Blozor Does Debbie
If you enjoyed the movie Watchmen, your mother deserves to be raped.
This is not my opinion; this is something that Conservative columnist Debbie Schlussel stated in a recent review of the film. (To read it, simply enter the words "Debbie," "Schlussel," and "Watchmen" into the nearest Google Search Engine.) Now, I am going to extend the basic journalistic courtesy from one columnist to another by refraining from using terms like "total whack job" or "completely [BLEEP]ing insane" to describe her. I shall refrain from suggesting that Schlussel's shallow and ignorant shock value statements are nothing more than an apparent attempt to replace Ann Coulter, who faded into obscurity after becoming a voter liability. I am also not going to use words like "shallow," "ignorant," or "shock value" to describe Schlussel's statements. Such insinuations would be beneath me.
Nor am I going to point out the obvious fact that the name of her syndicated column, "Debbie Does Politics," is a play on the title of probably the most famous pornographic movie of all time. To imagine her saying something like "Oh, Senator Hardwick, what a big caucus you have!" would certainly be below my journalistic standards, and I am not going to stoop to such levels in this column. No sir!
I would much prefer to avoid negative remarks such as these, which I must emphatically state, for the purpose of clarification, cannot be considered libel if they're either matters of opinion or true facts. For instance, it would be a matter of opinion to state that I think someone who named her column after a famous pornographic movie is probably not the most qualified authority to dictate what is and is not obscene. It would also be a matter of opinion to state, if it wouldn't be absolutely beneath me to make such an accusation, that she obsesses over the movie's few brief displays of non-sexualized male genitalia with a passion that would make a person wonder if things are all right for her at home.
It would be closer to fact to say that Schlussel's review of Watchmen reads like a poorly researched junior high book report on a book she didn't read, or that she writes professional sounding statements that only a fourteen-year-old girl could generate: "Wow, isn't that cool that they got it wrong on purpose? I'm so amazed at this 'high-brow art' of deliberately getting dates and timelines wrong, you know, just to be 'artistic,' and get the drooling of the critics. That is sooooo genius. Like way totally cool." On second thought, that may be going too far. I'm sure there are many teenage girls out there who are far better writers than Debbie Schlussel.
Debbie Schlussel jumped on the chance to insult an incredibly popular movie with a large cult following to get herself noticed with about as much tact as a schizophrenic ripping her shirt open on a busy street corner and shouting "I SEE PENISES!!" She feigns outrage at the abundant graphic violence against convicted felons and child killers throughout the movie, despite commenting on the upcoming Tarantino film Inglorious Basterds that, "I'll never be disturbed by seeing Nazis hacked to death." She says nothing to condemn the brutal slaying of two lesbian lovers depicted in the movie, so long as no one has to explain to their child what a "lesbian" or a "whore" is. If one wanted to be so bold, one might conclude that, it's not the violence or gore that Debbie Schlussel has a problem with as long as it's directed toward those she deems worthy.
Her original review of the movie received a lot of attention from people who had major problems with it, the most glaring of which being that it was written by an idiot. (Ha ha! That is simply some good-natured ribbing from one humorist to another, and certainly in no way intended as a malicious comment!) This prompted Debbie to write an entire second article to address the apparent fact that her mind had snapped like a dry twig.
For her encore, she whips out her thesaurus leaving no synonym for "moron" untouched and enthusiastically calls for the mass genocide of everyone who enjoyed the movie: "The e-mails they send me and the comments they make … reminds me of the blind statements of followers of Jim Jones. And we all know what happened after they drank he purple Kool-Aid. If only this movie could achieve that result, it would be the most fantastic exercise in natural selection ever conducted in America."
This is where she states that if you enjoyed the movie Watchmen, "maybe your sister should be fed to dogs and your mother raped and your brother should have his arms sawed off."
Someone should remind her that it is just a movie, and as such, it doesn't pose nearly the same threat as the blind followers of her destructive hate speech.
This is not my opinion; this is something that Conservative columnist Debbie Schlussel stated in a recent review of the film. (To read it, simply enter the words "Debbie," "Schlussel," and "Watchmen" into the nearest Google Search Engine.) Now, I am going to extend the basic journalistic courtesy from one columnist to another by refraining from using terms like "total whack job" or "completely [BLEEP]ing insane" to describe her. I shall refrain from suggesting that Schlussel's shallow and ignorant shock value statements are nothing more than an apparent attempt to replace Ann Coulter, who faded into obscurity after becoming a voter liability. I am also not going to use words like "shallow," "ignorant," or "shock value" to describe Schlussel's statements. Such insinuations would be beneath me.
Nor am I going to point out the obvious fact that the name of her syndicated column, "Debbie Does Politics," is a play on the title of probably the most famous pornographic movie of all time. To imagine her saying something like "Oh, Senator Hardwick, what a big caucus you have!" would certainly be below my journalistic standards, and I am not going to stoop to such levels in this column. No sir!
I would much prefer to avoid negative remarks such as these, which I must emphatically state, for the purpose of clarification, cannot be considered libel if they're either matters of opinion or true facts. For instance, it would be a matter of opinion to state that I think someone who named her column after a famous pornographic movie is probably not the most qualified authority to dictate what is and is not obscene. It would also be a matter of opinion to state, if it wouldn't be absolutely beneath me to make such an accusation, that she obsesses over the movie's few brief displays of non-sexualized male genitalia with a passion that would make a person wonder if things are all right for her at home.
It would be closer to fact to say that Schlussel's review of Watchmen reads like a poorly researched junior high book report on a book she didn't read, or that she writes professional sounding statements that only a fourteen-year-old girl could generate: "Wow, isn't that cool that they got it wrong on purpose? I'm so amazed at this 'high-brow art' of deliberately getting dates and timelines wrong, you know, just to be 'artistic,' and get the drooling of the critics. That is sooooo genius. Like way totally cool." On second thought, that may be going too far. I'm sure there are many teenage girls out there who are far better writers than Debbie Schlussel.
Debbie Schlussel jumped on the chance to insult an incredibly popular movie with a large cult following to get herself noticed with about as much tact as a schizophrenic ripping her shirt open on a busy street corner and shouting "I SEE PENISES!!" She feigns outrage at the abundant graphic violence against convicted felons and child killers throughout the movie, despite commenting on the upcoming Tarantino film Inglorious Basterds that, "I'll never be disturbed by seeing Nazis hacked to death." She says nothing to condemn the brutal slaying of two lesbian lovers depicted in the movie, so long as no one has to explain to their child what a "lesbian" or a "whore" is. If one wanted to be so bold, one might conclude that, it's not the violence or gore that Debbie Schlussel has a problem with as long as it's directed toward those she deems worthy.
Her original review of the movie received a lot of attention from people who had major problems with it, the most glaring of which being that it was written by an idiot. (Ha ha! That is simply some good-natured ribbing from one humorist to another, and certainly in no way intended as a malicious comment!) This prompted Debbie to write an entire second article to address the apparent fact that her mind had snapped like a dry twig.
For her encore, she whips out her thesaurus leaving no synonym for "moron" untouched and enthusiastically calls for the mass genocide of everyone who enjoyed the movie: "The e-mails they send me and the comments they make … reminds me of the blind statements of followers of Jim Jones. And we all know what happened after they drank he purple Kool-Aid. If only this movie could achieve that result, it would be the most fantastic exercise in natural selection ever conducted in America."
This is where she states that if you enjoyed the movie Watchmen, "maybe your sister should be fed to dogs and your mother raped and your brother should have his arms sawed off."
Someone should remind her that it is just a movie, and as such, it doesn't pose nearly the same threat as the blind followers of her destructive hate speech.
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