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Twitter is a cesspool. As if we needed more evidence, legendary comedian and acclaimed author Norm MacDonald was targeted for saying words to a reporter that a microscopic minority of humorless scolds didn’t care for. That’s all the pretext needed to subject a person, famous or not, to Twitter’s
As my late sainted mother would absolutely have said, “F*** ’em if they can’t take a joke.”
That sounds just like him!
Anyone who was made to cry by Norm MacDonald needs to be made to cry repeatedly until they either die of outrage or get over it.
Mother was a very witty woman. Her sense of humor has been generously described as “ruthless” but needless to say, it toughens the breed.
Loyalty, an old-fashioned notion you say.
I remember back in 2010 that some conservatives were upset that Sarah Palin endorsed John McCain instead of J.D. Hayworth for the U.S. Senate in Arizona. The conservative establishment in the Northeast often likes to pretend that these seats belong to certain incumbents. Back then I remember listening to Mark Levin on the radio who very reluctantly stated that loyalty is also a virtue.
People will call me crazy, but comedians are First Amendment heroes now and not people who attach one’s name to a McCain-Feingold free speech-limiting bill. When John McCain decided to bar Sarah Palin to his funeral, he proved that both loyalty and free speech are not important to insider politicians.
Apparently we now learn that Leonard Nimoy barred William Shatner from his funeral even though they had been friends and partners for decades. (I think Nimoy was upset that Shatner tried to use a video clip of Nimoy for his 2011 documentary The Captains.) As Shatner and Norm are from both from Quebec, perhaps loyalty is a now a English-Quebec trait rather than a U.S. Navy or Vulcan trait.
Forgiveness is also a virtue. The Left (who control the power in the media) wants people like Louis C.K., Roseanne Barr, and others who make mistakes or so-called mistakes to be banished forever. The world just keeps getting … less funny.
“The tragedy of seeing Norm McDonald once again do something self-destructive just as he was about to stage a late-career surge is heartbreaking.” — John Podhoretz, 12 Sep 2018
Wow, way to have your finger on the conservative pulse there, John.
(You could have at least spelled his name right.)
Have you ever noticed how getting a NetFlix deal (ahem, threatening the existing arrangements in Media Land) suddenly earns you some deep sixing mob justice? Just a curious coincidence I guess.
Which makes me think my Netflix comment has more relevance than before I read this.
Jimmy: People were crying Norm.
What Norm should have said: Did you tell them to man up, grow a pair and to stop or that you would give them something to really cry about?
Me: There is nothing to apologize for and never apologize to those people. These people are the new sans-culottes and we know how to deal with those people. Grape shot at close range.
Then again I am a hard bound reactionary.
I am now using Facebook for an hour a day. Its not really my page and I have to hide posts from half the people and cant share what I want to it anymore lest I upset the sans-cullotes. People need to get over themselves.
He wouldn’t say that because he is, at heart, a really good hearted sweet guy. I’m sure he was like “holy Lord, what could I have said to make someone cry???”
They could of just had him come on but do something like this . . .
“He wouldn’t say that because he is, at heart, a really good hearted sweet guy.”
My mother, on the other hand, was rather proud of not being “sweet”. She was very good indeed to those of us she liked, provided we could take a joke.
Aaaah, the same Norm MacDonald that got fired from Saturday Night Live when his bosses told him to stop telling OJ and Michael Jackson jokes, causing him to just tell more. His bits were so funny that they actually changed the entire narrative about both stars. This is the same Norm MacDonald that went on The View and repeatedly called the Clintons “murderers” until they went to a commercial break and he was banned from the show. His Hitler bits are legendary.
Not necessarily. The subject of Norm’s tear-jerking defense, Chris Hardwick, was “investigated” (and temporarily suspended) by his own company and AMC, but they concluded that the accusations were unfounded and have restored his involvement in their projects.
I don’t know how many of you read Medium, but the comments there lean towards typically “woke” sympathies. The comments on the original post accusing Hardwick are almost 50% in his favor, which seems out of the ordinary, including a few victims of real sexual abuse telling her to get over her bad choices.
That phrase triggers a crisis among atheists . . .
Who is Don Ohlmeyer?
And he praises Bill Cosby there. The crimes just keep adding up.
I notice that the same crowd that has allowed for very lukewarm “jokes” about Trump is now stating that the only way a person can tell a Hitler joke is if the joke is hilariously funny. W’as up with that? Hitler jokes have been rampant since the 1930’s. My dad got free drinks throughout the Depression for his ability to stand on a chair, black comb under his nose, and recite Hitler jokes.
Since “Trump is literally Hitler” if we can have lukewarm jokes about Trump, we should be allowed have any type jokes about Hitler.
I did Nazi that coming.
My brother just gave me this card. Seems very apropos to this thread:
Leftism destroys art like it destroys countries. Who here can name me a truly great Marxist novel written by a Marxist? Right now in comedy, politics is more important than being funny so many comedians have sensibly decided to cease being funny. It is a perverse market incentive. (Though there are perverse social and spiritual incentives as well.) So comedy becomes less funny as it becomes more lefty like how great art is enervated under Communism. Totalitarian arguments tend to get in the way of Truth of excellence.
Norm MacDonald is the anti matter version of John Podhoretz.