Tag: Red Eye

Comedians an offensive speech

The first half of this is about TSA groping and then gets into Marc Maron and Dan Savage on Bill Maher saying how much they hate Republicans, which sparks a more interesting discussion between halftime report personality Andy Levy and Ann Coulter on who is allowed to say what. Levy says that comedians should be able to say whatever they want or at least close to whatever they want without being run out of town because – they’re comedians. Coulter disagree’s and she’s right. Not that comedians shouldn’t be allowed to say whatever they want – but that everyone else SHOULD. The barometer should be “is it funny?”. If you make jokes that are not funny and are just offensive then you deserve backlash. If you make an offensive joke that IS funny or at least has a funny premise to it, whether it’s executed perfectly or not, then you’re off the hook. Coulter uses a bit Alec Baldwin did once that had some conservatives foolishly bashing him over while Coulter gives him a pass because duh – it was comedy, even if you don’t think it’s funny. The disagreement with Levy was that Coulter doesn’t limit her “it was a joke” rules to only comedians but rather anyone except elected politicians. Seems right to me.

Skip to the middle for the start of the comedian vs everyone-else debate.

Also, Iron Man (whats his name again? Sammy Davis Jr, I think?) looks like a more polished Marc Maron.

Ann Coulter’s “Muffins”

What is Ann Coulter saying here that the Producers of the Fox News show Red Eye thought they needed to bleep out with the word “muffin”? Blowjob? Handjob? Cleveland Steamer? Tokyo Sandblaster? what?

Looking for answers I found that Coulter mentioned this on her website:

The link goes to this page which offers the following summary of the segment, but no insight to the mystery word:

Each of Gutfeld’s “Red Eye” panelists also added their thoughts on potential hate crimes charges. Actor and comedian Michael McDonald, formerly of “MADtv” fame, likened this horrific scene to a game of “politically correct poker.”

“To me, I don’t know – regarding the whole hate crime thing, I sort of think it is good intentions with horrible results, yet again,” he said. “And to me making things a hate crime – it’s a little bit like playing a game of politically correct poker where like, ‘I see your two disadvantaged black girls and I give a transgender girl.’”

Nick Gillespie, editor of Reason.com and Reason.tv worried the precedent set by hate crime laws erodes at the privacy of individuals.

“First off, I do think that this is the type of thing we expected from an Arby’s or a Hardees crowd – not a McDonald’s,” Gillespie said. “And also I’m sure the girls worked off the total calories of that meal. But yeah, hate crime legislation is bad because we don’t need to give cops or law enforcement more reason to pry into people’s minds and to screw with people. I mean, you see it out there. You know, they should be arrested and tried for beating somebody senseless and let it go with that.”

Finally, conservative pundit and author of the forthcoming book “Demonic: How the Lib Mob is Endangering America,” Ann Coulter had the most succinct one-liner of the segment.

“No, the beating was one of the grossest things I’ve ever seen,” Coulter said. “It’s the most disturbing on-air performance by a black woman since ‘Precious.’”

She added that the way things have progressed, we are emerged in a society where if you have victim status, you have clout and power.

Bieber loves Canada and babies. Dislikes non-love sex and killing babies.

Turns out the Islamists were right! If Bieber says we’re the great satan, then by God, it shall be so. Where do I sign up for the opposition? “You guys are evil,” he jokingly tells Vanessa Grigoriadis in an upcoming interview with Rolling Stone. That’s a prelude to his position on Socialized health care:

“Canada’s the best country in the world. We go to the doctor and we don’t need to worry about paying him, but here, your whole life, you’re broke because of medical bills. My bodyguard’s baby was premature, and now he has to pay for it. In Canada, if your baby’s premature, he stays in the hospital as long as he needs to, and then you go home.”

Despite Bieber’s belief in government-run health care, the teenage superstar insists he is non-partisan. “I’m not sure about the parties,” he says. “But whatever they have in Korea, that’s bad.”

He tacts left on Obamacare, but on sucking babies into sinks, Biebs has a “don’t” position:

Bieber also says he is pro-life. “I really don’t believe in abortion,” he says. “It’s like killing a baby?” However, when asked if he would support abortion rights in cases of rape, Bieber hesitates: “Um. Well, I think that’s really sad, but everything happens for a reason. I guess I haven’t been in that position, so I wouldn’t be able to judge that.”

My position (slash “accurate observation”) on the “everything happens for a reason” nonsense is that it’s a poor explanation for the unexplainable, but interesting about this is that Rolling Stone updated their pre-release of this quote to “correct” that Bieber added “I don’t know what that reason would be”. Kinda weird, but I guess a decent save. The dumb part is ever using that phrase, since if you believe it then it applies to things as horrific as rape, but saying it out loud illustrates how crazy it sounds so Bie-B-J was smart enough to at least backpeddle on it a bit. I give him a pass. But only cuz I can’t stay mad at that face. It’s also totally lame to say “I think something is wrong. but if someone does it, then I can’t say it is wrong” but the kids a music celeb – he dont need nuna that noise, so again the backpeddling is acceptable. More on that:

The edited version reflects Bieber’s uncertainty and confusion about the issue, rather than a glib absolutism (as it first appeared). No word yet from the magazine’s representatives on how the error came to their attention, though writer Vanessa Grigoriadis Tweeted: “online version removed a line” and printed the line in full, yesterday. (She also noted that Bieber, due to his far-reaching cultural influence, “deserves to be asked all questions,” including ones about thorny political issues.)

On Premarital sex it’s strictly “only for love”:

“I don’t think you should have sex with anyone unless you love them,” Bieber said. When asked about premarital sex, however, he was a little vaguer. “I think you should just wait for the person you’re … in love with.”

And the most important public policy insight revealed of course was his alleged Gomez affair:

While Bieber has yet to confirm whether or not he’s dating Gomez, Rolling Stone reporter Vanessa Grigoridias notes in her profile that she caught a peek of his computer background, which was a picture of him and Gomez against an orange sunset. His manager Scooter Braun told the magazine that the young star is “absolutely girl-crazy.”

OOoOOooo. Some-ones-got-ah-guuuurl-freeennnnd. teehee.

Here are the Red Eye folks talking about the whole “America is Evil” stuff…

To sex or not to sex

Right after Newsweek informed us that Seniors are having a lot of sex, Steven Crowder, a Christian conservative online video maker (or something?) and Fox News contributor writes a column for FoxNews.com titled Why NOT having sex may be good for you. and yes, it’s about abstinence.

While Christians telling us how awesome it is to not have sex strikes a lot of us as… awkward.. Crowder weathers the subject in a decent manner, mostly by noting that it is America’s last taboo. Advocate anything you want or advocate NOT doing anything you want, but if it’s sex, then you make people uncomfortable and are subject to a higher scorn. Dude has a point there.

The best line of the column is an observation I’ve made myself (hence why it’s the best), which is that liberals exempt sex from their list of things they feel obligated and entitled to scold you for doing or legally prevent you from doing. -and I don’t say that as a knock against liberals, as it should be noted that I have no problem scolding or legally preventing people from doing things I judge in my own infinite wisdom to be bad for them individually or society at large, thus I agree with a lot of the fatty food regulations, calorie restrictions, soda bans, smoking bans, etc. Intellectual honesty just requires that I point out the contradiction in my sides advocacy:

Sure, Michelle Obama can run around the country and condemn little fatties for inhaling Little Debbies, but if you try and apply that same helpful, healthful concept to sex, it’s seen as pushy and/or prudish.

It’s a logically sound and solid statement. yet still.. passionate advocates of abstinence still creep me out.

Listen, one doesn’t need to be religious (nor a rocket scientist) to see the value of abstinence. Let’s disregard the immediately eliminated risk of increasingly popular STD’ and STI’s. Heck, let’s even discount the statistical data showing that sexual exclusivity seems overwhelmingly conducive to a successful marriage .Abstinence also provides an incomparable bond of trust in a relationship.

Yes, I admit it, I’m in a long-term relationship and I’m abstinent. Scandalous, I know. It’s an incredibly difficult thing to do (mostly for me, because she’s way out of my league), and that’s what makes it so important.

Okay, I like that. got to admit. I think it’s sweet. and I think its even sweeter that my now infant, future bride is preparing to save herself for me in the 10-20 years from now when we wed.

Crowder appeared on Red Eye to talk about his column and the subject at large and the result is pure awesome. Red Eye airs at 3AM eastern on the Fox News Channel and it’s pretty much the best show on cable news.

The creepy leering glare by Crowder in the videos freezeshot is just a bonus:

When trying to decode why I am not on Crowders side of the issue, especially when I acknowledge that he makes multiple solid points, I figured it all comes down to the quote from the clip that “ya, i’m at a higher risk of getting an STD. i’m also at a higher risk of having fun”.

It’s juvenile, but its lulz worthy. and true.

Justin Biebers hair: the root of all evil?

The Bieber hair bowl is a shameful but necessary cut for many young males. i myself desperately want one – and my hair is ALMOST at the appropriate length to make it possible! These are urges i fight every day.

“they want his mane but they wont say his name… im talking of course about Justin Bieber the 16 going on delicious pop star”… and people doubt that this is the best show on cable news?

Call it the Flip and Switch, the Flow, or the Twitch: the Bieber hairstyle — with sideswept bangs that end about an inch past where the Beatles snipped theirs off — is everywhere. Tim Urban wore it on “American Idol” before he was voted off in late April, and Miles Heizer wears it on the NBC show “Parenthood” to play a brooding teenager. The idea is that the front-combed bangs are so long that they must be flicked aside constantly with a whole lot of attitude.

The majority of boys in the sixth-grade class of Ms. Friedman’s son have the Bieber. “You can’t see any eyes,” she said, describing the scene at a school dance she chaperoned recently. “There are no eyes, and there’s a lot of flipping.”

Just last week, a boy who came to Cozy’s Cuts surreptitiously showed his stylist a picture of Justin Bieber on his camera and asked her to replicate the look. “He said, ‘That’s what I want — don’t tell my mom,’ ” said Ms. Friedman, whose three salons charge $29.95 for the cut.

-from the article Bangs Like Justin’s (but Don’t Say So), in the New York Times.. whose motto is “all the news that’s fit to print”…

Alison Brie is a cool chick

I just watched this Red Eye and she was great enough to make me investigate this Crazy Men show thing that I hear the kids talking about (something about Austin Powers, lots of sex and smoking?) and her new show Community. She’s one of the few in the business that I like to call “not a raging bitch ass shallow c*nt whore with no personality who should die”. I like her.