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YOU’RE WELCOME AMERICA!! Will Ferrell Is Live From New York Saturday Night With His Tribute To George W. Bush!!
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The day Barack Obama launched his term as president, Will Ferrell began greeting sold-out Broadway audiences with “You’re Welcome America: A Final Night With George W. Bush,” a live show that Ferrell co-wrote and staged with longtime collaborator Adam McKay (“Saturday Night Live,” “Anchorman”).
The show has been breaking house records at Manhattan’s Cort Theater, raking in $846,507.05 during the week ending Feb. 15.
Tonight HBO brings us one of the show’s final performances live.
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Fuck you, Will Ferrell. Fuck you up your stupid ass. Not because you're making fun of Bush, but because you insult the intelligence of every person who has ever seen any of your movies.
The only good movie involving you is Stranger Than Fiction... most likely because you had no hand in writing - someone with talent did that.
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I saw many Will Ferrell movies using my own free will, like how I did that? You obviously did the same, because you formed an opinion about him. From what I read. You feel insulted by Will Ferrell. The way I see it. That's your problem.
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is???
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Mar 14, 2009 4:20:36 AM CDT
Every dumb frat guy or ex football player I know loves Will Ferr
by walrusholder
opiate for the masses
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you sound more like a self important nitwit who wants to find something to complain about, not a will ferrel fan nor his target demographic. He has more talent in his eyelashes than either of us do in our entire bodies. I am a fan of his, and he has dropped some stinkbombs, but the majority of the time will ferrel is on the screen, he has me chuckling. John Belushi did it, Adam Sandler does it, Chris Farley did it.
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Names, bro, names. You too, darthpigman.
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apart from the snl cowbell skit.
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Seems like everyone who has Darth in their name is a fuckin idiot. So Jar Jar had you blowing popcorn out your nose but Will Farrell is too lowbrow for you? But you like "intelectual" comedy like Stranger Than Fiction? In the words of Christian Bale, "Good for youuuuuu!"
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it's cool to dislike will ferrell now?
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"Elitist Hollywood liberals still aren't creative enough to do anything other than bash George W. Bush."
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I think it happened somewhere between Talladega Nights and that viral video he released online of his daughter.
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are clearly retarded, what happened...
Did Will at some point rape your mom and then race off in a chopper, re-adjusting his sport coat?
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... showed up in Zoolander. Perfect role for him. The guy cracks me up now and his Bushism's are hilarious. Can't wait to see this.
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Wow, plucked that from the cliche garden, eh? I used to simply loathe the right in this country but now I just pity them that they're so clueless. I guess as long as they have Rush to think for them they'll stay out of power. Thanks Rush, you talentless carny hack, have some more rope for you and your Dittoites. Poor Michael "I'm for choice! Oh no, Rush called again? No I'm not, I'm against women having abortions! I-I-Is that OK Mr. Goebbels, erm, I mean The Great And Powerful Rush?" Steele.Staying on topic; Isn't Ferrell playing Bush with just a bit too much intelligence?
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I like many different types of comedies.
Stranger Than Fiction, Animal House, Happy Gilmore, Monty Python...
Screaming like a maniac (e.g. Will Ferrell) does not constitute comedy (in my opinion).
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is smarter and more useful than Bush ever was.
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He teases fans who want his autograph, saying that they have to earn it. They already earned by supporting him. They don't owe him a fucking thing. Any celebrity who thinks they're too good to sign autographs, or think that their fans have to earn it, are the lowest pieces of shit in the business. And remember that I'm talking about a business where there are movie producers (see Fox Studios for more info).
I personally think he's completely retarded.
Can he be funny?
Yeah. Mustafa in Austin powers? "I think I've broken my leg. I'll try and use the other one "SNAP!" Ohhh!" That was hilarious.
IS he funny?
Not usually.... he's better off performing stuff that he doesn't piece together with Adam McKay because when he does, all we get is the deer in headlights while smiling look once in a while and a bunch of screaming and yelling and lines that sound like they were quoted by mentally retarded six-year-olds. He tries way to damn hard. That goes for John C. Reilly, too. "Your voice sounds like a cross between Fergie and Jesus" -- WHAT?! That isn't funny!!!!!!
Don't even get me started on "Boats and Ho's," or the weird brotherly "hugging" moment in Step Brothers. I wanted to stick my penis into my blender to drown out the pain of that which is Will Ferrell's brand of "comedy."
Again, this is my own opinion. That doesn't make me retarded. It makes me someone with a different opinion than yours.
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It really doesn't seem like a tribute. It seems more like he is trying to mock Bush. I've never found Will very funny and I guess I don't appreciate his style of praise either.
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Can't you moronic fucking conservatives just go away for a while? Christ!
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Of course he's mocking Bush, you stupid fuck. It cracks me up that you're not entirely sure this isn't some sort of actual tribute. What a moron! We can tell who you voted for, Einstein. Fuck George Bush, and fuck you, too.
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Yeah, but arent grown adults seeking another man's signature on a cocktail napkin a bit of a loser anyway? THIS is what we are supposed to hate him for?
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"Hmmm, Im watching this....and call me crazy, but I dont think hes really being all that complimentary to Pres. Bush. Am I missing something? Why does he keep saying strategery?"
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Usually it takes a while, but this one was right out of the gate. . . it's saturday morning, Bushies. Get back in your Hannity Underoos and take a little nap. Otherwise, you're going to start comparing Will Ferril to Barbara Streisand, and that's just wrong.
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This this extremely boring. Nothing will be able to top his short Bush skits on SNL.
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Fucking hilarious that he actually revealed that he hates everything about Will Farrel because he wouldn't give him an autograph. Typical AICNer crying because of rejection...
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Mar 14, 2009 10:03:09 AM CDT
Actually, Ferrell is known for being a dick to fans
by rainbowtrout1265
The guy's man-child persona is VERY different from how he acts in real life. He's a complete asshole (same with McKay). But he was great in Elf, though.
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Why can you Koolaid-drinking Obama-ites give Bush a hug too? Yea, I'm talking to you too, Ferrell......
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Will Ferrell would be funny reading the phone book. This is going to be hilarious!
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not the Dems or Republicans. wake up people. Bilderberger group.
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Time to move on SNL, find your balls and mock the guy who spends every Wednesday night throwing lavish, star-studded parties for himself on the taxpayers' dime, while the rest of the country struggles to pay their mortgages.
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Suck like you suck Rush's fat cock, morons.
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Got a great personalized photo from him. I have seen how many of you act on this site. I would treat you like shit also in person. Guy doesn't owe you anything.
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What's the fucking point of doing this now? GW has disappeared so fast from the public eye it's not even funny. He's probably almost through all his Family Guy DVDs by now.
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The man is obviously mentally disabled.
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...the poorly disguised right-winger seething at having their monkey prince mocked. I mean come on -- acting faux indignant over a comedian's "brand of comedy". Just admit it -- it's the Bush bashing you really can't stand.
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That's kinda the point. Bush disappeared so fast, that we're meant to forget all the horrible, stupid, idiotic, hurtful, murderous, illegal, unacceptable, irresponsible, unmentionable, horrific, undeniable, disregardable, unamerican, unfathomable things he did. This piece makes damn sure that the last taste of Bush on our pallet (giggidy) is a Fuck-You mocking of him; and not his pandering, piece-of-shit, I-did-nothing-wrong, you-will-all-be-attacked-with-obama, this-country-is-safer-with-me, exit speech.
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Mar 14, 2009 11:08:54 AM CDT
Will Farrell...please report to "Jim Carrey's Home For...
by balzacs_ballsac
...No Longer Relevant Comedians." We are living in the time of the great RICKY GERVAIS!!!
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Are you serious!?! Did you stay awake for the whole movie? And you think that's better than Elf, Old School, Talladega Nights, Anchorman? That's just crazy-talk.
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The people helping to break "house records" at the Cort Theater by paying $75/$100 per ticket did pretty well in the Bush economy if they're paying that much for their tickets AND on vacation in New York City. What are they so angry about?
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Who cares if he's a dick in real life? What does that have to do with his movies? If the guy was a child rapist or something, it would be different. But just because he's a dick? 90% of comedians are dicks. Maybe more now that George Carlin is gone...
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Who cares if he's a dick in real life? What does that have to do with his movies? If the guy was a child rapist or something, it would be different. But just because he's a dick? 90% of comedians are dicks. Maybe more now that George Carlin is gone...
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I do agree Stranger than Fiction is his best movie. But how is Talladega Nights not great satire? I watched that movie and felt like I was seeing people I know...
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That history's view of Bush won't be a one-man satire of him made two months after he's already left office. Especially when the comedian in question's been doing the same schtick for 8 years.The truly funny thing is the obvious cowardice of comics in regards to mocking Obama, for fear of being labeled politically-incorrect or racist. No SNL skits on his guys not paying taxes? None on Obama spending trillions on global warming during the coldest winter in years, while the banking crisis is ignored?? None on his Wednesday night ho-downs???The Tim Geithner skit was fine, but c'mon... Obama's blasé and spendthrift attitude while the financial markets crash around him are just BEGGING to be mocked. Continuing to make fun of Bush is simply lazy copout... and at this point, old.
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Or Not Kaufman, as it was known in some territories. No way in Hell is that the best picture Ferrell has ever been involved in. I'll still throw Anchorman out there - and if we're wantin' to pretend that non-demented Ferrell is better than his deranged Talladega shadow, then Melinda & Melinda is ninety times the film Stranger Than Fiction was. Not that Stranger Than Fiction was bad - it had that gorgeous Wreckless Eric moment for God's sakes - but it's not even in the same universe - literally so, it often seems like - as the films with McKay, or two and a half of them, at least.
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Go on, tell us how you USED TO enjoy comedic Bush bashing before it became "old" and "a lazy copout".
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You really think Obama has done nothing about the banking crisis? Where did you get that he's spending trillions on global warming? Do you think snow in New Orleans means there's something not weird happening to our planet?
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Mar 14, 2009 12:17:52 PM CDT
"The history's view" that's coming sometime in the future
by wereplatypus
is all you Bushies have left. Look- if you're just going to sit on your ass and pray for something truly awful to happen . . . just so your petty absolutes can be vindicated afterwards, then go live somewhere else. You're just too freaking pathetic to help.
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That's pretty much everyone's opinion.
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I'm not a conservative, I voted for Kerry in 04 and Obama in 08, but isn't it BORING that everyone in Hollywood and everything coming out of Hollywood in sooooo predictably Liberal? How about something original, or at least a little different, or daring, or anything other than pc liberal?
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Has taken on a life of its own. Its evolved into a completely seperate character from the guy it started out riffing on who used to be president.
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Will Ferrell has never been funny. He (and Adam Sandler, Jimmy Fallon, etc.) are all horribly overrated. Oh, and I use profanity and horrific anti-female slurs to punctuate my topical observations - aren't I clever?
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...or did someone just use the word "great" in close proximity to "Talladega Nights"?
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I am love, Love, LOVING the passive aggressive Republican cry-fest in here. I'd comment further, but I need to commit sodomy and give some money to a teenager so she can get an abortion. But seriously dudes -- your guy fucked this country up, and history is going to remember him for the retarded, vaguely evil clown that he is. Boo-goddamn-hoo for you.
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Mar 14, 2009 1:18:17 PM CDT
"trillions on global warming during the coldest winter in years"
by industrykiller!
THATS the dumb ass comment of the talkback. Its the kind ofm misleading hilarious oversimplification that I LOVE when Republicans make nowadays because its the kind of totally unsubstantiated bullshit that will keep them from ever coming back.
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...Ferrel's Bush impersonation (which has always been gold), or the ego of the Bush bashers who don't realize that the embodiment of evil isn't GWB, but Washington as a whole.
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I live in fucking Pittsburgh, a city that has 2 seasons: Getting Cold, and Cold. 3 days ago it was SEVENTY degrees. We have had less than 2 feet of snow since winter started. It is usually less than 20 degrees with a foot of snow on the ground here from December to mid-April. Suck my cack....coldest winter in years my ass....
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The whole of our elected officials in washington need to be burned at the stake for utterly failing us these last few years. That includes both the morons who ran for president last year who were in the senate when this entire financial meltdown was going on around them. Anyway, GW Bush did more morally and ethically questionable things in office than any pres ever. You can keep saying washington was the problem, but GW Bush will go down as this century's greatest monster... Unless Iraq starts giving us free oil.
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I live with crazy Republican father, who only sees one side of everything. Things like this make me happy because I can laugh at the things he takes so seriously and gets defensive about.
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And I can laugh at Will Ferrell. You know why???? I have a sense of HUMOR! I also listen to U2 and watch Kevin Smith movies. I can laugh at stuff, because it is FUNNY. Just because a liberal makes a joke doesnt mean I cant laugh at it. Only if its funny though. If it aint funny, I aint gonna laugh. Make me laugh, clown.
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The 2008 election of Obama was not a "landslide." he got the majority of the electoral votes (the same moronic system that allowed Bush to squeak by - with a little help - in 2000). Obama received 52.9% of the popular vote. 47.1% - damn near half - of the voters voted for somebody else. Don't get me wrong, I hope to hell that Obama can do a decent job, I just don't like seeing people getting the facts wrong. If the economy does well, he'll get an even higher percentage in 2012.
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I don't know, I was pretty drunk last night. Ironic considering your name is DrunkyMcLush, but I'm pretty sure I didn't like what you were saying. So fuck you!
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mean spirited bashing of one half of america, from either side. I do my part to humanize the dialog by being respectful of those I don't agree with, I just wish others would do the same. Oh, and a stammering impersonation is not satire.
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Electoral votes is how we determine the president, not popular vote. If we elected the president on the popular vote, Gore would have won in 2000.
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...I thought it was funny.....but would it have been better or worse if Will Ferrel was the Lead Character?
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..I tried reaching out to the right-wingers in my office after the election but all I got in return was anger, anger and more anger for my efforts. Obama's entire inauguration and ceremony and all I heard was "See, that black minister hates white people!" Honestly, why can't people on the right see what they've become? The fact that Michael Steele has to kiss Lumbaugh's fat ass so that he doesn't anger the already angerd white-guy base is utterly repugnant and thoroughly baffling to me. It's time the right learned how to be Americans again and not just angry, hateful white guys. Republicans...the Party of NO!I don't see Will doing satire so much as just going with a shtick...it's funny, I don't care who you are. Bush, with his never ending stream of verbal gaffs, has always been a rich vein for comedians to tap into. Hey Ditto-heads, as your man Rush sez "C'mon, it's funny!"
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until I saw Anchorman. That movie remains one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.
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Could have sworn we elected a new one. O-somethingortheother. O'Malley? Maybe. Anyway, if we have a new PotUS, why is it that comics can't seem to come up with contemporary material?
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All this bush bashing is really stale. Not that he doesn't deserve it, but this is pretty ridiculous. Ferrell took what was a funny impression and turned it into another bad SNL movie on stage. How much can you really drag this stuff out? Not much..
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Not all 'right winger's like Bush.. but are you really surprised anyone was having a hard time with Obama being elected because they didn't vote for him? Come on. The lefties were crying in their Milk after Gore and Kerry lost. Whoever loses is all of a sudden crybabies because they're upset and they don't like a candidate. It's great that a black man has been elected, and that should be the last reason any of us were upset he got elected, there are plenty of real reasons to be upset.
As for Obama today, I'm still waiting to see him 'reach across the aisle'.. so far all he's done is distance himself further and push the reps. into a corner. So much for a new kind of politics like he promised. So much for no more earmarks. Change indeed. -
Any presidential victory will most likely look like a landslide if you look at electoral votes. But if you look at the popular vote, you can see pretty clearly that the voting public did not overwhelmingly select Obama. If he keeps it up at the pace he's going, it won't take a lot of those 'on the fence votes' to sway it back to the repubs in the next election.
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I'm love the whole "how dare you attack our president in a time of crisis!" from the formerly "dissent is patriotic" crowd. Eight years of attacking Bush through every crisis imaginable, disasters both natural and created and now that their guy is in office it should be a period of "post-partisanship".
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that shit is funny.
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I love the whole "dissent is patriotic" from the formerly "how dare you attack our president in a time of crisis!" crowd. see what i did there? crazy partisans!
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Bush is a complete goddamn moron and one of the worst presidents in US history (and from a fiscal and constitutional standpoint, one of the least conservative). you hear that liberals? I'M FUCKING SORRY OK!
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Mar 14, 2009 4:36:02 PM CDT
Is Will Ferrell going to hold on to George Bush like Darrell Ham
by walrusholder
Really I fucking tired of GW it's really not even funny to make fun of him anymore. He's a total fuck up and he's gone. I don't want to hear about him any more. Will Ferrell needs to stop this shit and get to work on Weatherman 2 or something
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No, you can't smoke that here.No, you can't eat that food.No, you can't use those words.No, you can't drill for oil.No, you can't drill oil shale either.No, you can't refine that oil.No, you can't build any more nuclear reactors.No, you can't attend a different public school.No, you can't have those weapons.No, you can't keep your union vote private.No, you can't listen to as much of that as you want on the radio.No, you can't chop that wood.No, you can't buy the health care you want.No, you cannot succeed in anything without our help.No, the campaign is over, so hope and charge are out the window.There is no monopoly on the word "no" if you try to avoid reflexively repeating Jon Stewart's talking points and think for yourself, Obot.
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"I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic and we should stand up and say, "We are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with ANY administration."
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The way the Republican Party is looking right now, who would they even put up against Obama? That druggie loudmouth slob Rush? That crazy exorcist creep Bobby Jindell? Face it: The GOP is fucked! Obama will win by an even bigger margin next election. You read it here first!
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I actually hope it's her. That will be hilarious watching her try and play Barbie Presidential Candidate again. Lawl...
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That silver spoonfed piece of shit deserves nothing. No respect! Nothing. He should be erased from the history books. BUT then again it is the only way to describe how our country went to shit so fast. George Bush and the Republican spendthrifts. Blew all our money. Jerk Offs! Contract with America my ASS! The Republicans promised to get rid of corruption in Washington in 1994. They were voted in and ended up being the worst of anybody. Pedophiles. Closeted homosexuals who want to ban gay marriage. Double our national debt. Give away votes for sexual favors. I can keep going all day...
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no you can't have those weapons? or drill for oil? What the fuck that's the GOP stands for. The democrats are just as bad in denial of liberty.
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Complete obedience to the government is what totalitarian and commmunist countries do.
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Mar 14, 2009 6:26:02 PM CDT
Dissenting is patriotic, no matter who is president? Really?
by quin the eskimo
Doesn't battling everything make you an easily dismissable reactionary? I choose my fights, don't wanna die on every hill.
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Part of what got Obama elected was a kneejerk reaction to all things that Bush did... It would have taken a collapse of monumental proportions for the dems to have lost this election. If Obama stays on the path he's on.. you will see the reverse happen and the repubs can put anybody they want up, and they'll get elected. So far he's managed to go against most every campaign promise he's made.. the sypathetic vote won't work in 4 years when the recession is behind us and his spending is still out of control.
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Corruption and govenment go together like Peas and Carrots.... always will, and our newest President is no different. Quin, I don't think he's saying you fight everything, but you damn sure should question it, or they will run over our country to push agendas.
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AICN Talkback- putting a spotlight on mid-western small minded fanboys for the better half of a decade. Fantastic.
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Mr Spork: you, I and Teddy Roosevelt agree
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Where is their landing site?
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I've never been rejected for an autograph because I've never met him - he is KNOWN for treating fans like that.
That's why I won't pay to see anything with Bruce Willis, Lucy Liu or Cameron Diaz in it - because they all treat their fans like shit and I don't want to support celebrities who act like that. -
Ferrell and his buddy McKay should do something original. Hey, I know! They should do a movie where Ferrell acts like an overgrown kid! They could call it My Step Brother From Talledega Who's An Anchorman!
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Just kidding. Well, not really- Will Ferrell just has this weird obsession with G.W. and it just-so-happens to draw attention away from Barry. I would rather have some current satire about Pelosi, Reid, Geithner, maybe some skit about how appointees have a problem paying taxes, etc. But that's okay! GW impressions are funny, Will! Keep dancing with the girl who brought you!
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I am not saying that I love GW just because I happen to find Obama to be completely unqualified for this job and WAY over his head. It IS possible to dislike BOTH, you know.
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where's the tracy morgan love
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and he didnt pardon his rich donors like Clinton did. Im quite sure Obamas gonna pardon him self too, since hes sought out a staff of tax dodgers.
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shes hammering the volunteer military for free rides for her friends and family, Im all for putting up a guillotine and letting a mob sort it out
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I think the problem many of us have is one I can sum up with my feeling about many comedians--a particular fave of my dumber friends, Nikki Glaser (hot though--she opened for Doug Benson when he was last through)--but her routine was easily seen through by the third joke (she was one of those comedians who says one thing that's sorta dirty and then tries to 'trick' you into thinking that she wasn't meaning something dirty, for example: 'I was googling myself the other day...oh, don't be gross Audience, I meant masturbating')-----anyway, I know rambled here, but my point being is that once you see through their schtick, they're not funny anymore. Having seen more than a few of Monsieur Ferrell's films, I can pretty much pick out the scenes where he whines like he's 5, then one where he screams uncontrollably in public, etc. I don't hate the guy or anything, but I think we're just bored by the sameness...but who am I to talk? I fucking LOVE Jack Black.
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"I'm not saying I love Bush, but..." "I'm no Bush fan, but..." "Bush wasn't perfect, but at least..." They know the guy was a total fucking idiot and completely fucking devastating to this country in every way and they know history will put him down that way, so they can't say they loved him for eight years and defended him and called those who criticized him "unAmerican" and fell for every fucking trick the guy pulled, they can't admit that, but damn if they're going to accept this new uppity Negro guy who is "unqualified" (Ha!) and a complete failure after a couple months. What fucking losers. And I mean that in every sense of word. In the words of a wise man: Eat all the dicks. All of them.
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I had the pleasure of meeting him (and Arnold Schwarzenegger--on the same trip, no less!) on a trip to Sun Valley, ID. At the time, Mr. Willis owned a bar in the next town over (Hailey, ID) called The Mint. Upon further inspection by my dad and I, we found out that he was singing with his house band. It was a really cool moment and he was waaaay decent to a couple of trespassers. Signed autographs then politely asked us to get the fuck out of there before he went all Die Hard 2 on us.
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The legions of Bushies still drinking the Kool-Aid and posting in this talkback prove why this special is indeed still relevant. But in seriousness - this isn't so much a goodbye to Bush as it is a goodbye to the character Will Ferrell plays. And while I'm a Democrat, I think it would've been just as funny to see one of these with Phil Hartman doing Clinton after the fact, had he still been alive to do it...
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His bit about the Bush family trapped in a mine after a cave-in is hilarious. Condaleeza Rice steals the show.
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You're a moron. Obama is the most dynamic and intelligent president we've had in a long, long while. It takes some time to correct the huge fucking mess Bush and his cronies concocted throughout the past eight years, but Obama is working on correcting it, along with fixing healthcare and getting us out of Bush stupid boondoggle of a war. The way I see it, we are coming down from a period of almost unprecedented greed and deregulation that allowed the most callow to reap unbalanced rewards while the rest shouldered the burden - all compounded by a media glorified consumer culture that in no way could sustain itself. We are on the cusp of profound change in the world economy that will no doubt affect us all. It doesn't happen overnight. In four years time, when the turn-around is well under way, he will sail through to his second term pretty much unopposed. So stop listening to Rush and take your head out of your ass.
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Gotta love the people who call him a monkey boy idiot yet he somehow managed to willfully and maliciously dismantle the Constitution, our civil rights, and the very fabric of our country. Oh yes, and he masterminded 9/11 as an inside job. I'll take anyone's criticism of Bush seriously if they can name one thing he did that affected them personally. I'm much more worried about the effects of trillions of taxpayer dollars going into the sinkhole of government pork, failed banks, and badly-run auto companies. Sorry guys, the "Bush Did It" excuse is running out of steam. Remember who's been running Congress for the last four years.
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I hate politics for the same reason I hate religion. It just makes you all look like a bunch of assholes. This blind allegiance to one side is stupid. Doesn't anyone else have a problem with the divisive nature of a two-party system? Sure, we don't have guns or anything but we're in the midst of a civil war everyday. Furthermore, I hate hipster douche bags who don't wear a mustache because it looks good but because they think it's 'ironic.' THATS NOT EVEN WHAT IRONIC MEANS, HIPSTER DOUCHEBAG!
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Have you heard this man when he's off his telepromter? It's sad at best, unnerving at worst. Are you even paying attention to his "solutions" for health care and the economy? Typical career politician...let's throw money at the problem. Like going to the DMV? Then you're going to love government-run healthcare! Obama is little more than a talking head who can give a good speech. The man can't even put together his cabinet without properly vetting out all the tax cheats. In two months he's managed to show his complete lack of knowledge about capitalism, insult our closest ally, get schooled by the Russians, and pander to Iran and Hamas. The man is in way over his head and he can't even hide it. I do agree with you that this country has relied too long on a consumer culture, but I tend to blame a Federal Reserve that has made money too cheap and plentiful to get and has encouraged a consumer society instead of a savings/production society. But lack of regulation is hardly to blame, more like an overreaching government who interferes in the economy.
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From a non-partisan perspective. This show is hilarious, by the way. George W. Bush is so dumb!
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NOT Ferrel
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is doing a great job so far.
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You want to hear from one person who's been personally affected by Bush? Well, there's a few million who'd be more than happy to inform you, if they could afford the internet, or even a roof over their head. There are millions. The problem with conservatives like you is a complete lack of empathy and a wholehearted embrace of isolationism than allows you to make ignorant statements that imply no one has been affected by Bush. Every single American is affected in some way by the actions of a president, Republican or Democrat. You don't think the family of a dead soldier is a perfect example? I especially love that a party that for the first time in history has made a black man its leader (Michael Steele) is on the verge of subjecting that same man to a no confidence vote less than two months later. It shows you the true constitution of the GOP and why that party died with George W. Bush's presidency. And by the way, Democrats took control of congress in January 2007, two years ago not four. Quit watching Fox News.
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"Barack Obama retains high approval ratings with the public, but a panel of economists had a far more negative view, reports the Wall Street Journal. A majority of 49 economists polled said they were dissatisfied with the president's economic policies. Asked to score his tenure out of 100, economists gave him an average score of 59—an "F," the Journal helpfully notes."
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Mar 14, 2009 8:55:02 PM CDT
Nice to see the giant penis just made an appearance on my TV
by dingleberry jones
Between that and Watchmen, I think I've seen more giant cock than Elton John at a Village People concert in Giantcockville, Florida.
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the will ferrell bush thing is old. really old. its over will. and we're over it. new material would be nice. your becoming the next mike myers. fast.
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"name one thing he did that affected them personally"
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Seriously? Obama's barely been in months two office (I know, I could totally have edited that, but thought that was the best-worst word swap ever), but 2 months into my last job, I was still asking questions of everyone--I imagine being the president is a hard job. His 'tenure,' haha, I know it literally refers to his time in office, but whenever I hear tenure, I expect you to mean more than 8 weeks.
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Hate to break this to you (same as I hate to break to you the fact that Pelosi's evil Congress has been in power TWO years, not four) but, those debates Obama had with McCain? Where he effectively buried him? NO TELEPROMPTERS.
And Obama at two months? Still better than Bush at EIGHT months, when the asshole was under the impression that America's worst foreign threat was North Korea and was pushing to resurrect "Star Wars" (yeah, I remember) even as 19 hijackers were purchasing their plane tickets. Right-wing apologists still try to use the "finding his feet" excuse... -
Anyone who wants to know who the people are that elected Bush twice should watch that documentary. There's a scene in there where Alexandra Pelosi (the filmmaker) asks a voter what socialism means (after he's spelled it "socilism" on a t-shirt) and he can't even give her an answer. I worked for a month with the Obama campaign and faced the same glaring stupidity -- at a friggin' university of all places! In the doc, you're hard pressed to find one McCain-Palin supporter who doesn't call Obama either a "nigger", the "anti-christ", a muslim, a terrorist -- and these are people mostly outside McCain-Palin rallies. You see the same bigotry in these Talk Backs all the time.
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you want one personal thing...okay. My brother died in iraq. Should i think of a second?
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I know this is totally off topic, but I figured i'd pass along this bit of news since it'll be 4 days til we hear it here (sorry Harry and co., i'm still a loyal reader even though I get all my news days before I read your musings on it here) so I thought i'd clear up Mickey Rourke's character in Iron Man 2:
Rourke has apparently met with Jon Favreau and scribe Justin Theroux to develop his character Whiplash which will be an amalgamation of that villain and Crimson Dynamo from the comics. -
Flowery words do not beat years of experience and knowledge. McCain's only failure in the debates was that he doesn't look good on television (oh, the horror).
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He really is going a great job.
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has been going on since the Earth's origin. More CFC's have been poured into our atmosphere in the last 20 years by volcanoes than by the last 100 years of industrialized society. Mankind has had little to no impact on global temperatures, and regardless of how much money we throw at the problem, will have little to no impact. If you strip away political (read: monitary) interests, the science bears this out. Climate trends cannot be read by only looking at the last 115 years, but by looking at the data in fossils and core samples that measure climate in terms of millenia. Billions of dollars will fill the pockets of those shilling for "green solutions," that would not come to them otherwise. Global warming zealots are just as dangerous as zealots from any religion. Take this from a researcher that thinks both political parties are full of shit. If what I've just said angers you, then it's because I've attacked your beliefs rather than your reason. We all want a cleaner planet, but the fact is, many so-called "green" solutions just pollute in a different way. Mercury-filled fluorescent light bulbs anyone?
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If you are in fact being truthful, I'd like to remind you that it takes the actions of a complicit Congress to authorize war powers for a President. It took an evenly divided Congress to authorize the Iraq war.
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Wow, you truly are living in a fucking alternate universe. Is McCain president in that reality of yours? In which debate did he school Obama exactly? The one where a majority of Americans polled said Obama won by double digits? Even Fox News' polls were "in the tank" for Obama. Hah! You're funny.
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You interview enough people and you'll eventually find six or seven idiots who resort to racial insults to criticize someone. I'd like to see all the stuff on the cutting room floor that made valid criticisms, like his associations with domestic terrorists, racist hucksters disguised as preachers, and real estate swindlers. How about his own race baiting tactics? Or the old, tired Democratic arguments calling for redistribution of wealth, class and race warfare, and government takeovers of industry?
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"McCain schooled Obama in the debates, sorry." - American Mythos is right: what color is the sky in your world? You are beyond help, my friend. And yeah, blame the war on the congress, not the administration that said we had to act fast before a "mushroom cloud" came as proof of Iraq's threat. You are an unbelievable idiot.
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Give him the Emmy now.
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It truly amazes me how blinded people have become over him. In the eagerness to leave the Bush years behind, we have elected a man who has zero foreign policy experience, has not authored a single piece of major legislation, and has done nothing career-wise apart from community rabble-rousing and functioning as a cog in the corrupt Chicago political machine. He is a weak leader and unfortunately we are going to pay a steep price for it.
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21 Democratic Senators voted against the war, 29 Democrats voted for it.
1 Republican senator voted against it.
126 Democratic Representatives voted against the war. 81 Democrats voted for it.
215 Republican Representatives voted for the war.
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You misunderstood. What I'm saying is, blindingly agreeing with everything the government says and does is a bad thing. Even if the Executive and Legislative branches are your preferred political party.
As it has always been and always will be, the public should question elected officials' actions if it is felt that they should be questioned.
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has been, not had been
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Explain to me how Bush started a war without Congressional authorization. A majority of Democrats authorized the Iraq war (and promptly railed against it as soon as it became politically expedient). I would have respected them more if they had opposed the war at the outset, but they didn't. They stuck their finger in the air, saw that their constituents wanted blood for 9/11, and went along until the country got fatigued of a long protracted conflict. This is something you and many other people conviniently ignore...it's much easier and requires less brainpower to blame one man rather than a whole body of people.
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Instead of saying "I disagree, here's why". It's like arguing about favorite sports teams. "My team's better, yours sucks"!
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That's what I'm saying!
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Trying to have an intelligent political discussion on this board is like trying to kick water uphill. The rabid anti-Bush nuts are far more shrill and numerous on this board, and they're suckers for a smooth-talking black man crooning "Hope, Change, Blame Bush" in their ear.
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147 congressional Dems voted against the war and 110 Dems voted for it.
And a whopping 7 - SEVEN - VII - SIETE - 1-2-3-4-5-6-7! members of the Republican majority voted against it!
Don't try passing the buck, Snoogans.
The leader of the Democratic Party and now the country, President Obama, spoke out against the war in 2002, and plans to end it by 2010. See, your new president actually has an exit strategy. Competent leadership must be an adverse shock to your system so I can see why you're going through Bush withdrawals. -
by saying a majority of Congressional Dems voted for the war. Quit lying and read my post above. Liar.
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a new chris rock special, seinfeld cast reuniting now this. god damn it.
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I can see Will Farrell was left in the dust some posts up. Much like the Brothers at War thread, all anyone need do is dare do a piece of art on (insert parriah topic here) and people lose their proverbial shit. Calm down folks. Will Farrell should have named his show "I now have one less meal ticket in my increasingly thin bag of tricks: The Last Supper" and then those of us who actually like him when he isn't doing Bush can go back to just enjoying him for the clown he is. Can't we have some kind of compromise vote on that people?
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One of the kids I taught in high school is dead because of Bush. He was in the military and was killed in Iraq looking for weapons of mass destruction. And technically, we are not at "war." There has been no declaration of war. The USA hasn't officially declared war since WWII.
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NO SOCIO-POLITICAL SATYR IN OPENING SNL SKIT MAKE HULK ANGRY!!!!
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Mar 14, 2009 10:37:00 PM CDT
No SNL talkback this week? Guess this will be defacto TB?
by taking_up_space
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...should be sure to include teleprompters, and be sure to whip his head back & forth with his chin up to look like he knows what he's doing. Our new Dear Leader isn't exactly bright on his feet, is he?
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Chewable Pampers commercial this season!
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You should be blaming Saddam and the hapless UN who could not enforce their own resolutions, not Bush. But hey, I'm sure the NEA told you to say that anyway.
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Mar 14, 2009 10:41:08 PM CDT
Never thought I'd look forward to Brian Fellow's Safari Planet..
by taking_up_space
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John Cena shows up on SNL and then there is a commercial for his new movie. Amazing.
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of good SNL episodes? The diaper commercial has me betting no, but I'll hope to be wrong.
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SNL hasn't been able to find one funny black guy since Murphy left. Chris Rock was a very good stand-up comic but doesn't have the tools to do sketch comedy. Tim Meadows and Morgan just aren't funny, but I would take them over the fat dude from the movie Good Burger....
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but the prospect is dim after that last one.
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If you're buying the Obama sales job, then you're the Moron. We didn't get to be the greatest country in the world because of Government.. it was Capitalims. Also, don't mistake me for a Bush lover.. he screwed things up royally... but spending our way out of this mess is only continuing in a much more accelerated and audacious fashion, the crap W. was pulling. That was Bush trying to be more centered, but like all spending programs, it backfired. Vote Libertarian people. Keep government small.
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Mar 14, 2009 10:57:00 PM CDT
Obama fucked John McCain up the ass in three debates without a t
by napoleondynamite
It's been a pleasure watching the disinitgration of the Republican party as it becomes more and more irretrievable hijacked by mouth-breathing, Noah's Ark believing, gun stroking, Palin fapping, dittohed, freeper morons who make it impossible for the few adults who are left in that party to even have a reasonable conversation with them anymore. Guess what, dipshits, you've lost the demographics. Angry white Bible thumpers are a minority now. You will never again be a majority. It's over.You lost. The minorities are having more babies than you, those under 20 are growing more liberal and secular. Fox News conservatives are now basically the equivalent of old segregationists -- embarrasing old bigots with no political power. The most amusing thing about you right now is that you think your problem is that you're not right wing and stupid enough. I used to think GWB was fucking dumb until I saw Palin, then I thought SHE was fucking dumb until I saw Joe the fucking Plumber. And now you guys are all excited about some 13 year old homeschooled kid who wears a suit and spouts Sean Hannity. You people are fucking out to lunch, you really are.
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i agree about rock, but disagree whole heartedly inregards to Tracy Morgan. Brian Fellows, Astronot Jones, His homeless character whose name is escaping me....tracy morgan was the sole bright spot in a dismal cast for a while. as far as tim meadows goes, well the ladies man was that funny, but he was pretty good on the show.
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Obama assfucked McCain in three debates without a teleprompter. Obama actually does extremely well without a teleprompter, he just takes enough time to be thoughtful and give substantive answers instead shouting out bumper sticker slogans. His extemporaneous answers actually parse out to complete, fully formed, grammatically correct and substantive paragraphs, unlike the word salad babbling we get from tards like W and Palin.
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is the talkback physically unable to be improved
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Astronaut Jones... He had the Brian Fellows' hat on.
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Too MUCH KEENAN!
It never fails. Whenever SNL has a host I want to see, the episode sucks monster balls. However, when it's someone I don't look forward to, like Rock or Justin Timberlake, the show rocks the house (no pun intended).
I think the writers may be jealous of people who are talented and purposely tank the shows with good guest hosts.
Hope Abby shows up as a lunar chick!
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You may be on to something with the demographics and the direction they're headed, but its not there yet. Conservatives and right leaning people still outnumber liberals / left leaning people in this country, but if you look at registered voters vs. who actually comes out to vote, its really about which party can get the bigger turnout on election day. I don't think we're looking at any sustained party dominance any time soon.
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I mean, she was never really much better than about a 6 or 7 anyway, but now she's edging into Wynonna Judd territory.
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Sorry but I just don't think Morgan is funny, but I can see why others may like him. We are just going to have to agree to disagree on Tim Meadows though. The dude just isn't funny.
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More like a fuckin' salvage yard back there. Hope the guy from Midnight Oil has diet tips. Coming soon: either Kelly in the Joplin Bio or the 2 Fat Broads tour with Ann Wilson.
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I thought McCain had a lot better information and a clear idea of what he should do.. I really got the sense that Obama was just pushing his whole case of blaming everything on Bush and dems and how it didn't work without offering real solutions, but people really just picked the candidate they liked when judging those things. I have to disagree that Obama came across well during those.. he stuttered, every other word was "uhhh." Not as bad as Bush's bumbling, but it did not come across like he was confident or new what he was talking about... that's why I was surprised so many people felt he won those debates more than any other... but I think so many people bought into 'change', it didn't matter what that change really entailed.
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designed to keep people fighting one another while those in power continue to rape the world and laughing at the water carriers waging meaningless wars on their behalf.
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But was that a guy or a girl?
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REALLY? SNL? REALLY? What kid's joke book did you pull that from? Jesus the writers aren't even trying this week!
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is freakin' disturbing. Who's the genius that came up with that one?
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Kristen Wiig almost single-handedly rules this show now. -Or stiff-armedly, in this case.
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Ginnifer Goodwin = hot
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They came up off kilter skits.
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is so creepy I just fast forward thorugh it. I have never watched the whole thing.
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okay. this is funny.
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Seems the good stuff is at the end of this episode.
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loved the sant bit.
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Where's the political satire? Can anyone remember an SNL in which they didn't even attempt one?
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Miss him.
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They haven't had a funny political skit since the election.. fine with me if they take a week off. Fred Armisen's Obama is terrible.
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I loathe and despise Armisen as Obama; he neither looks nor sounds like the President. But I thought they might still do something about the economy or something.
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laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame
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is totally selling himself out
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parks and rec might actually be funny.
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Parks and Recreations will be a terrible office rip off.
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You're a cute little mouth-breather, yes you are! Olby told you to say that and you did! Yes you did! What a good little boy! So cute!
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Mar 14, 2009 11:50:21 PM CDT
They should have done a Jon Stewart skit, he was big news.
by flim springfield
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Kelly Clarkson get better sound than TV on the Radio? That ain't no kinda right.
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This was the dullest episode yet.
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you just hoested an awful episode
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Good digital short, good use of Tracy's characters (missed the homeless guy, though). Best one since Jon Hamm. Two good episodes a season has been two more than we've had in ten years. Thank God Fey left.
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I stop watching after Brian Fellows. Damn, SNL is filled with unimaginative cowards since Obama took office. Let us know when they do a skit on Obama's illegal alien aunt or him taking away student vouchers from those kids who go to his children's fancy school.
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Guess what, Obama fuckin won. Now go write some John McCain / 24 fanfic.
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A total disgrace.
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Obama re-gifting 25 crappy DVDs everyone's already seen and handing them over to the British Prime Minister because he was too busy getting high to remember. But forget about it... SNL's too worried that Barack will sic Jon Stewart or Robert Gibbs on them to point out and mock the obvious.Odds are they'll have more Sarah Palin skits than Obama ones this year. Seriously, why waste our time with such complete lack of effort?
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There were long minutes where I didn't crack a smile, but I laughed my ass off at the most bizare jokes, like when W. talks about how him and his father and brothers were trapped in a mine shaft, or how cool he thought it was to have bomb-sniffing monkeys and they somehow turned into wild speargun wielding monkeys. That was pretty awesome. Worth a look, at least, just for that single bit. I laughed more consistently at SNL (anytime Astronaut Jones come back is a good night - also the episode had a flying, kung-fu practicing Neo), but when I got laughs at Ferrell, I laughed harder.
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parks 150 long range bombers in Cuba because Barry-O is a dripping pushover cunt, you'll all have a brand new shit head to make fun of. Just ask that elitist pig bitch Palosi how much of a cream puff this dumb duncy douche bag whore some of you've seen fit to elect is. She's been running the fucking country for nearly two months now while Amos and Andy have been partying hard with all your fucking tax dollars, you ignorant naive twats.
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Wow, how edgy. I was just thinking the other day that I don't think I've seen enough Bush parodies. It's especially relevant now that he's not even the fucking President anymore! I'm just glad he's out the White House because it stops every shitty comedian getting a cheap laugh out of Bush gags. Well, at least I thought it would have.
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seriously...
how inbred are you?...
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if you really feel that way then, go do something about it instead of coming to the T/B to whine like someone just broke your Malibu Barbie
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of Robert Goulet is one of the funniest things i've ever seen. fuck the haters
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I hated Bush as much as the next sane human being, but he's gone now. Rather than making fun of him, I think its time to start prosecuting him and his regime, excuse me, "administration" for their multiple crimes and fuck ups. The joke is over; now its time for justice.
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Fuck the Repubs!Obama ain't the ultimate savior as some may think, but atleast he's getting his hands dirty fixing the mess that the hick left behind.LOL@ Will's stimulis package reference.Dubya gets owned again.
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I think Bush pardoned himself and every member of his staff before he left office. Yeah... He fucked us all real good and locked the door behind him on the way out. He is a sneaky fuckin snake.
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...you can wake me up. Right now, they're in bed with him, basically taking it up the ass in the worst display of gay porn since "Dude Ranch" came out. Hollywood and New York no more want to satirize Obama than fly over the moon. So? They do the easy, lazy thing and go after Bush.
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Bush destroyed this country. If you say anything but this, you are a idiot. He had 8 years to "better" this country and screwed us. Now, Obama has the task of fixing and cleaning up a HUGE mess. I don't wish that task upon my worst enemy!
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...your show would take the possessive, e.g., "Brian Fellow's Safari Planet." But you would not introduce yourself by saying, "I'm Brian Fellows." Christ, my 6-year-old understands grammar better than an SNL writer.
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What makes you think I wanted McCain to be President? He wouldn't be as bad as Obama, but he's pretty far from Libertarian.
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No argument on Bush, but so far Obama hasn't done anything productive to 'clean up the mess' but put us deeper in debt, and he's conveniently forgotten his campaign promises. So far its just been more of the same.
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maybe then people will talk about the show rather than boring political shit they know nothing about.
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Good things he's already done: overturning Bush's idiot religious ruling to allow stem-cell research, allowing funding to all health groups worldwide without applyingan anti-abortion litmus test to the organization, ending the sanction of torture by United States operatives, and generally kicking the shit out of the relgious nuts in the right-wing.
There's more to come too! Healthcare, a green power movement, greated access to higher education for all Americans, the reigning in and regulation of the fucking greed culture on Wall Street and in corporate American that created the current financial crisis, and more.
Great Frank Rich op-ed article in the Times today on the demise of the religious right:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/opinion/15rich.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
Good times are ahead for everyone. The only people that are anxious are the ignorant who listen to too much Rush and those who stand to lose power (i.e. the corporate fat cats, the Big Pharm execs, the Big Health Insurance robber-barons, and Big Oil).
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that H.L. Mencken was more than a little right regarding the typical American. American Politics since the late 1900's is nothing but a poker hand my friend...I'll call your National Socialist and raise you a Stalinist Communist."Democracy is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses"...and America is chocked full of both.
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He's secured those earmarks, all while saying there are no earmarks; he's setting up to make sure that those stupid hicks can kill all the babies they want (who wants to pay for them later right?); he shut down GITMO so that we can let those poor abused freedom fighters move into our neighborhoods; he's showing those fat cats on Wall Street who's the boss by running the market off a cliff; he's bitch slapping those morons on the right all while setting up a state that will have more Socialism and dare I say it Sharia Law...ooh that will just piss off the religious right won't it?
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Dude needs to keep his shirt on. Will Ferrell and Dane Cook. Dumbest fanbases next to that Git Her Done asshole's.
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waste of human DNA. He's spent his entire life screaming that the sky is falling. He'll continue. Ignore him. Unless you see him at a cocktail party. Then, just squash the whiny baby.
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Why all the hate from my Socialist comrade? Are we all not partners here in our adoration of the Dear Leader?
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Actually, everyone who is "liberal" or "conservative", should stop paying attention to all the cable and radio talking heads(who are more interested in ratings than anything else) and form their own opinions about things.
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..always irked me too. Don't blame the writers -- I'm pretty damn sure that's Tracy's fault.
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Funnier than I imagined it would be yet a bit sad as it made me recall all the crap this nation has been through Monkey Boys reign.The chick who did the Condi dance was mondo-hot!
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give the bush bullshit a rest. the dude is gone and a new faggot has taken his place...driving the economy into the ground. yippee.
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I'm sure the conservatives on this site and elsewhere love to have a brain donor like you on their side...
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I doubt you're long for this talkback...the moderators have a sort of largish problem with hateful homophobic assholes like you...
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Painfully unfunny.This made 900k in a week?Really?
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stay the fuck off the site with language like that you homophobic dick. i hope manhattan blue dongs you in uranus.
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"Good things he's already done: overturning Bush's idiot religious ruling to allow stem-cell research"Right! How dare that Bush allow stem cell research!!1!. Oh, wait, yeah, he did allow it. Both adult and embryonic. First American president to fund embryonic stem cell research, in fact. First *pro flife* American president to put religion aside and fund embryonic stem cell research. That's kinda a statement or something. Wow. Pro life, yet still provided federal funds for embryonic stem cell research unlike any other president before him. Amazing.Not that privately funded research was off the block or anything, right? Then or before now. Not that advanced research in adult skin cells would provide a worth alternative either, right? Bush should have provided the almighty federal aid for what half the country is in fundemental disagreement with. That's all that matters. And that he DID evidentially means nothing.
"allowing funding to all health groups worldwide without applyingan anti-abortion litmus test to the organization"What does a country with fiscal woes need to engage in? Giving their money to other countries wholesale, whether or not their taxpayers agree with it on moral, religious or any other level! THAT's what fiscally strapped countries MUST engage in!
"ending the sanction of torture by United States operatives"Yeah, 'cause torture is BAAD! And rendition is GOOOD! Who cares what we employ other countries to do with our unwanted prisoners? It's all on them, right? As long as it isn't us, it isn't torture, right? Now, about that Blackwater...
"and generally kicking the shit out of the relgious nuts in the right-wing."Hey, Bill Maher, you do know that your boy was a 22-year "casual listener" of Wright, yes? Who still considers himself religious, yes? And Pelosi is a catholic. And Reid is a mormon. Hello?
"There's more to come too! Healthcare"Brought to you by the folks that fucked up Katrina!
"a green power movement"Look, I'm all for recycling and against littering, but we cannot shackle our nation's economy while subsidizing the economy of other nations. And if anyone can do it, our nation can do it cleaner.
"greated access to higher education for all Americans"I agree that you are one American that needs higher education greated access for them.
"the reigning in and regulation of the fucking greed culture on Wall Street and in corporate American that created the current financial crisis"Mmm. The culture of corruption was predicted to end after the midterm elections of 2006. Given the struggle of the Democrats to fulfull their patriotic duty according to Vice President Biden to pay their taxes, when can we expect this culture of corruption to end?And do you have any recollection who Bwarmy Fwank is?
"Great Frank Rich op-ed article in the Times today on the demise of the religious right"Fuck the religious right. And fuck Rush Limbaugh too. They aren't the beginning and the end of conservatism. Realize this. Just like we realize that Stewart and Olbermann aren't the beginning and the end of liberalism.
"Good times are ahead for everyone."Only if I'm a fly on the wall to observe you at the precise moment buyer's remorse begins to set in.
"The only people that are anxious are the ignorant who listen to too much Rush and those who stand to lose power (i.e. the corporate fat cats, the Big Pharm execs, the Big Health Insurance robber-barons, and Big Oil)."And anyone expecting anything other than 'change' in their paychecks. -
Yes, I was surprised and disappointed at the reaction of some of my coworkers. I sure didn’t act like that after Bush won each of his bids and, in fact, congratulated them on their win(s), one and all. It was infantile behavior at best and not at all professional. I had to tolerate things like “You voted for him just because he was black.” Or “You based your vote on emotion over logic.” It was your classic case of sour grapes and sore losers not to mention a bit scary with all the “antichrist” and “Muslim terrorist” nonsense. So, “Come on” yerself.As for Obama’s “new kind of politics” and not, according to you, reaching out, well, I just don’t know what you’re talking about. Perhaps you could cite a few examples.As for earmarks, isn’t that what every American has always expected out of their congressmen and women? Yep, “Bring home the bacon (hence the term “pork barrel”)!” has always been the mantra. Obama campaigned on making them more transparent and reducing them but he never said anything about completely getting rid of them that I know of. Do you think he’s going to overhaul Congress in fifty days? Besides, it was earmarks that gave out troops MRAPS, armor for Humvee’s as well as making the stupid (not always but definitely sometimes) ARMY procure heavily armored ASV scout vehicles. Those earmarks were completely bi-partisan and saved possibly thousands of would be casualties for the ARMY and Marines. Rummy didn’t want to even talk about up-armored Humvee’s and especially MRAPS.
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Obama in 2008:
"We can no longer accept a process that doles out earmarks based on a member of Congress’ seniority, rather than the merit of the project. We can no longer accept an earmarks process that has become so complicated to navigate that a municipality or non-profit group has to hire high-priced D.C. lobbyists to do it. And we can no longer accept an earmarks process in which many of the projects being funded fail to address the real needs of our country."
Obama in 2009...not so much...after all 8,000 earmarks are just "last year's businsess."
Now about those promises on lobbyists...
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it's a manufactured issue so that both sides can yell at each other. and surprisingly, no one yells about earmarks from their state/district.
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...he's saying he wants to change the "process" not ban them outright as an earlier poster said. My point about earmark funding for MRAPS is that Congress shouldn't have had to go through that process to force the Pentagon's hand. Obama initially voted against that bill, BTW, along with Clinton. It was Biden and his son, along with other Dems and Republicans, who helped push them through.In fact, of the current earmarks under debate: 60% Dems, 40% Repubs...the approximate breakdown of each parties representation in Congress.
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...manufactured indeed.
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My friend really wanted to watch it. He's a fan of Ferrel, so I recorded it. We started watching it but soon it became apparent...the show just isn't funny.
I think it would be funnier just to see a string up actual clips of Bush-isms stung together. This was as painful as watching a Friends marathon. -
...how different people can see the same event yet react completey differently. Like I said earlier, I thought it was hilarious and I'm not really that much of a Will Ferrell fan. Go figger...
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...and restricted (very) embryonic stem cell research…restricted to the lines that were already in existence. Obama has simply lifted the ban on federal funding; a welcome move that will, thankfully, end the Bush administrations practice of putting political ideology ahead of scientific research.
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Examples? He has said numerous inciteful things toward the repubs.. the most memorable is the comment about 'you can't listen to Rush Limbaugh'. I don't believe the Repubs in office ever listen to rush.. they're too centrist. But the translation is Obama is not willing to reach across the aisle as he promised.. he's saying the Repubs better get in line or be left out. I'm not upset about his lack of trying to reach out to the other party.. I don't like that he has directly contradicted himself for the sake of getting elected, but that's really no surprise. His whole statement about Earmarks is also contradictory.. he will go line by line through every piece of legislation that reaches his desk and eliminate all earmarks. I guess somebody forgot to ask him his definition of an 'earmark'. Turns out his definition of earmarks follows Bill Clinton's definition of 'sex'. Turns out earmarks and blowjobs are basically the same thing.
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Could have something to do with hiring his donors for various posts, et al. The media was so insultingly condescending that corruption and censorship slid under the radar. As for Will Ferrell, this guy's "dumb guy" routine is extremely tedious. You want funny? Try Larry David (CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM)in lieu of Ferrell's scatological garbage (tailored for rubes who collect "Ernest Goes To--" tapes).
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Mar 15, 2009 10:13:56 PM CDT
Goddamn motherfuckers y'all just missed the best show on TV
by kenny_fuckin_powers
Episode 5 of Eastbound and Down, starring a guy trying to inhabit my svelte and powerful physique, was the single greatest things to air on tv since the Star Wars Holiday Fuckin Special or that episode of Maximum Exposure about explosions.
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..thanks for your not surprising and typical response. Thank you for your time and good night...Thank'ee kindly, once again, for the larfs Will.
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only the wsj is reporting a significant slide in obama's poll numbers, based on factual untruths in reality, his approval rating is around 60 percent pretty amazing when you think about talk radio being controlled by the radical, idiotic right, that is constantly hammering at him 8 FUCKING YEARS OF WINGNUT RULE KILLED THIS COUNTRY....THE PEOPLE KNOW IT...YOU KNOW IT...NOW STFU
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quite amazing how after 8 years of shit, obama is expected to clean it all up in a month fuck you and every other wingnut on this site
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read up boys and girls...knowledge never hurt anybody...especially when its factual.
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it's right on target. the smugness, self-congratulatory attitude, the willful ignorance, the i-think-all-my-jokes-are-hilarious patter, and the underlying menace and violence inches from the surface. and then he makes it funny. GOOD GOING WILL!
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Were the celebs I randomly spotted in the crowd while watching the special
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fuck all you will haters...yeah he's dropped a few bombs but he's pretty goddamn funny in my opinion
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but then, who really expected it to be? Its Will Ferrel for god's sake.
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And I was impressed. Going into it, I couldn't fathom how Ferrell was going to make a full hour out of his GW Bush impression, and I was pretty surprised to find out that he made it work. It was funny as hell, and actually in parts made me feel a little sorry for GW. "I won? Damn, now I actually have to *do* this..." Funny, and probably the exact thing that every President thinks when they realize they've won.
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