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In Defense of Russell Brand (Sort Of)
Townhall.com ^ | November 21, 2014 | Humberto Fontova

Posted on 11/22/2014 7:13:29 AM PST by Kaslin

Edited on 11/23/2014 3:46:24 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

British vaudeville comedian Russell Brand needs better staff. He’s touring the U.S. promoting his book “Revolution” while impishly equating Che Guevara with Jesus Christ and Gandhi. The look on Brand’s face as he looked around the stage and crowd while detonating these devilish observations on Jimmy Fallon was pitiful—in the most genuine sense of the word. Brand deserves pity for imagining this was a bomb-throwingly clever way to shake-up the U.S. “establishment.”


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TOPICS: Cuba; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: comedycentral; communism; fidelcastro; g42; hollywood
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1 posted on 11/22/2014 7:13:29 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Katy Perry married beneath her.

(Not meant as a compliment to anyone.)


2 posted on 11/22/2014 7:23:43 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats have a lynch mob mentality. They always have.)
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To: Kaslin
1. Humor is intellectual and this guy is smart. Comedians have to be smart.

2. Every country has its own unique humor related to its unique history, culture, language, etc.

*Russell Brand should have known all this. He did but thought, possibly, that his charm, good looks, flashy smile and jokes could win the day.

**Russell showed another side of his personality: egotism, arrogance and a lack of common sense.
WHERE were his handlers, producers, directors, advisers, family and friends?

3 posted on 11/22/2014 7:24:07 AM PST by cloudmountain
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To: ClearCase_guy
Katy Perry married beneath her.

Who gives a rat's patootie about her? In a very little while she will be forgotten. Katy who?

4 posted on 11/22/2014 7:26:49 AM PST by cloudmountain
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To: Kaslin
The Original Che
5 posted on 11/22/2014 7:35:07 AM PST by OddLane
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To: Kaslin

Brand is like millions of young (and old), insolent liberals...they think they know a lot more than they actually know. The “shocking” liberal comedian who is going to reveal truths to the unwashed and uneducated masses trope is well past its expiration date.


6 posted on 11/22/2014 7:36:16 AM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: OddLane

I clicked on your link, but all I see is smartphone


7 posted on 11/22/2014 7:42:46 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

It gives me some mild amazement to hear of how the supposed educated, sophisticated “elite” are so shallow in their judgements of people, how easily they can be snowed and snookered by up-close and personal contact with monstrous people, whom they deem “shy” and “sensitive”. It’s as if they really believe that some surface charm or even mere etiiquette more than washes the blood from the hands of the monsters. I’ve seen it time and time again, with the likes of Yasser Arafat, Stalin, etc. FDR, supposedly an educated and worldly man, considered Stalin to be a man “with whom one could deal”. He would even team up with him in tweaking Churchill’s nose.

And these are our oh-so-sophisticated, elite “leaders”. At least Churchill was more tough-minded.


8 posted on 11/22/2014 7:50:16 AM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: mrsmel
Col John Boyd (someone worth looking into: see "Boyd" by Robert Coram) used to say that "you can BE someone or you can DO something".

If you go to all the right schools, and make all the right friends, and attend all the right parties -- you can BE someone.

If you make a genuine difference in the world -- then you're DOING something.

You know which group the Elitists fall into.
And we generally elect people who have never done anything, and don't know how to do anything, and have no real intention of doing anything.

9 posted on 11/22/2014 8:00:41 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats have a lynch mob mentality. They always have.)
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To: Kaslin
My landlady's family escaped from Cuba when she was a child. She still remembers the 2 years her father spent in a Cuban prison because he traded some fish for a turkey with a local farmer (black market, you see.) Farmer had 7 children he was trying to feed. Her father was jailed for not identifying him. For 2 years. Over a turkey. In Che Guevara's Cuba.

Brandt will never know what he's really supporting.

10 posted on 11/22/2014 8:06:34 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: ClearCase_guy
It's not just their "elite"status. It's that these people are supposed to be worldly and sophisticated, not prone to being taken in by surface presentation. Yet they seem to be more liable to it than we mere peons. Che Guevara was a sadistic murderer, a psychopath, yet he is made into an icon by people who should know better merely because his image on a tee shirt looks "cool".
11 posted on 11/22/2014 8:11:52 AM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: A_perfect_lady
Brand will never know what he's really supporting.

If you told him, showing unimpeachable contemporaneous source documentation, he would just say it's all false.

It's not basic stupidity nor even simple ignorance that makes a person a Che-worshipper: it's a mind darkened and a heart hardened by evil.

12 posted on 11/22/2014 8:53:10 AM PST by Tax-chick (Science wants to kill us.)
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To: Tax-chick; A_perfect_lady
It's not basic stupidity nor even simple ignorance that makes a person a Che-worshipper: it's a mind darkened and a heart hardened by evil.

That the Left can ignore and excuse the fact that in the last century totalitarian socialism (Communism/Fascism) was responsible for the deaths of at least 50 million of their own citizens should tell you all you need to know about how the mind of a Leftist works.

The Leftist mind thinks that socialism is such a great idea that they will kill millions to make that idea a reality.

And if after killing millions we have not reached our idealistic goals; well we’ll try hard next time.

13 posted on 11/22/2014 9:50:11 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Pontiac

Yes, that’s pretty much it.


14 posted on 11/22/2014 10:39:01 AM PST by Tax-chick (Science wants to kill us.)
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To: Kaslin

Sorry, but I think this guy is a useless waste of oxygen.


15 posted on 11/22/2014 10:40:43 AM PST by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Sounds more like they deserved each other.


16 posted on 11/22/2014 10:42:43 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: OddLane

17 posted on 11/22/2014 10:43:50 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Kaslin

18 posted on 11/22/2014 10:47:34 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Tax-chick
I always find it amazing that these Hollywood Leftist can visit these despots and come back to the birthplace of true liberal freedom and give glowing reports on how personable and friendly these masters of mass murder are. They always go to them as starry eyed groupies and come back as if they are teenagers coming back from a rock concert with the stars sweaty towel.

Then I remember how the failed dictators never take any personal responsibility. Pol Pot gave an interview shortly before his death and denied any knowledge or responsibility for the full quarter of the population of his people that were systematically murdered under his rule.

The Leftist leadership in this country are the same. They never take any responsibility for failures of their policies or the live wrecked by their failed programs. It is always we didn’t have enough money or the Right didn’t let us have enough power to make it work.

19 posted on 11/22/2014 12:18:19 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Pontiac

Yes, I agree. It’s as if they simply aren’t able to process reality in the way regular people are.


20 posted on 11/22/2014 12:27:48 PM PST by Tax-chick (Science wants to kill us.)
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