PHONY "DEBATE" EDITION

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The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Presents:

The John McIntire Dangerously Live Comedy/Talk Show – Thanksgiving Edition!

THANKS BUT NO THANKS – THE PEOPLE WHO RUIN IT FOR THE REST OF US

We all can’t stand the rest of us. So let’s focus like a laser beam on the most annoying among us.
Panelists – Post-Gazette Columnist Sam Bennett – She hates everybody.
Alternative Comedian Gab Bonesso – She hates everybody Sam doesn’t hate.
WDVE Movie Guy Sean Collier - What A Snotty Snotster!
2politicaljunkies blogger Maria Lupinacci - A true hater's hater.

Comedy by John and Gab.

Saturday November 21st
Cabaret Theater – 7th St. and Penn Avenue
NEW EARLIER START TIME! 10 PM
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$5.00
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HYSTERICAL! SARAHCUDA BLOWS OFF FANS IN HOOSIERVILLE!

Woman of the people. I guess she has to quit EVERTHING right in the middle.

WHEN IS A DEBATE NOT A DEBATE?

It is a shame what passes for "debate" these days.

Irresponsible news organizations might frame the idiot birthers as having launched a "debate" about whether a certain President was born here. Every time I actually see myself typing a ludicrous statement like that I realize all over again how stupefyingly moronic we have become.

So I turn on the "internets" this morning, and discover there is another "debate" brewing.

YAHOO.COM:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts988
For the second time in just over a week, Fox News is coming under fire for misusing old news footage. The latest flap is leading some people to charge that the cable news network is intentionally misleading its audience, while Fox claims a "production error."

"LEADING SOME PEOPLE TO CHARGE...?"

There is no "debate." Fox News misleads people. It twists and turns the "news" so that conservative Republicans look good, and everyone else looks like shit.

Having worked in TV News for many years, I can assure you it's virtually IMPOSSIBLE to make the kind of monumental "production errors" they're making.

They're not incompetent. They're just devious, disingenuous, and evil.

In fact they're quite competent.

They purposely showed footage of a big tea party while covering the story of a tiny tea party, to make the tiny turnout look bigger.

They purposely showed footage of a SarahCuda campaign rally, while covering the story of a book signing, to make the book signing turnout appear much bigger.

They're liars. They're trying to convince you that Tea Parties aren't contrived conventions of yahoos too stupid to know the truth about where their President was born.

They're trying to convince you that Sarah Palin's following is bigger than it is, and hence, she ought to be taken seriously.

MSNBC has many liberals. They may arrange the facts to flatter their bias, but they deal in facts. You may not agree with their point of view, and facts can be arranged to flatter either side, but they're still dealing in FACTS.

Fox News has many nutbags. And often, they just pull shit out of their collective ass and make shit up.

I don't care if you prefer Sarah Palin to Nancy Pelosi. Just realize that Fox Fictionalized News may reinforce your views, and that's fine, but it IS NOT NEWS. Go ahead, elect Sarah Palin to something important. Make us a complete laughing stock. Knock yourself out.

But deal in reality. The reality is that Fox is NOT a news organization.

It is an organization which assembles fabricated narratives designed to make conservative Republicans look good.

If they can use facts toward that goal, they do. But if they need to make shit up, throw in a dash of innuendo, faux skepticism, and hysterical outrageous charges from nutbags with zero credibility, than that's what they do.

They really are fairly imbalanced, and I mean that as a medical diagnosis.

But in the end... why do I bother to write simple, easy to understand truths such as these. You've already made up your mind, haven't you? One way or the other?

STUPIDITY TEST:


"I like Fox News."
Doesn't make you stupid.

"I think Fox News is a legitimate NEWS organization."
You're a Godammned Moron.

Sorry.

The truth hurts. Which is why Fox News goes down easy.

SEE YOU SATURDAY NIGHT!



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NO SMOKING PLEASE EDITION

MacYapper - John McIntire

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Presents:

The John McIntire Dangerously Live Comedy/Talk Show – Thanksgiving Edition!

THANKS BUT NO THANKS – THE PEOPLE WHO RUIN IT FOR THE REST OF US

We all can’t stand the rest of us. So let’s focus like a laser beam on the most annoying among us.
Panelists – Post-Gazette Columnist Sam Bennett – She hates everybody.
Alternative Comedian Gab Bonesso – She hates everybody Sam doesn’t hate.
WDVE Movie Guy Sean Collier - What A Snotty Snotster!
2politicaljunkies blogger Maria Lupinacci - A true hater's hater.

Comedy by John and Gab.

Saturday November 21st
Cabaret Theater – 7th St. and Penn Avenue
NEW EARLIER START TIME! 10 PM
Food, Alcohol, Parking Available
$5.00
Be there and be Theater Square!

www.izzazu.com

Yo MacYippers!

Even though I often criticize everyone and everything about Pittsburgh, I obviously have a great deal of affection for it or I would have left.

One of the most annoying things about this place is the old joke about everything takes ten years longer to get here.

Like, um, a SMOKING BAN!!!
Which we finally have. Except for the incredibly irking exceptions for tiny little bars, the employees of which apparently DESERVE cancer according to the wisdom of our state legislators.

Anyhoo, Bill Godshall and Greg Hartley of SMOKEFREE PA had a lot to do with FINALLY getting the damn smoking ban become a reality.

And they got a good government award. Here is my intro to two of my heroes.
It features my alter ego, Johnny Chewintabackey.



Congrats you crazy kids. Now get back to work.
Next we need to drown all the assholes who spend all damn day smoking within three inches of building entrances.

There's nothing more annoying than a hypocritical reformed smoker.
That's me.

RANDOM RANDOMOSITY

*You can be inarticulate and brilliant. You can have a silver tongue and be a moron.
But is there anyone else who sounds quite as dumb as Sarah Palin?


*Why do the cable news networks keep interviewing Republicans about health care?
It is the GOP's sworn duty to make it sound like death (as in death panel), they have no real opinion based on an honest analysis, so what's the point?

*Why would someone park in my private off street driveway? Is that dumber than Sarah Palin?

*Who's a bigger asshole? Joe Lieberman or John Boehner?

*Why is Mayor Opie obsessing on a tax on tuition that isn't legal?
Why is there news coverage of a plan that will NEVER come to fruition?

*Did you hear Fox News put footage of an old Palin campaign rally on TV and claimed it was "new video" from a book signing?


*Oh, but you already know Fox News is not only biased, but LIES and MISLEADS on a regular basis.

*Unless you're stupid.

*You know you live in Backwardsville when it's a big deal that SOME grocery stores are ALLOWED to sell beer.

*Ben Roethlisberger couldn't hit the broad side of Ben Roethlisberger last week.

*But at least he's helping to bring back the phrase "Big Galoot."


*You know it's time to retard when the old 'tard just ain't cuttin' it.



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PALIN ANNOYING - MCCAIN THE A-HOLE EDITION

MacYapper - John McIntire

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Presents:

The John McIntire Dangerously Live Comedy/Talk Show – Thanksgiving Edition!

THANKS BUT NO THANKS – THE PEOPLE WHO RUIN IT FOR THE REST OF US

We all can’t stand the rest of us. So let’s focus like a laser beam on the most annoying among us.
Panelists – Post-Gazette Columnist Sam Bennett – She hates everybody.
Alternative Comedian Gab Bonesso – She hates everybody Sam doesn’t hate.
WDVE Movie Guy Sean Collier - What A Snotty Snotster!
2politicaljunkies blogger Maria Lupinacci - A true hater's hater.

Comedy by John and Gab.

Saturday November 21st
Cabaret Theater – 7th St. and Penn Avenue
NEW EARLIER START TIME! 10 PM
Food, Alcohol, Parking Available
$5.00
Be there and be Theater Square!

www.izzazu.com

Yo MacYippers!

I have disparaged Sarah Palin numerous times for obvious reasons. Um, she's a joke.
And in typical liberal condescending snotty fashion, I must observe the inconvenient but undeniable truth that anyone who DOESN'T get that Sarah Palin is a joke is therefore a joke themselves.

But to be mildly charitable for once, it's not her fault. If you spend a lot of time in an isolated place full of fishermen/right wing nut/weirdos, you, too, are going to be one freaky entity.

I spent three and a half years in North Dakota. Thank God I got out before it was too late.

I contemplated not piling on with Palin, although she's always good for extra blog hits. But then I realized I would be remiss if I simply didn't make my original point once again.

Sarah Palin is NOT the Devil.
John McCain is the Devil.

Now mind you, SarahCuda is an idiot. In a typically transparent moment of unearthly silliness, she explains in this clip to Oprah that Katie was snottily trying to imply that Alaskans were illiterate when she asked what Sarah read.

Well, it's possible she may have been, if only unconsciously. I mean, it's hard not to be condescending when you're a big city journalist interviewing a small town bumpkin. But still... why confirm her condescending suspicions.

And that RIDICULOUS contention that she blew the question with Kate because she was just done with an exhilarating rope line handshaking orgasm and "there was the perky one" ready to ask her questions... Jesus if she can't handle that, how to handle being a heartbeat away?



But for me, this televised babbling brook made me reach my original conclusion more firmly... John McCain is by far the biggest asshole in modern American politics... PERIOD. And he ought to be ashamed of himself.

Dubya, was SUPPOSED to be a back slapping lightweight frat boy. Yet even he chose a grownup (albeit an evil one) with a brain. If Dubya had choked on the pretzel for good, Cheney would have been at least competent in running the government... well, arguably... unless you count that whole they nearly let the next Great Depression happen by letting Wall Street and it's Master of the Universe assholes run amok.

Still... faced with Cheney or Palin ruling the free world... gots ta go with the asshole.

But John McCain. The COMPLETELY DISGRACED John McCain... he was supposed to be different. "Maverick" doesn't mean reckless douchebag allowing a COMPLETELY unqualified dildo-ette to be that close to actually being President of the Yoo-nited Freaking States!!!!

Seriously... this point cannot be stressed or made often enough. CAN YOU IMAGINE IF MCCAIN HAD MADE IT????

Now that we know so much more about the permanently high school revenge oriented mind of this lightweight underqualified white trash shitbag from hell, HOW COULD WE, ANY OF US HAVE **EVER** IMAGINED HER OCCUPYING THAT EXALTED POST????

I mean seriously, have we all gone mad? Well at least a third of us have. The third who doesn't get how the GOP nearly took us all to Grapes Of Wrath-ville for Chrissakes.

The saddest part of the Palin fiasco isn't how pathetic she is. The saddest part isn't how stupid the American people are. We expect that. 'Cause, um, they're stupid.

The saddest part, by far, is that an allegedly respectable, allegedly intelligent, allegedly noble politician with a high profile who could have been President, disgraced and embarrassed himself and his country by picking the MOST LAUGHABLE OBVIOUSLY UNQUALIFIED CANDIDATE HE POSSIBLY COULD HAVE SELECTED.

He put the country he fought for in jeopardy. And he's supposedly smart enough to know better. And I believe he is. And that is why I've lost every ounce of respect for this phony overblown disgrace.

And you should too.

That is all at this time.

COMEDY/TALK SHOW THIS SATURDAY NIGHT!!!



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HANNITY INSANITY - NO BIGGER DOUCHE IN THE UNIVERSE EDITION

MacYapper - John McIntire

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Pittsburgh Pundits Series Presents:

The John McIntire Dangerously Live Comedy/Talk Show – Thanksgiving Edition!

THANKS BUT NO THANKS – THE PEOPLE WHO RUIN IT FOR THE REST OF US

We all can’t stand the rest of us. So let’s focus like a laser beam on the most annoying among us.
Panelists – Post-Gazette Columnist Sam Bennett – She hates everybody.
Alternative Comedian Gab Bonesso – She hates everybody Sam doesn’t hate.
WDVE Movie Guy Sean Collier - What A Snotty Snotster!

One more persnickety annoyed panelis to be named shortly.

Comedy by John and Gab.

Saturday November 21st
Cabaret Theater – 7th St. and Penn Avenue
NEW EARLIER START TIME! 10 PM
Food, Alcohol, Parking Available
$5.00
Be there and be Theater Square!

www.izzazu.com

Yo MacYippers!

If we all had brains none of this would be necessary. If people weren't stupid they'd know Fox News not only isn't a NEWS channel, it is, pure and simple, an unethical unconscionable evil right wing propaganda machine, period.

Why evil? Because they'll lie, cheat, and steal to get their point across. As ludicrous as I think their world view is, they're entitled to it.

But they don't play is straight. Here is video of Sean Hannity, rhymes with inanity, ADMITTING that Jon Stewart caught his unethical right wing whore crew, posting footage from a Tea Bagger rally that was well attended, as part of "News" coverage of a rally that was NOT well attended.

In other words the crowds were larger from BEFORE. But this Tea Bag rally was NOT well attended. So is crew purposely mixed the two because it would have been too embarrassing to act like the second not well attended rally was the joke failure that it was.



Hannity said it was "inadvertent." I worked in TV newsrooms for two decades. This kind of "inadvertent" mistake is literally impossible. Even these bozos aren't THAT incompetent.

What kills me about this is that Fox Noise sheep will STILL be too Goddamn dumb to understand they're being hypnotized by an unethical phony propaganda machine.

This country isn't in trouble because the Guv-ment is taking over.

This country is in trouble because a large portion of its citizens are dumber than dirt.

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WHAT UP DOCK? WHY IT'S LSD EDITION

MacYapper - John McIntire

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Pittsburgh Pundits Series Presents:

The John McIntire Dangerously Live Comedy/Talk Show – Thanksgiving Edition!

THANKS BUT NO THANKS – THE PEOPLE WHO RUIN IT FOR THE REST OF US

We all can’t stand the rest of us. So let’s focus like a laser beam on the most annoying among us.
Panelists – Post-Gazette Columnist Sam Bennett – She hates everybody.
Alternative Comedian Gab Bonesso – She hates everybody Sam doesn’t hate.
WDVE Movie Guy Sean Collier - What A Snotty Snotster!

One more persnickety annoyed panelis to be named shortly.

Comedy by John and Gab.

Saturday November 21st
Cabaret Theater – 7th St. and Penn Avenue
NEW EARLIER START TIME! 10 PM
Food, Alcohol, Parking Available
$5.00
Be there and be Theater Square!

www.izzazu.com

Yo MacYippers!

It's the weekend and, a sure sign of the apocalypse, or some shit, it's actually nice weather in Pittsburgh. In November. WTF?

Surely, Shirley, it's time for some quality hallucinogens. At least it is, if you're anything like the legendary Dock Ellis, the Pirate pitcher who in June of 1970 threw a no-hitter while totally under the influence of L freasing S freaking D!
Correspondent/MacYipper Brother Bill turned me on to this animation of Dock's big day, along with the real Doc's voice explaining how it all went down..... man.



Wow. Happy Trails.

Meantime I'm on TV tonight! 7:30 WQED TV PBS CHANNEL 13 "Off Q."
www.wqed.org

Join Mean Bill Green, Heather the Nutster Heidelbaugh, Valerie McDonald Roberts and McGuillicutti, and your own MacYapper, while we speak in sound bites about stuff that matters. Hosted by the always dapper Chris Less Is Moore.

Replay at midnight!

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SURELY YOU JEST EDITION

MacYapper - John McIntire

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Pittsburgh Pundits Series Presents:

The John McIntire Dangerously Live Comedy/Talk Show – Thanksgiving Edition!

THANKS BUT NO THANKS – THE PEOPLE WHO RUIN IT FOR THE REST OF US

We all can’t stand the rest of us. So let’s focus like a laser beam on the most annoying among us.
Panelists – Post-Gazette Columnist Sam Bennett – She hates everybody.
Alternative Comedian Gab Bonesso – She hates everybody Sam doesn’t hate.
WDVE Movie Guy Sean Collier - What A Snotty Snotster!

One more persnickety annoyed panelis to be named shortly.

Comedy by John and Gab.

Saturday November 21st
Cabaret Theater – 7th St. and Penn Avenue
NEW EARLIER START TIME! 10 PM
Food, Alcohol, Parking Available
$5.00
Be there and be Theater Square!

www.izzazu.com

Yo MacYippers!

There is truth in snark. And this is the snarkiest, funniest thing I've seen written about so-called Health Care Reform, courtesy of HUNTER at DailyKos.

DAILY KOS - HUNTER:
http://hunter.dailykos.com/

You know, seriously -- we all know that a sizable chunk of Democrats in the Senate don't want to fix America's healthcare problem. We all know perfectly well that they consider it a threat to their corporate cash, and that in the end they don't give a flying damn about fixing anything about the fiasco that passes for healthcare in this country, so long as they can do some bare, pissant substanceless nothing that can allow them to write up a nice victory message on their next voter pamphlet and get the hell on with their day.

But by far the thing that is most infuriating is that the Democrats don't even try to hide it very much. This whole time the biggest political hurdle to healthcare reform hasn't been the Republicans -- a dead party that nobody expects to support or have ideas about or even understand anything, since they're too busy locked in an internal masturbatory struggle to see who can paint the most pleasingly scary conspiracy theories and alternate realities with which to titillate the dumbest of the dumb, back home -- no, the hurdle has been this phalanx of ten or so absolutely whorish corporate Dems, leaders who have never found a damn thing on any issue, anywhere worth doing unless it either weakens the government against the corporations they represent or funnel cash by the billions to those self-same companies.

Yes, Dem corporate whores are disappointing, but very much a part of DC reality.
Jimmy Stewart is dead.

Corporate whores are alive and well.


CRAZY LOU SAYS TAKE THIS JOB AND SHOVE IT... I AIN'T YAPPIN' HERE NO MO

Over the years I've wondered about CNN Head Dude Jonathan Klein. I understand why you would position yourself as a centrist news organization since the other Cablies are on the right or the left.

But I don't understand sticking with a formula that seems to be dying. Slowly.
They must pray for BIG-ASS BREAKING NEWS. And if they have the kind of BIG ASS BREAKING NEWS that lifts ratings for months and months and months... it's bad news for the rest of us. Because if it's THAT big, it's something like, um, you know, Jesus came back and took a big ol' dump on the South... which is a fantasy of mine.

I just mean the kind of apocalyptic frenzy that would make everyone tune to CNN wouldn't be a good thing for the rest of us.

However, gots ta give the Head Dude Klein big props for this one... getting rid of Crazy Lou!

ALLYOURTV.COM:

http://www.allyourtv.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=590:sources-lou-dobbs-prepping-presidential-run&catid=1:latest-news
The sudden resignation of Lou Dobbs from CNN might have surprised a lot of his supporters, but it was less of a shock to some of his closest business associates. Dobbs, multiple sources have told AllYourTV.com, has been quietly testing the waters for a presidential run in 2012.

BAT. SHIT. CRAZY. The fact that he thinks his anti-Hispanic rants on immigration qualify him to be President is bad enough. But he's so crazy... How crazy is he? Yes he actually advanced the BIRTHER story that Barack was from outer space. Or something.

That's F'n NUTSO MAGNIFICO!

When you're that crazy, you're too damn dangerous to have on a mainstream news channel. Klein was smart enough to tell him he could stay... he just had to do straight news on Tv (he would be allowed to opine on the radio).

Klein knew Crazy Ass would NEVER stop opining on TV. Hence, Klein pulled a smooth double think double secret probation bait and switcheroo, getting the guy to quit without firing him.

So he got rid of Crazy Ass Lou before he became Howard Beale!

Well, not really. He's already Howard. But he hadn't given the "mad as hell" speech yet.

So Jonathan Klein, here's to you. You've named John King as his replacement. Fine fellah.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIING!

But hey... six of one, half a dozen of the other, the truth lies somewhere in the middle, milktoast, blah blah blah.

How's that workin' out for ya?

THE EDITORS OF TIME MAGAZINE HAVE LOST THEIR FREAKIN' MINDS

One of my comedy bits is about evidence the world has gone crazy. Auctioning off dead Michael Jackson's burnt hair. Bob Dylan's Christmas album. Sarah Palin.

But this is the best evidence of all. We all know how Opie got in. Poor Bob's brain cancer. Then we all know why he stays. Too many old yinzers who adopted him as their troubled partying grandson.

But that doesn't mean Time Magazine's Richard Stengel, who I watch each week on MSNBC's Morning Joe, has to go as batshit crazy as Crazy Lou Dobbs! He sounds so intelligent, wise and well informed. Are there some crazy genes involved here?
Was his dad Casey Stengel for Chrissakes?

Inviting Opie to help pick Time's Person Of The Year?????????????????

Whatever else you may say about Opie, NOBODY accuses him of being a deep thinker or shrewd observer of national affairs.

Or even local affairs. Or even, ANYTHING!

POST-GAZETTE.COM:
http://post-gazette.com/pg/09316/1012822-53.stm
Fresh from his re-election victory, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl has been selected by Time for a panel that will meet tonight in New York City as part of the magazine's selection process for this year's designee.

Before an invited audience of business and media figures, Mr. Ravenstahl will appear on the panel with television personality Barbara Walters; Gayle King, the editor of O, The Oprah Magazine; Tom Colicchio, the chef and author who is the chief judge on the reality show "Top Chef"; Dr. Mehmet Oz, a surgeon and television personality who is the host of "The Dr. Oz Show"; and Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor and presidential candidate who was Person of the Year for 2001.

Yeah, Opie and Rudy. They're pretty much on the same level. Of being gay.


WTF! The world has gone crazy.

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MUSING... ON A WEEKDAY AFTERNOON EDITION

MacYapper - John McIntire

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Pittsburgh Pundits Series Presents:

The John McIntire Dangerously Live Comedy/Talk Show – Thanksgiving Edition!

THANKS BUT NO THANKS – THE PEOPLE WHO RUIN IT FOR THE REST OF US

We all can’t stand the rest of us. So let’s focus like a laser beam on the most annoying among us.

Panelists – Post-Gazette Columnist Sam Bennett – She hates everybody.
Alternative Comedian Gab Bonesso – She hates everybody Sam doesn’t hate.

Two persnickety annoyed panelists to be named shortly.

Comedy by John and Gab.

Saturday November 21st
Cabaret Theater – 7th St. and Penn Avenue
NEW EARLIER START TIME! 10 PM
Food, Alcohol, Parking Available
$5.00
Be there and be Theater Square!

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Yo MacYippers!

Time to muse. But first, this important message.
OK, it's not that important. But it could be entertaining.
John Brabender, who I long ago nicknamed "The Evil Republican Ad Genius," is co producing, with some bigtime Dems, "Moving Numbers," the story of a fictional PA US Senate Race. It's a webiside thing. I mean webisode.
It's like Webiside Story. But without street gangs. More like gangs of consultants and politicos, just as nasty, but slightly less illiterate, and less violent. I think.

Here's some more background from our friends at:
POPCITYMEDIA.COM:
http://www.popcitymedia.com/innovationnews/zolitics1111.aspx?utm_campaign=What%27s%20New%3F&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_term=Pittsburgh-based%20political%20comedy%20network%20Zolitics%20debuts%20online
Zolitics.com was created by several prominent political consultants including Pittsburgh's own John Brabender, a Republican media consultant who worked on the campaigns of Rudy Giuliani, Tom Ridge, and Senator Rick Santorum, and political consultant Leslie Gromis Baker, a Mt. Lebanon resident. Baker worked on the Bush 2004 re-election campaign and was a top consultant on the McCain 2008 presidential bid.

"Moving Numbers" is the first up, an originally scripted show that was filmed in Brabender's production studio on Mt. Washington. Shot last May, the dramedy tells the story about the "dysfunctional but never boring" campaign of a fictional Pa. U.S. Senator. Set in Pittsburgh, it gives viewers a real-world, behind the scenes look at the highs and lows of running a high profile campaign, says Baker.

Local actors include Gab Bonesso and Lynn Cullen, and our own MAC-YAPPER, though MAC-YAPPER is NOT in the premier episode, and Gab and Lynn make a fleeting, teasing appearance at the end of episode one.

To view, go here.
www.zolitics.com

In this thing, I'm the liberal candidate. I know, typecasting. Soon we'll be videotaping a debate at an area college. How do you win a fictional debate? Depends on what the script says. But I'll tell you this, though John is co-producing this with Dems, this baby has a Brabender twist to it. Expect the Republican to win.

Gab and I worked with some pretty good actors from NYC and LA. It's kind of intense and soap opera-y. Nighttime soap, not daytime. Anyway, yinz check it ott.

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND MUSLIMS WITH GUNS

Every once in a while a Republican turns out not to be a complete nutbag. A long time ago, in a land far far away... well not so far away... it was here... there were more than a few non-nutbag Republicans.

Those were the days. But among the occasional non-nutbaggers, NYT Columnist David Brooks wins points for occasional thoughtful accurate non-nutbag analysis.

Now yesterday, your MacYapper took to task those who always say, after a mass killing, "we should have seen it coming." My point was, unless you can literally get inside the mind of a lunatic, how do you know when a lunatic will snap? And even if you did, how can you be sure what they'll do?

Having said that, Brooks and others are right. We don't want to crucify all Muslims when one is an asshole killer. Like we can't crucify all Christian radical military nuts like Tim McVeigh. Like we can't ostracize all blacks when there's a black on black crime. Etc., etc., etc.

And FOR THE LAST TIME... IT'S NOT "EK-CETEREA... IT'S ETCETERA.... AND IT'S NOT EXPRESSO, IT'S ESPRESSO!!! AND IT'S DOUBLE-YOU, NOT DUB-A-YOO OR DUB-OO-YOU!

This has been your unnecessary manic pronunciation geek moment.

The real point is, just because we can't broad brush everyone with a big sloppy coat of paint, doesn't mean we can't recognize that there's an excellent chance that this guy was a crazy Muslim extremist, akin to those other dickheads who like to kill us.
As you might expect, Brooks is a bit more delicate.

NYTIMES.COM - DAVID BROOKS:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/opinion/10brooks.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=david%20brooks&st=cse

There was a national rush to therapy. Hasan was a loner who had trouble finding a wife and socializing with his neighbors.

This response was understandable. It’s important to tamp down vengeful hatreds in moments of passion. But it was also patronizing. Public commentators assumed the air of kindergarten teachers who had to protect their children from thinking certain impermissible and intolerant thoughts. If public commentary wasn’t carefully policed, the assumption seemed to be, then the great mass of unwashed yahoos in Middle America would go off on a racist rampage.

Worse, it absolved Hasan — before the real evidence was in — of his responsibility. He didn’t have the choice to be lonely or unhappy. But he did have a choice over what story to build out of those circumstances. And evidence is now mounting to suggest he chose the extremist War on Islam narrative that so often leads to murderous results.

Yes. He was an Islamist Extremist who thought Americans shouldn't attack Muslims, who didn't want to do it himself. And he was all BFF with a crazy America-hating Muslim cleric. So he got pissed off, went coo coo for Cocoa Puffs, and killed a bunch of American soldiers.

We don't have to condemn broadly. But we do have to recognize the OBVIOUS. And deal with it. Which brings is back to HOW, Kemo Sabe.

Kemo Sabe... treatment for Native Americans with cancer?
How tasteless. How unfortunate. And How.

STATUE WITH LIMITATIONS

Everybody loves Fred Rogers. I have an autographed toy train from Fred. Mr. McFeely got it for me. I never met Fred. He would never do my talk show while I was alive.
But then, he didn't really need to did he?

BTW, he misspelled my name on the autograph... and whatever pen he used was weak, because time has made it disappear. You don't think crafty old Fred was dong the ol' disappearing ink and then I'll die and it'll be funny bit, do ya? Do ya?

Camptown ladies sing this song, Do Ya, Do Ya.

Now this is unfair because I haven't taken a close up and personal look see yet at this recently unveiled Fred Rogers statue, which is on my side of town.

But from this PG Photo, my preliminary assessment would have to concur with noted art aficionado Jimmy Kimmel.

POST-GAZETTE.COM:
http://post-gazette.com/pg/09315/1012443-51.stm
On the Friday episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live," the host first professed his love for the "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" television show and then quipped that the statue "made the nicest man in the world look like a mud monster."

The nearly 11-foot-high, 7,000-pound statue is crafted in the distinctive, choppy style of sculptor Robert Berks, who also sculpted the likeness of Mayor Richard Caliguiri on Grant Street. Mr. Rogers was an admirer of Mr. Berks' work, said his wife, Joanne, and frequently visited his statue of Albert Einstein in Washington, D.C.


Mrs. R. is happy and she says Fred would have been, so that's all that matters. But I must say, this style does seem to work better for the dear department Mayor.

You somehow expect a politician to be muddy, what with all the mudslinging and such.

But it is a little funky with Rogers, who we expect, I think, to have an image that's a little more, well, pure. And, what, smooth?


POST-GAZETTE.COM:
Tom Sokolowski, director of the Warhol Museum on the North Side, also expressed dismay over the statue. "More than anything else, it doesn't look beckoning and warm," he said. "I don't think this bespeaks him. The statue doesn't resemble him at all."


It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Partly cloudy. 99% chance of mud storm.

BTW, this is neither here nor there, nor anywhere, nor in your hair, nor underwear, but not fer nuttin'...

DOES THIS STATUE IN KOSOVO LOOK ANYTHING LIKE BILL CLINTON?

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