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This week, the men of GLoP kick around Woody Allen, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and the way the media has covered these stories, what did Shirley Temple have that Bieber and Cyrus don’t, the hagiography of Hillary (aided and abetted by Andrea Mitchell), HBO’s True Detective, Matthew McConaughey, TV business zombies, and the slow motion avalanche that is ObamaCare.
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I haven’t listened to the podcast, but this is already in my Top 5 EJHill art. It’s groovy.
Podhoretz, Goldberg and jazz hands. What’s not to love?
Rob Long looks a little creepy in this setting.
I feel as unsafe around that picture as Rob and Jonah felt around John’s Martini & Rossi ballad….
Mr Podhoretz is doing Astaire.. Mr Goldberg is doing a Monkee.. Last train to Obamaville.. Unfortunately Mr Long is waltzing like the Wolfman.. But Shirley is still tops. All bells and no bottoms on the good ship lolliop.
The boys mixed up their Jackies. The California law was named after Jackie Coogan (aka Uncle Fester) not Cooper.
You say fester, and I say faster
Fester, faster, Coogan, Cooper
Who let the Jackies out..
factor Astaire?? I’m losing it faster than I thought..
I didn’t add that to the show description as I didn’t want to scare anyone off. Now that its been outed, I feel duty bound to post this:
As Fritz Kraemer said, Bill was just a spinmeister but Hillary she actually believed her lines.
“True Detective” isn’t an adaptation of Max Allan Collins’ Nate Heller story? Forget it, then.
Kayfabe: the portrayal of staged events within professional wrestling as “real” or “true,” specifically the portrayal of competition, rivalries, and relationships between wrestlers as being genuine and not of a staged nature. Kayfabe has also evolved to become a code word of sorts for maintaining this “reality” before the general public. It is derived from old carnival slang terminology.
The old Hollywood PR machine understood the concept of Kayfabe quite well. The insiders were the “Smarts” who knew the truth, most of the country were the “Marks” who believed what the PR machine presented them with – and those who didn’t pretended they did, and were thus “Smarks.”
The Clintons are Smarts: they know when they are lying and putting on a show. James Carville is a Smark: he knows it’s a show, but pretends he doesn’t know. Andrea Mitchell – along with most Democratic Party primary voters – is just Marks.
Sad but true.
I’m a big fan of the show, but this one was particularly smart and enjoyable.
Just so we know….Clark Gable did not kill a pedestrian and have it covered up…
http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/gable2.asp
John Podhoretz’s discussion on Woody Allen was much appreciated. It is good to hear disgust at his “atomization of a family” articulated so well. Fantastic podcast as always – hilarious and smart.