LOS ANGELES (March 5) -- Three weeks ago a handful of reporters at an international press junket here for the Warner Brothers movie “300,” about the battle of Thermopylae some 2,500 years ago, cornered the director Zack Snyder with an unanticipated question.
"Is George Bush Leonidas or Xerxes?" one of them asked.
Neither, you moron.
Proof positive that the brainiacs are all over at the Business desk and that Entertainment writers are barely higher up the evolutionary chain than molluscs or Entertainment Tonight hosts.
What's that definition again?
ReplyDelete"A fanatic is someone who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
The patchouli lovers who run everything in life through the Chimpy McHitlerburton Analogy Machine are just as amusing as the bible thumpers who apply the Jebediah-begat-Jedediah Magic Bible Decoder Ring.
... that Entertainment writers are barely higher up the evolutionary chain than molluscs or Entertainment Tonight hosts.
ReplyDeleteAren't you being a bit harsh to the molluscs of the world?
This is fun. Snyder should have pointed out the obvious, that Xerxes is Ahmedinijad, right down to whipping the river. The yapping newshounds don't realize that they think the Kennedys are the Gracchi and LBJ Pericles. They also don't know that Persia is Iran.
ReplyDeleteJust out of high school, I was shocked when the guitar player of my rock group wrote a song loaded with classical allusions. But Rick, I sez, you didn't take Latin. Where'd you come up with all these? Imagine my discomfiture when he grinned and flipped off, "Sons of Hercules movies."
Maybe it's time the McHitlerites start running everything in life through the Homer/Vergil/Victor Hanson Analogy Machine.
Public curriculists won't touch The Matter of Greece with a ten-pygon pole, precisely because the passions of the moment translate right onto the marble-etched page. The director of Red Dawn is the producer of "Rome." As he executed Billy the Kid, Lew Wallace was writing "Ben Hur." It's obviously all NRA propaganda.
We are the Spartans.
ReplyDeleteAnd this time, we are going to win.
Μολὼν Λαβέ.
I just watched an entire Saved by the Bell marathon! I'm breathlessly waiting to ask my question: which one is Bush, A.C. or Screech?
ReplyDeleteMorons is right. First of all, the Battle actually happened, and I doubt these people acted with the intention of fitting into a Bush caricature. Second of all, can't FIVE. FRICKIN. MINUTES go by without a reference to stolen elections and BushCheneyHaliburton?
Pretty please?
ONG! ...and to think that I share the same planet as these knucle dragging mouth breathers!
ReplyDeleteWhich one is Bush indeed! *sigh* I guess it's true, it takes a village idiot to become a journalist.
Sometimes a Leonidas is just a Leonidas.
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