The Gingrich campaign was just a weird horrible mess, but one of the weirdest thing about it was the way that it kept pushing Calista into the limelight?
Newt's adultery and callous disposal of his previous wives is one of the easiest things to dislike about the guy. People who don't follow politics know that he divorced two wives, one of whom was in the hospital with cancer, after cheating with the subsequent wife. But they kept holding out Calista, like America was just going to fall in love with the helmet-haired little owlface if we just got a chance.
I saw his stand-up act a few years ago, and it was pretty charming.
- Everyone was nice.
- They did not, in fact, go back and forth in time- that was all special effects.
- The poop tasted awful, and actually led to a new SAG regulation that Guild members cannot be forced to eat poop. (They may still volunteer to eat poop.)
- He is deeply ashamed of losing his fights with Crispin Glover and Michael J. Fox, and of losing each subsequent rematch. At the time that I saw him, he reported that he could beat up mushrooms and limbless dogs.
- He is not a rapist in real life. However, you can catch him as a sexual harasser in the upcoming STARVING GAMES.
You can jump right in, but you might be irritated that themes about Johnson (which have been built up and amply supported in previous books) are just flatly declared to be true. It's not Caro's fault; he just can't rewrite everything.
It also would help to have some kind of grounding about how the major political parties used to be much more regional/ less ideological, as it will help you understand why the 60s Democrats and Republicans behaved so differently from modern Democrats and Republicans.
While I have no trouble believing that Chevy Chase can be insufferable, Dan Harmon mocking him at a public event had to bring back painful memories of his roast. That has to be OH MY GOD THE B IN APARTMENT 23 PLEASE GOD NO I TRUSTED YOUgggggggggggggg
This seriously got me so mad I was sputtering last night. Newt Fucking Gingrich demanding an apology- from Obama!- for a joke from Robert DeNiro for dividing the country.
Newt Motherfucking "Obama Is The Food Stamps President" "Obama Is Motivated By Kenyan Anticolonialism" "Latinos and Blacks Don't Understand Entrepreneurship" "I Would Tell the NAACP To Demand Paychecks and Not Be Satisfied With Food Stamps" Gingrich.
Fuck that guy. I want a call from him to apologize for raising my blood pressure.
"I'm no different from you. I don't have a particular favorite, but I have always enjoyed wires, and the wires here in Sandusky, Ohio are some of the finest wires in this great nation! " - Mitt Romney
It would be interesting to compare the size of the annual tax cut that Mitt Romney is proposing for himself vs. the federal assistance to that town. I wonder if it's bigger or smaller.
Do the friends and family of celebrities generally call them by the stage names or their birth names? In the Pixies documentary loudQUIETloud, you saw that Frank Black's family calls him "Charles."
Furthermore, what will companies learn about their incentives if their small steps toward liberal goals are smacked around by conservatives, but ignored or smirked at by liberals? It'll make it that much harder and less likely the next time if JC Penny doesn't get some good publicity and extra sales out of this.
You know what is unfortunate? That any asshole with a fax machine and an email account can declare themselves an interest group and get a bunch of press if they touch a hot-button issue in a sufficiently stupid way. For some reason, I never forgot the dumbass make-believe group that protested against an episode of "Mighty Mouse" that supposedly showed Mighty Mouse snorting cocaine (he was smelling a flower), and the dumbass make-believe group that got upset that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has villains named Bebop and Rocksteady, since those are traditionally black musical genres.
These were stupid, stupid complaints! A proper media would filter out the ignorant complaints of dumbass nobodies, not make them into national news stories! Do the "Million Moms" represent anyone? Who gave a flying fuck about the group ten days ago?
Argh. Pave the world, Mayans; we're done with it.
I dunno, I could sure go for 100 tacos right now.
(Seriously, it was awesome to see a reporter challenge a smug little shit politician in real time, instead of just taking his statement and then later reporting that "some in the Latino community have called the Mayor's comments 'offensive...'"
I can't watch this video, so I only generally get the idea of what's happening. But I'm giggling at the thought that they have a scenario where dudes land on Megan Fox Island, and are so thrilled. Then for the "something for the ladies" portion of the commercial, they land on Mike Tyson Island. Yay!
The Democrats only had a filibuster-proof majority for fourteen weeks, not two years. And that majority was hostage to the whims of the most right-wing non-Republicans: Joe Lieberman, Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln and Max Baucus. He _never_ got everything he wanted.
http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/09/about-filibuster-proof-majority
If Zooey Deschanel's mom was on Twin Peaks, and Rashida Jones' mom was on Twin Peaks, it stands to reason that Alison Brie's mom was on Twin Peaks. We'll get our top IMDB scientists on it.
Absolutely true fact: I went to Northwestern and graduated before Zooey enrolled, but I had a younger friend who used to eat in her cafeteria and saw her all the time. According to him, she was obviously extremely pretty, but she wore a ton of eyeshadow, was very pale, and wore dark clothes all the time. His friends called her "Dead Girl" (not to her face), but he had a crush on her. He never talked to her.
I really, really wish that I could be logged into Facebook and logged into Videogum (as Clambone) at the same time without one kicking the other out. I don't want a bunch of dumb comments under my real name strung all over the internet, and it's a pain to switch back and forth every time I want to make a comment, so I end up just not commenting. I appreciate the desire to grow the site, and I appreciate the swell giveaways, but that's a big net negative.
I really like the "Here are some links" thing every day. Good job, Kelly.
I wish that there was a periodic Gabe and Max video of some sort, even when a third party isn't supporting it.
I miss the Worst Movies Of All Time.
I can't ever watch videos at work. The commentary usually speaks for itself and is pretty funny even if you haven't watched the video, but when there's just a video with little or no commentary, it doesn't mean anything to me. Poor me.
Great job, generally. Would read again.
You have to appreciate the purity of vision at Fox and Friends. They just do not give 1/100 of a percent of a shit if anyone outside of their target audience finds them appealing or persuasive.
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