Daily Gut: Frommer = Tool

So the king of the travel guide racket, Arthur Frommer, has come out against Arizona. Yes, he claims he’ll no longer visit the state because it permit “thugs” to openly carry guns. He revealed this on his blog, after witnessing a protester carrying a rifle outside a building where the President was speaking.

Frommer says he’ll consider whether “tourists should safeguard themselves” by avoiding the crime-ridden hellhole that is the Grand Canyon. After I read about this, I decided to do a search to see if Frommer ever made similar pronouncements about other cities or states. I wondered if he had ever told people to avoid Washington DC, where, according to a US Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2004 report – that place topped the entire country in crime. (more…)

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Tags: Arizona, Arthur Frommer, chicago, crime, Detroit
Posted Aug 24th 2009 at 2:09 pm in Daily Gut, News, Politics | 210526113 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/08/24/daily-gut-frommer-tool/Daily+Gut%3A+Frommer+%3D+Tool2009-08-24+21%3A09%3A20Greg+Gutfeld

Review: ‘Bruno’

Well, I liked it. That’s no guarantee you will.

Years ago, I did stand-up. Learned a lot doing that. One thing you learn is that there’s often a difference between the craft of comedy and what it takes to reliably get laughs. Some of the most inventive, impressive comedy minds don’t sell a lot of tickets. (I could name them. You wouldn’t know them.) But one act you can almost always count on selling tickets—putting “butts in seats,” as a venue-owner will say—is one that is big and loud and shocking. That is, there is The Fine Art of Stand-up Comedy, and then there is Getting A Reaction Out of The Audience. (That’s why many comedians curse so much. That’s why I cursed so much.) Turns out the latter is almost always going to sell tickets, and people are going to laugh for much the same reason a baby laughs when you play peek-a-boo with him. I think most people laugh at Gallagher not because he’s particularly creative in busting that watermelon with a sledgehammer, but because he had the stones to drag the thing up there the first time and smash it at all. We are surprised, and all but the most unpleasant surprise begets laughter. (more…)

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Tags: Borat, Bruno, gay fashionista, larry charles, rednecks
Posted Jul 13th 2009 at 7:02 am in Reviews | 18171048 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mlong/2009/07/13/review-bruno-2/Review%3A+%27Bruno%272009-07-13+14%3A02%3A31Mike+Long

We Need More Diversity!

The “Deity-in-Chief” went to Cairo last week to address the Muslim world.  Others have pointed out that Egypt is an odd place for such an address:  Saudi Arabia is home to the holiest places in Islam and Indonesia is the home of the world’s largest Muslim population.  If this is correct, this would be like going to London to make a pandering speech to Catholics to address the actions of the I.R.A.  I’ll give you a break to have another sip of coffee and sort that one out in your head.

Blessed Brother Ted Nugent

Ok, you’re back.  This whole “outreach” got me thinking.  It’s actually a good idea.  To tailor policy around making sure people don’t feel alienated and left out.  To change the national agenda in order to protect the sensitivities of people, even if those sensitivities go against what is traditional and accepted thought in our country.  Can I get an “Amen” from the Hippies?  This is what it’s all about, right?

Let me introduce you to another group…another alien culture that I think needs to get a little “outreach” from the government…especially the elites in D.C.  Hollywood, Europe and the academic world could also do a little better when it comes to making these people feel special.  We need more diversity!  More diversity!

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Tags: "white trash", butt rock, diversity, Indonesia, Islam
Posted Jun 15th 2009 at 6:44 am in News, Politics | 156506One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lscott/2009/06/15/we-need-more-diversity/We+Need+More+Diversity%212009-06-15+13%3A44%3A02Leigh+Scott

Whoops! How Hollywood Made Hippie the New Redneck

The good people of Hollywood often seem compelled to justify their every move - like dinner with a new couple down the street or a weekend out-of-state – with a reassuring “they’re very liberal” or “it’s a very liberal town.”  You know, just in case there’s any doubt.

Meanwhile, send them a picture postcard from, say, Texas, and you’ll get a begrudging, very un-liberal, “Better you than me” response.  These brave torch-bearers of tolerance rarely hesitate to wish the worst on ”red” states – turning Biblical on a dime with curses of hurricanes, fires, floods - as if real human beings didn’t live anywhere besides Los Angeles and New York.  It’s alway payback time.

To understand this dogged, help-we’re-surrounded-by-foes mindset (that only applies to fellow Americans they’ve never met), one needs to look back about 30 years – to that golden age of violence and paranoia: the 1970s.  The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Straw Dogs, The Wicker Man, Deliverance, and The Hills Have Eyes were just a few of the message movies that taught an entire generation one very important rule: don’t leave the city! (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, anti-Americanism, Barbra Streisand, Bill Ayers, counterculture
Posted Feb 10th 2009 at 6:52 am in Entertainment, Featured Story, Political Humor | 40622137 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cwinecoff/2009/02/10/whoops-how-hollywood-made-hippie-the-new-redneck/Whoops%21+How+Hollywood+Made+Hippie+the+New+Redneck2009-02-10+14%3A52%3A38Charles+Winecoff