https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrzD-zqWwWc
I know- we're not supposed to pick on her or take her seriously. But shit like that....
Have you ever stopped and considered that there is no one like Sarah Palin in the democratic party. Not within the party itself but really anywhere. The closest we have to Sarah is Tina Fey and that's just because she does such a spot-on impersonation of Palin.
In the clip, Palin's teleprompter malfunctioned and she had no choice but to wing it. There's a lot of irony there because teapublicans have long made fun of President Obama for using a teleprompter in his speeches. They call him "The Teleprompter In Chief". Ouch. Republican President Eisenhower was the first to use the teleprompter, back in the fifties. Technology marches on. Republicans in the 1930's probably made fun of FDR's "fireside chats" on the radio, thinking that a better president could have easily delivered news to the public via Pony Express.
It's just idiotic to not use technology that can help you get your message across in the best manner possible. I mean, what are you going to do- write notes on your hand?
If the technology breaks down on you as it did Palin, you still have to be able to speak. Obviously she can't wing it, not coherently. She had no idea what she was talking about before the communication breakdown and that shows in the clip. Honestly, I bet she wasn't coming off too well before it broke. She never does.
So, yeah, she's easy pickens. Every comedian jokes about how they so badly want her to run because she is a veritable joke factory, one that just will not shutdown.
Others in my crowd sigh every time one of us makes fun of Palin. She's no threat. Not any more. At one point, in '08 when she was McCain's VP choice, she was technically poised to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. True, but, that didn't happen and we all know it wasn't even close. Sarah Palin was briefly sorta a threat but, has not been a threat since and will never- ever- be a threat to America again. So, many friends argue, why bother?
Because it's fun! Didn't the clip bring a smile to your face? Part of her appeal is that she does have people who believe that she could be president. She might even be one of those people. There are people on the internet who post- with presumably straight faces- that "democrats fear Palin". They believe that. They don't believe global warming is possible but they believe that she can win the hearts and minds of the entire country.There's no point in fearing her being president anymore than in fearing she could lead the nation's conservative old people in a revolution. These same fear-mongers probably believe she is also a gifted orator. Some might simply think that means she gives good head.
She represents the people who want to be represented by the likes of her and that "base" will never be large enough to either elect or install her. She takes herself seriously though and that's why it's OK to make fun of her. She's so ridiculously Sublime that it's perfectly acceptable to make fun of her. It doesn't make her stronger and it doesn't weaken us to pick on her. It just feels so right...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Monday, January 26, 2015
Superman, damn fool!
I was reading that Dean Cain, who back in the 20th century played both Superman and Clark Kent on a TV show, took umbrage with Michael Moore and Seth Rogen for things they didn't exactly say regarding the film, American Sniper. Cain wanted to beat them up. He thought Seth Rogen ought to join the military and then come back and say stuff about war. YEAH! HOO RAH!!!!
Then, Alec Baldwin got on his twitter and asked Dean Cain what branch of the service he had been in and in what war did he fight? Oh-fucking-SNAP that is a very fair question! It doesn't seem like a fair question to teapublican types though because they tend to see loving and cherishing war as pretty much the same thing as being there. You're either for war, carnage and death, or you're a goddamn liberal.
Cain did not re-tweet. He retreated, instead. Though no military or combat veteran himself, Baldwin is Irish and, we do call bluffs. And though Baldwin is several years older, Cain didn't want a piece of him. And, that aside, Baldwin was right about Cain's lack of service though Cain later did tell Fox that he visited the troops in Afghanistan which must be the same, like putting yourself in harm's way every time you visit Detroit or Free-Fire Zones like Florida. Cain was friends to some degree with Chris Kyle and said he was very unassuming kinda guy who didn't like the limelight. This would seem to be in sharp contrast with the guy who, though he had a 160 confirmed combat kills to his name, saw fit to embellish that with 30 fantasy kills in New Orleans, 2 in Texas and a fake punch-out of Jesse Ventura.
Ya know, that is the left's beef about most all of this bullshit surrounding the film. Kyle had serious truth issues. The whole fucking war had truth issues. You may have noticed....
It's hard for a lot of people to get excited about a film that seems to glorify and justify a war we have long since known was totally unnecessary, a complete waste of lives and money. But, if that wasn't enough, the hero chosen for film glorification was a guy who falsely claimed to have killed Americans as well. Chris Kyle was the kind of hero only FOX could love. The myth of the man doesn't make any actual wartime truths palatable when he's lying about killing Americans.
Come on now- who looted during Katrina? Black folks. Doesn't every decent, God-fearing American want vengeance for that? Can't someone make a feel good movie about shooting niggers from the roof of the Superdome? Maybe Dean Cain could?
I'm not saying that Dean Cain or even FOX is racist but, no one is saying that. And maybe that's the problem? Who the fuck was Kyle pretend killing in New Orleans? It wasn't Iraqi "savages" as in the war. I'm not sure of the race of the two nonexistent carjackers he lied about killing but, well, white folks in Texas simply do not carjack in people's fantasies. Down there it's always blacks or Mexicans and there's no need to fear the dozen white guys with long guns outside of Luby's.
The conservative crowd is more than willing to either overlook Chris Kyle's prevarications or- worse- believe them just the same. The man is a war hero, with over 160 confirmed kills! If he says the government sent him to New Orleans to shoot looters, it must be true!
Confirmed kills and soldierly duties aside, I'm curious as to why the guy who had all that real combat stuff going for him, turned out to be just like a fanciful, keyboard warrior that one might find on Topix or the Breitbart page. Movie for another day, I guess.
Then, Alec Baldwin got on his twitter and asked Dean Cain what branch of the service he had been in and in what war did he fight? Oh-fucking-SNAP that is a very fair question! It doesn't seem like a fair question to teapublican types though because they tend to see loving and cherishing war as pretty much the same thing as being there. You're either for war, carnage and death, or you're a goddamn liberal.
Cain did not re-tweet. He retreated, instead. Though no military or combat veteran himself, Baldwin is Irish and, we do call bluffs. And though Baldwin is several years older, Cain didn't want a piece of him. And, that aside, Baldwin was right about Cain's lack of service though Cain later did tell Fox that he visited the troops in Afghanistan which must be the same, like putting yourself in harm's way every time you visit Detroit or Free-Fire Zones like Florida. Cain was friends to some degree with Chris Kyle and said he was very unassuming kinda guy who didn't like the limelight. This would seem to be in sharp contrast with the guy who, though he had a 160 confirmed combat kills to his name, saw fit to embellish that with 30 fantasy kills in New Orleans, 2 in Texas and a fake punch-out of Jesse Ventura.
Ya know, that is the left's beef about most all of this bullshit surrounding the film. Kyle had serious truth issues. The whole fucking war had truth issues. You may have noticed....
It's hard for a lot of people to get excited about a film that seems to glorify and justify a war we have long since known was totally unnecessary, a complete waste of lives and money. But, if that wasn't enough, the hero chosen for film glorification was a guy who falsely claimed to have killed Americans as well. Chris Kyle was the kind of hero only FOX could love. The myth of the man doesn't make any actual wartime truths palatable when he's lying about killing Americans.
Come on now- who looted during Katrina? Black folks. Doesn't every decent, God-fearing American want vengeance for that? Can't someone make a feel good movie about shooting niggers from the roof of the Superdome? Maybe Dean Cain could?
I'm not saying that Dean Cain or even FOX is racist but, no one is saying that. And maybe that's the problem? Who the fuck was Kyle pretend killing in New Orleans? It wasn't Iraqi "savages" as in the war. I'm not sure of the race of the two nonexistent carjackers he lied about killing but, well, white folks in Texas simply do not carjack in people's fantasies. Down there it's always blacks or Mexicans and there's no need to fear the dozen white guys with long guns outside of Luby's.
The conservative crowd is more than willing to either overlook Chris Kyle's prevarications or- worse- believe them just the same. The man is a war hero, with over 160 confirmed kills! If he says the government sent him to New Orleans to shoot looters, it must be true!
Confirmed kills and soldierly duties aside, I'm curious as to why the guy who had all that real combat stuff going for him, turned out to be just like a fanciful, keyboard warrior that one might find on Topix or the Breitbart page. Movie for another day, I guess.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
My 2 Cents
I was perusing the threads last night and some poster unknown to me was pointing out to a stalker of mine, that that person had had a huge hand in making this Ferrerman "famous". How true.
The stalker had found a site that reports on blog revenues across the blogosphere. According to that site, this site makes $.02 a day, totaling $7 dollars a year. This is actually erroneous information. I did the math and...carrying the 2...dividing by 5....using the Dewey Decimal System....I actually make zero dollars. I make a lot of sense though, most of the time.
Dedicated non-readers probably have noticed that there is no advertising on this blog. It's not that hard to notice, but the stalker missed it. I would think that would account for the total lack of revenue. I can't see what would account for the 2 cents. That makes no sense. Neither does the stalker but, she or he thought it did.
I've been Topix-famous for several years now, partially due to the diligence of these stalkers. Mostly though, it's because of my sharp wit and the fact that I'm a pretty good writer. There is one thing I envy these chuckleheads for and that is that they have a fine enemy in me and, I've got nothing in them. I can expound on politics, pontificate on film and life, and spank the living daylights out of a bottom, But, I can never have an opponent as worthy as me. These assholes have me. I don't even have them. They're just there.
Lyndon Johnson once noted that: "If you convince the lowest poster that he is better than the best Ferrerman, he won't notice what a miserable sot he is."
I might have paraphrased there. OK, I did. However it does remind me of the tens of thousands of posts written every day, by uneducated teapublicans about President Obama. (He absolutely killed last night with the SOTU address, by the way!) Imagine an idiot from Bumfuck, Kentucky thinking and believing that he is smarter and better than the the Harvard educated, president of the United States. Welcome to my world, Mr. President, you deserve better enemies too.
My stalkers can't seem to grasp that, without them, I was just another poster. I won't say that is the same for our President but, the scumbags who have resisted him so fervently in congress, the media and message boards have unwittingly guaranteed him a superb historical legacy. They didn't just show up, they tried so desperately hard to show him up, and failed miserably. History remembers those things.
Similar with my stalkers. If they don't show up and try so hard, Ferrerman is not a famous poster, just a better poster than they are. And there is thousands of those...
Just one Ferrerman though! Thanks, dedicated non-readers and stalkers! YOU help make this all possible!
The stalker had found a site that reports on blog revenues across the blogosphere. According to that site, this site makes $.02 a day, totaling $7 dollars a year. This is actually erroneous information. I did the math and...carrying the 2...dividing by 5....using the Dewey Decimal System....I actually make zero dollars. I make a lot of sense though, most of the time.
Dedicated non-readers probably have noticed that there is no advertising on this blog. It's not that hard to notice, but the stalker missed it. I would think that would account for the total lack of revenue. I can't see what would account for the 2 cents. That makes no sense. Neither does the stalker but, she or he thought it did.
I've been Topix-famous for several years now, partially due to the diligence of these stalkers. Mostly though, it's because of my sharp wit and the fact that I'm a pretty good writer. There is one thing I envy these chuckleheads for and that is that they have a fine enemy in me and, I've got nothing in them. I can expound on politics, pontificate on film and life, and spank the living daylights out of a bottom, But, I can never have an opponent as worthy as me. These assholes have me. I don't even have them. They're just there.
Lyndon Johnson once noted that: "If you convince the lowest poster that he is better than the best Ferrerman, he won't notice what a miserable sot he is."
I might have paraphrased there. OK, I did. However it does remind me of the tens of thousands of posts written every day, by uneducated teapublicans about President Obama. (He absolutely killed last night with the SOTU address, by the way!) Imagine an idiot from Bumfuck, Kentucky thinking and believing that he is smarter and better than the the Harvard educated, president of the United States. Welcome to my world, Mr. President, you deserve better enemies too.
My stalkers can't seem to grasp that, without them, I was just another poster. I won't say that is the same for our President but, the scumbags who have resisted him so fervently in congress, the media and message boards have unwittingly guaranteed him a superb historical legacy. They didn't just show up, they tried so desperately hard to show him up, and failed miserably. History remembers those things.
Similar with my stalkers. If they don't show up and try so hard, Ferrerman is not a famous poster, just a better poster than they are. And there is thousands of those...
Just one Ferrerman though! Thanks, dedicated non-readers and stalkers! YOU help make this all possible!
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Moore's the pity
It appears that Michael Moore got a bit tweety, likely referring to Chris Kyle and the film "American Sniper" when he posted:
"My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse."
His tweet also coincided with the birthday of Martin Luther King, the release of the film, "Selma" and the fact that MLK was murdered by a sniper as well. You have to consider that, whether it's a family member or a civil rights icon, it's horrific to lose a loved one via an assassin's bullet. Certainly you can add a few Iraqi citizens to that sadness.
In war, snipers are an effective weapon used by every army in the world. A sniper can absolutely terrify an opposing force in a combat zone as each soldier is forced to consider that he can be killed at any moment by an unseen enemy. That fear is a real game changer for morale. Arguably though, a good sniper saves lives by taking out threats to troops not seen by the men in the field. In Vietnam there was a legendary Marine sniper, Carlos Hathcock, who recalled that the only face that haunted him after 93 confirmed kills was the one that got away. He missed one Viet Cong and was fearful until his own death as to how many of his fellow Marines that man had gone on to kill. The uncertain fog of war.
I've read that because of that fear, regular troops haven't always held their own snipers in esteem. Many troops saw them as murderers just like the enemy snipers were cold, perhaps cowardly, killers. When you consider what can happen to you at any second because of the uniform you wear, it might cause you to consider the man on the other side, the guy just like you, probably with a wife and kids back home...a mother...
It's really only been since after Vietnam that our military has had dedicated sniper training. They began to see these soldiers and Marines more as effective fighting tools than just guys who were better shots than most and willing to show it, and they began to train and equip them in a very serious manner. The world changed and warfare became more advanced, at least for us.
As I wrote the other day, our conservative teapublicans are taking to much delight in the American Sniper film's attendance versus the the film about MLK and the Civil Rights movement. Kinda telling there. Hooray for war and fuck non-violence. Now, with Moore's tweets along with Seth Rogen comparing the film to the Nazi film portrayed in "Inglorious Basterds", the conservatives once again despise Hollywood- the same Hollywood that made the film they love so much. How's that for a turnaround?
Moore is very anti-war. Probably anti all wars, I bet. He certainly was against the second Iraq war. Everyone should have been. Packer fan's are probably miffed at Seattle for besting them this past weekend but they don't hate the Seattle Mariners of baseball because they play a sport too. Those of us in the intelligence community (that is, people in the community who have intelligence) know now as then that Iraq had NO involvement in 9/11. No WMD's either. There was NO good reason to invade Iraq and more than 100,000 lives were needlessly lost. The thing is, we knew it then. Many conservatives still don't know that. American Sniper probably clouds things further for them or reinforces their long-held beliefs that the war was just and that it was a war on terror. You fight them over there so you don't have to fight them here! That kinda shit.
Part of life, if you do it right, is taking a metaphorical walk in the shoes of another man. I think that is what Moore meant about "invaders". How would you respond to America being invaded by invaders? Even well-meaning ones who want to rid you of a dictator, install democracy into your system and maybe poke around a little for powerful weapons they don't think you should have? My guess is you wouldn't greet them as liberators. The average Iraqi must have felt like he was out of the frying pan and into the fire. You would feel the same if it were to happen here. Hell, many of our assholes feel Barack Obama is an evil dictator depriving this country of freedom. And we certainly have weapons of mass destruction! Would they welcome an invasion of Russian liberators?
Rhetorical questions and answers aside, aren't Moore and Rogen as entitled to their reviews of films as Ferrerman or Roeper are? Aren't we all? I'm sure that there's more than vitriol for them from our conservative element. I'd bet on death threats being issued all around the internet and tea party gatherings. That's the way they role. Yeah, I spelled that right. Life is getting very Hollywood out there, with redneck noisemakers straight out of Central Casting. Predictable and boring. Seen it all before.
"My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse."
His tweet also coincided with the birthday of Martin Luther King, the release of the film, "Selma" and the fact that MLK was murdered by a sniper as well. You have to consider that, whether it's a family member or a civil rights icon, it's horrific to lose a loved one via an assassin's bullet. Certainly you can add a few Iraqi citizens to that sadness.
In war, snipers are an effective weapon used by every army in the world. A sniper can absolutely terrify an opposing force in a combat zone as each soldier is forced to consider that he can be killed at any moment by an unseen enemy. That fear is a real game changer for morale. Arguably though, a good sniper saves lives by taking out threats to troops not seen by the men in the field. In Vietnam there was a legendary Marine sniper, Carlos Hathcock, who recalled that the only face that haunted him after 93 confirmed kills was the one that got away. He missed one Viet Cong and was fearful until his own death as to how many of his fellow Marines that man had gone on to kill. The uncertain fog of war.
I've read that because of that fear, regular troops haven't always held their own snipers in esteem. Many troops saw them as murderers just like the enemy snipers were cold, perhaps cowardly, killers. When you consider what can happen to you at any second because of the uniform you wear, it might cause you to consider the man on the other side, the guy just like you, probably with a wife and kids back home...a mother...
It's really only been since after Vietnam that our military has had dedicated sniper training. They began to see these soldiers and Marines more as effective fighting tools than just guys who were better shots than most and willing to show it, and they began to train and equip them in a very serious manner. The world changed and warfare became more advanced, at least for us.
As I wrote the other day, our conservative teapublicans are taking to much delight in the American Sniper film's attendance versus the the film about MLK and the Civil Rights movement. Kinda telling there. Hooray for war and fuck non-violence. Now, with Moore's tweets along with Seth Rogen comparing the film to the Nazi film portrayed in "Inglorious Basterds", the conservatives once again despise Hollywood- the same Hollywood that made the film they love so much. How's that for a turnaround?
Moore is very anti-war. Probably anti all wars, I bet. He certainly was against the second Iraq war. Everyone should have been. Packer fan's are probably miffed at Seattle for besting them this past weekend but they don't hate the Seattle Mariners of baseball because they play a sport too. Those of us in the intelligence community (that is, people in the community who have intelligence) know now as then that Iraq had NO involvement in 9/11. No WMD's either. There was NO good reason to invade Iraq and more than 100,000 lives were needlessly lost. The thing is, we knew it then. Many conservatives still don't know that. American Sniper probably clouds things further for them or reinforces their long-held beliefs that the war was just and that it was a war on terror. You fight them over there so you don't have to fight them here! That kinda shit.
Part of life, if you do it right, is taking a metaphorical walk in the shoes of another man. I think that is what Moore meant about "invaders". How would you respond to America being invaded by invaders? Even well-meaning ones who want to rid you of a dictator, install democracy into your system and maybe poke around a little for powerful weapons they don't think you should have? My guess is you wouldn't greet them as liberators. The average Iraqi must have felt like he was out of the frying pan and into the fire. You would feel the same if it were to happen here. Hell, many of our assholes feel Barack Obama is an evil dictator depriving this country of freedom. And we certainly have weapons of mass destruction! Would they welcome an invasion of Russian liberators?
Rhetorical questions and answers aside, aren't Moore and Rogen as entitled to their reviews of films as Ferrerman or Roeper are? Aren't we all? I'm sure that there's more than vitriol for them from our conservative element. I'd bet on death threats being issued all around the internet and tea party gatherings. That's the way they role. Yeah, I spelled that right. Life is getting very Hollywood out there, with redneck noisemakers straight out of Central Casting. Predictable and boring. Seen it all before.
Monday, January 19, 2015
Everything old is actually new again and available to you at a low, low introductory rate that you may already be pre-approved for....
I read an interesting piece about President Obama's upcoming State Of The Union address, specifically concerning his plan to further open the internet. It goes beyond net neutrality. He will speak of opening the speed and access of the internet to all Americans. Amazingly, this is something to which many on the right object.
In the 30's, Franklin Delano Roosevelt controversially decided to bring electricity to as many Americans as possible. How was this controversial? Why did the republicans of the time object to people on farms and rural communities having electric power?
Well, because it was business. They felt that since there was no profit in providing electricity to those millions of Americans, no one should do so. When it did become profitable, private enterprise would step in and provide it. Government doing it was "socialist and communist" then, just as they say it is now. Privatization of absolutely everything is nothing new. It has long been the way of the world. FDR was the Obama of his time. Kids in New York City played with electric toys while people in rural Kentucky didn't even have electric light. That was America, That was business. The business of America.
Today, 19 municipalities have laws against the local government creating their own highspeed, fiber optic networks. These laws are created by ALEC- the same folks who bring us Stand Your Ground laws- to protect the interests of cable/internet monopolies that figure those local governments and the people in that area shall get what business wants them to have, when they want them to have it and pays the price they want. If you've ever been to Europe or had visitors from there use internet here, you'd know that the internet over there is far faster (and cheaper) than here. We not only pay more for slower speed, our internet providers want us (and websites) to pay even more for somewhat faster service- well, faster than the slower service they'll give to people and sites that cannot or will not pay.
You don't hear a lot about the American Mafia anymore. I think that is because Michael Corleone's literary dream of becoming "completely legitimate" came true years ago. You can steal billions as a bank as opposed to thousands robbing one with guns. Isn't what Internet Service Providers have in store for us nothing but a variation of the old protection rackets? They don't need a couple of guys named Fat Mike and Bruno to shake you down when all they need to do is legally slow down your wants and needs until you come around and pony up. And you will come around and you will pony up. There's no public option.
No public option if they take care of that, that is. From FOX *news* and Brietbart-type sites on down to dumbasses on the internet on message boards like Topix, you'll hear that Obama and "the gubmint" is plotting to take over the internet, your computer, specifically.
Ask yourself, how can they do this by improving speed and service at a cheaper rate? Are they murderous, insane animals? How dare they?! Seriously- think about it. Ninety percent of life is using your brain to think about things, to think them through, weighing the good, the bad and the indifferent. However, people from self-important, blowhard lawyers to 6th grade educated security guards all sound the same when they close their minds and refuse to think things through for themselves. If you think private enterprise has your back but representative democracy couldn't possibly, you are not a citizen, you are a consumer. And you will be consumed. You probably already agreed to be consumed when you signed on with your service provider...Well, OK, that's not legal. Not yet....
In the 30's, Franklin Delano Roosevelt controversially decided to bring electricity to as many Americans as possible. How was this controversial? Why did the republicans of the time object to people on farms and rural communities having electric power?
Well, because it was business. They felt that since there was no profit in providing electricity to those millions of Americans, no one should do so. When it did become profitable, private enterprise would step in and provide it. Government doing it was "socialist and communist" then, just as they say it is now. Privatization of absolutely everything is nothing new. It has long been the way of the world. FDR was the Obama of his time. Kids in New York City played with electric toys while people in rural Kentucky didn't even have electric light. That was America, That was business. The business of America.
Today, 19 municipalities have laws against the local government creating their own highspeed, fiber optic networks. These laws are created by ALEC- the same folks who bring us Stand Your Ground laws- to protect the interests of cable/internet monopolies that figure those local governments and the people in that area shall get what business wants them to have, when they want them to have it and pays the price they want. If you've ever been to Europe or had visitors from there use internet here, you'd know that the internet over there is far faster (and cheaper) than here. We not only pay more for slower speed, our internet providers want us (and websites) to pay even more for somewhat faster service- well, faster than the slower service they'll give to people and sites that cannot or will not pay.
You don't hear a lot about the American Mafia anymore. I think that is because Michael Corleone's literary dream of becoming "completely legitimate" came true years ago. You can steal billions as a bank as opposed to thousands robbing one with guns. Isn't what Internet Service Providers have in store for us nothing but a variation of the old protection rackets? They don't need a couple of guys named Fat Mike and Bruno to shake you down when all they need to do is legally slow down your wants and needs until you come around and pony up. And you will come around and you will pony up. There's no public option.
No public option if they take care of that, that is. From FOX *news* and Brietbart-type sites on down to dumbasses on the internet on message boards like Topix, you'll hear that Obama and "the gubmint" is plotting to take over the internet, your computer, specifically.
Ask yourself, how can they do this by improving speed and service at a cheaper rate? Are they murderous, insane animals? How dare they?! Seriously- think about it. Ninety percent of life is using your brain to think about things, to think them through, weighing the good, the bad and the indifferent. However, people from self-important, blowhard lawyers to 6th grade educated security guards all sound the same when they close their minds and refuse to think things through for themselves. If you think private enterprise has your back but representative democracy couldn't possibly, you are not a citizen, you are a consumer. And you will be consumed. You probably already agreed to be consumed when you signed on with your service provider...Well, OK, that's not legal. Not yet....
Sunday, January 18, 2015
How do you like them apples?
The fine folks at Brietbart are ecstatic at the box office tallies regarding the case of the docudramas, American Sniper v. Selma.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/01/17/box-office-american-sniper-breaks-record-selma-in-death-spiral/
Well, fuck that rabble-rouser Martin Luther King and jump for joy over 'murica's embrace of Chris Kyle! HOORAY! Reserve The White House for (republican president not available at press time) because America wants death and violence to reign rather than non-violence and the quest for equality.
Brietbart didn't mention The Wedding Ringer but, truth be told, American Sniper beat that film too and, it's got Kevin Hart in it. Blacks just aren't boffo at the box office anymore. I'm looking at you, Denzel Washington and Sidney Poitier (who, BTW, hasn't had a hit in decades...)
Well now, I gather that the crazies over at Brietbart fancy this to be very, very telling. The comments on the site reveal as much but then, they always do. I haven't seen either, of course, but have read enough to know that both films have truth issues, as most all films do. The director chooses the story he wants to tell and, just as films don't always follow books to the letter, films don't always follow historical facts. It's the way it is with literary licenses. Not everyone follows the same path.
It's quite telling though that the reichwingers will take their victories wherever they can find or manufacture them. That's pretty sad. Comparing apples to oranges is common in politics. I venture that most people like both and the only ardent supporters of either are the folks who grow either apples or oranges. This Ferrerman likes both. Oranges certainly have a peal. Apples though tasty, have to be consumed pretty fast, otherwise they are rotten to the core. Well, they look that way.
A generation from now- or a year from now- who will remember Chris Kyle? MLK will still be King and hate-filled people will still be looking for little victories under every rock they overturn. .
*Ferrerman note: American Sniper also resoundingly trounced Foxcatcher as well. The only possible conclusion is that right wing Americans totally reject deranged billionaires, spelling doom for Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush and the Koch brothers. The people have spoken.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/01/17/box-office-american-sniper-breaks-record-selma-in-death-spiral/
Well, fuck that rabble-rouser Martin Luther King and jump for joy over 'murica's embrace of Chris Kyle! HOORAY! Reserve The White House for (republican president not available at press time) because America wants death and violence to reign rather than non-violence and the quest for equality.
Brietbart didn't mention The Wedding Ringer but, truth be told, American Sniper beat that film too and, it's got Kevin Hart in it. Blacks just aren't boffo at the box office anymore. I'm looking at you, Denzel Washington and Sidney Poitier (who, BTW, hasn't had a hit in decades...)
Well now, I gather that the crazies over at Brietbart fancy this to be very, very telling. The comments on the site reveal as much but then, they always do. I haven't seen either, of course, but have read enough to know that both films have truth issues, as most all films do. The director chooses the story he wants to tell and, just as films don't always follow books to the letter, films don't always follow historical facts. It's the way it is with literary licenses. Not everyone follows the same path.
It's quite telling though that the reichwingers will take their victories wherever they can find or manufacture them. That's pretty sad. Comparing apples to oranges is common in politics. I venture that most people like both and the only ardent supporters of either are the folks who grow either apples or oranges. This Ferrerman likes both. Oranges certainly have a peal. Apples though tasty, have to be consumed pretty fast, otherwise they are rotten to the core. Well, they look that way.
A generation from now- or a year from now- who will remember Chris Kyle? MLK will still be King and hate-filled people will still be looking for little victories under every rock they overturn. .
*Ferrerman note: American Sniper also resoundingly trounced Foxcatcher as well. The only possible conclusion is that right wing Americans totally reject deranged billionaires, spelling doom for Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush and the Koch brothers. The people have spoken.
Thursday, January 15, 2015
The envelope please....
X number of years ago, back when I was a pretty serious NASCAR fan, NBC started doing the races. To kickoff their coverage a very excited Brian Williams opened up the first race. He acted like it was the greatest thing that had ever happened to him, as if he had been waiting his whole life. He was a huge fan, he declared, and NASCAR was becoming a seriously major 'sport' in America. Then as now, Brian Williams hosted the Nightly News- which I rarely watched- and I thought it quite odd that a guy in his position would be called on to host like that. Didn't NBC have anybody besides their leading news anchor for this new gig of theirs? I guess he's a trooper and a showman. I think that's what I don't like about him, the showman part.
He's "in the business". Not so much the news business but, the entertainment business. That was his phrasing when he recently discussed his actress daughter's show-biz career. He slow jams the news on Jimmy Fallon and pals around with my favorite comedic terrorist, Jon Stewart. So why don't I like him?
Well, mind you, I don't hate him. I just like my journalists to be Walter Cronkite. Brian Williams is no Walter Cronkite. Really, no one is today. Bob Schieffer of CBS comes close. Bob probably wouldn't slow-jam the news. Walter certainly would not have gone on Jack Parr or Carson and slow-jammed either. We didn't have to put up with this shit from Cronkite, or Huntley and Brinkley.
Brian's daughter is the actress, Allison Williams. Allison is quite lovely and talented. She recently did a live presentation (on NBC, of course) of Peter Pan where she played the title role. I watched some of it, but there was a rival program that got m attention, probably live football. As far as this reviewer knows, she did a fine job. Evidently her dad did the news from the set that week to promote the show. That irks me but the news is a money-maker for the networks now. Maybe he would have promoted it even if his daughter wasn't the lead? I recently found out that she has a role on the HBO series, "Girls". I don't have HBO so, I have never seen it. My perfunctory knowledge of it from reading the newspaper and the internet alerts me to the fact that the shows pushes the envelope. Well, how much envelope pushing can a show that stars a network news anchor's daughter really do? Well, analingus.
Yikes, huh? Well, that is premium cable.... That's quite an envelope.
As Brian Williams explained, "...everybody has to remember it's acting...no animals were harmed in the filming and ideally, nobody gets hurt..."
At least he didn't say it was "tasteful".
You know how cinemagical Hollywood is so, I'm sure it was well done and not as graphic for the actors as you'd expect. One of my favorite lines not heard on film was between the great George C. Scott and an actress he was filming a love scene with. "I apologize in advance for anything that does or does not happen, my dear."
Since I haven't seen the scene, I can't speak to how well it was done. Or even why except, well, the envelope pushing. All I can say is, we never had to put up with this shit from Cronkite's kids.
Well, mind you, I don't hate him. I just like my journalists to be Walter Cronkite. Brian Williams is no Walter Cronkite. Really, no one is today. Bob Schieffer of CBS comes close. Bob probably wouldn't slow-jam the news. Walter certainly would not have gone on Jack Parr or Carson and slow-jammed either. We didn't have to put up with this shit from Cronkite, or Huntley and Brinkley.
Brian's daughter is the actress, Allison Williams. Allison is quite lovely and talented. She recently did a live presentation (on NBC, of course) of Peter Pan where she played the title role. I watched some of it, but there was a rival program that got m attention, probably live football. As far as this reviewer knows, she did a fine job. Evidently her dad did the news from the set that week to promote the show. That irks me but the news is a money-maker for the networks now. Maybe he would have promoted it even if his daughter wasn't the lead? I recently found out that she has a role on the HBO series, "Girls". I don't have HBO so, I have never seen it. My perfunctory knowledge of it from reading the newspaper and the internet alerts me to the fact that the shows pushes the envelope. Well, how much envelope pushing can a show that stars a network news anchor's daughter really do? Well, analingus.
Yikes, huh? Well, that is premium cable.... That's quite an envelope.
As Brian Williams explained, "...everybody has to remember it's acting...no animals were harmed in the filming and ideally, nobody gets hurt..."
At least he didn't say it was "tasteful".
You know how cinemagical Hollywood is so, I'm sure it was well done and not as graphic for the actors as you'd expect. One of my favorite lines not heard on film was between the great George C. Scott and an actress he was filming a love scene with. "I apologize in advance for anything that does or does not happen, my dear."
Since I haven't seen the scene, I can't speak to how well it was done. Or even why except, well, the envelope pushing. All I can say is, we never had to put up with this shit from Cronkite's kids.
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