LIVE AT SIX: 04.11.13

You know how there are some people who seem really important or popular for a while, and then their 15 minutes of fame expires? And then, in a desperate bid to recapture their former glory, they engage in some kind of cheap publicity stunt? “Pay attention to me!”

Whoa! How did I miss THIS?@meghanmccain and Her Boobs are Getting Their Own Reality Show! victorygirlsblog.com/?p=10447 via @thevgblog #tcot

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) April 10, 2013

So, anyway, I guess there was actual important stuff happening last week when the “news” broke that Meghan McCain is going to become a grown-up Honey Boo-Boo, and I missed an opportunity to make fun of that shallow narcissistic bitch.

Meghan, I mean, not Honey Boo-Boo, although the resemblance is kind of remarkable, if you think about it.

Speaking of remarkable resemblances to Meghan McCain, Michael Moore says only right-wingers think he’s fat.

And speaking of people who have been failing predictably since the early years of the Bush administration, Jim Carrey.

Do you realize that it’s been nearly 20 years since Carrey starred in Ace Venture: Pet Detective, arguably the only really funny movie he ever made? And I say “arguably” because some people didn’t think it was very funny at all. But it was certifiably popular at least, grossing $72 million in 1994, when $72 million was pretty good money. It was considered successful enough that the next year they made a sequel — not as funny — that grossed more than $100 million.

Carrey’s career since then has been erratic, and by “erratic,” I mean he’s been stinking it up for the past 10 years, playing cartoon characters in Seuss-themed kiddie flicks and bombing like the RAF over Dresden every time he tries to do anything aimed at an audience old enough to drive.

Who remembers Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004), The Number 23 (2007), I Love You Phillip Morris (2009) or The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)? Nobody.

Heck, Burt Wonderstone has only been out four weeks and to say it has been forgotten would be a misstatement because it disappeared like a fart in a hurricane. It made back about two-thirds of the $30 million it cost to make it, and everybody who saw it — that is to say, a total audience measured in the thousands — left the theater telling all their friends to stay away from this cinematic turd. This is obviously why, in a desperate bid to seem relevant, Jim Carrey lashed out at the gun industry, which created a brief bubble of attention and — we might assume — signaled to liberal directors in Hollywood, “Hey, I’m one of you guys, so please consider casting me in your next movie.”

This is sad, because it’s not as if Carrey were Warren Beatty or Sean Penn or some other Hollywood guy who’s been doing the celebrity-leftist trip for decades. Just out of the blue one day, he decides to grab himself some “Courage Points” on the cheap by Standing Up to the NRA, as if that were some kind of rare and risky move in Hollywood.

Carrey’s celebrity-politics blip has come and gone, but for some reason (I don’t know why) Ace of Spades decided today to give Carrey a few punches on Twitter:

I don’t want to compare @jimcarey‘s post-2002 movie career to Auschwitz, but my grandfather has a tattoo of the date he saw “Yes Man”

— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) April 10, 2013

The trouble with making fun of @jimcarrey‘s recent movies is that no one would even fucking know what I’m talking about.

— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) April 10, 2013

Hey @jimcarrey, the year 2000 just called, it wants its fleeting cultural relevance back.

— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) April 10, 2013

wow no one’s talking about @jimcarrey today… it feels like it’s May 2002 through February 2013 again

— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) April 10, 2013

Nobody really noticed this, of course, because Jim Carrey isn’t really much of a celebrity any more. He’s actually on the verge of becoming more like Farrah Abraham. And I’m sure you’re like me: “Farrah Who?”

What the reality-TV industry has spawned is the phenomenon of micro-celebrities, people who are “famous” to a comparatively small audience of people who are fans of one or another series on one of those cable channels that are lucky to get a half-million viewers for one of their “hit” shows. I honestly don’t know how many people watch MTV any more, but watching the petty misadventures of a bunch of trashy knocked-up high-school girls and their baby-daddies isn’t really my idea of entertainment. So I kind of get annoyed when a “celebrity” site puts Farrah Abraham’s name in a headline as if everybody knows who Farrah Abraham is, which we don’t.

This just in: Former MTV Teen Mom ‘star’ admits she made a sex tape tmz.com/2013/04/10/far…

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) April 10, 2013

It’s the “famous for being famous” syndrome, except that we’ve devalued “fame” to the point that it applies to people who aren’t actually famous in any sense other than “they used to be on a cable TV show watched by less than 1 percent of the U.S. population.” In a nation of 300 million people, 3 million isn’t a lot of TV viewers and I don’t think more than 3 million people know who Farrah Abraham is.

Maybe she should make a sex tape with Jim Carrey.

Category: Celebrities, Culture

‘It’s Really Astonishing. It’s Just a Deliberate Lie From Start to Finish.’

Posted on | April 10, 2013 | 18 Comments

So says Ace of Spades about the way the New York Times re-writes the history of the Anthony Weiner cybersex scandal.

In a just world, Jonathan Van Meter of the New York Times — and every editor who signed off on this thoroughly dishonest article — would be fired, and effectively blackballed from the industry like Jason Blair and Stephen Glass, for engaging in such a vicious distortion of facts.

Everyone who knows what actually happened must be outraged by Van Meter’s underhanded attempt to revive the Weiner-Truther “hack” theory, by quoting Weiner’s wife Huma Abedin: “Anthony had told me in the past that there were these sort of trolls on the Internet who were trying to damage him, take him down.” And then this hateful lie:

It wasn’t such an implausible theory; after all, it was the not entirely reputable right-wing blogger Andrew Breitbart who broke the story.

“Here Mr. Disgraced Democrat, let me help you blame this on your enemies by smearing the dead man who exposed you.”

Beyond this, Van Meter deliberately misstates the chronology of revelations, denying Breitbart credit for the impact of his reporting on the Texas woman who had also received Weiner’s dirty pictures, a key development that Breitbart gave as an exclusive to ABC News to break the story first. Ace of Spades nails it:

What they’re doing is mixing up the timing of Breitbart’s scoop — that there were other women, and one was talking on the record with ABCNews, and that the case was now entirely proven– by mentioning Breitbart’s scoop and then June 1, as if June 1st followed Breitbart’s scoop.
Nope! Breitbart’s scoop came later — just before Weiner admitted it, hours before he admitted it. The scoop forced Weiner to admit it — but only because he had no other options left to him.
This fact is obscured by the Times’ deliberate misstatement of the chronology because they’re now going to pretend that Weiner chose the honorable course of admitting the cybersex, when in fact Breitbart’s scoop left this as the only remaining option, after all lies were rubbished.

Read the whole thing at AOSHQ, because this is simply heinous: The New York Times smearing a dead man, in a transparent effort to revive the career of this perverted self-destructive disgrace.

UPDATE: To explain why this angers me so much, I remember quite clearly what it was like during the first four or five days of the WeinerGate scandal, which broke over the Memorial Day weekend when Andrew Breitbart had promised his wife and family they’d get a vacation from the news. Instead, of course, he found himself up to his eyeballs in arguably the biggest story of his career.

Breitbart was the first news organization to report it, and Weiner’s office then used the hostility toward Breitbart as a defensive weapon to convince reporters that the infamous meat-tweet was a “distraction” fabricated by a hacker.

For the first 36 hours of this bizarre story, a lot of us — including right-wingers like myself — were treating this as essentially a technology story: Was it possible that Weiner’s account was hacked? Or, as I thought at the time, was it possible that a staffer who had access to Weiner’s Twitter account might have accidentally sent that picture to the Seattle coed? The first thing I was trying to do, in other words, was to figure out if there could be an innocent explanation, simply because the idea of a member of Congress sending dick-pics to a college girl seemed so wildly implausible.

I was scratching my head over this stuff on the afternoon of Sunday, May 30, when I thought, “Hey, I’ll call Andrew.”

Now, calling Breitbart was like using the Bat-signal. Andrew was totally accessible — he actually once gave out his personal cellphone number during a speech at a Tea Party rally — but you didn’t want to waste his time or make a nuisance of yourself by calling him unless it was really important. Over the five years I knew him, I probably only called him about two-dozen times. And on this Sunday before Memorial Day when I called Breitbart, he was supposed to be spending time with his family and we only talked for about three minutes.

So I was trying to figure out if there could be any innocent explanation for Weiner’s meat-tweet and tried to suggest such a possibility when Andrew cut me off: “No, Stacy, trust me — there’s more.”

Well, I didn’t know the backstory at that point, and Breitbart didn’t want to discuss the details, but it was that assurance — Breitbart already had the goods and was just biding his time to let the story play out — that made me understand it was only a matter of time before Weiner would be forced to confess and resign in disgrace.

That’s why, during all the crazy drama that ensued — the press conferences, the silly “Betty and Veronica” nonsense — my own coverage of WeinerGate was based on a confident knowledge of how the story would eventually end.

And now this lying swine, Jonathan Van Meter, is trying to deprive Andrew Breitbart of his due credit.

Like the man said: “Fuck you! War!”

UPDATE II: To help you remember how the deal went down, here’s the Fox News WeinerGate timeline, which is not exhaustive, but which does make clear what it was that led Weiner (who spent the first 10 days of the scandal telling lies) to finally confess the truth on Monday, June 6:

The scandal escalates as Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com website publishes photos purportedly from a second woman who said she received shirtless shots of the congressman. The site says the pictures were in a cache of intimate online photographs, chats and email exchanges the woman claimed to have. The website does not identify the woman.
Responding, a tearful Weiner makes a profuse public apology at a Manhattan news conference. He admits sending a photo of his underwear-clad crotch to a young woman over Twitter and then lying repeatedly to protect himself. . . .
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi calls for a House ethics investigation into whether he broke the rules. Democratic leaders voice disappointment and embarrassment, reflecting an erosion of support for Weiner.
Weiner insists he did nothing wrong, and begins making calls to Democratic colleagues to apologize. He says he has no plans to resign.

Well, Weiner may have had “no plans to resign,” but just as Andrew Breitbart had told me: “There’s more!”

Category: Ace of Spades, Andrew Breitbart, Media Bias, New York Times, Scandal, Sex

President Finally Unites Americans: Everybody Hates Obama’s Budget

Posted on | April 10, 2013 | 18 Comments

Let’s start with the most obvious signal of unity: If President Obama has lost a liberal like Taylor Marsh . . .

President Obama is daring the right to blow this chance [to reach a deficit[-reduction deal]. Unfortunately, the game of chicken the President is playing with people’s only avenue to stay out of poverty in advanced age, which hurts women more than any other group, is actually what he believes should be done.
It’s certain that progressives and their allies will never forget that Barack Obama was the first Democratic president to suggest carving away F.D.R.’s New Deal. That chained CPI cuts are a shadow war on women, from none other than the first African American president in history, who certainly should know what this means.

He’s also lost a would-be Democrat superstar:

“Not only does President Obama’s plan fail to put our finances back in order, it would cut benefits for our seniors, which is wrong,” said Elizabeth Colbert-Busch, who faces former Republican Gov. Mark Sanford in a May 7 election to fill the 1st District House seat vacated by Tim Scott’s appointment to the Senate.
“The fact is, we have to balance our budget, cut our spending and lower taxes for small businesses to create jobs,” Colbert-Busch, sister of cable-TV comedian Stephen Colbert, said in a statement. “Unfortunately, this budget takes the opposite approach; it raises taxes, doesn’t balance and doesn’t cut enough – when we should be laser-focused on slashing wasteful and duplicative spending.”

The budget hatred is all across the board today: Liberals hate the president’s first baby-steps toward entitlement reform, while Republicans hate the tax increases and say Obama really isn’t doing a damned thing to fix the budget deficit:

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio slammed President Obama’s $3.8-trillion budget plan Wednesday as filled with “recycled liberal ideas,” saying the proposal is “useless” because it was delivered two months late.
“President Obama’s budget is a blueprint for a recession,” said Rubio, who is widely viewed as a leading hopeful for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. “Filled to the brim with middle class tax hikes and debt spending, the recycled liberal ideas in his budget have failed time and again to create real vibrant economic growth for the American people. Our nation needs a plan that reflects the principles of limited government, free enterprise and a strong national defense.”

Ed Morrissey’s verdict: “Obama wants Republicans to agree to tax hikes today for down-the-road cost savings in entitlement programs that are necessary whether we hike taxes or not. In exchange, he wants to increase spending in most or all other categories.”

For those who prefer to get their presidential bullshit unfiltered, you can read Obama’s Rose Garden speech at WhiteHouse.gov, including his attempt to blame Republicans for his own idea, the sequester cuts:

My budget also replaces the foolish across-the-board spending cuts that are already hurting our economy. And I have to point out that many of the same members of Congress who supported deep cuts are now the ones complaining about them the loudest as they hit their own communities. Of course, the people I feel for are the people who are directly feeling the pain of these cuts — the people who can least afford it. They’re hurting military communities that have already sacrificed enough. They’re hurting middle-class families. There are children who have had to enter a lottery to determine which of them get to stay in their Head Start program with their friends. There are seniors who depend on programs like Meals on Wheels so they can live independently, but who are seeing their services cut.
That’s what this so-called sequester means. Some people may not have been impacted, but there are a lot of folks who are being increasingly impacted all across this country. And that’s why my budget replaces these cuts with smarter ones, making long-term reforms, eliminating actual waste and programs we don’t need anymore.

Also, the president knows you need some “fairness” talk:

Over the past two years, I’ve signed legislation that will reduce our deficits by more than $2.5 trillion — more than two-thirds of it through spending cuts and the rest through asking the wealthiest Americans to begin paying their fair share. . . .
But if we’re serious about deficit reduction, then these reforms have to go hand-in-hand with reforming our tax code to make it more simple and more fair, so that the wealthiest individuals and biggest corporations cannot keep taking advantage of loopholes and deductions that most Americans don’t get. That’s the bottom line.

Just in case you haven’t yet smashed your computer in a frothing rage, here’s video of today’s Obama speech:

Don’t blame me. I’m just reporting this crap.

Category: Barack Obama, Budget

LIVE AT SIX: 04.10.13

Posted on | April 10, 2013 | 1 Comment

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Category: Live at Five

Shout-Out to My Home-Girls

Posted on | April 9, 2013 | 3 Comments

They’re not yet in Evan Sayet’s league — but who is? Still, it’s nice to see Gabby Hoffman and Liz Thatcher getting their book thing happening. You should buy it.

So I’m like, “Yo, what up?” And they’re like, “Dude. Wrote a book.” amazon.com/gp/product/B00… And I’m like, “Cool.”@gabby_hoffman @lizthatch

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) April 10, 2013

Category: Books

What ‘Choice’ Really Means

Posted on | April 9, 2013 | 19 Comments

OK, this has already been blogged at Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers and Clayton Cramer’s Blog, but if you haven’t seen it yet, two words: CONTENT WARNING!

In one particularly graphic description, she spoke about a time when she was handed a 18- to 24-inch-long newborn in a glass pan by an assistant who asked for her help.
‘I saw it, and I thought, “What do you expect me to do?”‘ she said. ‘It didn’t have eyes or a mouth but it was like screeching, making this noise. It was weird. It sounded like a little alien.’
She said she was so ‘freaked out’ that she left the room and did not know what happened to the baby. . . .
Other employees have described how they saw about 100 babies born alive and then ‘snipped’ with surgical scissors in the back of the neck, to ensure their ‘demise’ . . .
Disturbingly, the report alleged that fetal remains were stuffed into: ‘cabinets, in the basement, in a freezer, in jars and bags and plastic jugs’.
‘It would rain fetuses. Fetuses and blood all over the place. It is literally a beheading. It is separating the brain from the body,’ one former employee Stephen Massof told NBC.

Here’s a simple question: How do you sleep at night?

OH. EM. GEE. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2… Any comment? @sandrafluke Hello?@amandamarcotte Hello? @lenadunham Is this Twitter thing working?

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) April 10, 2013

Category: Abortion

My Wife: Scientific Proof

Posted on | April 9, 2013 | 16 Comments

Just in case I’ve never mentioned it before — but I’m pretty sure I have — Mrs. Other McCain is one smokin’ hot babe:

Ah, back in the day, my friends — of course, I wasn’t too shabby myself back in the day. This isn’t just nostalgia, or a gimmick to make you hit the freaking tip jar — although, please do — but is instead a matter of science, based on a headline I saw today at Memeorandum, which tends to confirm my own extensive research in this area.

Wait, we needed science to tell us this? nbcnews.com/id/51469938/ns… Says the ugly guy with the hot wife and six kids …

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) April 9, 2013

Ladies like a man with a big tip jar.

Category: humor, Rule 5, Science, Sex

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