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...
HOW JOURNALISTS VOTE
■ More than four-fifths of surveyed journalists voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in every election between 1964 and 1976.
■ More than three-fourths of “elite journalists” (76%) said they voted for Michael Dukakis in 1988.
■ 89% of Washington-based reporters said they voted for Bill Clinton in 1992. Only seven percent voted for George Bush, with two percent choosing Ross Perot.
■ An informal survey of Washington-based journalists in the summer of 2004 found them backing John Kerry over George W. Bush by a 12-to-1 margin.
■ In 2008, 96% of staffers at the online Slate magazine said they were supporting Barack Obama for president.
Americans don’t trust them.
Since the news is waning in its value as a friendly liberal bastion, the liberals are retreating to the world of comedy:
Since it was shown on Sunday, an episode of the Fox animated comedy “Family Guy” has drawn the repeated condemnation of Sarah Palin, the former Republican governor of Alaska and 2008 vice-presidential nominee.
In the episode, the teenage character Chris dates a girl named Ellen, who has Down syndrome, and who tells him over dinner that her mother is “the former governor of Alaska.” Ms. Palin, whose son Trig also has Down syndrome, has said that the “Family Guy” show “really isn’t funny” and was the work of “cruel, cold-hearted people.” Ms. Palin’s daughter Bristol has written that the “Family Guy” writers were “mocking my brother and my family,” and called them “heartless jerks.”
One person who supports the “Family Guy” staff is Andrea Fay Friedman, the 39-year-old actor and public speaker who played Ellen in that episode. Like the character, Ms. Friedman also has Down syndrome.
In an e-mail message sent on Thursday to The New York Times, Ms. Friedman wrote:
I guess former Governor Palin does not have a sense of humor. I thought the line “I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska” was very funny. I think the word is “sarcasm.”
In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life.
I don’t know what impresses me more: The borderline-rebellious reaction of the public on the news front, after generations of being told what to think; or the sycophants commenting under the story about Ms. Friedman’s quarrel with the Palin family. I know they’re New York Times readers, but still.
We’re told what to think about what’s going on, and after forty years or so we start to rebel. We’re told what’s funny…and mmmm, more, my compliments to the chef, om nom nom nom.
Look at it objectively: They want to show that the girl has Downs’, so she says “My Mom’s the former Governor of Alaska.” Yuk, yuk. Funny? I suppose some might think so, but what’s with the bullying attitude that everyone else has to do the obligatory guffawing? Does it work the same way if I make fun of Barbra Streisand’s big schnoz?
See, this is how I think it ties in with media bias. Hardcore left-wing liberals, going back quite aways, seem to insist each and every single time on the last word insofar as who’s decent, who’s a jerk, what’s funny and what’s not. So of course if I made fun of an ugly dress worn by one of Barack Obama’s daughters, no, I would not have the right or privilege to order people to laugh at my joke.
Make fun of a prominent Republican and her family, and our liberals, who pride themselves so much on their ability to “think for themselves,” consider us all to be obligated to laugh. You aren’t allowed to say “I don’t think it’s funny but I won’t begrudge someone else a chuckle or two.” Read those comments, that isn’t good enough for them. You have to find it funny or you are not a decent person.
The Media Bias Report shows what happens to this viewpoint when we leave that safe zone of comedy. We get tired of this. We get tired of these pre-canned instructions about who we’re supposed to support, or what we’re supposed to want to have done to our health care system.
But our liberals don’t see it. They give each other orders, and that is how they live their lives. Kind of like ants, really.
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It’s just more Palin-bashing. This episode gives them an opportunity to take a few potshots at someone they already hate.
It’s curious. Palin and her daughter object to a low-blow aimed at their family, and suddenly they “have no sense of humor.” I especially appreciated the moronic post in the comment thread about how she carries Trig around “like a loaf of bread, looking for sympathy and votes.” Last time I checked, Palin isn’t running for anything, so how she supposedly is trolling for anything of the sort is a mystery to me.
Oh wait, I forgot. These people already consider it a foregone conclusion that she’s going to run for president. I think they are confusing her with Hildabeast.
Gah. And speaking of that. Remember when Rush Limbaugh called the then-12-year-old Chelsea Clinton “ugly” and “accidentally” showed a picture of a dog (when referring to her) on his TV show? The media went bollywonkers. Oh, you can’t do that, that’s outside the realm of decent and tasteful humor, they sternly intoned.
But to make a stupid cartoon about one of the Palin kids, one born with a disability at that? Oh hahahahahahahaahah….so funny! Hee hee hee har har har ho ho ho ho. What? Why isn’t everyone laughing? Why are you all such a bunch of wet blankets? Where’s your sense of humor?
I think I laughed harder at my last case of intestinal cramping.
- cylarz | 02/19/2010 @ 11:10By the way, I’m breathlessly anticipating these reporters’ denials that their overwhelming support for Democratic presidential candidates, has anything at all to do with their reporting slant.
- cylarz | 02/19/2010 @ 11:22