Thursday, September 06, 2007
Marty Beckerman Article
I guess my attempts at humor weren't very good. I thought that the fact I was posting about an article in the entertainment section was a big give away, but alas, I've gotten a bunch of emails. :) I also made the mistake of not labeling it "humor". I've taken care of that now. Your illusions of my being perfect in every way has been shattered forever!
No malice intended folks. At least on that front. :)
This is why I should stick with political blogs instead of writing humor. I guess the folks over at the Tonight Show won't be returning my calls. :)
Travis
Labels: Clarification, Huffington Post, Humor
Marty Beckerman: Picard for President: Why the (Other) Bald Captain of the Enterprise is a Better Leader than Bush - Entertainment on The Huffington P
Yes, let's debate why a fictional character on a science fiction show would be better at being President then President Bush. You know, it simply wouldn't be a complete day without pointing out the idiot blogger's over at Huffington Post. This time it's blogger Marty Beckerman.
Marty, buddy, it's a TV show. That's like comparing someone's fathering skills to Cliff Huxtable. But don't buy my end of the story take a look at the journalistic glory that is Marty Beckerman:
a nuanced political worldview that often explored the tactical necessity of choosing the lesser of two evils, the proper time for diplomacy to devolve into warfare, and other unpleasant shades of gray. (Does sex with an android count as emotional lovemaking or futuristic masturbation?)
Riveting Marty, please, go on.
At the moral center of these realist quandaries was Captain Jean-Luc Picard, whom Patrick Stewart played with Shakespearean gravitas (and without the use of William Shatner's signature toupee). The French-born, tea-drinking Picard, who popularized the catch phrase "make it so," was far more of a refined interstellar emissary than a testosterone-oozing brawler -- the Tony Blair to George W. Bush's Kirk, or more fittingly his Zapp Brannigan -- but was hardly a pacifist in an emergency. Indeed, Picard was a literate, contemplative and judicious leader, the exact opposite of what America has had so far in the Twenty-First Century.
Why doesn't this man have a Pulitzer yet?!?! It's a travesty of justice!
Travis
Labels: Huffington Post, Humor, idiocy
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