I’m getting tired of people who admit there may be flaws to Fahrenheit 9/11 but say people should see it to help stimulate debate. This reminds me of “Gay Jeans Day” at Carnegie Mellon University (we had two college funded gay and lesbian groups – three if you included the Womyn’s Center – but us college Republicans had to scrounge for our own funds since we were “political”). The idea of “Gay Jeans Day” was that a random day would be chosen on which wearing jeans was either proclaiming you were gay or in support of gays and this would cause people to think about gay issues before they put on their pants that day (there is a joke there somewhere…). Some people thought this would foster discussion… and it did. Everyone spent a lot of time talking about what a retarded idea “Gay Jeans Day” is and pretty much nothing else.
In the same vein, Farhenheit 9/11, with all its lies, distortions, and wacky conspiracy theories is fostering lost of discussion about how retarded that film is and what a fatass Michael Moore is. People might as well drop a big pile of manure on the floor and say, “Let’s use this to foster debate about political issues!”
And those who keep saying they want a debate anyway are really just mindless Bush-haters who want to do nothing but yell. Fine, let’s accommodate them by putting them in straight jackets and throwing them in padded rooms where they can yell all they want. Have your discussion with your imaginary friend Flippy the seven-foot tall anteater.
By the way, this reminds me of one my favorite jokes during my college years. The wacky feminist Women’s Center was judged non-political so it got funding (i.e. my money), to which I would say, “Why do we need a Women’s Center? We have women’s rooms all over campus.”
Frank J. is a syndicated columnist whose columns appear worldwide on IMAO.us and is the author of such children’s books as “Baby’s First Quantum Physics Textbook” and “President Harding’s Pop-up Book Adventure.”
How can you spark debate when one side is given completely bogus facts? Unless you think facts are entirely irrelvant to debate (which, come to think of it) might be the opinion of people who think F9/11 is useful to spark debate).
When even Ted Koppel thinks F9/11 is full of crap, you have to see how beyond the line you’ve gone.
Where can I get “President Harding’s Pop-Up Book Adventure”? That sounds like an awesome children’s book! What does the pop-up of Harding getting an heart attack look like?
I have a pair of jeans that are gay, I found some of the socks were refusing to be worn with those jeans so I had to give a tolerance lesson to them and a parka that I feared was becoming anti-sementic.
I have “baby’s second quantum physics textbook” but I was told the the first one was out of print. Do you have any…..extra copies??
Don’t be dissin’ Flippy, damn it! He’s sensitive about his height as it is.
See now, you made him sniffle…..
hmmmmmmmmm… anteater…..
Slapping these muckadoos with a Winston Churchill saying lets you be intellectual and a smartass at the same time. My favorite and frequently used is “Sir, you have all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
When I first read that I thought it said “Gay Jesus Day”
Frist to say “frist!” Pthbbbbbbbt!
can say it just can’t spell it. spell check is my friend…
Maybe we should make that a new thing; see who can be the first to bring up Senator Frist in the comments.
-Frnak
You might be a ‘tard if:
1. You think the war is for ooooiiilll!
2. You think Bush didn’t do enough proactively to protect the US before 9/11, while at the same time you think he’s overstepped his authority by going after rouge regimes.
3. Pictures of unlawful combatants with women’s panties on their heads is worse than the video tapes of Saddam’s butchers cutting off hands, pushing bound prisoners off buildings, etc., etc.
4. You think shooting at the enemy while they are firing on our troops from mosques is sacrilegious while they desecrate our dead by burning the corpses and decorating their brides with the remains.
5. Islam is a religion of peace when rewards the sin of suicide, demands the conversion or slaughter of non-believers, among its requirements to the faithful.
“Gay Jeans?????”
I suppose the zipper’s in the back?
I see a whole new marketing strategy here.
– Lesbian Pool Tables: just the table, no balls
– Gay Bath Soap: it’s not a bar, it’s powdered (takes longer to pick up in the shower)
Dr. Senator Frist?
You know decorating brides with burned corpses is kind of macabre and funny at the same time. I know, I am sick…
Frank:
Off topic but, check out this site,
http://www.scaryjohnkerry.com/index.htm
Pretty neat.
Along those lines, look this way->http://www.mlive.com/news/aanews/index.ssf?/base/news-9/1089989062159720.xml
When you read the whole thing, you realize: they’re cutting jobs and raising tuition to fund “an annual Native American celebration, and coordinators for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and multi-ethnic student affairs program, among other things. Money was also set aside for immediate and long-term repairs and programs at the Trotter Multicultural Center.”
Now, I’m all for celebrating Native American History and understanding other peoples culture, but I’d rather be able to study it on MY time…and not HAVE to pay for it with my $$$.
They had a “gay jeans” day at my college, too.
I showed up to my classes wearing khakis and a big sh*t-eating grin on my face. Dialogue follows:
Them: Uhh… didn’t you remember? Today is gay jeans day!
Me: No, I remembered.
Them: BIGOT!!!!
Me: 😀
For the record, Flippy thinks Fattenheit 9-11 is a stupid-ass movie, too.
You mean people on you campus actually knew what all those ‘non-political’ groups were doing? On my campus the majorty of people never bothered to read any of those types o flyers because no one cared what the nut jobs were all riled up about. Or maybe we were just lazy. Go Cathlic schools!!
I’ve had people say to me “How can you say that F9/11 is full of lies when you haven’t seen it?”
That’s easy to answer: I don’t have to watch a porno movie to know that people in it are having sex, just like I don’t have to watch a Michael Moore movie to know it’s full of lies. Truth-distorting, lie-filled ‘mockumentaries’ are Moore’s genre. They no more depict the reality surrounding 9/11 or gun ownership than ‘This is Spinal Tap’ depicted a real aging rock band.
When I read the line, “Flippy the seven-foot tall anteater,” I imagined a theme song like that of “Casper the friendly ghost” or “The Log (from Ren & Stimpy)” and had visions of him running and skipping through a field with the straight-jacket wearing mindless Bush-hater.
Why are you looking at me like that?
Hey, you stole that pile of manure thing from me. That was my choice for JK’s running mate a couple of months ago.
“Baby’s First Quantum Physics Textbook isn’t as unlikely as you might think… after all, there’s Alice in Quantumland, possibly one of the best books on submolecular and subatomic physics that I have ever read.
My favorite womyn joke:
Q: How many radical lesbian feminists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: That’s not funny!
Gay Blue Jeans
Like any self-respecting gay pair of pants would be blue.
Also, I’ve heard the “You’ve got to see it b/c of the buzz” line. Pretty sure that is the DU marketing strategy to get morons to see the movie.
Personally, I prefer to keep my gay jeans in the closet 😀
“gay jeans day” should have coincided w/ People who like to swing baseball bats day.Or maybe People who drank too much syrup of Ipecac day.
Yes, but isn’t the “big picture” in Fahrehate that a) Moore hates Bush b) Moore hates any defense of this country and c) Moore hates all things associated with the US (except of course, his mansions, his money, his tax rate compared to every other nation and the oodles of money he makes off moronic liberals who prop him up by buying his books and movies?)
Environment-killing? Oh, you mean because Bush is the first president to have the balls to tell the UN where to stick all their touchy-feely French-inspired “environmental” treaties?
Dictatorship? Yes, the US is sooo similar to North Korea and Cuba. Boo hoo, we have it sooo bad, don’t we.
Lies of the president? Let me get this straight – Moore’s selective editing, twisting of facts to fit his agenda and fabrications in the line of “keep repeating the lie and it will become the truth” is a message of truth. But Bush doing what’s right and demonstrating that the US is the world’s superpower and not bending over to the UN make him a liar. God I hate liberals.
That “Gay Jeans Day” at Carnegie Mellon makes me glad that I exclusively wear the more conservative slacks.
Reminds me of the time on campus when a friend and I walked past a table handing out pink balloons. I told the friend he was nowhere near cool enough to get away with walking around carrying a pink balloon. To prove me wrong, he accepted a balloon and walked around with it. Eventually, I got tired of the strange looks and explained to him that the table handing out balloons was the university G/B/L club and they were handing out the balloons for gay pride day or some such. I never let him forget that one.
In other news, you can’t go wrong with an aardvark named Flippy.
I am in school at UCSB. We had a Gay Jeans Day and even the few gay people I know were railing on just how stupid the idea was, mostly because everyone pretty wears jeans every day during that time of year (it was february or march, so the highs never got up to 70. Downright frigid out here, definately not general shorts weather, but I digress).
And that women’s center thing… on of my best jokes of the year was based on our women’s center. There was a campus club “culture day” in which various group would bring foodstuffs to sell as a fundraiser. I was there with the pep band and we were selling nachos, so I gratiously offered the use of my crock pot. After the sale, however, I was left with a goopy nacho-y cheesy crock pot and I wanted to clean it up before I put it away. Now this sale took place on a lawn in front of the women’s center, so when I asked where I could find somewhere to clean up the pot and somebody mentioned that there’s a kitchen in the women’s center, my only reaction, completely natural and nearly instaneously, was to say (with a slight ‘duh’ shrug) “Heh. Of course. There’s gotta be a kitchen in the WOMEN’s center.”
And it was just loud enough to get about a dozen people pissed enough at me to … well, they’re a bunch of liberals so they stared at me really mean, so it was even funnier (damn wimps).
Why don’t they have “Gay Breath Oxygen Day” if you breath oxygen that day you support gays. “Gay Leave Your House Day”. “Gay Eat Some Food Day”
My school tried “Gay Come to School With a Gerbil In Your As* Day.” Didn’t get much support though.
At my university (which is populated by students who wear a lot of jeans) they tried to have one of these Gay Jeans Days. I’ve never seen so many khakis in my life as on that day.