Ahem. No, just, via the ever watchful PPW, this charming little bit of dialogue:
O'REILLY: Now, the Sarah Palin hysteria. I mean, can you believe she's getting more ink now than the president-elect is getting? Didn't she lose? It looks like she won.
MILLER: Listen, she's a great dame. People are fascinated by her because the left hate her. I think the left hate her -- mostly women on the left hate her, because to me, from outside in, it appears that she has a great sex life. All right? I think she has non-neurotic sex with that Todd Palin guy. I think most of the women on the Upper East Side, their husbands haven't been aroused since Mailer signed copy of The Executioner's Song at Rizzoli's back in the early '70s.
So they look at her, and they hate her. I think that snowmobile looks like mechanized foreplay to me, and that's why people are fascinated by it.
O'REILLY: So you think that -- cutting through all of the metaphors that even I don't even understand. Rizzoli's used to be a bookstore.
You think that because she looks like a happy, wedded mom with --
MILLER: Yeah.
O'REILLY: -- not so much neurosis, that these people are going, "We have to hate her"? It's -- what, it's schadenfreude? Is that -- how do you say that? German?
MILLER: It's called schadenfreude.
O'REILLY: Schadenfreude. [unintelligible]
MILLER: The Germans concocted it. It's one's vague pleasure in another's discomfort. Leave it to the Germans, by the way, to concoct an intricate glossary of pain terminology.
But I think people have -- I think people have schadenfreude about her. It's like Tina Fey's movie Mean Girls. Women are mean to other women. They look at her, she looks happy, a lot of them aren't, and they're cranky about her.
Yes, Dennis and BillO, that's exactly it. The real reason women (or anyone) can't stand Sarah Palin is because we ENVY her relationship with Radical Fringe Separatist K-Fed. Certainly nothing to do with o we think her policies (insofar as they're coherent at all) are frighteningly reactionary & bad for women and other living things ( gay couples, the body politic, the planet...moose); or that she herself ranges from "vacuous twit" to "crypto-fascist rabble-rouser."
Oh, yeah, and we hate America. And women (i.e. pretty much anyone who isn't either Sarah Palin or a fangirl at this point).
You two, on the other hand, are AWESOME. Blessums ickle jowls. -pinch-
No, really, I was -just- saying the other day, you know, if there's one thing we as a nation and/or culture could really use right now, it's a couple of smug dessicated prick windbags making lumbering cracks on the tellyvision about What Women Want, and then, well:
O'REILLY: OK, and then arrest Barney Frank, correct?
MILLER: Barney might want to be arrested.
O'REILLY: Oh, jeez. Ugh. [shudders] OK, Dennis Miller, everybody. I told you to hide the kids.
Haw haw! No, wait, I geddit! Like, Frank's (lowers voice) gay, and so he probably -wants- to be arrested, because everybody knows prison rape is
a) What Teh Gay Really Want
b) Hiiii-LARious!
Yeah, "ugh, [shudders]." Thanks for sharing your important thinky thoughts there, Combover Central, really.
I mean, O.K., and so meanwhile here we are being treated to Falafel Boy and Dubya-Daddy Complex here speculating about what does and doesn't constitute -neurotic- about -sex-, right:
I think that snowmobile looks like mechanized foreplay to me, and that's why people are fascinated by it.
There really isn't enough "speak for yourself" in the WORLD.
Oh yeah, they've teamed up before to share wisdoms on similar themes, apparently. Just be grateful yer scintillating sidekick there didn't decide to make something of your "always having Bush's back" this time. Know what I mean, know what I mean, nudge nudge?! You dreary arrested-development tossers.
But yeah, Dennis, do explain to us plebes again--along with all your other superior knowledgey knowledges--exactly what means schadenfreude.
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I knew I would love this just from the title, and I was right.
What is it, by the way, with het, male, usually white but not always, comedians turning SO nasty towards anyone who isn't them, wonderful them once they hit a certain age? Is this what national adulation gets you? "So many people love me and think I'm funny, I'd better start thinning the herd?" Because Dennis is one of the worst examples of this, yeah, but he's not the first to turn sour like this. It's as though they all have a sell-by date of around 40 human years.
(And nothing to do with the rest of it, but: Isn't PPW wonderful? Someone clone that woman immediately.)
I don't know. It is something though, isn't it? Woody Allen, Harlan Ellison (insofar as one wants to consider him a -comedian-; but yeah I think it's broader than that actually). Maybe it's mostly, Angry Young Man less charming than Angry Old Man? but then nobody forced them to ossify instead of evolving.
actually I was thinking that the political mutation of Violet Socks & other such PUMAs (which doesn't necessarily explain the weird...weirdness, I guess) is not totally dissimilar from that of Miller, or similar types in blogging (Van der Leun, say). It's just that in this case, rather than the biggest terrorist attack on U.S. soil, the galvanizing factor appears to be...not getting one's preferred candidate in the presidential primaries.
o.O.
Executioner's Song, incidentally, was published in 1979.
In a way it's almost entertaining to watch these guys try to out-loathsome each other in an attempt to stay relevant.
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