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he's not nearly as butch as Newman

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He's a great director, so all is forgiven.

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Oh, you're a bastard. Ugh.

I meant the married couple who were peddling booze last year for the "Cocktail Party".

/urp

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Bad, lazy, lame-ass comedy that demeans an entire race more than it makes its intended audience laugh or even smirk.

If you think the downside is justified in the name of a microscopic amount of comedy, you probably don't give a shit about the race being demeaned. That might just make you racist. "Deep hatred" is <em>not</em> part of the normal definition of racism, by the way.

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Definition #3 and you're claiming it's a necessary requirement under any definition? And even then it's in an \"or\" Overreach and faceplant.<br /><br />If you can't tell the difference between insulting a single person whose lifetime of work provides a veritable hoarde of legitimate reasons to make him the object of derision and who no longer has feelings to hurt, versus demeaning an entire race just because they have the misfortune to resemble a loathesome creature the vast majority of them have never even heard of let alone met, well, then neither of us are likely to gain anything from further dialog.

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Glory Days.

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I <i>did</i> see that in the internet.

I felt threatened.

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You know, I've never intentionally watched the series*, but I did see about a half hour of it in a hotel room (it took me about a half hour to figure out what I was watching), and I bet I know what your clip is without even looking at it, because it was FUCKING BRILLIANT.

*I've not watched it because somebody gave me the first book and I got seriously bogged down in it. However, I may someday watch the thing, just because of that scene.

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It would be tough to resist "May I take your limb, Ms MacClaine?"

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Some of them still are maintaining the pretense. As for me, I won't be sure what to think until Ann Coulter pops off.

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Maybe because in the less than a year that I've been on teh Wonkette, I've read many a MM/PPB joke in the comments?

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It's worth it, really. So are the books, but you have to learn to skim through the Danerys parts, because she's as boring as hell. Worth it for Tyrion and Arya and Jon, though.

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Well, it seems that Bob IS a pussy, so I guess the balls could come out of any orifice...

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I think he feels his relevance slipping away. He's so desperate for a White House scandal of <i>some sort</i> that he's lowered himself to Faux News' "manufactured outrage" tactics.

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Something already did, and it's really not so nice any more. And it is a shame. A crying, national shame.

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You would've regretted running over that floor.

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