Billy Crystal Calls GOP Candidates 'Dark Knight, an American Psycho and a Charismatic Crack Addict'

Newsbusters ^ | 2/26/2012 | By Noel Sheppard

[tobyhill]

NewsBusters reported Friday that Oscars host Billy Crystal intended to mock GOP "idiots" during Sunday's awards presentation.

Roughly forty-five minutes in, Crystal was true to his word taking a cheap shot at the Republican presidential candidates

[dead]

Billy Crystal does not have much of a sense of humor when the digs are directed at him:

Billy Crystal vs. Stuttering John

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Is Crystal a real name or is that his Hollyweird homo name?

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That’s HIS NAME.

William Edward “Billy” Crystal.

From Wikipedia:

Crystal was born in the Doctor’s Hospital in Manhattan and raised in Long Beach, New York, the son of Helen (née Gabler), a housewife, and Jack Crystal, a record company executive and jazz producer who also owned and operated the Commodore Record store.

His babysitter was occasionally Billie Holiday. His uncle was musician and songwriter Milt Gabler, and his brother, Richard “Rip” Crystal, is a television producer. Crystal grew up in a Jewish family that he has described as “large” and “loving”

[massgopguy]

“Roughly, forty-five minutes in” I was still watching NCIS re-runs.

[6SJ7]

http://cinemafanatic.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/1991_jack_palance_city_slickers.jpg

One of the all-time great lines is delivered by "Curley" (Jack Palance) in "City Slickers": "I crap bigger than you."

[6SJ7]

One of the all-time great lines is delivered by "Curley" (Jack Palance) in "City Slickers": "I crap bigger than you."

[Ohioan]

You are on the mark. Billy's jokes were inept, regardless of the thrust, all night long. To anyone who can remember the consummate manner in which the late Bob Hope handled himself at the Oscars over many performances, the contrast was very stark indeed.

to be sure, Hollywood is full of intellectually very, very confused types. This shows up in so many ways, the point should be obvious. Unfortunately, Hollywood has played a major role in undermining respect for traditional American values, ever since 1950, at least. The use of images to misrepresent reality can be very effective. (See Persuasive Use Of Images.) Of course, that assumes you are dealing with intelligent Leftists. Billy Crystal may be a Leftist, but he lacks that other quality.

It will be interesting to see if he is back next year.

William Flax

[lonevoice]

I bet there’s not much agreement on which candidate is the Dark Knight, which is an American Psycho, and which is a Charismatic Crack Addict, according to Crystal and those who share his ideology.

Bringing to mind the old saying, “If you have to explain a joke, it’s not funny.”

[Yaelle]

He was introducing someone, who must have been in those movies. It was the only anti pubbie comment all night so I did not take offense.

[jersey117]

Sounds like he’s describing obama to a tee (except for the “American” part).

[struggle]

His career is only mostly dead.