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| Columnist calls on rap stars, Paris Hilton to lead revolution |
| 2007-07-09 |
| Instead of a celebration of independence, maybe we need a celebration of unity. Maybe we need a massive weeklong Impeach Cheney and Take Back America rally in front of the White House, fueled by celebrities, and heavily promoted by the media, who owe us one big time. Maybe we need Bono and Brad and Angelina there, to focus on the crisis in America and not the crisis in Africa, at least for a few months. James Lileks comments: It's like a neutron star of inanity, that line; like a neutron star, it collapses into a dot so dense that the editor's pen is forever stuck on the event horizon, unable to move forward and cross it out. Maybe we need Martha Stewart and Paris Hilton there, because no one says "reality based" and "superior intellect" quite like Paris Hilton to call on Scooter to do his time like a man. Maybe we need the Dixie Chicks and White Stripes there, and George Clooney and Oprah, and any of the so-called "American Idols" and Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan there, and the younger sports stars and TV stars and rap stars and celebs I've never heard of, to put down their cell phones and Mohitos and hie their well-heeled fannies to D.C. I can imagine the recording sessions now: "Yo! Check it out! George Dubya Bush, he a son of a bitch He an' Dick Cheney otta be im-pitched--" "CUT! You're pronouncing it wrong. It's im=peach, not im-pitch." "'Peach' don't rhyme with 'bitch,' ho!" Maybe we need James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader, to speak truth to power, and Maya Angelou to speak strength to cowardice, and for old time's sake, Pete Seeger to lead us in a chorus of Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land," sparklers and flags all around. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #9 Alec Baldwin will be at a Film Actor's Guild meeting. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2007-07-09 22:24 |
| #8 Moonbat "Kumbaya" approach. Once you start talking about Angelina, Brad, Paris Hilton, Martha Stewart, George Clooney, Dixie Chicks, and rap stars to lead a revolution, you are in serious need of head shrinking. These people can't manage their own lives. Sean Penn, Alec Baldwin are missing from the moonbat list. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-07-09 16:59 |
| #7 "So ya wanna have a Revolution, well you know, we all wanna change the World." |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2007-07-09 14:12 |
| #6 These people are gonna be sooo let down after Bush finishes his term. They won't have anyone to blame all their problems on anymore.... |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-07-09 09:41 |
| #5 tu3031: they had people writing columns like this in the old Soviet Union too. And yes, it was that bad there. |
| Posted by: Abdominal Snowman 2007-07-09 09:15 |
| #4 Well it can't be that bad here in the US of A if even retards like this are allowed to write columns for major metropolitan newspapers... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-07-09 08:38 |
| #3 Unfortunately, the Gnat can't vote yet - but this idiot and her like can. |
| Posted by: lotp 2007-07-09 08:03 |
| #2 This columnist thinks that Tiger Woods would participate in such an event. I'm sorry, but I'm giggling too much to say anything coherent. Well, I'm glad she gave Mr. Lileks some material. The Gnat could have done a better job. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2007-07-09 07:04 |
| #1 I read this today after connecting from The Bleat. You really need to read the whole article. The term "moonbat" seems to be used a little less these days than it was four years ago, but the moonbats haven't gone away. They are still there, emoting instead of thinking. And they are hell bent on bringing us another hippy-yippie-1968 era combined with global warming, multiculturalism, and great effort to make the U.S. indistinguishable from dying socialist Europe. As much as W and a good sized chunk of the GOP have turned out to be a disappointment in the past year or so, this column offers up ample evidence as to why voting D is simply not an option. Imagine swaths of politicians elected by the likes of this writer? Articles like this one need to be read by every conservative/libertarian, disillusioned or not. Reading this sort of thing will remind us of why we need at least some level of loyalty to our cause, and hopefully inspire reform in the GOP simultaneously. I just hope the GOP can nominate enough new candidates who get it on illegal immigration by next November. If not, we're looking at this Strib lunatic and her type running the country. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2007-07-09 07:00 |