Wednesday Morning Rant

The Beginning of the End?

Nothing makes journalists happier than when the news is itself news. Well, that's usually true, but sometimes when the news is the news, it isn't because of "firefighter" journalists speaking "truth to power" or whatever, but because of major industrial shakeup.

Comcast made news this week for firing the execrable Joy Reid, but this is possibly - perhaps even likely - related to the slightly older piece of news that Comcast will be spinning off much of its cable TV portfolio into a new independent subsidiary that will immediately IPO and trade on its own. They haven't bothered to give it a name yet, calling it just "SpinCo." That may be an apt name, because the new corporation will contain NBC News' intellectual weak sister CNBC and that weak sister's inbred idiot cousin, MSNBC - though not NBC News itself.

This spinoff - whatever firings happen to set the stage for it and limit liability - might actually be an important development because there is no way these networks are profitable with their tiny audiences. It has long been obvious that these networks are financial sinkholes and there is no way the books can be balancing. The recently-fired Joy Reid's show was pulling in barely more than 80,000 people in the 25-54 demo. You can't swing a cat without hitting YouTubers that pull bigger audiences.

But that's just a weak host on the #2 network. What about the big dogs? The best-performing show on cable news is Fox News' "The Five" and it pulls in a mediocre half million or so viewers in the demo. Sure, that's 6.3x more than Joy Reid got, but it's still only half a million people in the group that actually buys things. Fox News dominates its competitors in both total audience and the lucrative 25-54 group. It sweeps the top 10 in both the demo and total audience, and its biggest show pulls in fewer than five million total viewers.

The terrestrial, non-cable news networks still have surprisingly small viewership, but it is much larger than cable. ABC News is on top for the nightly newscast, and it pulls 1.3 million in the key demographic - more than twice as much as the best show on cable news. Except possibly Fox, the cable news nets cannot be profitable, so how are they in business?

In short: subsidies. Probably not government subsidies (at least, not now that USAID has been shuttered and DOGE is stalking the corridors of Washington with a machete) so much as corporate subsidies. The very thing that leftists always decried - corporate entanglement and ownership of news outlets - is the only thing keeping it alive. ABC is owned by Disney. NBC and its sisters are owned by Comcast (until SpinCo happens and the cable side becomes nominally independent). CBS is owned by Paramount, which is the artist formerly known as Viacom (and soon, Skydance). CNN is owned by Warner Bros-Discovery. Fox, the odd man out, is owned by Fox.

Like loser sons with trust funds pinch-hitting for competence, these loser enterprises are kept alive by their rich parents. They're products of vanity and political expedience, with cash shoveled in from the diversified parent corporations. Disney and Comcast are particularly diverse, with one being primarily a sports, cruise, theme park and merchandise company and the other being primarily a communications company.

But what happens if those loser sons are no longer worth it? They not only have failed to deliver their political goals, they have gone so insane that they're now putting their parents in the crosshairs and threatening the parents' operations. We may find out, at least for the weaklings of the NBC family. As part of a pure media company and without Comcast's deep pockets, how much appetite will there be to keep shoveling a now much smaller pile of cash into MSNBC and CNBC? How long will the minority shareholders of the yet-to-be-named SpinCo be willing to accept worthless and now counterproductive cable news networks hoovering up cash from profitable sports and entertainment divisions?

Time will tell, of course, but the winds of change appear to be blowing. Comcast is dropping its cable portfolio, Shari Redstone is not willing to defend CBS over her own personal bottom line and CNN is already turning into a zombie under Warner Bros-Discovery. Are we finally at the beginning of the end for cash-sucking propagandists?

I don't know - but I do know that nobody likes indefinitely paying people who can't get the job done, especially if cash is getting tight. Then again, cable news has already long outlived its usefulness, so who knows.

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM

Comments

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1 Well

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 26, 2025 11:00 AM (MFCwg)

2 And so it begins.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at February 26, 2025 11:01 AM (6K6Eu)

3 speaking "truth to power"

Pee tutu pow wow.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 26, 2025 11:02 AM (MFCwg)

4 Yeah I'm still alive though miserable.

Posted by: Ciampino - the halcyon days before dirty Ds at February 26, 2025 11:02 AM (KjLnc)

5 "The Five" and it pulls in a mediocre half million or so viewers in the demo. Sure, that's 6.3x more than Joy Reid got, but it's still only half a million people in the group that actually buys things.

Judging from FoxNews commercials, the old people must be buying something. Medication, gold investments, ointments, vegetable pill supplements, reverse mortgages...these aren't the purchases of 25-54 year olds...

Posted by: Moron Marketing at February 26, 2025 11:04 AM (JCZqz)

6 You can't swing a cat without hitting YouTubers that pull bigger audiences.
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You could probably start a YouTube channel involving swinging cats (humanely and safely, of course!) and generate a bigger audience.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2025 11:04 AM (7fElN)

7 Are we finally at the beginning of the end for cash-sucking propagandists?

Brave prediction: We are not. We might be at the beginning in a shift toward a new set of cash-sucking propagandists, but as long as there's the opportunity to suck for cash, some propagandist will offer their mouth.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2025 11:04 AM (ExV1e)

8 Yeah I'm still alive though miserable.
Posted by: Ciampino

What's the matter?

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 11:05 AM (77rzZ)

9 Thx Joe. As I posted in the art thread, the NY Post is reporting the majority of Maddow's staff is being fired. I bet she leaves. Dovetails real nice with what you are saying. Or Pscircles back

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2025 11:05 AM (r45RC)

10 I hope it's not the end of the beginning. I hope it's the first salvo of the beginning with a lot more beginning to come.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 26, 2025 11:05 AM (ZmEVT)

11 Hi. I'm Comcast. This is my idiot inbred retard step-cousin, CNBC, and this is my other idiot inbred retard step-cousin, MSNBC.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2025 11:05 AM (VoAdT)

12 Well, in business, when you seek to consolidate and spin off entities, the first thing you do is dump toxic assets and liabilities
, no create was more of a toxic asset than Joyless Reid.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 26, 2025 11:06 AM (XV/Pl)

13 You could probably start a YouTube channel involving swinging cats (humanely and safely, of course!) and generate a bigger audience.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2025 11:04 AM (7fElN)

Boss!

Posted by: Brian Setzer at February 26, 2025 11:06 AM (VoAdT)

14 It's not a coincidence that the media is imploding as DOGE is cutting off the government money spigot.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 26, 2025 11:06 AM (LkLld)

15 "Comcast will be spinning off much of its cable TV portfolio into a new independent subsidiary that will immediately IPO and trade on its own. They haven't bothered to give it a name yet, calling it just 'SpinCo.'"

It's common for subsidiaries to house spun-off assets to be named "SpinCo" (or something similar) right up until the closing of the spin-off. Comcast should be more creative. Maybe call it "ShitCo"? "BinCo"?

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 26, 2025 11:06 AM (iFTx/)

16 Keep dying, Legacy Media.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 26, 2025 11:07 AM (JkO4W)

17 I haven't watched any network news or news programs in 20 years. I also never listened to radio pundits either including Rush.

But I always felt little like did by just reading summaries of all those shows at aos.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 11:08 AM (cwGMH)

18 Give it all to Al Sharpton and call it AlCo.

Then their throngs of rabid fans can call themselves Alcoholics.

Posted by: Brian Setzer at February 26, 2025 11:09 AM (VoAdT)

19 Where is everybody?

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 11:09 AM (77rzZ)

20 Not at all, Mr. Maddow. I expect you to die.

Posted by: A. Goldfinger at February 26, 2025 11:09 AM (JkO4W)

21 They are spining off a Reacher character into another series. What a waste of moolah. Amazon.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 11:09 AM (jqxou)

22 (meticulously pompadoured sock, off.)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2025 11:09 AM (VoAdT)

23 Yeah I'm still alive though miserable.
Posted by: Ciampino - the halcyon days before dirty Ds at February 26, 2025 11:02 AM (KjLnc)

Ugh, I'm so sorry. I know the feeling.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 26, 2025 11:09 AM (Q0kLU)

24 Carnival Freak Shows will now be allowed to function again.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 26, 2025 11:10 AM (pLaQB)

25 They are spining off a Reacher character into another series. What a waste of moolah. Amazon.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 11:09 AM (jqxou)
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Which one?

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at February 26, 2025 11:10 AM (6K6Eu)

26 Gradually, then suddenly.

Posted by: The Guy Who Always Says It's Gradually, Then Suddenly at February 26, 2025 11:10 AM (76Ou0)

27 Yep

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 26, 2025 11:10 AM (6K6Eu)

28 DOGE Committee meeting on USAID just started. Ranking Member Stansbury is talking now--trashing every effort of DOGE and of course Trump and Elon. It's stunning.

Posted by: IrishEi at February 26, 2025 11:11 AM (3ImbR)

29 16 Keep dying, Legacy Media.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 26, 2025 11:07 AM (JkO4W)

Die faster, Legacy Media.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 26, 2025 11:11 AM (KbCG3)

30 This needs to happen all across the legacy media. The US taxpayer has been secretly funding this anti American garbage for far too long through the usaid nonsense.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 26, 2025 11:11 AM (e5NfL)

31 So Bezos will kill James Bond. That's the next thing, rite?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 26, 2025 11:11 AM (pLaQB)

32 I knew how to please the government and give the people exactly what they needed to hear. Until the trial....

Posted by: Julius Streicher at February 26, 2025 11:11 AM (G5+As)

33 Neagley. I think it will be like Rings of girl power.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 11:11 AM (jqxou)

34 Neagley. I think it will be like Rings of girl power.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 11:11 AM (jqxou)
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That's who I thought it might be. And you're probably right.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 26, 2025 11:12 AM (6K6Eu)

35 >>10 I hope it's not the end of the beginning. I hope it's the first salvo of the beginning with a lot more beginning to come

I'm just hoping it isn't an ouroboros

Posted by: Archimedes at February 26, 2025 11:12 AM (K/FPD)

36 In addition to the crumbling castle of subsidies and infusions of taxpayer money that's propping up most of these "news" companies, I think we're heading into the "breakup" phase of the endless corporate consolidation-breakup dance.

Every 20 years or so, companies get a hard-on for buying everything in sight, even if it's far outside their core business. Then they realize their new sprawling empire is really an unmanageable pile of shit. Then they divest. Then 10 years later, they get the buying itch again.

I think we're heading into the "sell it all" phase. Comcast, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and the rest will probably be unloading the retarded, flatulent red-headed stepsons shortly.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 26, 2025 11:12 AM (iFTx/)

37 Good morning!

Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at February 26, 2025 11:13 AM (IaVIh)

38 "the winds of change appear to be blowing"

The winds of stasis remain calm.

Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at February 26, 2025 11:13 AM (IaVIh)

39 >>> 28 DOGE Committee meeting on USAID just started. Ranking Member Stansbury is talking now--trashing every effort of DOGE and of course Trump and Elon. It's stunning.
Posted by: IrishEi at February 26, 2025 11:11 AM (3ImbR)

Who?
How much tax money has this congresscritter received directly and/or funneled to family and friends?
Odds it's on the Epstein and/or Diddy and/or other lists?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 26, 2025 11:13 AM (Vqx30)

40 31 So Bezos will kill James Bond. That's the next thing, rite?
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 26, 2025 11:11 AM (pLaQB)

Bezos will give James Bond the final coup de grace. It was Daniel Craig that put James Bond on life support.

Posted by: Thrawn at February 26, 2025 11:13 AM (9Ovst)

41 Are we finally at the beginning of the end for cash-sucking propagandists?

"The Press has never been more dishonest than it is today...(etc., etc.)... In six years, they all go BUST!"

-DJT, Feb 20, 2019

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2025 11:14 AM (KBusA)

42
it is said the internet killed the brick and mortar store

maybe the internet is poised to take its next victim- television news

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Let's disco! at February 26, 2025 11:14 AM (AOsQT)

43 I think of MSNBC as DNC-TV. We really saw this during the Obama admin, with Jarrett texting Mika while she was on air interviewing (ask him this!) and the DNC "hack" revealing how DWS micro-managed their programming (Pull that guy off air NOW!).

With that frame, it appears the DNC has decided to pull back on the DEI/race-baiting approach, and double-down on those who are the best party propagandists. It's no small thing that the biggest winner in this reorganization and Obama and Biden WH spokesperson Jen Psaki.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2025 11:14 AM (Cki93)

44 >>They are spining off a Reacher character into another series. What a waste of moolah. Amazon.

A relatively minor character, but black and female, so...

Posted by: most hockey fans at February 26, 2025 11:14 AM (Y1sOo)

45 Bezos will give James Bond the final coup de grace. It was Daniel Craig that put James Bond on life support.
Posted by: Thrawn at February 26, 2025 11:13 AM (9Ovst)
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"Casino Royale" was such a good start. And then - plplplplplpl.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 26, 2025 11:14 AM (6K6Eu)

46 I can't 'not listen' to these mediots any harder, Mr. Mannix!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 26, 2025 11:14 AM (O7YUW)

47 /off hockey fans

Posted by: one hour sober at February 26, 2025 11:15 AM (Y1sOo)

48 >>> 36 In addition to the crumbling castle of subsidies and infusions of taxpayer money that's propping up most of these "news" companies, I think we're heading into the "breakup" phase of the endless corporate consolidation-breakup dance.

Every 20 years or so, companies get a hard-on for buying everything in sight, even if it's far outside their core business. Then they realize their new sprawling empire is really an unmanageable pile of shit. Then they divest. Then 10 years later, they get the buying itch again.

I think we're heading into the "sell it all" phase. Comcast, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and the rest will probably be unloading the retarded, flatulent red-headed stepsons shortly.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 26, 2025 11:12 AM (iFTx/)

I would really like to see some enforcement of anti-trust laws. Could be highly entertaining.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 26, 2025 11:15 AM (Vqx30)

49 "Casino Royale" was such a good start. And then - plplplplplpl.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 26, 2025 11:14 AM (6K6Eu)

Every Bond after Peter Sellers was trash.

Fight me.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2025 11:16 AM (VoAdT)

50 I thought x amount of $$ from spies paid x amount for z goods.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 26, 2025 11:16 AM (UN2Ro)

51 And that's the way it is.

Posted by: Zombie Walter Cronkheit at February 26, 2025 11:16 AM (4OhAk)

52 Reacher season 3 is not so good… the female Fed is especially annoying to me.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2025 11:16 AM (PCK5/)

53 The winds of indifference have ceased to care.

Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at February 26, 2025 11:17 AM (IaVIh)

54 Who?
How much tax money has this congresscritter received directly and/or funneled to family and friends?
~~~~~

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM)

Posted by: IrishEi at February 26, 2025 11:17 AM (3ImbR)

55 Goodnight, Chet

Posted by: Zombie David Brinkley at February 26, 2025 11:17 AM (4OhAk)

56 They are spining off a Reacher character into another series. What a waste of moolah. Amazon.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 11:09 AM (jqxou)

With the caveat that they'd probably change the character beyond recognition, I wish someone at Amazon would option my Theda Bara books. They'd be a good period piece detective series.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 26, 2025 11:18 AM (Q0kLU)

57 Goodnight, David

Posted by: Zombie Chet Huntley at February 26, 2025 11:18 AM (4OhAk)

58 I saw Swinging Cats open for the Brian Setzer Orchestra at the Electric Daisy Carnival in '92.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 26, 2025 11:18 AM (lEahz)

59 Stansbury is a New Mexico Dem. In other words corrupt

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2025 11:18 AM (r45RC)

60 I like squawk box. Except for Andrew.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 26, 2025 11:18 AM (2ap+5)

61 t is said the internet killed the brick and mortar store

maybe the internet is poised to take its next victim- television news
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Let's disco! at February 26, 2025 11:14 AM (AOsQT)

I'm almost 100% a brick and mortar guy. can't seem to get on the Amazon wagon.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 11:18 AM (cwGMH)

62 I saw Swinging Cats open for the Brian Setzer Orchestra at the Electric Daisy Carnival in '92.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 26, 2025 11:18 AM (lEahz)
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Did they do "Stray Cat Strut?"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 26, 2025 11:19 AM (6K6Eu)

63 I would really like to see some enforcement of anti-trust laws. Could be highly entertaining.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 26, 2025 11:15 AM (Vqx30)

Anti-trust is about one company having complete control of an industry or sector. But are there any regulations about companies that branch out wildly into other sectors they have nothing to do with? Is there even a name for that sort of regulation? Anti-sprawl? I don't know.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2025 11:19 AM (VoAdT)

64 Pretty significant that Bezos is pulling the plug on the WaPo's opinion pages today.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 26, 2025 11:19 AM (wyMQY)

65 >>Reacher season 3 is not so good… the female Fed is especially annoying to me.

Reacher S1 was good and fairly close to the book.

I stopped watching Reacher S2 when the girls kicked the assess of the biker gang in the ally while wearing tight dresses and heels. lol

Won't be watching any more Reacher seasons.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 26, 2025 11:19 AM (Y1sOo)

66 Who's going to pay for the rape doors now?

Posted by: Matt Lauer at February 26, 2025 11:20 AM (4OhAk)

67 Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM)...

American white lefty woke woman. Worst human being in the world.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 11:21 AM (cwGMH)

68 6 more days until the State of the Union....

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 26, 2025 11:21 AM (Vqx30)

69 The quality of the Pierce Brosnan Bond movies was consistently worse than the previous one. The series won't be revived until they set the year to 1962 permanently.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 26, 2025 11:21 AM (lEahz)

70
My understanding was that NBC brought in Chet Huntley to 'balance' the nightly news, seeing as how David Brinkley was a far lefty New Dealer who spent his time drinking his ass off with fellow D.C.commies.

Posted by: Auspex at February 26, 2025 11:22 AM (j4U/Z)

71 Timothy Dalton was the best Bond after Connery.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 11:22 AM (77rzZ)

72 Neagley is another answer from Amazon to a question that nobody asked. Let supporting characters be supporting characters.

Nobody wanted a Bosley spinoff from Charlie's Angels.
Nobody wanted a Higgins spinoff from Magnum. (Rick and TC would have worked)
Clinger and Radar would have made a stupid show on their own.

Hollywood feels guilty and we have to watch shitty TV to assuage it.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 26, 2025 11:22 AM (kcXak)

73 I'm almost 100% a brick and mortar guy. can't seem to get on the Amazon wagon.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Amazon is great when you already know what you want and you are re-ordering,
Brick and mortar when you need to be touchy feely./trying stuff on like clothes & shoes.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2025 11:23 AM (SlNuN)

74 71 Timothy Dalton was the best Bond after Connery.
Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 11:22 AM (77rzZ)

He was great in the series “ Chuck”…

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2025 11:23 AM (PCK5/)

75 6 more days until the State of the Union....

I wish Trump wouldn't give one. Why give the Dems a platform for their assholishness?

Just have a messenger deliver the speech and keep slicing like a fucking hammer.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 26, 2025 11:23 AM (Q0kLU)

76 >>>Probably not government subsidies (at least, not now that USAID has been shuttered and DOGE is stalking the corridors of Washington with a machete) so much as corporate subsidies.

I don't know that this can be ruled out, at least not indirectly. The timing cannot be ignored.

Money is fungible. Stopping USAID decreased the money supply for all leftist causes, whatever the source.

So the money people had to make some decisions, and clearly, cable news is incapable of delivering for their funders.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 26, 2025 11:23 AM (i24o9)

77 I like Pierce Bronsan though I agree about his Bond movies. I thought he was going to be the perfect Bond.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 11:23 AM (cwGMH)

78 Timothy Dalton was the best Bond after Connery.
Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025

***
He was, until Craig brought the toughness back in Casino Royale and Skyfall.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2025 11:23 AM (J2vNu)

79 The firing of and rearranging of the propaganda ministries is like watching a real time Daytona crash involving the entire field. And it's spectacular.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2025 11:23 AM (r45RC)

80 Comcast Xfinity Privacy Policy, effective 01/01/25
What we collect (in part)
*Contact information such as your full name & telephone #
*Account Information to id you & provide or maintain your account & services which may include biometric information, such as audio recordings and facial scans when used as a means of identification.
*Analytics & Inferences - Info related to your household, account, or your use of our Services, and our predictions about what you might like or not like.
*Billing Information including your financial transactions that are available on your billing statements and other payment receipts.
*Demographic & Interest Info - Info. we obtain from other companies to better tailor our programming, marketing, an advertising services to you.
*Service Activity Info - Info. associated with your use of our Services.
...California requires that we use different names to describe the categories of info. that we collect.

Heh. See 'Ed Snowden'

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2025 11:23 AM (NFX2v)

81 When is Congress going to subpoena every recipient of the "Biden" pardons?
Since they've been given a blanket pardon, they can literally be asked about ANYTHING and cannot use the fifth as a defense. Anything!!! The opportunity here is incredible! Who do we need to initiate this?

Posted by: FunkySeeFunkyDo at February 26, 2025 11:24 AM (K+Z1r)

82 Wow, Judge who froze US Aid spending says the Freeze was 'ill-conceived'.... NOT ILLEGAL...

Which means that Judge is making Policy, not the US President and Administration, at the behest of the US voters who voted for them.

Pure flat out commy fucking action, which creates a Constitutional Crises.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 26, 2025 11:24 AM (QAkQ3)

83 65.

The fakey Boston accent and totally forced profanity to make her tough is like nails on a chalkboard.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 26, 2025 11:24 AM (kcXak)

84 Clinger and Radar would have made a stupid show on their own.
Posted by: Sifty Boones

Remember After M*A*S*H*? That didn't last long.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 11:24 AM (77rzZ)

85 Clinger and Radar would have made a stupid show on their own.

Wasn't that basically After M*A*S*H?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 26, 2025 11:25 AM (Q0kLU)

86
Isn't copyright set to expire on James Bond? I don't understand loading the Broccolli's pockets with cash if so.

Posted by: Auspex at February 26, 2025 11:25 AM (j4U/Z)

87 Timothy Dalton plays Bond in Hot Fuzz.

He's retired and still addicted to ~~accidents~~ murder.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 11:25 AM (GBKbO)

88 >>>How long will the minority shareholders of the yet-to-be-named SpinCo be willing to accept worthless and now counterproductive cable news networks hoovering up cash from profitable sports and entertainment divisions?

Two words: Women jumping on trampolines.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 26, 2025 11:25 AM (i24o9)

89 83 65.

The fakey Boston accent and totally forced profanity to make her tough is like nails on a chalkboard.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 26, 2025 11:24 AM (kcXak)

Yeah… 100 pounds of obnoxious. maybe she will die in the series….

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2025 11:26 AM (PCK5/)

90

I never bought into Brosnan playing Bond. I've always thought he was effeminate.

Posted by: four seasons at February 26, 2025 11:26 AM (3ek7K)

91 A Bond movie is really only as good as its script. Not even Connery in his prime could have made Moonraker work.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 26, 2025 11:26 AM (Q0kLU)

92 "6 more days until the State of the Union....
Posted by: Helena Handbasket"

*checks online for Kevlar underwear*

Posted by: fd at February 26, 2025 11:26 AM (vFG9F)

93 And reboot MXC.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 26, 2025 11:26 AM (i24o9)

94 We're not quite at the end. A lot of the older generation still thinks that the media we have means something.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2025 11:26 AM (NR6c1)

95 It's looking like the democratization of media.

Love it.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 26, 2025 11:27 AM (PzXaK)

96 94 We're not quite at the end. A lot of the older generation still thinks that the media we have means something.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2025 11:26 AM (NR6c1)

They are dying off… the future is not theirs…

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2025 11:27 AM (PCK5/)

97 59
‘ Stansbury is a New Mexico Dem. In other words corrupt’

Maybe the DOJ should give her her own personal DOGE. I’m sure all her income is legitimate.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 26, 2025 11:27 AM (jbnUc)

98 I pretty much liked all of the Bond movies except the last two, Spectre is when they jumped the Walther PPK,

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 26, 2025 11:27 AM (XV/Pl)

99 Dear Congressassholes,

I don't even *know* what the State of the Union is yet because we've only just begun sifting through the decades of shitbaggery you let go on under your noses or even with your blessing. As I find out more, rest assured, I will be coming for you. And hell is coming with me.

XOXO

-Orange Hitler

P.S. I'm demolishing the White House now because I've scrubbed this place from stem to stern with an industrial hotsie and still can't get the old guy stink out of it. I'll send you the bill.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2025 11:27 AM (VoAdT)

100 I never bought into Brosnan playing Bond. I've always thought he was effeminate.
Posted by: four seasons

Did he and Stephanie Zimbalist ever do it on Remington Steele?

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 11:28 AM (77rzZ)

101 From the things wrong with media files... last night on jeopardy, there was a category called fascists. One of the questions was a George soros question that was phrased "from what country did George soros escape fascism." What the hell? He was in league with them.

The at the end of the category Ken Jennings said, let's hope that is an end to fasicm.

Talk about heavy handed propaganda.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 26, 2025 11:28 AM (LBZRe)

102 77 I like Pierce Bronsan though I agree about his Bond movies. I thought he was going to be the perfect Bond.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Brosnan was the perfect Bond. His scripts, however, were not.

He was, until Craig brought the toughness back in Casino Royale and Skyfall.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I never liked Craig. I'm not a chick, but the Bond movie character is supposed to be handsome and charming (like Brosnan, I assume)...and Craig is a troll with creepy, piercing eyes.

Posted by: Movie Moron at February 26, 2025 11:28 AM (JCZqz)

103 Probably not government subsidies (at least, not now that USAID has been shuttered and DOGE is stalking the corridors of Washington with a machete) so much as corporate subsidies.

I don't know that this can be ruled out, at least not indirectly. The timing cannot be ignored.

Money is fungible. Stopping USAID decreased the money supply for all leftist causes, whatever the source.

So the money people had to make some decisions, and clearly, cable news is incapable of delivering for their funders.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 26, 2025 11:23 AM

This. usaid was going in so many different directions and routed through multiple cut outs that I don't think we will ever know the full extent of what our tax dollars was paying for. We do know that taxpayer money was used to prop up far left "news" organizations so I would not rule out that cable news companies were involved in the grift as well.

But as you said, money is fungible and at least one large source for far left causes had been cut off at least for the next four years.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 26, 2025 11:28 AM (e5NfL)

104 Rumor has it that the Boston Federal Agent from Reacher buys it.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 11:28 AM (jqxou)

105 The disintegration of cable for streaming is what is killing these vanity news product brands. It is what has forced Disney to retool ESPN. They lived off of carriage fees in the cable packages. That is disappearing, along with their audiences. It's a one two punch.

Streaming is evolving into the best of the best taking all the money. The rest get scraps, or just put down. SpinCo has no viable buyer because it has no viable audience. YouTube channel maybe is its future.

Posted by: Black JEM at February 26, 2025 11:28 AM (GZYu7)

106 Here’s the thing that’ll be competing in the Miss Georgia USA pageant in June:

https://tinyurl.com/mrxmuruk

Posted by: one hour sober at February 26, 2025 11:28 AM (Y1sOo)

107 78.

All the Daniel Craig Bond films seem like the perfect guy was cast to kick ass and bang broads, but the writers were so scared of masculinity that they kept him on a leash all the way. Made him a brooding mess, looking out the window at the bad guys because Mama Broccoli wouldn't let him go out to play.

Same thing happened to Jon Bernthal in Punisher. Perfect guy for the job, but the writers hated the character so much they had to fuck him up every episode.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 26, 2025 11:29 AM (Jvy+X)

108 I pretty much liked all of the Bond movies except the last two, Spectre is when they jumped the Walther PPK,
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 26, 2025 11:27 AM (XV/Pl)
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Terrible script, and Christoph Walz was totally misused.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 26, 2025 11:29 AM (6K6Eu)

109 You can spin off supporting characters if they're strong enough, say a second lead. See Joss Whedon's Angel, which developed its own style separate from its parent Buffy. And two other supporting characters from the original came over too, Cordelia Chase and Wesley Wyndham-Price. Both of them grew and changed in their own ways after the spin-off began.

But no, we would not want to see a Lieutenant Chekov or a Commander Worf spin-off, and an Kuryakin of the U.N.C.L.E. spin-off would have been, in today's terms, *lame.*

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2025 11:29 AM (J2vNu)

110 Pity... I liked Neagley in the books. But I suspect that giving her the Man Called Hawk treatment would, by necessity, kill what made her interesting to begin with.

Posted by: American Hawkman at February 26, 2025 11:29 AM (9VDxG)

111 104 Rumor has it that the Boston Federal Agent from Reacher buys it.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 11:28 AM (jqxou)

All right…

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2025 11:29 AM (PCK5/)

112 Isn't copyright set to expire on James Bond? I don't understand loading the Broccolli's pockets with cash if so.
Posted by: Auspex at February 26, 2025 11:25 AM (j4U/Z)

I guess it resets the clock, maybe?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2025 11:29 AM (VoAdT)

113 Good Rant, Joe. Thanks.

But it is what it is & I doubt anyone will slay the dragons - at least in my lifetime - because they're all so intertwined.

Datamation, Critics Warn as DoJ, FCC Clear Comcast-NBC Merger, January 19, 2011

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2025 11:30 AM (NFX2v)

114 I liked the serious Bond and I liked the ridiculous Bond of Roger Moore, in fact the series needs to get back a little of that ridiculousness to modulate the Groundedness of the Daniel Craig Bond.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 26, 2025 11:30 AM (XV/Pl)

115 Would banning pharma ads kill tv?

Posted by: mr tmz at February 26, 2025 11:30 AM (rJ48h)

116 But as you said, money is fungible and at least one large source for far left causes had been cut off at least for the next four years.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 26, 2025 11:28 AM (e5NfL)

It was a genius move by BADORANGEMAN, which I don't know that I've seen anybody say that they anticipated.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 26, 2025 11:30 AM (i24o9)

117 They are spining off a Reacher character into another series. What a waste of moolah. Amazon.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 11:09 AM (jqxou)
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Which one?
Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at February 26, 2025 11:10 AM (6K6Eu)

The one that started as a online book seller, not the river.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2025 11:30 AM (ExV1e)

118 I always thought the Bond movies were a little too Gentleman Spy when compared to the books.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 26, 2025 11:30 AM (PzXaK)

119 Goldeneye was an excellent Bond movie. Brian was good band Sean Bean was a good villain. And Isabella Scorupco, homina homina

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2025 11:30 AM (r45RC)

120 Brosnan in Fast Charlie is amazing.

The nod to the PPK made me laugh hard. Loved it.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 26, 2025 11:31 AM (Jvy+X)

121
The fakey Boston accent and totally forced profanity to make her tough is like nails on a chalkboard.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 26, 2025 11:24 AM (kcXak)

That was a Boston accent? Persuader is one of my favorite reacher books. Don't remember the dea characters too specifically, but thick weird accent was not in my mind. Thought she was French Canadian trying to do American, or maybe she is deaf and learned to talk reading lips.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 26, 2025 11:32 AM (LBZRe)

122 Damn. Kat Timpf has breast cancer.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 26, 2025 11:32 AM (pohLc)

123 OT but I loved the Bourne books but casting Matt Damon ruined the movies for me.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 11:32 AM (cwGMH)

124 It’s titanic deck chair rearranging. Cable news audience is oooooolllldddd. And it’s not getting any younger. Its audience is literally dying bit by bit every year.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 26, 2025 11:33 AM (TuAFT)

125 I'm really surprised the James Bond franchise hasn't made a movie about Ian Fleming. He was MI5, or was it MI6. Kind of a back water, low level guy but they could embellish the hell out of his biography. Most of his exploits were according to him but what the hell, spruce them up a little. Tried to kill Hitler, second dibs on Stalin.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 26, 2025 11:33 AM (gm9Sb)

126 The winds of indifference have ceased to care.
Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at February 26, 2025 11:17 AM

Lo, my field of fucks is barren.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 26, 2025 11:33 AM (jc0TO)

127 "I rallied my fuck army but it's been fucking defeated."

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 26, 2025 11:34 AM (PzXaK)

128 Democrats are really and truly dying on the spending hill.

They still think hectoring, bullying and hysterics work.

Good.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 26, 2025 11:34 AM (tT6L1)

129 127 "I rallied my fuck army but it's been fucking defeated."
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 26, 2025 11:34 AM (PzXaK)

======

The Ballad of the Battle of the Field of Fucks

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 11:34 AM (GBKbO)

130 Brosnan in Fast Charlie is amazing.

The nod to the PPK made me laugh hard. Loved it.
Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 26, 2025 11:31 AM (Jvy+X)

Morena Baccani was in Fast Charlie.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 11:34 AM (cwGMH)

131 121.

It sounds like a coked-up dialogue coach from Chatsworth, CA taught a coked-up chick from New York how to do a shitty Boston accent.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 26, 2025 11:34 AM (Jvy+X)

132 I never liked Craig. I'm not a chick, but the Bond movie character is supposed to be handsome and charming (like Brosnan, I assume)...and Craig is a troll with creepy, piercing eyes.
Posted by: Movie Moron at February 26, 2025

***
Fleming's Bond was good-looking, yes; "taciturn, ironical, and cold," "saturnine," etc. He had more than a little charm with the ladies, of course, and a sense of humor (people who say Fleming's JB had none are quite wrong). Despie Fleming's idea that David Niven or Cary Grant would have been ideal movie casting, Bond was not like either of them. He himself reflects at one point that "there was something alien and un-English about himself."

The young (ca. 1955-56) Richard Burton would have been a good choice if one of the earlier books had been filmed. Imagine a young Burton in a faithful adaptation of Moonraker, for instance.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2025 11:35 AM (J2vNu)

133 110 Pity... I liked Neagley in the books. But I suspect that giving her the Man Called Hawk treatment would, by necessity, kill what made her interesting to begin with.
Posted by: American Hawkman at February 26, 2025 11:29 AM (9VDxG)

I always pictured neagley as buff crossfit built dark haired Mediterranean sort. Italian or Greek looking. Not tall and skinny herion shiek looking.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 26, 2025 11:35 AM (LBZRe)

134 Besides being lunch time, I am enjoying the winning seeing Cultural Marxists getting canned

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2025 11:35 AM (/iyoL)

135
Tater as Ensign Pulver in the reboot of "McHale's Navy".

Posted by: Auspex at February 26, 2025 11:35 AM (j4U/Z)

136 >>> 128 Democrats are really and truly dying on the spending hill.

They still think hectoring, bullying and hysterics work.

Good.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 26, 2025 11:34 AM (tT6L1)

I do expect the little shits to try something, anything nasty this year buuut hopefully having to pay for their own bricks and other things will make it more difficult for them to get started.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 26, 2025 11:35 AM (Vqx30)

137 Psycho mayor Tiffany Ledyard lost her primary. She'll be out of office in May. Probably run for Congress

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2025 11:36 AM (r45RC)

138 83
‘ The fakey Boston accent …is like nails on a chalkboard’

I thought that’s what a genuine Boston accent sounded like?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 26, 2025 11:36 AM (jbnUc)

139 130

Pretty sure Fast Charlie was in Morena Baccani too.
She touches my joy brain centers.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 26, 2025 11:36 AM (Jvy+X)

140 I like the original Jack Reacher movie for its scenes in Pittsburgh, especially driving scenes. Safety cones, closed on ramps, closed off ramps, bridges down to one lane all courtesy of PennDot.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 26, 2025 11:36 AM (gm9Sb)

141 Would banning pharma ads kill tv?
Posted by: mr tmz at February 26, 2025 11:30 AM

Maybe, but it would make me happy.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2025 11:36 AM (hOk1M)

142 >>Thought she was French Canadian trying to do American

Looked it up. She's British.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 26, 2025 11:36 AM (Y1sOo)

143 I always thought the Bond movies were a little too Gentleman Spy when compared to the books.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 26, 2025

***
In Goldfinger and beyond, yes. The first two films, Connery still has those rough edges.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2025 11:37 AM (J2vNu)

144 Rules of cat swinging.

Choke up on the tail.
Keep it away from you.
Underhand, no wind-up.

Posted by: DaveA at February 26, 2025 11:37 AM (FhXTo)

145 Years ago Evan Thomas estimated the FNM was worth 15 points to the Dems. I wonder what it is now?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2025 11:37 AM (t0Rmr)

146 138.

Fair point. They do sound like waterheads on cough syrup.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 26, 2025 11:37 AM (Jvy+X)

147 I do expect the little shits to try something, anything nasty this year buuut hopefully having to pay for their own bricks and other things will make it more difficult for them to get started.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 26, 2025 11:35 AM (Vqx30)
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More than a few people have noted the small number of "protesters" at events with hand made signs rather than professionally printed.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 26, 2025 11:37 AM (tT6L1)

148 >>> 141 Would banning pharma ads kill tv?
Posted by: mr tmz at February 26, 2025 11:30 AM

Maybe, but it would make me happy.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2025 11:36 AM (hOk1M)

Imagine a year with NO tee wee broadcast...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 26, 2025 11:37 AM (Vqx30)

149 I could well believe Daniel Craig as a spy, just not as Bond.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 26, 2025 11:37 AM (jc0TO)

150 142 >>Thought she was French Canadian trying to do American

Looked it up. She's British.
Posted by: one hour sober at February 26, 2025 11:36 AM (Y1sOo)

And awful, just awful.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2025 11:37 AM (PCK5/)

151 They haven't bothered to give it a name yet, calling it just "SpinCo."
.

Perfect.
I'm old enough to remember when 'fact-checkers'
were called 'spin-doctors'.

Posted by: OldManMike at February 26, 2025 11:37 AM (vuDVZ)

152 I never liked Craig. I'm not a chick, but the Bond movie character is supposed to be handsome and charming (like Brosnan, I assume)...and Craig is a troll with creepy, piercing eyes.
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Craig would have made a perfect Bond Villain.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 26, 2025 11:38 AM (pLaQB)

153 141 Would banning pharma ads kill tv?
Posted by: mr tmz at February 26, 2025 11:30 AM

Maybe, but it would make me happy.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2025 11:36 AM (hOk1M)

Yes. Prolly could only afford on CSI show.

Cause goodness knows we need 20 of them.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 26, 2025 11:38 AM (LBZRe)

154 spin-doctors'.
Posted by: OldManMike at February 26, 2025 11:37 AM (vuDVZ)

Spin Doctors was the first CD I ever bought.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 11:38 AM (cwGMH)

155 Anti-trust is about one company having complete control of an industry or sector. But are there any regulations about companies that branch out wildly into other sectors they have nothing to do with? Is there even a name for that sort of regulation? Anti-sprawl? I don't know.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
========
Conglomerates is the name of the phenomenon and anti trust laws apply if the conglomerate uses its market strength in one area to dominate another product area.

Generally conglomerates do poorly for stockholders over time as they try to do a poor approximation of what mutual index funds do already--some products get malinvestment and others get too little. GE is a classic example of a company laid low by conglomeration. ITT and ATT are others.

They are inefficient in operation and a product of merger and acquisition mania that management consultants and investment banks just love.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2025 11:38 AM (ctrM5)

156 Craig was good in Archangel…

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2025 11:39 AM (PCK5/)

157 as an operative really, he was too obvious as a spy. Spys should be ... more invisible.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 26, 2025 11:39 AM (jc0TO)

158 Democrats are really and truly dying on the spending hill.

They still think hectoring, bullying and hysterics work.

Good.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 26, 2025 11:34 AM (tT6L1)

May have worked a bit when we were not $30+T in debt, they had not inflated the F out of the currency, when you didn't need a pay day loan to buy eggs to feed your kids, and when Trusk had not just shown a big giant spotlight on your wasteful spending of the last four year, culminating in the most expensive D landlside loss of other people's money in everyone's recent memory.

Yeah, go with muh spending. People care fuckall.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 26, 2025 11:39 AM (i24o9)

159 They need to bring back cigarette advertising

Posted by: Life of Wryly at February 26, 2025 11:39 AM (1FWWQ)

160 I read all the Lee Child books, but the details don't stick. I forgot almost everything. Buying clothes every four days or so. The toothbrush. A fascination with 9mm parabellum and some kind of small machine gun is it MK5? That shoots them.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 11:39 AM (jqxou)

161 >>137 Psycho mayor Tiffany Ledyard lost her primary. She'll be out of office in May.

A hundred bucks says the guy who defeated her will be no different when it comes to graft. He'll just hide it a little better.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 26, 2025 11:39 AM (Y1sOo)

162 150 142 >>Thought she was French Canadian trying to do American

Looked it up. She's British.
Posted by: one hour sober at February 26, 2025 11:36 AM (Y1sOo)

And awful, just awful.
Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2025 11:37 AM (PCK5/

As bad as the accent is I think it's so bad that I like it. I'm weird that way.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 26, 2025 11:40 AM (LBZRe)

163 ‘ The fakey Boston accent …is like nails on a chalkboard’

I thought that’s what a genuine Boston accent sounded like?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 26, 2025 11:36 AM

You asked for it...

https://youtu.be/rLwbzGyC6t4

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2025 11:40 AM (cH2mQ)

164 Has the SC intervened in that Special Council TRO thing yet? Reading the briefs it's a slam dunk for the President.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 26, 2025 11:40 AM (jc0TO)

165 Fleming's Bond was good-looking, yes; "taciturn, ironical, and cold," "saturnine," etc.

That's why I specified the "movie" Bond character is handsome and charming. I (and most people) haven't read the books, and suspect Movie Bond is a very different character from Book Bond. Hell, Movie Bond changes significantly depending on the film!

Posted by: Movie Moron at February 26, 2025 11:41 AM (JCZqz)

166 Craig was good in Cowboys and Aliens but Clancy Brown stole that movie.

Harrison Ford phoned in 80% of his lines.

Don't get me started.

WTF don't we get more Clancy Brown movies?

Kurgan, Retired.
Kurgan: Attorney at Law
Kurgan in the Family
A Kurgan Christmas

GOLDMINE JUST SITTING THERE

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 26, 2025 11:41 AM (Jvy+X)

167 Thomas derived that from an econometrician (at GMU but was at UCLA). Tim Groseclose who studied media effects on voting and ideology.

For his sins, Groseclose was basically sidelined in his academic career at UCLA just as Eugene Volokh, prolific law professor, at UCLA law was.

Volokh is now somewhere else (Northwestern Law?) and Groseclose is at the friendlier George Mason University in its Econ Dept I think.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2025 11:41 AM (ctrM5)

168 I wish someone at Amazon would option my Theda Bara books. They'd be a good period piece detective series.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Who would you see playing Theda?

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 11:41 AM (77rzZ)

169 140 I like the original Jack Reacher movie for its scenes in Pittsburgh, especially driving scenes.
____

I like the movie because it's plot is essentially lifted from an Agatha Christie novel, "The ABC Murders" -- a single targeted murder disguised within a larger random mass killing (or, in the book, series of killings).

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at February 26, 2025 11:41 AM (qUkBO)

170 164 Has the SC intervened in that Special Council TRO thing yet? Reading the briefs it's a slam dunk for the President.
Posted by: Grump928(C)

Hold on...judges get to read people's briefs!!??! What about their boxers? Damn, I picked the wrong line of work!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at February 26, 2025 11:42 AM (JCZqz)

171 160 I read all the Lee Child books, but the details don't stick. I forgot almost everything. Buying clothes every four days or so. The toothbrush. A fascination with 9mm parabellum and some kind of small machine gun is it MK5? That shoots them.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 11:39 AM (jqxou)

I have all the books. I read them in the chronological timeliness of the world he's in not the order they were written. At one point over the course of about three months he kills about thirty people and send twelve to the hospital for lifetime debilitating injuries. No way he's not America's most wanted.

Lol

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 26, 2025 11:43 AM (LBZRe)

172 I never read the Reacher books so I liked both Reacher movies. Casting Cruise had no effect on me.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 11:43 AM (cwGMH)

173 160 I read all the Lee Child books, but the details don't stick. I forgot almost everything. Buying clothes every four days or so. The toothbrush. A fascination with 9mm parabellum and some kind of small machine gun is it MK5? That shoots them.
Posted by: Boss Moss
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Lee Child is one of the few authors that is somewhat knowledgeable about firearms. But I think is still a lefty in politics.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2025 11:43 AM (ctrM5)

174 The Iger Sanction.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 26, 2025 11:43 AM (UN2Ro)

175 WTF don't we get more Clancy Brown movies?

Kurgan, Retired.
Kurgan: Attorney at Law
Kurgan in the Family
A Kurgan Christmas

GOLDMINE JUST SITTING THERE
Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 26, 2025 11:41 AM (Jvy+X)
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Mr. Krabs Goes to Washington

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2025 11:44 AM (7fElN)

176 Boobs, not books. This is Mannix thread, people.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 26, 2025 11:44 AM (i24o9)

177 175 Mr. Krabs Goes to Washington
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2025 11:44 AM (7fElN)

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Mr. Krabs Conquers Wall Street with Money

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 11:45 AM (GBKbO)

178 174 The Iger Sanction.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 26, 2025 11:43 AM (UN2Ro)

What happened to Disney……

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2025 11:45 AM (PCK5/)

179 ==========
Lee Child is one of the few authors that is somewhat knowledgeable about firearms. But I think is still a lefty in politics.
Posted by: whig at February 26, 2025 11:43 AM (ctrM5

Yes. More than a few of his books the villians are straight outta woke Central casting.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 26, 2025 11:45 AM (LBZRe)

180 I want more Lincoln Lawyer movies.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 11:45 AM (cwGMH)

181 Cowboys and Aliens was a terrible movie. Could have been loads of fun but whoever managed that movie had no idea how to make an action farce.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 26, 2025 11:45 AM (tT6L1)

182 May have worked a bit when we were not $30+T in debt, they had not inflated the F out of the currency, when you didn't need a pay day loan to buy eggs to feed your kids, and when Trusk had not just shown a big giant spotlight on your wasteful spending of the last four year, culminating in the most expensive D landlside loss of other people's money in everyone's recent memory.

Yeah, go with muh spending. People care fuckall.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Government workers are the heart of the Democrat machine along with the Free Shit Army. Take out gubmint workers, the Dems are a minority party until they can find a new coalition.

Basically the New Deal and the Great Society splurges created a huge mass of federal, state, and local government workers and contractors that have insatiable desire for other people's money.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2025 11:45 AM (ctrM5)

183 Convinced that Reacher books are written by a series of spinning wheels with situations taped to them. Like mad libs.

Still read them. It's like sitting and eating a box of mental Cheezits.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 26, 2025 11:46 AM (q1sjZ)

184 180 I want more Lincoln Lawyer movies.

more lincoln logs > more lincoln lawyer movies

Posted by: anachronda at February 26, 2025 11:46 AM (oY6Yp)

185 A young Sam Elliot did a Travis McGee movie based on MacDonald's The Empty Copper Sea. I've never seen it.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 26, 2025 11:46 AM (pLaQB)

186 163 Heh. My Dad was born in Finland and came over here as a real little kid. They settled originally in Massachusetts due to the advance party. They only spoke Finn around the house, but evidently admired the Brahmin Boston accent. During the Kennedy admin, Dad sounded a little off.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 26, 2025 11:46 AM (gm9Sb)

187 Trump's opening his first cabinet meeting with a prayer.

Awesome.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 26, 2025 11:46 AM (XV/Pl)

188 181 Cowboys and Aliens was a terrible movie. Could have been loads of fun but whoever managed that movie had no idea how to make an action farce.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 26, 2025 11:45 AM (tT6L1)

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Iron Man was a fluke (and not even that good), and Jon Favreau is a hack.

He seems to be a better producer than director.

We'll really see when he takes the reins of LucasFilm from Kennedy (along with Filoni).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 11:46 AM (GBKbO)

189 183 Convinced that Reacher books are written by a series of spinning wheels with situations taped to them. Like mad libs.

prole novel writing machines

Posted by: chatgpt at February 26, 2025 11:46 AM (oY6Yp)

190 >>WTF don't we get more Clancy Brown movies?

Don't get crabby about it!

*Clancy voices Mr. Crabs on Spongebob Squarepants

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2025 11:46 AM (Cki93)

191 Convinced that Reacher books are written by a series of spinning wheels with situations taped to them. Like mad libs.

Still read them. It's like sitting and eating a box of mental Cheezits.
Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 26, 2025 11:46 AM (q1sjZ)
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Great literature they ain't.

But they can be a fun read if you turn your brain off for a while.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2025 11:47 AM (7fElN)

192 It seems Sam Elliot is a real Lefty… ?

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2025 11:47 AM (PCK5/)

193 WTF don't we get more Clancy Brown movies?

Kurgan, Retired.
Kurgan: Attorney at Law
Kurgan in the Family
A Kurgan Christmas

GOLDMINE JUST SITTING THERE
Posted by: Sifty Boones

Well, he did play a critical part in The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs. This YouTube short is a bit abridged, but conveys the basic storyline
https://tinyurl.com/4hnn4yrn

Posted by: Movie Moron at February 26, 2025 11:47 AM (JCZqz)

194 I want more Lincoln Lawyer movies.

more lincoln logs > more lincoln lawyer movies
Posted by: anachronda at February 26, 2025 11:46 AM (oY6Yp)

Don't know how someone couldn't like that movie.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 11:47 AM (cwGMH)

195 183 Convinced that Reacher books are written by a series of spinning wheels with situations taped to them. Like mad libs.

Still read them. It's like sitting and eating a box of mental Cheezits.
Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 26, 2025 11:46 AM (q1sjZ)

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People like formula.

It's why police procedurals continue to dominate scripted television 70 years after the concept was invented.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 11:47 AM (GBKbO)

196 181.

Jon Fareauvreauuoeax was hot off his success with Iron Man and thought he'd try a western.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 26, 2025 11:47 AM (q1sjZ)

197 It mystified me for years why corporate parents of these "news" Propaganda Sites tolerated negative cash flow. Now, they aren't, but too bad for them, because not only is no one believing their propaganda any more, no one is will to buy the companies purveying this crap.

So suck on that NBC/ABC/CBS/WaPo/NYT.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2025 11:48 AM (I9RuV)

198 Does Niedermeiers Dead Horse still post here?

Posted by: Life of Wryly at February 26, 2025 11:48 AM (1FWWQ)

199 196 181.

Jon Fareauvreauuoeax was hot off his success with Iron Man and thought he'd try a western.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 26, 2025 11:47 AM (q1sjZ)

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He actually made Cowboys v Aliens after...Iron Man 2.

Which even Marvel stans agree kind of sucks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 11:48 AM (GBKbO)

200 Great literature they ain't.

But they can be a fun read if you turn your brain off for a while.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2025 11:47 AM (7fElN)
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I refer to such books as "Mind Candy."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 26, 2025 11:48 AM (tT6L1)

201 I never got the Reacher character.
Odd enough with the Tom cruise movie version, but watched the 1st season of the Amazon series, and. . . meh. Only competed that season because that actor is so watchable (yeah, I'm a woman, whatcanIsay?).

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2025 11:48 AM (Cki93)

202 Basically the New Deal and the Great Society splurges created a huge mass of federal, state, and local government workers and contractors that have insatiable desire for other people's money.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2025 11:45 AM (ctrM5)

They are reliable D votes. They'll listen to the muh spending argument. But that's not changing any votes/support and actually makes Ds sound out of touch with the rest of America, in keeping with their pedo/grooming, children castrating, illegal alien raping and killing your daughters agenda.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 26, 2025 11:49 AM (i24o9)

203 osted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 11:46 AM (GBKbO)

Iron Man not that good?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 11:49 AM (cwGMH)

204
Yes. More than a few of his books the villians are straight outta woke Central casting.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless
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I quit reading most fiction awhile back aside from Westerns on occasion. I read the Slough House series about a year or so ago and it was decent but set in UK by a UK author so any lefty references to politics were minimal to someone not well versed in who the author was portraying.

Mostly bureaucrat spies being bad to other bureaucrat spies.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2025 11:49 AM (ctrM5)

205 192 It seems Sam Elliot is a real Lefty… ?
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He works in Hollywood. It is expected if you want to get a role.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 26, 2025 11:49 AM (pLaQB)

206 203 osted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 11:46 AM (GBKbO)

Iron Man not that good?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 11:49 AM (cwGMH)

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I think it's overrated a good bit. Not terrible, but also not really good.

Dr. Strange is the same movie but better.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 11:49 AM (GBKbO)

207 It seems Sam Elliot is a real Lefty… ?
Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2025 11:47 AM

That's the mustache talking.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 26, 2025 11:49 AM (jc0TO)

208 Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 26, 2025 11:46 AM (XV/Pl)

Good to hear. They're all "standing in the need of prayer" for wisdom, strength, perseverance and protection.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2025 11:49 AM (keczG)

209 I (and RedLetterMedia) kinda liked Cowboys v Aliens. I'd give it a 7 out of 10. Worth a watch, kind of a fun/unique concept, needed a bit more tuning on the script and a few plot points.

Posted by: Movie Moron at February 26, 2025 11:50 AM (JCZqz)

210 Read all the Reacher books, as well, including the first one by Child's brother.

What a mess that was.

No more Reacher books for me after that.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 26, 2025 11:50 AM (Y1sOo)

211 Sounds to me that the parents are going to be sending their own emails asking the now infamous question: What is exactly is what you do here?

Posted by: mustng66 at February 26, 2025 11:50 AM (w9tg2)

212 163
‘ The fakey Boston accent …is like nails on a chalkboard’

I thought that’s what a genuine Boston accent sounded like?

You asked for it..’

That’s hilarious! It makes the first time I’ve laughed at Seth Myers.

“I’m a cwopp!”

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 26, 2025 11:51 AM (jbnUc)

213 Jon Favreau is a hack.

blow me where the pampers is

Posted by: Gutter at February 26, 2025 11:51 AM (jGJov)

214 He actually made Cowboys v Aliens after...Iron Man 2.

Which even Marvel stans agree kind of sucks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

But not so much when compared to the last 6 or so Marvel films...

Posted by: Movie Moron at February 26, 2025 11:51 AM (JCZqz)

215 Craig was good in Cowboys and Aliens but Clancy Brown stole that movie.

Clancy was good as the prison guard who beat the head sodomite into a coma and made him a cripple. A lesson in there somewhere.

Posted by: Captain Hadley, Shawshank State Prison at February 26, 2025 11:51 AM (NAF5O)

216 I hoped for Selleck to do more westerns after Quigley.

Some more Sacketts movies would have been nice.

Instead we got the Jesse Stone series. Which, while good, are more like watching paint dry at an AA meeting. Which is something I can do without the TV.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 26, 2025 11:51 AM (FDfvk)

217 They are reliable D votes. They'll listen to the muh spending argument. But that's not changing any votes/support and actually makes Ds sound out of touch with the rest of America, in keeping with their pedo/grooming, children castrating, illegal alien raping and killing your daughters agenda.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

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Sorry, did not make my point clear. It was that by draining the swamp of money for contractors/state/and local governments and direct firings, this will have a knockon effect on diminishing Democrat voters going forward.

There is also probably a few fedgov employees, mebbe 10-15 percent overall that welcome getting rid of the woke assholes that do nothing other than trying to get others into trouble and when that fails, create new causes internally to create trouble.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2025 11:51 AM (ctrM5)

218 Clancy Brown is underrated. The Kurgan, Sgt Zim in Starship Troopers, Bad Boys with Sean Penn , Buckaroo Banzai, The Shawshank Redemption. I heard he was in John Wick4 but I haven't seen that

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2025 11:52 AM (r45RC)

219 >>It mystified me for years why corporate parents of these "news" Propaganda Sites tolerated negative cash flow.

WIth MSNBC, it's a loss-leader. They own so many other, no doubt profitable channels that they could take the loss. Pretty sure OBAMA made sure they got enough green tax breaks and such to make up for it.
Apparently, in January 2025 it because too expensive to maintain, with cratering ratings after the election thanks to an audience that had been worn out from years of OUTRAGE programming. IIRC, they put the channel up for sale in January after getting Maddow to take a $5 million pay cut.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2025 11:52 AM (Cki93)

220 Clancy Brown always steals the show.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 26, 2025 11:52 AM (jc0TO)

221 There is another Cowboys and Aliens movie except its Indians and Aliens. It's called Prey.

Deciding whether to give it a shot.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 11:52 AM (cwGMH)

222 The core problem is most people want cuts in government in the abstract. But as soon as it affects them personally they suddenly don’t want it anymore. And pretty much everyone gets some govt cheese.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 26, 2025 11:52 AM (TuAFT)

223 198 Does Niedermeiers Dead Horse still post here?
Posted by: Life of Wryly
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I think it has been years now unless he changed his nic.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2025 11:53 AM (ctrM5)

224 I think it's overrated a good bit. Not terrible, but also not really good.

Dr. Strange is the same movie but better.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 11:49 AM (GBKbO)
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Is Dr Strange better because of Cumberbatch as an actor or just a better movie all around?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 26, 2025 11:53 AM (tT6L1)

225 221 There is another Cowboys and Aliens movie except its Indians and Aliens. It's called Prey.

Deciding whether to give it a shot.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 11:52 AM (cwGMH)

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Predator with a chick.

It's okay. Others like it more than me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 11:53 AM (GBKbO)

226 A young Sam Elliot did a Travis McGee movie based on MacDonald's The Empty Copper Sea. I've never seen it.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 26, 2025 11:46 AM (pLaQB)
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I've never seen it either, but Elliot strikes me as Cruise-level miscasting. The guy is what, maybe 150 pounds?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2025 11:53 AM (rDiMt)

227 The Iger Sanction.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 26, 2025 11:43 AM (UN2Ro)

The indian physical fitness chick. Yum.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at February 26, 2025 11:53 AM (g8Ew8)

228 I think JJ posted article on (D) voters.

15% of voters are local, state, or federal workers or contractors.
40% of voters pay negative income tax via welfare, social security, and Tax Credits.

So PDJT swaying over 50% of voters was a BFD.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 26, 2025 11:54 AM (gbOdA)

229 @220

>>Clancy Brown always steals the show.

Clancy Brown is the Michael Shannon of Sam Rockwells.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 26, 2025 11:54 AM (XV/Pl)

230 Predator with a chick.

It's okay. Others like it more than me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 11:53 AM

I didn't feel that I completely wasted two hours. Definitely above the sharp-stick-in-the-eye line.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 26, 2025 11:54 AM (jc0TO)

231 I want more Lincoln Lawyer movies.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Fist bump.

Movies & weekly series.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2025 11:54 AM (SlNuN)

232 I've never seen it either, but Elliot strikes me as Cruise-level miscasting. The guy is what, maybe 150 pounds?
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As a rule, actors are very small. The camera likes tiny people.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 26, 2025 11:54 AM (pLaQB)

233 Clancy Brown was in Highlander right?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 11:55 AM (cwGMH)

234 Clancy Brown is the Michael Shannon of Sam Rockwells.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 26, 2025 11:54 AM

Perfect.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 26, 2025 11:55 AM (jc0TO)

235 AI news/propaganda readers incoming.

Posted by: Kestrel.987 at February 26, 2025 11:55 AM (wyl5F)

236 Sorry, did not make my point clear. It was that by draining the swamp of money for contractors/state/and local governments and direct firings, this will have a knockon effect on diminishing Democrat voters going forward.

There is also probably a few fedgov employees, mebbe 10-15 percent overall that welcome getting rid of the woke assholes that do nothing other than trying to get others into trouble and when that fails, create new causes internally to create trouble.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2025 11:51 AM (ctrM5)

No misunderstanding; I was just burnishing my point that real people not sheltered in government from the last several recessions do not care about Ds' spending appeals.

Yours is a parallel point.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 26, 2025 11:55 AM (i24o9)

237 224 Is Dr Strange better because of Cumberbatch as an actor or just a better movie all around?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 26, 2025 11:53 AM (tT6L1)

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Just better all around. It's not great cinema, but the arcs for the central characters just work better in Dr. Strange than in Iron Man.

Iron Man's arc is...confusing at best. Does he grow? Does he actually want to end all weapons manufacture? Does he change his mind when he realizes he can fly himself in a power suit? It's weird.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

238 As a rule, actors are very small. The camera likes tiny people.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 26, 2025 11:54 AM (pLaQB)

Can confirm
/ Al Pacino

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 26, 2025 11:55 AM (TuAFT)

239 There can be only one.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 11:55 AM (jqxou)

240 222 The core problem is most people want cuts in government in the abstract. But as soon as it affects them personally they suddenly don’t want it anymore. And pretty much everyone gets some govt cheese.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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That is true of a few programs but most of what DOGE is uncovering is simply massive fraud that serves only a few. AID goes away and only DC is essentially hurt. And so on. Someone more skilful than I could probably do a datacloud indicating that most people get scraps (aside from Medicare and Social Security) while a relative few others make bank.

Your implicit assumption is that distribution of government cheese is homogeneous and I am pretty sure that is not the true distribution of it.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2025 11:55 AM (ctrM5)

241 229.

The Michael Shannon scene in The Bikeriders was every bit as good as the Indianapolis monologue in Jaws. I thought.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 26, 2025 11:56 AM (FDfvk)

242 240 That is true of a few programs but most of what DOGE is uncovering is simply massive fraud that serves only a few. AID goes away and only DC is essentially hurt. And so on. Someone more skilful than I could probably do a datacloud indicating that most people get scraps (aside from Medicare and Social Security) while a relative few others make bank.

Your implicit assumption is that distribution of government cheese is homogeneous and I am pretty sure that is not the true distribution of it.
Posted by: whig at February 26, 2025 11:55 AM (ctrM5)

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Since rules and procedures were followed, I prefer to think of it all as corruption, not fraud.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 11:56 AM (GBKbO)

243 216 Selleck westerns are always very technically correct when it comes to firearms, dress, and saddle and tack. I'm sure he had a lot of input. A movie featuring an Evans Rifle, or one going into cartridge conversions.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 26, 2025 11:56 AM (gm9Sb)

244
Obama and Big Mike as Bond and Pussy Galore.

Gold, pure gold.

Posted by: Auspex at February 26, 2025 11:56 AM (j4U/Z)

245 [From a post last week by Ace:] BBC is a front for Qatari-funded terrorism and runs nothing but Hamas propaganda disguised as "news"?

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[And my response to it:] Similarly, all the leftist terrestrial & cable "news networks" are owned by "entertainment companies" in bed with & controlled by the ChiComms -- because the latter controls access to the largest consumer market on the planet.

* Also the America-hating NBA (and WNBA?) have entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 26, 2025 11:56 AM (i2yVp)

246 231.

Lincoln Lawyer movie was one of the few that didn't try to hide the homeless camps and garbage in the streets.

Also, bewbs.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 26, 2025 11:57 AM (FDfvk)

247 Iron Man's arc is...confusing at best. Does he grow? Does he actually want to end all weapons manufacture? Does he change his mind when he realizes he can fly himself in a power suit? It's weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 11:55 AM (GBKbO)
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Heh, yeah, I noticed that gigantic plot hole too. I never thought of it as a character arc so much as, "Okay, deal with the revelation at some point in the story line!"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 26, 2025 11:57 AM (tT6L1)

248 As a rule, actors are very small. The camera likes tiny people.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 26, 2025 11:54 AM (pLaQB)

Can confirm
/ Al Pacino
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 26, 2025 11:55 AM (TuAFT)

Son met Viggo Mortensen. Short man with a big head. Was a nice guy, though.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 26, 2025 11:57 AM (pJbQu)

249 ABC News is on top for the nightly newscast, and it pulls 1.3 million in the key demographic - more than twice as much as the best show on cable news.

I have to believe the majority of these viewers skew to the older limits of the demo. I don't know anyone younger than Gen X who watches network news.

Do any of you morons know Millenials and younger who watch old school network news?

Posted by: kallisto at February 26, 2025 11:58 AM (dCxaZ)

250 That’s hilarious! It makes the first time I’ve laughed at Seth Myers.

“I’m a cwopp!”
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 26, 2025 11:51 AM

Ditto. Being a Masshole (without an accent), that sketch always kills me.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2025 11:58 AM (hOk1M)

251 Clancy was in the Punisher series

Posted by: morigu at February 26, 2025 11:58 AM (bK6dR)

252 247 Heh, yeah, I noticed that gigantic plot hole too. I never thought of it as a character arc so much as, "Okay, deal with the revelation at some point in the story line!"
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 26, 2025 11:57 AM (tT6L1)

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It's not a plot hole.

It's a...character hole?

There's no hole in the motion from one plot point to the next. It's a hole in character motivation.

Dr. Strange doesn't have that. Also, the action scenes are much more fun.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 11:58 AM (GBKbO)

253 No misunderstanding; I was just burnishing my point that real people not sheltered in government from the last several recessions do not care about Ds' spending appeals.

Yours is a parallel point.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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No worries, somedays I write clearer than others but I agree with your argument and as it becomes apparent the truly massive scale of fraud, waste, and abuse, it is more likely to infuriate the mass of taxpayers that outnumber the government workers and their families. They always vote, but taxpayers often do not (Free Shit Army has its votes bought, harvested, or frauded).

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2025 11:58 AM (ctrM5)

254 Crossfire Trail with Tom Selleck was pretty good . Mark Harmon played a bad guy very well.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 11:58 AM (cwGMH)

255 Your implicit assumption is that distribution of government cheese is homogeneous and I am pretty sure that is not the true distribution of it.
Posted by: whig at February 26, 2025 11:55 AM (ctrM5)

I didn’t assume or say that. Let’s say average joe gets $1000 in govt cheese. It doesn’t matter if the parasites in DC get $1M. Losing that $1000 makes average Joe opposed to spending cuts. Even if it means the parasites lose their $1M. Joe wants his cheese protected.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 26, 2025 11:58 AM (TuAFT)

256 The core problem is most people want cuts in government in the abstract. But as soon as it affects them personally they suddenly don’t want it anymore. And pretty much everyone gets some govt cheese.

Victims of a Ponzi Scheme don't mind a Ponzi Scheme as long as they benefit from the Ponzi Scheme.

Posted by: Zombie Charles Ponzi at February 26, 2025 11:59 AM (NAF5O)

257 Cutting money from foreigners, either overseas or within the country is both a fiscal and political winner.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 26, 2025 11:59 AM (jc0TO)

258 for foreigners.

FMF

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 26, 2025 11:59 AM (jc0TO)

259 A young Sam Elliot did a Travis McGee movie based on MacDonald's The Empty Copper Sea. I've never seen it.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 26, 2025

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Elliott would have been okay . . . but they had to tinker and change his houseboat into a sailboat. Nunh-uh.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2025 12:00 PM (J2vNu)

260 Do any of you morons know Millenials and younger who watch old school network news?

I'm a Millennial and I don't know anyone who watched cable news, let alone the networks. Most everyone I know only has streaming services on their tvs

Posted by: brak at February 26, 2025 12:01 PM (jGJov)

261 240 Your implicit assumption is that distribution of government cheese is homogeneous and I am pretty sure that is not the true distribution of it.

i saw homogeneous cheese open for smeg and the heads on titan station in the early 2100s

Posted by: anachronda at February 26, 2025 12:01 PM (oY6Yp)

262 >>>USAID has been shuttered and DOGE is stalking the corridors of Washington with a machete

And/or a scythe!

Posted by: m at February 26, 2025 12:01 PM (v0TzN)

263 Live cabinet meeting. Very Trumpian

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2025 12:01 PM (r45RC)

264 Reacher was so good, I saw all I needed to see in season 1 and cared not to see anymore.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 26, 2025 12:01 PM (KbCG3)

265 As a rule, actors are very small. The camera likes tiny people.
Posted by: Pudinhead

*John Holmes has entered the chat

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2025 12:01 PM (SlNuN)

266 I have to believe the majority of these viewers skew to the older limits of the demo. I don't know anyone younger than Gen X who watches network news.

—

The 3 nightly news each get about 6-7M viewers. Of those, 80% or so are 55 and older.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 26, 2025 12:01 PM (TuAFT)

267 Reason why I really don't like comic book movies. They have a problem with character development imo because the source material itself doesn't lend itself to character development.

I think that to have any kind of a meaningful arc, the movie has to stray away from the source material so much that the fan base will...not care for the movie. "They ruined Cyclops!!!" and such.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 26, 2025 12:01 PM (PzXaK)

268
Fake "news" Politico: "White House seizes control of the press pool"

Posted by: Soothsayer Holmes at February 26, 2025 12:02 PM (QhCdW)

269 I hear Joy Reid is already shooting a Pilot for a new game show
"Kill Whitey".
I knew she would land on her feet.

Posted by: Christopher Pike at February 26, 2025 12:02 PM (W2EWw)

270 267 Reason why I really don't like comic book movies. They have a problem with character development imo because the source material itself doesn't lend itself to character development.

I think that to have any kind of a meaningful arc, the movie has to stray away from the source material so much that the fan base will...not care for the movie. "They ruined Cyclops!!!" and such.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 26, 2025 12:01 PM (PzXaK)

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Generally more like episodes in television or actual comic book issues.

Continuing adventures.

They have their place.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 12:02 PM (GBKbO)

271 As a rule, actors are very small. The camera likes tiny people.

Porn actresses are tiny to make the dicks look bigger.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 26, 2025 12:03 PM (jc0TO)

272 Are airport network t.v. news viewings still counted?

Posted by: m at February 26, 2025 12:03 PM (v0TzN)

273 257 258 I still have P.J. O'rourke's (when he was funny) Foreigners Around the World bookmarked for entertainment.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 26, 2025 12:03 PM (gm9Sb)

274 I want a big ensemble cast movie of retired detectives called
Nostalgia Cash Grab 2026.

Jesse Stone
Remington Steel
That one guy Wahlberg plays now
That one guy Denzel plays now
Monk
Those two guys from The Detectorists
The Kurgan

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 26, 2025 12:03 PM (BORNO)

275 It's not a plot hole.

It's a...character hole?

There's no hole in the motion from one plot point to the next. It's a hole in character motivation.

Dr. Strange doesn't have that. Also, the action scenes are much more fun.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 11:58 AM (GBKbO)
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Ah, got it. Either way, if I, the unsophisticated movie viewer, noticed, it's a problem.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 26, 2025 12:03 PM (tT6L1)

276 Heh, yeah, I noticed that gigantic plot hole too. I never thought of it as a character arc so much as, "Okay, deal with the revelation at some point in the story line!"
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 26, 2025 11:57 AM (tT6L1)

I saw no plot hole. I saw a timeline where what you guys wanted would not fit. its not like this took place over a year or more. it was just weeks or months after he returned.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 12:04 PM (cwGMH)

277 Monica Lewinsky is back on the scene. Better-looking now than she was then, IMO.

Still has the ka-razzzy eyes, though.

Young dudes: you're smarter than Bill Clinton. Never, never, never stick it in crazy. Ever.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 26, 2025 12:04 PM (W5ArC)

278 235 AI news/propaganda readers incoming.

two of my local drive thrus have gone with a.i. order-takers. i generally wind up shouting at the horrible one at carl's jr. the one at der wienerschnitzel isn't too bad, although she does seem fixated on the jalapeno poppers.

Posted by: anachronda at February 26, 2025 12:04 PM (oY6Yp)

279 275 Ah, got it. Either way, if I, the unsophisticated movie viewer, noticed, it's a problem.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 26, 2025 12:03 PM (tT6L1)

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Shut Up About Plot Holes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9HivyjAKlc

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 12:04 PM (GBKbO)

280 Instead we got the Jesse Stone series. Which, while good, are more like watching paint dry at an AA meeting. Which is something I can do without the TV.
Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 26, 2025

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They are very good, and Selleck has really made the character his own . . . which -- considering that Parker originally wrote Jesse as being in his early thirties, and Selleck is a long way from that -- is amazing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2025 12:04 PM (J2vNu)

281
Generally more like episodes in television or actual comic book issues.

Continuing adventures.

They have their place.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman

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Yeah. Comics work best as an anthology imo. And random thought, like what ruined Star Trek also. The basic TOS Star Trek was an anthology and wasn't concerned with Kirk's "character journey" or whatever.

Introducing multi-episode arcs put a factor into a show/franchise/whatever that wasn't built for it. IMO of course.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 26, 2025 12:05 PM (PzXaK)

282 As a rule, actors are very small. The camera likes tiny people.
Posted by: Pudinhead
*John Holmes has entered the chat
Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2025 12:01 PM (SlNuN)

Merv Griffin is supposed to have said that to succeed in TV one had to have a big head.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 26, 2025 12:05 PM (D7oie)

283 Jesse as being in his early thirties, and Selleck is a long way from that

It's not his first rodeo.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 26, 2025 12:05 PM (jc0TO)

284 Monica Lewinsky is back on the scene. Better-looking now than she was then, IMO.

Still has the ka-razzzy eyes, though.

Young dudes: you're smarter than Bill Clinton. Never, never, never stick it in crazy. Ever.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 26, 2025 12:04 PM (W5ArC)

Or even a cigar

Posted by: Josephistan at February 26, 2025 12:05 PM (bHGBC)

285 What I like about Karoline Levitt wearing a cross while being the White House press secretary is the way it makes all the CNN correspondents hiss and cover their eyes with their forearms.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at February 26, 2025 12:06 PM (Da7Vv)

286 Do any of you morons know Millenials and younger who watch old school network news?
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I'm not even sure millennial know what a network IS when it comes to TV

Posted by: Bensdad00 at February 26, 2025 12:06 PM (F/35S)

287 The Michael Shannon scene in The Bikeriders was every bit as good as the Indianapolis monologue in Jaws. I thought.

Speaking of super hero movies he was terrible as General Zod.

TBH I don't think it is so much his acting as his character makes no sense.

The Kryptonian government is going to literally blow up the planet and won't listen to anyone else to stop them so Zod is...a villain...? for trying to pull off a coup and stop it?

And then he gets to earth finds Superman and is all happy because instead of going top make a Kryptonian colony anywhere else...hell not even Venus or Mars...he's going to kill everyone on Earth instead and assumes Superman will work with him on that?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2025 12:06 PM (t0Rmr)

288 287 And then he gets to earth finds Superman and is all happy because instead of going top make a Kryptonian colony anywhere else...hell not even Venus or Mars...he's going to kill everyone on Earth instead and assumes Superman will work with him on that?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2025 12:06 PM (t0Rmr)

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He struck me as an irrational psychopath.

It's not compelling character work, but it makes everything make sense.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 12:07 PM (GBKbO)

289 280.

Bought the boxed set. They are amazing. William Devane nailed what it is like being a drunk. I have actually played those scenes over at times. Definitely a rainy day marathon set of movies.
Not exactly action-packed, but very coply.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 26, 2025 12:07 PM (BORNO)

290 He's probably a bit old for the parts now, but I'd have liked to see a younger David Morse cast as Reacher or McGee. YMMV.

I dread the thought of what the next incarnation of James Bond will be like. Didn't care that much for the Craigs. The two Daltons were more fun than any of the series since Goldfinger. Brosnan was pretty good in there too. Again, YMMV.

Every now and then there's talk of getting some Travis McGee movies off the ground -- last I heard they were thinking Christian Bale, and that could be okay (initially I think they were talking about, dear God in heaven, Leonardo DiCaprio).

Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 26, 2025 12:08 PM (q3u5l)

291 Tom Selleck, Vince Vaughn and Tim Robbins are pretty tall.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 12:08 PM (cwGMH)

292 Since rules and procedures were followed, I prefer to think of it all as corruption, not fraud.
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I like that the defense of all this is, "sure we wrote billions in checks to ourselves, but they were authentic government checks, so that means the payments were not fraudulent."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2025 12:08 PM (T3zUV)

293 Do any of you morons know Millenials and younger who watch old school network news?
Posted by: kallisto at February 26, 2025 11:58 AM (dCxaZ)

I don’t know anyone my age who has ever had cable TV or satellite. It’s always been streaming.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 26, 2025 12:08 PM (l3YAf)

294 From this summer, ABC News press release on ratings. https://tinyurl.com/wxfesfkn

Need to scroll down to critical information but total daily broadcast news audience 19-54 was about 2.6 million. CBS had about 600k, ABC about 1100k, and NBC had about 9.5 k. Total audience was about 18 million. So, you can tell that viewers 55 and older are about 85 percent of broadcast news audience.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2025 12:09 PM (ctrM5)

295 292 Since rules and procedures were followed, I prefer to think of it all as corruption, not fraud.
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I like that the defense of all this is, "sure we wrote billions in checks to ourselves, but they were authentic government checks, so that means the payments were not fraudulent."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2025 12:08 PM (T3zUV)

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"It wasn't against the law for USAID to pay the BBC to make anti-Republican propaganda, so it's not fraud and cutting the spending is against the law!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 12:09 PM (GBKbO)

296 Tom Selleck is 80 and 6'4".

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 12:09 PM (jqxou)

297 When my father died, we wound up eating government cheese. It is plasticky and mealy and tastes like failure. I went out and got the best paying job I could so my mom would never have to eat that shit again.

A lot of folks are quite content with it though. And think they are smahrt sticking it to the man.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 26, 2025 12:10 PM (wBaIH)

298 Bought the boxed set. They are amazing. William Devane nailed what it is like being a drunk. I have actually played those scenes over at times. Definitely a rainy day marathon set of movies.
Not exactly action-packed, but very coply.
Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 26, 2025

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In the ones derived from the actual novels, they use great whacking hunks of Parker's dialog. And the ones written to carry on after Parker's passing seemed to do a fine job too.

Parker's dialog is great for a certain kind of tough movie -- the Spensers, the Jesse Stones, and the Western Appaloosa.

Devane amazed me fifty years ago when he played JFK in The Missiles of October w/ Martin Sheen as Bobby Sr.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2025 12:10 PM (J2vNu)

299 291.
Vince Vaughn can stand flat-footed and scratch his balls with one hand and Tom Cruise's chin with the other.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 26, 2025 12:10 PM (BORNO)

300 T>>om Selleck, Vince Vaughn and Tim Robbins are pretty tall.

Clint Eastwood is 6'4"

Posted by: one hour sober at February 26, 2025 12:11 PM (Y1sOo)

301 I liked the government cheese.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 12:11 PM (jqxou)

302 You know who might have worked as Travis McGee? Ted Danson.

I believe he has the height and he does cynical humor quite well.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 26, 2025 12:11 PM (tT6L1)

303 Tom Selleck is 80 and 6'4".

Being 80 probably means he's only 6'2 now.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 12:11 PM (cwGMH)

304 303 Tom Selleck is 80 and 6'4".

Being 80 probably means he's only 6'2 now.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 12:11 PM (cwGMH)

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Eastwood being 95 probably means he's shrunk from 6'4 to 5'8.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

305 NBC had about 9500k. Sorry.

One other point is that broadcast news is increasingly losing carriage fees from cable operators as people cut the cord but is also facing problems as advertisers prefer the 19-54 (really even the 19-49) for ad placement. My guess is that revenues are stalling or perhaps even declining for the national broadcast networks as their audience shrinks from dying off and the audience they have is not the one that advertisers prefer. Probably a reason why Big Pharma has such a hold on them because that is one of the few products likely to cause Pharma to target an older audience for ads.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2025 12:12 PM (ctrM5)

306 303.
tom Selleck is the only actor alive today that could wear Ugg boots in a movie and still look tough.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 26, 2025 12:13 PM (BORNO)

307 I liked the government cheese.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 12:11 PM

You asked for it...

https://youtu.be/kvLMH0wb_0k

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2025 12:13 PM (cH2mQ)

308 Vince Vaughn can stand flat-footed and scratch his balls with one hand and Tom Cruise's chin with the other.
Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 26, 2025 12:10 PM (BORNO)

He was really good in Brawl in Cell Block 99.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 12:13 PM (cwGMH)

309 The only thing Joy Reid should be pulling is my cock.

Posted by: Rev Wishbone at February 26, 2025 12:13 PM (qT9Co)

310 Every now and then there's talk of getting some Travis McGee movies off the ground -- last I heard they were thinking Christian Bale, and that could be okay (initially I think they were talking about, dear God in heaven, Leonardo DiCaprio).
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 26, 2025

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Bale would be good. It was Rod Taylor who played him in 1970 in Darker Than Amber. MacDonald himself said Taylor was the best they'd auditioned (which doesn't sound like high praise), but he hated Robert Culp -- who I think would have made a great McGee in the '60s or early '70s.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2025 12:13 PM (J2vNu)

311 Clint Eastwood is 94.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 12:13 PM (jqxou)

312
Quite a productive discussion here I've stumbled into...

Posted by: Soothsayer Holmes at February 26, 2025 12:13 PM (QhCdW)

313 Noodus Trump and his cabinet

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2025 12:14 PM (J2vNu)

314 "It wasn't against the law for USAID to pay the BBC to make anti-Republican propaganda, so it's not fraud and cutting the spending is against the law!"
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That's exactly what the judge pounding his little hands on the desk yesterday was saying.
And, "you can't stop making the payments until it's proven in a court of law, and after all appeals!"

I mean, it's amazing--just because the chief executive thinks it's fraud, he can't stop the payments unless all federal judges agree.

The Left: We didn't elect Elon Musk!
The Public: We didn't elect these federal judges, either!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2025 12:14 PM (T3zUV)

315 The US has 1.5 Billion pounds of cheese stored in mines.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 12:15 PM (jqxou)

316 I have a way to save cable news:

1) Step 1 find a successful news/political blogger.
2) Offer them a fraction of the money you are spending, say $500k a year, to do a daily show, five days a week.
3) Put it on your channel.

The problem with the news is people on the internet are doing what you do at a fraction of the price that cable does it for. And the differential in quality is hardly noticeable.

In short and in summary, I propose ACE TV.

Posted by: El Mariachi at February 26, 2025 12:15 PM (nLFEI)

317 308.

Vaughn was very good in the horrible movie Dragged Across Concrete as well. Rarely have I seen a less satisfying movie.

Also, watching Vaughn steal every scene and torture the unfunny Ben Stiller in The watch is magical. You can see Stiller seething behind his little beady eyes.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 26, 2025 12:17 PM (BORNO)

318 Vince Vaughn can stand flat-footed and scratch his balls with one hand and Tom Cruise's chin with the other.
Posted by: Sifty Boones
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Mmmmmmmm,, do go on

Posted by: Mayor Pete- looking for gainful employment at February 26, 2025 12:17 PM (5hfjS)

319 The thing is, the cable news promised QUALITY. I.e. they would vet information and only tell the truth. When it became obvious they were just shoveling out lie after lie, and never apologizing, well, what good are they?

Posted by: El Mariachi at February 26, 2025 12:17 PM (nLFEI)

320 He struck me as an irrational psychopath.

Who was 100% correct on the single most important issue of the day on Krypton and assembled a group of loyal soldiers that was almost enough to overthrow the government?

IMO it seems they just made him a hammy villain which doesn't work with the somewhat dark tone of the movie.
easily as well...when he shows up on Earth for example having him willing to move their planet engine to Venus...but need all of the world's nuclear materials with a promise to give back Earth tech or something in the future...while the Earth governments spend a bunch of time yanking his chain not saying yes or no until he decides to act...

Then Superman and Zod can yell at each other about "the American/Terran way" and the need to do something NOW before whatever killed the other Kryptonian colonies shows up...

So he ends up being something of a self righteous zealot but not a simple crazy pyscho.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2025 12:17 PM (t0Rmr)

321 306 303.
tom Selleck is the only actor alive today that could wear Ugg boots in a movie and still look tough.
Posted by: Sifty Boones
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Doing those reverse mortgage commercials, however...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 26, 2025 12:18 PM (XeU6L)

322 I thought Culp would have made a pretty good McGee too. And for my taste, David Janssen's Harry O always struck me as having more than a touch of McGee in there.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 26, 2025 12:20 PM (q3u5l)

323
The Left: We didn't elect Elon Musk!
The Public: We didn't elect these federal judges, either!
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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Saw an actual bumper sticker on a Tesla the other day, 'I Bought This Before We Found Out That Musk is Crazy'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 26, 2025 12:21 PM (XeU6L)

324 Tom Selleck is 80 and 6'4".

Being 80 probably means he's only 6'2 now.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 12:11 PM (cwGMH)

He towers over Donnie Wahlberg.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 26, 2025 12:21 PM (pJbQu)

325 296 Tom Selleck is 80 and 6'4".
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And he had to do the impossible - drive a Ferrari around Hawaii.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 26, 2025 12:32 PM (pLaQB)

326 313 Noodus Trump and his cabinet
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2025 12:14 PM (J2vNu)

Posted by: m at February 26, 2025 12:37 PM (v0TzN)

327 I'm almost 100% a brick and mortar guy. can't seem to get on the Amazon wagon.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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When you live in cheek-by-jowl territory, that's doable.
I'm Amazon, ebay, internet-in-general by necessity. I'm miles from the closest supermarket in on direction(town of 12000) and 15 miles from another supermarket in the other direction ( town of 22000) and 130 miles from the edge of the Phoenix metro area. I wait 4 days to a couple of weeks for things like a dual plug USB stick, or a thin wall 24mm deep hex socket, or I make a 300 mile, 7.5 hour round trip.

Posted by: buddhaha at February 26, 2025 01:13 PM (e9n+n)

328 All the aforementioned shows and networks provide content for all the other shows and networks, and all the Youtubers as well. That is why they will never completely go away.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at February 26, 2025 02:18 PM (MZ+PY)

329 Tom Selleck is 80 and 6'4".
Being 80 probably means he's only 6'2 now.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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Yep.
I have a few years on Tom, and I played bb in high school at 6'2". Last trip to the Dr., I measured out at 5' 11.5".
The disks in your spine collapse/shrink with age. I blame the last half-inch on the titanium-teflon knee. :-)

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