Comments on: Cultural Illiteracy http://www.thetalentshow.org/2005/02/28/cultural-illiteracy/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:55:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Dan http://www.thetalentshow.org/2005/02/28/cultural-illiteracy/#comment-6213 Dan Mon, 07 Mar 2005 03:33:36 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/2005/02/28/cultural-illiteracy/#comment-6213 Wait... Ann Coulter is a humorist? That in itself is the case against right wing senses of humour. Wait… Ann Coulter is a humorist? That in itself is the case against right wing senses of humour.

]]> By: ChrisV82 http://www.thetalentshow.org/2005/02/28/cultural-illiteracy/#comment-6212 ChrisV82 Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:09:14 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/2005/02/28/cultural-illiteracy/#comment-6212 Wasn't Chris Rock in that movie with Bruce Lee? I think it was called "48 Hours." Wasn’t Chris Rock in that movie with Bruce Lee? I think it was called “48 Hours.”

]]> By: platosearwax http://www.thetalentshow.org/2005/02/28/cultural-illiteracy/#comment-6211 platosearwax Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:40:43 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/2005/02/28/cultural-illiteracy/#comment-6211 Hyperbole is a rhetorical technique only available to conservatives. Everything Ann Coulter says is true, unless it's not, then it's hyperbole. Anything a liberal says must be true or it's a lie. To be fair, both sides can have a problem with seeing humor, irony and hyperbole on the other side, though it seems as if the current crop of conservatives have had some sort of humor-ectomy. And by the by, this and Malkin's recent discovery of the "new" "in" thing called cutting is really making me wonder about the kids these guys are raising. Hyperbole is a rhetorical technique only available to conservatives. Everything Ann Coulter says is true, unless it’s not, then it’s hyperbole. Anything a liberal says must be true or it’s a lie.

To be fair, both sides can have a problem with seeing humor, irony and hyperbole on the other side, though it seems as if the current crop of conservatives have had some sort of humor-ectomy.

And by the by, this and Malkin’s recent discovery of the “new” “in” thing called cutting is really making me wonder about the kids these guys are raising.

]]> By: Briantologist http://www.thetalentshow.org/2005/02/28/cultural-illiteracy/#comment-6210 Briantologist Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:58:13 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/2005/02/28/cultural-illiteracy/#comment-6210 It really is pretty remarkable. For someone "reporting" on an entertainment-industry event, not knowing who Chris Rock is is tantamount to mentioning that you've never heard of four out of the five Best Picture nominees, or that the Foreign Film nominees should be disqualified because they're not in English. It really is pretty remarkable. For someone “reporting” on an entertainment-industry event, not knowing who Chris Rock is is tantamount to mentioning that you’ve never heard of four out of the five Best Picture nominees, or that the Foreign Film nominees should be disqualified because they’re not in English.

]]> By: Gryn http://www.thetalentshow.org/2005/02/28/cultural-illiteracy/#comment-6209 Gryn Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:57:54 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/2005/02/28/cultural-illiteracy/#comment-6209 It's ironic that 70 trillion isn't sufficiently hyperbolic enough since it's only a couple orders of magnitude off. Ironic in the sense that this is the first president for which this is true. It’s ironic that 70 trillion isn’t sufficiently hyperbolic enough since it’s only a couple orders of magnitude off.

Ironic in the sense that this is the first president for which this is true.

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