If I Were A Guest on the New Joy Behar Show

(Applause. The air is titillating.  The mood rambunctious.  The atmosphere tense.  Over the loud speaker we hear, “3, 2, 1 and …”) 

Joy:  Hello, Victoria.  So, I hear you’re a Tea Partier!  (Sarcastic smile.  Eyes roll.)

Victoria:  Oh, well… 

Joy:  I suppose you like Sarah Palin!  (Sarcastic smile.  Eyes roll.) 

Victoria:  Oh, well, I love her, she is so… 

Joy:  She is so dumb!  (Sarcastic smile.  Eyes roll.) 

Victoria:  No, I don’t think that… 

Joy:  Just like George Bush.  He was an idiot!  (Sarcastic smile.  Eyes roll.)  (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, george bush, healthcare, Joy Behar, Obama
Posted Oct 20th 2009 at 8:21 am in Celebrity News, Politics | 249298132 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/vjackson/2009/10/20/if-i-were-a-guest-on-the-new-joy-behar-show/If+I+Were+A+Guest+on+the+New+Joy+Behar+Show2009-10-20+15%3A21%3A10Victoria+Jackson

Levi Johnston and the Middle-American Minstrel Show

Levi Johnston’s shameless exploitation by the liberal media is more than just a convenient cudgel for bashing Sarah Palin.  It’s a modern minstrel show, with “Middle American” substituted for “African-American” as Levi capers for his condescending media “friends” wearing figurative blackface. And just as the minstrel shows of the past were tools to reinforce prejudice, the Levi Johnston show is meant to reinforce the prejudices and smug sense of superiority of its elitist liberal audience.

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Levi is the Kevin Federline of American politics, a good-looking, not-too-bright guy catching a break by impregnating a rising star, or at least one’s daughter, then basking in the reflected glow.  When things went south with Bristol Palin, he found, in a mainstream media eager for anything that might derail the Sarah Palin express, an opportunity to go farther than he ever thought he could.  Movies, modeling, memoirs – anything was possible, they assured him.  Just tell us what we want to hear, Levi – the good stuff, the juicy stuff, the stuff too good to fact check.  Oh, and hand over your dignity while you’re at it. (more…)

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Tags: Bristol Palin, cbs, Celebrity Dysfunction Complex, GQ, Iraqi Freedom
Posted Oct 14th 2009 at 5:05 am in Featured Story, Politics | 24560294 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kschlichter/2009/10/14/levi-johnston-and-the-middle-american-minstrel-show/Levi+Johnston+and+the+Middle-American+Minstrel+Show2009-10-14+12%3A05%3A45Kurt+Schlichter

The Mystery of David Letterman

David Letterman has been much in the news lately due to his fondness for the flesh of young female staffers, and the alleged blackmail plot regarding his exploits in that direction. It seems that old Dave is a bit of a lech who — like many powerful and wealthy individuals — uses his high social status to gain access to the sexual organs of women who would not look at him twice were he not so illustrious a figure. And so the furious debate rages in the papers, online and on cable news — will Dave survive the scandal? Will his audience follow him? The mystery for me however is much simpler — how did Letterman ever achieve the status he enjoys today? 

Allow me to explain. I’m not from around these parts. I grew up in Scotland, spent a decade in Russia, and arrived in the US three years ago. As something of a night owl I soon found myself confronted with America’s strange, televisual dream-world of nocturnal gibberish, and the even more perplexing national obsession with the personalities, rivalries and ratings battles that played out between the competing purveyors of this gibberish. The big one of course was Leno vs. Letterman, but who could forget the death struggle for comedic dominance between Conan and Craig Ferguson? Then there was the mystery of Jimmy Kimmel, floating around like some moth that had lost sight of the moon, detached from these wars as if no one expected him to succeed anyway. And lurking in the deep, deep darkness was the awful horror that is Carson Daly: charmless, entirely unfunny and visibly drowning in his own misery.  (more…)

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Tags: David Letterman, Dennis Hopper, jay leno, Late Night, sarah palin
Posted Oct 13th 2009 at 6:44 am in Celebrity News, Culture, Featured Story | 24499089 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dkalder/2009/10/13/the-mystery-of-david-letterman/The+Mystery+of+David+Letterman2009-10-13+13%3A44%3A22Daniel+Kalder

What Makes Anderson Cooper Happy?

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Tags: Anderson Cooper, Barbie Movie, iran, Kelly Osbourne, Liberal Media
Posted Oct 9th 2009 at 6:11 pm in Media Criticism, Political Humor, Video | 24423818 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/newsbusters/2009/10/09/what-makes-anderson-cooper-happy/What+Makes+Anderson+Cooper+Happy%3F2009-10-10+01%3A11%3A35NewsBusters

‘NewsBusted’ 10/06/09 — Comedy News from the Right

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Tags: 2016 Olympics, chicago, Dan rather, David Letterman, Dow Jones
Posted Oct 6th 2009 at 6:35 pm in Media Criticism, Political Humor, Video | 2414862 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/newsbusters/2009/10/06/newsbusted-comedy-news-from-the-right-2/%E2%80%98NewsBusted%E2%80%99+10%2F06%2F09+%E2%80%94+Comedy+News+from+the+Right2009-10-07+01%3A35%3A50NewsBusters

Palin’s Hong Kong Speech: I Can See Insanity From My Newsroom

You would think at this point it would be impossible for anyone (especially me) to be stunned or outraged by anything the news media tries to pull when it comes to Sarah Palin. After all, once you have been exposed to a year-long brutal beating, one tends to become numb to a simple low blow. However, the news coverage of her Hong Kong speech still managed to spark the senses on several levels. 

First, it must be noted that it is rather incredible that this speech got as much play as it did. Remember, this is a private citizen from Alaska who was a “failed” vice-presidential candidate, who has given no official indication she is ever going to run for anything ever again. The speech was a private affair in a foreign country and contained no real “news” whatsoever. The news media was barred and were forced to cobble together bits and pieces of what was said from the paying customers who attended. And yet, nearly every major publication gave the event heavy play and links to FOUR of those articles were displayed prominently on the Drudge Report all day long.  (more…)

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Tags: AP, Hong Kong, New Tork Times, sarah palin, Time magazine
Posted Sep 24th 2009 at 12:52 pm in Media Criticism, Politics | 234282315 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jziegler/2009/09/24/palins-hong-kong-speech-i-can-see-insanity-from-my-newsroom/Palin%27s+Hong+Kong+Speech%3A+I+Can+See+Insanity+From+My+Newsroom2009-09-24+19%3A52%3A42John+Ziegler

The NEA: Defending the Indefensible

It was so much fun watching the ACORN people try and spin their way out of oblivion for the last couple of weeks.  After the first video was posted on Big Government.com they, of course, claimed it was an isolated incident and that the filmmakers were kicked out of numerous other ACORN offices.  When that proved to be false, they tried in vain to claim that the videos were faked and that their employees were the victims of CGI or something and not of their own stupidity and corruption.  When that didn’t work they claimed that the filmmakers, Andrew Breitbart and the entire Fox News network were racist.  Yawn.

NEA’s Yosi Sergant

Monday, we have the NEA under the microscope.  The Obama Administration was caught red-handed (is that “racist”?) funneling tax payer dollars into an official propaganda department.  I can’t wait to see what the excuse will be this time.

These people have mastered the art of defending the indefensible.

Let’s set aside the stupidity of this move.  Anyone familiar with the NEA knows that it pretty much exists to fund leftist propaganda disguised as art.  Officially coordinating it is a bit redundant. (more…)

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Tags: ACORN, Aldo Raine, Andrew Breitbart, biggovernment.com, Cap and Trade
Posted Sep 23rd 2009 at 5:03 am in Featured Story, Media Criticism, Politics | 23072655 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lscott/2009/09/23/the-nea-defending-the-indefensible/The+NEA%3A+Defending+the+Indefensible2009-09-23+12%3A03%3A35Leigh+Scott

Tina Fey: Downright Mean

Tina Fey recently won an Emmy for her uncanny resemblance and venomous impersonation of Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin.  In accepting her award, Fey was her typical, obloquious self saying, “Mrs. Palin is an inspiration to working mothers everywhere because she bailed on her job right before Fourth of July weekend. You are living my dream. Thank you, Mrs. Palin!”

2008 marked a departure from the memorable, more cordial years of Chevy Chase as a clumsy Gerald Ford or Dana Carvey’s hilarious H.W. Bush: “wouldn’t be prudent.”  Fey was downright mean.

For her part, Palin was an easy target — a conservative woman and mother. And seemingly abhorrent to Fey and friends, Palin had small town values, a small town family and — as Fey chafed on Palin’s world view — “I can see Alaska from my house.”  The impersonations were sometimes funny, but more often foul.  ”I believe marriage is meant to be a sacred institution between two unwilling teenagers…,” Fey roasted during one of the skits… an innuendo on Palin’s pregnant, unwed daughter.  Her satire strayed from the issues into catty, sexist territory — intellect, pregnancy, family attacks and even sexual riffs. (more…)

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Tags: bush, Chevy Chase, dana carvey, Eddie Murphy, Ford
Posted Sep 19th 2009 at 6:54 am in Entertainment, Politics | 225170259 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jmeath/2009/09/19/tina-fey-downright-mean/Tina+Fey%3A+Downright+Mean2009-09-19+13%3A54%3A31Jason+Killian+Meath

Media Malpractice in the Extreme

As anyone familiar with my book or either of my two documentary films would already guess, it is really hard for me to be shocked by anything that happens today in the once noble profession of “journalism.” However, when I simply tried to tell the story of the most recent saga of my rollercoaster broadcasting career, even I was truly stunned by the utterly dysfunctional and decrepit state of the formerly esteemed fourth estate.

This narrative is not primarily about why I am no longer doing a talk show at KGIL in Los Angeles (though that tale itself is fascinating and infuriating and necessary for proper context). Instead, I wish to focus on what transpired after I was told (at least partially inaccurately) by KGIL that they would be flipping the station to all music and that my contract would be paid out. (more…)

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Tags: KGIL, Media Malpractice, MSNBC, OC Register, sarah palin
Posted Sep 9th 2009 at 2:19 pm in Media Criticism | 21676278 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jziegler/2009/09/09/media-malpractice-in-the-extreme/Media+Malpractice+in+the+Extreme2009-09-09+21%3A19%3A17John+Ziegler

Help Send Five Wounded Warriors to Dinner with Sarah Palin

I’ve set up a special site at Causes.com to allow for all of us to participate in the R2R auction in order to win a dinner with Sarah Palin for five wounded warriors.

This is how it works:

1. Go to this site and make a donation directly to R2R.

2. At the end of the auction, Friday Sept. 18th, the accumulated donations will be entered as a bid for the DINNER WITH SARAH PALIN auction.

3. If this is the winning bid, FIVE deserving warriors chosen by the Ride 2 Recovery program will enjoy dinner with Sarah Palin – a wonderful evening out with a most wonderful person.

4. If this is not the winning bid, R2R will still benefit from your generous contribution and we will know that each of us will have donated to a most worthy cause. (more…)

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Tags: auction, r2r, Road 2 Recovery, sarah palin, troops
Posted Sep 8th 2009 at 6:22 pm in Military | 22017050 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/09/08/help-send-five-wounded-warriors-to-dinner-with-sarah-palin/Help+Send+Five+Wounded+Warriors+to+Dinner+with+Sarah+Palin2009-09-09+01%3A22%3A55Big+Hollywood

Chance of a Lifetime Experience with Governor Sarah Palin Highlights Ride 2 Recovery eBay Charity Auction

On Tuesday, September 8, the first annual Ride 2 Recovery eBay Charity Auction will begin and run for 10 days. The highlight of the auction will be a dinner experience with former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. 

The mission of Ride 2 Recovery is to improve the health and wellness of wounded heroes by providing a life changing experience that can impact their lives forever.

The money raised from this effort will go to support the participation of wounded heroes in the R2R program and events, purchase bikes, helmets, and other technical equipment required for the wounded heroes.

Please go to eBay.com/Ride2Recovery for all of the auction details.  (more…)

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Tags: auction, eBay, r2r, Road2Revovery, Rob Lowe
Posted Sep 4th 2009 at 5:03 am in Featured Story, Military | 21766278 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/r2r/2009/09/04/chance-of-a-lifetime-experience-with-governor-sarah-palin-highlights-ride-2-recovery-ebay-charity-auction/Chance+of+a+Lifetime+Experience+with+Governor+Sarah+Palin+Highlights+Ride+2+Recovery+eBay+Charity+Auction2009-09-04+12%3A03%3A47Ride+2+Recovery

‘NewsBusted’ 8/28/09 — Fake News from the Right

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Tags: AARP, Cash for Clunkers, Ed Schultz, Elmo, Governor David Paterson
Posted Aug 28th 2009 at 6:44 pm in Media Criticism, Political Humor, Video | 2131866 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/newsbusters/2009/08/28/%e2%80%98newsbusted%e2%80%99-82809-%e2%80%94-fake-news-from-the-right/%E2%80%98NewsBusted%E2%80%99+8%2F28%2F09+%E2%80%94+Fake+News+from+the+Right2009-08-29+01%3A44%3A18NewsBusters

Sarah Palin: One Year Later

On August 29th, 2008, I woke up and, like almost every other American, was stunned by the news that Sarah Palin had been chosen as John McCain’s running mate. It was not that I had never heard of her or didn’t want her to be the pick (I had publicly called for her consideration numerous times), but because it was so clearly a very bold and risky maneuver and a true surprise in an era when we seemingly know everything well before it happens.

Moments after I heard the news I did a radio interview and predicted that the news media would destroy her in their transparent quest to pave the way for Barack Obama’s historic election. I had no idea just how right that “blink” calculation would be and I certainly never would have guessed that I would become a small part of that story by dedicating my life and fortune to documenting just how unbelievably bad it would get.

The last twelve months of Sarah Palin’s life truly bring new meaning to the phrase “what a difference a year makes.” I strongly believe that no public figure in modern America has ever endured more stress, pressure and unfair scrutiny in a more dignified fashion than she has over the past year (though what George W. Bush tolerated over the last three years of his presidency probably comes in a close second).

On August 28th of last year Sarah Palin was a largely unknown governor considered to be a rising star largely because of her willingness to take on Republicans in a way that had endeared her to Democrats. Today she is an ex-governor wrongly perceived by most of the country and virtually all of the news media as an erratic, unqualified, lightweight and ultra-partisan Republican who can’t even mange her own family.  (more…)

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Tags: Alaska, Barack Obama, Bill Maher, Chris Matthews, David Letterman
Posted Aug 28th 2009 at 7:55 am in Featured Story, Politics | 213110312 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jziegler/2009/08/28/sarah-palin-one-year-later/Sarah+Palin%3A+One+Year+Later2009-08-28+14%3A55%3A02John+Ziegler

Jon Voight at Hannity’s Freedom Concert: ‘If we let Obama have his way, he will ruin America’

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Tags: 2010 Census, ACORN, Harry Reid, healthcare, Jon Voight
Posted Aug 24th 2009 at 7:32 pm in Celebrity News, News, Politics, Video | 21093854 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/08/24/jon-voight-at-hannitys-freedom-concert-%e2%80%98if-we-let-obama-have-his-way-he-will-ruin-america%e2%80%99/Jon+Voight+at+Hannity%27s+Freedom+Concert%3A+%E2%80%98If+we+let+Obama+have+his+way%2C+he+will+ruin+America%E2%80%992009-08-25+02%3A32%3A10Big+Hollywood

Did You Hear About the Morgans Trashing Sarah Palin?

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This month’s Exhibit P proving Hollywood’s no longer money-driven.

Nearly 60 million Americans wanted Sarah Palin for their Vice President, including most of Middle-America. These voters are the folks this holiday-timed studio film will kinda need in order to see some kind of profit. Sure, the sophisticates will ask us to take a joke but after everything the cruel Left has put this woman and her family through, no matter how good-natured the presentation, another Palin-as-yokel joke just feels like cheap piling on — because that’s exactly what it is.    (more…)

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Tags: Did you Hear About the Morgans?, Hugh Grant, sarah jessica parker, sarah palin
Posted Aug 19th 2009 at 3:20 pm in Entertainment, Politics | 208198118 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/08/19/did-you-hear-about-the-morgans-trashing-sarah-palin/Did+You+Hear+About+the+Morgans+Trashing+Sarah+Palin%3F2009-08-19+22%3A20%3A31Big+Hollywood

Stand Up Notes from Flyover Country: Sarah Palin for Czar-Czar

According to PolitiFact.com the Obama administration has thus far appointed twenty-eight czars! You may have missed some of these but we now have a Great Lakes Czar, so those lakes stay in line and don’t opt for moving to Canada.  Come to think of it, some of the Great Lakes already belong to Canada. I wonder if Canada has their own Great Lakes Czar? If they do and there is a conflict would it be Czar Wars?

We now have a Sudan Czar. I thought they had their own Czar, but hey, if it helps improve our image in the Arab world I am all for loaning them a Czar or two. We have a Health Czar despite the fact we have a Surgeon General and to be honest I’m not sure who’s in charge of health. You might think a Czar would outrank a general but a number of third-world countries with tons of Generals are run by colonels. (more…)

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Tags: Afghanistan, Canada, Czars, Janet Napolitano, President Obama
Posted Aug 19th 2009 at 10:34 am in Politics | 205570158 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/08/19/stand-up-notes-from-flyover-country-a-capo-di-capi/Stand+Up+Notes+from+Flyover+Country%3A+Sarah+Palin+for+Czar-Czar2009-08-19+17%3A34%3A50Jeffrey+Jena

In Defense of Katherine Heigl

The London Times recently ran an article about Katherine Heigl and her comments indicating that the ire directed at her by the press (especially the Internet) is the result of sexism. The article wasn’t particularly enlightening, but it did call to attention the bad rap this young actress has gotten from the media. It also made some commentary about the general condition of women in Hollywood. The closing paragraph defended Heigl, but didn’t go far enough.

While its fun and all to smack Hollywood people around (as I did with Megan Fox), it is occasionally important to do the opposite. The plight of Katherine Heigl in the media has a lot to do with her background and what is expected of actresses in today’s Hollywood cesspool. In broader terms it speaks volumes as to what the left expects from women in our society. (more…)

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Tags: Barbara Boxer, Christopher Hitchens, feminism, Feminists, Hillary Clinton
Posted Aug 18th 2009 at 5:12 am in Celebrity News, Culture, Featured Story, Politics | 20555881 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lscott/2009/08/18/in-defense-of-katherine-heigl/In+Defense+of+Katherine+Heigl2009-08-18+12%3A12%3A14Leigh+Scott

George W. Bush-by-Proxy Syndrome

This week’s Washington Times column:

There is an extensive body of writing from both sides of the political aisle that has analyzed the extraordinary depths of hatred leveled at former President George W. Bush.

His birth into a wealthy and politically connected family is where a lot of the animus starts. His rejection of his Connecticut roots and adoption of a rugged Texan persona naturally riled his birth-constituency. His disjointed speaking style also alienated many others – especially those who covered him in the Northeastern media. Naturally, some of his initiatives were controversial. His allies say he didn’t do enough.

But all presidents make mistakes, pursue unpopular ideas, possess off-putting personality traits and don’t do enough to appeal to their core supporters. Something far more insidious was at work in the hatred of our most recent former president.

Now that Mr. Bush is quietly going about his retirement, this strain of rage – the GWB43 virus – has spread like wildfire, finding unsuspecting targets, each granting us greater perspective into what not long ago seemed like a mysterious phenomenon isolated only on our 43rd president.

The first person to catch the virus was Sarah Palin, whose family also was infected, including, unforgivably, her children.

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Tags: David Axelrod, GWB43 virus, joe the plumber, Mormons, Obama
Posted Aug 16th 2009 at 5:40 pm in Featured Story, Media Criticism, Politics | 206006172 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/08/16/george-w-bush-by-proxy-syndrome/George+W.+Bush-by-Proxy+Syndrome2009-08-17+00%3A40%3A36Andrew+Breitbart

Waiting for GOP

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Tags: compassionate conservatism, John Boehner, Michael Steele, NRSC, ObamaCare
Posted Aug 16th 2009 at 11:42 am in Art, Political Humor | 20566273 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cmuir/2009/08/16/waiting-for-gop/Waiting+for+GOP2009-08-16+18%3A42%3A17Chris+Muir

WaPo: Bush-Joker Kinda Made Sense, Obama-Joker Racist

WaPo: This is merely “play[ing] into a view of Bush popular among his detractors…”

This required a few passes to be sure my eyes weren’t playing tricks. You keep telling yourself to stop being amazed by hypocrisy and bias, but again and again someone like Philip Kennicott, a staff writer for the Washington Post, comes up with nonsense like this:

And didn’t we see George W. Bush depicted as the Joker not so long ago?

Yes, in an image by Drew Friedman published online by Vanity Fair on July 29, 2008. That drawing at least played into a view of Bush popular among his detractors, that the former president was unpredictable and fast on the draw when it came to geopolitics. But the danger many of Obama’s detractors detect is more of calculating, long-standing deception, that he is quietly and secretly marshaling a socialist agenda, a view that would be better served by imagery that recalled “The Manchurian Candidate.”

A few paragraphs later the R-word is finally (and predictably) let loose and the anonymity of the artist(s) becomes an issue: (more…)

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Tags: Carrie Prejean, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Huffington Post, joe the plumber, Obama-Joker
Posted Aug 6th 2009 at 10:20 am in Art, Culture, Politics | 200954167 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/08/06/wapo-bush-joker-kinda-made-sense-obama-joker-racist/WaPo%3A+Bush-Joker+Kinda+Made+Sense%2C+Obama-Joker+Racist2009-08-06+17%3A20%3A40John+Nolte

The Monster That Nearly Ate Cambridge

For those of you who don’t know, I’m from Cambridge. Born and raised there. I grew up in the Jefferson Park housing projects a stone’s throw from Harvard. Never a Dull Moment in JP I can tell you! Even today. Knew lots of CPD cops like Officer Crowley too, but never in a good way. Like when a fellow punk projects friend of mine drove a stolen car through a fence and into the deep end of the local MDC kiddie pool. They wanted us real bad that night! I was guilty as sin, too. All wet, in fact. Rode shotgun the whole way. Front row seat. Yee-ha! Island Kingdom, eat your heart out.

My whole childhood was like that. A lot of crazy stuff, a lot of running from police. Was a local sport, like train-hopping. But that’s all just the gritty side of Cambridge. And even though I’m a rank Righty today, I still love Harvard University all the way, the Square especially. It’s the Crossroads of the World. I was a total Harvard Square rat growing up. Harvard is the Bright Light of Olde Cantabrigia. Harvard was also very active in the community back then, and most likely still is today. Harvard hosted field trips to the campus from schools all over Cambridge. The Agassiz Museum was my favorite. Lots of dead bugs and dinosaur bones. That was Heaven to me. Still is. (more…)

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Tags: ACLU, Al Sharpton, AMPAS, Barack Obama, BET
Posted Aug 4th 2009 at 5:37 pm in News, Politics | 19636689 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/08/04/the-monster-that-nearly-ate-cambridge/The+Monster+That+Nearly+Ate+Cambridge2009-08-05+00%3A37%3A12John+T.+Simpson

Daily Gut: Joker Poster Boosts Obama’s Coolness

So posters of President Obama made up as Heath Ledger’s Joker with ‘Socialism’ written below it have been showing up around L.A – and it’s being greeted with the usual outrage you’d expect from people who get outraged. Some are calling it racist, others are calling it “mean spirited and dangerous,” while I call it boring, boring, and oh yeah: boring.

The website Newsbusters points out the silliness behind the outrage – after all, President Bush has been depicted as far worse – he’s been portrayed as everything from a bloodsucking vampire in the Village Voice, to the Joker in Vanity Fair, to God forbid, a Republican- everywhere else. No one seemed to mind then. And while people like Bill Maher point out that Obama has been only at this job for six months (whereas Bush earned the bile over eight years) and therefore any criticism is unfair – that’s pure batpoop. Hatred for Bu$hitler began the moment he took office, and the vile lefties only knew Sarah Palin for a few weeks before they were wearing t-shirts with her face and a vulgar word (begins with ‘C’ and rhymes with bunt) beneath it. (more…)

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Tags: anti-heroes, batman, Bill Maher, Bu$hitler, Christian Bale
Posted Aug 4th 2009 at 3:41 pm in Daily Gut, Featured Story, News, Politics | 199626150 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/08/04/daily-gut-joker-poster-elevates-obama%e2%80%99s-hip-persona/Daily+Gut%3A+Joker+Poster+Boosts+Obama%27s+Coolness++2009-08-04+22%3A41%3A58Greg+Gutfeld

The Day After: My First Impression of Sarah Palin

I wrote this piece for some friends a week after John McCain named a relatively unknown woman from Alaska as his running mate.  Since only ten people ever read it, I thought I would re-post it here, perhaps the most revealing day in the storied history of Modern Feminism.  Yesterday, over one-hundred and sixty years after Susan B. Anthony joined the movement for women’s suffrage, just five American women actively held the title of Governor of their state.  Today, there are only four, and rather than be enraged by the sudden decline to less than ten-percent of all state-executive offices, the entrenched modern feminist powers are rejoicing, because it is they who brought down the governorship of Sarah Palin. (more…)

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Tags: abortion, feminism, Hilary Clinton, Kim Gandy, NOW
Posted Jul 27th 2009 at 10:15 am in Politics | 191554306 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jdboreing/2009/07/27/the-day-after-remembering-my-first-impression-of-sarah-palin/The+Day+After%3A+My+First+Impression+of+Sarah+Palin2009-07-27+17%3A15%3A09Jeremy+D.+Boreing

Bono’s Classless Act – Endorsed by ‘The Won’

I’ll admit up front: I’ve never been a U2 fan. I never really understood the appeal of their self-righteous brand of music, and frontman Bono, with his made-up solo moniker (real name Paul David Hewson) and ever-present see-through wraparound sunglasses, simply irritates me.

Yet I was willing to give him some credit for working with former President Bush on a cause they both believed in – AIDS and poverty in Africa – even though he disagreed with Bush’s stance on Iraq. I honestly don’t think throwing all the money in the world at Africa will change anything there unless the tin pot dictators on that continent are all tossed out on their hineys – and I believe fellow rock star philanthropist Bob Geldof said something similar - but that’s beside the point. I might think even more of Bono if he were to give all of his own massive fortune to the needy in Africa before he lectures the rest of us about our “responsibility,” but I doubt even his philanthropic tendencies go that far. If he did, how could he afford to do things that only rich folks can do, like have his favorite hat flown from the UK to Italy because he forgot it? 

But cool rock stars have their limits. Apparently the B Man reached his when Bush tried to give him a hug at a prayer breakfast a couple of years ago. Adroitly dodging the president by scooting behind the podium, he shook his hand instead. Apparently Bush was good for soaking for taxpayer money for Bono’s cause, but that didn’t merit a hug.

Surprisingly, the media failed to pick up on that little maneuver until this week, when Bono admitted to the dodge in a BBC interview. Why mention it now? Apparently he felt bad about it, but since no one noticed it, why point it out publicly and humiliate someone who is no longer in the public eye? He could have just written Bush a private note saying “sorry, dude.” But I’m a little more cynical – I’m thinking he knew about the buzz of publicity that would accompany his little admission. See, with Bush out of office and criticizing Obama being verboten in the media, even new evidence of old Bush-bashing would immediately be picked up on and go viral. When a world tour is looming, any publicity will work in a pinch. (more…)

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Tags: Africa, AIDS, Barack Obama, BBC, Bono
Posted Jul 22nd 2009 at 1:51 pm in Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics | 189518180 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pmeister/2009/07/22/bonos-classless-act-endorsed-by-the-won/Bono%27s+Classless+Act+-+Endorsed+by+%27The+Won%272009-07-22+20%3A51%3A31Pam+Meister

This Week’s Late Night Awards

Emmy nominations were announced last week, and David Letterman, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, and Saturday Night Live all got one. I believe Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Fallon are too new to be considered this year, making Craig Ferguson the wallflower. He suggested that the reason he was skipped over was because the Academy hates Americans. (I think he’s on to something). Letterman bragged he got one for “Best Apology.”

I have no proof, but it appears if there is a new sponsor for Letterman’s daily Ruth Madoff joke. For the past several weeks he’s been doing the same exact joke about Bernie Madoff’s wife claiming her $92 million wasn’t from swindling, that it was money she saved by switching to Geico®. His repetition makes me think the insurance giant’s paying Worldwide Pants to do the joke every night. This week, he added a joke every night about Ruth’s favorite item at California Pizza Kitchen® that suggested they were a new sponsor. On successive nights it was chicken ponzi, chicken al-fraudo, and veal scaloponzi. (more…)

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Tags: Amy Winehouse, Bernie Madoff, Bill Maher, Conan O'Brien, Craig Ferguson
Posted Jul 20th 2009 at 3:56 pm in Entertainment, Media Criticism, Political Humor | 18746226 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/tslagle/2009/07/20/late-night-10/This+Week%27s+Late+Night+Awards2009-07-20+22%3A56%3A50Tim+Slagle

My Secret Life as a Conservative Republican

I’m tired of hiding it. Everybody knows anyway. So it’s time to come clean, just like the Klan hoods I’ve got spinning in the dryer as we speak. It’s time for the Neanderthal knuckle-dragging, open mouth-breathing, racist, sexist, Klan and Timothy McVeigh-loving Montana militia member gun nut conservative Republican religious zealot in me to be set free. Repression is a bitch, and so am I.

I go to bed full of hate and wake up the same.  I hate blacks, Hispanics, gays, women, abortion doctors, liberals, Lefties, Democrats, you name ‘em, I hate ‘em if they’re not like me. I especially hate President Obama for being black. Just ask Janeane Garofalo, although being a Stalinist Socialist doesn’t help Obama’s cause any with me. Fact is, Obama could be a GOP Michael Steele Uncle Tom, and I’d still hate him even more than liberals hate Steele. Skin color trumps all. Thank God I was born the right color, or I’d probably kill myself. Wait, the hoods are dry! Be right back. (more…)

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Tags: "teabagging", 9/11, abortion, Adolf Hitler, AIPAC
Posted Jul 15th 2009 at 2:36 pm in Politics | 182706188 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/07/15/my-secret-life-as-a-conservative-republican/My+Secret+Life+as+a+Conservative+Republican2009-07-15+21%3A36%3A48John+T.+Simpson

‘NewsBusted’ 7/14/09 — Fake News from the Right

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Tags: Britney Spears, Captain Sully Sullenberger, Carl Cannon, Congress, Michael Jackson's casket
Posted Jul 14th 2009 at 7:11 pm in Media Criticism, Political Humor, Video | 1833706 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/newsbusters/2009/07/14/%e2%80%98newsbusted%e2%80%99-71409-%e2%80%94-fake-news-from-the-right/%E2%80%98NewsBusted%E2%80%99+7%2F14%2F09+%E2%80%94+Fake+News+from+the+Right2009-07-15+02%3A11%3A05NewsBusters

The Media: Wrong on Jackson, Wrong on Palin

I have been driving around the Midwest for the last six days with my son playing golf, watching baseball games, visiting old friends and doing a few shows. There are a lot of benefits to this well-timed vacation. The weather was perfect and I missed the entire hullabaloo known as the Michael Jackson memorial. I didn’t see a minute of the lead-up coverage, the “service,” or the postmortem, no pun intended.

I was listening to evil talk radio in the car and did hear and read a number of reports on the event.  Depending on whom I was listening to, it was a freak show/circus, a fitting memorial or “not as bad as I thought it might be.”

I always thought of Mr. Jackson as a talented singer/dancer/songwriter who had poor impulse control. I thought this was due to the fact that the leeches and toadies who depended on him for money never said one simple word to him: “No!” Apparently I was very wrong! Until I heard and read reports from his memorial, I was unaware of his role in our society as everything from a civil rights pioneer to basketball coach. Martin Luther King Jr. and Pat Riley, take a break, the king of pop has got your back. I heard he was quite the philanthropist too; although there isn’t a Michael Jackson Foundation, he did at one time donate a reported $22 million to a single California family. (more…)

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Tags: Chicago Tribune, Christians, journalists, Martin Luther King, Michael Jackson
Posted Jul 13th 2009 at 5:03 am in Celebrity News, Media Criticism, Politics, Religion | 180658237 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/07/13/jackson-palin-and-the-media/The+Media%3A+Wrong+on+Jackson%2C+Wrong+on+Palin2009-07-13+12%3A03%3A16Jeffrey+Jena

Daily Gut: I Blame the Jews

So on some recent radio show hosted by the Rev. Al Sharpton, a male caller phoned in with a theory about Michael Jackson’s death. Turns out he didn’t kill himself using a panoply of pharmaceuticals. It was all Sarah Palin’s doing.

Yep, according to the caller, “maybe she did something to Michael Jackson,” and “maybe she’s stepping down because something’s about to come out.”

Now, crazy people calling into radio shows isn’t anything special – I used to call Loveline ten to twenty times a night just to complain about the pixies living in my urinary tract. However, what’s hilarious, is Sharpton’s thoughtful response to the caller’s intriguing theory. He says, “All right, thank you for your call, Ashley. That’s interesting. I’ll put it out, we’ll see. I don’t know.”

“I’ll put it out. We’ll see. I don’t know.”

Nice. (more…)

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Tags: 9/11 Truthers, conspiracy theories, Jews, Rev. Al Sharpton, sarah palin
Posted Jul 9th 2009 at 4:33 pm in Daily Gut, Featured Story, Media Criticism | 180362124 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/07/09/daily-gut-i-blame-the-jews/Daily+Gut%3A+I+Blame+the+Jews2009-07-09+23%3A33%3A48Greg+Gutfeld