Reprinted in its entirety:
Jonah,
I want to buy your book, but I am studying for the Bar exam and lack the discipline to set it aside until the end of February. Although, if I knew my sale would cause the New York Times to have to review it, then I would buy it now.
Anyways, I came across this in the Washington Times this morning.
The article is about how father figures in televison shows and advertising depict fathers as bumbling goofs. I used to refer to tv ads as “white men acting stupid.” Once one sees this, its impossible to avert your eyes from it. I guess if Peter Griffin and Homer Simpson are complete bafoons, then its only the white-male patriarchial old boys club that allows them to provide for themselves in spite of their bufoonery. (I believe Frank “Grimey” Grimes pointed out the divergance between Homer’s ability and success.)
Also, I remember after the 1994 election, all the talk was of the “angy white male” as some sort of unwelcome force in politics, but maybe that’s in the book.
I can’t find a link to it, but I remember reading (many, many years ago) Friends star Lisa Kudrow’s comments in an interview, complaining that all of the interesting roles in Hollywood were for white men, because they are the only characters allowed to have actual flaws. Women and minorities were always saints.
Huh. See also.
New contest: whoever can get Jonah to reprint the most egregious “I have not read your book, nor will I be reading your book in the universe as presently constructed; however, here’s something pointless and ungrammatical” email gets a free signed copy of Liberal Fascism!!
February 1, 2008 at 11:30 am
Lisa Kudrow is the Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn of Liberal Fascism.
February 1, 2008 at 11:30 am
This has nothting at all to do with Liberal Fascism, but it made me laugh while thinking it up in bed this morning:
Now Playing at the Presidential Multiplex…
Alvin and the Chipmunks, featuring Dennis Kusinich
No Country For Old Men, featuring John McCain
There Will Be Blood, featuring Hillary Clinton
Over Her Dead Body, featuring Barack Obama
Atonement, featuring Bill Clinton
Sweeney Todd, featuring Rudy Giuliani (also seen in 27 Dresses)
Mad Money, featuring Ron Paul
First Sunday, featuring Mike Huckabee
Juno, featuring John Edwards
February 1, 2008 at 11:38 am
Bafoons!
February 1, 2008 at 11:42 am
Grimey!
February 1, 2008 at 11:49 am
But in this Pomo age does it not require a conservative mind to properly separate the eclectically dichotomous sheep from the dichotomously eclectic goats?
Conservatives are more in touch with their inner Jesus Christ / Ayn Rands than liberal fascists are with their inner Martin Luther King / Adolph Hitlers. Plus Jesus was a God and MLK was just a black man.
February 1, 2008 at 12:03 pm
If you are unserious in your unseriousness, then you are actually serious. Whereas liberals are serious in their unseriousness, thereby making them unserious. Eat my whale, REMORA!
February 1, 2008 at 12:35 pm
S/he is lucky that there is no spelling component to the bar exam.
February 1, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Who knows what, if anything, the divine Ms. Kudrow said in that long-ago interview, but it is impressive to see “all of the interesting roles in Hollywood were for white men” revealed to be an instance of anti-white male bias.
February 1, 2008 at 1:01 pm
I hope “Marci X” was flawed enough for her.
She’s actually smart as hell in interviews, and seems pretty cool. She was asked about being typecast as Phoebe and her response was something along the lines of “yeah, it’s limiting, but y’know who else never gets to show off their full range? People with real jobs.”
February 1, 2008 at 1:28 pm
I am pretty sure that when Lisa Kudrow is mentioned in any comment on a wingnut blog, everyone must down a beer. Or stand up real fast for a head rush. Or both.
February 1, 2008 at 3:49 pm
The article is about how father figures in televison shows and advertising depict fathers as bumbling goofs. I used to refer to tv ads as “white men acting stupid.”
and the advertising term for women in ads talking is two Cs in a K (K is “kitchen”). Advertisers think the consumer is stupid. What’s your point, Melvin?
Also, it’s buffoon, moran.
February 1, 2008 at 4:35 pm
This would be deeply subversive to the crapulent tyrannies of the region, which is precisely why Saudi Arabia et al. oppose the idea so much. I mean the destruction of France as an idea, as a shining fromagerie on a hill, serving as a beacon of asininity to left-wing radicals and a siren to kleptocratic Third World dictators, who, after a career of mass murder, want decent medical care, a good lawyer and a fresh croissant.
And, let us not forget the pea-soup-thick bile of moral equivalence and inverted logic that Israel elicits from elites around the world who are content to call democratic Israel a Nazi state — while describing various crapulent and dictatorial regimes who countenance demands for the actual eradication of Jews, as peace-loving and tolerant. The riskiness of the Iraq venture was so colossal, so fraught with unknowns and downsides, it pushes the idea George W. Bush was willing to do it simply for the political benefits beyond the critical mass of asininity.
February 1, 2008 at 4:46 pm
The New York Times joyously proclaimed that ‘Big Government Is Back in Style,’ and its indefatigable chorus of asininity — Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd et al. — pounded their spoons on their high chairs about the un-Americanness of tax cuts during a war.
February 1, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Propose giving scholarships to black kids in the form of vouchers and in the bang-your-bottle-on-your-high-chair logic of the left you are “mean-spirited” and “declaring war on children.”
February 1, 2008 at 5:14 pm
The Times hired Safire as an a token “conservative” because Spiro Agnew wouldn’t stop banging his high chair about media bias.
February 1, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Also, it’s buffoon, moran.
Also, it’s moron, crap-for-brians.
February 1, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Remember that old joke “I’d love to go out with you, but …”? Time for an update:
“I want to buy your book, but I’m running low on Cheetohs.”
“I want to buy your book, but my mom’s Medicare coverage has a doughnut hole.”
“I want to buy your book, but I need gas money to go to an Ann Coulter book signing.”
February 1, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Uh, Max, that I think Julia knows how to spell moron. It’s called a joke.
February 1, 2008 at 5:47 pm
whoops, too much scotch. sorry about that.
February 1, 2008 at 6:12 pm
I may be wrong but I think that reading your book actually extended my penis! Thanks for the great read! Can’t wait for the next one!
February 1, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Oh, it’s definitely moran.
February 1, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Perhaps Max’s is also a joke.
February 1, 2008 at 8:39 pm
I swear to God, I think I posted here (or somewhere) a few weeks ago that it would be a fun exercise to send Jonah phoney emails like this. So I thought of it FIRST. Though of course I failed to do anything about it, so nevermind.
February 1, 2008 at 9:00 pm
whatevar, fosh.
February 1, 2008 at 9:13 pm
…and when they came for the polka bands, there was no one to speak up for me…
February 1, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Meta joking is the dolchstosslegende of liberal fascism.
February 1, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Perhaps Max’s is also a joke.
…I thought we could use a break in the comment thread there.
February 1, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Now, this whole thing is what I like to call a pinata of asininity – bash it from any angle and from any distance and you will get some reward. What both the Times and the Post do not understand is that by placing honesty over moral equivalence and kowtowing to crapulent corruption, the administration has established the best of all policies.
I often pound my spoon on my high chair on the arrogance of East Coast elites. There’s a reason the golden spirit of the high school overachiever (“and if we all work together, we can make this the best yearbook ever!”) turns to dross in this fetid swamp of institutionalized asininity.
February 1, 2008 at 10:56 pm
I’ll stop now. I promise.
February 2, 2008 at 6:39 am
That’s brache, Max.
February 2, 2008 at 9:44 am
A librarything entry for Liberal Fascism: Heroic Tales from the Golden Age of the Keyboard Kommandos, 2001-2007 is the book burning of liberal fascism.
February 2, 2008 at 1:32 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Fascism
No mention of The Editors. harumph.
February 2, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Well, Charlie Tuna, the wiki situation appears to have been fixed. But something tells me that the (liberal fascists) who run Wikipedia may decide that the “Liberal Fascism (graphic novel)” lacks significance.
February 2, 2008 at 4:08 pm
For a refutation of classic (read ancient) Poor Man, you should start with COLD water to boil pasta…
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/health/29real.html
February 2, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Dear Mr. Jonah,
I was (maybe still, but with my job at Rudys phone bank ending…) going to buy your book and read it, and I thought that prehaps you have thought of this to bolster your thesis-remeber that TV show All in the Family?
Well, it turns out they were making fun of Archie Bunker the whole time!
Case closed.
February 2, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Dear Mr. Jonah,
I was (maybe still, but with my job at Rudys phone bank ending…) going to buy your book and read it, and I thought that prehaps you have thought of this to bolster your thesis-remeber that TV show All in the Family?
Well, it turns out they were making fun of Archie Bunker the whole time!
Case closed.
February 2, 2008 at 7:28 pm
A quick scan through this thread demonstrates that, not only have none of you actually read the book, but it’s highly unlikely that very many of you are clever enough to even acquire a copy through a purchase at a bookstore, an order from Amazon, or even stealing one from a public library.
February 2, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Mac A., “reading” books is so passe. “Feeling” books is a better thing to do.
(Shameless plug: speaking of “feeling”, how about finding out the politics of our hot chicks with a few feels? I promise that you won’t be disappointed! :-B )
February 2, 2008 at 8:04 pm
If he doesn’t print it, do you get two copies?
February 2, 2008 at 8:48 pm
not only have none of you actually read the book,
No, we wouldn’t pay money to read that stupid lying crap, but we’ve read excerpts.
it’s highly unlikely that very many of you are clever enough to even acquire a copy through a purchase at a bookstore, an order from Amazon, or even stealing one from a public library.
This cocksucker thinks he’s a comedian.
February 2, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Baloney. I read it the day it was released.
February 2, 2008 at 9:47 pm
I suspect Charli Tuna is a refugee from Fafblog. in any case, don’t stop on our account.
I mean the destruction of France as an idea, as a shining fromagerie on a hill, serving as a beacon of asininity to left-wing radicals and a siren to kleptocratic Third World dictators, who, after a career of mass murder, want decent medical care, a good lawyer and a fresh croissant.
Mmmm, croissants. Maybe I should have a croissant for breakfast tomorrow. Anybody recommend a place in Brooklyn with croissants?
February 3, 2008 at 2:43 am
…and when they came for the Amway distributors, there was no one to speak up for me.
February 3, 2008 at 9:48 am
Perhaps Pinko Punko’s is also a joke.
February 3, 2008 at 7:40 pm
I took a copy of the book off the shelf, at a local bookstore. I flipped through a couple of pages but started to feel dizzy, so I put it back.
February 4, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Copeland:
Well, you didn’t really think it would be easy reading, did you?
ADG