You know you've arrived when The Village Voice is snarking about you!
What amazes me is the willful tone-deafness of the normally social-justice- and identity-politics-obsessed Left. Apparently ageism, class-based snobbery, and misogyny are all peachy keen if done for a nobler purpose.
Remember how it was fair game to mock the differently-abled, as long as the mocking was of Stockdale's hearing aid or Dole's gimpy arm?
Ooh, great. Now you can add "Citizen Shill" to your resume.
ReplyDelete~Jim Rawles~
You can shout-down free speech as long as it's at a Tea Party rally. You can racially berate black people, if they're conservative. You can propagandize to your heart's content, as long as it's Lefty "truth" you're propagandizing.
ReplyDeleteIt's the same-old double standard of the left, as you note.
After all, who's going to call them on it - the Press?
Attacking your snark... He brought a knife to a gun... nope... thermonuclear fight.
ReplyDeleteAnd you're surprised why? It was the Great Leftoids who not only did nothing about the published cartoon of Condoleeza Rice as a monkey (shades of early last century), they freakin' produced the cartoon and gleefully and happily propogated it!
ReplyDeleteYou know how important you are by who is willing to throw a wild swing at you.
ReplyDeleteWhen the President of the United States takes a public moment to speak derisively of your position, for example, sign your contract with Fox/CNN/whatever, because, baby, you've arrived.
Next stop, DailyKos or Mother Jones, then the NY Times. Then a friendly spot via satellite on Red Eye, then an in-studio appearence, although they'll have to give you a shorter stool so you don't tower over Greg Gutfield sitting down.
The sky's the limit, babe; who's your agent?
Heh.
ReplyDeleteSo now we know what Außenseiter does when he isn't spelunking the depths of "the Right Wing Blogosphere".
You shill for citizens?
ReplyDeleteDoes the left consider that that a put down?
Apparently it's also OK to bash old people. A demographic that I happen to fall into.
ReplyDeleteSo who cares what those parasite moviegoers think? They're only interested in thrills, poignancy, and spectacle, whereas Atlas Shrugged is for people who are above such things -- people like the ones at the showing Reynolds attended, who "responded to the dialogue with knowing chuckles, outright laughter, and even a blurted comment 'Way to go lady!'... I estimate the average age to be above 50 years." (So, basically the audience for Wild Hogs, then.)
As long as your bashing the right, any sort of discrimination or slander is fine.
Is that the best they can do, snark wise? Here I'm expecting "Bold? It's BOOOOOOLLLLD!!!" on the snark-o-meter, but it's not. Very un-bold. Watery, weak discount store brand snark.
ReplyDeleteJoe: Yes. Yellow cake snark vs. refined weapons grade snark.
ReplyDeleteWow, I'm in awe. Someone the Village Voice hates openly that I've actually sat at a dinner table with. Pity they didn't do a whole piece on VFTP.
ReplyDeleteSoon, though, soon!!!
Congratualtions, I guess...?
ReplyDeleteAre you seeing more traffic?
ReplyDeleteAntibubba
Antibubba,
ReplyDeleteNot really. They don't throw a lot of hits.
Congrats Tam.
ReplyDeleteYour world class snark added a bit of interest to what would otherwise be a boring and tedious VV review. One more reason why I read your blog every day and VV not at all.
I still hope that someday Guns and Ammo will see fit to offer you the back page.
All of the right people hate this movie.
ReplyDeleteNow I know I gotta go see it.
The VV is following the iron rule of blogging.
ReplyDeleteAlways punch up.
Wow! And I can say I knew the View before it got famous!
ReplyDeleteThe comments section is positively schoolyard, with equally poor spelling.
ReplyDeleteBoy, do they ever have itchy underpants, no wonder they're always in a twist.
ReplyDeletetheirritablearchitect: how right you are.
ReplyDelete"Fu [Moderator] 15 hours ago
This movie should be band"
Ahh, an equal mix of tolerance and intelligence.
The comment bemoaning the death of street art's corpse (huh?) over a "Who is John Galt?" was also amusing.
Apparently "street art" is only worthwhile when it upsets Flyover Folks, but when something in LA, of all places, upsets the Lefty Gentry... well...
Apparently ageism, class-based snobbery, and misogyny are all peachy keen if done for a nobler purpose.
ReplyDeleteYup.
And more importantly if the target is "the wrong sort", all bets are off.
After all, bigotry is only bad when you're deploying it against the Poor And Oppressed, or against People On The Right Side.
(Relatedly, but not quite the same, I'm still amazed - though I should not be - how literally hateful my friends and acquaintances of the left can be against The Wrong People, in a completely casual manner, as if there wasn't the slightest bit odd about that level of spite and bigotry against people who simply don't agree about some matters of policy.
I suppose realizing that people can disagree with your goals or methods without being Pure Evil is too hard for many people to manage - and in fairness it's not exactly encouraged by the pundit class and the activists.
This is also true in the other direction, but at least many of the "right-wing" side have some vague idea of politeness or "Christian charity" in their social DNA.)
Rosebud Sleds. I use them, I love them. When you think sled, think Rosebud!
ReplyDeleteAt the end of the article, in the "Related Topics" links was this wonderfully funny item.
ReplyDeletehttp://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2010/10/presenting_the_2.php
I'm tempted to order one.
"Guerilla Heckling". Is that like a snark?
ReplyDeleteI am in awe of your awesomeness and genuflect - srsly. You have won the internets for days to come.
ReplyDeleteYour going big time!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0FBi5Rv1ho
Gerry
This is the kind of spontaneous publicity...
ReplyDeleteWow! Isn't great to live in a country that has such a Powerful Free Press that they have to check up on a little lady hangin' around on a porch in Broad Ripple? Must not be anything 'portant going on in the World.
ReplyDeleteSo how does it feel to know that you have struck Fear into the Heart of New York Liberaldom? And what does the sound of the Lamentations of their Women really sound like?
Congrats! :-)
ReplyDelete+1 on you Tam!
ReplyDelete"You know you've arrived..."
ReplyDeleteYou know it, we know it, and the delicious part...they know it.
I said in the prior post that I was shocked that Ebert missed the irony that his predictable panning of the film was instead pimping for it.
How much sweeter that VV shares that same ironic cluelessness, as it features, demonstrates, and promotes the penetrating wit of one who embraces the philosophy of F. King; that the best of it goes for the jugular, not the jocular.
In the words of our favorite VP..."This is a big fucking deal!"
Target audience WIN.
AT
Yessiree bobcat, I knew her when...
ReplyDeleteWV: ingsgun. Y'know, I don't know what model Dean favors...
And, having read the comments...
ReplyDelete"Life In The Monkeyhouse", indeed, there sure is a whole lot of poo flinging going on over there.
Let's see, first it's "homo Glock lover," "Airsoft Kitty," now "Citizen shill!" The thing that amazes me is how so off base your critics are. I mean did they even take into account if you liked the movie? Don't worry, I feel your pain. I got called a retard today by someone with no sense of grammar. See, life can be beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI'm with Tirno! I can imagine you on RedEye, facing Gutfeld, in the 'Leg Chair'!
ReplyDelete"Homo glock lover", while offensive, was at least inside baseball. "Airsoft Kitty" - downright funny. But "Citizen Shill" from toolboxes like that take your game to a new level.
ReplyDeleteWhen you're famous and need your privacy during your worldwide tour, book your hotel rooms under "Citizen Shill". Or "Slick Shillaxin". You have time to get creative in airport bars.
Ed Rasimus -
ReplyDeleteWhen did we start liking The View?
Oh....wait....sorry I'm easily confussed.
Josh :-)
Ps.
ReplyDeleteTam I think you be a great guest on Red Eye.
Leg chair anyone.
:-)
Josh
I for one welcome our new Broad Ripple Overlords.
ReplyDeletewv= whesse. Knockin the whesse out of the cheesedicks in the VV.
One Final Thought: Now that your a Famous Enemy of the State, does that mean you have to wear Designer Wookie Suits when you walk on the Red Carpet?
ReplyDeleteThis bit
ReplyDeleteNonetheless, Tamara K said the Disney film "looked pretty cool, what with it being about big kitties and all." But don't worry, she hasn't gone soft:
made coffee come out my nose.
That's almost better than breakfast at finest morning-fry joint in Broad Ripple.
ReplyDeleteTasty, indeed. Such limp-keyboard NYC critics remind me of the militant vegan putting his arm into the carnivore's cage to take away that haunch of forbidden juicy lefto-meat.
Congrats on having chewed them so accurately, at length, that they must needs include your teethmarks in their embarrassing word-weep.
Outstanding Miss Tam! It was hilarious to read about you in that rag.
ReplyDeleteI was dumbfounded by the VV, of all sources, criticizing YOU for looking at film as a "Leninesque propaganda vehicle" (I think that was the phrase) instead of the pure art they're no doubt supposed to be. I assume that means they panned "Pandora" and "Inconvenient Truth."
ReplyDeleteReading the comments to the article was mildly amusing in a "smartest retard" sort of way. What I found . . . disturbing was that the article itself was so loaded with circular argument that it rolled right off the edge of the earth.
ReplyDeleteThese people are paid to write?
'Berg
@Tirno
ReplyDeleteI'm waiting for her to be attacked in the casuals at the New Yorker:
A foray into the more disturbing reaches of the world wide web last Tuesday found us engaged in the unpleasant perusal of a site which calls itself "View From The Porch." Which porch remains unrevealed, but the opinions expressed thereon make it certain to be located deep in the backwoods of Red-State America.
The Porch's proprietor is one Tamara K., a purported woman (tall and blonde) whose tastes run to firearms, red meat, motorcycles, right-wing politics, and Ayn Rand. Indeed, Tamara and her opinions are so much a caricature of the rabid right as to be unbelievable.
So we refuse to believe it. The View is not real; it is a clever satire. And until proven otherwise, we shall remain convinced that the Porch's actual author is our great-aunt's grandchild Irving, the aspiring actor and vegitarian activist now residing in Melrose, Massachusetts.
Mark, those people are paid to write in New York City in the Village Voice. Part of the Village Voice's appeal IS its disconnection from reality, its wanton and degenerate decadence.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I'll allow that you're certainly right in a certain sense. Banal, humorless bitchiness like that usually gets no farther than the receptionist at the nail salon.
I'm not sure what to think of those of you who bothered with the comments to that "essay." I can't tell whether you're to be saluted or run away from. I mean, I've slopped around in the aeration tank of a sewage treatment plant before but I was getting PAID to do it.
gvi
I am so proud of you. And to think that I have been reading you long enough, that I have forgotten when I started reading VFTP. Maybe I should move you up ahead of Glenn Reynolds in the morning, but never ahead of Day by Day.
ReplyDeleteAll that fashionable Manhattanite whining did give me an idea: if they think "Atlas Shrugged" is cartoony, why not make "The Probability Broach" as an animated film? That way, all those clueless kiddies and their parents would be exposed to libertarian ideas.
ReplyDeletewv: "orper". The sound that came out of Roy Edroso when he read the above.
"...why not make "The Probability Broach" as an animated film?"
ReplyDeleteThe day The Probability Broach hits the theaters, I solemnly swear that I will wear an actual wookie suit to opening night.