Galt's Gulch

If you're not a fan, you probably ought to be

Posted by $ blarman 9 years, 9 months ago to Video
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My favorite artist. Of all time. (Leonardo is just so 15th century...)

Favorite songs: "Hardware Store" and "White and Nerdy".

I never would have imagined that he'd take #1 in album sales, though.
SOURCE URL: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-21/weird-al-yankovics-mandatory-fun-owns-the-internet?campaign_id=DN072214#p1

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  • Posted by Eudaimonia 9 years, 9 months ago
    For a couple of days now I've been considering posting two of his new videos - "Word Crimes" and "Foil".

    They are both excellent works of parody and I do enjoy them, but both of them show the usual bias that you would expect from the Hollywood Left.

    In "Word Crimes", at 1:13, there is a smear of the Tea Party by using the picture of protester with a ridiculously misspelled sign.
    The person to whom the image refers was actually an Alinskyite who was crashing the protest.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vP...

    In "Foil", at 1:18, the tone of the piece changes to a litany of conspiracy which associates legitimate concerns of globalization with obvious nuttiness.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-0TEJMJ...

    Again, I think both pieces are very well done.
    I just no longer have much patience with the Leftist Peanut Gallery.
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    • Posted by $ blarman 9 years, 9 months ago
      That's kind of the point of parody - you get to bring up a topic that people wouldn't normally touch by making fun of it. His piece "Party in the CIA" makes fun of CIA Black Ops. He even made fun of his own industry with "Don't Download this Song". And if you have ever watched any of his Al TV "interviews" with notable celebrities, they're a hoot - and certainly not anything a leftist would do.

      I've been an Al fan all my life, however, and I don't paint him in with the Hollywood left. For one, he's married - once. Two, he never goes out of his way to inject himself into political fights like The Dixie Chicks, Tom Cruz, or Susan Sarandon. Those to me are the Leftist Peanut Gallery. Three, how many people on the left are as clever and witty as Al? (See "Word Crimes").

      I'm open for more evidence, but he doesn't even use foul language - not on stage (seen him four times in person) or in his music.
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      Posted by Maphesdus 9 years, 9 months ago
      "In "Word Crimes", at 1:13, there is a smear of the Tea Party by using the picture of protester with a ridiculously misspelled sign.
      The person to whom the image refers was actually an Alinskyite who was crashing the protest."
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      How do you know that? Where's your evidence?
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      • Posted by Eudaimonia 9 years, 9 months ago
        How to argue like Maphesdus:

        1) Demand citation and evidence on every possible excruciating minutium.

        2) Dismiss any offered citation as shilling for white supremacists.

        3) Go to 1.

        Hey, Maph, piss off.
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        • Posted by Eudaimonia 9 years, 9 months ago
          And, oh yeah, expect this to be my standard response to you from now on.

          Piss off.
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          • Posted by Eudaimonia 9 years, 9 months ago
            To all but Maph who can piss the f' off - my initial research into the picture was flawed.

            The pic is not from a Tea Party at all, but from a war/antiwar dual protest in 2003.

            There is a line of thinking which claims that the word moron is intentionally misspelled as a slap to Jim Moran and his antiwar supporters.

            However, the use of the image is plain: pro-American people are idiots who deserve little better than ridicule.

            Not the best source, but enough for now.
            http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/get-a-brai...

            Because of the intent in how the image is used, my original issue with the Weird Al video still stands...

            And Maph can still piss off.
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              Posted by Maphesdus 9 years, 9 months ago
              Ah, so it had nothing to do with Alinsky after all. That's good to know. See what happens when you do actual research instead of just resorting to what appears to be a personal knee-jerk reaction of "Alinskyite" every time? You get accurate information! :D
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      • Posted by khalling 9 years, 9 months ago
        Tea party trolling is well known. Prog activists show up at events saying outrageous stereotypical things holding signs that are commonly misspelled with the goal to discredit. They have websites set up to help organize at larger city events. There were a few at relatively small events that I have attended. Legit attendees just ignore them. But invariably they'll be in the paper the next day as the "average " attendee
        http://www.examiner.com/article/crash-th...
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