Another Freeper-type from Fido...

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Fidonet, that is.

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Hello, All.

(If it wasn't for Clooney having a famous aunt, he'd still be driving a
limo...which he should be doing anyway-he sure the hell can't act...)

From:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/03/03/clooneys-clown/

Clooney's Clown
by John Nolte

As a kid, I wanted to be James Bond. Sneaking into villainous volcano
lairs in-between hayloft romps with the likes of Pussy Galore is very
appealing to a twelve-year old - and a forty-two year old. For a lucky
few, that glamorous life may be somewhat of a reality but as someone
intimidated by both violence and pretty girls, the life of a super spy
was not to be. However, had the world been my toy box, had the power and
influence to shape my environment to my liking been available to me,
right now I'd be slugging it out with faceless henchmen on a nuclear sub.

Good thing for me that's not reality. Because if it were, I'd be a fool
unaware the whole world was laughing at the effort that went into my
self-important delusion.

Which brings me to Keith Olbermann.

The best way to understand Olbermann is to suffer through George
Clooney's sterile and pretentious docudrama, "Good Night, and Good Luck"
(2005). David Strathairn plays real-life CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow
and the film dramatizes Murrow's confrontation with Hollywood's favorite
cliche, er whipping boy, Senator Joseph McCarthy. (I know, can you
believe Clooney went after Joe McCarthy? Until Sean Penn stood up for
gay marriage in front of all those people at the Oscars, it was the
single bravest thing ever.)

Not only is Clooney's film a tired exercise in liberal wish-fulfillment
(a black and white "Frost/Nixon"), it's a dishonest one that tells half
the truth and carries a fascist streak down its back a mile wide.
Clooney's theme is a simple but frightening one. He's telling the media
that their job is not to present the facts, not to present both sides of
an issue, but to present "the truth." This all sounds lofty until you
realize whose truth he's talking about, and as we saw during the 2008
presidential election, most of the media took this to heart.

I'm lucky the world is not at my disposal to fulfill a childish James
Bond fantasy, unfortunately for Olbermann, MSNBC was at his disposal. I
can't track down when Olbermann started poaching Murrow's "Good night,
and good luck" sign off, it might have been before the film came out,
but if you watch Clooney's fascist little screed followed by a couple
"Countdown" episodes, it's all too obvious - from the camera angles,
self-righteous indignation, and use of Bill O'Reilly in place of
McCarthy - that MSNBC is Olbermann's toy box to fulfill his dream of
becoming George Clooney's idea of Murrow.

If I could wish anything on Olbermann it would be the power of self-awareness.
Once the embarrassment hit, he'd never leave the house again.

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1. Who is this John Nolte tool?

A little googling seems in order.

On Edit..Shit..he spent time here in cheeseland.

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2. Don't need Google.

His picture:



The right-wing asswipe's screeds...

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/author/jjmnolte/

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3. CHEEERIST!!! If I looked like that zombie...

I'd hate George Clooney too!

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4. Is Fidonet still kicking?

I used to be an NC back in the day when all the netmail and echos were moved by 14.4K modems and POTS lines. How do they move the traffic these days? Internet?

Gawd, I was never so glad as the day I gave that position up. Nothing but grief from the other nets and a spineless worm of an RC.

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5. Mostly the BBS's are on the Internet.

Or hubs.

What's an RC and NC?

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7. RC and NC

Regional coordinator and Net Coordinator. Back in modem days, you had such things. Fidonet was anal retentivism in action.

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6. What a dork.

He says he "can't track down" whether Olbermann started using "Good night and good luck" as a signoff before the movie?!?

For the record, YES, you idiot turd...HE DID...USE THE GOOGLE to track it down, it's easy!!!!

And why? Because, you see, he knew about and admired Edward R. Murrow LONG BEFORE George Clooney ever made a movie about him!!!! What a concept!!!!

Imagine that: Keith Olbermann didn't get his inspiration for his broadcasting style from a George Clooney movie, the same way you got your idea of what it should be to be a man from those James Bond movies. He got it FROM THE ORIGINAL EDWARD R. MURROW! And from a lot of other people, from Jean Shepherd to Bob & Ray to any number of sportscasters he admired...

...Oh, what?? You think every adult is as stupid as you were as a kid, and goes to see some movie and comes out saying "I wanna be like THAT guy"?? Or is it just us Libruls, going to see bad Librul movies that tell us that journalists should seek to present "the truth" (and "the truth" is not in opposition to "the facts," you idiot--"the truth" IS "the facts"!), rather than telling us that fact and fiction are equal, and should be given equal time? Or lying to us that they are "fair and balanced" when they really present only their own side of the issue and lie about it, like FOX Noise?

This guy BELONGS on Fidonet. He's a dog.

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8. Edward R Murrow was a commie sympathizer, and McCarthy was a true American hero!

Well, Ann Coulter says so... :eyes: