Comments on: Healy on the Cult

By: BENJI MADDEN SUNGLASSES

BENJI MADDEN SUNGLASSES — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:42:24 +0000

Celebrities do not know the idea in political issues..

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Pages tagged "lurid" — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:01:34 +0000

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By: uknowbetter

uknowbetter — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:09:16 +0000

I must have missed all those members of the MSM at Jesus Camp in the clip I saw.

By: Pithlord

Pithlord — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:48:48 +0000

Of course there was a Bush cult, and some of the same people (Sullivan, Matthews) were part of it. How soon we fucking forget.

By: alphie

alphie — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:25:38 +0000

I wouldn't mind having George Clooney's “no life.”

Especially his Villa on Lake Como:

http://www.luxist.com/2009/02/27/beckhams-borro…

By: mk

mk — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:37:00 +0000

When properly qualified, I think this complaint comes down to the complaint that people with no life invest way too much hope in the president (whether Bush or Obama).

The people with no life are visible, they are easy targets, but are they common enough to care about? If you pick a random person on the street, is that person likely to have childlike, all-conquering hope in the power of the chief executive to vanquish our problems?

Put differently, is your complaint any different from the old Daily Show technique of picking some weirdo from Idaho and making them look weird? It's aggregate statistics we are interested in, not the existence of pathetic individuals, which is true with probability=1.

By: Liz

Liz — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:59:57 +0000

I never really lost sleep at night over this until I saw celebrities pledge (via Myspace) to /serve/ Obama.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:00:08 +0000

Well, the Bush cult was never as big as Obama's and contained few (if any) notable celebrities, but yeah Bush had a cult. Watch Jesus Camp for an example. Obama's cult is much worse, though. Bush's cult was crazy before Bush was president. A lot of the member's of Obama's cult were seemingly normal people before His Hopefulness became president.

By: uknowbetter

uknowbetter — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:19:13 +0000

Will wants to stay hip and with-it so he can be liked by his cocktail crowd.

By: Joe Kristan

Joe Kristan — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:15:13 +0000

Why drag Bush into it? There was never a Bush cult like the Obama cult. I sure don't remember seeing W commemorative plates or coins sold on TV. Is there some liberaltarian moral equivalence requirement that comes into play when Obama is criticized?

By: Will Wilkinson

Will Wilkinson — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:49:53 +0000

That works, too.

By: alphie

alphie — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:44:30 +0000

How true.

The last thing America needs right now is an inspirational leader.

By: uknowbetter

uknowbetter — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:10:26 +0000

The Obama cult is quite scary.

Thankfully enough people have seen zombie movies and know how to deal with these cretins.

By: bjk

bjk — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:18:47 +0000

Tumid . . . ?

By: KJ

KJ — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:20:41 +0000

This is why we need a Queen or King.