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PaisleyPajamas
07/09/09

In reply to James Franco's Rejected UCLA Speech: 'Who Doesn't F-ing Fall Asleep in Class?!'
I do love me some James Franco, but why does he sound like a quido in this clip? Was that part of the gag?
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PaisleyPajamas
07/09/09

@PaisleyPajamas: Uh, that would be "guido," not "quido."
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ambitious
07/09/09

In reply to James Franco's Rejected UCLA Speech: 'Who Doesn't F-ing Fall Asleep in Class?!'
Right?
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Adah
07/09/09

In reply to James Franco's Rejected UCLA Speech: 'Who Doesn't F-ing Fall Asleep in Class?!'
Alright, he won me over with "And that is just one of the many ways that I remind myself of Barack Obama."
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marin79
07/09/09

@Adah: Yes, I've personally always thought of Obama as a young James Franco.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
07/09/09

In reply to James Franco's Rejected UCLA Speech: 'Who Doesn't F-ing Fall Asleep in Class?!'
Is he big in Russia?

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Niko Bellic
06/26/09

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That's because at Columbia, paying attention in class has some actual value, you confused loser.
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gawkimo
06/23/09

In reply to Glenn Beck Explains the Situation in Iran
Did he just say Iran has nukes?
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Steverino Begins
06/23/09

In reply to Glenn Beck Explains the Situation in Iran
I hate to bring Bush into this (I'm really enjoying his absence lately), but it's a little ironic that Beck is mocking a weapon-trigger-happy leader who believes God is talking directly to him.

Okay, moving along now. (I yearn for the day when FOX is as anachronistic as Bush seems right now.)
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emistijl
06/23/09

In reply to Glenn Beck Explains the Situation in Iran
Recommended viewing: Glenn Beck's extended history lesson.

Gag.
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Slovenly Muse
06/23/09

@emistijl: ~shudder~ The guy is made of creep.

Also, he sounds like a particularly stupid (and excitable) small child who thinks he's just figured out how the power structures on the playground work, and is trying to explain it to the other small children.

But they're all laughing at him, and he still thinks it's because he's such a super super fabulous entertainer...
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SRSco
06/22/09

In reply to Glenn Beck Explains the Situation in Iran
Somebody could say the exact same thing about Glenn Beck's religion.

First you have God, up there, here is the Prophet (Thomas Monson). This is the guy who speaks directly to God, this is what he believes. This is the guy who controls everything. Then underneath that he picks the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. These are 12 people who report directly to him and he picks them and they're all super fabulous uncorrupt general authorities there.
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atlasfugged
06/23/09

@SRSco: @SRSco: Oh, and don't forget the magical golden plates some guy found on a hill in upstate New York after an angel told him where to look. And, how that guy translated the words on the magical plates by shaking a bunch of magical stones in the bottom of a top-hat. And, when you see the Mormon nerds in neckties walking around your neighborhood, the book they're carrying contains that magical translation. I hope this description doesn't offend any of the many Mormons who frequent Gawker.
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Tart of Darkness
06/23/09

@atlasfugged: Not a Mormon, but actually it was one particular special seeing stone that he used. And the first time actually the Angel Moroni gave him magical specs to read the tablets with, but his first dictated manuscript got lost and he had to start again.
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readingisforkids
06/22/09

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C'mon guys, you have to admit this was pretty funny. I mean his disposition and mannerisms are hilarious. Can you think of a better or more fitting way to describe a completely whacked world view on television than to put it up on a chalkboard and teach it as if it we were all in a first grade class?

Everyone on this site hates Beck for some unsubstantiated belief but the guy is pretty entertaining.
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Slovenly Muse
06/23/09

@readingisforkids: "Everyone on this site hates Beck for some unsubstantiated belief..."

I'm confused. Do we all hate him because of OUR unsubstantiated belief? Or because of HIS unsubstantiated belief? And what is the belief to which you refer?

Not snarking; honestly curious.
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Slovenly Muse
06/22/09

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I wish my country had more "super super fabulous uncorrupt officials."
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Guy Whitey Corngood
06/22/09

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To play Glenn Beck's Advocate for a moment: I think he's treating a government run by religious zealots who base real-life decisions off what the imaginary man in the clouds thinks, with the exact amount of respect it deserves.
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bluebears
06/22/09

@Guy Whitey Corngood: you mean like his good pal W did for eight years?
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Guy Whitey Corngood
06/22/09

@bluebears: Well I sure laid that reply out for you on a silver platter. Stop livin' in the past! I hope things are different now. (Fun fact: I sometimes fantasize that Obama is a closet atheist.)
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Cicada
06/22/09

@Guy Whitey Corngood: You do know that Beck's fondest wish is that we become a good Christian nation, right? Heck, he already thinks we are one ;).
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takeouteurotrash
06/22/09

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"I hope nobody's going to kill me for that."

What a stupid fuck.
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ChillbearLatrigue
06/22/09

@takeouteurotrash: I actually thought that was one of the only funny things that he has intentionally ever said. If it wasn't Glenn Beck I might have found the whole thing amusing, but he sufficiently irritates me so that I can't watch objectively watch anything that he does.
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takeouteurotrash
06/22/09

@ChillbearLatrigue: I get that he's trying to be funny, but people usually don't end a poke at the Pope with, "I hope those crazy zealot Italian and Irish nut jobs don't kill me for making fun of his stupid hat." In my opinion, it's painting muslims as crazy, crazy, crazy.

Or maybe I'm just reaching (which is quite probable).
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Mymoustache
06/22/09

@takeouteurotrash: While I am not a fan of glen beck, your example is senseless. You see, some muslims are going around declaring fatwas for artists & cartoonists depicting muhammed. It's against their religion. Did you need the palin joke expalined to you also?
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takeouteurotrash
06/22/09

@Mymoustache: And many Protestants have killed Catholics for years and years and years over the difference between denomination, and for "purification" in their back yard.

Yes, extreme christians are just as insane as extreme muslims. Were you born in 1998?
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Mymoustache
06/22/09

@takeouteurotrash: Now you're reaching.
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takeouteurotrash
06/22/09

@Mymoustache: Maybe, but my point is that by using the extreme angle when presenting an issue within the media, stigmatizing an entire religion is not in any way helpful in a country that only sees "us" and "them."

Beck's statement basically reads, "Tread with care; they're fucking crazy if you fuck up anything related to 'their' god."
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Mymoustache
06/22/09

@takeouteurotrash: Or it reads (lamely) "This is a Muslim theocracy whose supreme leader has in the past issued death threats against journalists and artists and vandalized embassies for allowing the artistic depiction of their prophet and I have to draw something akin to that for this totally lame skit and I hope nobody's going to kill me for that."
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takeouteurotrash
06/23/09

@Mymoustache: I disagree with your opinion regarding his motive, but...gee...it sure would be great if that was the case.
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Mymoustache
06/23/09

@takeouteurotrash: I respect your opinion and we can agree to disagree. And, gee, while Fox news sucks, your incomprehension of a pretty basic and lame joke probably reflects more on your skewed world view than glen beck's.
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Niko Bellic
06/23/09

@Mymoustache: Ha! Yeah... takeouteurotrash's comprehension of this joke is on the level of a fifteen year old school boy!

Wait a minute... fifteen year old school boy have seen this, right? Riiiight?
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Niko Bellic
06/23/09

@Niko Bellic: "... no fifteen year old school boys have seen this, right?"

In any case, my point is: think in terms of what effect shit like that can have on the general population. If kids don't get things right, it's our fault, not theirs.
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