Robbin' for the Hood: New LOLconservatives Thread

[mountmccabe]

I was reading Big Hollywood (dammit) and came across, in another article about Avatar, or maybe about how people like Avatar or somesuch which compares that film to Triumph of the Will this fine, almost tossed off bit:

If it was Mel Gibson with a sequel to “The Passion of the Christ,” they would be screaming foul

and now instead of being disappointed by every new movie Mel Gibson makes of their own accord I am going to be disappointed by them primarily because they are not sequels to The Passion of the Christ.

[dieblucasdie]

I would pay cash money to see a Gibson-helmed Acts of the Apostles

And this hilarity:

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/06/palin-hand/

I mean, whatever, politicians do these sort of things, but it's pretty hilarious that she needed notes to remember a simple platitude like "We’ve got to rein in the spending, obviously."

[elpollodiablo]

LULZ

[hannah]

tsk, tsk, pollo:

Hand-Gate   [Stephen Spruiell]

I'm trying really hard to figure out why certain left-wing blogs are treating this picture of Sarah Palin reading notes off her hand as some kind of major coup. The notes she had written are "Energy," "[illegible]," Taxes," and "Lift America's spirits." That's some cheat sheet.

I get that it's a sort of "turnabout is fair play" from the set that must be very annoyed by now at all the prompter jokes. But it misses the point of why the prompter jokes have caught on. A prompter feeds your remarks to you word for word. The idea that you would need such a device to talk to a room full of sixth graders or a meeting of your own staff is funny.

On another level, the prompter jokes took off because they reinforce the substantive argument that Obama is in over his head, because they indicate that he can't perform the the presidency's basic public-speaking duties without a major safety net. I'm not sure what substantive argument Palin's hand-notes are supposed to underline, and I suspect it's not an argument so much as an attitude. The attitude would be that writing on your hand is dumb and low-class. On the left, where this opinion of Palin already prevails, anything which reinforces it will be picked up and cheerfully passed around. And, to the extent that anyone not on the left notices this giddy snobbery, it will play to Palin's strengths.

For example, one might say: "Unlike the guy who needs a three thousand dollar teleprompter to get out of bed in the morning, Palin speaks from concise notes like everybody else. And, like other busy moms, she sometimes writes notes on her hand." The comeback is so obvious that, again, I really can't figure out why Palin's detractors are bringing this up at all.

[Greg Nog]

I guess the real question here is whether Palin's part of the pen fifteen club

[elpollodiablo]

She had a prompter for the speech, though, right? She just needed the four bullet points for the Q&A

[dieblucasdie]

I mean, yeah, like I said, I don't really care if politicians need notes, I just thought it was hilarious that she needed them just to evade questions with platitudes. 

I'm imagining the meeting with her handlers.  "Lifting America's spirits"??  Shit, I better write that down

[hannah]

I just think the NR piece is funny cuz you could rewrite it and replace "left" with "right" and "Palin" with "Obama" and "hand" with "teleprompter" etc. It's like a nice nonsense fluff blog piece that thinks it is big and important and make a "substantive argument." LOLconservatives!

[Ignatius]

I'm down with hannah's take. Writing down "substantive" in lieu of actual substance and attacking Obama's one major strength to downplay Sarah Palin's glaring faults is jokes.

[elpollodiablo]

Also I don't care if you're the smartest person alive, writing "Lift America's spirits" on your hand is fuckin duuuuumb

[Thermofusion]

Andrea Mitchell parodied the Palin hints-on-hand thing on Morning Joe a few minutes ago (she had her own hints written on her hand, you see).

[dieblucasdie]

[Antero]

So the message that I'm getting is that there is no difference between satire and reality.

[davy]

Haha, seriously.

[Antero]

Is it supposed to be a positive or a negative caricature?  I can't tell!

[diesel_powered]

So they're making tea with the constitution? Wouldn't that make the ink run? No, no, this doesn't add up AT ALL.

[Greg Nog]

So they're making tea with the constitution? Wouldn't that make the ink run?

No, those colors don't run.

[elpollodiablo]

Is it supposed to be a positive or a negative caricature?  I can't tell!

Same here!

[dieblucasdie]

It's supposed to be positive, believe it or not.

[Thermofusion]

har har



http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/02/10/national/a100205S47.DTL

[elpollodiablo]

Nope!

[Thermofusion]

If I lived within 200 miles of that thing I'd've already bought my spraypaint

[dieblucasdie]

Even Michelle Malkin wrote a post in response to that saying, "Not really!"

[Thermofusion]

Vandalized by Friday. At the latest. Or I'm sorely disappointed by our youth.

[diesel_powered]

Eh, the youth of today are far more interested in Twitter and getting into a good college than delinquency. It's one of their generation's failings, i guess.