tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post4677271711432318725..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-59581602190316315122013-08-27T19:08:48.918-04:002013-08-27T19:08:48.918-04:00Some fool over at IMDB once announced that climate...Some fool over at IMDB once announced that climate change didn't exist because Pixar's <i>Cars</i> made more money than <i>An Inconvenient Truth</i>.<br /><br />But switch the conversation to the performance of <i>Atlas Shrugged Pt II</i>* and suddenly <i>Hollywood homosocialist Jewspiracy Controls Everything!!</i><br /><br />*Where's mah <i>Pt III</i>, chumps?BillyWitchDoctorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14311279565432013472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-86387006769532638962013-08-27T12:07:26.574-04:002013-08-27T12:07:26.574-04:00"Hot Fuzz"? Somehow, I get the feeling ..."Hot Fuzz"? Somehow, I get the feeling that the world is passing me by . . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-25684895971835385152013-08-27T11:46:11.226-04:002013-08-27T11:46:11.226-04:00I actually laughed out loud when I saw that headli...I actually laughed out loud when I saw that headline yesterday. I was going to leave a comment to this effect on NewsMax yesterday--but, of course, NM doesn't have comments.Jim Donahuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04140325442403671800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-56302924101059988292013-08-27T10:38:13.748-04:002013-08-27T10:38:13.748-04:00I love Hot Fuzz. Also: Sean of the dead.
I love Hot Fuzz. Also: Sean of the dead.<br /><br />aimaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03956073425680585780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-91806919053371768842013-08-27T10:25:20.897-04:002013-08-27T10:25:20.897-04:00Yeah,and Hot Fuzz was demonstrating the usefulness...Yeah,and Hot Fuzz was demonstrating the usefulness of recycling old Laurel and Hardy routines. Very British.Dark Avengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02220642215040873632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-35223909243140296312013-08-27T09:55:14.600-04:002013-08-27T09:55:14.600-04:00But I wonder if it will emulate James Bond in '...But I wonder if it will emulate James Bond in 'Free Fall' and go back up to the TOP of the American box office FOUR WEEKS after it opened? Probably not, but then, we Brits know how to make a decent film!<br /><br />(Stand by for incoming!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-39702854738087175642013-08-27T09:49:38.116-04:002013-08-27T09:49:38.116-04:00NBB,
You do just fine! :-)NBB,<br />You do just fine! :-)Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-86088603720310610382013-08-27T09:26:51.314-04:002013-08-27T09:26:51.314-04:00WHAT AIMAI SAID!!!!!
Damn, I wish I were half as ...WHAT AIMAI SAID!!!!!<br /><br />Damn, I wish I were half as perceptive as you.Never Ben Betterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17814767173601107270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-67906381194531848152013-08-27T09:25:10.591-04:002013-08-27T09:25:10.591-04:00Only the chicken hawks have a problem with Fonda.
...Only the chicken hawks have a problem with Fonda.<br /><br />No fear.Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594307610015584119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-8848592766576008792013-08-27T09:11:17.339-04:002013-08-27T09:11:17.339-04:00I tend to look at this stuff more as a way that th...I tend to look at this stuff more as a way that the right wing signals meaning to itself. Akin to the question "are you a glass half full or glass half empty" kind of person? <br /><br />Basically: newsmax and fox infuse everything with a single set of meanings. We are always at war between liberals and conservatives. We are always both winning and losing. We are winning when we say we are winning (he glass is half full) and we are losing when we say we are losing (the glass is half empty and someone else drank my share!). Because there is no information that is out there that doesn't have meaning, isn't infused with a kind of significance, like a sign post pointing the viewer/reader towards action or a feeling.<br /><br />And this goes back to the religious and hermaneutic roots of conservativism. Everything has a meaning, everything as signficance, in the bible and in religious interpretation. The number of petals on a dogwood, the "crown" of apple seeds at the center of the core, the color of a rose--these are all used as signs of God's existence. Similarly the entrails of sheep can be read to forecast the future and, of course, god can be placated by ritualized acts of sacrifice.<br /><br />Not only do these guys still do this explicitly--like Rick Perry praying for Rain--but they do this implicitly by publishing pieces of pop cultural observation (box office scores) as though they were signs of the miraculous intervention of god to show his erring sinners the way, or a rebuke by the god of mammon to liberals.<br /><br />In the paranoid and conservative world view nothing happens by accident. And the task that Fox news takes on is to explain to the viewer why what happens confirms their world view whether that is pessimistic/millenarian/eschatological or upbeat/jingoistic/nationalistic and happy.aimaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03956073425680585780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-25533090564937331702013-08-27T06:28:48.468-04:002013-08-27T06:28:48.468-04:00Murdoch's media empire:
Video, audio, print, a...Murdoch's media empire:<br />Video, audio, print, and internet, snake-oil.<br /><br />And the rubes scream for more, more, MORE!!!<br /><br />Murdoch's no fool.<br />Neither is Ailes.<br />Their 'customers' on the other hand...<br /><br />Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.com