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    Our Contribution to the Rapidly Expanding 'Shreiking Glenn Beck' Mashup Genre

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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    07/18/09

    In reply to Our Contribution to the Rapidly Expanding 'Shreiking Glenn Beck' Mashup Genre
    He's right, though. It's a great system for the super affluent and influential.
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    Image of Nice Beaver Nice Beaver
    07/17/09

    In reply to Our Contribution to the Rapidly Expanding 'Shreiking Glenn Beck' Mashup Genre
    This fella (and his ilk) is really only half the problem. Like DC, the media is so polarized, it's impossible to get a straight answer on anything.

    For example, I don't have the fucking time to read the health care bill, nor do I have a team of interns to read and distill it for me. So, I look to various media sources. According to Beck, Obama's programs represent the end of American democracy and will inevitably lead to the US becoming an evil hybrid of Nazi Germany and the USSR. On the other hand, opinion in the mainstream media (kinda liberal (let's not be silly and quibble about this)) seems to be "This bill sucks because it doesn't put private insurers out of business and create a single payer system, but it must be a good idea because Super Barack [for whom I voted] supports it." Neither of these ridiculous points of view answers any fucking questions I have about the legislation.

    So, fuck this guy, but fuck everyone else in the media, too.

    God bless America.
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    Image of Mike Byhoff Mike Byhoff
    07/17/09

    @Nice Beaver: You're not going to Glenn Beck to hear intellectual discourse; you go for entertainment and banshee-like shrieking. I think NPR is a fairly calm and balanced perspective. Or at least the closest we have right now.
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    Image of Nic Fit Nic Fit
    07/17/09

    @Nice Beaver: The members of congress don't have time to read the whole thing either, but I will break it down for you:

    1) Everybody's gotta get some insurance or pay a penalty.

    2) Companies have to insure their employees or pay a penalty

    3) People who are uninsured can get the Public Option, which will most probably be much cheaper and better run than anything these private insurer dipshits are offering right now.

    4) Eventually, people will say, why do we put up with these weasly corporations making a buck off of denying people the healthcare that they need, and ditch the whole, stupid, unworkable private health insurance system.
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    Image of Nice Beaver Nice Beaver
    07/17/09

    @Mikey-B: You raise an important point: Beck and Rush are clearly just trying to entertain and make some bucks, and it seems that they both try to accomplish these goals by making people laugh. But here's the thing: Neither of them are remotely funny. At least Hannity delivers his bullshit in a straight-forward, C-plus-GPA-at-SUNY-Cortland kind of way. Beck and Rush go for laughs (in between calls for armed revolution (Beck yesterday)) and fail miserably, yet these fuckers make tens (or hundreds) of millions of dollars. This country needs a smart, funny centrist on the airwaves to put these shitheaps out of business.

    All I need is a microphone (and a billionaire radio station owner willing to bet that Americans will listen to someone who doesn't tell them that Barack is a commie and the Mexicans are taking over).
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    Image of Mike Byhoff Mike Byhoff
    07/17/09

    @Nice Beaver: Tell Jim C. Texas in Amarillo that Glenn Beck isn't funny as he polishes his gun collection. Your next move should be to duck.

    To them, Glenn Beck is taken as their comedian/pundit/preacher all rolled into one.
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    07/17/09

    In reply to Our Contribution to the Rapidly Expanding 'Shreiking Glenn Beck' Mashup Genre
    Someone please do a remix with this video...
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    Image of onebadclam onebadclam
    07/18/09

    @trucha:And so it shall be.
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    06/29/09

    In reply to Look Who's Snarking Now: Novelist Uses Twitter to Trash Critic
    Humpf. I've heard the name, but have never read anything she's written. (Besides the twitters, of course.)
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    06/29/09

    In reply to Look Who's Snarking Now: Novelist Uses Twitter to Trash Critic
    Wow way to trash Boston and unleash your inner psycho in the flimsy guise of ersatz feminism.
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    Image of Diziet_Sma Diziet_Sma
    06/29/09

    In reply to Look Who's Snarking Now: Novelist Uses Twitter to Trash Critic
    People still read Twitter? Wow.
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    Image of Gwenishka Gwenishka
    06/29/09

    In reply to Look Who's Snarking Now: Novelist Uses Twitter to Trash Critic
    She just deleted her Twitter account.
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    06/29/09

    @Gwenishka: Mercy killing.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    06/29/09

    In reply to Look Who's Snarking Now: Novelist Uses Twitter to Trash Critic
    Just look at this amazing example of self-righteous buffoonery. Her twitter is just outstanding.


    # An email to a reviewer is hate mail? But a a hateful review is a love letter?about 22 hours ago from web

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    Critics can say as they please, but no one else can? You open the door and it's open.about 22 hours ago from web

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    Interesting, reviewers can say what they want. But when writers speak up they're "going after" reviewers.

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    @roncharles I'm not going after anyone Ron -- It's about editors who allow reviewers to give the plot away. You should try reading the books

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    Thanks for your support and kindness. I love that writers have a way to talk back now.


    Just look at it! Fucking Alice Hoffman, presenting herself as fighting some sort of virtuous crusade against the evils of reviewing. Christ. Man up hoffman. Man up in that non-gendered way. You're lucky enough to have a career where people read the things you produce. There are lots of people in the world who have as much talent as you, but simply never got a break. You LUCKED OUT and now you feel entitled. Why not treat your career with respect, and good humour, and the ability to learn that maybe you're not perfect.

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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    06/29/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Humility? From her? No way, my due north darling.


    One final note: At 57, you get the neck you deserve.

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    Image of kimsama kimsama
    06/29/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Glad you grabbed these -- she just deleted her account. These entries remind me of nothing so much as fights in middle school: "She called me a bitch, so I'm allowed to call her a bitch!"


    @BookishLookish: At 57, you get the neck you deserve.


    I love you.

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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    06/29/09

    @kimsama: ;)
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    Image of Better to Eat You With Better to Eat You With
    06/29/09

    @BookishLookish: Damn. I was hoping I could keep the neck I have forever. Just waiting for that magic potion...
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    06/29/09

    @Better to Eat You With: But I like you and so do the neck gods, and so I know your neck-y goodness will endure.
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    Image of Senor_Wences Senor_Wences
    06/29/09

    In reply to Look Who's Snarking Now: Novelist Uses Twitter to Trash Critic
    I've now used my intellectual vigilance to Google both Hoffman and Silman, having never heard of either, I've learned exactly why I've never heard of either. If both of their careers went straight to the pulp mill, nobody'd be the better or worse for it. A gallon of milk would cost exactly the same.


    Also? Boston's a fucking Clowntown.

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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    06/29/09

    In reply to Look Who's Snarking Now: Novelist Uses Twitter to Trash Critic
    Writers used to review writers


    Well okay. Writers also used to NOT SUCK ASS, ALICE HOFFMAN. This is the most ungracious, ungrateful, inbred, insane, idiotic tirade I've ever heard. What a giant baby.

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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    06/29/09

    In reply to Look Who's Snarking Now: Novelist Uses Twitter to Trash Critic
    I wrote a book review column for an "alternative weekly" and mocked a new book for its pretensions. (It really was bad and by that time, I'd been reviewing for a few years and was over seeing my name with rude witticisms in print.) For over a year after the book review was published, the publisher (author? editor?) sent other more positive reviews, including news of an unknown award the book won, etc. My own editor and I snickered endlessly over this pathetic attempt at getting back at me. In the end, I'm inclined to side with Woody Allen, who said (in a movie, I think?) "There's a special level of hell for book reviewers."
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    Image of kimsama kimsama
    06/29/09

    @Mama Penguino: Haha! Love it! This is why the best artists/writers/performers just shake it off -- you're not going to convince anyone you're great by being a bawlbaby.
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    06/29/09

    In reply to Look Who's Snarking Now: Novelist Uses Twitter to Trash Critic
    Hey Alice, you spelled "Verizon" wrong (now excuse me while I barricade my door and unlist my phone number).
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    06/29/09

    In reply to Look Who's Snarking Now: Novelist Uses Twitter to Trash Critic
    Great. Now the twitter audience knows what her publisher's publicists already know.
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    Image of LostTurntable LostTurntable
    06/29/09

    In reply to Look Who's Snarking Now: Novelist Uses Twitter to Trash Critic
    ttntn dmb btch: Ppl r llwd nt t lk yr bk.
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    Image of Poop Cooper Poop Cooper
    06/29/09

    @LostTurntable: I'm a little afraid to ask since I might get banned, but why was this comment disemvoweled? Everyone else in this thread has accused the author of being a psycho hose beast, a drunkard, bonkers, an asshole, a bitch (redundant) and to grow the fuck up.


    I mean, this wasn't a shining star of a comment; it doesn't add much to the conversation besides a little snark, but isn't that what we're here for? And sorry LostTurntable, this isn't an endorsement so much of your comments or anything, but it just struck me as odd that this particular comment was singled out of the thread as "crossing the line".


    Is it because she's a "dumb" bitch here, or because it directly addressed her...? I'm sorry if this comes off as being a smart-ass, I'm trying to keep my tone as earnest as possible. Just very curious.

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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    06/29/09

    @TruPhan: If you don't SAY something and ONLY insult, you're likely to be dsmvwlld. If you say something coupled TO an insult, you're likely to get through.
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    06/29/09

    @TruPhan: Did you put all the vowels back in? If you do, it reads "ALICE HOFFMAN SLEEPS WITH THE CAJUN BOY."
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    06/29/09

    In reply to Look Who's Snarking Now: Novelist Uses Twitter to Trash Critic
    The problem with Twitter is that it leaves people with no unexpressed thoughts.
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