negligible. I–
President Nixon: He’s really pretty shallow, Henry.
Kissinger: He’s shallow. He’s got no…he’s an actor. He–When he gets a line he does it very well. He said, “Hell, people are remembered not for what they do, but for what they say. Can’t you find a few good lines?” [Chuckles.] That’s really an actor’s approach to foreign policy–to substantive….
President Nixon: I’ve said a lot of good things, too, you know damn well.
Kissinger: Well, that too.
Later in the 24-minute-long discussion, the two discussed the possibility of Reagan running for president:
President Nixon: Can you think though, Henry, can you think, though, that Reagan with certain forces running in the direction could be sitting right here?
Kissinger: Inconceivable.
So much for Kissinger’s powers of prognostication. As they were finishing up–after discussing other matters–Nixon slammed Reagan again:
President Nixon: Back to Reagan though. It shows you how a man of limited mental capacity simply doesn’t know what the Christ is going on in the foreign area. He’s got to know that on defense–doesn’t he know these battles we fight and fight and fight? Goddamn it, Henry, we’ve been at–
Brent “Boo Hoo” Bozell is still trying to convince the world that Reagan wasn’t an idiot? Dude, that history has been written for a long time already, dude. You aren’t going to find anyone with a positive story about Reagan that hasn’t been heard. Here’s my favorite: Reagan was a traitor to the United States when he made a secret deal to keep americans prisoners in Iran so Carter couldn’t make a deal to get them returned. Reagan was so smart, we never had a problem with Iran ever again. With any luck, Reagan is roasting in hell and thinks he’s in Palm Springs.
Hell must be nicer than Palm Springs. Have you been to Palm Springs?
Christ, he must have been stewing about that conversation for years.
Small consolations – Reagan is smarter now than he ever was as President.
I asked Ann Coulter what she thought
And that’s who I’d consult if I wanted to find out someone’s credentials as a scholar of history.
Here’s my favorite: Reagan was a traitor to the United States when he made a secret deal to keep americans prisoners in Iran so Carter couldn’t make a deal to get them returned. Reagan was so smart, we never had a problem with Iran ever again.
That still kills me. The same people who scream about Obama selling us out to the Islamofascist shania law enforcers streaming over our borders from Mexico worship the guy who sold arms to Iran and sent them a cake with a bible inside.
I wonder who still idolizes St. Ronnie. Other than right-bloggers, wingnuts and Newt. If The Right still wants Reagan as their brand – good on ’em I say. He’ll certainly win back all the voters that have left them, after all he did defeat the entire Soviet Union in a no-holds-barred cage match.
and sent them a cake with a bible inside
I thought it was a cake in the shape of a bible (sacrelige against holy books, anyone?).
I am not a historian!
Wouldn’t it have been better to approach this as, “Hey, Nixon hated EVERYBODY, so why bother quoting him?” If you weren’t a sycophantic jackass, I mean.
Was she looking down at her own chest when she said that?
The cake was a key but there was a Bible besides.
A Brent Bozell toilet gnome is a thing of joy forever.
Wingers are a little overprotective of their targets of idolatry.
Hey Brent,
Regan knocked up Palin’s daughter.
Bam! Have at that Bozell!
The TNR Al Regnery piece is wonderful:
Look he reads all of them, and he can see Russia from his house!
The cake was a key but there was a Bible besides.
I mean, they sent Oliver North.
Wasn’t that insult enough?
That was one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. I kept thinking I was still reading a satire of it, but it was the actual article.
So he goes looking to check the accuracy of Stone’s opinion that Reagan was an idiot by asking a lot of people from the Reagan administration?
And what a surprise! They didn’t agree!
Next up: Cheney thinks Bush was right to invade Iraq! Breaking!
Wingers are a little overprotective of their targets of idolatry.
Hence the mad rush to name everything in America after Reagan before he was even dead. Not to mention trying to get his face on Mt. Rushmore and on money. I always felt there was a note of desperation to all that nonsense, as if they were rushing to get it done before anyone had a chance to think too hard about it.
You hate Sarah Palin because she is just like Angelina Jolie.
Reagan was a very mediocre intellect in the early stages of Alzheimer’s when he was elected president. Bozell seems to be doing his utmost to emulate his idol.
Wingers are a little overprotective of their targets of idolatry.
Until it becomes clear that their idols were big fat liberals all along and they won’t carry water for them anymore!!!11!1!1
Hard to see that happening with Reagan, but you never know. If it becomes politically convenient to dump his mouldering corpse unceremoniously into a ditch, they’ll do it.
I always felt there was a note of desperation to all that nonsense…
Absolutely. It was like how Sarah Palin is now trying to hang onto her youthful looks.
Man, Bozell’s list of consultees are fantabulouso. These aren’t just your run of the mill
ultra-partisan hacksobjective scholars, they are themancream of theridingcrop:Frank Donatelli – the guy following in Michael Steele’s shoes. Whoo!
Richard Allen – of PNAC. With PNAC, you know where you stand in terms of insightful observations that are never ever wrong in the least.
Morton “Purple Heart Band-Aids” Blackwell
Another PNAC alumnus Gary “Sleep Now in the Fire” Bauer
This would make an awesome manga – Captain Regnery and the Objective Unbiased Historical Truth Federation.
Sarah Palin is to Angelina Jolie as George Bush is to Lance Armstrong.
“just in case she decides to run for national office”, they say it twice, but they won’t say “President”. Because if they say “Palin might run for President.” then every expose is justified.
You know, I don’t know any Democrats whose fury is aroused by Sarah Palin. The reactions typically range from appalled to zany laughter. Of course there’s also a lot of sneering, maybe perpetually irked righties can’t tell well-deserved contempt from mindless fury? Maybe they assume if it makes them angry it must be an actual, hostile attack instead of their own seemingly perpetual feelings of inadequacy and self-victimization?
This would make an awesome manga – Captain Regnery and the Objective Unbiased Historical Truth Federation.
Apropos of not so much, I always thought “World Anti-Communist League” was the most giggle-worthy organization name in real life. I mean, cripes, could they have picked a more pulpish title? Makes it sound like they’re donning tall silk hats and driving their steam leviathans out to do battle with the Electric Marxian Society.
How has there never been any discussion about the fact that Reagan was, a) a New Dealer, and b) a friggin’ Lord and Master (as SAG president for six years) of the Hollyweird elite?
You hate Sarah Palin because she is just like Angelina Jolie.
WTF? Because lie-berals hate Angelina so very very much. Anyways what was Geraghty saying?
immiserate? Geraghty your fadging thesaurus is starting to dis-obfuscate itself. Also, WTF? She’s a grandstanding opportunistic bigot who’s using her children as political props. It’s no surprise she’s successful – that doesn’t confuse us, afterall she is the poster-child for aggrandizing self-serving egomania. That’s not an anomaly – remember that we’re dirty fucking hippies that want to tear this shit down. That the objects of our scorn also happen to be placed on pedestals by Teh System is fucking symptomatic.
Sarah Palin is the natural heir to Ronald Reagan! They were both sportscasters! They were both governors of geographically large states. They both use their own children as political props! They both claim to be devout christians as they sinned publicly and privately! They are both stooges! I look forward to the further comparisons her campaign will make when she runs.
Makes it sound like they’re donning tall silk hats and driving their steam leviathans out to do battle with the Electric Marxian Society.
Where do I sign up? Fucking Electric Marx.
As an aside, every NewsBusters link I click on kills a little bit of me inside. The NewsBusted vids, with their horrendous scripts, brutish direction and laugh track abuse the likes of which haven’t been seen since the Three’s Company – it just pains me to see Jodi Miller in there.
Funny enough, I really agree with him here.
Essential Geraghty and, by extension, the conservative mind:
First, the mystifying belief that “they” are causing “us” irritation.
Where do they get that silly notion? Ahhh, perhaps this will shed some light:
“They” can read “our” minds! “They” know what we’re thinking – even if we’re not thinking it!
There’s a term for that, it will come to me…
Starts with a ‘p’, doesn’t it? It’s on the tip of my tongue….
Shorter Doughy Pantload:
The secret of political success is competency. Once you can fake that, you’ve got it made:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZGE1OTE3OTFhMmZkOWE5MDQ5MmZhZTFjMzE2MjcxNTM=
Conservatism, they suspect, […] will leave you in a marriage that doesn’t satisfy you
crazy image comes to mind of one of these creepy father/daughter “marriage” things… daughter comes home one day and finds Daddy cheating with the neighbor girl… “My Daddy! And my best friend!”
She will decide whether to run three and a half years from now?
So have her crack advisors written off 2012 or is that just Geraghty’s wingnut arithmetic?
her crack advisors
*puff* *puff* “Yes, ma’am, this is some quality shit you’ve got here… nice color to the rocks, too. I’d say vintage South L.A.”
Well, it worked for him.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/
RB beat me to it, but WTF? is right.
She’s taking time off to spend more time shooting wolves from helicopters? I have a hard time believing that she’s feeling any remorse for the damage her attention-whoring ways have caused her family. Perhaps there’s an Appalachian Trail scale scandal lurking…
Some minor fixing was needed:
Via HuffPo, in Politico:
I’d say something particular to Sullivan, but this happens in the orgasmo-festival which precedes every major U.S. military action in the establishmentarian media and the commentariat worshipers of hawkishness.
Holy shit! Palin stepping down!
Nooby McNoob,
Thank you so very much for this wonderfully timed bit of doughy goodness:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZGE1OTE3OTFhMmZkOWE5MDQ5MmZhZTFjMzE2MjcxNTM=
Palin to step down as Alaska governor July 26th
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2009/07/03/10017261-ap.html
You’ve got to be shitting me!
Stealing the timing thing. Thanks DKW and McNood. Er, McNoob.
I’m hoping she’s been caught in a huge scandal, like an affair with Mark Ew Sanford.
Michele Bachman. VP.
GOLD!
So, the one-term governor from the country’s least-populated state is quitting after 2 and 1/2 years to…focus on running for higher office.
Hee hee hee…I knew she had jumped the shark with that ridiculous soft-core porn photo shoot in Runner’s World or whatever, but this pretty much seals it. Can’t even make it through one term as governor. Sheesh.
I’m hoping she’s been caught in a huge scandal, like an affair with Mark Ew Sanford.
Maybe Bristol told somebody she was really little Trigonometry’s mother.
It’s only fitting that Jon Stewart celebrate this announcement with a party tray of Pancakes and Timber Wolf on a stick.
It’s like a WHAT IF comic in which Dan Quayle winds up president.
David Frump weighs in: Republicans need protection from Palin”
Nooby McNoob,
“Thank you so very much for this wonderfully timed bit of doughy goodness:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZGE1OTE3OTFhMmZkOWE5MDQ5MmZhZTFjMzE2MjcxNTM=”
Definition of Irony: The writer of “Liberal fascism” tells someone to do their homework and know what they are talking about.
Maybe Sarah will run for Senator. Maybe she needs time to get ‘clear’ of her Thetans. Maybe she will co-host The View after Joy Behar leaves. Maybe she will provide cogent analysis of the news for Bill O’Reilly, after he spazzes out when Al Franken is sworn in as The Esteemed Senator From The Great State Of Minnesota. Maybe she will be the new Superintendent of the Fox News Security Service. Maybe she will write a cookbook and promote it on Kelly & Regis.
I expect another shoe to drop soon. Indictment, anyone?
I guess she decided to spend more time with Donald Rumsfeld’s family.
The TNR Al Regnery piece is wonderful
Reading that piece (by Murray Waas, of all people!) brought back a lot of bad memories of how fucked up that whole period was. God, I hated those motherfuckers. They were the beginnings of what led up to George W. Bush, and the shithole we now find ourselves neck-deep in. I hope they all suffer horrible, painful deaths.
But I’m not bitter.
Thanks for the kudos, DKW. TBH, I got the link from Balloon Juice.
Ever since August 2008, I have lacked the fortitude to view wingnut material directly. While I will click a link now and again if referenced by a liberal/left/progressive blog, I find that the less I view The Corner, HotAir, Malkin etc., the happier and better adjusted I am.
Brent Bozell is the Shithouse Troll?
By lack of fortitude, I’m not implying a loss of courage on my part. I just don’t have much stomach for wingnut screeds anymore,
This is great news for McCain.
Mr. Bozell, in his capacity as ninny-trying-to-be-smart, uses the construction “an historian”.
I am distraught and tearful now. Your job here is done.
This is great news for McCain.
For Steve Schmidt, for sure. Bill Kristol, on the other hand…
Oh dear. The aitchless are forgiven of course.
I guess I never realized what a resemblance L. Brent Bozell III has to Vladmir Lenin.
Conservatism, they suspect, […] will leave you in a marriage that doesn’t satisfy you, burden you with children you don’t want, repress your passions, and trap you in a empty, boring, and unfulfilled life..
“Nothing could be further from the truth” says Governor Sanford.
I’m sorry, but no matter how many times people tell me this, I can never remember (and I just don’t feel like looking it up)–is this Brent Bozo the one who wrote Joe McCarthy Was the Awesomest Patriot Ever with Bill Buckley? Or is it his son, or nephew, or devil spawn, whatever?
I wonder who still idolizes St. Ronnie. Other than right-bloggers, wingnuts and Newt. If The Right still wants Reagan as their brand – good on ‘em I say. He’ll certainly win back all the voters that have left them, after all he did defeat the entire Soviet Union in a no-holds-barred cage match.
As I recall, Obama was careful to pay tribute to Reagan during the course of his campaign. Which I guess is to be expected, from a Center-Right politician like Obama. Just saying.
It was his father, who was a friend of BB.
In fact, Daddy Bozell married Buckley’s sister.
And I seem to remember that Papa was also a big fan of good old Francisco Franco.
I don’t know if Stone’s a historian (he says he’s not, Bozell says he is-because he makes historically based films?) but, unlike virtuallly all of his critics, he is a veteran of combat in the Vietnam war. That seems to get forgotten by the wingers. Some skinny blonde elitist lawyer in a black dress criticizing someone who literally put his life on the line to protect our freedom and defeat communism- why do the republicans hate our troops?
My favorite part of this is that even with the biased sources he quotes, the closest he gets to someone actually denying Reagan’s dumbness is one person who claims that it was all an act: the rest of them just misdirect by talking about how popular he was or how he killed the Rooskies.
This is so weird. I had never made the positive connection before between Regnery publishing and the guy who came to speak to my senior poly sci class when he was running against Jim Doyle for DA in Madison, though I did wonder about it. I remember my teacher telling us about some weird stuff going on with the guy. Jim Doyle is now Governor of Wisconsin. Wow.