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Saturday, July 5, 2014

Joe Biden Vs Tracy Flick

Well, the debate just finished, and here are my first thoughts on the whole thing:
1.  Joe Biden did a great job – better than I expected.  (Minor quibble: I wish that he and Palin would stipuate that they are BOTH regular folks who come from regular towns where regular people work for a living, so we don’t have to hear any more about what Bob at the Scranton Home Depot or Bruce at the Yak Junction moose-punching contest think about the economy.)
Biden made some very good points about the war, insurance, global warming, etc.   He answered the questions that were asked (unlike Sarah) , and rebutted Sarah’s attacks without seeming to get annoyed with her.
2.  Sarah Palin was very annoying.  She probably did better than expected, in that she didn’t take out her rifle and shoot her opponent or the moderator, but she didn’t come across as likeable or appealing, but rather as arrogant, pushy, uninformed, and perfectly content to remain uninformed, as she finds knowledge highly overrated.  (As others have noted, she seems to share a lot of character traits with George W. Bush.)  She had some obviously memorized talking points (“Obama voted for bills about war and taxes and stuff 157 times, and that proves that he is a liberal who wants our troops to die, and who wants to take Castro to lunch on YOUR tax dollars”) that she kept using even if they weren’t applicable to the topic at hand, and even if they were discredited by Biden.  I guess her handlers told her that the best defense is a vigerous if delusional offense, but this tactic made her seem woefully unprepared to work with actual grownups on the business of governing.
And when it was stated that she hadn’t answered the question, her reply was something like, “I may not answer the question the way you or the moderator like, but the rules don’t apply to me because I’m a maverick, so instead I will mention several times that I was a small-town mayor, a small-business owner, and a soccer mom, and those jobs require skills that are directly transferable to being the VP, in that they all involve making decisions, getting stuff done, and bossing people around .  Also, I am the governor of a really big state, if you only consider land mass, which I personally turned into an energy-producing one by shooting the evil energy barons who were keeping all that oil for themselves.  Most importantly, I am a regular blue-collar, illiterate Joe Six-Pack like all the voters out there who follow presidential debates. And did I mention ‘energy’?  Energy, energy, energy!  And the main reason you should vote for me is that I don’t really know anything, and therefore will bring enthusiastic ignorance to all I do.”
Oh, and when asked if she agreed with Dick Cheney that the Constitution can be interpreted to mean that Vice President’s office is part of both the Executive and Legislative branches of government, and that the VP’s duties should therefore be expanded into legislative matters, Sarah said that she did, and thought that the VP’s job should be expanded if the VP wants it that way.  Joe’s response to this about Dick being the most dangerous VP ever (and so purely evil that he should be banished to that one-dimensional universe where they put the “Superman” villains) was great.  But anyway, I don’t think Sarah even knew that the vice presidency IS part of the executive branch, so I’m not sure how much we should worry about her plans to be the boss of the Senate. 

Well, I have kittens to feed, so the floor is yours.  More later.
Posted by s.z. on October 2nd, 2008

This Debate Should Be Moderated By A Frightened Moose

I’m not quite sure how this happened, but apparently I’ve become Richard Viguerie’s penpal.  Richard, as some of our older readers may remember, was a protege of Billy James Hargis, a founding father of the Christian Right, and an equal opportunity sexual predator who broadmindedly diddled both the boys and girls in his youth choir, the All American Kids, showing no hint of favoritism or prejudice.  Later, Richard went on to pioneer the use of direct mail in political campaigns, proving that if you blanket voters with libelous screeds just before election day, giving the defamed party no time to respond, then our Democracy will be strengthened, and our various branches of government will enjoy an even greater surplus of victorious, if soulless dickweeds.  Well, now Richard’s discovered email, and he won’t leave me alone:
Demand that Gwen Ifill be fired as the moderator of the Vice Presidential debate!
Dear Fellow American:
The mainstream (liberal) media’s smear campaign against Governor Sarah Palin has been one of the ugliest chapters in the history of modern witch hunts.
As we all know, the history of modern witch hunts stretches from Pastor Thomas Muthee’s heroic battle against a sorceress who summoned the power of Satan to cause fender benders in Kenya, all the way to Pastor Muthee’s invoking of God’s help to elect Sarah Palin governor of Alaska.
Well, it has just become uglier—just when you probably thought that was impossible.
was just thinking that was impossible!  How did you know?  GET OUT OF MY HEAD…!
It turns out that the “moderator” of the Thursday, October 2 vice presidential debate—PBS anchor Gwen Ifill—has a clear conflict of interest.
She’s been embezzling scare quotes.
Ms. Ifill is the author of a forthcoming book celebrating the politics and career of Senator Barack Obama. Her book is titled The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, and is scheduled to be published on Inauguration Day—January 20, 2009. She obviously has both an ideological and a financial interest in the success of the Obama-Biden campaign, one of the parties to this debate.
Wait…Obama’s going to be debating the Republican vice presidential nominee as well as Biden?  Palin’s pulling a debate train?!
If that isn’t a clear conflict of interest, I don’t know what would be.
How about coaching one candidate with the aid of pilfered briefing books, and then going on TV afterwards to praise that candidate’s performance without revealing your role in the event?  That would really be a conflict of interest, unless you were wearing a bowtie, in which case you automatically receive a dispensation from the Pope, or the Commissioner of Baseball, or somebody.
This serious conflict of interest was not disclosed beforehand to Senator John McCain or to his vice presidential running mate, Governor Sarah Palin.
I can’t believe those slimy bastards thought they could slip this ringer past Governor Sarah Palin, a woman who reads any and all newspapers!
Ifill discussed the book in a interview with The Washington Post on September 4, well before the Commission on Presidential Debates announced the debate moderators…The McCain campaign said it had not seen Ifill’s Post interview, or been aware of her book, until Tuesday.
To be fair, when Governor Palin says “reads,” she means “skims,” and by “skims” she means, “whatever words she happens to glimpse that are still visible between the starbursts of liquid hamster shit when she changes the paper in the Habitrail.”
In the words of attorney and TV host Greta Van Susteren, they “should have been told before the campaign agreed to have her moderate. It simply is not fair—in law, this would create a mistrial.”
To be honest, I tend not to pay a lot of attention to the legal opinions of women named Greta who’ve had a lot of plastic surgery unless we’re negotiating the price of a Swedish massage.
The American people deserve an honest and transparent moderation of this debate.
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Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming your moderator for tonight’s debate...

Posted by scott on October 2nd, 2008

Sarah Six-Pack

For Sarah Palin’s first radio interview  since becoming the Republican candidate for Vice President, the McCain committee needed to find an interviewer who was nothing like the brutal Katie “the Impaler” Couric.  So, they chose Hugh Hewitt, the heavyweight of talk radio (Mister Rogers not being available). 
Here are some portions of this hard-hitting, take-no-prisoners interrogation: Sarah Palin: “I Know What Americans Are Going Through”.
Hugh Hewitt: Governor, your candidacy has ignited extreme hostility, even some hatred on the left and in some parts of the media. Are you surprised? And what do you attribute this reaction to?
Sarah Palin: I think they’re just not used to someone coming in from the outside saying, “You know what? It’s time that normal Joe six-pack American is finally represented in the position of vice presidency.” I think that that’s kind of taken some people off guard, and they’re out of sorts, and they’re ticked off about it, but it’s motivation for John McCain and I to work that much harder to make sure that our ticket is victorious, and we put government back on the side of the people of Joe six-pack like me, and we start doing those things that are expected of our government, and we get rid of corruption, and we commit to the reform that is not only desired, but is deserved by Americans.
Say, maybe it IS time for regular, ol’ Joe Six-Pack American to be the Vice President.  Heck, my Budwieser swilling, NASCAR-watching, shotgun toting neighbors don’t know much about the economy, foreign policy, Supreme Court decisions, etc. so why should Sarah have to?  Maybe it is elitist to expect the second highest position in the land to go to somebody with a little more experience, education, and aptitude than the rest of us.  In fact, here’s my suggestion for a new campaign slogan: “Vote for Sarah Six-Pack, Because You’re No Rocket Scientist Either.”
Hewitt: Now governor, the Gibson and the Couric interview struck many as sort of pop quizzes designed to embarrass you as opposed to interviews. Do you share that opinion?
Palin:  Well, I have a degree in journalism also, so it surprises me that so much has changed since I received my education in journalistic ethics all those years ago. But I’m not going to pick a fight with those who buy ink by the barrelful. I’m going to take those shots and those pop quizzes and just say, “That’s okay.”

Translation: “I am just as journalistically qualified as Katie, but I’m not an unethical bitch like she is.  And even though I failed those pop quizzes, I will still pass the class, because I get extra-credit points for keeping Russia from invading America while I was Governor.”
Hewitt: Governor, you mentioned the people who are struggling right now. Have you and your husband, Todd, ever faced tough economic times where you had to sit around a kitchen table and make tough choices?
Palin:  Oh my goodness, yes, Hugh. I know what Americans are going through. Todd and I—heck, we’re going through that right now even as we speak, which may put me again kind of on the outs of those Washington elite who don’t like the idea of just an everyday working class American running for such an office.

I’m sure the Illuminati and the Tri-lateral Commission are really annoyed that a common blue-collar weather girl like Sarah has the effrontery to run for VP, and they are undoubtedly gnashing their teeth at her presumption.  But what I want to know is what tough economic choices Sarah and her husband were making even as she spoke to Hugh Hewitt.  Doesn’t Alaska pay its Governor at least minimum wage, thus forcing Sarah to decide which kid didn’t get dinner that night?  Were Sarah and Todd contemplating which organs to sell in order to be able to buy soft drinks while riding on Air Force One?  With Sarah being on the campaign trail and thus not able to shoot food to put on her family, were she and the First Dude deciding whether or not to send the young ones out to roll drunks in order to survive? 

I hope that we get the answers to some of these questions during Sarah’s next interview, which will reportedly be with the blood-thirsty “Fox and Friends” hit squad.
Posted by s.z. on October 1st, 2008

A Visit From The Wisdom Tooth Fairy

In his latest column, Pastor Swank informs us that “McCain won debate on wisdom,” which I guess is less femmy than winning on points, or even a TKO.  Anyway, Swank believes that John McCain acquitted himself well in the contest, but if the Pastor were to pick nits, he feels that if McCain has one obvious flaw it’s that he’s not an immortal, like Jesus or Christopher Lambert.
There is nothing like wisdom accumulated over time.
It’s like a rich, finely aged cheese, but not as binding.
Of course, every mortal has his flaws. John McCain being mortal fits right in there.
If America wanted perfection, it would have to go for a biblical theocracy.
At this point the pastor paused in his ruminations to go change his pants.
But our Republic is a democracy led by human beings who have their imperfections.
McCain has his imprecations. B.. Hussein has his crimes. There is a difference.
Which is why the choice is clear.  On the one hand we have a larcenous Negro, on the other we have a wizened, pasty mortal who, apparently…likes to curse?
When McCain delivered at the debate, he won hands down because of his wisdom. It did not take drama to produce his finger counting experiences — running over ten fingers and then needing another hand or two.
And the sight of McCain performing rudimentary calculations, using a pair of severed human hands he’d brought to the podium, only further enhanced his reputation as a slightly befuddled badass.
McCain was not reciting from a textbook that he read in preparation for the talk-about. He candidly — without fanfare and drawing attention — ticked off one geographical location and headline leader after another.
Originally, McCain wanted to stage the debate in a spelling bee format, but ultimately decided that would just be showing off.
He went back years to situations that molded America. He recalled at times exact quotations from such individuals as US Presidents.
He conjugated verbs, and often emphasized them with a gesture.  He took sips of water without dribbling, and his autonomic nervous system successfully maintained his heart rate and respiration so he never once turned blue and fell over.
McCain drew on his mental file. And in that file was much that makes him the man for walking ready-made into the Oval Office.
Because one of the files is marked, “Bipedal Locomotion.”
B. Hussein is indeed dangerous on many points, most of them points that could stick into one balloon after another, all bringing down the executive branch of our government.
To be frank, I think we should call a constitutional convention and reconsider this whole concept of a lighter-than-air executive branch, especially after what happened with President Steve Fossett.
Further, McCain put to rest the predictions that he would lose and so be a do-nothing-nonproductive because he is 72. No one should ever bring that age factor up again, including the obscene ads the B. Hussein campaign is putting out about McCain’s skin cancer!
In addition, McCain being smaller in height than B. Hussein did not make a hoot at the debate. That can be laid in the casket as well.
I wouldn’t say “casket” around McCain, he’s a little sensitive…
Moreover, McCain not as sweet looking as The Boy can be hung out to dry.
Um…Do you want to rephrase that, Pastor?
In other words, McCain won the debate because he spoke in-depth on the issues presented. He spoke from his heart, from his head.
He whistled through his nostrils, and yodeled from his colon.
Note also that McCain did not tie himself to George W. Bush.
And in today’s political climate, that took courage.
That can be put in the coffin as well.
Look, Pastor, you’re talking about a man as old as Hoover Dam; I doubt he appreciates your repeating the C-word.
No.  The other C-word.
McCain, being his own conscience and not a cookie cutter copy for any mortal or party, presented himself as the individualist that he sincerely is. That is wisdom honed over time. You can’t beat that.
I defy you to even understand it.
B. Hussein is no match for the wisdom over time. No wonder then that when B. Hussein looked in McCain’s direction, McCain just looked straight ahead — nobly, in fact.
It’s sad how many people these days mistake noblesse oblige for dickishness.
It was as if McCain was thinking, “Let The Boy say what he has to say, he has no idea where I come from.”
And that is the truth.
That McCain’s a racist asshole too?
McCain’s wisdom quotient is so high and clear that B. Hussein has no ladder even beginning to reach the first layer.
Now I understand why Swank hasn’t been producing as many columns per day lately: he attempted poetry without first warming up and gave himself a hernia.   Get well soon, pastor.

Posted by scott on Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 at 9:41 pm.

18 Responses to “A Visit From The Wisdom Tooth Fairy”

“If America wanted perfection, it would have to go for a biblical theocracy.”
Holy shit. Even for Swank that’s pretty out there. Just…damn.
It’s bad enough that Swank keeps referring to Obama as “B. Hussein”, now he’s referring to him as “The Boy”? Now I really, REALLY want to punch this guy.
Of course I know it’s wrong of me to feel that way. I mean, clearly he’s suffering from some form of dementia, and can’t therefore be held responsible for crap like this. Maybe I should direct my rage at whoever keeps encouraging him to write instead of, say, fingerpainting or fashioning pot holders.
“It was as if McCain was thinking, “Let The Boy say what he has to say, he has no idea where I come from.”
O.K. that’s the third time at least Swank has called Obama Boy. Is he that much of an asshole or is he that clueless?
So Swank writes his columns in English, then has them translated to Japanese and then back to English before publishing, right?
Because that’s the only way I can explain the tortured syntax.
“McCain, being his own conscience and not a cookie cutter copy for any mortal or party…”
WTF?
This has been a hilarious read. Thanks.:-)
Anyone want to take bets on how long until Swank starts calling Obama the N-word?
“He candidly — without fanfare and drawing attention — ticked off one geographical location and headline leader after another.”
This in fact I am not surprised to find impresses people like Swank. Most of them can barely imagine the geography of this country 150 beyond their hometown. The fact that he could pronounce Uzebekistan (sp?) and all the other surrounding Balkin countries probably really floored him.
“And in that file was much that makes him the man for walking ready-made into the Oval Office.”
And at my computer was much that makes me the person for suffering, ready-made, this column of Paster Swank.
Jeebus save us!
In his latest column, Pastor Swank informs us that “McCain won debate on wisdom,”
Shorter Swank: Uppity Negro gets cuffed.
Tom, you might be on to something! Here’s the paragraph in question, translated to Japanese and then back to English:
McCain with his himself conscience for the human or the party and the copy of the cutter of the cookie which is not, showed thing him himself where him sincerity is included as an individualism person. That is the intelligence which inside that is ground with the grindstone. It is not possible to strike that.
That actually sounds kinda’ cool, you know?
The fact that he could pronounce Uzebekistan (sp?) and all the other surrounding Balkin countries probably really floored him.
You did that on purpose, didn’t you…
(Please say yes.)
I think the real question here is how J. Sidney can expect people to vote for a man named after the capital of Austria.
Bill S., I think it’s okay to want to beat on Swank. Perhaps you could drive out the demons.
Scott- do you write for the Daily Show? ‘Cause if you do, Jon will pissed that you used the best jokes in a blog! Way to go!
It is sad, because I used to like Swank, the way I like “Manos, Hands Of Fate”. But now I see he isn’t an incredibly ill-made and stupid movie with women in underwear with sheer nightgowns over it (what’s the point of sheer?).
No, he’s a racist.
using a pair of severed human hands he’d brought to the podium
The only way you’ll get McCain’s cold dead hands is if you take them from his cold dead hands.
Yes, I have used that joke before, and there is a high likelihood that some time in the future I will use it again.
McCain drew on his mental file.
He not only drew, he doodled.
THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED SWANKROCK
1.
In addition, McCain
being smaller in height
than B. Hussein
did not make a hoot
at
the debate.
That can be laid in the casket as well.
B. Hussein
is no match
for the wisdom over
time.
2.
No wonder then
that when
B. Hussein
looked in McCain’s direction,
McCain just looked straight ahead
— nobly,
in
fact.
3.
McCain’s wisdom quotient
is
so
high
and clear
that
B. Hussein has no ladder
even beginning
to reach
the first layer.
Also, Jesus.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Good God, that man is stupid!
And he can’t write, either.
So there.

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Scott, This One is for You*

Black Belt Patriotism by Chuck Norris: Book Cover 
*Because Scott is known in Hollywood as a Black Belt Commie Sympathizer. 
Anyway, as we continue our stroll down Town Hall’s boulevard of broken dreams, tortured syntax, and muddled thinking, let’s stop and stare at Chuck Norris, who has followed in the footsteps of Pat Boone and used his golden years to become a conservative columnist/crackpot. So, here’s Chuck’s latest piece, Clandestine Conservatives in Hollywood.
As I was being interviewed recently at my Texas ranch by Geraldo Rivera, I thought back over my four decades in acting and how the pool of conservative “tough guys” seems to be drying up in Hollywood.
What a coincidence!  As I was being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for Blogging, I thought back over my four decades of watching bad movies and how really atrocious Chuck Norris’s Invasion USA is.  (Although this film left deep emotional scars, it didn’t make the cut forBetter Living Through Bad Movies, possibly because the book self-publishing industry is secretly controlled by liberals.)
Or are liberal waters just getting too hot for conservatives?
Yes, conservative tough guys are drying up due to hot liberal waters.  That’s got to be it, Chuck!
Then I recalled that The Washington Times recently reported, “A group of politically conservative and centrist Hollywood figures (up to 600 at once) organized by actor Gary Sinise and others has been meeting quietly in restaurants and private homes, forming a loose-knit network of entertainers who share common beliefs like supporting U.S. troops and traditional American values.”
How sad that Chuck had to read in the paper about these gatherings — you’d think that he’d rate at least a courtesy invitation.   (“Hi, Mr. Norris, it’s Gary Sinise.  Yes, the guy from the C.S.I. that nobody watches.  Anyway, I understand that you are a wingnut, so I wanted to let you know that me and 600 of my closest closeted conservative friends are getting together at Olive Garden on Tuesday.  We wondered if you wanted to join us as we whine about how we coulda been contenders if only we weren’t always being blacklisted for loving America and Jesus.  Yes, they are doing that “Endless Pasta Bowl” thing there now.  Of course, most of the others think that you are an embarrasing old coot, so you probably wouldn’t want to come.  Maybe another time, okay?”)
But the article also noted that the secret is out on these clandestine meetings, as conservatives progressively are becoming more and more emboldened.
I hear that they are so emboldened that one of them dared to tell the Wash Times that they’re here, they’re against queers, and Hollywood should get used to them secretly not caring about the rain forest.
In a so-called age of tolerance, it amazes me just how intolerant some people are of those who stand for traditional values. For example, if I stand against California’s memorializing of Harvey Milk Day or stand for California’s Proposition 8, which would create an amendment to the California Constitution to safeguard heterosexual purity in marriage (which I do support and encourage Gov. Schwarzenegger and all Californians to do the same), I’m considered by many to be intolerant and a bigot.
Aw, now who would consider Chuck to be intolerant just for trying to safeguard heterosexual purity by denying other people the right to marry?
But if another actor takes just the opposite positions on those measures, he is considered to be compassionate and a liberator.
It’s true!  All of California hails our friend Actor212 as a Liberator (“El Libertador212,” they call him) for not supporting Prop. 8.
Or when a liberal candidate, such as Hillary Clinton, runs for president, her candidacy is considered a fulfillment of civil rights and women’s suffrage. But when a conservative candidate, such as Sarah Palin, runs for vice president, she’s considered a radical right-wing extremist who could usurp the Capitol by toting rifles at her side.
Okay, it’s time for Chuck to take his nap now.  (He gets a little worked up when he thinks about a rifle-toting Sarah Palin taking over the Capitol, much as the bazooka-toting Cubans took over a Miami mall inInvasion USA).  But here’s a parting thought for you to mull over as you go about your business.
This is America, and we should respect the fact that we will have strong, diverse opinions, and we must allow one another the freedom of speech to air such opines, not suppress them through peer pressure of any type like children.
So, no more peer pressure of any type, Hollywood!  You totally accept the conservatives or there will be no dessert for anyone! 

Posted by s.z. on Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 at 5:03 am

31 Responses to “Scott, This One is for You*”

Y’know, I’ve always thought he was a lame actor without a single good movie to his credit. This I could overlook. That he’s also a total jackass just gives me one additional reason to ignore him.
Yet another bigot who thinks “If you were TRULY tolerant, you’d be tolerant of the intolerant” is a “Gotcha!” argument. Gee Chuck, you use a phrase like “heterosexual purity” and you’re surprised people think you’re an asshole?
But he’s not without his fans, I guess. So I’ll let Corey “Mr. Safety” Williams have the final word:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjnVEsXtNIU
“safeguard heterosexual purity in marriage”?
What exactly is heterosexual purity? Is this man on top, three strokes and you’re done? Murikan sex, none of that French or Greek stuff for us…
I think he’s saying bisexuals are a traitorous infiltration group. So, um. Anybody wanna be infiltrated?
Hey, when I was reading bits of this to my partner, I accidentally read “safeguard racial purity in marriage”. Anyone else hear that echo, or is my white ass in trouble with my Japanese-American partner?
So much for that open-mindedness that supposedly comes from the self-discipline of martial arts. Now he’s just an asshole who works out. Surprise!
All of California hails our friend Actor212 as a Liberator (”El Libertador212,” they call him) for supporting Prop. 8.
Um, for the record, I fully support the rights of gay men and lesbians to marry whomever they damned well please. I believe marriage is a torture that should be inflicted on everyone, and that “gay” should not be a state of emotion any longer.
You fagelehs have had it too good for too long! Now get your asses married!
Or when a liberal candidate, such as Hillary Clinton, runs for president, her candidacy is considered a fulfillment of civil rights and women’s suffrage. But when a conservative candidate, such as Sarah Palin, runs for vice president, she’s considered a radical right-wing extremist who could usurp the Capitol by toting rifles at her side.
Errrrrrrrrrrrrrr, Chuck? How are those inconsistent?
If anything, it shows Palin is NOT being judged by the contours of her bra, but by the content of her character!
The double standard in Hollywood is ridiculous, and it goes back for decades. For example, if you fought on one side during World War II, you were a brave soldier liberating Europe from evil. But if you fought on the opposite side, suddenly you’re a “fascist” and a “Nazi.” Stupid liberals!
For a “Conservative tough guy” Norris sure sounds whiny. And he may have been a great martial artist, but he’s a terrible action star. I don’t expect Olivier in my martial arts movie leads, but at least try to project a little emotion or charisma or something. I suspect the only reason he became as big as he was is because there just aren’t many American martial arts actors. Big fish in the small pond I guess.
Oh yeah, gotta keep hetero marriage PURE. For sure!
In the 80′s I read a review of a Chuckie movie. The reviewer said he had “soulless Teddy-bear eyes” behind that awful beard.
f anything, it shows Palin is NOT being judged by the contours of her bra, but by the content of her character!
Tab all over the screen. Kudos, actor212.
D. Sidhe, when I read “safeguard heterosexual purity”, my first thought was, “is that anything like racial purity?”
“In the 80’s I read a review of a Chuckie movie. The reviewer said he had “soulless Teddy-bear eyes” behind that awful beard.”
Can one be wooden and leaden at the same time?
I thought back over my four decades in acting and how the pool of conservative “tough guys” seems to be drying up in Hollywood.
If by “drying up” he means dying of neglect, then, yeah, I can see that.
You fagelehs have had it too good for too long! Now get your asses married!
Exactly. Gays should be made to suffer just like the rest of us.
Let me try an opine (it’s now a noun, I see).
I’ve never seen Invasion USA. But it really can’t be worse thanThe Hero and the Terror can it? Can it???
I thought back over my four decades in acting and how the pool of conservative “tough guys” seems to be drying up in Hollywood.
So, global warming is killing conservatives by exposing them to sunlight? Wow, how ironic!
“For example, if you fought on one side during World War II,”
If you fought on neither side, then you were John Wayne, archetype of the posturing chickenhawk ‘action hero’.
Actually I read “Black Belt Patriotism” and it’s pretty impressive in research and depth. By the way, it’s a New York Times bestseller in its 2nd week. I guess “Walker” is more popular than many here think.
One last point… you missed one point he said…”We must agree to disagree agreeably, without blogging about or denigrating someone’s life and character before the nation and rest of the world. We must do better at keeping the focus on the fact that we are Americans first; we are not just conservatives and liberals.” Looks like virtually everyone on this blog proves his point of intolerance–it’s not just his problem, but yours too. It looks like most here flunk that patriot test. Maybe some day we’ll finally learn how to respect again.
Yes, and popular automatically means “completely credible and rational, not worthy of avoiding or mocking at all”.
For example, Paris Hilton, Carrot Top.
Um…Norris said that banning gay couples from marrying is a way to “safeguard heterosexual purity”. In other words, homosexuals are a pollutant.
That is not an opinion that I, as a gay man, feel obliged to respect. ‘Cause he sure doesn’t seem to have any for me.
I smell a sock puppet.
I’ll consider respecting Mr Norris when he gets his nose out of my love life, stops suggesting I’m a baby-killer, quits saying liberals are unpatriotic, abandons his theory that evolution in schools is responsible for kids killing each other (but guns are perfectly innocent), stops saying that atheists and gays are trying to seduce teenagers, and generally respects me.
He might also have to stop whining about how MEAN the sexual deviant minority is to him and his major religion.
Or, what Bill S. said.
Just for the record, I’m not a “sympathizer.” I am a black belt Commie. Sympathy’s for pussies and Tae Kwon Do green belts.
Actually I read “Black Belt Patriotism” and it’s pretty impressive in research and depth.
You impress rather too easily.
Looks like virtually everyone on this blog proves his point of intolerance–it’s not just his problem, but yours too. It looks like most here flunk that patriot test. Maybe some day we’ll finally learn how to respect again.
Left by Rich Moore on September 30th, 2008
Chum, you don’t want to go flag flying here, son. I can run rings around you AND Norris on that count. I’ve served my country far better than you can possibly imagine, and would (and likely will) do it again.
We are not intolerant of anything except ignorance and knee-jerk chauvinism, like yours, like Norris’. Any asshole who can say this, “Or when a liberal candidate, such as Hillary Clinton, runs for president, her candidacy is considered a fulfillment of civil rights and women’s suffrage. But when a conservative candidate, such as Sarah Palin, runs for vice president, she’s considered a radical right-wing extremist who could usurp the Capitol by toting rifles at her side,” clearly hasn’t given this topic a minute’s thorough thinking through!
And that kind of idiocy is unacceptable in this great nation of ours.
Why do you fucking hate America so, “Richie”, that you’d want us to stoop to the lowest common denominator, just like conservatives have for decades?
or to put it another way, you obtuse ingrate, “Liberals got women the right to vote. Liberals got African-Americans the right to vote. Liberals created Social Security and lifted millions of elderly people out of poverty. Liberals ended segregation. Liberals passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act. Liberals created Medicare. Liberals passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act. What did Conservatives do? They opposed them on every one of those things…every one! So when you try to hurl that label at my feet, ‘Liberal,’ as if it were something to be ashamed of, something dirty, something to run away from, it won’t work, because I will pick up that label and I will wear it as a badge of honor!”
Well said, actor212.
And FlipYrWhig, of course he impresses easily. Why do you think he’s a Chuck Norris fan?
Please, don’t be so harsh on Chuck! I’m a witness for his defense: I had a once-in-a-lifetime hilarious experience watching “Delta Force 3″ surrounded by psychology students!
Strangely, the University’s movie club decided to make a double feature combining that “movie” (well-applied scary quotes here) with a profound psycho-drama (“Hombre mirando al Sudeste”). Or… maybe it was an mind experiment!
I never post here, but I have to ask: When did Chuck Norris become a live-action Ned Flanders:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzE0FOPiaDU ?
There was a “Delta Force 3″?
‘Cause the first two left us with so many unanswered questions.
Sweet Lordy-Gordy, SONNY TUFTS had a better film resume than this guy.
Sorry, it was “Delta Force”.
Gary Sinise looks like a turtle. Apparently he has the political instincts of one, too: scrunch yourself up inside a shell of total denial and mutter about how anyone not totally motivated by fear is un-American.