Comments on: Cultural Illiteracy

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 03:33:36 +0000

Wait… Ann Coulter is a humorist? That in itself is the case against right wing senses of humour.

By: ChrisV82

ChrisV82 — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:09:14 +0000

Wasn’t Chris Rock in that movie with Bruce Lee? I think it was called “48 Hours.”

By: platosearwax

platosearwax — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:40:43 +0000

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

Briantologist — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:58:13 +0000

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

Gryn — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:57:54 +0000

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.