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Gay rights groups demand “disclaimer” be added to Bruno movie

Gay rights groups are spitting mad over “Bruno,” the new Sacha Baron Cohen movie that opens July 10. They want Cohen and Universal studios to add a disclaimer to the movie so that people will understand that it’s satire.

Bruno Movie Trailer

Gay rights groups are spitting mad over “Bruno,” the new Sacha Baron Cohen movie that opens July 10. They want Cohen and Universal studios to add a disclaimer to the movie so that people will understand that it’s satire.

Cohen became famous for “Borat,” a movie in which he used the crude but hilarious Borat character to expose people’s prejudices. The gay community is afraid audiences won’t understand that he’s using Bruno, the flamboyant gay fashion journalist title character, to do the same thing in the new movie.

“Ultimately,” Brook Barnes said, “the tension surrounding ‘Brüno’ boils down to the worry that certain viewers won’t understand that the joke is on them and will leave the multiplex with their homophobia validated.”

Brad Luna of the Human Rights Campaign said, “We strongly feel that Sacha Baron Cohen and Universal Pictures have a responsibility to remind the viewing public right there in the theater that this is intended to expose homophobia.”

We think a disclaimer is a great idea. How about this one:

“This film is intended to expose homophobia. If you don’t understand that, you are undoubtedly a homophobic conservative and probably racist, sexist, and ageist to boot. By the way, we’re really glad Carrie Prejean got fired as Miss California. And Barack Obama is The One. And Perez Hilton is The Other One. So there.”

Source: WilshireAndWashington.com

Pardon us while we laugh: Air America tries to reinvent itself. Again.

Former Air America host Rachel Maddow. Or current Air America host Ron Reagan, Jr. We're not sure which.
Former Air America host Rachel Maddow. Or current Air America host Ron Regan, Jr. We're not sure which.

Air America breathlessly announced yet another corporate restructuring this week.

It’s starting its own network sales division, which will pitch all the company’s radio, video and online content directly to ad agencies instead of depending on third party rep Westwood One for ad sales.

“Agencies are sophisticated in their planning and their creative approach in making strategies for their clients, which will hopefully become our clients,” said Air America Media CEO Bennett Zier. “Because Air America is a particular type of company, and a left of center company, there are certain companies that want to advertise with us, and we want to be able to facilitate that and work with them more directly.”

“Air America is turning into a multimedia company,” Zier said. “And we are looking to attract listeners, viewers and readers with the radio and airamerica.com.”

The good news is that Air America’s management has finally discovered capitalism. The bad news is that it probably won’t trickle down to the air talent.

And we use the term “talent” very loosely.

Source: MediaBistro.com

MSNBC’s EdShow on life support. Where’s
Dr. Kevorkian when you need him?

Where did MSNBC find a shot of angry Ed Schultz actually smiling?
Where did MSNBC find a shot of angry Ed Schultz actually smiling?

“Just give Ed Schultz time,” they said at MSNBC. “We’re happy with the numbers for his premiere show. It will build over time.”

Now that the EdShow’s been on the air for a full month, let’s review how angry Eddie’s audience is building.

Uh-oh. Look at that. Schultz is sheddding viewers faster than a snake shedding its skin. And, yes, the comparison was intentional and apt.

The EdShow premiered amid great hype and hoopla on Monday, April 6. It drew a total audience of 725,000 viewers and 247,000 in the coveted Adults 25-54 demographic.

Four weeks later, Monday, May 4, the EdShow had a total audience of just 531,000 and the Adult 25-54 demo has shriveled to just 161,000.

Believe it or not, that’s an improvement. Ed’s audience has been as low as 365,000 per night and the Adults 25-54 demographic once fell to only 75,000.

To make matters even worse, Ed’s ratings are no better than David Schuster garnered on his last night in the same time slot. Shuster’s total audience was larger at 579,000 compared to the EdShow’s 531,000. Shuster’s Adults 25-54 demographic was 153,000 compared to the EdShow’s 161,000. This has to be a huge disappointment to MSNBC after all the time and money they invested in the EdShow.

Would someone please put a mirror under Big Eddie’s nose? Find out if he’s still breathing. Because his show is dead.

Source: Nielsen Media Research via MediaBistro.com

Snakes On A Plane. The G-rated version is even worse than the original.

Monkey-bitin’ snakes? That’s not quite how we remember it in the theater.

Apparently, the new theory in Hollywood is that G-rated versions don’t even have to make sense. “Let’s just combine random words and use them in place of the original obscene phrases.”

Do they think we’re monkey-bitin’ stupid?

Source: Tim Blair/Sydney Daily Telegraph

Keith Olbermann calls Perez Hilton “an intellectual titan” and “a civil rights leader”

Perez Hilton is “an intellectual titan” and a “civil rights leader” while Miss California Carrie Prejean is a vile human being for holding the same opinion as the majority of people in her state and in the nation.

Apparently, Olbermann got his fill of juvenile sex puns in the infamous tea bagging episode, and now decided that breast implants should become his next frontier of intellectual exploration.

We realize it sounds preposterous, but that’s precisely what liberal icon Keith Olbermann and his vile guest discuss. With great glee.

Apparently, Olbermann has given up any hope of attracting a larger audience and is now interested only in being as absurd as humanly possible.

Congratulations, Keith. It’s always nice to see someone achieve their goal.

Source: HotAir.com

Times of London turns Star Trek review in political statement: “Star Trek boldly goes into the Obama era”

Don’t you hate critics who review “films” instead of “movies.” You know, those self-important nimrods who think they’re too smart by half and wear out their thesauruses (thesauri?) in an attempt to convince you of the same thing.

The Times of London just ran one of those reviews on the new Star Trek movie that premieres May 8.

(One disclaimer: we are not ashamed to say that we are long-time Trekkies. We don’t even attempt to hide behind the supposedly more dignified name “Trekker.”)

Let’s just go with one paragraph of this freshman poly sci term paper disguised as a movie review:

There was always a very close relationship between the American Dream — not to mention American imperialism — and Star Trek, with its liberal, secular, multiracial, technophiliac vision of the future. But the two seem almost to have mind-melded with the election of an optimistic, liberal, multiracial President with a Kenyan father and a white American mother (Star Trek featured the first interracial kiss on US television, sparking protests at the time) — and, who is himself something of a 1960s tribute act, with his JFK and Martin Luther King cadences. Suddenly, with Barack Obama at the helm, America looks like a brand that people can believe in again. Or at least root for at the movies.

For God’s sake, it’s just a friggin’ movie, Limey Boy. It’s cowboys and Indians in outer space. Good guys versus bad guys. White hats versus black hats.

Read the whole thing. Just to remind yourself why newspapers are neither living long nor prospering.

We have to go now. Advance tickets just went on sale downtown for the May 8 opening.

Source: Times of London via Big Hollywood

Disney accused of racism for demonstrating that they’re not racist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0j7EactM9s Damn those racists at Disney. They’ve produced a new animated movie called “The Princess and the Frog.” The lead character is a black princess named Tiana.

Race baiting critics did what they always do – they accused the studio of racial insensitivity.

So Disney did what American business always does – they caved in and made changes to the cartoon. But you can never do enough for the race baiters. Never.

Here’s how Fox News reports the story: Continue reading “Disney accused of racism for demonstrating that they’re not racist”

Susan Boyle, Britain’s virgin singing sensation, offered $1,000,000 to make porn flick

susan_boyle If you thought Simon Cowell looked stunned when he heard Susan Boyle sing on “Britain’s Got Talent,” imagine the look on his face when he sees her in a porn flick.

Los Angeles-based Kick Ass Films has offered the singing British spinster one million smackers to star in a porn flick.

Unfortunately, the deal calls for the homely virgin with the fabulous voice to sacrifice her virginity on camera. Boyle, a self-confessed virgin, says she’s never kissed a man, much less bedded one.

“We want to get this movie shot and out while Susan has the world’s attention,” said Kick Ass honcho Mark Kulkis. “Besides, after 47 years of virginity, I’m sure Susan is also anxious to get something cracking as soon as possible.”

If Boyle accepts the offer, Kulkis says Kick Ass will fly her to Hollywood on Virgin Airlines.

A YouTube.com clip of Boyle singing on Cowell’s British TV show, “Britain’s Got Talent” has been viewed more than 100 million times around the world.

We just hope that the woman with the voice of an angel isn’t seduced by the man with the soul of the devil.

Source: New York Daily News

Sean Penn drawn to Hugo Chavez’ robust sense of humor, ignores that inconvenient dictator-ish thing

Sean Penn always has a scowl on his face. But he wants a president who smiles.
Sean Penn always has a scowl on his face. But he wants a president who smiles.
Want proof that Sean Penn is a lunatic? He gives you all the evidence you need in a piece he wrote for the Huffington Post on Friday.

I know President Chavez well. Whether or not one agrees with all his policies, what is certainly true of Chavez is that he is a warm and friendly man with a robust sense of humor (who daily risks his own life for his country in ways Dick Cheney could never imagine). To treat such a man coldly is akin to spitting on him. As a country we’ve done enough of that. Say what you will, but it has only resulted in the self-celebration of our smirking spitters, while costing us international respect, American lives, and left wounds in the hands of our children’s future. The Cheneys, down to the O’Reillys and Hannitys and Limbaughs, effectively hate the principles upon which we were founded. They are among the greatest cowards in all of American history. I applaud an American President who’s tough enough…to smile.

Oh, if only Barack Obama had been president back before the Iraq war. He could have smiled at Penn’s other buddy, Saddam Hussein.

Source: HuffingtonPost.com

Octomom lands a TV deal. For sure. Or maybe. Or not at all. Depends on who you talk to.

Reinout Oerlemans. Why would a nice Dutch man like you inflict Nadya Suleman on the rest of the world?
Reinout Oerlemans. Why would a nice Dutch man like you inflict Nadya Suleman on the rest of the world?

Nadya Suleman says she’s landed a reality show deal. Or a documentary deal. Or maybe she hasn’t.

“Yes, it is official,” Suleman said. “I’m going to be doing a show, but it’s not a reality show. What I’m doing with this TV show is basically creating documentaries about the lives of my children. It’s going to be an ongoing thing, and it will follow them from now until they are 18. It’s being done by Eyeworks. They’re in the UK. It will air in the UK and then we’ll see if the US is interested.”


Unfortunately, Nadya may have jumped the gun here. No European network has agreed to carry the show and even Eyeworks disputes that it’s reached an agreement.

“At this time we are in active negotiations with Nadya and her attorney for an unscripted format following the life of Nadya and her children,” said Eyeworks CEO Reinout Oerlemans. “Nadya’s story is a unique and exciting one that needs to be told in the right manner…We are confident that we are the right party to tell their story around the world.”

How could the OctoMom story get any wierder?

Two words: Reinout Oerlemans?

Source: Hollywood Reporter

Mia Farrow to begin hunger strike for Darfur

mia_farrow “On April 27th I will begin a fast of water only in solidarity with the people of Darfur and as a personal expression of outrage at a world that is somehow able to stand by and watch innocent men, women and children needlessly die of starvation, thirst and disease.”

We’re surprised to learn Farrow’s beginning a hunger strike. But only because we thought she’d always been on one.

Source: Huffington Post

Wimpy Americans: interrogators accused of torturing terrorist “with an insect”

If the caterpillar torture technique didn't work, inhumane American interrogators were prepared to move on to the dreaded ladybug torture.
If the caterpillar torture technique didn't work, inhumane American interrogators were prepared to move on to the dreaded ladybug torture.

Remember how the media was so upset about the infamous “panties on the head” torture technique employed at Abu Ghraib? Well, now ABC News has it collective (and collectivist) panties in a wad about a completely different, but equally wimpy torture technique.

“Tonight, secret memos,” ABC News’ Charles Gibson intoned, “new documents reveal in vivid detail just how far the Bush administration went in interrogating terror suspects, using insects, confinement boxes, water-boards and more.”

“Even some congressional officials who had the highest security clearances were surprised by some of the details today,” George Stephanopoulos added, “especially that detail about the fact that (Abu) Zubayda was tortured with an insect in a confinement box.”

Ahhh, but ABC left out one important detail.

“In the case of al-Qaeda figure Abu Zubaydah, who feared insects,” Pete Williams noted on NBC News, “interrogators were given permission to put a harmless one like a caterpillar in a box in which he was confined, but that technique was never used.”

Ironic, isn’t it, that vermin should be afraid of insects.

Source: ABC and NBC via NewsBusters

Obama to cut staggering deficit by purchasing office supplies in bulk

The Obama administration is about to begin saving money in a big, big way.
The Obama administration is about to begin saving money in a big, big way.

Good news. President Obama’s soaring, staggering, stunning deficit will soon be a mere pittance.

All because the President has announced that the Department of Homeland Security will soon begin buying office supplies in bulk.

In an effort to hurry along the process, we stopped by our local CostCo yesterday and signed up the President. So in addition to office supplies, every government agency will soon buy everything in bulk. Aircraft carriers by the dozens, dark blue FBI suits by the rackful, teleprompters by the truckload.

We have one other genius idea:

Costco gives away free food samples every day at lunch. Today we had their vegetarian lasagna, beef jerky, crab on cracker, and apple juice. They were all delicious.

Instead of giving people food stamps, give them CostCo membership cards. Then instruct them to head for CostCo at lunchtime to gorge themselves on free samples.

The savings will dwarf whatever Janet Napolitano saves on office supplies.

First Family on welfare: Obamas were paid $201,913 for not working in 2008

200 grand for not working. Where do we sign up?
200 grand for not working. Where do we sign up?

No president has ever understood the welfare system better than Barack Obama. Because somehow, our new President and his missus managed to bring home $201,913 for jobs they didn’t perform.

Lest we be accused of being inaccurate, let’s admit that President Obama did spend about 12 minutes doing the actual work of a United Sates Senator in 2008. He showed up to cast a vote or two when he was campaigning somewhere near Washington, DC. For that Herculean effort, he was paid $139,204.

But Michelle, well, that’s a different story. She took home $62,709 from the University of Chicago Hospitals. To repeat, she didn’t work a lick, but still took home $62,709. That’s not bad work if you can get it.

In fact, after she resigned her position, her job was eliminated. I’m sure Michelle would say it was eliminated because she couldn’t be replaced. But it’s much more likely that the job was eliminated because it wasn’t a real job in the first place.

So on one hand, these two got paid for work they didn’t do. And on the other hand, they see nothing wrong with increasing your taxes for the work you did do.

It all starts to make sense now.

Source: Associated Press via Sweetness And Light, Bluegrass Pundit

Chicago Democrat calls tax protests shameful, neglects to mention her convicted tax-cheat husband

Jan Schakowsky thinks tax protesters are despicable. Oh, did she mention that her husband plead guilty to tax fraud. Slipped her mind.
Jan Schakowsky thinks tax protesters are despicable. Oh, did she mention that her husband plead guilty to tax fraud. Slipped her mind.

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill., duh) took time out of her busy tax-and-spend schedule to denounce the Tea Party protests as “despicable” and shameful.”

In a statement, Schakowsky parroted Democratic/CNN talking points that the Tea Parties were “an effort to mislead the public about the Obama economic plan that cuts taxes for 95 percent of Americans.”

“It’s despicable that right-wing Republicans would attempt to cheapen a significant, honorable moment of American history with a shameful political stunt,” she said. “Not a single American household or business will be taxed at a higher rate this year. Made to look like a grassroots uprising, this is an Obama bashing party promoted by corporate interests, as well as Republican lobbyists and politicians.”

What her statement failed to mention was that her husband, lobbyist Robert Creamer, pled guilty to bank fraud and tax cheating in 2005. She also signed off on their tax returns.

If this is the most ethical and transparent congress in history, we can’t imagine what the most corrupt would be like.

Source: TheHill.com

Actress and singer Rosario Dawson calls Obama “vagina friendly”

Rosario Dawson - actress, singer, political scientist, vagina expert
Rosario Dawson - actress, singer, political scientist, vagina expert
The Cult of Obama has taken perhaps its most bizarre twist. Yeah, bizarre. That’s the right word.

Lousy actress and poor singer Rosario Dawson has given President Obama that would only be considered a compliment in the twisted world of Hollywood. She says his administration is very “vagina friendly.”

The D.C. Examiner reports it like this:

Rosario Dawson has been a vocal supporter of President Barack Obama’s policies, appearing both at the Democratic National Convention and the “We Are One” concert, but Tuesday, she expressed a new reason why she loves our President.

“I feel like we have a very vagina-friendly administration,” Dawson said, speaking at the first Men Can Stop Rape conference at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill.

She didn’t elaborate on how the administration was “friendly,” but we presume she meant his work that supports the speech she gave about preventing sexual violence against women. She received a standing ovation.

We think that last line was a typo. It was supposed to have said, “She received a standing ovulation.”

Source: D.C. Examiner via BluegrassPundit

“High School Musical” star Vanessa Hudgens says, “I carry a Taser”

Vanessa Hudgens makes a shocking announcement.
Vanessa Hudgens makes a shocking announcement.
The Obama administration may be weak on defense, but movie star Vanessa Hudgens isn’t. She just revealed that she is armed and dangerous.

“I keep a Taser in my purse for self-defense,” Hudgens said, “I’m moving into a house by myself, and it’s scary.

Let us say something to Vanessa just for the record:

You don’t need the Taser. And you didn’t need the restraining order. You know we are married in the eyes of Valdor the All-Powerful. We are destined to be together. Now put down the Taser, Vanessa. Put down the Taser. Owwwww. That wasn’t really necessary.

Source: The Sun UK

Larry King vs Ashton Kutcher. Wake us up when it’s over.

Ditzy actor/producer/boytoy Ashton Kutcher is now competing with CNN for 1,000,000 followers on Twitter. It’s a death match.

“I find it astonishing that one person can actually have as big of a voice online as what an entire media company can on Twitter,” Kutcher said. “I just thought that was kind of an amazing comment on the state of our media.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcewDFh42Ps “Are you kidding,” asked CNN’s Larry King. “Do you think you can take on an entire network? Do you know how big we are? Do you know what CNN is? Kutcher, you’re playing out of your field. You’re in another time zone. This ain’t gonna work. CNN will bury you!”

Two thoughts:

First, who in their right mind would want to follow either of these boneheads? Second, can you remember a phonier, more obviously-rehearsed publicity stunt?

But what the hell. If it works, it works. We officially challenge NewsBusters.org to see which of us can be first to get 5,000 Twitter followers. Are you with us or against us? Hey, they’re ten times older and ten times bigger, but we hope our dedicated viewers will get behind us and push us over the top. Go IHateTheMedia.com.”

Source: WilshireAndWashington.com

Enough about taxes. Let’s pause briefly for a little media nudity.

Padma Kakshmi, former wife of Salmon Rushdi. Well, I'll be fatwahed.
Padma Kakshmi, former wife of Salmon Rushdi. Well, I'll be fatwahed.

So there’s a magazine out there called Allure. Or so we’ve been told.

One of the IHateTheMedia.com wives describes it as “sort of a cross between Shape and Vogue with lots of fashion and make-up and stuff like that.”

So the May issue of the magazine is called “The Nude Issue.” It features Top Chef host (and former wife of Salmon Rushdi) Padma Lakshmi, E! talk show host Chelsea Handler and “Dollhouse” star Eliza Dushku stripped down to…well…nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Chelsea Handler
Chelsea Handler

Rest assured, this is tasteful nudity. Artistic, one might even say. And as supporters of the arts, they’re right up our tasteful alley. Our review of the art can be summed up in a word:

Va-va-voom.

“I tend to sleep in the nude… I’m a sensual-leaning woman,” Padma said. “You have to use the word ‘leaning’ or it sounds like I’m boasting.”

Eliza Dushku
Eliza Dushku

When asked about her favorite body part, Chelsea said: “My boobs are good. They’re real and perky.”

Eliza: “I’ll strip down to my underwear and my Ugg boots when I eat lunch in my trailer.”

We just have one question. What time is lunch?

Source: Allure via HuffingtonPost.com

Are you suffering from global warming? Henry Waxman wants to pay you $75,000.

California Democrat Congressman Henry Waxman is at it again and the compliant mainstream media is doing its best to keep it under wraps.

A provision quietly inserted in a House climate bill would allow “victims” of global warming to sue the federal government and businesses.

Henry Waxman. Or maybe Quark the Ferengi from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. We're not sure which it is.
Henry Waxman. Or maybe Quark the Ferengi from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. We're not sure which it is.

The Washington Times says that Waxman and fellow Democrat Rep Edward Markey of Massachusetts slipped it into their climate bill.

The provision would set grounds for plaintiffs who have “suffered” or expect to suffer “harm” so that they can somehow blame on government inaction. “Harm” is defined as “any effect of air pollution (including climate change).” Each plaintiff could walk away with as much as $75,000 a year in government payouts. Ahhh, but don’t you worry your pretty little head. Waxman the Watchdog is watching out for you. His bill says no one can get more than $1.5 million in lifetime payouts.

Where do we sign up? We’re already expecting to suffer some harm from global warming. A starving polar bear could wander down from Alaska and ate our lunch.

Bingo. When can we expect the check?

Source: Washington Times via Fox News

Danny Glover and United Nations want you to apologize. And pay reparations. And worse.

Hugo Chavez leads and Danny Glover follows as they dance around the issues.
Hugo Chavez leads and Danny Glover follows as they dance around the issues.
Actor and activist Danny Glover, admirer of Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro, has plans for you.

Glover has an article in MiddleEastOnline.com titled “Race and the Obama Administration.” He excoriates the Bush administration for walking out on a 2001 U.N. anti-racism conference. He “urges the Obama administration to commit to participation at the U.N.’s Durban Review Conference against racism and intolerance – and to reclaim American leadership in the struggle for human rights.”

Glover paints a pretty picture of the peace and love and harmony that would have ruled the previous conference if only the evil Bush and the even more evil Israelis hadn’t walked out and ruined any chance of approval for the dandy resolution the delegates had written.

You already know everything you need to know about Glover. He pals around with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez and never misses an opportunity to bash America.

The 2001 conference was an exercise in reparations lovin’, Israeli hatin’, American loathin’ and wealth redistributin’. You can read more about it here.

Just what you’d expect from Castro, Chavez, and Glover love.

Source: MiddleEastOnline.com

Whatever you do, don’t call Billy Bob Thornton an Actor

Billy Bob Thornton is an Oscar winning actor, but don’t say that to his face, as QTV interviewer Jian Ghomeshi found out the hard way. Nope, the whole movie thing apparently has been a diversion on the road to his recent blockbuster of a music career with his new band, The Boxcars. And that’s all he wants to talk about. Period.

The video is a bit long, but it’s definitely worth a listen of you like to see pretentious actors musicians makes asses of themselves. Over a million people in less than the two days its been out have watched it already, and he’s losing fans on Youtube faster than Angelina Jolie removed th “Billy Bob” tat from her arm. We won’t give it away, but suffice it to say, once you are done watching, you’re going to like ol’ Billy Bob just a little bit less, if you even did like him to begin with.

(If you want to save some time, listen until just under the two minute mark, and then skip to 6:50 and go until minute 10:00.)

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