Posted on 01/23/2004 11:34:28 AM PST by Pikamax
Cho-time for Moby vs. Drudge
Activist rocker Moby is leading a jihad against cybergossip Matt Drudge, blaming him for inciting "far right-wingers" who sent abusive and racist E-mails to comedian Margaret Cho. On his Web site and in private messages to friends, Moby has been claiming that Drudge "took out of context" Cho's stream of anti-Republican invective - intended as comedy shtick - during last week's moveon.org awards show at the Hammerstein Ballroom.
"I was outraged," Moby told me. "Everyone knows that Margaret's comedy is very irreverent and Lenny Bruce-style confrontational, and Matt Drudge took it out of context and exposed her to some really irresponsible and vile reactions."
"That's absurd," Drudge responded. He pointed out that the posts on drudgereport.com had clearly identified Cho as a "comedian" and set the scene for her profanity-laced remarks, which he published at length under the headline "RAW RAGE AT BUSH DURING MOVEON.ORG AWARDS."
A couple of days after posting the excerpts, Drudge published Cho's complete routine from the event.
Among her saltier observations, during the liberal group's celeb-studded gala to honor political ads attacking President Bush: "Despite all of this stupid bull-- that the Republican National Committee, or whatever the f-- they call them, that they were saying that they're all angry about how two of these ads were comparing Bush to Hitler? I mean, out of thousands of submissions, they find two. They're like f-- looking for Hitler in a haystack. ...George Bush is not Hitler. He would be, if he f-- applied himself."
After Drudge's account was linked by the right-leaning FreeRepublic.com, Cho received dozens of ugly E-mails, most of them unprintable in a family newspaper. (A typical message advised the California-born Korean-American: "Go back to Asia you slanted eye whore.")
On her own Web site this week, Cho wrote to a concerned fan: "I know that I have not pulled punches with the way that I beat the s-- out of Dumya, I mean Dubya."
Moby told me: "The only good to come of this is that the extreme right has shown their true colors. ...Bush is masquerading as a 'compassionate conservative,' but they've now exposed their extremely right-wing, misogynistic, racist agenda."
Drudge shot back: "Those E-mails are mild compared to what I receive on a daily basis. That is the nature of the Internet. Moby and his friends just have to 'butch up.'"
Sorry, but you cannot prove that Freepers wrote them, only that they came from FreeRepublic. Any schmuck could go to FreeRepublic and send all kinds of garbage to anyone, for the sole purpose of making the website look bad.
MOBY
Why Anyone Cares
Moby, who looks like something the guinea pig just gave birth to, is a Beck for the next, even worse, generation. He blends "archival blues and gospel vocals with modern day techno." Techno being a form of music that sounds like a combination of a skipping record, the chime when you leave the car door open, the microwave telling you it's finished with defrosting and the spin cycle on your washing machine.
Inside Information
Moby is very antiestablishment, which is so mainstream these days that every track from his recording Play has been sold for use in a feature film, TV show or commercial.
More Inside Information Than You Needed
Moby is also a vegan. Vegans eschew not only meat but any food that "exploits animals." This is why, when the rest of your family was having steak and you offered your daughter with a nose ring a toasted cheese sandwich instead, she got all huffy and went out and grazed in the yard.
Knowing Comment
Unnecessary. Just the fact that you realize he's not a novel by Herman Melville puts you ahead of the game.
A Message from Moby's Website
"I define basic rights . . . as the framers of the constitution put it, the ability to have 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.' "
Private Thought
"That would be the Declaration of Independence, hay-breath."
Why...if it was they were only "being satirical", and what happened to "Free Speech"?
I guess it's only OK to stereotype and be a racist bigot and claim it humor if you are a LIEberal, huh? Because that's what Magaret Chunk has been her entire career!
Besides, she and Moby share the radical gay agenda, so anything that shines a light on the cockroaches is good by me!
From IMDb.com: [Margaret Cho] Got kicked out of Lowell High School Because she had an 0.6 GPA but later she was accepted to McAteer High School for the Performing Arts.
OK, so W has an MBA from Harvard Business School and this obnoxious twit got a high school diploma from some "Performing Arts" school after flunking out of a regular high school. Who's the dummy here?
Where's the pride in craft? This needs very heavy editing. It should have no more than one f-word, and should lose everything but the actual jokes: "looking for Hitler in a haystack" and "George Bush would be Hitler if he applied himself." Then it needs to lose the first joke, which is weak.
I didn't say whoever it was couldn't say it, only that he should feel shamed for doing so. All of our freedoms come with the responsibility to use them right. Anyone who wrote that, if from FR, brought discredit upon us all.
...When he was finished?
Ba-DOM-Boom! "Thank you, I'll be here all week!"
What do emails from a website have to do with whatever Bush does? Are these people that stupid?
That said, why is okay to call Rush Limbaugh fat, LInda Tripp ugly, Kathleen (Kathryn?) Harris from Florida a cakeface, but it's not okay to call Margaret Cho slant eyed? She HAS slanted eyes, does she not?
I've read Cho's own 'version' of the transcript of her remarks, and even that -- the accuracy and completeness of which I can't verify -- shows that Drudge's selections were entirely fair representations of what she said and did.
So why this "out of context" comment, when (I'm betting) even Moby knows perfectly well that the context changed nothing about how a reader would view the Drudge quotes? Reason: Moby's hoping that many of his readers will just infer that Cho didn't say or mean what was quoted ... and that they won't even bother to check it themselves, preferring to take Moby's implication of unfairness at face value.
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