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LAMENT LAMONT
Ned Lamont is toast. Who the hell is advising these people?
UPDATE. Reader Tom emails: “That Ned Lamont/Kos ad really, really reminds me of The Forty Year Old Virgin.”
Also, can anyone make any sense out of this statement of his :
Fixing healthcare is not only a matter of fairness; as a small business guy, I can tell ya it’s also key to keeping good paying jobs here in this country.
A small business guy without a clue, that is.
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 05 18 at 02:31 PM • permalinkKos has almost all the charisma and good looks of a slightly younger Jon Cryer.
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2006 05 18 at 02:46 PM • permalinkI wonder if Lamont counted the silverware after they left.
Posted by Gary from Jersey on 2006 05 18 at 03:22 PM • permalinkThat might be the most effective ad for a home security system ever made.
Posted by Randal Robinson on 2006 05 18 at 05:00 PM • permalinkThe latest Quinnipiac poll:
U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman gets a 59 - 29 percent approval, compared to 63 - 25 percent February 16. In a possible Democratic primary, the incumbent beats businessman Ned Lamont 65 - 19 percent, with most Lamont supporters saying they are voting against Lieberman.
No doubt this ad will turn that around.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 05 18 at 05:52 PM • permalinkFirst thing would be to turn on the sprinklers and make sure the dead bolt is securely in place. Very odd.
Posted by Pat Patterson on 2006 05 18 at 06:59 PM • permalinkNo, no, no, no. We must have Kos & Co. in every single demo political ad from now on. Make it a law.
RebeccaH, Kos’s ego will carry him beyond the confines of mother earth and into the cosmos, where I’m sure he will be duly recognised as a god. That is his subjective reality. That you can’t see the justice of this, is yours.
Totally OT, but since we’re talking about ridiculous moving images: Any hardcore Ayn Rand fans here? I just came across this movie on TV tonight, and my goodness, how spectacularly bad. I’ve admittedly never read anything of her even though I consider myself a libertarian, but if I ever do get the urge, please tell me her stuff is more engaging and much, much less ridiculous in print than it was on the screen here… I had to turn the channel one hour into the movie as my patience with crap only goes so far.
I’ve usually found the IMDB user ratings quite reliable for older movies, but how this turd got to 7.0 is completely beyond me.
PW—Libertarianism is anarchy with a necktie. The smarter libertarians wear clip-ons so they’ll be harder to choke when the mob ravens.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 18 at 08:44 PM • permalinkThat might be the most effective ad for a home security system ever made.
Nice to see you posting Randal. Whatever happened to your own blog?
I hope we see Kos endorse and campaign for every other unelectard out there in November.
Posted by Mr Hackenbacker on 2006 05 18 at 08:53 PM • permalinkThe Kos commercial brings back memories.
Anyone else remember the Yippies and their 30-minute TV special during the Chicago ‘68 convention? Remember Pigasus the Pig?
Remember how well THAT worked out?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 18 at 09:24 PM • permalinkDidn’t Pigasus end up on a spit at the local FOP lodge in Area 2 in Chicago?
BTW - honest to the Almighty, I thought that Kos kommercial was a parody. Well, I mean an intentional pardoy.
Posted by Major John on 2006 05 18 at 09:54 PM • permalinkHmmmm.
That might be the most effective ad for a home security system ever made.
Well I *was* going to try and write a witty comment, but this just blew me away.
ROFLMAO!
Posted by memomachine on 2006 05 18 at 10:45 PM • permalinkHmmm.
Yeah the Fountainhead was both an idiot book and a really stupid movie.
I saw it at an early age and even I knew that the building didn’t belong to the schlub that designed it. It belonged to the schmuck that paid for it.
Once you get past that, then you realise what an utterly insipid story it is.
Posted by memomachine on 2006 05 18 at 10:49 PM • permalinkThis rightly belongs to a previous thread, but I just had to say, what a lovely man is your PM. Thanks, mates, for your wisdom in (re)electing him:
“Australia, as you know, is an unapologetic friend and ally of the United States,” Mr. Howard told a Commons chamber that’s heard all-too-frequent criticism of Washington in recent years.
Fresh from a visit to the White House, Mr. Howard told a chamber packed with Tory MPs, staffers, lobbyists and party functionaries — but noticeably light on Liberal Opposition MPs — that the U.S. “has been a remarkable power for good in the world.
“And the decency and hope that the power and purpose that the United States represent in the world is something we should deeply appreciate,” Mr. Howard said to sustained applause.
Australian PM addresses Parliament
And sustained applause from the Canadian Parliment. My how times have changed. Thank you, Mr. Harper & Co.
Apologies for my OT indulgence.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 05 19 at 12:52 AM • permalinkPW, ‘The Fountainhead’ is a favorite of architecture students. To you and me, it’s just lame, to them hilarious.
Rand contends for the title of selling the most books on the least merit of anyone who ever wrote in English.
Posted by Harry Eagar on 2006 05 19 at 12:52 AM • permalinkOh, guys, don’t be so hard on Ayn. Anyone with early conservative leanings goes through an Ayn Rand phase. Mine was during college. I re-read The Fountainhead from time to time just because I have such a time/place/state of mind attachment to it. I dunno, maybe it’s a girl thing.
The movie is a stinker, yes, but a genuine high camp stinker (it’s those King Vidor flourishes that save it). For starters, Gary Cooper—and I love him—was way too old for the role and it goes downhill from there (Rand herself wrote the achingly bad screenplay).
Oh well, who is John Galt?
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 05 19 at 01:26 AM • permalink#26 Rand contends for the title of selling the most books on the least merit of anyone who ever wrote in English.
Oh no Harry, that (dis)honour has to go to Dan Brown.
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 05 19 at 01:55 AM • permalinkYeah, yeah, yeah. No more war, health care for everyone, jobs at home, I’m a small businessman, blah frickin blah, blah, blah. But the problem is, I GOT NO PLAN!
But vote for me anyway cuz Koz says so!He is a retard, and that couch is proof enough…
And I still say Koz is a closet homosexual. Notice the way he plays with his nipples at the end. He really should stop lying and come on out.Alright goddammit!, whose slagging Ayn Rand?!. Atlas Shrugged is one of the greatest feats of literature of the 20th century, The Fountainhead was just a warm-up and should be seen as such. She also named names during HUAC, which I deeply admire.
Posted by Daniel San on 2006 05 19 at 03:38 AM • permalinkOh no Harry, that (dis)honour has to go to Dan Brown.
Before this DaVinci Code craze started, a friend gave me a copy and said, “You have to read this. It’s awesome.” I read the first two pages and said, “What is this crap? An albino assassin? Puh-leeze.” I never read such a concentration of wretched prose in so small a number of pages. I was stunned when the book went bestseller. Brown makes Dean Koontz look like Dostoevsky.
(note that I couldn’t give a rat’s ass about the “anti-Christian” brouhaha. I don’t have any dog in a fight between religious believers and conspiracy-theory believers. My beef is with the putrid prose.)
We are living in an Atlas Shrugged world, only without the heroics. It is entirely too easy to pick out those characters in our world today. Go read up on Kip’s Ma sometime, or Senor Gomez, or Dr. Simon Pritchard. Name the antagonist and there are a myriad real life examples to be found.
Brad and Anjolina? I don’t think so.
#33 You are so right. I read the book on my mother’s recommendation but while it had an interesting premise by about Page 100 it had completely run out of steam and was completeley formulaic thereafter.
I read Angels and Demons and tried to read Digital Fortress but they were actually puerile.
Da Vinci Code actually reads like a screenplay more than a novel but from all accounts the movie both sucks and blows.
“... please tell me her stuff is more engaging and much, much less ridiculous in print than it was on the screen here.”
Ayn Rand started out as a Hollywood screenwriter. She wrote “women’s movies” - three-hankie weepers about true love triumphant. Here’s one of her more notable efforts - the weeper Love Letters:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037885/
Her stuff may appear ridiculous on the screen, but that was her medium of choice. As for her novels, I agree with Flannery O’Conner’s assessment: “Ayn Rand makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoyevsky.”
Posted by Urbs in Horto on 2006 05 19 at 07:25 AM • permalinkThe “I saw your commercial and I’m here” gimmick has already been done by someone hawking something much more important than a Connecticut Liberal. I think it was telephone sanitizers.
Ayn Rand’s “We the Living” was her best book since she was actually writng what she knew. It should be required reading for lefties everywhere. Russian Rand
Posted by Some0Seppo on 2006 05 19 at 08:54 AM • permalinkThe Fountainhead may be shrill, with 2-dimensional characters, a ludicrous premise and poor taste in the architectural style it promotes, but it has one of the most devastatingly spot-on portraits of Bollinger socialists ever written in the characters of Ellsworth Toohey and his intellectual companions. You almost see Noam Chomsky on the page when you read Rand’s descriptions of Toohey. I was struck how uncannily similar their attitudes and behaviour are to the leftists of today, even though so much has changed since the years in which the book was written.
Posted by Jim Geones on 2006 05 19 at 09:10 AM • permalinkRead “The Fountainhead” and couldn’t relate to or understand the protagonist at all.
Read “Atlas Shrugged” and the entire book was ruined for me by the image of survivors of mob violence in the 20th century fleeing in wagon trains. That book also convinced me that while Ayn Rand wrote of the 20th century, her outlook was firmly grounded in the 19th.
Read “The DaVinci Code” and tried to read “Angels and Demons” (couldn’t get past page twenty). Thank God somebody else agrees with me that Dan Brown is the worst writer to appear in some time.
Back on topic: the inevitable Ned Lamont for “Mentos” parody is now available for viewing.
The Fountainhead may be shrill, with 2-dimensional characters, a ludicrous premise and poor taste in the architectural style it promotes, but it has one of the most devastatingly spot-on portraits of Bollinger socialists ever written.
That, I think, is very true. I don’t know the name of the actor who played the in-house socialist in the movie version, but he did a great job conveying the whole smug-insolent-superior-intellectual elite routine.
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please tell me her stuff is more engaging and much, much less ridiculous in print than it was on the screen here…
I’d love to. I really would. But ...
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 05 19 at 10:42 AM • permalinkThanks, Dave S. “need a spotter” indeed. I once was in a grad seminar where the bet was which one of us would break his/her nose first by going face down into the seminar table. The prof made paint drying look exciting.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 05 19 at 12:05 PM • permalinkKyda—I went through a Kurt Vonnegut phase. Still wouldn’t let the fool tell me how to vote no matter how nekkid Valerie Perrine got…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 19 at 08:15 PM • permalinkBack in 2004 Tech Central Station presented Dickens’ A Christmas Carol as it written by Rand.
I read a while back that Rand came to be despised by her closest acolytes. Nasty piece of work it seems. Like Ghandi, a case of ‘Do as I say, not as I do’.
Ayn Rand: The ruggedly handsome and weirdly articulate Ebeneezer Scrooge is a successful executive held back by the corrupt morality of a society that hates success and fails to understand the value of selfishness.
So Scrooge explains that value in a 272-page soliloquy. Deep down, Scrooge’s enemies know that he is right, but they resent him out of a sense of their own inferiority. Several hot sex scenes and unlikely monologues later, Scrooge triumphs over all adversity—except a really mean review by Whittaker Chambers.
Meanwhile, Tiny Tim croaks. Socialized medicine is to blame.
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 05 20 at 04:20 AM • permalink8 JLC
Who the fuck is Ned Lamond?
Are you kidding!! This guy could the the 21st century’s Pat Paulson!
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 05 22 at 02:48 PM • permalinkI know two guys who each claim to have read Atlas Shrugged in the course of a single airline flight.
They’re both quite, quite insane now, alas, but not necessarily because of that. I’m not qualified to diagnose these things.Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 05 22 at 02:56 PM • permalink
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That’s…um…really lame. And what is that stupid kid doing behind the irritating politician? She needs sedating.