Dig…A Hole…Paul Harvey…Dead…Good Day!
February 28th, 2009 by Scott Marks
Paul Harvey…with George Bush…Good Riddance!
He has been named Salesman of the Year, Commentator of the Year, Person of the Year, Father of the Year, and American of the Year, but in the opinion of EC Paul Harvey, 90, was a right wing fascist news commentator who was more dangerous than all the Rush Limbaughs and Michael Savages combined.
Here is a transcript of one of Harvey’s broadcasts where he basically endorsed slavery and mass genocide. BTW, this show was broadcast over Disney-owned ABC Radio:
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchill said that the American people…he said, the American people, he said, and this is a direct quote, “We didn’t come this far because we are made of sugar candy.”
That was his response to the attack on Pearl Harbor. That we didn’t come this far because we are made of sugar candy.
And that reminder was taken seriously. And we proceeded to develop and deliver the bomb, even though roughly 150,000 men, women and children perished in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With a single blow, World War II was over.
Following New York, Sept. 11, Winston Churchill was not here to remind us that we didn’t come this far because we’re made of sugar candy.
So, following the New York disaster, we mustered our humanity.
We gave old pals a pass, even though men and money from Saudi Arabia were largely responsible for the devastation of New York and Pennsylvania and our Pentagon.
We called Saudi Arabians our partners against terrorism and we sent men with rifles into Afghanistan and Iraq, and we kept our best weapons in our silos.
Even now we’re standing there dying, daring to do nothing decisive, because we’ve declared ourselves to be better than our terrorist enemies — more moral, more civilized.
Our image is at stake, we insist.
But we didn’t come this far because we’re made of sugar candy.
Once upon a time, we elbowed our way onto and into this continent by giving small pox infected blankets to native Americans.
Yes, that was biological warfare!
And we used every other weapon we could get our hands on to grab this land from whomever. And we grew prosperous.
And, yes, we greased the skids with the sweat of slaves.
And so it goes with most nation states, which, feeling guilty about their savage pasts, eventually civilize themselves out of business and wind up invaded, and ultimately dominated by the lean, hungry and up and coming who are not made of sugar candy.
The guy was either in the depths of dementia when he said this or a lifelong psycho fascist. I don’t care about longevity or how soothing his voice and delivery were. (He talked down to people as though they were idiots, and in the case of his listening audience he was probably right to do so.) There are plenty of on-line sources that will praise his career. EC is not one of them.
And now you know that there is no rest of Paul Harvey’s story.
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Jim Carrey to finally play Jerry Lewis role
February 27th, 2009 by Scott Marks
After spending a career doing a third rate impersonation of Jerry Lewis, Jim Carrey is being wooed by New Line Cinema to star as the satanic Mr. Applegate in another big screen adaptation of Damn Yankees. Ray Walston, who won a Tony Award for his performance in the original 1955 Broadway production, reprised the role in the 1958 film version directed by Stanley Donen and George Abbott. Jerry succeeded Victor Garber in the 1994 Broadway revival.
For years there has been talk of JL starring in a movie adaptation, but after seeing his condition on this year’s Oscars the prognosis for obtaining a completion bond guarantee is impossible at best. Rubber-faced wildman Jim Carrey will step up to the plate in the role of Applegate with Jake Gyllenhaal playing the #1 Washington Senators fan who sells his soul for a role in the starting lineup.
Moneymen Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, the team that brought us Hairspray, A Raisin in the Sun and Chicago are spearheading the production. Variety reports “The producers tried…a version of Damn Yankees five years ago at Miramax, where they made Chicago. The rights lapsed after Harvey Weinstein exited that studio. After two years of rights negotiations, Damn Yankees is moving forward with Toby Emmerich’s New Line.” Their intention is to inject “a contemporary feel on a musical that is firmly rooted in the 1950s.”
Carrey is strike one. The addition of screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandell (Mr. Saturday Night, Father’s Day, A League of Their Own, Fever Pitch) make it three strikes, no balls. The director will be announced after the script is completed. Sit by the phone, Marty.
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