Naturally there's bound to be a hometown team effect regarding reactions to Mike Stark and I appearing together today on CNN's Reliable Sources. Frankly, I'd have liked a little more time for rebuttal, but such is life. Kurtz was working different angles to the story, which I understand and respect. As usual, he did a good job. However, Mike is so marginal to begin with, it only took a little coaxing, along with Howard Kurtz, who usually plays it pretty straight, to see just how marginal Mike Stark really is.
One minute he pronounces himself as reasonable along with Kurtz, then I bust him for his childish Hannity and Colmes stunt. Hint - reasonable people don't hold up vulgarity on national TV, unless of course you're that Left wing sort of reasonable that reasonably speaking, isn't really reasonable at all. I think that bit also gave Kurtz a better take on the Moonbat he had sitting across from him.
Stark's reasons for being outraged, as anyone who follows entertainment media today would know, were muted, at best, particularly in comparison to some examples I gave. All in all, my take is that he came off as a bit of a loon, so much so that Kurtz may have marginalized him even more than I did just by his being sane and sitting next to him.
Every time Stark came up with the next really egregious example of right wing talk, I felt he only made it worse. It was as if Stark didn't even realize Kurtz was working the free speech angle more than any other.
Stark promised his buddies a beat down, the idiot at SadlyNo posted ahead of time that he expected it. I expect a smackdown of epic proportions. Well, sadly, no, SadlyNo - there are only two rules to blogfight club. Don't brag about the result before the bell rings, and never send a guy who looks and sounds like he beats off to do a beat down. It could get messy.
Noel Sheppard weighs in at Newsbusters with a download-able vid via MsUnderestimated. And Allah has the YouTube posted here. Many thanks to them for that and to all who have stopped by to comment favorably.
The rest of the liberal hazmats in comments must be waiting on the silly hat courtesy of Disney someone at Disney PR should send to the loser we 've come to know, if not love, as Marg ...inalized Stark.
What I really regret is not having had the forum or opportunity to ask him when was the last time he spat on his wife. I wasn't going to abuse Kurtz's show by making it a brawl.
Finally, many thanks to Howard Kurtz for having me on.
Bill Adkins: I can play cordial and mannered and well informed also. And with no name calling or epithets. However for you to call Howard Kurtz a "closet rightwingnut" calls into question your intelligence. Howie is a straight down the middle guy. The best Media Critic there is. I live in DC and have been reading him for years. What newspapers do you read?
You need to stop calling people names yourself come to think of it.
Posted by: nova | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 11:56 AM
Whoa!
Dan, you got FAT.
Posted by: LaughingGas | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 12:34 PM
Gordon,
I know about Ace's games. I laugh myself sick over there. :) You all are too good for me, though, so I'm afraid to jump in.
Let's start a movie thread for Dan here and see if it works:
Dan Does Dipwad in DC
Posted by: Phoenix | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 01:56 PM
The TiDANtic.
Posted by: Phoenix | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 01:57 PM
DAN, das
Posted by: Phoenix | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 02:02 PM
Singin' in the Rain With Dan
Posted by: Phoenix | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 02:03 PM
Some Like it Dan
Posted by: Phoenix | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 02:04 PM
Some Like it Dan, Pt. II
Dan Likes it Hot
Posted by: Phoenix | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 02:05 PM
AmaDanus and How He Made Me Pirouette.
Posted by: Phoenix | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 02:06 PM
Cool Hand Dan
(Personally, it should be 'hot' hand, but I'm just guessing.)
Posted by: Phoenix | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 02:08 PM
Fargo.... Dan freezes to death while trying to pay attention to a fast-talking pregnant cop.
Posted by: Phoenix | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 02:10 PM
Dandhi ... Dan decides to make peace with his political rivals and invites them over for a bit of blotter and some chamomille tea. Dan wraps himself in a towel and sits cross-legged on the floor and gets a bad ache in his groin and asks one of his guests to rub it out. Please.
Posted by: Phoenix | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 02:14 PM
"when unable to deal with the education I provide,"
I've never met a pantomime intellect before.
Posted by: Gordon | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 02:16 PM
Sorry Phoenix, this just ain't Ace. I think the action is on the newer comments.
But just to be a sporting chap...
Dan Tanic - He goes down in the end.
Dan Gerous Liasons - see above
Posted by: Gordon | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 02:19 PM
The Adventures of Dan Hood.
Dan Hood swings on some vines and falls near his sword and calls for some wenches to help him. He loses face with his merry men until he invites them to join him and his buxom vixens whereupon they have a great group grope and don't notice the robbers stealing their tights and codpieces. Who needs 'em anyways...damn chafing things. "Unbridled Cods" is the sequel to this masterpiece.
Posted by: Phoenix | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 02:20 PM
Gordon,
He's a professor at The Pee Wee Herman School of Furtive Fumbling. Don't make fun of him. He's trying to get his intellect to trump his endocrine system.
Posted by: Phoenix | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 02:22 PM
Darn it. I told you I don't get it. hahaha....
Let me think on it.....
I'm just not ace. :(
Posted by: Phoenix | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 02:24 PM
Okay. Like this?
Dan Hard - He's the one you wanna take home from the dance.
? Is that good? (I like it.:)
Posted by: Phoenix | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 02:28 PM
Yes, I like it. ;-)
Posted by: Gordon | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 02:30 PM
Groundhog Dan - Dan sticks his head up to hot, moistness and figures it's late summer and stays up.
Posted by: Phoenix | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 02:30 PM
The Grapes of Dan - Not. More like fine kumquats.
Posted by: Phoenix | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 02:33 PM
Wallace and Dan and the Curse of the Were-Rabbit - Dan gets his own bunny and lives happily ever after until the next morning.
Posted by: Phoenix | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 02:35 PM
I have to go take a nap now.
Posted by: Phoenix | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 02:36 PM
Whew. I kept coming up blank. See you later.
Posted by: Gordon | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 02:36 PM
Story by Phoenix: "The Kumquats"
My mother came home from the commissary one day and my brother, sister and I were called upon to help unload the groceries. We were real little. One of us pulled out a little bag that held three kumquats. We looked at the little brown furry things and asked what they were. My pretty mommie said, "Oh. Those are kumquats!" (I am thinking the commissary in Germany didn't have them often.) As if on cue, all three of us laughed like hell. Like in giggled real silly and said the word over and over and over. My mother shocked us to death by getting really pissed. That alone happened often enough, especially around Taps Time when the scotch came out, but we gigglers shut up real quick with zero clue as to what pissed her off. I think she thought we were laughing at 'kum' as in 'cum' - something that had not entered our minds ever and wouldn't for at least a decade. My family dysfunction knew no bounds. Though, I have to say I have recovered enough to have laughed at Dan's fine kumquats. (Not that I would in person.) heh... No. Really. Wanna see my breasts? :)
End of story.
Posted by: Phoenix | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 05:43 PM