MTV piles on the Palin family; host Russell Brand promotes Obama, bashes America, Bush, and Christians; viewer backlash; transcript added
Scroll down for updates…transcript added…the Associated Press gives two thumbs up, naturally…
Obama’s Viacom thugs strike.
Reader M.G. writes that the MTV Awards show was the latest venue for vicious Palin family-bashing:
“I know a few people at Viacom and I tuned in to see the MTV music awards tonight. I was disgusted and appalled when the British host Russell Brand started begging America to vote for Barack Obama. Like his opinion matters. He’s not even a citizen. What’s worse is that he attacked Sarah Palin’s pregnant daughter. He made a snide joke that her baby was not a boy or a girl, but a P.R. stunt.”
You can watch Brand’s opening screed here. This cretin’s claim to fame? Dressing up as Osama bin Laden on the day after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
I’ve transcribed some of his Obama endorsement and GOP-bashing, which occurred barely 3-4 minutes into the show:
BRAND: “Now, as a representative of the global community and a visitor from abroad, I don’t want to come across a little bit biased, but could I please ask of you people of America, to PLEASE ELECT BARACK OBAMA. Please! On behalf of the world. (Camera pans to singers Chris Brown and Britney Spears applauding and cheering.) Some people, I think they’re called racists, say that America is not ready for a black president. But I know America to be a forward-thinking country, right. Because, otherwise, you know, would you have let that retarded cowboy fellow be president for eight years?
We were very impressed. It was nice of you to let him have a go. Because in England, George Bush wouldn’t be trusted with a pair of scissors.
I am obliged by broadcasting law to show some balance in this situation, which means, uh, the Republicans might be alright. Sarah Palin. She’s a VILF! A vice president I’d like to…fumble, fondle, I dunno. I do feel a little bit sorry for her daughter, getting pregnant, poor kid. Is it a boy? Is it a girl? It’s a P.R. stunt. Come on. Be honest.
And I feel most sorry for that poor teenaged father. Boy. One minute, he’s just a teenaged lad in Alaska having joyful, unprotected sex. And the next minute: Get to the Republican convention. I think that is the best safe sex message of all time. Use a condom or become Republican! …That boy will spend the rest of his life masturbating while wearing a condom…
…New music, new president, and brand new America. And you people deserve it after eight years of Bush. I promise you, you deserve it…
MTV, of course, is a division of left-wing media giant Viacom. Viacom’s PAC is among Barack Obama’s biggest supporters. Last year, Viacom PAC forked over $80,200 in contributions to Obama — ranked 19th highest among his PAC donors.
By August 2008, National Amusements, media kingpin Sumner Redstone’s political cash machine, had contributed $352,603 to the Obama camp.
Through the company Redstone owns controlling interests CBS, Viacom (which owns MTV, BET), Paramount Pictures, and Dreamworks…Beyond the six figure donation, Redstone can donate “in-kind” with favorable press to the Obama campaign – look for the media maven to ride out his agenda to the fullest extent possible.
In other words: Expect the Hollyweird crowd to continue using every entertainment and gossip outlet available them to tear down the Palin family to salvage their precious Obamessiah. Smell that? It’s the bitter odor of desperation.
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Wow. Check out the viewer backlash at the MTV Labs Blog. Looks like Brand also mocked Christian youths who wear promise rings and ridiculed the popular Jonas Brothers band as well. A sample:
Cullen 4life 09.08.08 | 12:55 AM
I was soooo excited for the VMAs (to see the Twilight cast in particular), but I hope that MTV realizes that around 1/2 of america doesn’t share that idiot’s views, and that I turned the channel when he started making a joke of Bristol Palin’s teenage pregnance. How dare he sink so low as to humiliate that poor girl on National TV, call those of us NOT supporting Obama racist or insult our country and our President. I don’t care what he thinks, but I hope MTV realizes this is their last Award show I will tune into watch. We do not watch MTV for political commentary, nor are we swayed by his remarks. I think Democrats should be just as outraged to have this piece of English TRASH speaking on their behalf.
upset MTV fan (09.07.08 | 11:43 PM)
I think it was very rude for MTV allowing that man to make fun of “promise rings” and the people who have chosen to stand for their beliefs, like the Jonas Brothers. I believe that actions should be taken to repremand him and the people who allowed this to continue throught the entire program. My friends and I have always watched the award show and have always been in support of MTV, but after tonight I have no respect for the Awards show or MTV. What really conserns me are the millions of children who are at the age where they get their behaviors and ideas from media like MTV; many who were wearing promise rings and keeping the promise may now give up the ring and the promise inorder to please the media, who are the trend setters. I would really like to see this man punished for his actions and speech. He also bad mouthed the republicans and incouraged sexual intercourse.
Nautiguy (09.07.08 | 11:43 PM)
Morons, what were you thinking? Did you honestly think that we would just roll over and accept the political BS you tried to shove down our throats on the VMA’s with that Brit Ahole. It’s ad enough Americans are trashing our leaders (good or bad) in front of the world, we certainly don’t need some foreign idiot like Brand acting as your surogate to express your political views. I think you can see by the other blogs that you gravely miscalculated your audience. If this is the kind of Rabid leftist agenda I can expect from Obama supprters, then McCain/Palin is the way I’m going. Good job idiots.
6string_wannabe (09.07.08 | 11:43 PM)
I’m sure I’m one of many who was very disappointed in the choice of host for the 2008 VMAs. Russell Brand was way out of line making the comments he did about the Jonas Brothers and their personal choices. I don’t care what your reputation is, to disrespect and mock the values of other human beings in front of millions of people is completely unacceptable. I am a fan of the Jonas Brothers, but that is not the fuel behind these comments. It is a relief to finally have a group of people in the entertainment business who are not ashamed to let people know what they believe in and not give in to the pressures of society; to poke fun at that is incredibly immature. So to you Mr. Brand, if this is how you plan to get ahead in life, good luck.
illegalporchplant (09.07.08 | 11:43 PM)
You couldn’t get a job as a teacher and be the superintendent after 143 days of experience—From the time Barack Obama was sworn in as a United State Senator, to the time he announced he was forming a Presidential exploratory committee, he logged 143 days of experience in the Senate is this who MTV thinks we should vote for?
bholder78 (09.07.08 | 11:42 PM)
I cant believe MTV is actually showing it again.
BT (09.07.08 | 11:42 PM)
I have been a loyal fan of MTV for years.. I was so excited to watch the VMA’s this year as always.. As soon as the show comes on you have a host who isn’t even an american bashing our president and giving one sided opinions of John Mccain.. All I can say is that I was so grossed out I turned the channel never to return until you have that weirdo come back on and publicly say sorry for the remarks made.. The VMA’s is not any place for political views.. I wanted to see my fav singers win well deserved awards not a total freak bashing my country. Not to mention making fun of upstanding young men who are setting a good example to numerous young adults…
MTVSUCKS (09.07.08 | 11:42 PM)
Go home Brand and take mtv with you!!!!!!!
bbuterfly128 (09.07.08 | 11:42 PM)
Ya’ll might also want to try to complain with the FCC on the insulting remarks and sexual comments made!!! COMPLETELY INNAPROPRIATE FOR TELEVISION!!!!!!!!!!! TELL AND COMPLAIN TO, EVERYONE.
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Denise371 (09.07.08 | 11:41 PM)
I am totally disgusted with MTV. Why did you have to choose an idiot like Russell Brand to be host of the VMA’s. He was vulgar and this show is not a vehicle for anyone’s political opinions. This show is supposed to entertain us not lecture us on who the next president should be. Everyone has their own opinions. Also, you should know that kids watch this show too!!! This year’s show was not rated G and I think the fans deserve a very BIG APOLOGY for this disaster.
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omysweetestsinx (09.07.08 | 11:41 PM)who cares about the “entertainers” im still soooo pissed about the host saying that crap about our president and the republican canidates.. i am a PROUD mccain and palin supporter! you lost a lot of your viewers and im never watching yall again… you need to apologize to everyone… this is out right unprofessional and innapproperate… im appalled
#alyssarae22 (09.07.08 | 11:40 PM)
i hope you learned you lesson on how to choose a host. that guy was nasty, disrespectful, and full of ****! not only to jonas brothers but to everyone with morals. “a little sex never hurt anyone”? seriously? what about ****** STD’s?! WOW I think you owe an apology to everyone who watched the vmas that were most likely offended by it.
beauty (09.07.08 | 11:40 PM)
MTV’s so out of control. The idiot with the english accent they had hosting the awards ruined the show. People don’t watch to be irritated, we watch for the entertainment. I for one, and I know I’m not alone, will never watch the MTV awards again. The smuck host needs to go back to the UK and shut his big ugly trashy mouth. The people of this great country do not need the ugly idiot host or MTV to try and persuade us who to vote for. MTV you really messed up this time. Over and out, one proud American.
JGot2 (09.07.08 | 11:39 PM)
That was possibly the worst awards show i have ever seen. That was definitely the worst host. The guy was not funny at all and was so rudely liberal that he embarrassed the liberal party. Everyone in the audience was wondering what in the hell was going on. MTV should be embarrassed for the show that they put on.
And that’s just the first page of more than 4,000 comments.
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Update: More backlash. On the official MTV Video Music Awards site, you can watch the full video. MTV promoted “The Genius of Russell Brand” — prompting tons of commenters to bash MTV’s Obama-promoting propagandist:
alibrooke 09.08.08 | 12:15 AM
I’m very disappointed in MTV’s choice for Russell Brand as the host. He was horrible. MTV should be ashamed of his performance tonight.
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holly 09.08.08 | 12:14 AM
I wonder if MTV seriously looked into this guy because, he is by far the worst host EVER!!! First of all i cant believe how many people on here like russell because he said “VOTE FOR OBAMA”, this had absolutely nothing to with the election and it shouldnt have been brought up at all especially from someone who has no say at all. Thanks but we didnt want your 2 cents!! I can only imagine how much mtv’s ratings will go down after this. No one should think its right to put something so good, down. That being THE JONAS BROTHERS purity rings!!! Personally i think its sexy how they’ve stayed so committed to staying virgins its something new and something our country needs right about now! And if you have nothing good to say about Russell, please DO speak your mind!!!
kaseyk68 09.08.08 | 12:11 AM
Russell Brand not only embarrased all of America but he embarrased himself. I believe that one should be a citizen of this great country to have a say in how we run our democracy. His shots at Govenor Palin and her family were uncalled for. My friends and I looked forward to the VMA’s this year but couldn’t have been more dissapointed. Ideally by the disrespect shown by Brand. MTV dropped the ball on this one. I will no longer watch MTV anymore due to the lack of respect shown to some of its viewers.
holly 09.08.08 | 12:14 AM
I wonder if MTV seriously looked into this guy because, he is by far the worst host EVER!!! First of all i cant believe how many people on here like russell because he said “VOTE FOR OBAMA”, this had absolutely nothing to with the election and it shouldnt have been brought up at all especially from someone who has no say at all. Thanks but we didnt want your 2 cents!! I can only imagine how much mtv’s ratings will go down after this. No one should think its right to put something so good, down. That being THE JONAS BROTHERS purity rings!!! Personally i think its sexy how they’ve stayed so committed to staying virgins its something new and something our country needs right about now! And if you have nothing good to say about Russell, please DO speak your mind!!!
#thankyoumtv 09.08.08 | 12:14 AM
Just in case you missed it, this is the same guy who dressed up as Osama bin Laden the day after September 11th on British MTV and then was fired. Need I say more?
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Update: The Associated Press gives the former drug and sex addict Russell Brand’s “candid” performance two thumbs up…
Russell Brand seemed a little out of place as the host at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Not because he’s British or relatively unknown in America, as most of the chatter was about before Sunday night’s show from Los Angeles.
It was because Brand injected the VMAs with blunt politics, self deprecation, unabashed sexuality, and, yes, plenty of off-color remarks.
…Early in his opening monologue, Brand pleaded: “Please, America, elect Barack Obama. On behalf of the world.”
…Partisanship, of course, can hurt sales. But Brand was refreshingly ignorant of many of the concerns that keep the lips of American pop stars zipped. For good measure—and surely stepping over the line—Brand referred to President Bush as “that retarded cowboy fellow.”
After all, Brand has built his image on his candor and edginess. He’s well-known across the pond as a standup comic, TV show host and radio DJ—but more so as an outlandish and hedonistic figure who speaks unabashedly about his prior drug and sex addictions.
… Brand surely won at least as many enemies as fans on Sunday night. But in contrast to some of the personality-less pop stars this “American Idol”-crazy country has been producing lately, an import was a welcome change.
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Over my frickin’ dead body. We will NOT rescue a single Euro from the socialist Islamic swamp in which they are drowning.
No way. No how. NEVER.
Those bastards can sink into the pool of obscurity for the ages, for all I care. We sacrificed blood and treasure for them in two wars, and one cold war.
They can go to frickin’ HELL!
Of course Republicans don’t have many fans in Hollywood. There are lots of gay people there, and Republican show nothing but utter disrespect to gay people. There are also many creative types and Republicans tend to stifle creativity whenever they can. Stop acting so surprised.
I enlisted in the USMC out of high school in ‘95, but a MEPS doctor told me I was unfit for military service because I was prescribed an inhaler for asthma when I was five years old, but if you want me, you have me too.
I happened to catch this no-talent clown’s Palin riff – it didn’t seem like there were many people laughing in the audience. I’m pleasantly surprised there has been such a negative backlash, even on MTV’s own site. There may be hope for the millenials yet.
This no-talent guy is also the butt of all jokes. The Brits don’t even like the guy.
Can we have someone rescind his work visa and send his butt back over the pond?
Yeah the days when Hollywood was dominated by conservative patriotic Americans, the much acclaimed golden years are gone but not forgotten. The conservatives will be making a charge back in to the spotlight and when they do, we’ll be waiting. We’ve been waiting a long time there is a great hunger (and that means money) for Hollywood entertainment in the glorious tradition of the not too distant past.
Bob Hope on democrats.
TG — that’s a classic!
Hah! So true, isn’t it?
What?? So gay people can’t be Republicans or conservative? Tell that to Tammy Bruce….
And by the way, I am what you would call a mountain man, gun nut, ultra conservative, Vietnam vet….super conservative. I also happen to be a very good artist and an excellent singer and guitar player.
Typical bigoted left wing loon….
Yes BlameAmericaLast, its all about content. That’s why I like to call these post golden years, the golden shower years. Oh once in a great while they get it right like Star Wars, but then they go and change it. Censorship!
That is so fierce the way you stood up to those mean people… you go boy.
Ummm, I lived in SanFran for a while, Im cool with the gays. What are you saying?
I just sent this email to Viacom (owner of MTV):
My recently deceased brother suffered from many physical and mental handicaps. I am deeply disappointed that you would allow a “comedian” to use an insulting term for a cheap, unfunny political joke. I would also like to point out that MTV is not even a politically-themed station, so I am at a loss for an explanation on why the “comedian” needed to make this poor joke. You have successfuly insulted millions of Americans with disabilities, their families, and other Americans in general by having a British person lecture us about our domestic politics in an insulting manner. I will choose to skip past MTV during my channel surfing in the future.
Someone really should tell Russell Brand that he’s not Jon Bon Jovi of comedy, & that his 80’s metal hair is a little out of style..
Besides that, he really isn’t funny anyway.
I mean none of it was even remotely clever..
Russel Brand (who?) has no business calling anyone retarded given what he looks like. Seriously. I have added him to my dead pool. I’m guessing he’ll be back on the heroin before too long, failed and miserable and die of an overdose probably in the same year that Ann Wilson will die from choking on a ham sandwich. May seem harsh, but I just call it like I see it.
Has anyone else looked at the Obama logo upside-down. There’s something about it that’s a little ominous.
This British guy Brand…I’m a total news and info junkie and I’ve never heard of him. Must mean he’s a nobody.
After the 1980’s, MTV has totally sucked.
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You can stand stand beside me… I would be honored.
and , yes, I doubled the word stand…… sue me.
MTV. One of the many reasons I don’t have cable or satellite. Major waste of my time and hard earned money. Disgusting. But, they don’t give a rip what I think of them, anyway. I’m WAY beyond their demographics as a “charter” babyboomer. Oh, well…I just sit back and enjoy being “out of touch”…!
You really need to stop making these sweeping statements about Republicans. Someone mentioned Tammy Bruce (lesbian) and this little group Log Cabin Republicans( I guess you think they disrespect themselves?). You need to respond to the thread topic. Maybe you don’t because you agree with everything Brand said and therefore cannot/will not dispute it.
Good for you, the Republican party (as evidenced in it’s party platform) is ardently anti-gay and I’m just guessing that doesn’t go down so well considering there are so many gays in the entertainment industry.
No fight intended, but honestly, he dresses the way an awful lot of hipsters dress. If you go to a lot of (music) shows and follow music intensely, his look isn’t foreign or exotic or even (honestly) new. People have been dressing like — and doing their hair the same way — since the late ’90s.
And the truth is, despite what some people have written here, his former status as a drug addict is as irrelevant as Rush Limbaugh’s.
However — on the MTV topic: MTV has pretty much been one of the most boring places on TV for years (and years and years). They don’t play videos (why do they even bother keeping the “M” in their name?) and they pretty much gave up the ghost when they decided shows about Sweet 16s was their focus. Plus, I have several friends that work for them (mostly as either producers or editors) and they are notoriously stingy. Despite their exploitation of the youth demographic for ratings and revenue, they hire young people, keep them in a perpetual state of being “contract workers,” and essentially ensure that they are continuously booked (thus prohibiting them from seeking other work), but won’t give them basic benefits that people who work hard (and at MTV, even if you work a 14-hour shift, you get paid a flat rate that’s so obscenely cheap I don’t want to even write it here). If for nothing else, they should be ignored for that very reason.
PLUS, they used to be a channel that played new and cutting edge music. So much for that.
But it’s just that so many people seem to be acting as though they are perplexed that Hollywood and TV entertainment are so hostile towards Republicans. I’m sure the whole anti-gay thing isn’t the complete reason, but it’s probably a big part of it.
The Log Cabin Republicans are a group of about 30,000 wealthy gay men who would prefer a few measly tax breaks to making progress with gay rights. No one takes them seriously (certainly not Republicans, anyway).
It’s just that if you take all the gay hating out of the Republican party, you’re left with an altogether decent and credible organization. How I long for that day! Until the day comes when Republicans finally stand up and say “enough!” to all the gay hatred and disrespect, conservatives will continue to be portrayed in a negative light in entertainment.
Omu did your ever wear a uniform? Oh, and another thing….Those of us who are offended who are in dislike with Russell Brand aren’t necessarily in hate with a sexual preference. I, for one, would like gay people to shut up and live their lives and stop the flashy things they do. God is not in favor of their lifestyle, but God loves them as people. Get a clue on what true conservatives are.
I would add that conservatives, on the whole, aren’t terribly appreciative of the creative arts. It’s a mixture of being offended by many of the visual arts — which tend to, in the artistic tradition, push the envelope, since art is intended to provoke and elicit reaction — along with the “Get a real job” mantra. I mean, honestly, most creative people are liberal. Were this the ’50s, this site (were the Internet around) would be staunchly anti rock’n'roll. That’s not a slight against the Republican party; it’s a reality and a statement of fact.
In England, they’ve taken away everyone’s guns, and now, they’re working on taking away everyone’s knives. Pretty soon, nobody in England will be trusted with a pair of scissors. Thanks, I’d rather have a cowboy in charge than a nanny.
You know, i am a really big fan of British humor. I am one of those geeks that have nearly all the Monty Python sketches memorized, absolutely loved “Spaced” and got the whole series on DVD as soon as it came out, and so many other comedians, movies, acts and so forth.
My nephew is from London and I sponsored him in order for him to move here and be with his wife, my niece.
And I gotta tell you, this guy is, by far, one of the worst examples of British comedy. He is abrasive, insulting and abusive for no reason other than he thinks he will get a laugh. He is excorcising his bi-polar issues on the stage, and it doesn’t work.
Viacom owes a great many people a very large apology, starting with the Palins and working onward from there. I can only hope that there really are a lot of people that will be boycotting this station and it’s sponsors. MTV actually owns many other stations, including NicKelodeon. Will these companies…MTV, US Weakly, and so many others, finally get hit in their pocket books and finally be taught a lesson that they need to do what Liberals claim to live their lives like…tolerance, acceptance etc.? Will some good come out of all this, like a great big mirror being shoved in fromt of the American Left and the Media Elites, allowing them to see just how ugly and miserable they truly are?
Or will this be a lost opportunity and the only lesson learned is that bullying, thuggery, insults, and becoming the lowest, basest form of humanity actually pays off in the long run.
I guess time will tell.
I don’t think it has anything to do with being gay. There are people who disagree based on religion(marriage), but it isn’t the entire party. I can’t speak for everyone, but it’s not a big issue for me or anyone I know. Don’t fool yourelf into thinking there aren’t any “anti-gay” people in the democrat party.
It seems as though you are marginalizing these men, not the Republican party. Who cares if they have money and they don’t want to have their taxes increased? Why does that make them “bad” gays? Maybe that’s not what you meant, but it comes out that way. It’s the same old thing with liberals. If you’re not a liberal minority, then you don’t count and somehow you’ve sold out.
Again with the “gay hating”. Just because you do not agree, for whatever reason, with the gay lifestyle doesn’t mean you hate gay people. You are entitled to your opinion, omu, but when you continually call all Republicans names, it doesn’t help, especially because it’s not true.
My point was a general one; not specifically related to Mr. Brand.
(btw, Russell Brand is incredibly popular in the UK and here in Ireland – his book was number 1, he performed in front of the queen and he’s a regular on late night chat shows).
This is exactly what I’m talking about.
Yes, I’m fairly certain that’s part of it, too.
It always amuses me when conservatives try to claim liberals are intolerant and unaccepting. They refuse to tolerate your intolerance and refusal to accept others.
http://michellemalkin.com/2005/11/02/the-vile-bile-we-have-to-put-up-with/
These people really are tolerant and accepting.
Oh, BTW Ireland is going down the toilet big time. My ancestors would be gagging to see what’s going on there. Do you even KNOW who Michael Collins was? Ireland’s .com industries will not stand the test of time.
Well looks like his one book here ranks: #239,028
Not exactly cerebral reading material I’m sure.
I was surprised to learn he knows how to read and write to tell you the truth. In reading the UK papers, it looks like he doesn’t really have a lot of fans.
Now, will someone please revoke his work visa? We don’t need cretins of his kind here…makes us look bad.
Shouldn’t complaints be directed to this man. Didn’t he KO Tom Cruise for going nutty about anti depressants?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumner_Redstone
Omu Could it just be Hollywood is so full of Leftist? They are NOT scoring John Voight because he is anti-gay and you can’t find where they are. They are ripping the man because he is an unabashed patriot. Now who is an isn’t gay in Hollywood I would not know but who is a Leftist is obvious. All I know of Russell Brand is he is one more EuroTrash punk sticking his nose in my country, 24 hours ago I never heard of the jerk.
But you are wrong about other things. Have a nice day.
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Hey Obama What to see a Bitter American?
Look at your wife.
Who else is going to design the colorful costumes and sets? I dont think you want me doing it – I only work in earth tones and will mix-and-match plaids with stripes without a care.
What are you stupid Omu?
Omu I’m glad you’re not in the US. Please stay in that European cesspool where you live. Thanks.
OMG, ITS WORSE THAN I THOUGHT!!! I just made my teenage daughter watch the Brand video….. and she thinks he’s funny. (although she only laughed out loud twice) Fortunately she doesnt watch MTV.
I’ll be back later… Someone just tripled her homework.
At the risk of repeating others, I found his remarks in this excerpt to be foul, uncalled for, and out of line. And I barely made it into the Jonas Brothers attack. Are there more than a couple of us who thought that he might have been on something either illegal, or abusive of a legal substance? If he is the best that Britain can produce, then Britain is done for. This makes me glad that I don’t have cable, so I don’t have to cancel it.
MTV is so gay.
Unfortunately, I saw his photo on this blog just after eating my breakfast this morning, and almost puked. Ew! Do lefties ever shower? Ever??
Fortunately, every time some puke comes out and attacks Palin and America like a mindless lefty commie twit, it simply means more votes for McCain/Palin. Keep it up you lefty idiots.
How did Elton receive him?
Only that art which is incapable of promoting beauty and truth.
Wrong nyk. You are making the assumption that art,music, and literature are the only forms of creativity. While these are largly produced by people are mostly liberals, a very large portion of what they create is also utterly worthless, not just provocative. (While I may not always recognize art when I see it, I can recognize garbage.) Architects, engineers, builders, and a host of other professions are filled with people that spend their time creating things of value, and from my experience very few of them are liberals. Take a close look at a skyscraper, power plant or complex piece of machinery and try to imagine the amount of creative effort that goes into it. It dwarfs anything you will ever see put out by among liberal artists.
Now, it could be that I’m wrong but we can do a test. Since liberals are so creative, perhaps they will get busy and start showing us how to get cheap, reliable energy from the sun and wind instead of waiting for somebody else to do it? That would be provocative and elicit a reaction!
Yahawaaaan… smack, smack, smack. (scratches bollocks)
Didn’t we throw these jerkwads outta here once already? (sigh) Brits, eww… now where did I put my musket.
Oh yeah, subjects of the crown… a willing slave thinks of telling me what to do? Me thinks not.
This is a crosspost of mine from RedState.com on this whole issue.
Snotty cretins like omu forget that Ireland owes its economic revival to American capitalism, the epitome of creativity.
“Invented in Ireland” is not a phrase one runs into often — anyone know of any world-changing Irish products?
Guinness? Puh-leeze!
Irish Nobel Prizes in the Sciences are kinda scarce too: as in ONE.
Oh yes: the genius Russell Brand has been arrested ELEVEN TIMES for public indecency.
Yep, that’s real creativity — waving your willie around.
Crack addict, heroin addict, alcoholic….
Omu wrote:
LOL!!!
This poor bog hopper has never read KOS and DU day after day!!!
He’s unaware of just who it is in this country that enforces speech codes, indeed invented the Political Correctness they are based on.
He doesn’t know how leftists rule academia with a Stalinoid iron hand.
He doesn’t know who wants to invoke the “fairness doctrine”, a pernicious idea meant to kill free speech on the radio.
He doesn’t know how “liberals” in the US Senate tried to professionally assassinate Rush Limbaugh, a private citizen (and how their attempt was stuffed up their arses, to their univeral moritifcation).
He hasn’t a freakin clue as to how the Media here has revealed itself to be completely leftist, the great revulsion and resulting loss of readers/viewers their bias has induced, and with it their profitability and the future of their business models.
You stay “amused”, omu. It’s easy to stay that way when you haven’t an effing clue.
(some of my ancestors were bog-hoppers too. But they were smart enough to escape years ago, and make something of themselves)
Okay, these bastards are going too far. From VoteVets.org:
It’s only in the last twenty or so years that we have seen the liberals hi jacking the creativity line. It really becomes laughable when you look around and try to find anything creative coming from liberals, that’s precisely what everyone is sick of, the lack of good art of all varieties these days. John Wayne was no liberal, not by today’s standards. James Stewart was an Air force General, Eddie Albert rescued wounded soldiers in WWII pacific island battles.
A lot of these anti war creeps we see today were parading around a few decades ago, as Jon Voight puts it. on the wrong side others have been nurtured by the careless losers. They now feel the guilt and naturally they lash out at those they deem responsible, America and Americans. Well the worm has turned and now it’s their turn to find out how it feels to be spit upon. Sweet revenge.
Hollywood Infidel. Andrew Breitbart.
An American Carol. Lefty mocking.
Leonardo da Vinci letter to Ludovico il Moro assured him:
When a place is besieged I know how to cut off water from the trenches and construct an infinite variety of bridges, mantlets and scaling ladders, and other instruments pertaining to sieges. I also have types of mortars that are very convenient and easy to transport…. when a place cannot be reduced by the method of bombardment either because of its height or its location, I have methods for destroying any fortress or other stronghold, even if it be founded upon rock. ….If the engagement be at sea, I have many engines of a kind most efficient for offense and defense, and ships that can resist cannons and powder.
Leonardo’s one, but if you do the research you will find that over the centuries the most creative were the most progressive as well as loyal partners with the people in their respective countries, and that doesn’t mean making masterpieces out of dodo and throwing them at their presidents. You see, they hi jacked the progressive line too. Liberal means regressive remember that and you will never have to ask, where’s all the art gone?
Surely, you couldn’t have meant this in seriousness, Omu. The day the Republicans give up their support of the defense of marriage is the day they’ll continue to be “portrayed in a negative light” for being “pro-corporate”, “pro-rich”, “racist”, “sexist”, “pro-war”, “pro-pollution” and whatever other epithet the hard left throws at them.
I don’t know how this discussion devolved into this, but count me as another conservative Republican who “doesn’t have a problem with gay people.” People are people, period, but the “civil rights” in dispute pale in comparison to the societal recognition blacks fought for fifty years ago. Civil unions, not marriage, and 95% will be fine with it.
This is such utter BULLSHITE. Palin revealed no information that any “enemy” could act on. Saying “My son’s giong to Iraq next week (or even on a specific day” is NOT against the law, and betrays no secrets.
A lot of soldiers fly to Germany via commerical airlines, and are then deployed to Iraq via military aircraft.
votevets.org sounds like yet another Sauron-supported front for Obama.
Um, just for the record, I have worked in the Entertainment Industry for over 20 years, am a card carrying Journeyman in the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, have worked on films, television shows, had my own theatre back in 1990, concerts, and pretty much every aspect of that industry.
I am a Conservative, a Republican and have been met with nothing but hatred, bigotry, anti-Heterosexual attacks, and threatened with being fired off of jobs and jobs sites simply because of my Political affiliation.
So don’t start thinking you know all about what it is like in Hollywood or anywhere else. I can tell you that everything you are claiming that Republicans are so guilty of is actually the things that Liberals, gays, and Democrats are so proud of doing themselves in that industry and worse. You yourself, with the posts that you have made just on this blog have demonstrated the hypocrisy of the Left. All your and Liberals whinings and complaints about the Right are simply nothing more than projections of your own feelings and beliefs.
There is not a single Democrat or Liberal anywhere that hides their beliefs, is in fear of retribution or worse if someone finds out about them.
And to top it all off, to attempt to take the high ground and claim that the Liberals and Democrats are such tolerant, peaceful, kind, etc. people after everything we have been witness to and forced to have to explain to our children over the last two weeks alone only demonstrates your and others on your sides failure to accept and recognize that you are the exact opposite of what you claim to be and represent, and frankly any woman or minority that remains a Democrat after all this is nothing more than a self-loather and hypocrite of the worst degree.
It should be obvious who that was directed at, but if clarification is needed, I will provide it.
I stopped watching MTV after they stopped being a music station, nothing but liberal garbage now. Read this idiot’s Wikipedia page, such a role model – NOT. The fact that MTV fired him after he dressed as Osama Bin Laden and then allowed him back on their airwaves just shows how much they have no morals or ethics. If anything he just proves the point how whacked out the far left is. Of course the left claims to be are the kind and compassionate ones, but their hatred of anything they don’t agree with shows they are the intolerant ones.
That has got to be one of the more ridiculous things I’ve ever read here, but coming from a liberal I suppose it makes sense. Lets go a step further: the reality is conservatives refuse to tolerate liberal intolerance of conservative intolerance! Thus proving our love of tolerance and diversity even more because true tolerance is based on tolerance of views you dislike, even ones that are considered intolerant.
Is that clear?
I’m a US citizen and I lived in Texas for most of life. Ireland and the other parts of Europe I’ve seen are certainly not a cesspool. If I recall correctly, Europe is not lead by a completely inept, hugely unpopular president who lies and lies to get to go to war with the Middle East. I’m also fairly certain that Europe is a much safer place than the US, and maybe – just maybe – it has something to do with everyone not being entitled to carry handguns and uzi’s around with them. European governments don’t exploit a vulnerable minority (gays) to “excite” a demographic base. EU governments look after their citizens when it comes to healthcare and social care. There is a reason it’s European countries that have the highest quality of life rates on Earth.
Also, Europe is altogether much more cultured and sophisticated than the US. So, yes, I’ll stay here, but it certainly isn’t a cesspool.
Whoa, you’re attacking Ireland now? Pathetic.
Ireland is a country of 4 million people, so to suggest that it could somehow rival a gargantuan superstate like the US (with a population of 300 million) in terms of inventions and the sciences is absurd.
In any case, are you forgetting who built America? You see, I think it was – to a large degree – the Irish who fled the famine and came to New York.
Are you forgetting about Ireland’s massiely prolific record in terms of literature? Seamus Heany, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Johnathan Swift, James Joyce, W.B Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel etc. Ireland’s literary prowess is outstanding especially when you consider how small a country it is.
You would do well to keep your snotty comments to yourself.
Probably not. From Wikipedia:
It probably has a lot more to do with the fact that Europe does not have a huge ‘diverse’ underclass (Democrats)dominated by thugs and drugs. Crime rates in solidly middle class (Republican)areas are similiar to European rates. I know if my car broke down in the middle of the night, I’d sure as hell hope it was in a Republican leaning neighborhood, not one filled with Democrats and community organizers.
Also from Wikepedia (Ireland race demographics)
So did you move there so you could experience diversity? Those numbers make the RNC seem like a liberal diversity dream team. You must be having a genuine multi-cultural experience you can always be proud of!
Oh come on buddy. If it is in Wiki, you know it is obviously just made up by “Right-Wing Gun Nuts” to show that a well armed society will actually keep crime down.
Can’t trust them RWGN…can ya?
/sarc
Brand is just trying to copy this guy ptI ptII and doing a really bad job of it. Used to be Americans had the right to laugh now all we have coming from artists is unfunny insults. Brand isn’t even a tingle in Rickles leg. Brand is part of the leftist mob that has ruined entertainment. The facts are undeniable, you own them lefties.
I’ve listened to so much crap over the years from idiots like Brand, it’s hard to get offended anymore. I’ve become numb in a sense. But still…out of 5 billion people in the world, this is the best host you can come up with?
The Sun reports that Brand will be hosting next year`s awards show as well – and that he had even worse jokes up his sleeve for this year but was asked to tone his act down by MTV:
Source: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article1668117.ece