tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23680463.post6972439241819197814..comments2023-11-05T04:40:23.785-07:00Comments on Rusty Idols: Remember when Ben Stein didn't suck?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23680463.post-40848520939504932472008-08-13T13:22:00.000-06:002008-08-13T13:22:00.000-06:00Funny how so many worthless people support John Mc...Funny how so many worthless people support John McCain, isn't it? Seems like part of a broader truth: many worthless people (or even less than worthless, people who actually achieve negative worth, in terms of their usefulness to our society, civilization, species and planet), are movement conservatives, fundies, and their enablers.<BR/><BR/>I'm curious how they got that way. Ben Stein, as noted, <I>used</I> to be funny. Dennis Miller is another. I wonder, did they lose the funny and then, in desperation, turn contrarian, ornery and neo-conservative, or did they first turn neocon and because of that lose the funny? <BR/><BR/>I've seen a similar phenomenon with journalists: Doug Collins, for example, was apparently at one time a pretty good investigative reporter, but in his declining years became a surly old wanker, something like a grey-haired shock-jock, even to the extent of defending (what was he <I>thinking</I>???) Holocaust deniers. I wondered at the time if he'd simply lost interest in finding something new to say, and opted for the easy eyeball-catching trick of sensationalism, (a new schtick, in other words) or if he really believed it. I wonder the same thing about Stein, Miller, and others like them; what happened to them, and why did they end up as movement conservatives? <BR/><BR/>By random choice you'd think as many would end up looney lefties as looney righties, but it doesn't seem to work out that way. Perhaps something's shifted since the often excessive silliness of the '70's Left; maybe the only haven -- now -- for loonies of any kind is the Far Right.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04870108833394172934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23680463.post-63023026267698543202008-08-08T12:58:00.000-06:002008-08-08T12:58:00.000-06:00((Paris, get this: in modern day America, we don't...<I>((Paris, get this: in modern day America, we don't mock people because of things they have done that are unavoidable and not in any way blameworthy. We don't make fun of blacks for being black. We don't make fun of women for having breasts.))</I><BR/><BR/>ahuh, because racism and sexism are dead in the US. Which is why he can sit there straight-faced and call the black man 'too exotic' and the woman with breasts ugly and a porn star because she had sex, it got recorded and then someone pirated it to mass media. And not to *mention* porn stars shouldn't have political opinions, let alone be media-savvy witty after presidential candidates slag them in national ads first. Newp.<BR/><BR/>Irony really is dead and dragged through the streets behind the bumper for folks like Stein.Nileshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04096047389811381098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23680463.post-90067723160537467032008-08-08T12:12:00.000-06:002008-08-08T12:12:00.000-06:00What really surprises me isn't Stein's venom in de...What really surprises me isn't Stein's venom in defense of a Republican... dammit, Ben, you used to be funny at least...<BR/><BR/>It's the blatant freakin' JEALOUSY in his tone.<BR/><BR/>See you on Election Day, bitches...Matthew The Astrologerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333186620060372667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23680463.post-79594878477586047952008-08-07T21:32:00.000-06:002008-08-07T21:32:00.000-06:00And Ben Stein got his start as a fluffer.And Ben Stein got his start as a fluffer.Repack Riderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10546353148176139255noreply@blogger.com