en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/331841 Comments by jdb1972 http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2011/08/26/espn-moves-to-silence-golf-analyst-who-criticized-obama/#IDComment187463135 Actually, under those wonderful federal regulations, they can't tell one employee to shut up about his views while allowing another to express his. Disparity of treatment. Any action they take against Azinger will be actionable unless they take the same action against anyone who's expressed a political opinion on air, in print, or on Twitter. Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:18:03 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2011/08/26/espn-moves-to-silence-golf-analyst-who-criticized-obama/#IDComment187463135 http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2011/08/26/espn-moves-to-silence-golf-analyst-who-criticized-obama/#IDComment187462718 I wish most sports personalities would just shut up about politics. Of course, they might know as much (little) about politics as they (don't) know about sports... I was amused to see Peter King following the leftist line about "civility" after the Tuscon shootings. He wouldn't answer me, though, when I asked him if he'd expressed his views to Keith Olbermann when the two of them shared a studio of NBC's Sunday night telecast... Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:16:07 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2011/08/26/espn-moves-to-silence-golf-analyst-who-criticized-obama/#IDComment187462718 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/05/12/bleeding-cool-superman-loves-america-again-its-official/#IDComment151588917 John, if Bleeding Cool said the sky was blue, I'd poke my head out the window and check to be safe. After all, BC is the child of Rich Johnston, infamous comics gossip columnist and crazed Brit leftist. (I would call him a Communist, but he's rather further to the left than that.) Johnston will forever be best remembered by me as the guy who literally cried when he saw the cover of the (vaporware) "American Power" comic. It featured a superhero punching someone who looked a lot like Osama Bin Laden. I was... puzzled at this. In the ensuing conversation, he let it be known that OBL was just a sickly old man who couldn't hurt anyone, and that such a depiction of him showed the creators who made the comic (including Chuck Dixon) were seriously deranged. Yeah. That's the nitwit you're sourcing and giving hits to here. Fri, 13 May 2011 02:27:40 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/05/12/bleeding-cool-superman-loves-america-again-its-official/#IDComment151588917 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2011/05/09/obama-administration-still-prosecuting-heroes/#IDComment150468564 The Panthers have been to a Super Bowl and a few NFC championship games in recent years, Greg. Maybe you were thinking of the Bengals? Or maybe the Millen era Lions? Tue, 10 May 2011 01:21:22 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2011/05/09/obama-administration-still-prosecuting-heroes/#IDComment150468564 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ckozlowski/2011/05/07/thor-review-convoluted-and-cold/#IDComment150314390 I would probably take Carl's griping about being unable to keep the "confusing" names straight if he'd managed to grasp that the "Frozen Giants" are actually called "Frost Giants." Repeatedly. Seems to me he was doing something else during the movie and barely paying attention. Mon, 9 May 2011 14:18:55 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ckozlowski/2011/05/07/thor-review-convoluted-and-cold/#IDComment150314390 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/05/04/472296/#IDComment148993471 Not so much. The original miniseries, yes. The one where they threw away almost all the characters they'd spent years developing in a cynical move to sell toys, not so much. Thu, 5 May 2011 01:17:54 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/05/04/472296/#IDComment148993471 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/05/04/472296/#IDComment148993167 If Bay has a three year old, he could have had him/her ghost-write the script and turned up something more coherent. Thu, 5 May 2011 01:16:39 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/05/04/472296/#IDComment148993167 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/stkarnick/2011/03/02/this-weeks-castle-episode-misunderstood-as-anti-christian-pro-muslim/#IDComment134521202 Seriously? The villain was not the atomic scientist from the Islamic terrorist nation, not the terrorist nation's spymaster, or anyone else... it was ex-military. And the homeland security type attached to the investigation wound up being the most scary figure in the two episodes. How do you get more PC (not to mention predictable) in this day than that? Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:25:49 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/stkarnick/2011/03/02/this-weeks-castle-episode-misunderstood-as-anti-christian-pro-muslim/#IDComment134521202 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lgrin/2011/02/12/the-bankrupt-nihilism-of-our-fallen-fantasists/#IDComment128099139 The last I exchanged some emails with him (was back after the end of the DET, I think), he was very upset over WotC using Drizzt in an "Around the Realms" novel and having announced a planned Drizzt trilogy with another author. RAS's problem is that he's a one trick pony. He writes fights really, really well. However, after two plus decades of doing that, you have to run out of tricks to keep the reader interesting. He's only ever created one group of characters that were moderately interested (I can only name one other character in any of his novels, and that's because we share the same first name - and he killed him off at the end of the novel). He's tried to do epics and failed. He's tried to do non-swords and sorcery and failed (Vector Prime, ugh). He's tried to do dark fantasy and failed. When he tries to do more traditional S&S, it comes across as a pale imitation of his first two trilogies. Nowhere left to go. Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:42:09 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lgrin/2011/02/12/the-bankrupt-nihilism-of-our-fallen-fantasists/#IDComment128099139 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lgrin/2011/02/12/the-bankrupt-nihilism-of-our-fallen-fantasists/#IDComment128098376 They do. The gaming product drives the novels. And essentially destroying the Realms has essentially destroyed both. On the other hand, no one made Salvatore make Drizzt a compromising fool rather than a hero. Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:36:34 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lgrin/2011/02/12/the-bankrupt-nihilism-of-our-fallen-fantasists/#IDComment128098376 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lgrin/2011/02/12/the-bankrupt-nihilism-of-our-fallen-fantasists/#IDComment127740757 My understanding is that he was talked into it by an editor, but not forced. And, of course, he since ran the character through the gutter and then killed him off without even bothering to show his death. I believe the problem is that WotC is allowing him to write exactly what he wants. And thus, he's killing off the characters right and left, while turning his noble ranger into an amoral idiot. By the time he's done, no one will want to read about any of the characters. I used to be a huge fan, but haven't bought any of his books in hardback for years and only bought one in softcover a few years back for a vacation trip. Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:10:43 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lgrin/2011/02/12/the-bankrupt-nihilism-of-our-fallen-fantasists/#IDComment127740757 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/02/12/atlas-shrugged-trailer/#IDComment127601893 Do you really think fiction can't be driven by philosophy? LotR is drenched in Catholic philosophy. It's drowning in it. Evil is defeated at a terrible cost, but even in failing, it leaves the world a diminished place. Even a commoner of the smallest race can be the greatest of heroes. Evil ultimately undoes itself. A little kindness preserves the world. So on. It's not an allegory, but it's certainly based in Tolkien's personal religious philosophies. Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:18:15 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/02/12/atlas-shrugged-trailer/#IDComment127601893 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/02/12/atlas-shrugged-trailer/#IDComment127601214 I was kind of surprised that I recognized some faces. Matthew Marsden, Armin Shimerman, Michael Lerner. Johansson as director and Galt worries me, mostly because I recall him from the dreadul Highlander TV spinoff. He doesn't appear to have aged well in the past decade and a half, and his directing career consists of a dozen or so TV episodes. I don't have high hopes, but I do have best wishes. Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:13:21 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/02/12/atlas-shrugged-trailer/#IDComment127601214 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lgrin/2011/02/12/the-bankrupt-nihilism-of-our-fallen-fantasists/#IDComment127599782 At the risk of being laughed at, I adored some of R.A. Salvatore's early novels (the Icewind Dale and Dark Elf trilogies) back in high school and early college. Unabashed heroes willing to travel across the world to save their friends, willing to face down ultimate evil to protect the innocent, completely uncompromising. Flash forward a couple of decades, and Salvatore has continued with the same characters. Or at least he had, until he finished killing off all but one of them in his last novel. The main character, a dark elf ranger, has turned from the purest soul willing to fight impossible odds into a navel-gazing whiner who looks for any opportunity to cut a deal with evil and is currently shacked up with a murderer. And, of course, along the way there have been poorly written Israel-Palestinian parallels and Iraq War metaphors (all with the obvious left-wing POV). Whatever happened to heroes being... heroes? Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:03:22 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lgrin/2011/02/12/the-bankrupt-nihilism-of-our-fallen-fantasists/#IDComment127599782 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/07/23/sherrod-breitbart-wants-blacks-to-be-slaves-again/#IDComment88588068 I dunno. Given the thin resume and incompetence of the guy at the top and the sheer idiocy of his #2, the law of averages says they *have* to have hired someone more qualified somewhere along the way. Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:08:47 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/07/23/sherrod-breitbart-wants-blacks-to-be-slaves-again/#IDComment88588068 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/05/22/entertainment-media-pushes-fair-game-lies-people-arent-buying-it/#IDComment76718879 I dunno. He came across pretty well as a stoned-out-of-his-gourd Spicolli. He certainly seems to know how to play ignorant and drugged, if nothing else. Sat, 22 May 2010 23:58:15 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/05/22/entertainment-media-pushes-fair-game-lies-people-arent-buying-it/#IDComment76718879 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2010/05/15/hollywood-good-guy-of-the-week-michael-douglas/#IDComment75705145 How far has Hollywood fallen? So far that politely and neutrally declining support for a guy who drugged and raped a child counts you as one of the few "good guys." Sun, 16 May 2010 20:30:00 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2010/05/15/hollywood-good-guy-of-the-week-michael-douglas/#IDComment75705145 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dmiller/2010/02/18/review-percy-jackson-delivers-sweet-special-effects-epic-road-trip/#IDComment57974258 Calling Columbus a director at this point in his career might be a stretch... Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:30:21 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dmiller/2010/02/18/review-percy-jackson-delivers-sweet-special-effects-epic-road-trip/#IDComment57974258 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dmiller/2010/02/18/review-percy-jackson-delivers-sweet-special-effects-epic-road-trip/#IDComment57973677 If those are your reasons, watch the opening scene, then catch an hour-long nap until the end. Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:28:02 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dmiller/2010/02/18/review-percy-jackson-delivers-sweet-special-effects-epic-road-trip/#IDComment57973677 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dmiller/2010/02/18/review-percy-jackson-delivers-sweet-special-effects-epic-road-trip/#IDComment57973415 Fast-talking black sidekick, no less. Kind of a younger blend of Eddie Murphy and Will Smith stereotype. Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:27:10 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dmiller/2010/02/18/review-percy-jackson-delivers-sweet-special-effects-epic-road-trip/#IDComment57973415