An “OPEN” Letter to Henry Rollins
by Greg GutfeldDear Henry,
I used to think you were pretty cool – way back when you fronted the greatest punk band ever (The Vandals), and well before you became a tedious purveyor of the “spoken word.” But now I see you for what you truly are – a wuss. Roll tape.
I just read your open letter to Ann Coulter – the one where you ask her to work for you as a way to teach her tolerance – and so she’ll “shut the f*ck up.”
No contradiction there.
But I suppose this is how you define yourself as “edgy,” being five years or so too late in your feeble swing at the go-to punching bag for the predictable progressive hack. Calling her “girlfriend?” Referring to her “one thousand yard stare?” Replacing “man” with Ann? You’ve left no cliche unturned. Something tells me, though, your audience still laps it up. See, you don’t just preach to the choir – you give it a reach around.
During your rant, you tell Ann, “you used to be funny,” mocking her “silly books,” and on her career you wonder, “where can it go from here?”
The same can all be said for you (except the “used to be funny” part). And something tells me this is more about you, than her. Look, Ann doesn’t need me to defend her, and I’m not. I just need to tell everyone – in my own, thoughtful open letter – why you’re so bent out of shape by her.
You’re a wuss.
Last night, the great comic Jim Norton pointed it out to me: you’re a wannabee comedian who avoids the risk of being a comedian. Instead, you hide behind this “spoken word” schtick. That way if no one laughs, it wasn’t supposed to be funny anyway. Castratos have more balls.
One thing you have to give Ann – she ventures into enemy territory. You don’t. And that’s why you hate Coulter – because she’s better at being you, than you are. She’s not a comedian – she’s a raconteur – and sells more books in a sneeze than you will ever do in a lifetime. So maybe attacking Coulter, you think, might gain some cache at the daily Kos.
Forget your music – this is what makes you truly, a punk.
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Rollins was the front-man for Black Flag, not the Vandals.
Nice post. I think, however, that Rollins was the lead singer of Black Flag, before his solo career.
“You don’t just preach to the choir, you give it a reach around” Oh God I wish I had thought of that line!!!
Greg, what sewers do you have to wade through to even find this stinking piece of crap? You are spot on re: this never-was hack. The ghost of Johnny Ramone wouldn’t piss on this guy if he was on fire.
i’ve seen his act. eerily similar to kathy griffin. only i suspect rollins would look better in a dress.
Holy Crapfest, Batman! That “letter” reads like the ravings of a demented stalker. If Rollins thinks that’s some kind of political commentary, all that imagery sounds more like his own late night musings with a bottle of Astroglide and a box of tissues.
Yikes.
FYI: Rollins, you are definitely too old to be called a punk anymore, but you sure aren’t a rebel either. Conformity to the eunuch brigade is the path to irrelevancy.
Dayum, I heard that slap down all the way through my monitor!
Next Please!
Dear Greg,
You rock. I mean it. Swear to God. Rollins is such a dolt that I completely forgot he used to be a musician. Doesn’t that make him a “has been?” To me, he will always be a “never was.” Personally, I think that was a love letter to Ann from a sad, pathetic excuse of a z-list “please remember me” celebrity who just loves her blond hair, groovy boots & sharp wit. Love your show. By the way, what does the sign “Warning, think cover” mean? Keep up the great work. We need more voices like yours. =^^=
Rollins’s is one of those people who believed that his success in music and the ability of his targeted audience to identify with his sexist views made him a natural to move to liberal commentator. He is little more than a child — someone hiding behind the muscles, the promotion of abuse of women and violence against society as a mechanism to hide his insecurities.
He fails to understand (or appreciate) that his gift as a talented musician does not translate into his commentating skills. As with most in Hollywood, throughout the political spectrum, their opinions are not sought after. Henry — STFU.
Rollins, an ex-neighbor of mine, wasn’t even the best lead singer for Black Flag.
That’d be Keith.
Anyway, real brave going after Coulter. I’d like to see him try and debate her face to face. Dude would get pwned hard
Well said, as usual Greg. I used to like Henry too, but sadly, he’s become a mere gutter-snipe pandering to the left. Is it me, or in his video, did he appear to have a slight tint of green to his face. Envy, I wonder? At least Ann has the balls to say what she believes. It’s pretty risky for Rollins to attack her, isn’t it, considering how many friends Ann has in the media. I suppose when you haven’t been very successful recently at spoken-word poetry, acting, or writing, you have to resort to caveman-like fantasies.
Nice. Very nice. It’s difficult to capture, in a nutshell, the problem with Rollins.
He’s become self-satisfied and quite the pseudo-intellectual.
His comeuppance is deserved and past due.
I’ve thought Henry Rollins is a moronic douche for some time now. That is until I read Greg Gutfeld’s take on him. Now I see that stupidity is relative.
An “Open” Comment to Greg “Poseur” Gutfeld,
Well I guess if Henry is a wuss, then that makes you a douche, since you committed a major fact check error in your opening sentence. Although The Vandals did have some decent material, they were not Black Flag, and to state that Henry Rollins was in The Vandals is utterly ridiculous.
Get a clue and perhaps your listening to too much disco music,
T.
See, you don’t just preach to the choir – you give it a reach around.
Hahahahahahahaha!!!!
OMG, I am so stealin’ that.
Yes, and a “wee little” punk at that!
Black Flag… not the Vandals.
Hear, hear…
If I were not already married, and you addicted to house boys, I would take you on an exotic vacation. Like to a motel in Nebraska.
You rock.
This is like listening to a 14 year old with his first Playboy.
Does he really think we want to watch his verbal masturbation? Henry really ought to let his writings rest overnight before hitting the publish button.
“Well I guess if Henry is a wuss, then that makes you a douche”
This bold, witty and creative insult is among the best I have ever seen on the web.
owned.
Bravo.
Henry who?
You nailed it! Of course, Henry was actually in the Sex Pistols…followed by a short stint with the Clash. He decided he should go, instead of stay.
I’m sure that as someone who is actually capable of being funny, it must offend you to have tools like this do these things. The worst part? I bet he actually thinks it’s funny. And his “friends” are probably afraid to tell him otherwise.
exceedingly good greg and completely dead on. thanks for the joy this justified and necessary evisceration gave me.
OMG I just about wet myself when I read that … Ironically that one line may be the biggest B-slap in the entire piece.
I too used to be a fan of Rollins (back in the “vandals” days too *snicker*).
But like most leftists (especially punk rock leftists) he confuses snarky intolerance for wit.
Geez, only the biggest tools of liberals would even think of the video as slightly funny or creative.
Dukowski and Ginn carried his ass anyway.
He’s a tired hack. Going from generation to generation and trying to remain relevant. Leftists are just pissed that they fell for it, but the rest of us still think for ourselves. STFU, Hank.
Unfortunately, Henry Rollins has been a two dimensional cut out of shock factor for the last couple of years. In a sense he sold out his being “out there” when he came in to work at IFC. He makes dysfunctional commercial.
True, Greg. Plus I have a feeling that if Coulter moved in with Rollins, he’d be surprised which one would be the servile one.
(And it is impressive how he makes menacing sexual references. But that is OK, he’s liberal.)
Nice smackdown.
Giving the choir a reach around? I heard that Rick Warren spit out his Kwanzaa cake when Rahm Emanuel read that to him at Invocation rehearsal.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for saying this. Henry Rollins hasn’t been relevant for oh, I don’t know, about 15 years now. I love little Jimmy Norton’s comment also. Perfect. Henry Rollins is a total load and a complete asshat.
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Rollins is an angry, lefty, has-been entertainer who is struggling with the reality of his irrelevance.
Like you, I enjoyed his music back when I was a teenager. Black Flag was one of the many punk bands I blared from my radio as I went through my growing pains (along with DRI, Circle Jerks, Dead Kennedys…yes, I do have some street cred).
Thankfully, unlike Henry, I grew up.
Oh man. So that’s how it’s done. Remind me to stay on your good side, Greg.
Gutfeld,
you ROCK. Red Eye and Brit Hume (erp, Bret Baier, erp, sp?, Special Report) are the only two shows I vcr and watch religiously.
Joe Escalante is the only real punk left
Gut – What a brutal, concise and well deserved take down of Rollins. That guy was insufferable as Black Flag’s vocalist and has become a self centered pissant.
Wuss and a jerk.
Shabbat Shalom.
Gutfeld, you make me laugh. Which is a good thing because I growing weary of strangling. I literally cannot stand huge swaths of human beings anymore. I daydream of turning into AH-Nold and mowing people down with a chain gun ala Predator and T-2. Rollins would be somewhere in that pink mist – so thank you Gutty, and liberals, er communists thank Gutty too.
Very accurate portrayal of the cheap shot taken at Ann Coulter by Henry Rollins.
Rollins continues to revel in the well-accepted and worn tactics of the liberal far left.
I would be willing to wager, and with great confidence, that Greg would not say these words to Henry Rollins’ face. Which is pretty much all you need to know both about the screed and the ‘television personality’ who wrote it.
Dear Greg,
I’d say that you used to be funny, but I have no idea who you are. I’m starting to think that Big Hollywood allows anybody to blog here, as long as they are on the RIGHT.
Let me set a little bit of this straight. Henry Rollins fronted Black Flag, not the Vandals.
He was not years behind in taking a swipe at Coulter. Your You Tube clip is almost 3 years old. And besides, as long as Coulter is still swinging wildly, people will still swing back.
Spoken word and stand up comedy are not the same thing. Jim Norton should know that, even if you don’t but since the right seems to favor Larry the Cable Guy, Jim may be a little frustrated with where he fits in at this point. Maybe another round table show with Patrice and an embarrassed looking Artie Lang will be picked up. But I’m not posting to slam Jim Norton; he seems like a nice guy; supports the troops and all that and may not be aware or particularly pleased that you are using something he may or may not have said to bolster your Henry Rollins is wuss argument. (does anybody still say wuss?)
Henry Rollins is not everybody’s cup of tea and needless to say either is Ann Coulter. But if you are going to do a hack job on your blog, get your facts right. If Henry Rollin’s open letter says more about him than about Coulter as you claim… then dare I say that your reference to the “reach around” says more about you than it does Rollins. But as a liberal, I have no problem with you being gay.
Elaine
That man is a piece of trash. No tolerance is right for some people, but mostly for him.
So-called “progressives”–”edgy”? Since when? Statism has probably around since the caveman with the biggest club decided he was king of the ruling class and that all the other cave people needed to “spread the wealth” by giving him their best woolly-mammoth skins and sabretooth-tiger-tusks. You know, for the Good of the Cave.
Who’s Henry Rollins? I think Ann Coulter could kick his a$$.
“See, you don’t just preach to the choir – you give it a reach around.”
Priceless, yet I feel your are doing the same thing here…
Greg,
So on target with Rollins. I remember watching him way back during the 92 election on Politically Incorrect on Comedy Central. Maher built his appearance up all night at the closing of election night I believe it was. Being 22 and naive at the time I was pumped for his spoken word on the election. When he finally took stage (at that time PI looked like a local cable access studio) what a let down. A five minute rambling, incoherent, mess of a diatribe. Pathetic. Spoken word my ass…that was it for me. Stick to Black Flag pal. And now nearly twenty years later he is still at wuss LIAR!!!!
Keep em coming Greg. By the way you needed more air time on Fox New Years. Hemer could have used you to step in for his frozen ass.
It does get better and better, doesn’t it? The youtube clip is three years old. And Greg, in a failed move to establish a little street cred, doesn’t even know the name of the band Rollins was in. (While calling the wrong band the best punk band ever. Heh.)
“Castratos have more balls.”
Ann has more balls.
Ain’t it the truth.
you just had rollins with a nice chianti and some fava beans. owned!
Well said, Greg. I can recall that at some point he had a music video on MTV and he was in the movie Johnny Mnemonic (it takes real “talent” to make the acting performances of Dolph Lundgren and Ice T look Oscar worthy in comparison). He has truly failed to be funny or edgy in his open letters. Perhaps if he was slightly less predictable than a baby in a blender, someone might force a laugh for his benefit.
See, you don’t just preach to the choir – you give it a reach around.
I think WE ALL wish we’d thought of that!
God don’t you people ever watch Red Eye??? Greg knows his music and his bands..he is being funny by the band/siger mix up…jeez…you mock him for not doing proper research and then you don’t…
Greg…awesome as usual…you keep me coming back!
That is hucking filarious. Good Job Greg!
You hit the nail right on the head Greg, really good article.
Way to be a gentleman Rollins, just because she’s a better human being than you….
SHAZZING!!!
Somebody hand me a towel.
I forever will be a fan of Rollins ban (well at least the work before “Weight”). And much of his early spoken word (smoking the filter era) is great stuff which would fall in line more as comedy/life experience, Hanks letter falls in line with his traditional style and prose, but its lacking in the depth of his previous work. It was too easy, and thats what makes it wussy, not so much the content, but the choice of such an easy target.
For the record, I believe Rollins first band was State of Alert, and then he joined Black Flag.
Rollins is cooler than Mann ever will be.
Question is – why does Mann have a manly Adam’s Apple and large hands? Is her real name Lola?
Katie, you’re far too kind. And no, no one watches Red Eye.
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Tried to post this before, comments are kinda wacky on here today, hopefully it’ll work this time…I saw Rollins on VHI’s 100 greatest hard rock songs sometime this past week, offering guest commentary, and he was prominently wearing a t-shirt advertising IAVA.org. I don’t know anything about them beyond their website, but from that, they seem to be a pretty straightforward “Support the Troops” kinda group. Between that, and his general attitude, I always figured Rollins for a Nugent-esque pro-defense libertarian type, not a liberal.
Anyone know anything about the IAVA, whether they’ve got any sort of hidden agenda that isn’t evident from their website?
Priceless, yet I feel your are doing the same thing here…
Hardly.
He’s barely massaging my thigh, the bastard.
Oh that video was a piece of work and so is he… Ya think he has a problem with women in general??? A He was in Black Flag Greg don’t ya know hehe They’ll get used to you give it time!
Ok, that clip was just plain stupid.
>>I’d say that you used to be funny, but I have no idea who you are. I’m starting to think that Big Hollywood allows anybody to blog here, as long as they are on the RIGHT.<>Let me set a little bit of this straight. Henry Rollins fronted Black Flag, not the Vandals.<<
Probably a joke… if he is calling the Vandals the greatest punk band ever, don’t you think he’d at least know who the lead singer was, or at least who it WASN’T?
CAUSE HE’S A LIAR!
Let me try this again… it got rid of part of my comment…
>>I’d say that you used to be funny, but I have no idea who you are. I’m starting to think that Big Hollywood allows anybody to blog here, as long as they are on the RIGHT.<<
What part of Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld on the Fox News Channel don’t you understand?
Again Greg I am laughing my ass off at everyone of those above who thought they were correcting you regarding Rollins on the Vandals. You really dragged a bunch this time and it is always funny. I guess I always imangine some noodle head at the key board with pursed lips saying “Oh, that is just incorrect. It is my duty to correct it as I have no other life”.
I want to like this website, but commentary like this makes it more difficult.
The video clip is 2 1/2 years old, which makes your reference to Rollins being years late sound foolish.
Also, which is it – are the Vandals the greatest punk band ever or is Black Flag? Nevermind answering, my point is that you come across as as much of a hack that you are painting Rollins to be when you can’t even get the name of his old band straight. If you can’t even get that right, how are you even qualified to declare any punk band the “greatest ever” and if you are just making stuff up and getting basic facts wrong, why should I pay attention? Answer: I shouldn’t.
Rollins is past his heyday and I sure don’t agree with his politics but having met the man years ago more at the peak of his career, I can say that he treated me (a nobody) very respectfully and gave me more of his time than was necessary. I thought that was very classy of the guy. Taking cheap shots at someone else taking cheap shots (and I don’t excuse cheap shots he’s taken) doesn’t exactly advance your cause in my mind.
Fabulous and if you disagree, then sir, you are worse than Hitler!!!
“Let me set a little bit of this straight. Henry Rollins fronted Black Flag, not the Vandals.”
I’m genuinely curious. When jokes fly over your head, do you hear any noises?
Finally, someone says what I’ve been thinking for along time. That Henry Rollins is nothing more than a poser. Good for you Greg.
“agnosticj – January 9th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Rollins was the front-man for Black Flag, not the Vandals.”
haha.. again people, try and watch the show Redeye and maybe we can avoid this type of post from happening EVERY single time Gutfeld posts. Maybe you should stop listening to your brand new copy of Chinese Democracy from the seminal band The Doors, and use your time to bone up on Gutfeld! By the way, the Doors Frontman- David Bowie, really sounds good on this album!
Yes, Greg. Yes.
I’m sure Henry Rollins is crestfallen that the fat, washed-up former editor of Maxim doesn’t find him cool anymore.
Nick
Paul Rieckhoff, the founder of IAVA is an Iraq veteran that is hostile to the Bush Administration and the War in Iraq. He is supportive of issues facing the troops, but he is not without a political agenda, and an axe to grind, in some respects.
Great blog, Greg and I agree with you 100%!
I think the next 4 years are going to be interesting as it appeares that certain people are going to be attacking anyone that’s even slightly to the right of them without any reservations whether they are correct or not while the mainstream media supports their every move.
I’d like to be living under a rock for the next 4 years, but doing nothing is almost as bad as being one of the people attacking the right for just opposing their view of the way things should be.
Oh well.
Wow! He sure has some sorta itch to mount Ann for dominance.
Rollins’ letter says more about him than it does about Ann Coulter. I’m not even an Ann Coulter fan, but I can admit she has more balls than that sniveling little wanna-be-relevant chump.
Of course Rollin’s wasn’t in the Vandals. The Gut KNOWS that. Do all of you people really not get it or are you being intentionally obtuse?
Roidneck Rollins.
Read a little Joseph Campbell and thenceforth pronounced himself “deep.”
Otherwise operates on rock-star autopilot, parrots all the easy and safe political positions.
Henry Rollins gave up his punk credentials when he started doing spoken word.
It appears that Greg has the band name wrong and if the clip is almost 3 years old, then he was only 2 years late (Greg said 5).
No matter.
Henry Rollins is a such a parody that someone with enough time on their hands could no doubt assemble and edit 90 minutes of his clips together and it would be a rockumentary of unintentional comedy on par with Spinal Tap.
I’ve always said that only on MTV and in Rolling Stone could Marilyn Manson be considered an intellectual. Well if MTV and Rolling Stone won’t even consider you an intellectual (maybe they do, I avoid both like the plague ridden rats they are) that’s REALLY something.
I would presume then that any Henry Rollins record would not be considered for great ‘conservative’ music. Still laughing at that post, GG. I’ve said enough about that weenie Rollins.
Cheers.
Rollins gave up his punk credentials when he started doing spoken word.
Hell the only good thing he has done in the last decade is re-release DEVO’s Shout album.
NOTE to all you wannabe COPY EDITORS pointing out the Vandals/Black Flag thing:
Gutfeld did that on purpose. Watch RedEye, he does it all the time and laughs his face off. If he’s ripping on Elton John, he’ll say, “Elton, you showed promise back when you sang for Genesis, but …”
I laughed, I cried, I yelled, and I screamed.
I loved this.
Henry Rollins is a tool.
Greg I hope you ARE gay… cuz I LOVE YOU!!!
“It’s Black Flag not The Vandals!!!!!!”
Sheer genius.
You’re killin’ me!!!
Killin’ me!!!!!
To the people who keep pointing out the obvious fact that Henry was the frontman of Black Flag and not The Vandals….Greg was being sarcastic.
Ryan,
Thanks for translating Greg’s — sorry, ‘the Gut’ — sarcasm. Seems a little obscure. But bad writing has a way of burying comic intentions.
Now as to the age of the clip itself….
Elaine, You didn’t need to tell us you were a liberal. It was pretty obvious.
Greg’s ‘vandals’ slip was obviously not a slip…he was taking a shot…and greg is far more punk rock than henry rollins…
“It was also a subculture that scornfully rejected the political idealism and Californian flower-power silliness of hippie myth.”
Greg well done as usual although If you check your punk rock research guide it was Mike Ness who fronted the vandals with their big hit “London Calling”. Henry Rollins was the drunmmer from Maroon 5 when they did their amazing show at the “Jones town Live free or die” festival
“See, you don’t just preach to the choir – you give it a reach around.” Greg, I suppose what you lack in self awareness you make up in ironic statements. Keep speaking truth to power!
Who is this lame? Just another lib with a spewage mouth that has an internet connection…big deal..but at least he is paying attention to Ann Coulter and taking time out of his washed up day to let everyone know…lame
Loved Henry when he was with Black Flag and even some of his early “spoken word” stuff. Sorry to see he’s become a hack for the fashionable left.
Rollins’ best work was with Blink 182, before he joined Limp Bizkit.
For a 50 year old man with a thyroid problem, he does an amazing imitation of the Diane Arbus scowling retarded grenade boy.
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Greg you are the man. I was wondering when someone was going to put this tool back in the box!!! I guess old Henry must be starving for attention since IFC cancelled his lame show and found a chance to get some by jumping on Ms. Coulter coat tails. For the record, FEAR was the best 80’s punk band.
I would send him a copy of her new book but I think he took enough money off of me when I was a kid and I bought his albums.
Cheers,
Sean
Olympia, Washington
He was excellent in Johnny Nuemonic with Kauanu.
Harley:
Yeah, and Rollins is an even tougher guy going after Ann Coulter in print. He’s almost as tough as those limp-wristed liberal boys (aren’t they all?) who attacked Coulter on stage with pies. Of course, as I recall, due to their limp-wristed nature, they missed her from point blank range. But yeah, Rollins is a real tough guy.
I’m guessing that those of you “correcting” Greg on the Black Flag/Vandals thing don’t know Greg or RedEye. That’s his schtick. Congratulations, those of us that know Greg and his ways, are all chuckling at you wrestling that tar baby.
Greg,
Who is Henry Rollins? No, really…who is he?
I had to go to Dictionary.com for “raconteur.” Thank you, Greg Gutfeld, for enhancing my vocabulary.
LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER!
I had to go to Dictionary.com for “raconteur.” Thank you, Greg Gutfeld, for enhancing my vocabulary.
The desire to silence dissenting opinions is a sign of insecurity with one’s own viewpoint(s).
Greg, you are my hero. I never miss an ep of Red Eye.
I can’t take a critique seriously where one man calls another a wuss and a punk. Pretty feeble.
I know he’s trying to be funny, but how come he, and Left-Libs in general, can’t do a sarcastic shtick without dropping the ‘F’ bomb?
Good response, though Rollins was, of course, actually lead singer for the Bay City Rollers.
And this has been dunce has the audacity to refer to Ann as a fascist? I am always amused how the left thinks of small government folks as fascists. But then to understand the left, simply think the opposite of what they are saying, and there you have it.
Henry Rollins once came across as a real bad ass,
now he’s just an ass.
Elaine,
What f’n planet did you just arrive from? Or maybe it’s just me and I don’t get your quick, liberal humor…
For all those a little slow on the up-take here, the Vandals comment was a slam. Greg knows the asshat was in BF. As for Rollins, he likes to make comments about crap, but won’t admit it in public, (see youtube clip of his view on Scientology}. He did an interview on an Austrailian program, this also may be on youtube, where he said when visiting the troops he stayed in one of the Hussein boy’s beds, and there were all the chains and things where Uday? strung up the women to rape them. Then he tells about how he visits the troops, he supports them, but thinks the war is stupid. Uh, dude, you just mentioned you stayed in a rape room, and you think it was a GOOD idea for the Husseins to stay in power?? He is such an idiot. Norton is a comedian, this guy is a tool.
I guess the Vandals joke went over my head because it would be pure stupidity for a person that writes an article about Henry Rollins not only preaching to the choir but giving it a “reach around” to use humor that only his small viewing audience would recognize.
So, is Greg in fact preaching to his own choir…giving all of you “fans” a reach around, or is he just ignorant about Rollins? Either way- lame.
BTW- how about changing that error message to “You’re posting too liberal- Slow Down” Nah, I know the site is just as buggy for you right wingers too!
Nothing bad about a good reach around. You ought to try it sometime. Maybe it will calm you down.
Rollins talking about politics is as painful as it gets – he is clearly an intellectual lightweight who, like so many in Hollywood, is under the delusion that his opinion is worth something. What a coward he is.
I just trashed all his CDs and the ones that were next to them. Well Said Greg.
EWWWWWWWWW Agent J had to mention Kathy Griffen….gag. Good one about the ghost of Johnny Ramone. I always thought Rollins was a total whack job putz and this idiotic rant proves it.
I am so glad you brought him to task because the fact of the matter is he should have just stuck with music!Just a little supergay FYI:Henry now blogs for Vanity Fair!Vanity Fn’ Fair!The 1982 Black Flag/Henry Rollins would have taken a lead pipe and beaten himself to death if he’d known what he’d become.Lame.
I notice he doesn’t mention anything about when buddyhead posted pictures of him exposing himself to someone on his webcam. Classy guy that Henry Rollins.
tuckerfleeced, agnostic elaine & pete
Sounds like like a 70s supergroup aka The Doofuses
Man, where did you learn your band history?
Rollins, half-nephew to legendary guitarist Albert Collins, fronts The Vandals, by way of Green Day after a stint with Martha and The Vandalers.
@James Hudnall: Hey, there are some old punks still kicking it around over at the Conservative Punk message boards.
Wait. What? ConPunk? That’s, like, an oxymoron. Well, now, there are certainly some Conservative (or Libertarian, or right-of-center) punk bands out there (NOFX, for one).
See what I did there? Good play, Mr. Gutfeld.
Henry Rollins is still alive, and why should we care??? Greg, I like your work a lot, but why waste space on a piece of crap like Rollins, unless it is Sonny Rollins. Maybe you could given a shout out and props to the late Ron Asheton instead, the late guitarist for the greaest of all the punk bands The Stooges…
God, I hate spoken word dorks.
Back in the early 90’s I was in and around that whole Hollywood actor types doing spoken word scene .
What a bunch of self indulgent garbage.
hahaha…Greg — you are freakin’ AWESOME! Let’s roll up our collective sleeves and call out all these haters. They don’t get a pass anymore. Real Americans stand up for their country, especially in times of war. It’s time for a smack-down with these emboldened whackos. Power on.
Dishonesty.
We stopped listening to Henry Rollins When he used to sing for Black Flag in “Dolphin Shorts” and LONG HAIR!!
He is a sad footnote to Dez Cadena!
These Hollywood types bash conservatives in hopes of getting jobs from the liberal Hollywood machine. I’m sure Henry is hoping to get noticed per chance to be on the next has-been realty show.
Rollins, on a good day, is a dope.
I love Rollin’s music, but his spoken word career and pseudo-reporting is the perfect example of why its better for rockers to burnout than fade away. Johnny Thunder and Ian Curtis died before they became self-mockeries. Which is why Joy Division still rocks and Rollins is doing duets with Shatner.
But don’t be too hard on him, Rollins does good work with the USO. He deserves credit for that. And guys, please get your bands straight. So far I think he’s been placed in at least three separate wrong bands. And nobody’s even mentioned he was in the band with one of the Greatest Names EVER: Henrieta Collins and the Wifebeating Childhaters. One of the unheralded joys of my childhood-teens was watching Kevin Seal try and get that name out on MTV.
Poor Mr. Collins. He sure has jump on the old -turn a smart woman into a man to soothe your ridiculous insecurities about being stupid- bandwagon. When will it end? I’m not a particular fan of Ms. Coulter, but at least she’s not an insecure little b!#ch like Rollins.
@ redwingsfan: “FYI:Henry now blogs for Vanity Fair!Vanity Fn’ Fair!The 1982 Black Flag/Henry Rollins…”
Good point. I think the begining of the end was his co-starring in Johnny Mnemonic with Keanu Reeves… alongside a genius dolphin.
One word Greg: AWESOME!!!
It’s high time the far left-wing useful idiots like Rollins and Queef Olbermann started getting called out for their BS (that’s gotten a free pass for far too long).
With intelligent and articulate conservatives such as yourself posting here on Breitbart’s new site it’s really going to resonate and take off.
Between this and Red Eye you’re the gift that keeps on giving–please keep it up Greg!!
@ Elaine
Whooooosh
Hank used to be interesting and fun and honest. This was just bleh. Go ahead and take on Ann Coulter, that’s what she’s for, that’s her shtick too and it’s more fun with more players. But, damn, be clever.
I would’ve expected a Rollins – Coulter battle of verbiage to be entertaining and well fought on both sides. Here, Rollins doesn’t even persuade Coulter to answer back. Weak.
In the past, I have exchanged a few emails with Henry Rollins concerning political issues. I was in high school during the early 1980’s and it was interesting to me to be able to exchange views with someone who contributed musically to that era. In my emails to Rollins, I always wrote about my views vs. his own written views, and I always wrote in a respectful manner, without name calling or profanity. The replies I received from Henry Rollins bordered on juvenile – because I did not agree with his extreme views, he would react in a manner more consistent with an immature 8th grader, which was surprising to me because the guy is almost 50 years old. I guess I was expecting something a little more intelligent, but it wasn’t there.
Yea, he’s always been a sad little monkey with a handful of poo even when he was with Martha and the Vandellas. He was just louder then.
I wash my hands and feet of Henry Rollins…
Gary! Good idea about calling out the haters. Tho’ sadly I’m guessing you’re only interested in calling out the ones you disagree with. Cuz there’s a bunch a haters in here, happily backslapping, and pretending there’s a nobility in all that shared anger.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. And I’ll repeat what I said above. Greg would never say one little bit of this to Henry’s face. Keyboards are great like that. They make the hating nice and safe.
Just wait, now that Obama is President-Elect every cockroach like Rollins is going to climb into the open. Ive got my Black Flag ready! Rollins, the Democrats won the election and you still no have no idea what to do except what you have always done – hate religion, guns and Ann Coulter. C’mon Henry, come out of your momma’s basement already, your 50 fricking years old! Lawlessness is not a morality.
Elaine,
I didn likes whats you said about Greg so I gonna….. I gonna wright you open letter ’bout how it would be better if you be my sex slave.
That right Elaine you gonna Toowinkle my Lillihopper just right. Why oh yeah cause I WANT YOU TO FUT the Shucks UP! Cause I so Tool A RENT! Ooga Boooga.
Oh and by the way by getting the band wrong Greg doesn’t contribute to giving his band publicity. DOH!!!
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NO I WILL NOT GO HOME!!!
Great post Greg…oh and also, Dave Smalley will intellectually kick Rollin’s ass.
Do yourself a favor…put in a Dag Nasty CD, you may not earn street cred with these young hippie punks…but they blow Black Flag out of the water.
Dave Smalley (DIY, Down By Law, Dag Nasty, ALL etc.etc.)is not afraid to lean right and understands that true fascism is demanding all punk rock ideology must be from the left.
Type away at your little Mac, Henry, you look so cute…maybe you can be my next houseboy.
Rollins’ letter to Ann Coulter only illustrated something I’ve been saying for years: there is no bigger open sexist than a liberal man. They pretend they stand for equality, and support feminism, but if you want to see the sneering, leering misogynist behind the mask, just show him an Ann Coulter or a Sarah Palin and you’ll see the real face of liberalism.
The sexual revolution was never about raising the status of woman. It was simply about replacing the recipient of her obedience. The rapacious hatred they have for anyone woman who refuses to follow them is downright chilling, and the punishments they fantasize about… well… Rollin described.
What Henry Rollins wrote, in my opinion, was not only aimed at Ann Coulter, but at women in general. While all of my girlfriends used to swoon in Rollins’ wake (I grew up and lived in that time and arena of “punk”) I never quite got the attraction.
In all honestly, I had always assumed he was a closeted homosexual. Now I know the truth, he hates women in general, whether he is a homosexual or not. (I know plenty of homosexual men who truly adore women.)
Greg, Rollins is a pig and you called him out for it. And I agree, Ann doesn’t need anyone to fight her battles. Your letter to Rollins was in defense of all women, and I thank you for that.
Great stuff Gut – but the commenters on this page are as wrong as you are – Rollins was in the B-52s during his epic foray into music – he is the one who says “tin roof, rusted” in their hit song Love Shack. And America is a better place because of that.
To all those who’ve posted thinking you’re one up on old greg, trying to chastise him with the “Black Flag not the Vandals” thing, think again, if you’ve ever checked out red-eye you’d know he ALWAYS says wrong things, on purpose however, its a joke, he’ll take a city and purposely screw up the state. But alas, where would the tolerance be if he honestly did make a mistake, isn’t tolerance what the lefties are all about? and if you disagree with what i just said, you sir, are worse than hitler…
Greg, thank you for absolutely eviscerating Henry Rollins and his stupid spoken word phase (Jello Biafra did it first, anyway). And this is coming from someone who actually finds him funny sometimes.
Elaine – I know you think you’re smart and level-headed, but you’re out of your element here. First off, Greg has a lot more “real world” experience than 99% of bloggers, so don’t pretend like he’s some nobody. Secondly, he was joking when he said Rollins fronted the Vandals. If you knew who he was, you would know that. And as for Jim Norton’s quote – he’s aware of the difference in what Rollins is doing, and that’s his point. That difference being that Rollins will always get the adoration of the vapid, lip-pierced teenagers in his audience, whether he’s funny or not (he tries really hard to impress them, believe me). That’s what makes it a gutless surrogate for stand-up comedy.
Is anyone else getting a kick out of how many people are posting snotty “Uh, Greg you’re such an idiot he was in Black Flag not The Vandals…” comments?
I particularly liked “and to state that Henry Rollins was in The Vandals is utterly ridiculous.”
You’re right buddy, it was ridiculous, that’s why it’s a joke.
I knew he was a sell out when I saw him at my local Trader Joe’s.
Eewwww poor Henry, that really was an abortion wasn’t it? It’s too bad really. I can picture him now, yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off of his lawn, then settling down in his robe and fuzzy slippers with nice cup of tea to catch the “girlfriends” on the view. Greg BTW you really should do some fact checking before posting, we all know that Henry was the front man for Blue Oyster Cult.
Am I the only one that got “The Vandals” joke? (LoL) Though really, we all know that Henry Rollins was actually a member of “The Clash”. Also, I think he sang a duet with Christina Aguilera once where they mixed that song “Nookie” with Aguilera’s song “Baby One More Time”
One of my favorite TV moments in history involved Henry Rollins on Bill Maher’s old network show “Politically Incorrect” (not!). Joe Queenan made a fool of him on the subject of drug legalization. I couldn’t possibly do it justice here, but anyone who saw it would never forget it. I thought Rollins was going to attack Queenan. At any rate, Rollins is a light weight and fraud, a sort of rock-n-roll Cornell West.
P.S. Rollins wasn’t in the Vandals: He replaced Jello Biafra in the Dead Kennedys.
thank you for a great post.
Ann Coulter owns everybody who tries to interview her. Maybe this guy should have a little sit down with Ann. After she kicks his ass and humiliates him for life maybe he’ll understand his error of this open letter. And did anyone notice that his inner monologue didn’t match up with what he was typing before he said “And now where my sweet fascist?” Either way if he did sit down with Ann after his brutal ass beating he’d be asking the same thing he asked her “Where do I go from here?” Home? Hospital? A deep cave to hide in for the rest of eternity?
Damn..you could have at least googled the guy to get the band right. I don’t think many people take Rollins seriously anyway.
Yeah that Rollins clip is really OLD!! I don’t know why it’s been turning up everywhere lately. Rollins is totally a wannabe comic, He should’ve never quit the Misfits.
To everyone who is clucking their tongues over Greg Gutfled’s “fronted for the Vandals” comment . . .
All devoted fans of “Red Eye” (the late night Fox News show Gutfeld hosts) knows that Greg ALWAYS gets the name of a band wrong when he’s discussing a performer or song . . . or both! It’s a shtik.
Regardless, he was so on the money about Rollins.
After reading the posts, the slip up makes sense now. Having never heard of Greg or watched CNN much, I didn’t really have a feel for his humor.
Looked up who the hell Henry Rollins was…a comedian?? really?? NOT funny! Hey Henry..YOU need to bitch slapped!! You’re so right Greg..He’s a WUSS!
The Vandals joke went way over my head apparently. I have no idea what Redeye is and didn’t realize such sarcasm was Greg’s schtick. That point aside, bringing up a clip over 2 years old then making fun of Rollins for being years too late is lame. Plus, I’m tired of both sides of the political spectrum being outlandish towards the other, and this falls into that category. I’m out.
All you liberal morons are so liberally moronic. Greg’s 100 percent right about this! Just because you’re too stupid to consult Wikipedia doesn’t mean Greg knows nothing about punk and lied in order to establish punk credibility he doesn’t actually have but which he thought, nay, knew would impress tools.
This from the douchebag on Red Eye?????
Hey Greg: you’re a wuss. And a supremely unfunny one at that.
And it was Black Flag, A-Hole. But maybe you were just trying to be, um, funny.
Wuss.
I think the best point of Greg’s letter was: “Ann…ventures into enemy territory. You don’t. And that’s why you hate Coulter – because she’s better at being you than you are.” Is there anything more tedious than a liberal who bashes conservatives from the safety of one of his little cocoons and thinks he’s doing something brave or edgy or noble? It’s cheap, easy and carries no risk.
And don’t get me started on spoken word. Because it isn’t technically comedy or performance art or speech-making, it’s purveyors would have you believe it’s immune from any kind of critique. If someone says “I didn’t like it”, the standard reply is “You don’t get it”. What is that? If something can’t be called “bad”, how can it ever be thought of as “good”?
P.S. I think Henry moonlighted in Starland Vocal Band for a brief time as well.
Some moron who apparently feels that “true” punk is definitely NOT conservative (anything but THAT!) has inserted a poorly placed credit along with a slap at Greg on The Vandals entry at Wikipedia, missing by a mile.
Nice whiff, loser. Jokes on you.
PS- Stop trying to hijack other peoples art by aligning it with your personal principles and assuming that you can cover all “conservatives” with such a broad brush. It’s sad.
Having a bad day Henry? Sorry, but I really don’t think getting another tattoo is gonna help
Rollins did a radio interview on a Chicago station just a couple of weeks ago. It was a mild fluff piece with the host helping him push something he was doing. Rollins made some offhand remark about Iraq (something completely based in the fantasy world he hails from) and the host politely pointed out that there are now positives to Iraq that pretty much everyone agrees to, despite the negatives. Rollins immediately began attacking him, and said he should join the army or shut the hell up.
It was about the most painfully juvenile interview I’ve ever heard. Wuss doesn’t even begin to cover it. It sounded much more like the way a teenage boy reacts when someone calls him gay on the playground. I’m guessing Henry is overcompensating for something…..
Hey Greg, does this mean we can look forward to a “Henry Rollins riding a unicorn” drawing next week? Maybe he can borrow the one from Obama’s JibJab video (or maybe even hop on behind him to show his….er….support).
JackRabbit:
For the record, you are a douche nozzle, I guess you should watch the show and you would know that it was a wisecrack. I guess if the world didn’t have people like you, the bathhouses in West Hollywood would be as empty as you…
Cheers,
Sean
Olympia, Washington
Henry Rollins is one of those guys who became “so punk” that he turned completely inside out, becoming “very un-punk”- and silly.
There are Black Flag fans, and then there are Rollins Spoken Word fans. The spoken word fans are people whose “flatulence doesn’t smell” (so they think), eat at least a pound of tofu a week (maybe three), threw out their tv sets in the early 90s because of commercialism, but now spend most of their days sitting in front of an ad filled computer screen.
I know these people because I used to hang with them. They come out of a mold. Henry Rollins could read lines out of the New York Times editorials (oh wait, that would be the front page) and people would cheer him on.
Rollins, you weren’t that cool when you were screaming, shirtless, wearing short shorts and barefoot, now your just awkward. Coultier would own you like a little D.C. private schoolboy…
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Rollins has sold out to the man. He’s so punk he can’t see the missiles launching from the school. He’s selling his Senate seat for magic seeds. Being anti is so 1990’s and I’m ready for a new scene.
Cliff out
Dear Sean:
I have much better things to do with my time than watch untalented blowhards masquerading as comedians on a right-wing hack cable network.
Apparently you do not.
And your West Hollywood cliches? Maybe “Red Eye” needs a writer–a simpleton such as you would be a perfect match.
Hi Greg. THANK YOU SO MUCH for this. Rollins really had it coming, for a long time now. He even “wrote” one of his “open letters” to Laura Bush, throwing really nasty insults at such a wonderful and gracious lady. He should be ashamed of himself for it, but he’s too much of a Libtard to see it.
AH, henry rollins and the vandals…i have fond memories of them.
“Under the Big Black Sun” was an opus of an album. singles like “Can’t Get No Satisfaction” and “I Wanna Know What Love Is”. Slash’s magnificent guitar playing makes me long for my days at my clothing-optional quaker camp. I’ll never forget the day they broke up. It was just a week after releasing their last album 2112.
for those cretins who didn’t get it, greg knew he was incorrectly identifying Rollins’s past. you’re just to stupid to get it, and probably all of my above paragraph
Greg messes up band and song names on purpose, guys. He does it on Red Eye all the time because it annoys and confuses people.
Greg–
You’re too right about wusses like Rollins. All bark, no bite. Hypocrites to the Nth degree. What else can we say? Well, probably a lot more, but he’s not worth it.
Anyways, one of the commenters above me gave me an idea: Could you pleeeeease invite Brit Hume to be a guest on Red Eye? I don’t know if he’d do it, but I have a feeling he can be sarcastic and hilarious when not hosting his own show, and now that he’s not anchoring Special Report anymore, he may be up for it. For whatever reason, he was hilariously giddy on election night. I think he was just thinking “F it. There’s nothing more we can do at this point.” Just speculation; I don’t know. But I suppose that’s what most of us here were thinking. Ask him!
heres an open letter to Greg you dumb ars…everyone knows Henry Rollins was the DJ on In Living Color. ummm 0wned dude LOL
who could forget rolins started the barcode tattoo thang way back when jim carey did the toilet paper cut vanilla ice skit. the rest is history and arm grabbing leg dance moves
Greg,
YOU MUST invite Rollins and Ann on Red Eye together. Please. Then we can see how “manly” he really is when she’s face to face with him. Bet she teaches him some “tolerance”–via a verbal b*tch-slap. Or ten.
The Henry Rollins I met backstage in Orlando, Florida a couple of years ago and the guy that we see via Henry Rolling Incorporated are not the same person.
The dude I met couldn’t have been a more decent, cool and intellectual fellow. He was decent to my wife and the other couple I hauled along with me. All in all, I was very impressed by this man.
Then I see this, (I just learned), old video clip he created with his little production company.
Im getting the impression that he’s Clinton-esque. He’s measuring the direction of the wind and pandering for the sole purpose of making money.
Like many posters before said, and I’ll paraphrase here, “If Rollins and Coulter lived in the same house Rollins would be taking it up the A$$ and he’d be begging for more.
Sorry for that Henry, you’re a super cool dude but I wish you’d grow a pair and stop worrying about your PAP smear test next week. You’re a pussy now, not a man.
Not to deposit the proverbial turd in the punchbowl…
but for the life of me, I just don’t see how anyone
could possibly think he has any talent whatsoever.
Greg, I think you can measure the success of your post by the number of people who felt the need to defend Rollins by taking pot shots at RedEye. It’s a classic technique of the “progressives”:
Disagree with a blogger’s argument? Respond by attacking how they do their day job.
Greg, nice counter sniper fire buddy, that was a clean head shot. And Anne is definitely more of a man than the gelding Rollins. He’s an Elsworth Toohey, reflexively out to diminish or destroy anything greater than the mediocrity that is he, like Miss Dominique Francon-Coulter. He leaves a slime trail wherever he goes.
“I’m guessing Henry is overcompensating for something…..”
Maybe Elaine will spend a few comments calling him gay too, then. NTTAWWT.
Rollins v. Coulter? Sure. A guy whose lips move when he reads versus a best selling author and professor of constitutional law. Fantastic.
And the dude was almost one of the founders of punk. “Whip It” by ABBA (Stiff Records) is still the standard other punk songs are measured against.
For all of the idiots who keep freaking out at Greg because he got the band wrong, he’s joking. It’s a reoccurring joke on his show Red Eye in which he intentionally misstates the members of a certain band or even it’s genre to piss off their fans. It’s joke, get over it.
Oh my gosh…I can’t freakin stop watching this video. Damn you, Greg Gutfeld! Seriously though, what an obtuse man Henry Rollins is. Clearly he has a massive crush on Ann, which turned into self-loathing, which briefly disrupted his great love of his (of course) superior awesomeness, so he had to produce this twisted video WHICH I CANNOT STOP WATCHING cuz itz da nu crck nd mlted ma brainn.
But isn’t Henry Rollins gay? What’s he going to do with a real woman like Ann Coulter? Dream on dillweed!
Sean may be right that the best American punk band was FEAR. But I tend to favor Suicidal Tendencies as the best American punk band. Actually, I probably would go back and forth between FEAR and Suicidal on alternate days.
Jackrabbit:
If by simpleton you mean sexy Irish man with lots of money, guilty I am and thank-you for the kind words. Please accept my apologies for not being a a cutting edge, knee-jerk, douche nozzle, such as yourself. After reading your post, I somehow managed to avoid crying and calling Dr. Laura for comfort and support.
I suppose now, I will take my tired cliche’ s and go get drunk with some high school girls. I may let them shave my back, but only if they serenade me to the soothing sounds of Tony Orlando, while I polish my collection of submission balls with you on my mind.
But before I embark on my endeavor, I suggest that when you are not at your bathhouse of choice, in West Hollywood, put down those poppers, remove that fist from your bum, and tune into Red-Eye. You might learn a thing or two. You might find the inspiration to stop reading from the stupid line-card seared into that shallow intellect of yours.
Cheers,
Sean
Olympia, Washington
Thanks for clearing up the confusion re Greg’s lame band joke. If nothing else, it’s sorta cool that we have all four of Greg’s actual viewers here in person. Thanks again!
“You hate Coulter – because she’s better at being you, than you are.” …whoa…
Good’n, Gutfeld.
I can’t believe that’s the same curly guy I LOVED in Air Supply!
@ Little Willy- you’re name says it all.
@ VRWC Agent- cute Seinfeld reference, since my name is Elaine, I “never” get that anymore.
@ Ron Mexico- You’re right, I do think I’m smart and level headed and I wasn’t familiar with GG, but I am now.
The rest of the negative comments I got will be ignored since they contained nothing worth responding to.
@ All my new “friends” here at Big Hollywood. I learned a lot about conservative bloggers today. I recognize that the days of right wing sites being littered with bad gifs of American flags and Jesus graphics are gone. You are smart, slick and savvy. Hats off to you, but this ain’t AM radio and this isn’t the 1990’s. The next few years are going to be very interesting.
Despite the vulgar posts and insults I’m getting, I’m interested to see how this site plays out and I’ll stick around, no matter how many names you call me… just like Ann Coulter would. Maybe Alan Colmes will join me and finally get all that pent up anger off of his chest. He certainly has the spare time now, and shiny new watch to keep track of it!
oh wait he just looks like an idiot… oh well
GODINO – January 9th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
For all of the idiots who keep freaking out at Greg because he got the band wrong, he’s joking. It’s a reoccurring joke on his show Red Eye in which he intentionally misstates the members of a certain band or even it’s genre to piss off their fans. It’s joke, get over it.
Greg Gutfeld’s Red Eye is, of course, the funniest news riffing show on TV.
Only about a zillion trillion times funnier than The Lame Show with Jon Steward.
Though how hard is that, really? As Steward and and his 100 writers are, of course, even less funny than a clown choking to death on a balloon animal he’s making for his mother-in-law
(Hang on, that’s pretty funny now I think about it.)
Though I have to commend Steward on the way he goes out on a limb. I mean, I’m surprised he hasn’t been blacklisted in Bible thumping hickland Hollywood the way he attacks conservatives and Republicans and Christians.
Man, that takes guts in today’s media, where the meerest hint of support for Obama can end your career like, instantly — that means “straight away,” Berkeley grads.
Oh man, you are so totally right about Jon Stewart and the Daily Show. That is some of the least funny stuff out there. You totally got his number, dude… You want the funny, you need to go with the bootlegs of Dennis Miller’s CNBC show. Dude totally had a monkey on his show. That’s what I call funny!
JACK BAUER – January 10th, 2009 at 2:23 am
Greg Gutfeld’s Red Eye is, of course, the funniest news riffing show on TV.
Only about a zillion trillion times funnier than The Lame Show with Jon Steward.
Though how hard is that, really? As Steward and and his 100 writers are, of course, even less funny than a clown choking to death on a balloon animal he’s making for his mother-in-law
(Hang on, that’s pretty funny now I think about it.)
Though I have to commend Steward on the way he goes out on a limb. I mean, I’m surprised he hasn’t been blacklisted in Bible thumping hickland Hollywood the way he attacks conservatives and Republicans and Christians.
Man, that takes guts in today’s media, where the meerest hint of support for Obama can end your career like, instantly — that means “straight away,” Berkeley grads.
Liberals are the most intolerent of anyone or any opinion that doesn’t match their own, in fact they are closer to fascists than any conservative republicans out there. Try mentioning that you don’t recycle (since you are simply doing someone elses work for their profit) or that global warming is the new hula hoop and see what I mean. They preach diversity and acceptance but that’s about as far as it goes.
Rollins is a washed up actor wanna-be who once was in a punk band. He made a few bucks with his speaking engagements and wants to keep the “angry guy” pose going. It sells to his audience, and that’s the bottom line. Dollars.
bs’d
I think HR should be the new poster child for the left. He rails about conservatives being intolerant and then says the crude, childish things he says TO Ann Coulter. He writes under the Freedom of Speech banner, yet would love nothing more than to silence the voices which proclaim conservative thought. He is talentless, unoriginal and foul. In short, the perfect example of the typical left wing “thinker” (and I use that word tongue firmly embedded in cheek).
@Elaine, great! Now you “understand” the conservative mind set which only became “cool” since Mr. Obama’s election, according to you. LOL You are a silly little thing, aren’t you? You pretend to be so blase and hip to culture, but actually, and I am sorry to state the obvious, you are clueless. We do not write, blog, perform to “amuse” you. We actually do not care what you think of us. SHOCKING!! You matter not at all, you smug, self righteous mental midget.
Mama
I don’t know if it has already been addressed, but the Vandals thing was a joke, you idiots.
Yes Greg, you are right about Rollins. I used to love Black Flag (Dez Cadena was the best singer), but Rollins pulled a Ronnie James Dio and ruined Black Flag much in the same way Dio ruined Black Sabbath. I also used to watch Rollins show on IFC, but it got to the point where I would fast forward through the whole show to get the bands he would have on.
I do still have some respect for him for his USO tours though. He’s just trying stay in left wing Hollywoods good graces so they throw him a bone every once in a while.
Elaine,
What sites were you on previously with Am flags and Jesus images? Maybe someone who was a proud American and a Christian? So? If it wasn’t your cup of oolong,why would you stay? If you are a lib, why keep searching them out? There are plenty of lib sites where the sight of a flag or Jesus won’t make any appearances, unless of course, Jesus is shown defecating on the flag. If you think the lib sites are so erudite, perhaps you have never ventured to the comments sections at HuffPo, Kos, DemUnderground? The witty verbage flies a mile a minute! Why, after trying to decipher the atrocious spelling, interesting syntax, and lack of punctuation, all I ever have ever been able to find out is that George Bush sux. Illuminating, indeed!
Iowahawk,
Diane Arbus-retarded grenade boy? Leave it to you to find Rollins’s missing love child. I’ve always thought you had that Columbo thing going.
“since my name is Elaine, I “never” get that anymore.”
I see it a lot on the Internets. Now that I know it was all playing off your name, I fee like I’m talking to a celebrity. Not the cheap GG/AC kind who get attention with writing, TV, etc., either, but the real kind like HR or one of those trust fund kids I read about. Do you do autographs? Or homemade porn? Thanks.
Greg, now I have one more outlet to enjoy your rapier wit. Keep it coming, maybe someday the likes of Harley and Elaine will leave Olberman’s choir and join the lighter side of humor.
first of all, the vandals were a crappy punk band. second of all, rollins wasn’t in the vandals, he was in black flag. what kind of retarded schmuck makes a mistake like that?
—-agnosticj – January 9th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
—-Rollins was the front-man for Black Flag, not the Vandals
AGNOSTICJ… Again, you stupid lib, the lefties fail to see the slam by the Great Greg in stating, “I used to think you were pretty cool – way back when you fronted the greatest punk band ever (The Vandals)”. Do you know who the Vandals were?? All girl band?? Led by Joan Jett?? Yes, you Libs are that f-ckin’ dense!! Please, go back to your most productive website… Here’s the link:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/
I wonder if Sean Hannity or Rush had devised a video stating the same, of say… The HildaBeast of Clinton, or maybe Ariana Huffingbreath. What would the reaction be?? How would the CNNs or NBCs react? “Socialist”?? “Nazi”?? “Fascist”??
Rollins, as Greg implies, is a typical lefty accusing the enemy of which he is guilty. In typical propaganda this is what is done. 50.01% of America heats up the diatribe as leftovers when it’s convenient. This POS Rollins is an anarchist… its how his career was born and how we are being destroyed by the punks in suits.
The scary part here is Rollins wasn’t kidding. He was stating exactly what the left has in mid for anybody right of left…
“first of all, the vandals were a crappy punk band. second of all, rollins wasn’t in the vandals, he was in black flag. what kind of retarded schmuck makes a mistake like that?”
It’s supposed to be a funny, but only to people who actually watch his show or know who he is. If you’ve never heard of Gutfeld, then the joke just “flies way over your head”.
HA!!! Tbogg just said that you weren’t even qualified to fold t-shirts at Hot Topic!!
In other words: Epic Punk Fail.
Like most wingnut pundits, Coulter is simply a low-brow con artist. She invites scorn and derision, because it’s the only way she can sell “the Book”. “The book” being the same screed shes released every time with a different title.
Oh, and this site is an embarrassment.
Greg Gutfeld is to Jon Stewart as Dane Cook is to Richard Pryor.
Oh, and to Sean in Olympia: don’t worry; your latent sexual urges really are nothing to be ashamed of, no matter what your fellow conservative bigots think.
JackRabbit,
Insightful stuff; I’m convinced. About Sean, anyway. And I want you to know I respect you all the more for being such a traditionalist. A lot of liberal women still refuse to take their “husband’s” name. Well played, madam.
Seriously, who gives a crap what band that assclown was in? They obviously weren’t any good, as they’re total nobodies now.
The hallmark of a has-been….talking crap about people clearly more successful than they are.
And Elaine, you are an absolute idiot.
Dude, seriously. You’re as much an asshat as Henry Rollins or Ann Coulter. Get your facts straight, ‘tard.
after watchin this lastnite , this proves that fox news is so blantly right wing
1 rollins fronted , black flag , not the vandals get it right
2 coulter blast all the let saying that were godless um i belive in jeasus and i am a liberal u know just like the reading in the bible jeasus was a liberal
3 that video was taken over 3 years ago and now it is getting press , come on , must be a slow news nite
4 ann coulter need to EAT SOMTHING that skinny bitch
hmmm, hadn’t thought about henry for a while, not until you brought him up, greg. wow, ur right , pretty lame video, but i’m sitting here re-listening to a bunch of great BLACK FLAG songs. what art. & what great commentary for that era.
you, greg, will never achieve anything close to that, so stay angry & keep reminding my punk-addled mind of all yesterday’s “nobodies.”
True fact: Henry Rollins real name is Henry Garfield – which seems very of fitting to me. A grumbling, grousing fat cat who’s irrelevant and was NEVER funny (not even at his peak in the 80s).
Gary T,
Forgive me, but I don’t consider someone who can’t even spell Jesus correctly a Christian.
JackRabbit:
Douche’ to you my friend. I guess you finally arrived at what your ideal tramp-stamp will be, so now you have the time to respond to other’s posts.
I guess you need to watch some more Fox News, because the dated tactics from your liberal line-card are rather boring and predicatable.
You only go to further prove the point that liberals are not very bright and gifted when it comes to critical thought.
For such a devoute liberal, why are you on a conservative blog site? Doesn’t this make you the one with closeted desires? It’s okay, someday you might move out of your parents house, stop playing Warcraft and begin to shoulder the tax-burden that is being gifted to us by the likes of the Messiah.
Cheers to you, and remember, we had to have 4-years Carter before we had 8-years of Reagan.
Sean
Olympia, Washington
Sean, Stop stealing my material, ya bastard.
“4-years Carter before we had 8-years of Reagan”
And for cryin’ out loud, lefties, get some new material!
Tired.
Moondancer – Your handle is “Moondancer,” yet you refer to others as “__nuts?” I find your unintentional irony amusing.
Terry, you just embarrassed yourself. Go wash up.
Garyt.
Areyu sur yourtalking about the reading in the bible jeasus, ore the onethat mows youer lawn
Rollins: Douchebaggus Maximus
Elaine:
It is because of people like you, water-boarding should remain as standard policy for enhanced interrogations in the Messiah’s administration. I am amazed that you have displayed more indignation at the fact that Greg made a joke about the Vandals and Black Flag versus the tone and content of Henry’s “open letter” to Ann.
It’s funny, as I am typing this, I can see you as one of those tired liberals that espouses the virtues of castrating every white male for the ill’s of society in the post-feminist world. Well, I guess that might have been you until you were fired from Star bucks last week.
I do hope that you stick around and see how we are, in fact, I would like to invite you to come to my “compound” so that we can spend time together. Imagine this, I could teach you to shoot skeet, we could talk about the perils of liberal policy and yes we could spend time watching Red-Eye on my DVR.
I would never dream of making you a sex-slave. This is because as a husband and a father of a little girl, that is no-way to treat a woman, and proper ethics dictate I treat you as I would any other woman regardless of how much I disagree with you and your thoughts. Besides, you probably dress in black, look like Pete Rose, or a linebacker for the Chicago Bears, and you most likely smell like Darth Vader’s charred nads after a 5-mile run across death star. These are qualities that are rather unattractive to this angry white male.
Cheers,
Sean
Olympia, Washington
VRWC Agent:
Very funny.
Cheers,
Sean
Olympia, Washington
Keep the personal attacks on me coming.
It does nothing to dispute the fact that GG used a three year old clip to springboard a post that was targeted to his own small fan base. He preaches to his own choir. He gives you all his reach around. He is what he criticizes. When I point it out, I get personal insults and you pat eachother on the back.
One of you asked why I come here if I am not a conservative. Maybe it’s because I don’t need to preach to the choir. Maybe it’s more fun to read GG accuse Rollins of a reach around and then watch all of you celebrate with a circle jerk.
Obama will be in the office soon, so go at it. It’s going to be a great four years for right wing satirists, but let’s not pretend that cheap hatchet jobs are any more noble when they come from your side than mine.
Has it occurred to anybody that maybe both Greg AND Henry (and of course Coulter) are jerks? Or that both of them use the same tactics to appeal to their fan base and appear provocative and edgy in the face of whichever party is in power. Nah of course not. It’s easier to just post things like “Elaine your an idiot”.
From this crowd, I’ll take it as a badge of honor.
GaryT:
I would like to personally thank-you for displaying the fundamental with the liberal public education doctrine in this country. If I may, did you get your PhD from Berkley or Columbia? I only ask this because I want to make sure I never hire anyone from those schools.
Cheers,
Sean
Elaine:
I guess when the truth hurts when you are relegated to finding fault with everyone else to save face. Since you did not respond to my individual post but rather to the group, you must now point out how we are all wrong, except for you of course.
This is because you are our self-appointed, resident uber-goodie goodie, armed with an AA from your local community college in Art History, you bravely sit in your parents basement and proclaim your superiority and vow to set-us straight.
What I find funny, is when folks like you are confronted with a point you could not consider or do not like, you must take this default position like so many of your ideological peers before you.
I guess if you stopped smoking that Mexican brick weed, you might be able to produce a point of substance and content for us to consider.
So to set the record straight once and for all, if I understand you correctly, Henry the booty-bandit, gets a free pass to insult Ann by asking her to become his “sex-slave” because she is a conservative pundit with whom he does not agree, and also because this is past your statute of limitations?
Thanks, Elaine, it was tricky at first, but after huffing spray-paint for a half an hour, in my garage, with my neighbor Chico, I now understand your twisted logic. This is really sad and no-more different then the same inferior logic that failed before and will surely fail again. To sum it up and put a bow on it, you are crazier then a rat trapped in a burning barn…
Out of the 8-people who signed the online petition to renew Henry’s show for a third season on IFC, which one are you?
Cheers,
Sean
Olympia, Washington
I used to be a fan. I even have read some of his diaries oh I mean books. I think he is truly disturbed actually. He claims tolerance, but he will call someone else “gay” as a put-down. He called Condi Rice a black lesbian for some reason in his spoken word. He needs to be angry in order to feel anything. His writings in Vanity Fair are worse than a tenth grader.
Sean-
I hadn’t read your first personal assault before I last posted. I’ve read them both now and don’t really want to engage, because you are so off base in your efforts to peg me that it is passed absurd.
I could take the bate and start saying… hey I shouldn’t be water boarded or hey I don’t look like Pete Rose or smell like Darth Vadar’s nuts, but to what end?
I could start flinging personal attacks back at you, I suppose, but that’s not my style.
The only thing I found mildly interesting in your posts is your assertion that I was using relativism to excuse Henry Rollins. But again you were off base.
I commented here that in my opinion GG’s slam piece on Rollins was similar Rollins’ slam on Coulter. I didn’t excuse anybody. A cheap shot is a cheap shot.
You should know that. You’ve been taking them at me all day. But you’re not alone. There are lots of guys just like you here.
The thing that disturbed me most about your posts are that you prefaced your cheap shots with a claim that as a husband and father of a young daughter you treat all women the way you are treating me.
I think we’re done Sean. At least I am.
“Gutfeld did that on purpose. Watch RedEye, he does it all the time and laughs his face off. If he’s ripping on Elton John, he’ll say, “Elton, you showed promise back when you sang for Genesis, but …””
Wow — a real comic mastermind. Greg should see if he can get a writing gig on the “1/2 Hour News Hour”. I hear they’re hiring.
“Do you know who the Vandals were?? All girl band?? Led by Joan Jett?? ”
Um, is that supposed to be a “its not true, so its funny” joke, too? How are we dense liberals supposed to tell the difference between when you clever conservatives are being stupid, lying, or making a joke?
“Do you know who the Vandals were?? All girl band?? Led by Joan Jett?? Yes, you Libs are that f-ckin’ dense!! ”
Um, is this one of those “its not true, which makes it funny” jokes? How are we dense liberals supposed to tell whether conservatives are being stupid, lying, or making a joke?
That though Rollins was the lead singer of ABBA
I really love Rollins’ use of “Shut the f* up” as a witty punch line. Too funny. Almost as funny as the back and forth between the “He was in Black Flag not the Vandals!” idiots and the INSIDERS who helpfully point out “Greg ALWAYS gets the band name wrong, on purpose”. Keep it up. You’re killing it!!!
Sarita. So dense you have to write it three times.
Henry Rollins makes his living putting together rants like this and then he wonders why he hasn’t had better luck with women. When you regularly talk like that about women, the only women you’re going to attract are the sort who think it’s okay to treat other people, including you, like crap.
Oh, and I’ve seen a couple of misguided souls try to correct the record by saying Henry was with the Misfits… not so. He was the front man for the Misfits’ rivals, Henry and the Holograms, until Mattel decided to make a cartoon about the Holograms. They kicked Henry out in favor of Jem because she made for much better eye-candy and they knew she wouldn’t sexually menace the all-girl Misfits. It wasn’t a total loss for Henry, though; Mattel did manage to find other work for him, as Murky Dismal on Rainbow Brite.
Is pathetic an understatement for Henry Rollins?
I wasn’t wondering what ever happened to Henry, but now I know.
Nothing has happened to him since he left Missing Persons.
That might not be right, I think the lead singer of Missing Persons had more balls than Henry.
“Forget your music – this is what makes you truly, a punk”
Well said, Ann speaks truth to powerlike no other.
Elaine and Jackrabbit, if you hate the site, why don’t you leave never to return? Oh thats right, your ego prevents you from leaving an argument knowing that someone else is getting the last word and having a laugh at your obvious character flaws/mental illness. As liberals(and egomaniacs), Im sure you feel the need to lecture us on the evils of making fun of the handicapped. Let me take this opportunity to apologize. I am sorry you were born with a slackjaw and a droolcup.
LMAOROF!! Brilliant, Greg, Brilliant. And the comments were almost equally entertaining. I just *love* BH.
OHIGETITNOW…
Hey manchild, thanks for so agreeing with me that you copied and pasted my entire post about John Steward and the Lamey Show. And by entire I mean “all.”
I am looking for a limber houseboy who sucks up all the time.
Are you available? If so … e me dude. And you know what e is code for.
Is Rollins that guy whom I’ve occasionally surfed past on IFC? A sort of talk show that’s really just a liberal fawn and rant show? And who can’t say one sentence without being crude? I could never figure out why he’d have a show of any sort, even on IFC, which caters to the weird and mentally maimed. I see above that he was in a band. Big deal. That’s hardly an excuse for letting him out in public.
I can’t believe that I actually went back and listened to the entire Henry Rollins clip. I feel dirty. Henry Rollins is the typical Liberal. First he will be the first to say that the 1st Amendment guarantees him freedom of speech to say whatever he wants, then he writes an entire post about how someone else who is exercising their Freedom of Speech should STFU. Then the more subtle point, he believes that Ann will never be accepted by the Beltway crowd. Um, who ever thought that was her goal. Maybe, and I am going out on a limb here, she really doesn’t mind at all being associated with the likes of the NASCAR crowd. I mean, who says that the beltway crowd is better than the NASCAR crowd. Oh thats right, it’s the liberals who loathe the Middle and Lower class Americans. His very chauvinistic statements about women tell another story. It is the liberals who want to keep those that they do not think “worthy” of being in the IN crowd out of their circle. They poke fun at us, humiliate us and do their best to keep us in a position of thinking we NEED them. Well, we don’t. HR’s comments about Ann and Condie only show that he really has a hatred for women who feel confident enough to speak their opinions and it’s even worse if these women are intelligent. I have to wonder how he thinks about minorities?
Greg I have seen your comedy show and read a few of the posts you formerly blemished the HufPo with until they, mercifully, ended that pathetic and puerile excersize. Greg you are a semiliterate doughboy lacking an iota of wit, humor, charm or insight. I would christen you the ‘Doughy Pantload’ but you cannot even compete withg Jonah Goldberg for wingnut blather.
JAF, Why don’t you enlighten us on how you feel about Henry Rollins. Obviously HR is a truly literate and morally superior man that we should all hang upon his every word. Might I also add that HR must be in your opinion “witty, charming and insightful”. Seriously, how do you feel about the OPEN LETTER? Which part of his letter is witty, charming or even remotely insightful?
I do think he hates women. In reading some of his work, he has expressed that in so many words. In the same “spoken word” live from New York he also made a sexual remark regarding Mary Matalin (Carville’s wife). The guy would never say anything to these womens’ face. Don’t let the arms and the loud-mouth fool ya. Inside he is just a scared little boy who can’t take it.
Rollins took up weight lifting because when he was an angry, loudmouthed but scrawny bitchboy people used to beat the crap out of him. In effect he got himself some prison muscles after getting it in the poop shoot one time too many in the laundry room, though he’s clearly still in the same emotional prison even if he’s no longer the bitch.
“Sarita. So dense you have to write it three times. ”
Uh, no, only twice. I’m used to lame conservative websites not registering it when someone posts. What’s your excuse to not being able to count? Or is that another example of “humor”?
Greg, you are so right (except for the part of the band he was in…Black Flag). Henry has become a wuss and Ann has become exactly what he wishes to be. I would add that Henry is probably incapable of going into enemy territory because he couldn’t even carry Ann’s weight(approx. 95 pounds?) in any kind of discussion or debate. And if he would ever get the cajones to discuss or debate, I would like to have first crack at him!
Peace!
I thought Henry Rollins was great when he played Reuben Kincaid on The Partridge Family.
Hey, I’ve been hearing a rumor that Rollins used to be in Black Flag. Can anyone confirm this? Thanks.
[...] Greg Gutfeld’s Open Letter to Henry Rollins [...]
Henry’s an entertainer that tries to provoke and has for decades. He speaks about topical issues as a way to stimulate thought about interesting topics. He is however, an entertainer and artist first and foremost. What scares me is Fox News and their legion of “reporters” and “commentators” that are paid to keep us abreast of “news” and are in fact overpaid entertainers. “Fox News” is an oxymoron and Greg the circus idiot is a fine example of what passes for stimulating content. If I could wipe myself with the internet, I would.
Henry is a no talent who was fortunate to be in Greg Ginn’s band. Entertainer, please. He sold out indie punk cred a long time ago. Poor writer, poor singer, and poor comedian.
You wanna hear the Blathering man? Or you wanna hear Charge of the Ancient Don Juan?
*whisper* “WTF?” *whisper*
I’ll give you blathering man then
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Henery your such a bad ass when you talk about how you almost kicked someones ass
Blathering man, with a plan you are so core and you got the tats to tell the world just how core you are
Blather man
St. Sellout , Mayor of Douchetropolis, Charlie Sheens Shoeshine boy and high five buddy
Blathering man
phoning it in on cable tv cuz it pays the bills better than little auditorium speech tours for freaky artfolk and fatchicks in Siouxsie and the banshee t-shirts
Blather man blathering- – man
Olbermann lite on a continent of cobracrazy and far more interesting fruitbags,spewing the same overblogged cliques and half thoughts
Blathering man, pawn of yuppies who think your’e stillmarketable to meth head skateboarders, blather on man
blatheringman
would shlob off any mediatype that would give him publicity or attention but only in a threesome with the guys wife, that way you don’t look like a total homo do you?
. . . . .Blathering man
Yes, someone asked Hank (he did not volunteer on his own) to be a part of the USO and he did (guess he did not have a speaking engagement). Doing one good thing does not change the fact that he sucks.
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It is sad that someone like Rollins who speaks his mind would tell someone else to shut up when they speak their mind. Rollins is such a hypocrite.
I have watched his “spoken word” on DVD. It is a two hour conversation with himself. All of his spoken word stories consist of these items: life on the road (he repeats this story about Siberia several times), the social/political (gay marriage, pro-liberal policies), and something about dating (you can tell he has been burned by women many times). That is what people pay to see. Nothing spectacular at all.
Duh
That' the point Tucker
Why give this mean arrogant puke's actual band any press.
Lord libtards are dense
[...] Greg Gutfeld: An “OPEN” Letter to Henry Rollins [...]
LOSER he sang for BLACK FLAG. & why do you care so much? GREG GUTLESS is more like it.
I stoped reading your silly rant after you said he was in the vandals??? Damn don't you look stupid.
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