All Things in Moderation

Can’t Pass up a Ghostbuster Joke

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   Kevin S. Willis, on March 12, 2012 at 9:56 am said:

   Love it.

   “I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never ever possibly destroy us. Mr. Stay Puft!”

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   bsimon, on March 12, 2012 at 12:27 pm said:

   Having just mentioned Theroux the other day, I’m compelled to share this defense of Limbaugh in the Fluke affair:
   http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/10/condemnation-of-rush-limbaugh-shows-our-hypocrisy.html

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   Kevin S. Willis, on March 12, 2012 at 8:49 pm said:

   bsimon (from the article): It occurred to me that in this fairly illiterate, irony-challenged country we have no notion of what satire actually is.

   Agreed, though I sometimes find very literate and well-educated people are as irony-challenged as any high school drop out.

   You have to give Limbaugh a pass, otherwise you lose the right to go on calling Gingrich and Eric Cantor pimps for Israel, and Rick Santorum a mental midget, and if you foreswear colorful, if not robust or wicked language altogether you might as well shut up.

   I tend to agree. I understand why folks get irked (I like Jon Stewart, and was rankled when he (IMHO) clearly misinterpreted Sarah Palin’s praise of small town America and responded to her with: “Fuck you.” But, okay. If he gets to do that, Rush gets to make the tortured argument that demanding that private organizations be mandated to provide health insurance is tantamount to being a prostitute. I haven’t heard that program, but I saw the transcript, but it’s a really weak argument. But it’s not worse than other stuff that Rush, or Bill Mahr, or even Jon Stewart have said (though Stewart has much more panache) . Or Michael Moore. Or any number of lefty pundits (and rightwards one, too) have said over the years.

   It’s interesting what sets people off, though.

   I also like his point about the absurdity of legitimizing the argument, just because (and I like, and still occasionally listen to, Limbaugh, and I’m usually won over by the experience when I do), this particular argument is unusually tortured, even for him. Demanding a mandate for employer-paid-for health insurance to pay for contraception = prostitution / sluttiness.

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   bsimon, on March 13, 2012 at 8:17 am said:

   ” I sometimes find very literate and well-educated people are as irony-challenged as any high school drop out.”

   Indeed. In my experience there is not a strong correlation between literacy & the ability to perceive irony.

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