Day: June 29, 2007

I had already decided that I’d skip on the latest Fantastic Four movie. I saw the first one (as a video rental) and it stank up the room, so I figured this one would have small chance for improvement. The only “series” movies in recent memory that have improved as they segued to the next were… LOTR and the Die HArd franchise (although #3 in that franchise stank pretty badly). Orson Scott Card reviews the latest abortion of comics-to-movie here. A sample:

“…as Reed Richards (Gruffudd) and Sue Storm (Alba) are preparing to get married, we want to scream at the screen: No, don’t let them get married! They might have children! It would be a tragedy!”

and

There’s nothing wrong with the Fantastic Four movie series that could not be fixed by destroying every copy of the film.

*heh*

Maybe I’ll watch the thing–a few years from now, when my eyesight and hearing are further deteriorated–when I can get it from the local rental place on a “7 movies for a buck” deal. Maybe not even then. I’d almost rather watch the latest Spiderman flic. *shudder*

Just following yet another example of typical slander “reporting” by Mass Media Podpeople…

A huge tip o’ the tam to Washington Post columnists Roxanne Roberts and Amy Argetsinger for underlining the lies, damned lies and deliberately twisted quotes that are the staple of Mass Media Podpeople “reporting”–in their column this week that “reported”

“The conservative shock-pundit, who sniped on ‘Good Morning America’ Monday that she hoped the Democratic candidate would be ‘killed in a terrorist assassination plot,’ was a guest on MSNBC’s ‘Hardball’ Tuesday night, prompting a live call-in by Elizabeth, who demanded that Coulter ‘stop the personal attacks.’”

Note: the so-called “reporters” said specifically that Coulter hoped the Democratic candidate would be ‘killed in a terrorist assassination plot.’ An outright, bald-faced lie made with obvious malicious intent. Slander, in the ordinary (and legal) understanding of the term. What Coulter actually said was,

“…Bill Maher was not joking and saying he wished Dick Cheney had been killed in a terrorist attack. So I’ve learned my lesson. If I’m going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I’ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.”

This just unserscores the fact that Mass Media Podpeople will let no lie go untold in order to slander those whose views they disagree with, and they will let any tasteless remark (ex: the Bill Maher comment) slide if made by someone like Maher about those they dislike, while prominently “reporting” any lie that falsely portrays a simliar “attack” by someone like Coulter about someone on “their side” of trhe Great Divide.

Lies, damned lies and Mass Media Podpeople “reporting”.

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It takes a brick bat squarely between the eyes just to get their attention. Examples: swamped senatorial phone/fax lines on the shamnesty fraud juuuuuust managed to avert railroading the bill through the senate; bunker buster bombs on Saddam’s head finally got Qadaffi’s attention a few years ago.

But has the American public learned its lesson about politicians *spit*? We’ll just have to see. American politicians *spit* haven’t managed to learn the lesson about how to handle a Muslim. (Hint repeated: it’s quite a bit a different technique to the one advocated in “How to Handle a Woman”–Camelot, 1967)

(Do note: there was a core–a very small core–of Senators who were right on the shamnesty issue all along. On this issue. There is no small core of Muslims who are not terrorists or terrorist supporters, no matter what some may claim. ALL Muslims revere the FIRST Muslim terrorist, the Butcher of Medina.)

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