Comments on: The No-Talent Show

By: rmp

rmp — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:16:15 +0000

Tina Fey Does Sarah Palin At Ad Council Dinner (video)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/20/tina-fey-does-sarah-palin_n_366010.html

By: cocktailhag

cocktailhag — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:09:22 +0000

Thanks for adding richness and documentation to what I couldn’t have made up if I tried, sysprog. The research department here at CHNN is notoriously lax, but when somebody calls Hannity “academic,” we stop the presses. I was rendered uncharacteristically speechless when I heard it; that’s why it took so long for it to turn up here.

By: sysprog

sysprog — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:00:45 +0000

Academic?!?

Did Murdoch actually say that?
Yes. Here’s the clip.
__________
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7GkJqRv3BI#t=17m35

“Hannity – - very clearly, you know, a pretty academic conservative”
__________

So . . . then . . . what did Murdoch mean?
__________
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/academic

ac·a·dem·ic
Pronunciation: \ˌa-kə-ˈde-mik\
Variant(s): ac·a·dem·i·cal \-mi-kəl\
Function: adjective
Date: 1588

1 : of, relating to, or associated with an academy or school especially of higher learning

2 : of or relating to literary or artistic rather than technical or professional studies

3 : having no practical or useful significance

4 : conforming to the traditions or rules of a school (as of literature or art) or an official academy
__________

Murdoch must’ve been thinking of definition # 3.

By: cocktailhag

cocktailhag — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:54:12 +0000

Now I want to go see that cheesy movie, sysprog. The destruction scenes looked awesome. Of course, the Palin part I could do without, but it’s a nice juxtaposition.

By: sysprog

sysprog — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:39:15 +0000

Bridge to Nowhere
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZB2RVcDTq8

By: cocktailhag

cocktailhag — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:46:40 +0000

I just watched that Beck Florida (retirement home) speech. I think we have a bumfight for 2012: Beck, Dobbs, Palin…. Gibbon would be aghast at the tawdry collapse of our empire, but as a liberal I say, “Bring it on.”

By: timothy3

timothy3 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:38:25 +0000

Unfortunately for the long-suffering news consumer, the trajectory of “talent” is always downward; witness the NYT’s slide from Safire to Brooks to Kristol to Douthat… who’s next, Drudge? Britney Spears?

Yes indeedy. If you were a high school teacher (which I was for a short time) what sort of grade would you give Palin’s statement–even as a statement of candidacy for high school president?
And that’s a pretty fair analysis of Beck’s role at Fox. But he reads a lot of history, he tells us,

And (progressives) thought, “you know what, if we just do this and this and this and this, over time if we do it in both the Republican and Democratic parties, we will have our socialist utopia.”

so we’ve been put on notice that he’ll soon deliver his “100 Year Plan” to cure what ails us.

If we see “Palin/Beck 2012″ bumper stickers (which we will), we’ll know the Mayans were right.
(By the way, I see I beat NailheadTom to the punch here as first responder [as we Homeland Security supporters say].)

By: cocktailhag

cocktailhag — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:21:32 +0000

She doesn’t have to say it. Let David Gregory or Gwen Ifill do that. Perhaps it’s possible that they understand something in those jumbles of words we don’t, but I give them no such credit.
I’m thinking of a “Palin/Churchill: Separated at Birth” series. Take a Palin quote and a Churchill one side by side, and have the audience guess which is which.

By: timothy3

timothy3 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:14:17 +0000

I’m scared too, mostly that that woman has a driver’s license.

And here’s Palin’s undeniably Churchillian pitch for the presidency:

I believe that I am (qualified) because I have common sense, and I have, I believe, the values that are reflective of so many other American values. And I believe that what Americans are seeking is not the elitism, the kind of a spinelessness that perhaps is made up for that with some kind of elite Ivy League education and a fact resume that’s based on anything but hard work and private sector, free enterprise principles. Americans could be seeking something like that in positive change in their leadership.

And then, perhaps realizing how much she sounds like an elite Ivy Leaguer with that incoherent run-on sentence, she adds

I’m not saying that has to be me.