Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
And He isn’t interested in photo ops.
David Limbaugh (via Linkiest):
Oh? In 2004, as senator-elect, he said, “I’m so overexposed I’m making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.” His name or face appeared on half of Time magazine covers in 2008. As of the August 2009 edition, he had appeared on seven Time covers since his election in November 2008. Newsweek featured Obama on 12 of its 2008 issues. Obama marked his first 100 days in office with 300 photos — all of him. On Nov. 25, 2009, Drudge Report had a photo of him leaving the White House holding an issue of GQ magazine with his own picture on the cover. He appeared on “America’s Most Wanted” to commemorate its 1,000th episode. He’s appeared on ESPN, Leno, Letterman, “60 Minutes,” Conan, Oprah and on and on.
How about his claim that he just wants to solve a problem? As exhibits A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L and M, I offer Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the Internal Revenue Service scandal (the FBI hasn’t even interviewed the IRS employees involved), the border invasion, the Department of Veterans Affairs scandal, Obamacare, Iraq, our Marine in Mexico, the deficit, the debt, entitlements, jobs and education. I could go on. This man is not about solving problems but about creating them — unless you believe that America, as founded, is a problem.
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I can believe that he honestly thinks he isn’t interested in photo ops – at least inasmuch as he probably doesn’t care about the photos themselves. They’re just means to an end. If he could be just as incandescently famous as he is without taking pictures with everyone, no doubt he’d do it. So in his mind, the photos are a concession he makes so that everyone else can have the pleasure of a picture of (or with) His Eminence. They can bask in his smilin’ icon. It’s a tiresome service but he shoulders the terrible burden for us, the little people, who so desperately need to love Him.
And that’s how he can be completely sincere about his “I’m not here for photo ops” statement.
- nightfly | 07/11/2014 @ 07:15Well said. Britney Spears and Kim Kardashian and Kanye West also “hate” it when paparazzi surround them, snapping away, while they carry out the most mundane activities of life. But hey, people seem to want pictures of famous folks grocery shopping or walking their dogs or whatever, and you’ve got to give the people what they want. They owe it to their fans.
- Severian | 07/11/2014 @ 07:53Fascinating, too, that everyone forgets we went through all this once before, in the 1990s. Bill Clinton was on the cover of everything, too, and does anyone doubt that he’d have killed it on Twitter? He was JFK reincarnated, as I recall, and worse yet, he was better at politics than Obama has ever even dreamed possible (say what you will about the media’s messianic O-worship, but no reporter ever offered to suck his dick on national tv “just to thank him for keeping abortion legal”).
There’s nothing new under the sun. Obama is just a shitty knockoff Clinton, which means we’re due for a shitty knockoff George W. Bush in 2016. Yay Jeb.
- Severian | 07/11/2014 @ 07:57And yet we never get our shitty knockoff Reagan or shitty knockoff Coolidge, dammit. Well, OK, maybe George H Bush was that. And then shitty knockoff TR came along (Ross Perot) and just like the original helped usher in Woodrow Wilson, the duplicate ushered in the Celebrity Presidency. Lord deliver us from the crass and shallow world we labored so mightily to build for ourselves.
- nightfly | 07/11/2014 @ 11:12