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Mo MoDo
02/04/09

In reply to David Denby Clearly Has Big Crush on Maureen Dowd
Denby wanted to write a book called Maureen Dowd Writes Really Nasty Things About Hillary Clinton Who Is The Greatest Politician Ever but his publisher made him come up with a hundred pages of additional fact-free filler first.
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virgilicious
02/04/09

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Also, it seems hypocritical of Denby to be railing about snark when he's a regular contributor to the phenomenon. He's a pretty intelligent critic, but when he starts falling in love with his own clever meanness, I feel like I'm stuck at a dinner with a precocious, spoiled kid.
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ginger rant
02/04/09

@virgilicious: As much as I want to agree with you, I haven't found Denby (vs. his New Yorker counterpart Anthony Lane) guilty of (as he defines it) snark. Can you furnish some examples?
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Steverino Begins
02/04/09

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He could have called it Is Maureen Dowd Necessary?
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virgilicious
02/04/09

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What I found disturbing about that interview was Charlie describing Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert as purveyors of pointless snark that served no greater political purpose.

I'm fond of Rose but that just seemed remarkably ignorant.
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ginger rant
02/04/09

@virgilicious: Did Charlie really say that? I watched, and I didn't see it that way. I don't think he was reducing Stewart and Colbert so much as elevating Dowd--with his penis, if you catch my drift.
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virgilicious
02/04/09

@ginger rant: You may be right; I'd like to think I misunderstood him.
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ginger rant
02/04/09

@virgilicious: I like Rose too, and I've never seen him so hostile to a guest who wasn't William Bennett.
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MisterHippity
02/04/09

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Oh the snark bites

With its blogs dear

And its blogs are

Parasites

It's destroyed our

Conversation

Hateful comments

Just ain't right

Snark just bites things

For no reason

David Denby

States it plain

He used Wonkette

As his test case

Used some lies to

Help explain

Denby's mean too

But that's ok

He writes GREAT BOOKS

He's no clown

He will teach these

Kids some manners

Now that snark is ...

Back in town!

Look out that snark is back! Ho!
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Seeräuber Jenny
02/04/09

@MisterHippity:

Typical Denby: All Moral, no Fressen.

Hoppla!
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Perhaps Not
02/04/09

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I have a great idea: don't ever call the editorial desk of a newspaper demanding free copies because your client was featured in an article. Call the writer, if you must, or BUY THE FUCKING THING.

Thank you. Sorry for getting off topic.

Oh, is David Denby still alive?
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Iceland Spar
02/04/09

In reply to David Denby Clearly Has Big Crush on Maureen Dowd
I watched this last night and Denby is an idiot. His book should be called, Things And People I Don't Like (And Some That I Do). He failed to articulate any theme for his book (other than that the interet is full of mean people) until Charlie threw him a life line with the "greater political purpose" line. Then he went on to say that the NYT on-line is less authoritative than the NYT published edition. Denby should go back and read some 18th and early 19th century journalism before condemning the internet.

He also should have read Amusing Ourselves to Death and realized that it makes any valid point that his book may contain.

In short - You suck Denby!
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MisterHippity
02/04/09

In reply to David Denby Clearly Has Big Crush on Maureen Dowd
Have you heard? Denby's next book is already available for pre-ordering on Amazon.com!

Here's the cover:

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MrInBetween
02/04/09

@MisterHippity: MrH, that is fantastic, especially the title of his previous book.
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ginger rant
02/04/09

In reply to David Denby Clearly Has Big Crush on Maureen Dowd
Make that Charlie Rose who has the big, fat crush on Maureen D. I thought he was going to clock Denby during the interview, which I watched in full last night. Rose even aired a clip of Maureen being (what he obviously considers) beautiful I mean brilliant. I actually admire Denby for taking her on so directly--at the cost of ever appearing on her boyfriend's show again. Oh well.
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Iceland Spar
02/04/09

@ginger rant: I disagree with the rest of what you say - but Charlie so totally does have a crush on MoDo!!!
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ginger rant
02/04/09

@Iceland Spar: he's pretty indiscriminating with his crushes, I think. Unless the woman's not classically attractive (see Wasserstein, Wendy)(who I suspect had a crush on him), of course.
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Bottle-Of-Smoke
02/04/09

@ginger rant: Yes, Charlie did get his french cuffs in a bunch defending her honor, but to be fair Denby didn't exactly cover himself in glory trying to differentiate between the useless sack o'botchulism-bloated suck that is M.O'D and Jon Stewart.
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ginger rant
02/04/09

@Bottle-Of-Smoke: Actually, while I haven't read MoDo, I think Denby's point was well taken: everything Jon Stewart does is in service to making fun of (uptight, overserious) conservative (politically and otherwise) people; even Charlie couldn't come up with a line to explain what larger social/political/humanist cause MoDo's writing is in service of. And mind you, I'm no great fan of Denby, who will forever live in the shadow of the superior writer Anthony Lane, who, by Denby's definition, gets down and dirty with snark on occasion.
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MrInBetween
02/04/09

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Denby begins his dreadful book with a long-winded explanation about what he does NOT mean by the word, "snark." Not surprisingly, he spent most of his time on Charlie Rose's show trying to explain his poor, misunderstood book.

Authors who struggle to explain -- and justify -- their books have no shot at the bestseller list and might consider an easier-to-understand line of work, like driving the clown car in the circus.
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Sproing
02/04/09

In reply to David Denby Clearly Has Big Crush on Maureen Dowd
American cultural media is like a Sartre play meets "Ten Little Indians" -- the number of people stuck in one room being mean to each other keeps decreasing.
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Colonel Mustard
02/04/09

@Sproing: And, in the end, you find out that hell is media people.
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Richard Lawson
02/04/09

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I used to enjoy getting Snark Bites in my school lunches. My favorite actor is Snark Sands. Hal Snarks is a close second. I think I'm going to go on a vacation to Snarkansas. You know, just on a snark.

Snark!
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MisterHippity
02/04/09

@Richard: You're ruining our conversation.
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La Cieca
02/04/09

@Richard:

Do you see him
On the hill at Gettysburg
'Neath that great triumphal arc?
If you see him as he's trampling through the grapes of wrath,
Stand up and snark, snark, snark!
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Colonel Mustard
02/04/09

@Richard: Okay, true story: I actually went to a birthday party for Stark Sands about four years ago because I knew a friend of his. Anyway, I had no idea who he was and had never met him — and evidently there were numerous attendees who had ALSO never met him, because about ten people came up to me and shrieked, "Happy birthday!" One girl actually punched me right in the boob and announced, "HEY! YOU'RE THE BIRTHDAY BOY!"

Then I met him, and...I mean, maybe we look a little alike? But...jebus.
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