Okay, so this thread was a bit of a false start, but now the Beast’s "50 Most Loathsome Americans, 2009," is actually out! Plenty of rich, Beastly goodness! Posting this in the Pit because, well, the whole list is one long Pitting, isn’t it? But, if I myself have to Pit something to satisfy the Junior PitMods, here’s a few specific items I heartily endorse:
Too lenient. Floor open for nominations as to alternative punishments. Let’s get creative!
:eek: Does poor old amusing Lyndon deserve such cruelty?!
Meh. Too easy.
Sad but true . . .
Why bother?
Now, this one needs a lot more attention than it has got, considering the number of very powerful people who allegedly have been somehow involved in “The Family.” Therefore I propose a punishment that involves publication of all membership-related records of any kind since the organization’s founding. All persons named therein to be deemed guilty until proved innocent. Membership punishable by forfeiture of all assets and exile to Somalia. (Too much food in Uganda, and wait 'til you try that Somalian butt-sex . . .)
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Charges: As the Sybil of cable punditry and graduate of the prestigious University of I Don’t Remember, Beck’s bipolar professor routine is hands down the funniest thing on TV. When he gets out the chalkboard and starts drawing trees and playing misspelled word association games with a comically grave demeanor, Beck makes Stephen Colbert look like a piker.
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Real life, again and again, raises the bar for satire. Some 40 years ago teachers saw that what I wrote was obvious satire. Today?
Okay, it was both obvious and labored, much as today. I try not to dwell on it when my contemporaries were both funny and pertinent, but to grab onto the last thread of their coattails…
As for my wife, she kept running into, “You’re funny! Have you met,” and the name of one of the Belushi brothers, since they came from around here. “He just left, but you MUST meet him!”
She never bothered to play on any of her Show Biz connections. Multiple times I have said, “No, I’m just the conduit, and you have to call XXX-XXX-XXXX.” She was doing Roseann’s schtick, including particular bits, before Roseann was.
Remark from the bathroom when the TV was on too loud: “Hey, that’s MY bit!” Or it would be, with the proper paperwork.
Erik Prince being “the most dangerous threat to American freedom in the world today?” Oh please. The official military of any major country, including America, has a far worse record than Blackwater does.
We still have our own soldiers. A hell of a lot more of them than Blackwater does. But, hey, military - if you want to keep your experienced combat grunts from going over to Blackwater instead of continuing to serve the US government, you could, maybe, like, pay them better? Almost everyone in Blackwater is former Army or Marines. It’s not like they’re a bunch of faceless, cloned goons wearing ski masks from a Metal Gear Solid game.
I’m here. I’m looking at some of the words in the thread, obviously, or I wouldn’t have written my previous post. I don’t have an axe to grind against the Buffalo Beast, but rather, the fact that The Pit is now completely a “bash conservatives” forum. Not that I give a fuck about conservatives or any other political figures - I don’t. It’s just tiresome to see thread after thread about Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin and conservative X and conservative Y - totally dominating the forum. There should just be one big catch-all thread called “Fuck the Right” (and there can be one called “Fuck the Left,” too, if conservatives want to throw down.) Or maybe there should be a separate forum for politics, like many others have suggested.
It’s just, these people are such easy targets, that it’s become trite to pit them. It’s like pitting racism or pitting earthquakes.
You are a liar. Based on your posting history, you are conservative yourself and care a great deal about conservatism. No one who does not meet that description bashes liberalism the way you do. And, no, I do not even believe you are like Stone and Parker of South Park, who, by their own testimony, “hate conservatives, but really, really hate liberals.”
Sad but true . . .