Jackass, The Documentary (Very funny; Weekly Standard skewers "Bowling for Columbine")

The Weekly Standard ^ | Oct. 31. 2002 | Matt Labash

[seamus]

Ok, maybe this is just funny, rather than "very funny" but it does have some great lines. One of my favorites:

Moore had, I suggested, become "a preachy bore . . . whose work has become so sanctimoniously unamusing it could make Cesar Chavez pull for management."

[Warren]

"CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, journalists are human too"

That has been disproven on many occasions.

[ghost of nixon]

Moore is a Ira Einhorn wannabe without the chick-appeal

[jays911]

great review. i just don't get why anyone would buy one word of this pathetic loser's drivel.

[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

bump. Great read.

[techcor]

Bump.

[carton253]

The only solution Moore offers to curtail gun violence, isn't, oddly enough, gun control, but for us to become more like Canada--a country that has it's fair share of guns, but a tiny fraction of our gun deaths. Why this is so, Here's mine...

In interviews he has made some faint noises about there being less suffering, and thus, less violence in Canada because of their socialized medicine. But for the most part, Moore leaves the viewer at sea, free to suppose that if we could just listen to Anne Murray records, take up curling, eat poutine and add "eh" to the end of our sentences, we too, would be a peace-loving people.

[seamus]

Indeed. And here is one line I must remember to steal someday:

One of his former producers said it was like "working for Idi Amin--without the laughs."

[TMD]

I like the reference to "Chomsky for Children"

[Callahan]

The guy who wrote this, Matt Labash, always does a great job. I remember his piece about Al Gore's unfortunate tenants, the Mayberries. Classic! I wish John Stossel or David Horowitz would make a documentary trashing fat liberal slobs like Moore.

[TomB]

great review. i just don't get why anyone would buy one word of this pathetic loser's drivel.

hint: They aren't laughing WITH Moore, they are laughing AT him.

[Callahan]

Then again, can you imagine a conservative themed documentary ever getting wide release like Moore's pablum. The lefties would scream bloody murder about Bush shoving propaganda on the public.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Moore is a Ira Einhorn wannabe without the chick-appeal

But Moore would still live with his mummy.

[TopQuark]

CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, journalists are human too.

Strange: my belief always was that, to the contrary, journalists are all too human.

[demosthenes the elder]

Michael Moore was interviewed at some point during the beltway sniper scare. I caught a bit of it. He infuriated me. As I said in an unrelated post at another site:

(excerpt)

"I'll try to take this one at a time.

I apologize if I shall be a little rude or curt. My patience is all used up. Not from this discussion, but from the media saturation of fat comfortable "reasonable" fuckwits calling for more gun control legislation. Their leaps of flawed reasoning and "common sense" but contrary-to-fact nonsense has made it difficult to tolerate less important examples of the same kind of logical errors."

I apologize for the foul language. At the time, it seemed appropriate. That people like Moore are taken seriously by many is as strong an indictment of the decline of Reason in America as any of which I am cognizant.

[Democratshavenobrains]

One of Labash's funniest. If only Russert had been 1/8 as hardhitting in his kiss up interview 2 weeks ago.

[xsmommy]

ping.

[weikel]

Okay there can only be one guys.

[KC_Conspirator]

Too hilarious. Bump save for alter.