Comments on: Popular Culture We’re Taking For Granted

By: Marty

Marty — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:23:03 +0000

“I’m Mr. Kill.”

Worst line ever, even by previous Bond standards.

By: Gab

Gab — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:35:07 +0000

Ritz, the point I was making is that while yes, she *is* a dumbass, somebody should have told her it was a bad idea to do the interview there/ made sure there weren’t shots of turkeys being killed in the background while she was doing it because she is too simple-minded to understand how bad an idea the setup was.

And, petty as this will be, I must point out that whilst calling someone else a “dumbass,” you said “they were near a Turkeys” and spelled “business” and “slaughtered” incorrectly. You also forgot a period and had two other capitalization errors in those few lines.

By: Ritz

Ritz — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:22:37 +0000

Ummm…..to all the people who said it wasn’t her fault they were near a Turkeys getting slaudered, yea it is! She picked the location and she was “Promoting a local buisiness” Yea, and to think she could have been the president. Cough *Dumbass* cough.

By: fenzel

fenzel — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:55:22 +0000

Chupacabra? What?

Also, MisterBixby, we have plenty of right-of-center content. You have to if you like action movies. If you don’t think we have right-of-center content, you either don’t read the blog very closely, or you’ve gotten so caught up in the horse race that you forget what right-of-center issues (rather than candidates) really look like.

This site (and Mr. Belinkie in particular) is responsible for a major viral video on the most important right-of-center issue this year –

http://www.overthinkingit.com/2008/09/25/the-dark-bailout/

Maybe you read my patriotic piece on the 4th of July?

http://www.overthinkingit.com/2008/07/04/ten-great-things-about-america-i-learned-from-independence-day/

Maybe you read some of the praise of Rambo that’s been on the site, or maybe you’ve listened to any of our podcasts — it’s really hard to praise action movies or something like the Shield without including right-of-center content.

We didn’t endorse any Republican candidates for office, but being right of center isn’t the same as endorsing specific candidates. Lots of Republicans aren’t right of center (as actual right-of-center folks know).

We ran a story calling out a pro-Obama ad sexist. We ran a story making fun of Obama for taxing plumbers. We ran a story about Sly Stallone endorsing John McCain in the very first week this blog was in existence. We made a music video villifying Hillary Clinton.

We run right-of-center content all the time. It just doesn’t parrot anybody’s talking points, because we don’t serve anybody’s political grist mill.

We also ran a crapload of McCain ads on our site over the campaign, and refused reader demands to do something to take down pro-proposition 8 banners that ran on our site on Google ads — did you listen to the podcast where we discussed it, discussed the issue of political bias, discussed the role of Google ads? We probably addressed a lot of your concerns there in one form or another, as individuals.

There’s right-of-center content. Just get the images of the candidates out of your head for a minute and consider what we’re actually writing here. If you’re really writing about America, you have to write about right-of-center things. And we do. But it’s easy sometimes to forget that the political wings actually stand for something other than the specific teams of familiar faces that have kind of drifted pretty far away from their core political missions anyway.

It’s not our fault that making fun of Sarah Palin has become a national pop culture phenomenon. And it’s the mission of this site to discuss national pop culture phenomena. So you can hardly blame us for participating in the biggest joke in the country.

And, as for your “charge of smarm,” being duly and thoroughly committed to smarm, we will continue to smarmily dismiss whatever we choose to smarmily dismiss, thank you very much!

:-)

Cheers!

By: lee

lee — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:50:29 +0000

I can has vampire chihuahuas? Pls? Kai thx.

By: mlawski

mlawski — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:02:05 +0000

You mean there aren’t any chihuahuas in Twilight? Yet another reason for me not to see it.

By: Gab

Gab — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:48:37 +0000

About Palin: McCain didn’t pick her, the Republican party puppet-masters did. He had only spoken to her, what, once? Maybe twice? The Republican Party chose her because they thought she’d give their campaign the momentum it did at first- but they didn’t anticipate the backlash from the left. While I never thought Palin would be good for America, I feel bad for her in how now the same people that put her in the limelight are blaming her for McCain’s loss and doing everything they can to discredit her and make her look even worse. I agree with MisterBixbey about the interview and crew, and I think that serves as a finite example of how she has been treated lately. I feel sorry for her, actually: she was totally misled and duped by people she trusted, and they betrayed her and threw her under the bus to save their own skins. It’s not *her* fault the McCain campaign went so badly, it’s the fault of the people that put her on the ticket; but they won’t ever admit it, so they use her as the scapegoat because she’s an easy target.

Speaking of being thankful, I’m thankful that I’m staying at my sister’s place in Minneapolis right now and there is a cheap-o theater showing movies between regular theater and DVD release a few blocks away. Guess what I plan on seeing (again) later? Hint: It does NOT involve chihuahuas.

By: MisterBixby

MisterBixby — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:52:32 +0000

I don’t get the laughing up the sleeve at Palin at the slaughterhouse. For one, her back is to the slaughter trough, so she surely couldn’t know that the turkey was being killed. Shouldn’t the cameraman or the interviewer, who were obviously capable of seeing the action be bearing the responsibility for catching that on film. Shouldn’t they have either stopped the interview to change position, or, better yet, *not have begun the interview with a slaughter trough in frame*?!

Secondly, she is only wildly unpopular with Democrats and mildly unpopular with independents. She is insanely popular with Republicans, to an extent that McCain never has or could be. While she didn’t bear up as well as one would hope under the media scrutiny Obama never got, I believe it would be a bad idea to write her off so soon. Had McCain picked someone else, his loss to Obama would have been a landslide in the popular vote in addition to the Electoral College.

So, I’m thankful for Sarah Palin, and the comedy she brought, but less thankful for this blogs smarmy dismissal of all things right of center.

And, honest to blog (I listen to your podcasts too), I am thankful for the Nolanization of the Dark Knight.