en-us http://www.intensedebate.com/users/712363 Comments by mousiemarie http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/02/14/comedy-centrals-keegan-michael-key-if-you-dont-like-michelle-obama-you-can-go-to-hell/#IDComment292733044 Why do they want to tank their careers when they're just getting noticed? And when their ratings drop -- as they always do when celebrities pull this kind of schtick -- they will be kicked to the curb by those who encouraged them. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:29:00 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/02/14/comedy-centrals-keegan-michael-key-if-you-dont-like-michelle-obama-you-can-go-to-hell/#IDComment292733044 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2012/02/13/catholic-league-denounces-nicki-minajs-vulgar-grammy-performance/#IDComment292406949 I think Adele's no-gimmicks performance made a fool of pretty much every other artist who relied on all the shock nonsense. All I'm seeing in the reviews is disdain for Minaj and even Gaga who didn't perform. All it takes is one brave enough to just put her voice and music out there and steal the show to highlight the other emperors and empresses have no clothes. Both literally and metaphorically, of course. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:56:20 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2012/02/13/catholic-league-denounces-nicki-minajs-vulgar-grammy-performance/#IDComment292406949 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2012/02/13/the-hypocrisy-of-hollywoods-whitney-houston-sorrow/#IDComment291564739 And we don't know that that didn't happen here. Having been part of a group who tried to help an addict, you can only do so much. Just because we don't know the details of what people tried to do over the years doesn't mean attempts were never made. It's unfair to call those grieving hypocrites when Ben doesn't even know the whole story. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:52:57 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2012/02/13/the-hypocrisy-of-hollywoods-whitney-houston-sorrow/#IDComment291564739 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2012/02/13/the-hypocrisy-of-hollywoods-whitney-houston-sorrow/#IDComment291562372 Again, I agree with this. Just because it wasn't publicized (who wants to publicize a failed intervention?) doesn't mean it didn't happen. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:49:51 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2012/02/13/the-hypocrisy-of-hollywoods-whitney-houston-sorrow/#IDComment291562372 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2012/02/13/the-hypocrisy-of-hollywoods-whitney-houston-sorrow/#IDComment291561283 How do we know they didn't? It's very hard to have a positive effect on a drug addict. Nearly impossible when that addict is rich and famous and surrounded by people who want to be their "friends". Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:48:23 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2012/02/13/the-hypocrisy-of-hollywoods-whitney-houston-sorrow/#IDComment291561283 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2012/02/13/the-hypocrisy-of-hollywoods-whitney-houston-sorrow/#IDComment291559678 I agree. It's unfair to blame her friends. I'm also slightly uncomfortable with blaming Bobby Brown. Do we know for sure that he introduced her to hard drugs? I know her behavior pre and post their relationship is markedly different, but it's possible he came in as part of an existing, growing problem she already had. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:45:58 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2012/02/13/the-hypocrisy-of-hollywoods-whitney-houston-sorrow/#IDComment291559678 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2012/02/13/the-hypocrisy-of-hollywoods-whitney-houston-sorrow/#IDComment291558007 Self-aggrandizing through a show of grief is indeed tacky, but I refuse to believe they aren't actually grieving. I just posted something similar about "helping" a drug addict. In the end it's up to the addict to want to be helped. I think having fame, power and money is one reason celebrity drug addicts have such a hard time kicking it. They can always find a "yes man". Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:43:44 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2012/02/13/the-hypocrisy-of-hollywoods-whitney-houston-sorrow/#IDComment291558007 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2012/02/13/the-hypocrisy-of-hollywoods-whitney-houston-sorrow/#IDComment291556401 I have to disagree. I had a friend who became completely lost in drugs. One by one, everyone who has ever cared about him has had to cut him loose. He is erratic, unreliable, and sometimes threatening. He has zero interest in quitting drugs. It doesn't mean everyone will not be sad when he finally goes (because it's impossible to believe at this point that he will ever recover), but it does mean we all realize he couldn't be helped by anyone but himself. It's still a tragedy and grief over that kind of thing is not hypocrisy. Everyone either knows a drug addict who has had to be cut loose or a friend/loved one who has had to do the cutting. It is not an easy thing. If Houston had been serious about getting well -- at least for the sake of her daughter -- she would have tried harder. Whether she would have succeeded or not is uncertain, but she at least would have made it her life's work to get clean. Look at Robert Downey Jr. He was pretty much written off and thrown in the dead pool as the next celebrity to kick it. Now he's Sherlock Holmes and Iron Man. Goes to show -- if you try hard enough, you can regain your functionality. He may have had friends who showed him more tough love than she did, but it doesn't mean they loved him more, it just means they went about it a different way. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:41:15 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2012/02/13/the-hypocrisy-of-hollywoods-whitney-houston-sorrow/#IDComment291556401 http://bigjournalism.com/pjsalvatore/2012/02/13/monday-morning-crib-sheet-the-media-matters-bomb-espn-and-sexism/#IDComment291547926 LOL! That "Photo of the Year" is so staged it looks like the cover of a romance novel. hehehe Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:28:54 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/pjsalvatore/2012/02/13/monday-morning-crib-sheet-the-media-matters-bomb-espn-and-sexism/#IDComment291547926 http://bigjournalism.com/libertychick/2012/02/03/after-planned-parenthood-pr-blitz-susan-g-komen-foundation-caves-and-reverses-funding-decision/#IDComment283462717 Give your donations directly to Memorial Sloan-Kettering (or another cancer research facility). MSK does excellent work in research and you can bypass the middle man. Even if they weren't funding organizations that have nothing to do with their stated mission of breast wellness, you'd still be losing a big chunk of your donation to overhead by giving through Komen. Give straight to those doing the work. You can designate it specifically for breast cancer if you like and there ya go. You've done it without the help of a large leftist organization that will actually only get your donation dispersed to the cause at a fraction of each dollar. What's ironic is that studies have found a higher risk of breast cancer in those women who have had abortions. So SGK giving money to PP is kind of like a dentist giving out lollipops. Sat, 4 Feb 2012 06:36:20 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/libertychick/2012/02/03/after-planned-parenthood-pr-blitz-susan-g-komen-foundation-caves-and-reverses-funding-decision/#IDComment283462717 http://bigjournalism.com/jwhitman/2012/02/02/nprs-bitter-disappointment-komen-divorces-planned-parenthood/#IDComment282582885 In what way? Fri, 3 Feb 2012 07:12:34 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/jwhitman/2012/02/02/nprs-bitter-disappointment-komen-divorces-planned-parenthood/#IDComment282582885 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2012/02/02/behind-the-smears-of-hbos-game-change/#IDComment282103890 The information is factual. Whether you like the presentation of it or not, there's no dispute as to whether or not it's the truth. Thu, 2 Feb 2012 20:00:52 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2012/02/02/behind-the-smears-of-hbos-game-change/#IDComment282103890 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2012/02/02/behind-the-smears-of-hbos-game-change/#IDComment282100495 He said corpse-man THREE times in that speech. By the third time you know it's not a mistake. He thinks that's what it says. Obama does something stupid daily and the msm just ignores it. Thu, 2 Feb 2012 19:57:08 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2012/02/02/behind-the-smears-of-hbos-game-change/#IDComment282100495 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/phair/2012/02/01/end-the-occupation-comic-creating-conservatives-must-push-back-against-upcoming-pro-ows-works/#IDComment280880758 I completely agree with this! And I've said before that conservatives are missing the boat on trying to make films and art and then trying to distribute it through Democrat/leftist channels. Trying to play their game. It won't work. You're just contributing to their power. Publishing is a great place for conservative resurgence. With digital publishing and fewer gatekeepers the work can see distribution in a relatively short amount of time. With film making it's going to take years to establish an entirely new track of production/distribution outside the union-controlled industry. But it's doable. Good luck with the effort. Eff the Democrats and their tyrannical art stifling. Wed, 1 Feb 2012 15:00:37 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/phair/2012/02/01/end-the-occupation-comic-creating-conservatives-must-push-back-against-upcoming-pro-ows-works/#IDComment280880758 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/01/31/key-and-peele-review-promising-comedy-central-show-displays-political-cowardice/#IDComment280400991 Nor does it hold a candle to "corpse man" and the two brilliant photographic pieces: Umbrella Conundrum and Mom Jeans Biker. And then of course there's the time he said he bowled like he was in the Special Olympics. Smoooooooth. There's an outrageous amount of material on this guy. Oh! Remember "we don't want to spike the football" after the Bin Laden hit and then he proceeded to spike the freakin' football every chance he got. Ha! What an idiot. Wed, 1 Feb 2012 03:05:55 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/01/31/key-and-peele-review-promising-comedy-central-show-displays-political-cowardice/#IDComment280400991 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/30/lets-hope-the-instincts-romneys-showing-in-the-nbc-brokaw-controversy-are-used-against-obama/#IDComment279894649 Exactly! How many of those 98% have insurance paid for by the tax payers? That's "free riding the system" for cryin' out loud! It was cheaper the other way. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:19:05 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/30/lets-hope-the-instincts-romneys-showing-in-the-nbc-brokaw-controversy-are-used-against-obama/#IDComment279894649 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/30/lets-hope-the-instincts-romneys-showing-in-the-nbc-brokaw-controversy-are-used-against-obama/#IDComment279891279 There you go acting like a Democrat, putting words in other people's mouths. I never said I wouldn't vote for Romney. I don't want to vote for Newt either. But Romney is going to lose big time mainly because of his dishonest campaign tactics in the primary. Remember how the Swiftboat veterans were said to have been "debunked" because of one ever-so-slight possible inaccuracy in their book? Over and over that was the theme. Now imagine they had actually, blatantly lied about something (as Romney has in this instance -- even though it's against Gingrich and not Obama it can be used against him as evidence of character issues). They will toast him like a marshmallow. He'll be our nominee thanks to his tactics, but he will not win the presidency. He'll lose all the independents we supposedly need when he's painted as a dishonest thug. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:14:28 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/30/lets-hope-the-instincts-romneys-showing-in-the-nbc-brokaw-controversy-are-used-against-obama/#IDComment279891279 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/30/lets-hope-the-instincts-romneys-showing-in-the-nbc-brokaw-controversy-are-used-against-obama/#IDComment279886660 Yep, Newt was never my first choice. Romney has Romneycare, gun control, pro-abortion bills, AGW belief (John Holdren, look him up) tax hikes, etc. under his belt too. His record sucks worse than Gingrich's and ain't that sad? None of the things you listed excuses this dishonest attack. Mitt Romney is proving himself to be a liar. How do you know you can trust anything on his platform? What is his platform anyway? Regardless, this kind of thing -- the execution and subsequent championing of it -- is a sign that a powerful part of the Republican party is indeed no better than the Democrats. We will lose in 2012 because of this very thing. Count on it. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:07:52 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/30/lets-hope-the-instincts-romneys-showing-in-the-nbc-brokaw-controversy-are-used-against-obama/#IDComment279886660 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/30/lets-hope-the-instincts-romneys-showing-in-the-nbc-brokaw-controversy-are-used-against-obama/#IDComment279884150 Exactly what I'm saying. The only thing Romney has is this dishonest, thuggish campaigning. This is how he's defeating the other candidates, not with a solid platform. They will neutralize this immediately -- likely using his primary behavior as proof -- and he won't stand a chance at landing a punch on the weakest candidate we've ever faced. Because everything he says from now on is tainted with this blatant dishonesty and they will use that against him until he's simply toast. The problem is that Romney and his supporters seem to believe the media will continue as they have been in during the primary. Not a chance in hell. They are going to pull a 180 and use all of this against Romney. Forget what the polls say now, they don't represent the reality of the election. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:04:06 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/30/lets-hope-the-instincts-romneys-showing-in-the-nbc-brokaw-controversy-are-used-against-obama/#IDComment279884150 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/30/lets-hope-the-instincts-romneys-showing-in-the-nbc-brokaw-controversy-are-used-against-obama/#IDComment279259484 You got that right. Even if he has the guts to pull this kind of dishonest smear on Obama he won't get away with it. Why in the world are Republicans cheering this garbage? Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:21:38 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/30/lets-hope-the-instincts-romneys-showing-in-the-nbc-brokaw-controversy-are-used-against-obama/#IDComment279259484