The Meta-Irony and Lack of Self-Awareness of this Vanity Fair article could fold time and space in on itself.

Vanity Fair congratulates Jason Isaacs for using teachable moment to complain about the Emmy's being too political...

...because Sean Spicer was involved.

I kid you not.

//But there is at least one man who used it as a teachable moment. One man who clocked the former press secretary and saw that it was not good. One man who made jokes at Spicey’s expense on Instagram. That hero is Lucius Malfoy. Well, Jason Isaacs, who played Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films, and who is also starring in the upcoming CBS All Access Star Trek: Discovery. At the Netflix post-Emmys party on Sunday night he took a photo with Spicer in the background and wrote an unforgettable caption that started thusly:, “Hoping to forget politics for one night and bask in other people’s glory at the Netflix Emmys party, and who do I spot at the bar late at night but the poisonous purveyor of lies, Sean Spicer. What were the Emmys thinking celebrating this modern day Goebbels, who was the thuggish face of Orwellian doublespeak just moments ago?”//

Another reason to not watch the new Star Trek series.

Another goofy Hollywood idiot self-identifies.

//Ashley Judd lowers the tone at star-studded DC women's march by reading poem claiming Trump has 'wet dreams' about Ivanka 'his favorite sex symbol' and comparing him to HITLER//

So, "Dissent is Patriotic" again?

Because last month it was subversive.

It is nice to see push-back on the pop front.

'I didn't hear Meryl Streep give a shout out to the mentally challenged boy tortured on Facebook': Kellyanne Conway piles in on Trump's attack on Clinton-backing Golden Globe winner

Meryl was concerned about a fake story concerning a disabled man, but ignored the attack on a disabled man by people shouting anti-Trump slogans.

Why is it that the left has hoaxes and the right has videotaped evidence?

Nothing is more likely to swing rural white voters from the Rust Belt quite like the Dowager Queen of Hollywood expressing her disapproval of their selection.
Meryl Streep tells the Deplorables, "We are not amused."

She's like a member of the French aristocracy saying "How could we have known" on the eve of the French Revolution.

Mollie Hemingway makes some good points:

//Media reporter Alex Griswold wrote, “I think those who share Hollywood’s politics don’t realize how tiresome it is that being lectured at is a prerequisite to follow pop culture.” It’s not just Hollywood. It’s a political media that treated Mitt Romney — Mitt Freaking Romney! — as the second coming of Hitler. It’s a political media that has never cared to understand, much less fairly explain, conservative viewpoints, instead running after Republican politicians shouting “What about your gaffes!”

Yes, if you rudely dismiss and sneer and treat half the country like they are monsters worthy of extermination for enough decades, you should not be surprised to find them voting for Donald Trump as a weapon of last resort. If you disparage and mock and systematically dismantle all norms, tear down every traditional institution, deny objective reality, and preach that all truth is relative, you should not act like the rise of Donald Trump is such a surprise.//

And:

//First off, Trump is horribly rude. He hits people hard, commenting on their looks, their strength, their demeanor. He mocks what they say. At its worst, this is embarrassing behavior to witness in a grown man and a sure sign that our civil discourse is suffering. At its best, he shows some much needed fight in a world where bullies are able to shut down differing opinions through control of the news cycle.//

Too true.

Award Shows - So that the cultured despisers of average Americans can come out one night a year and applaud themselves for their courage.

I've got a collection of House DVDs that I am willing to sell cheap.

//Laurie, who was honored with a best-supporting Golden Globe for playing avaricious arms dealer Richard Roper in AMC's limited series The Night Manager, admitted he was worried about the potentially chilling effect of the incoming Trump administration on award shows.

"I suppose it's made more amazing by the fact that I'll be able to say I won this at the last ever Golden Globes," said the actor, who started out in comedy as one-half of Jeeves & Wooster. "I don't mean to be gloomy it's just that it has the words ‘Hollywood,’ ‘Foreign,’ and ‘Press’ in the title. I just don't know ... I also think to some Republicans even the word ‘association’ is slightly sketchy."//

This joke is so unfunny in light of the absence of similar jokes when Obama tapped the phones of Fox's James Rosen and had the IRS target conservatives.

Enemies lists were just great back then.

What is the difference between this and racism?

The President of Panem distances himself from the unwashed masses in District 12:

// Actor Donald Sutherland said that he is “ashamed” of being a “white male” during an interview on The Today Show. (scroll down for video)

Donald recalled an incident where he was chastised by actor Helen Mirren, “[She] came up to me on the set and…she said, ‘You are the most privileged person on Earth.’ I said, ‘How can you say that?’ And she said, ‘You are a white male.'”

Co-Host on the show, Tamron Hall, asked, “And your reply to that was?”

Sutherland declared, “There’s no reply. I was ashamed. I was stunned. And I have gotten more ashamed.”

But that was only the beginning of Donald’s anti-white, anti-male rant: “It’s interesting to realize that you are seen as an integral part of a group that many of whom are mendacious, misogynist, of bigots, racists, and it’s appalling.”//

That idea about holding a trial to get the facts out is really working...

..as Hollywood liberals play the race card and stoke up up racial anger by repeating things that were proven not to be true.

David Simon - involved with The Wire - pontificates:

You can stand your ground if you’re white, and you can use a gun to do it. But if you stand your ground with your fists and you’re black, you’re dead.

In the state of Florida, the season on African-Americans now runs year round. Come one, come all.  And bring a handgun. The legislators are fine with this blood on their hands. The governor, too. One man accosted another and when it became a fist fight, one man — and one man only — had a firearm. The rest is racial rationalization and dishonorable commentary.

If I were a person of color in Florida, I would pick up a brick and start walking toward that courthouse in Sanford. Those that do not, those that hold the pain and betrayal inside and somehow manage to resist violence — these citizens are testament to a stoic tolerance that is more than the rest of us deserve.  I confess, their patience and patriotism is well beyond my own.

Behold, the lewd, pornographic embrace of two great American pathologies:  Race and guns, both of which have conspired not only to take the life of a teenager, but to make that killing entirely permissible.  I can’t look an African-American parent in the eye for thinking about what they must tell their sons about what can happen to them on the streets of their country.  Tonight, anyone who truly understands what justice is and what it requires of a society is ashamed to call himself an American.//

Argh...NO!NO!NO!..First Amendment...*hack*sputter*cough*cough...

 What is wrong with these people?

Have we become the fargin' Germans circa 1932?

 Why are we suddenly seeing Americans wanting to give the government dictatorial powers over every damn thing?

David Arquette: Congress should consider regulating ammunition in films

There seem to be a lot more of those who appear to have turned the State into an Idol that is the source of truth, power and love (as long as it is in the control of the "right sort of people.")

"Our Lord and Savior, Barack Obama."

Well, that's according to Jamie Foxx. If you don't believe it, check the video.



The left, of course, will do the usual soft-peddling that it's one statement by one actor and it doesn't mean a thing.

In a way, they're right, although it's passing strange that statements from conservatives and Christians are always given maximal literacy and are passed for nuances of unspoken meaning.

They are right because we know that people say things they don't mean all the time. People speak in hyperbole because people lack the skills to communicate what they really mean. Jamie Foxx probably lacks an idiom for talking about a charismatic political leader - perhaps the word he was looking for was Duce or Furhrer? - so he lapses into an idiom he does know, that of religion.

Of course, it's a truism that that which is our highest good is our god, and, so, while Foxx is being hyperbolic, he may be communicating something important.

Mark Shea explains:

It is one of the clearest symptoms of a culture that has become, as our so emphatically is, utterly trivial at its core. We are a Paris Hilton people who clutch at the power, but not the responsibility, of gods.

Those who make blasphemous statements or issue “Blasphemy Challenges” think that something is proven when God does not strike people with lightning. But that, of course, is because they know nothing of the God they blaspheme. The punishment for sin is typically the sin itself. Blasphemy does not result in lightning, but in lightening: you become a moral and intellectual lightweight. A culture like ours is now of such gossamer insubstantiality that almost anything can blow it away.

*Jeez*

...just *jeez*.

And just last night, my oldest daughter was saying how Fred Willard creeped her out when the new incarnation of "Whose line is it?" came on with him as host.

And, I, of course, said that he seemed like a nice guy.

*Jeez.*

The War on the Normal, Continued.

Troops boo Kathy Griffin for mean Bristol Palin joke.




Vox Day nails the problem that the Left has in these mean-spirited attacks on the Palin clan - the more the left attacks Palin and members of the Palin family - and the meaner and more personal the attack - the more that "average people" rally around Sarah Palin:

I never cease to find it amusing watching one clueless, shallow, and ignorant individual castigate others for their clueless and shallow ignorance. While Blow is correct and the attacks from the Left and the elite moderates of the Republican party only add to Palin's already formidable popular appeal, it's far too late to declare a moratorium on discussing her. No one cares if she's hollow, (she's a POLITICIAN, after all, and is therefore hollow by definition), no one of any political sophistication believes she's any more dim than the average politician, and she's demonstrably far less mean than her critics.

The Lifestyles of the Vapid and Famous.

From Wiki's entry on the World War II spy thriller "Shining Through" starring Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffith:

It was while working on this film that actress Melanie Griffith became aware, for the very first time in her life, that Germans had done bad things to Jews during World War II, and she was quite outraged about it. This earned her the nickname "Brainiac" which was used in Toronto-area print media for some time afterward.^[4]

Heh.

Crazy Has-Been Actress tries to Restore Hollywood Street Cred.

There was a point in 1990s when Roseanne Barr nee  Roseanne Arnold bestrode Hollywood like a one-woman multimedia Titan.  She was so successful that she got to drop her last name and become, simply, Roseanne.

Now, it seems that she is just a bitter, humorless non-entity.  Check out this self-written, self-indulgent pseudo-obit.  Is there anything actually funny in it?  It certainly reeks of bitterness.

In vino veritas, or in Roseanne's case, narcissism lets her reveal what she is really thinking in this bit of bigotry:

the pedo priests are trying to cover


up the number of LITTLE GIRLS they have molested too, as if that doesn't matter as much as what happens to boys. Trust me, the number of girls raped and molested by priests is at least double the boys. They are trying to cover it all up so that they can end up purging gay priests, and laying the blame on them. The fact is pedos like to rape both boys and girls, and only a small number of pedos are exclusively into male children.

I am starting to think that any parent who takes their kids to catholic churches from now on should lose custody. Taking your kid where you know sex offenders hang out is inexcusable!!!

And then there is this:

wasn't it great that the LIGHT


exposed the Catholic Church on Easter Day as a corrupt satanic pedophile cult? The Light is Intelligent Design Itself! Truth, and Intelligence are G-d at the speed of Light!!

OK, Roseanne, now it's time for you to wait in the shadows until you get that call to make a guest appearance on "The Love Boat."

"He" was such a cute little girl

It's like watching a train wreck.

According to JammieWearingFool, "Now 'he' just looks like John Candy reincarnated."




It sounds like Chastity Bono never really had a chance.

A Teachable Moment.

Victor Davis Hansen uses actor Tom Hanks' recent statements as a vehicle for exploring salient facts about WWII that don't fit within the "America is Irremediably Racist" liberal narrative.

Hanks made the following sententious observation:

“Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as ‘yellow, slant-eyed dogs’ that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what’s going on today?”

Hanson responds:

Hanks may not have been quoted correctly; and his remarks may have been impromptu and poorly expressed; and we should give due consideration to the tremendous support Hanks has given in the past both to veterans and to commemoration of World War II; and his new HBO series could well be a fine bookend to Band of Brothers. All that said, Hanks’ comments were sadly infantile pop philosophizing offered by, well, an ignoramus.

I'm coming around to the notion that when people verbalize their thoughts, we are mistaken to expect logical precision and immediate nuance.  Verbal expression just does not enjoy the element of reflection and deliberation that is provided by writing.  So, it seems fair to throttle back a bit.

And, yet, it is also true that if in vino veritas, then what a person really thinks can often be revealed in the broad scope of what they say, when they are not nuancing their thoughts and being logically precise. If Hanks boils the Pacific Theater as being the product of American racist xenophobia, then he simply needs to read more so that he can say things that show some knowledge about the subject.  At the very least, Hanks ought to say things that reflect his awareness of Pearl Harbor and Japanese racism, including the Rape of Nanking and the treatment of Koreans.

Hanson also observes:

4) What is remarkable about the aftermath of WWII is the almost sudden postwar alliance between Japan and the U.S., primarily aimed at stopping the Soviets, and then later the communist Chinese. In other words, the United States, despite horrific battles in places like Iwo Jima and Okinawa, harbored little official postwar racial animosity in its foreign policy, helped to foster Japanese democracy, provided aid, and predicated its postwar alliances — in the manner of its prewar alliances — on the basis of ideology, not race. Hanks apparently has confused the furor of combat — in which racial hatred often becomes a multiplier of emotion for the soldier in extremis — with some sort of grand collective national racial policy that led to and guided our conduct.


An innately racist society could not have gone through the nightmare of Okinawa (nearly 50,000 Americans killed, wounded, or missing), and yet a mere few months later have in Tokyo, capital of the vanquished, a rather enlightened proconsul MacArthur, whose deference to Japanese religion, sensibilities, and tradition ensured a peaceful transition to a rather radical new independent and autonomous democratic culture.

Good point.  Given the Japanese treatment of Asians, there is no reason to think that a Japanese occupation of America - if such an unlikely thing were to have occurred - would in any way resemble the American occupation of Japan.

More than likely, it would have looked like the nightmare imagined by C.M. Kornbluth in his classic novella, "Two Dooms," which, come to think of it, is as much of an apologia for inventing and using atomic weapons as has ever been given in any work of science fiction.  It is probably not a coincidence that Kornbluth was an American infantryman during the Battle of the Bulge, and might have been sent to participate in the invasion of Japan if Hiroshima and Nagasaki had not intervened.

Spot the Idiot - Sean Penn Liberal Fascist Edition

Why do Hollywood types seem to have a perenial man-crush on Leftwing dictators?  And how do they justify in their own minds their own morphing from libertarians promoters of freedom to supporters of repression for speech-crimes?

At the end of a discussion of Haiti on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, actor Sean Penn went on a rant in defense of Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez, suggesting prison time for American journalists: "every day, this elected leader is called a dictator here, and we just accept it! And accept it. And this is mainstream media, who should – truly, there should be a bar by which one goes to prison for these kinds of lies."

Whoopi Goldberg on The View defends pedophilia.

Despite giving the thirteen year old quaalude and champagne,"It wasn't rape-rape," and the rest of the world sees thirteen year olds "differently.

Amazing what liberals will accept.

What's there to worry about?

It's not like members of the power elite lump us into ungoodthoughtcrimething status.

Cybil Shepard channels her social class - which is a lot closer to power than those she stereotypes:

Tennessee-born beauty Cybill Shepherd definitely isn’t one to waste words -- and had she no qualms in speaking out about who she thought was to blame for the passing of Proposition 8 in California's last election, which led to gay and lesbian marriage rights being overturned.

"The Mormons and Catholics," she told Tarts at the recent L.A Gay & Lesbian Center’s "An Evening With Women" celebration in Beverly Hills. "Most of the money came from Utah, it’s very unfortunate."

She also shares:

"I’m a Christian Pagan Buddhist Goddess worshiper, but I’m also a feminist. I think the ultimate glass ceiling is God, in another words, if we think God is a man, then we make man a God, and I studied and learned that there is a whole other history of the worshiping of the great mother," she explained. "I really think that probably God is a woman, that helped me to break through that celestial glass ceiling."

A "Christian Pagan Buddhist Goddess worshipper" and a "feminist"?

How does she manage to hold those two wildly different views at the same time?