Feeling About George Clooney, Adam Carolla and The Dem Debacle
by Joe Donnelly
April 14, 2008 9:36 AM
Why don't people go see George Clooney movies? First the great Michael Clayton, last year's best American flick and now Leatherheads? I saw Leatherheads yesterday and have trouble understanding why anyone would dislike this film (it got mixed reviews at best). It's fun, funny, witty, styled well and endearing. Plus, if you ever wanted to know what my dad looked like, and I know you do, Clooney is an eerie doppelganger, right down the playing football with a leather helmet. Maybe that's part of the pleasure I get from seeing his movies. They have the same wit and look almost exactly alike. Go see Leatherheads, it's a great date movie. Ladies, don't be afraid of the football subject matter, it's really just the vehicle for an old-school romantic comedy.
While I'm on the subject of under-appreciated talents, a few words about Adam Carolla. I've been listening to his morning show on 97.1 a lot lately. Now that the colossally unfunny Danny Bonaduce is off the show, it's really taken off. Here's a chance to see free-form, improved comedy/talk in a way that only radio can do. It's a perfect vehicle for Carolla's improvisational skills and his sidekick, Theresa Strasser is a perfect co-host, every bit as funny and sharp as Carolla. I highly recommend.
As for the Dems, this primary has jumped the shark. It's no longer interesting, exciting, illuminating or anything else. It's just a bummer now and, unfortunately, further proof of a previous piece I wrote for the Weekly about how only the Dems could blow this election. Please, Howard Dean, or whomever, do something to end this debacle as soon as possible or we might as well inaugurate John McCain now. There's nothing left now but further wreckage to the Dems chances in the general election. We're over it.
Sorry that's all I have time for. Be back soon.
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It is a testament to Adam Corrolla and ugly funny guys everywhere that in his love/hate relationship with his 20 year old dance hottie partner, Julianne Hough on Dancing with The Stars that while he initially repulsed his virgin, mormon, dance partner, in time, he eventually, charmed her, even getting her to mouth off to the judges in ablbeit a very "clean" way in defense of his hapless dancing, and more impressively, by the end of their time together, it actually appeared that he got under her perfectly tanned and smoothed skin ... she was hugging and hanging on Corrola like a heavily makeuped, binge drinking, biker chick. I now have endless respect for Adam Corrolla.
On the Democrats, it is past time for the party surrogates to step up and confront Mr. McCain directly on every unintelligible policy statement that creeps out of his campaign until the dem nomination is settled. And, what to do with Mr. Liebermann. It looks like Joe will be the Zell Miller of the 2008 Republican convention. Is it time to push Liebermann out of the caucus, take away his committee chairmanships and let the Republicans control the senate for 7 months? Isn't it playing into the Republican's hands to pretend that Joe is a centrist democrat thus proving that his good buddy McCain is a centrist Republican? Don't you think that it is time to shift the axis of politics from left / right on social issues to up or down on the constitution, the empire, military interventionism and the misuse of war as politics by other means?
Lastly, shouldn't there be at the very minimum a litmus test for all politicians on HONESTY. If a politician lies to the american people shouldn't that disqualify them from being elected. If a politician lies about things like being under sniper fire, it never happened to Clinton, ever, so she didn't mis-speak, she lied, or, McCain recalling how he walked, safe and carefree, through an Iraqi market place to shop for carpets, while in reality he was wearing body armor, surrounded by a combat brigade of troops with tanks on the ground and helicopters floating overhead artificially creating his safety bubble. McCain's testimony to the people of the United States was a lie. Yellow cakes was a lie. WMD's a lie. Iraqi involvement in 9/11, a lie.
If we don't expect our politicians to tell us the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, then how can we pretend that we are competent as an electorate to elevate a single human being to the most powerful position in the world.
Posted on April 17, 2008 11:03 AM by todd
Couldn't agree more re: the Dems (how many more car wrecks in slow motion do we have to watch?), and thanks, now I actually have to go SEE Leatherheads...
Posted on April 19, 2008 9:53 AM by mernitman