For me, the Oscar Ceremonies are right up there with really crappy Eastern European trance bands who have an obsession for robot art and overwrought typefaces. But just because I have no soul doesn’t mean the rest of you can’t have a party!
Consider this your swag-filled VIP Roastatorium for winner picks, gossip, Red Carpet cattiness and Oscar Awards live-snarking.
UPDATE: Here’s the official list of nominees by searchable category. Here’s a potentially-lethal drinking game. Don’t thank me—I live to serve.
Flushed with success from helping RINO Rick Perry defeat one Tea Party candidate and two women, conservative confection Sarah Palin tried out some schtick and her new, extra-Bumpitty hairstyle on Jay Leno’s Late-Nite Corn Opera.
Champion sour-grape sucker Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild takes liberties with Fox & Friends peasant Steve Doocy:
You can watch the entire episode here (not recommended). In it, her ladyship expounds upon the theory proffered in her gently received “I Told You So” column at The Daily Beast.
To wit, socialist monster Barack Obama used the Trojan Horse of centrism to get elected. Only Lady Lynn and other prominent peers of the realm had the wit to perceive it because you Obot peasants are all what Rush Limbaugh might satirically call “retards.”
Moreover, Obama is a big fat liar with all this bipartisanship stuff because while he pretends to extend the PATRIOT Act, incorporate GOP ideas into a corporate-friendly health care bill and not raise taxes, he’s really dismantling the very foundations of liberty in a mad bid to transform America into France. Or maybe Greece. At any rate, some socialist country with BIG GOVERNMENT and teeny coffee cups.
Anyway, Lady Lynn told you so, you ignorant bumpkins, but you wouldn’t listen, and now America is doomed. The end.
When is Our Stupid Media going to figure out that teabaggers are nothing more than run-of-the-mill, dull-witted wingnuts with way too much disposable income in their pockets and time on their hands?
Yesterday I wrote that I thought the teabaggers were a huge gift to the left, primarily because I think they’re going to wreak havoc on the GOP machine and push forward less-electable, far-right candidates in upcoming elections, but I’m not naive and fully realize that the “movement” is getting primarily sympathetic spin from Our Stupid Media. That’s a HUGE problem. Teabaggers are being portrayed as CONCERNED CITIZENS (the anti-war protesters clearly weren’t) and Driftglass has posted an excellent takedown of an egregious fluff job that the Wingnut Warriors were treated to yesterday courtesy of Chicago’s PBS affiliate. Give it a perusal and then watch the video of the stacked PBS roundtable here.
Unfortunately, aside from showcasing how fundamentally nutty, mean and ill-informed teabaggers are via the blogosphere (and occasionally through pubs like the NYT), I don’t have a good solution as to how to alter the media’s faulty (and dangerous) positive portrayal of this movement. You?
Meet kinder, gentler Glenn Beck: New ‘global warming’ believer?
Finds common ground with George Clooney, his publicist is Democratic Party power player
The best part is the “Let them know what you really think. Get ‘Global Warming Is A Hoax’ Magnetic/Easy-Off Adhesive Bumper Sticker” link WND embedded in middle of the article. SAVE US, MAGNETO!
This is why Jane Hamsher and Cenk Whateverhisnameis writing posts about progressives needing to find common ground with teabaggin’ loons was some of the stupidest shit I’ve ever read in the leftosphere. The WE WANT OUR COUNTRY BACK!!! howler monkeys might be good for a short-term GOP victory or two, but these booger-eating morons, their numbers ridiculously over-amplified by the internet (just like the Paultards and the PUMAs in ‘08), are going to ultimately obliterate whatever kind of “comeback” the Republicans appeared to be mounting with their utterly inflexible (and ill-informed) purity test(s). I, for one, hope they never shut up because they’re one of the best presents the Dems have been handed in years.
“Part of being an American, whether you agree with what’s going on in the government or not is you pay your taxes. This isn’t someone who couldn’t afford to pay his taxes. He had an airplane and an almost $300,000 dollar house, and we’re talking about what, three or four thousand dollars that he didn’t want to pay? That’s ridiculous.”
Video of the interview with Vernon Hunter’s son at the link. Digby has more on the working class hero disgruntled, homicidal, private-plane-owning tax cheat here. And here’s a good review of some of the deranged “patriots,” including Stormfront, who are celebrating this barbaric act.
Neighbors say Vernon Hunter was the kind of guy who offered trash collectors Gatorade on hot summer days.
“He was a very spiritual man, kind of the life of the neighborhood,” said Darren McDaniel, who has lived two houses away since their homes were built in 1996. “We were all sort of like his kids.” [...]
McDaniel said their street won’t be the same with Hunter gone.
“Everybody loved him in the neighborhood,” McDaniel said. “He’s in a better place, but the neighborhood is going to seem a little empty without him.”
In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life. My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes.
The Joe Stack I knew was mostly apolitical. I never heard him take a political stance on either side ... left, right. As far as I know he didn’t have a party affiliation.
So there’s that…
Roy Edroso has a good round-up of all of the latest Stack-related news here.
Something to ponder for 2012: Sarah Palin’s ahead of where Obama was 30 months before his nomination
A recent Washington Post/ABC News Poll found that 30 months out from the 2012 party presidential nominations, only 71% of Americans believe that Sarah Palin is not qualified to be president.
This compares with someone named Barack Obama. At the same point in his then unannounced campaign, 0% thought he was qualified for the Oval Office. That’s because he wasn’t even on the polling lists’ radar then.
Just to be clear, the Los Angeles Times actually pays Malcolm to write puerile nonsense like that. They really, really do.
p.s. Apologies if you already saw these yesterday (I was unplugged), but these are both must-sees if you haven’t. Imagine the endless chortling from the nuttersphere if Example A had been a Democrat. And Example B ... oh. my. god.
UPDATE: The video of Nancy Elliott (Example B) has been set to “private.” You can view a shorter version of it here.
Pamela “Atlas Shrieks” Geller, fresh from her day gig at the Legion of Doom, had this to say about Sarah Palin on The Joy Behar Show: “She did not quit. The lower 48 needed her and she heeded the call.” And don’t even get me started about Geller telling Ron Reagan Jr. that he never met his father. Fortunately Pammy’s got just a few more rhytidectomies left before her ears touch in the back of her head and she just splits clean down the middle.
Thanks for reinforcing the false meme that the tea party movement is non-partisan and principled, Jane Hamsher. That is very helpful!
I don’t know what teabaggery Jane has been observing, but Sarah Palin knew exactly who she was talking to this weekend. The tea party “activists” may have originally come out of “the libertarian arm of conservatism,” but they owned it for all of about three seconds before the sputtering, ill-informed, liberal-hatin’ Limbaugh lunatics swallowed the relatively small, over-amplified movement whole. Teabaggery will not trigger a return to the “paleo roots of the Republican party.” That is utter (and horribly naive) nonsense. It’s the same dull-eyed wingnut mush we’ve been dealing with for years and years tied up in a neat little faux-populism bow.
Teabaggers don’t hate “banksters.” They want their sons, daughters and grandchildren to grow up to be greedy, unregulated bank executives. They only hated the bailout because it was financed with their oh-so-precious taxes. That’s as deep as it goes. Their real hatred is directed at big government (but only when the Dems are in charge), our arrogant Kenyan president, TAXES!!!, and, mostly, progressives/liberals/“socialists” in general. As Steve M. put it last week: “The whole point, for them, is that we are the enemy.” The only reason they’d ever want to share common ground with us is so that they can see the whites of our eyes.
