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Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Films has released a new video as part of its ongoing Faux Attacks series. “Fox Attacks: Iran” reveals the network’s efforts to beat the drums for a war against Iran. The ad shows Faux fear-mongering and inflating the threat much the way it did prior to the Iraq war.
Some day in the conservative re-education centers we can tell our grandchildren we watched the whole dictatorship unfold before Our very eyes and the Democrats in controll did nothing but watch.
More than the film I enjoyed the publicity campaign that preceeded its release. This consisted of reviews and articles about all the people who sued Cohen and the production company. The guy who sued after he'd been duped into wearing an anal fisting toy was priceless. Also the Czech community that sued after they found out that they were being made fun of as backwards in the film were funny too. Imagine letting a bunch of set dressers hitch up a donkey to a car without a motor and telling your neighbors to cheer as it went through town. Then you find out it was all a big joke. How rude
Apparently the US is now rethinking the goal of democracy in Iraq. So now we are going to support a dictator there (according to CNN on their web site). That means we are going to have to reconstitute the Baath party and get the Suunis back in charge with a Saddam wannabe, just like what was done some forty years ago.
since i didn't see the movie, i'll just sit and read what you guys have to say. should i have seen the movie? i heard mixed reviews about it.
i saw the movie. awful, not brilliant.
thank god, i thought i was the only person in the world who thought it was so not brilliant. i wouldn't go so far as to say awful, but it sure lost steam once he got out of new york. i was expecting scathing satire and instead got steve martin's wild and crazy jamie kennedy experiment.
anyway, since my traffic has dropped percipitously since i am no longer hosting mike's blog round up, i must needs direct everyone to this youtube clip i found of various star trek characters (excepting from enterprise, thank god) dancing to rocky horror's time warp.
Apparently the US is now rethinking the goal of democracy in Iraq. So now we are going to support a dictator there (according to CNN on their web site). That means we are going to have to reconstitute the Baath party and get the Suunis back in charge with a Saddam wannabe, just like what was done some forty years ago.
I say we install Bush as dictator. Then he can realize his dream and we can reallize ours.
I'm not saying that there is corruption in the Executive Office (I know there is, but I'm not saying it), but I have this question for everybody who believes the Executive Office is immune to requests for information:
If we do now, or at any time in the future, have an Executive Branch of government that is corrupt (again, I'm not saying the Bush Administration is corrupt, but it could be), wouldn't every patriotic American want that corrupt administration exposed and expunged from power?
I mean, how are we supposed to know if there's any corrupt activity in our government if there's no oversight authority and the corrupt individuals are immune to public or even Congressional scrutiny? If these people are corrupt, they're ruining our government and country and every patriotic American ought to be able to see that, understand that, and be completely outraged by the unprecedented assertions put forth by the Executive Office and, even more disturbing, by our "Justice Department" (which has really just become an extension of the Executive Office).
I saw the movie and sorta wished I hadn't. Naked men are just not a turn-on (unless they look like Matthew McConnaghy! :D). Sophomoric humor doesn't do it for me either.
Batocchio @6 nailed it - Boosh isn't as sharp as Borat but he sure is sophomoronic.
In a country where half the population is convinced beyond reason that 1. Evolution is an atheist lie, 2. Democrats suffer from "Bush Derangement Syndrome", and 3. Global Warming is a socialist plot, what makes us think that waving our arms and going "Hey! Traditional media! Look! Wrongdoing going on!" is going to result in anything other than sore arms?
Dammit, I don't like being pessimistic. But it's being beaten into me by life.
Apparently the US is now rethinking the goal of democracy in Iraq. So now we are going to support a dictator there (according to CNN on their web site). That means we are going to have to reconstitute the Baath party and get the Suunis back in charge with a Saddam wannabe, just like what was done some forty years ago.
LOL L&P!!!
I say we install Bush as dictator. Then he can realize his dream and we can reallize ours.
The vice president is the single greatest threat to American and international security in the world today. Not Osama Bin Laden. Not the ghost of Saddam Hussein. Not Ahmadinejad or Kim Jung Il. Not al-Qaida, the Taliban, or Jose Padilla himself. Not even George W. Bush can lay claim to this title. It is Dick Cheney’s alone. Operating in a never-never land of constitutional ambiguity which exists between the office of the president and the Congress of the United States, Cheney’s office has made its impact felt on the policies of the United States of America as had no vice president’s office before him. Granted unprecedented oversight over national security and foreign policy by executive order in early 2001, many months prior to the terror attacks of 9/11, Cheney has single-handedly steered America away from being a nation among nations (albeit superior), operating (roughly) in accordance with the rule of law, and toward its present manifestation as the new Rome, a decadent imperial power bent on global domination whatever the cost.
since i didn't see the movie, i'll just sit and read what you guys have to say. should i have seen the movie? i heard mixed reviews about it.
i saw the movie. awful, not brilliant.
thank god, i thought i was the only person in the world who thought it was so not brilliant. i wouldn't go so far as to say awful, but it sure lost steam once he got out of new york. i was expecting scathing satire and instead got steve martin's wild and crazy jamie kennedy experiment.
LO-freakin'-L on that poster!! I like the "Coming soon to Iran" in the lower right-hand corner.
The movie's hilarious. Makes your toes curl with embarrassment, but funny as hell. I liked the scene where Borat has dinner with the nice rich Republican family in the South. They're puzzled and annoyed when he insults the women and poops in a baggie, but become truly angry when his black trailer-park date shows up. He really nailed those people.
I'm assuming you mean dictator of Iraq. Anything, as long as he goes away.
No, the anti-democratic reich wing Supreme Court installed him as dictator here and we see how that has worked out. I wouldn't wish that on any nation.
thank god, i thought i was the only person in the world who thought it was so not brilliant. i wouldn't go so far as to say awful, but it sure lost steam once he got out of new york. i was expecting scathing satire and instead got steve martin's wild and crazy jamie kennedy experiment.
LO-freakin'-L on that poster!! I like the "Coming soon to Iran" in the lower right-hand corner.
The movie's hilarious. Makes your toes curl with embarrassment, but funny as hell. I liked the scene where Borat has dinner with the nice rich Republican family in the South. They're puzzled and annoyed when he insults the women and poops in a baggie, but become truly angry when his black trailer-park date shows up. He really nailed those people.
So now Hillary wants malaki out of his seat in Iraq. She calling for him to be replaced because his religious ties are too strong. Is there anyone in Iraq who doesn't have serious religious ties? I doubt it.
So now Hillary wants malaki out of his seat in Iraq. She calling for him to be replaced because his religious ties are too strong. Is there anyone in Iraq who doesn't have serious religious ties? I doubt it.
I have several pin dot ties and some nice striped ties.
lol... okay... I could be completely out to lunch on this, but I thought FOI act was specifically designed for citizens to have the freedom to access otherwise hidden information on the records kept by government...
Fade, another guy has been sitting in for Chris this week. Mike Barnicle (sp?) He's better than Chris in that he does allow the guests to complete sentences and he appears to listen to what they have to say. It would be okay with me if they gave him Chris' show permanently.
The only equation I can draw between Bush and Borat is they have the same quality command of the English language, but c-mon, who would you rather have a beer with? Bush or Borat? hell, I would even sit at a bar with Borat in his swimsuit...the Yellow one...that he shouldn't have been wearing in the first place (oh yuk!!!) but you could actually have a better conversation with Borat and I would even say Borat is more qualified to be President of the USA, even through he wasn't born on our soil, AND if he had access to the Bush Crime Family's money Borat would probably make something of himself and not just ride on everyones coat tails.
lol... okay... I could be completely out to lunch on this, but I thought FOI act was specifically designed for citizens to have the freedom to access otherwise hidden information on the records kept by government...
Aaah. The FOI is just a bunch of words on a piece of paper. Just like the Constitution.
The vice president is the single greatest threat to American and international security in the world today. Not Osama Bin Laden. Not the ghost of Saddam Hussein. Not Ahmadinejad or Kim Jung Il. Not al-Qaida, the Taliban, or Jose Padilla himself. Not even George W. Bush can lay claim to this title. It is Dick Cheney’s alone. Operating in a never-never land of constitutional ambiguity which exists between the office of the president and the Congress of the United States, Cheney’s office has made its impact felt on the policies of the United States of America as had no vice president’s office before him. Granted unprecedented oversight over national security and foreign policy by executive order in early 2001, many months prior to the terror attacks of 9/11, Cheney has single-handedly steered America away from being a nation among nations (albeit superior), operating (roughly) in accordance with the rule of law, and toward its present manifestation as the new Rome, a decadent imperial power bent on global domination whatever the cost.
C.I.A. Details Errors It Made Before Sept. 11
By MARK MAZZETTI
George Tenet, the former head of the C.I.A., failed to adequately prepare the agency to meet the threat of Al Qaeda, an internal agency report said. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/washington/22cia.html?th&emc=th
cheney sat in the halls waiting for intel and analysis and would not accept it if it did not support war against Iraq. Leave it to the NYTimes to keep the spin going. Tenet might deserve to be thrown under a bus, but he should be holding cheney's hand and dragging him along too.
I'd rather have a cocktail with Borat because I wouldn't be tempted to slap the hell out of him every time I looked at him. Slapping and cocktailing just don't fit together very well.
So now Hillary wants malaki out of his seat in Iraq. She calling for him to be replaced because his religious ties are too strong. Is there anyone in Iraq who doesn't have serious religious ties? I doubt it.
hillaroo also said the "surge" is working. no credibility here! move along now...
I'd rather have a cocktail with Borat because I wouldn't be tempted to slap the hell out of him every time I looked at him. Slapping and cocktailing just don't fit together very well.
:lol: right back atcha, BaScOmBe. Cocktailing is seriously relaxing but if you constantly are feeling a desire to knock the shit out someone, the relaxation part goes away.
So now Hillary wants malaki out of his seat in Iraq. She calling for him to be replaced because his religious ties are too strong. Is there anyone in Iraq who doesn't have serious religious ties? I doubt it.
Me too. Are there any secular people in the Middle East?! Religion is the politics of the area and if the idiotic admin, and apparently Hillary, had any common sense and knew the history, there is NO WAY that we can bring our type of democracy to the ME.
What a gigantic waste of our hard-earned tax dollars.
So now Hillary wants malaki out of his seat in Iraq. She calling for him to be replaced because his religious ties are too strong. Is there anyone in Iraq who doesn't have serious religious ties? I doubt it.
hillaroo also said the "surge" is working. no credibility here! move along now...
Hillary is no better than Bush. She is in the hip pocket of the special interests, same as him. Same contributors, same hobknobbers, same with Ghouliani, McBane (who is doa), Thompson, etc. Why do you think they are trying to discredit Obama so much. Just wait, the race card is gonna get played real soon, or some trumped up bs like he had sex during college...OOOOH...there's a shock!
As long as you don't go into the movie expecting Schindler's List, or even Fried Green Tomatoes, it's worth the rental. Some parts are more sophmoric than others. I think the charcter of Borat is brilliantly conceived, and his dedication to his portyal is impressive. Yes, I would have written the movie differently. But remember, part of his target audience is beer-bonging college guys.
For those of you who did see it ... I don't remember if it was in the movie or deleted scenes. But the part where he was in the grocery store asking what the cheese was ... when he got to the end of the row and went back to start again on the next row, I almost peed myself. It started out as one of those "Yeah, we get it. Funny ... now get on with it." But when he did that, there must have been something about his mannerism or look, but that might be the hardest I laughed during the whole movie.
So now Hillary wants malaki out of his seat in Iraq. She calling for him to be replaced because his religious ties are too strong. Is there anyone in Iraq who doesn't have serious religious ties? I doubt it.
hillaroo also said the "surge" is working. no credibility here! move along now...
Hillary is no better than Bush. She is in the hip pocket of the special interests, same as him. Same contributors, same hobknobbers, same with Ghouliani, McBane (who is doa), Thompson, etc. Why do you think they are trying to discredit Obama so much. Just wait, the race card is gonna get played real soon, or some trumped up bs like he had sex during college...OOOOH...there's a shock!
Respectfully ...
I agree that everyone in Washington DC is dirty and for sale. But I vehemently disagree that Hillary is no better than Bush (Cheney). The Bush syndicate has taken corruption and hubris to an entirely new low. We need to get a democrat back in the white house before we lose our country altogether. This distaste from the far left over Hillary concerns me. The far right will hold their noses and vote party. Unfortunately, the far left will protest by voting for some third party schmuck. So while the '08 election should be a no-brainer for the dems to win, I'm scared shitless of the far left. Because, if the presidency is vulnerable to go republican, it will be the far left who will deliver it to them.
P.O. Patricia, watch it; what the heck. At the very least you'll know what others have been talking about.
I went with my grown up son. I found it screamingly and squeamishly funny. And I forgot everything else in the world for a couple hours--like movies are supposed to do.
I also watched all the Ali G shows. I think Cohen is brilliant, particularly his interviews with James Baker, "Norman" Chomsky, and Ralph Nader. I can't remember which interview it is when he asks if he isn't worried that the intervewee will get IraN mixed up with IraQ, because they're spelled almost the same.
We hear that "Hardball" exec producer Tammy Haddad is officially out thanks to Chris Matthews becoming the lowest-rated host on MSNBC primetime. Matthews — a front-and-center face at MSNBC and certainly a go-to pundit on all things political, including election coverage in November and chosen as to moderate one of MSNBC's two kickoff presidential debates in April, along with NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams — has seen his ratings clock in consistently below Keith Olbermann — who is getting a network try-out this Sunday — and even Dan Abrams, who stepped in for Joe Scarborough amidst some changes to the show, yet still manages to consistently beat Matthews' ratings. Only Tucker Carlson , who is on at 4 and 6 pm, has lower ratings on the network.
Haddad, who has been with "Hardball" since 2004, caught, er, heck from Matthews last month when he unwittingly dropped an "s-bomb" on the air when he didn't know he was being broadcast. Rumor had it that Matthews wanted Haddad out after the episode, but there was no fallout, at least not then.
Thanks for the link Blue Gal, but I'm going to catch proper hell from whoever p-shopped that poster. I have been pretty good at giving attribution to 'borrowed' graphics lately (by providing that if you click on the picture, it takes you to the originating website) but this one was on my hard drive for a while, so I guess I'll have to edit that post.
OK, I changed my post so the graphic links to Tee Shirt Humor.com where you can buy the Dubyat tee-shirt. That's the best I can do as far as making up for using this hilarious copyright image in my post - use the post to provide free advertising to the copyright holder. We'll see if they contact me and ask to have it taken down.
So where'd the Putin thread suddenly go... Not that I could actually access the comments section anyway...
Seems like something hinky was going on with it, that prevented comments from being made...... Bad thread, corrupted data, something.... Would be interested to comment if that thread comes back...JD
Not to be a nit-pick, but the character they have used for the A in that is actually the Cyrillic character for D, and the character they have used for the B is actually V in Cyrillic. If you were going to spell Dubya correctly in Cyrillic, this is how it would look: ДУБЯТ, Borat in Cyrillic would be spelled: БОРАТ. Halliburton in Cyrillic would be spelled thusly: ХАЛИБУРТОН. My name would be spelled СТЭНТОР. Cyrillic is a conglomeration of the Greek alphabet, the Roman alphabet, and other characters that don't belong to either.
I loved the movie. Especially his speech at the rodeo about Premier George Walter Bush drinking the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq! Got some applause too.
Not to be a nit-pick, but the character they have used for the A in that is actually the Cyrillic character for D, and the character they have used for the B is actually V in Cyrillic. If you were going to spell Dubya correctly in Cyrillic, this is how it would look: ДУБЯТ, Borat in Cyrillic would be spelled: БОРАТ. Halliburton in Cyrillic would be spelled thusly: ХАЛИБУРТОН. My name would be spelled СТЭНТОР. Cyrillic is a conglomeration of the Greek alphabet, the Roman alphabet, and other characters that don't belong to either.
Did you know that Borat is not really from Khazakstan?
Have you ever seen real Kazahks? They look and speak NOTHING like Borat.
Did you know that nobody in America ever heard of Kazahkstan before Borat came out, and they still aren't sure if it's a real country or not.
Did you know that we don't care?
Can you tell I have no idea how to actually spell "Kazahkshtan?"
Can you tell I don't really care?
Also from Les Enrages:
RCMP officers disguised as masked protesters attempting to start a riot at the SPP protest.
Police disguised as masked demonstrators tried to incite violence at the North American leaders' summit in Montebello, Que., on Monday protesters say, after footage of the incident was posted on YouTube Tuesday.
...
In (the video), three burly men with bandanas and other covers over their faces push through protesters toward a line of riot police. One of the men has a rock in his hand.
As they move forward, union leaders dressed in suits order the men to put the rock down and leave, accuse them of being police agents provocateurs, and try unsuccessfully to unmask them.
In the end, they squeeze behind the police line, where they are calmly handcuffed.
The RCMP has refused to comment, while Quebec Provincial Police have flatly denied that its officers were involved in the incident.
It (presumably the QPP) said it is not releasing any names as no charges were laid.
Ah, cool. I want to see the part in the documentary where the ugly fat overseer guy (played by the fat, ugly overseer Cheney) makes Dubyat "Eat my Ass!". It would certainly be accurate...Cheney's been making him do that all along.
HaHa!
i for to be frist poster.
Justice Department decides that the Freedom of Information Act does not apply to the White House.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070822/ap_on_go_pr_wh/white_house_secrecy
That poster is hilarious!
Weaseldog @ 3:
You mean the department headed by a Bush lapdog doesn't think the FOIA applies to Bush?!?! Say it isn't so!
On target!
But Dubya ain't as sharp as Borat.
Since I didn't see the movie, I'll just sit and read what you guys have to say. Should I have seen the movie? I heard mixed reviews about it.
Faux Attacks: Iran
Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Films has released a new video as part of its ongoing Faux Attacks series. “Fox Attacks: Iran” reveals the network’s efforts to beat the drums for a war against Iran. The ad shows Faux fear-mongering and inflating the threat much the way it did prior to the Iraq war.
The movie was ok. I never suggested that my wife see it.
Some day in the conservative re-education centers we can tell our grandchildren we watched the whole dictatorship unfold before Our very eyes and the Democrats in controll did nothing but watch.
Batocchio @ 6:
Yeah, boosh's about even with Patrick Star.
More than the film I enjoyed the publicity campaign that preceeded its release. This consisted of reviews and articles about all the people who sued Cohen and the production company. The guy who sued after he'd been duped into wearing an anal fisting toy was priceless. Also the Czech community that sued after they found out that they were being made fun of as backwards in the film were funny too. Imagine letting a bunch of set dressers hitch up a donkey to a car without a motor and telling your neighbors to cheer as it went through town. Then you find out it was all a big joke. How rude
So undercover cops kicked off the violence in Ottawa?
Police accused of using provocateurs at summit
We the Sheepeole!! F*@#$ Bush!
The movie was good but I got a little nauseated from the handheld camera work. Like in Blair Witch.
pissed off patricia @ 7:
I saw the movie. Awful, not brilliant.
While I was nauseated at the sight of the fat man's man boobs and scrotum
Apparently the US is now rethinking the goal of democracy in Iraq. So now we are going to support a dictator there (according to CNN on their web site). That means we are going to have to reconstitute the Baath party and get the Suunis back in charge with a Saddam wannabe, just like what was done some forty years ago.
bascombe @ 16:
thank god, i thought i was the only person in the world who thought it was so not brilliant. i wouldn't go so far as to say awful, but it sure lost steam once he got out of new york. i was expecting scathing satire and instead got steve martin's wild and crazy jamie kennedy experiment.
anyway, since my traffic has dropped percipitously since i am no longer hosting mike's blog round up, i must needs direct everyone to this youtube clip i found of various star trek characters (excepting from enterprise, thank god) dancing to rocky horror's time warp.
Was Dubya convicted of drunk driving?
Smack_dab @ 18:
I say we install Bush as dictator. Then he can realize his dream and we can reallize ours.
Hail To The Chimp @ 20:
Yes. But the records were sealed while he was Governor of Texas, by his lawyer...who was...wait for it...waaaaait for it...ALBERTO GONZALES.
pissed off patricia @ 7:
See it. : )
Weaseldog @ 3:
I'm not saying that there is corruption in the Executive Office (I know there is, but I'm not saying it), but I have this question for everybody who believes the Executive Office is immune to requests for information:
If we do now, or at any time in the future, have an Executive Branch of government that is corrupt (again, I'm not saying the Bush Administration is corrupt, but it could be), wouldn't every patriotic American want that corrupt administration exposed and expunged from power?
I mean, how are we supposed to know if there's any corrupt activity in our government if there's no oversight authority and the corrupt individuals are immune to public or even Congressional scrutiny? If these people are corrupt, they're ruining our government and country and every patriotic American ought to be able to see that, understand that, and be completely outraged by the unprecedented assertions put forth by the Executive Office and, even more disturbing, by our "Justice Department" (which has really just become an extension of the Executive Office).
I saw the movie and sorta wished I hadn't. Naked men are just not a turn-on (unless they look like Matthew McConnaghy! :D). Sophomoric humor doesn't do it for me either.
Batocchio @6 nailed it - Boosh isn't as sharp as Borat but he sure is sophomoronic.
Thanks for the film reviews. Mostly I had heard it had some funny parts but that was outweighed by the gross stuff.
Aww Skippy, I've been coming to visit you. :)
In a country where half the population is convinced beyond reason that 1. Evolution is an atheist lie, 2. Democrats suffer from "Bush Derangement Syndrome", and 3. Global Warming is a socialist plot, what makes us think that waving our arms and going "Hey! Traditional media! Look! Wrongdoing going on!" is going to result in anything other than sore arms?
Dammit, I don't like being pessimistic. But it's being beaten into me by life.
Liberal AND Proud @ 21:
Posted on Aug 21, 2007
By Scott Ritter
(Page 2)
The vice president is the single greatest threat to American and international security in the world today. Not Osama Bin Laden. Not the ghost of Saddam Hussein. Not Ahmadinejad or Kim Jung Il. Not al-Qaida, the Taliban, or Jose Padilla himself. Not even George W. Bush can lay claim to this title. It is Dick Cheney’s alone. Operating in a never-never land of constitutional ambiguity which exists between the office of the president and the Congress of the United States, Cheney’s office has made its impact felt on the policies of the United States of America as had no vice president’s office before him. Granted unprecedented oversight over national security and foreign policy by executive order in early 2001, many months prior to the terror attacks of 9/11, Cheney has single-handedly steered America away from being a nation among nations (albeit superior), operating (roughly) in accordance with the rule of law, and toward its present manifestation as the new Rome, a decadent imperial power bent on global domination whatever the cost.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070821_why_cheney_really_is_that_bad/
Batocchio @ 6:
...and far more dangerous and untrustworthy.
skippy @ 19:
LO-freakin'-L on that poster!! I like the "Coming soon to Iran" in the lower right-hand corner.
The movie's hilarious. Makes your toes curl with embarrassment, but funny as hell. I liked the scene where Borat has dinner with the nice rich Republican family in the South. They're puzzled and annoyed when he insults the women and poops in a baggie, but become truly angry when his black trailer-park date shows up. He really nailed those people.
I say we install Bush as dictator.
I'm assuming you mean dictator of Iraq. Anything, as long as he goes away.
dude @ 23:
The hotel scene alone was worth the price of admission.
edgar @ 32:
No, the anti-democratic reich wing Supreme Court installed him as dictator here and we see how that has worked out. I wouldn't wish that on any nation.
pissed off patricia @ 7:
I could not finish watching it. Then again i have a difficult time finding humor in stupidity. Look what it has wrought!
Annoyed Canuck @ 31:
See, you got it.
I like it, but I wonder if they meant to spell Halliburton wrong?
Weaseldog @ 13:
D to the Izzle @ 37:
guess Bush spell checked it.
So now Hillary wants malaki out of his seat in Iraq. She calling for him to be replaced because his religious ties are too strong. Is there anyone in Iraq who doesn't have serious religious ties? I doubt it.
Amy Goodman will be on Hardball tonight... check out Democracy Now! for details. She's had words with Matthews before.. should be worth watching
pissed off patricia @ 40:
I have several pin dot ties and some nice striped ties.
Weaseldog @ 3:
lol... okay... I could be completely out to lunch on this, but I thought FOI act was specifically designed for citizens to have the freedom to access otherwise hidden information on the records kept by government...
Fade, another guy has been sitting in for Chris this week. Mike Barnicle (sp?) He's better than Chris in that he does allow the guests to complete sentences and he appears to listen to what they have to say. It would be okay with me if they gave him Chris' show permanently.
The only equation I can draw between Bush and Borat is they have the same quality command of the English language, but c-mon, who would you rather have a beer with? Bush or Borat? hell, I would even sit at a bar with Borat in his swimsuit...the Yellow one...that he shouldn't have been wearing in the first place (oh yuk!!!) but you could actually have a better conversation with Borat and I would even say Borat is more qualified to be President of the USA, even through he wasn't born on our soil, AND if he had access to the Bush Crime Family's money Borat would probably make something of himself and not just ride on everyones coat tails.
Dubyat's a dead-ringer for Cousin Brucie!
klunk @ 43:
Aaah. The FOI is just a bunch of words on a piece of paper. Just like the Constitution.
tofubo @ 29:
C.I.A. Details Errors It Made Before Sept. 11
By MARK MAZZETTI
George Tenet, the former head of the C.I.A., failed to adequately prepare the agency to meet the threat of Al Qaeda, an internal agency report said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/washington/22cia.html?th&emc=th
cheney sat in the halls waiting for intel and analysis and would not accept it if it did not support war against Iraq. Leave it to the NYTimes to keep the spin going. Tenet might deserve to be thrown under a bus, but he should be holding cheney's hand and dragging him along too.
I'd rather have a cocktail with Borat because I wouldn't be tempted to slap the hell out of him every time I looked at him. Slapping and cocktailing just don't fit together very well.
pissed off patricia @ 40:
hillaroo also said the "surge" is working. no credibility here! move along now...
pissed off patricia @ 50:
:lol:
:lol: right back atcha, BaScOmBe. Cocktailing is seriously relaxing but if you constantly are feeling a desire to knock the shit out someone, the relaxation part goes away.
pissed off patricia @ 40:
Me too. Are there any secular people in the Middle East?! Religion is the politics of the area and if the idiotic admin, and apparently Hillary, had any common sense and knew the history, there is NO WAY that we can bring our type of democracy to the ME.
What a gigantic waste of our hard-earned tax dollars.
BaScOmBe @ 51:
Hillary is no better than Bush. She is in the hip pocket of the special interests, same as him. Same contributors, same hobknobbers, same with Ghouliani, McBane (who is doa), Thompson, etc. Why do you think they are trying to discredit Obama so much. Just wait, the race card is gonna get played real soon, or some trumped up bs like he had sex during college...OOOOH...there's a shock!
Robert @ 2:
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aha stupid son of a dog the frist you are not even!
Halliburton has two LL's.
Patricia,
As long as you don't go into the movie expecting Schindler's List, or even Fried Green Tomatoes, it's worth the rental. Some parts are more sophmoric than others. I think the charcter of Borat is brilliantly conceived, and his dedication to his portyal is impressive. Yes, I would have written the movie differently. But remember, part of his target audience is beer-bonging college guys.
For those of you who did see it ... I don't remember if it was in the movie or deleted scenes. But the part where he was in the grocery store asking what the cheese was ... when he got to the end of the row and went back to start again on the next row, I almost peed myself. It started out as one of those "Yeah, we get it. Funny ... now get on with it." But when he did that, there must have been something about his mannerism or look, but that might be the hardest I laughed during the whole movie.
Liberal AND Proud @ 55:
Respectfully ...
I agree that everyone in Washington DC is dirty and for sale. But I vehemently disagree that Hillary is no better than Bush (Cheney). The Bush syndicate has taken corruption and hubris to an entirely new low. We need to get a democrat back in the white house before we lose our country altogether. This distaste from the far left over Hillary concerns me. The far right will hold their noses and vote party. Unfortunately, the far left will protest by voting for some third party schmuck. So while the '08 election should be a no-brainer for the dems to win, I'm scared shitless of the far left. Because, if the presidency is vulnerable to go republican, it will be the far left who will deliver it to them.
P.O. Patricia, watch it; what the heck. At the very least you'll know what others have been talking about.
I went with my grown up son. I found it screamingly and squeamishly funny. And I forgot everything else in the world for a couple hours--like movies are supposed to do.
I also watched all the Ali G shows. I think Cohen is brilliant, particularly his interviews with James Baker, "Norman" Chomsky, and Ralph Nader. I can't remember which interview it is when he asks if he isn't worried that the intervewee will get IraN mixed up with IraQ, because they're spelled almost the same.
We didn't stop the Chickenhawk Neocon war machine then http://foxattacks.com/iran but we have a second chance.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
Tammy Haddad Out As Chris Matthews EP
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | August 22, 2007 11:55 AM
We hear that "Hardball" exec producer Tammy Haddad is officially out thanks to Chris Matthews becoming the lowest-rated host on MSNBC primetime. Matthews — a front-and-center face at MSNBC and certainly a go-to pundit on all things political, including election coverage in November and chosen as to moderate one of MSNBC's two kickoff presidential debates in April, along with NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams — has seen his ratings clock in consistently below Keith Olbermann — who is getting a network try-out this Sunday — and even Dan Abrams, who stepped in for Joe Scarborough amidst some changes to the show, yet still manages to consistently beat Matthews' ratings. Only Tucker Carlson , who is on at 4 and 6 pm, has lower ratings on the network.
Haddad, who has been with "Hardball" since 2004, caught, er, heck from Matthews last month when he unwittingly dropped an "s-bomb" on the air when he didn't know he was being broadcast. Rumor had it that Matthews wanted Haddad out after the episode, but there was no fallout, at least not then.
Thanks for the link Blue Gal, but I'm going to catch proper hell from whoever p-shopped that poster. I have been pretty good at giving attribution to 'borrowed' graphics lately (by providing that if you click on the picture, it takes you to the originating website) but this one was on my hard drive for a while, so I guess I'll have to edit that post.
My bad.
OK, I changed my post so the graphic links to Tee Shirt Humor.com where you can buy the Dubyat tee-shirt. That's the best I can do as far as making up for using this hilarious copyright image in my post - use the post to provide free advertising to the copyright holder. We'll see if they contact me and ask to have it taken down.
So where'd the Putin thread suddenly go... Not that I could actually access the comments section anyway...
Seems like something hinky was going on with it, that prevented comments from being made...... Bad thread, corrupted data, something.... Would be interested to comment if that thread comes back...JD
ohhhhhhhohoho, too funny picture!
for Mrs. bluegal, for you I travel to the crooksandliars on the next camel to have sex with your funny haha.
-BORAT
Not to be a nit-pick, but the character they have used for the A in that is actually the Cyrillic character for D, and the character they have used for the B is actually V in Cyrillic. If you were going to spell Dubya correctly in Cyrillic, this is how it would look: ДУБЯТ, Borat in Cyrillic would be spelled: БОРАТ. Halliburton in Cyrillic would be spelled thusly: ХАЛИБУРТОН. My name would be spelled СТЭНТОР. Cyrillic is a conglomeration of the Greek alphabet, the Roman alphabet, and other characters that don't belong to either.
Throw the Boosh down the well!
I named my dog Borat. He's currently in the front yard spreading freedom and democracy. I hope I don't step in any of it.
Thanks for the link Blue Gal!
I loved the movie. Especially his speech at the rodeo about Premier George Walter Bush drinking the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq! Got some applause too.
O'Reilley and Bill Maher on the Surge and the Dem candidates:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qsMs1pdFPI&eurl=
Can't wait to see the part where Bush and Cheney wrestle nude in the oval office....WOW, even I feel naususe now....what an ugly thought...JCB
Stentor @ 67:
Did you know that Borat is not really from Khazakstan?
Have you ever seen real Kazahks? They look and speak NOTHING like Borat.
Did you know that nobody in America ever heard of Kazahkstan before Borat came out, and they still aren't sure if it's a real country or not.
Did you know that we don't care?
Can you tell I have no idea how to actually spell "Kazahkshtan?"
Can you tell I don't really care?
Also from Les Enrages:
RCMP officers disguised as masked protesters attempting to start a riot at the SPP protest.
Police disguised as masked demonstrators tried to incite violence at the North American leaders' summit in Montebello, Que., on Monday protesters say, after footage of the incident was posted on YouTube Tuesday.
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In (the video), three burly men with bandanas and other covers over their faces push through protesters toward a line of riot police. One of the men has a rock in his hand.
As they move forward, union leaders dressed in suits order the men to put the rock down and leave, accuse them of being police agents provocateurs, and try unsuccessfully to unmask them.
In the end, they squeeze behind the police line, where they are calmly handcuffed.
The RCMP has refused to comment, while Quebec Provincial Police have flatly denied that its officers were involved in the incident.
It (presumably the QPP) said it is not releasing any names as no charges were laid.
http://unrulymob.blogspot.com/2007/08/theres-riot-goin-on.html
Ah, cool. I want to see the part in the documentary where the ugly fat overseer guy (played by the fat, ugly overseer Cheney) makes Dubyat "Eat my Ass!". It would certainly be accurate...Cheney's been making him do that all along.
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