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March 15, 2012

Obama Hagiographer Davis Guggenheim Claims There's Nothing About Obama He Can Fault
— Ace

I know this is a couple of days old. Stick with it for a sec. I have a point.

He cannot find a single fault with Barack Obama.

Davis Guggenheim: "Well, I mean the negative for me was, there were too many accomplishments. I had 17 minutes to put them all in there."
Piers Morgan: "Oh, come off it! You can't say that with a straight face. Come on."
Davis Guggenheim: "I'm looking at you right now with a straight face."
Piers Morgan: "The only negativity about Barack Obama is there are too many positives?"
Davis Guggenheim: "That was the negative -- excuse me, that was the negative for me."
Piers Morgan: "Oh."
...
Piers Morgan: "But where do you find fault in him, personally?"
Davis Guggenheim: "I -- you know, I don't. I don't, frankly."
Piers Morgan: "He's a perfect human being?"
Davis Guggenheim: "Well, no. but I'm really quite in awe of him, as a leader, and the choices he's made."
Piers Morgan: "I mean, I'm only asking because you are a well-known documentary maker, and this would be the first movie, I guess, you've made where it's all completely positive. And even you personally don't see any negative at all in the guy. Do you think you were the right guy to make this? I mean, are you dispassionate enough to make a Barack Obama video?"
Davis Guggenheim: "But, Piers, you haven't seen the movie. You've only seen the trailer."
Piers Morgan: "Well, I've asked you to list all the negatives and you said the only negative was you couldn't put enough positives in."
Davis Guggenheim: "Well, that's true. That's true."

Now, you keep hearing that Davis Guggenheim is a "famous" documentarian. I kept hearing that too, and nodding my head, even though I had no idea who the hell he was. But if people say he's famous, he's famous.

Well, he did do a very big documentary, one that I've seen. One, in fact, I've promoted on this blog a half dozen times.

He wrote, narrated, and "starred" in Waiting for Superman, the documentary that devastates the Teachers Unions and current system of government schools for dooming children to poor educations and poorer lives, and takes as its heroes the charter school and private school people trying to fight the corrupt system.

The president that this champion of charter schools says has not a single flaw canceled the low-cost DC Opportunity program, a program to place poor kids in charter and private schools, as a sop to the teachers union.

Thanks to @jimgeraghty for pointing that out.

So, does Davis Guggenheim denounce his name-making movie Waiting for Superman as fundamentally false?

Posted by: Ace at 01:53 PM | Comments (156)
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1 Fuck you, that's why!

Posted by: Contemplative Listener at March 15, 2012 01:55 PM (ay6+/)

2 This guy's favorite pastime is sucking a whole helluvalotta cock.

Which explains of course his love affair with President Shanksalot.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at March 15, 2012 01:56 PM (AuWWj)

3 Didn't he co-star in the Stepford Wifes as well? Sure sounds like it.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 15, 2012 01:56 PM (qx7YW)

Either terminally confused or a whole lot of filtering going on.

Posted by: kallisto at March 15, 2012 01:56 PM (jm/9g)

5 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at March 15, 2012 01:56 PM (7W3wI)

6 This is like one of those lame job interviews, where they ask you, "What's your biggest fault?" and you answer "Honestly, I'm too much of a perfectionist."

Posted by: jakeman at March 15, 2012 01:56 PM (96M6e)

7 This is a guy who needs to meet some Greek potato vendors. IYKWIM

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at March 15, 2012 01:57 PM (pVvkk)

8 Why do I get the feeling he's "blinded" by the blackness? Or in other words, he's just a coward.

Posted by: Laura Castellano at March 15, 2012 01:57 PM (fuw6p)

9 Love is blind

Posted by: runner at March 15, 2012 01:58 PM (WR5xI)

10 Sounds the the answer to the interview question "tell me about your weaknesses". I work too hard!

Posted by: Mountainmonkey at March 15, 2012 01:58 PM (uXdJq)

11 "All his faults have been the result of a Republican Congress and"

BOOOOOOOOSH!!!!!

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at March 15, 2012 01:59 PM (niW49)

12 I just don't have it in me to listen to this douchetwat.

To quote Peter Gibbons: The thing is, Ace, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.

Posted by: mpfs, Under March Madness Spell at March 15, 2012 01:59 PM (iYbLN)

13 If Piers Morgan is mocking your Obama love,well,you might have a problem.

Posted by: steevy at March 15, 2012 01:59 PM (7W3wI)

14 This guy probably killed the real Guggenheim and is wearing his face as a mask.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at March 15, 2012 02:00 PM (+lsX1)

15 Damn I liked Waiting for Superman. It was great. Did this guy fall and hit his head or something? Maybe his family is being held hostage. How could he make Superman and then this orgasmic "film?' about Baraka.. Does not compute...

Posted by: the hobbit fomerly known as Donna at March 15, 2012 02:00 PM (ZHge+)

16 Holy shit! It's 6:00 pm, DGDST ( Davis Guggenheim Double Standard Time )

Posted by: dr kill at March 15, 2012 02:00 PM (0TdUk)

This is the kind of blather you have to spout for King Putt to tap you for any sort of job working for him. Obama's more insulated than George Lucas stuffed inside a tauntaun.

Posted by: Harry Dixon-Bowles at March 15, 2012 02:00 PM (I2LwF)

18 He's so far in the tank he forgot what the sun is.

Posted by: chaz at March 15, 2012 02:00 PM (wXuYy)

19 Evil twin brother?

Posted by: Mountainmonkey at March 15, 2012 02:00 PM (uXdJq)

20 Oh shit, snooty Englishman sock off

Posted by: Truman North at March 15, 2012 02:00 PM (I2LwF)

21 Love is blind

****

Blind from too much jacking off while looking at Obama with halo pictures.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 15, 2012 02:00 PM (Hx5uv)

22 "Well, Pierce, there was that ONE time when he missed a 15-footer for birdie on the 7th at Congressional. But other than that, I can't come up with anything. And as a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure it hit a spike mark on the way to the hole."

Posted by: D. Gagginschlong at March 15, 2012 02:01 PM (96M6e)

23 Davis Guggenheim - Obama is an elected President, not a murderous dictator. You do not have to make up a bunch of silly lies about the chump to save your life as you would in North Korea. So why give Obama the Kim treatment?

Posted by: Sounder at March 15, 2012 02:01 PM (7lbXY)

24 I watched Waiting For Superman. Maybe I missed what everyone else saw, but the message I took away from it was not a conservative message. Unless you consider schools need unlimited funding to compete with those meany charter schools to be a conservative message.
Guggie is being consistent.

Posted by: Artruen at March 15, 2012 02:01 PM (fDGF1)

25 That guy sets off my hipster douchebag radar.

Posted by: rdbrewer at March 15, 2012 02:01 PM (Iyg03)

26 Why do I get the feeling he's "blinded" by the blackness? Or in other words, he's just a coward.

Posted by: Laura Castellano at March 15, 2012 05:57 PM (fuw6p)

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This. Always the racist card. Don't you diss our black Jesus.

Posted by: Soona at March 15, 2012 02:01 PM (uGXx4)

27 Latest elective surgery craze:

Complete removal of one's gag reflex.

Guggenheim is now post-op.

Posted by: Generic at March 15, 2012 02:01 PM (szPD/)

28 I'm not saying he ain't manly, but his favorite flavor of Popsicle is,,, DICK!

Posted by: Sgt. Fury at March 15, 2012 02:02 PM (QACbj)

1. Screwing the GM bondholders

2. Solyndra

3. Socialized medicine, passed by a sham process compounded with lies

That took me 12 seconds, Davis, and I wasn't even trying that hard

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 15, 2012 02:02 PM (qx7YW)

30 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable tyrant.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 15, 2012 02:02 PM (8y9MW)

31 I agree with Artruen - he was decrying underfunded (HAH!) schools in that film He's just a nicer and much thinner Mikey Moore

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 15, 2012 02:02 PM (SB0V2)

Does Guggenfuck faint wben da Zero launches into one of his famous teleprompter readings? Yeah, I think so. Idiot. The Great Nothing is part of the problem with the schools and none of the solution. But he can't find fault with him. So he publicly acknowledged that he is a drooling imbecile.

Posted by: maddogg at March 15, 2012 02:02 PM (OlN4e)

33 shakeshakeshake
...
...
Racist!

Posted by: AoSHQ Offical Magic 8-Ball (AllenG Edition) at March 15, 2012 02:02 PM (8y9MW)

34 Threads are flashing before my eyes

Posted by: nevergiveup at March 15, 2012 02:03 PM (eCnLg)

35 Someone fetch CAC some smelling salts .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at March 15, 2012 02:03 PM (npr0X)

3 brackets: 5/6, 6/6, 5/6

Of course in one of the brackets I have St. Mary's vs Indiana in the final

Posted by: Truman North at March 15, 2012 02:03 PM (I2LwF)

All of Barack's butter boys just love him so.

Posted by: Michelle Obama's Landing Strip at March 15, 2012 02:04 PM (dpExT)

38 14 If Piers Morgan is mocking your Obama love,well,you might have a problem. Posted by: steevy

Complete agreement!

Posted by: Dianna at March 15, 2012 02:04 PM (mKMj1)

39 "Obama's more insulated than George Lucas stuffed inside a tauntaun."

Shit I need a new kybard. I spwed coffee...

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at March 15, 2012 02:04 PM (pVvkk)

40 Damn I liked Waiting for Superman. It was great. Did this guy fall and hit his head or something? Maybe his family is being held hostage. How could he make Superman and then this orgasmic "film?' about Baraka.. Does not compute...

Posted by: the hobbit fomerly known as Donna at March 15, 2012 06:00 PM (ZHge+)

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There's probably a big "ka-ching" in there somewhere.

Posted by: Soona at March 15, 2012 02:05 PM (uGXx4)

41 Damn I liked Waiting for Superman. It was great. Did this guy fall and hit his head or something? Maybe his family is being held hostage. How could he make Superman and then this orgasmic "film?' about Baraka.. Does not compute...

It's not that hard to understand.

When was Waiting for Superman made?
Who was President then?

Yeah.

WfS was good because it skewered the Teachers Unions, but it wasn't actually advocating (or he didn't mean for it to advocate) private schools or home schooling.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 15, 2012 02:05 PM (8y9MW)

42 25 artruen

Nothing in that movie suggested that charter schools are "meanies" - only that they are unable to take in more than a fraction of those who wish to enroll.

Posted by: packsoldier at March 15, 2012 02:05 PM (9tLNI)

I'd like to meet his drug dealer.

He's getting some seriously good shit.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Tea Party SOB at March 15, 2012 02:05 PM (d0Tfm)

44 Barack makes quite an impression on a guy.

Posted by: David Guggenheim's Uvula at March 15, 2012 02:05 PM (dpExT)

45 If you were getting$250,000 a minute to make a hagipgraphic film about Obama you probably wouldn't want to say anything negative about him either.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 15, 2012 02:06 PM (/bVc5)

46 Wow that guy is holding some severe cognitive dissonance in that head. I worry what will happen when it finally cracks....

Posted by: tsrblke at March 15, 2012 02:06 PM (SYrwI)

47 I would comment on this but I am at work and too busy dancing to the London Boys!

Go Baby!

Oh yeah.

Posted by: Contemplative Listener at March 15, 2012 02:06 PM (ay6+/)

48 I thought he went down with the Titanic.

Posted by: Lady in Black.....{sigh} at March 15, 2012 02:06 PM (F+Xfj)

49 Waiting for Superman was an aberration. He also did Gore's Inconvenient truth.

Posted by: Vic at March 15, 2012 02:06 PM (YdQQY)

Thanks, Chip... and it fell out of my head on the spot, too. Dunno where it came from, but I certainly wasn't saving it up. Like most of the jokes I tell here.

Posted by: Truman North at March 15, 2012 02:07 PM (I2LwF)

51 this is bad...they're just falling blindly in love with O. There's no talking to them now.

And maybe Guggenheim finally realized the futility of the charter school cure-all.

Posted by: jeannie the dancing bug at March 15, 2012 02:07 PM (GdalM)

52 wait, he is one of the geniuses behind "An inconvenient Truth" ? Enough said, no ?

Posted by: runner at March 15, 2012 02:07 PM (WR5xI)

53 Guggenheim looks like Cahrsel Jhonsno with glasses

Posted by: kbdabear at March 15, 2012 02:07 PM (Y+DPZ)

54 The Cult of Personality around Obama is just disgusting. The lack of self-awareness of these people is breathtaking.

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at March 15, 2012 02:08 PM (pVvkk)

55 The most delicious sac I've ever had the pleasure of rolling around in my mouth.

Posted by: Davis Guggenheim at March 15, 2012 02:09 PM (az4hS)

56 Only slightly OT (and probably linked here already but worth the repeat), Thomas Sowell eviscerates Derrick Bell here:

http://tinyurl.com/nxulxc

Posted by: creeper at March 15, 2012 02:09 PM (gre5a)

57 I'm not watching that. He's ugly.

Posted by: mama winger at March 15, 2012 02:09 PM (P6QsQ)

58 How about the most important one of all?

He's a fucking pathological liar.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at March 15, 2012 02:09 PM (1rHeD)

59 Nah, he looks like that Rachel Maddow fellow.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Tea Party SOB at March 15, 2012 02:09 PM (d0Tfm)

60 He went into that other movie finding no fault with the teachers union either. Apparently, for this guy to find fault with something, he has to be swimming neck deep into the shit. Obama, I suppose, didn't grant him that much access up his colon.

Posted by: befuddled at March 15, 2012 02:09 PM (xJU23)

61 So this guy REALLY looks like this? By CHOICE? Holy crapola! He looks like the love child of Woody Allen and Richard Lewis (created in a laboratory, of course).

Posted by: Y-not at March 15, 2012 02:09 PM (5H6zj)

62 I'm 6 for 6 in my Ace of the Spades tourney so far. Whoever is in my group, you're welcome.

Posted by: mama winger at March 15, 2012 02:10 PM (P6QsQ)

63 He can join Harvey Weinstein (Hollywood cocksucker) who says Obama is "too humble."

These fuckwits are mentally ill. Seriously.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 15, 2012 02:11 PM (UOM48)

64 I say again: leftists contemplating Obama make 13 year-old girls contemplating Donny Osmond/Johnny Depp look sober and serious-minded by comparison.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 15, 2012 02:11 PM (7tPfr)

65 Obama Hagiographer Davis Guggenheim Claims There's Nothing About Obama He Can Fault

Interesting. There's not a single thing about Barky I find in working order. This Guggenheim idiot needs a long ride in a Brazen Bull.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 15, 2012 02:11 PM (X3lox)

66 wait, he is one of the geniuses behind "An inconvenient Truth" ? Enough said, no ?

Posted by: runner at March 15, 2012 06:07 PM (WR5xI)

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Funny, ain't it. Once we really start talking about this guy, his answers to Piers doesn't seem so strange after all.

Posted by: Soona at March 15, 2012 02:11 PM (uGXx4)

67 I wonder if that guy would say the same thing about his wife? I mean really how much more invested are you to say everything is great about someone and yet you could still be honest. Socks on the floor? Dental floss hanging out of the garbage? A national medical program that will bankrupt the country and ruin the best medical system in the world?

Posted by: mare at March 15, 2012 02:12 PM (A98Xu)

68 45 Packsoldier, your right. Nothing but the sad little faces of the sad little children with their sad mommies that didn't win the lottery. Maybe I am way cynical, ok, I am way cynical, but that was I got from it.

Posted by: Artruen at March 15, 2012 02:12 PM (fDGF1)

69 Suck it wingnuts we all know that Obama is Jesus Christ, Mohammed, Buddha and Confucius rolled into one.

Posted by: President Chet Roosevelt at March 15, 2012 02:12 PM (caupe)

70 Lunatics who think obama is a G-D are not the real problem, it's the other 50% that voted for him that are

Posted by: nevergiveup at March 15, 2012 02:13 PM (eCnLg)

71 So ... does this mean that Gurgleheiny can tell us what "profits and earnings ratios" are? I've been waiting years to find out.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 15, 2012 02:13 PM (X3lox)

72 You know you're in for trouble when you see a man with a woman's hairdo or vice-versa. It's not necessarily indicative of liberalism, but people with haircuts of unusual length or style are almost always trouble.

Posted by: Truman North at March 15, 2012 02:13 PM (I2LwF)

73 Why does this pantywaist inspire such awe in certain people? Is it just self-interested posturing (not wanting to be blacklisted), or are they truly mad?

Posted by: nickless at March 15, 2012 02:13 PM (MMC8r)

Gaggenheimer: ".....I'm really quite in awe of him, as a leader, and the choices he's made."

*thud*

[wheatie falls over from severe gagging reaction]

Posted by: wheatie at March 15, 2012 02:14 PM (Izn98)

75 A[n illegal, un-Constitutional, un-American insane] national medical program that will bankrupt the country and ruin the best medical system in the world?

Posted by: mare at March 15, 2012 06:12 PM (A98Xu)

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 15, 2012 02:14 PM (X3lox)

76 I don't know Ace, isn't this sort of like asking your wife's attorney, during the process of a divorce, to name one of her faults? He's not going to do it, not if he's a professional. This guy, I suppose, created a 17 campaign ad. Don't ask him to find fault in his subject. For all we know he hates Barack, but he's not going to say that on tv.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 15, 2012 02:14 PM (Gc/Qi)

77 Guggenheim has to get himself back in with the Hollywood crowd. Didn't they ignore Superman? Couldn't be bothered with it come awards season? David wants to sit with the cool kids at lunch.

Posted by: Ktgreat at March 15, 2012 02:14 PM (i5KzK)

78 LBS and New Mexico tied up, six minutes left.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 15, 2012 02:14 PM (GZitp)

79 If you buy this movie do you get one of those Obama flags?

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at March 15, 2012 02:15 PM (+lsX1)

80 I need a girlfriend like that. "Was there anything negative about the facial?" "Yes, honey. That you didn't do it twice."

Posted by: Michael at March 15, 2012 02:15 PM (2fJD1)

81 The only fault with baracky is that he is too humble and is underutilizing his massive talents, which are too numerous to list here (and would require gold, platinum and diamond fonts) in this role of US president. He should become more assertive, quit immediately and go on to bigger things.

Posted by: runner at March 15, 2012 02:15 PM (WR5xI)

82 I'm not saying he is gay, but Davis could cut his cock intake in half if he'd sew his lips shut.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 15, 2012 02:15 PM (ccXZP)

83 Who won the Syracuse game?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Tea Party SOB at March 15, 2012 02:15 PM (d0Tfm)

84 Uh Mr. Jones I think I speak for all of us when I say that this Kool-Aid is the absolute tastiest I've ever had at the compound or anywhere else for that matter.
Kudos to you sir!

Posted by: Davis Guggenheim at March 15, 2012 02:16 PM (pAlYe)

85 Not even his taste in diplomatic gifts to the British?

This guy must have NPR beamed into his skull 24/7.

Posted by: nickless at March 15, 2012 02:16 PM (MMC8r)

86 Syracuse

Posted by: mama winger at March 15, 2012 02:16 PM (P6QsQ)

87 76 Nickless, not sure but you think that maybe they are so insulated from your average American that all they hear is praise for The SCFOAMF. So they figure that they have to really ramp up the praise in order to show their fellow travelers that they not only believe, but they are the number one fan?

Posted by: Sgt. Fury at March 15, 2012 02:16 PM (QACbj)

88 Or put it another way, if he was being objective, of course he would find SOMETHING to fault Barack Obama on. The fact that he won't do that is all the proof you need that he's being paid to shill for the guy. I sometimes do it on my job. Ask me to name something wrong with one of my guys? I won't do it, not in certain settings.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 15, 2012 02:17 PM (Gc/Qi)

89 I'm investing in knee pad futures.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 15, 2012 02:17 PM (UOM48)

90 "He's the King of the World!"

Posted by: Guggs, clutching SCOAMF from behind on the Titanic's bow at March 15, 2012 02:17 PM (d0Tfm)

91 The point I took from "Waiting" was that there are loving parents and their children that have been betrayed by the teacher's unions. There are many potential solutions, but the DC program that the Zero (and Congress) killed was one that was working and making a positive difference.

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 15, 2012 02:18 PM (i3+c5)

92 76 Why does this pantywaist inspire such awe in certain people? Is it just self-interested posturing (not wanting to be blacklisted), or are they truly mad? A lot of people really, truly do want to be serfs. Liberty terrifies them.

Posted by: esch at March 15, 2012 02:19 PM (Wm9t5)

93 I'd call him a whore but I wouldn't want to offend women who take money in return for their sexual services.

Posted by: Planck Constant at March 15, 2012 06:16 PM (phlKA)

********

No offense taken.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at March 15, 2012 02:19 PM (ggRof)

94 Tomorrow will be all March Madness, all day.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Tea Party SOB at March 15, 2012 02:19 PM (d0Tfm)

95 Why does this pantywaist inspire such awe in certain people? Is it just self-interested posturing (not wanting to be blacklisted), or are they truly mad?

Posted by: nickless at March 15, 2012 06:13 PM (MMC8r)

Affirmative action and masive white guilt. Everyone knows what a total retard Barky is. Even Barky knows what an idiot he is. He's seen his own scores. Sure, Barky makes a mental adjustment according to Critical Race Rantings ... but he knows what difficulty he's always had with numbers ... and English ... and everything that required even a smidgeon of working grey matter. As Precedential Bendiction Specialist Joseph Lowery would say, if he had more than three brain cells, himself,, "The grey in Barack's brain, has done gone down the drain."

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 15, 2012 02:19 PM (X3lox)

Uh Mr. Jones I think I speak for all of us when I say that this Kool-Aid is the absolute tastiest I've ever had at the compound or anywhere else for that matter.
Kudos to you sir!

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Wow! That was trippy. I thought I had been transported back to LGF for a second there.

Posted by: Soona at March 15, 2012 02:19 PM (uGXx4)

97 They all like the way I prance up and down the steps of Air Force 1. Like this:

*prances up and down the steps of Air Force 1*

Posted by: President Baraka Obama at March 15, 2012 02:20 PM (/AHDz)

98 This flick cost $350,000.00 for 17 minutes. Total payoff.

Of course, the guy comes off so ludicrous (even Morgan is laughing at it) that he makes his little film sound like a waste of time to watch.

Posted by: nickless at March 15, 2012 02:20 PM (MMC8r)

75 You know you're in for trouble when you see a man with a woman's hairdo or vice-versa.It's notnecessarily indicative of liberalism, but people with haircuts of unusual length or style are almost always trouble.

Eh, Truman.....it's not that easy. .....Breitbart used to wear his hair that long. Ted Nugent still does, but in a pony tail. ....There are probably some other conservatives out there with longer hair styles too, I'm just not thinkin of em at the moment. ....It's not the hairdo....it's what's underneath it.

Posted by: wheatie at March 15, 2012 02:22 PM (Izn98)

100

Northeastern Faggot. Thick black frames, black crewneck sweater, "vintage" crushed velvet sport coat. Standard NYC issue.

I think we've got a confirmed sighting.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at March 15, 2012 02:22 PM (EgUGc)

101

I liked the way Morgan handled this. It's useful to ask a passionate advocate to argue the other side a bit, to see if he can muster any rationality and evenhandedness at all.

I've done with liberals re AGW. "What would it take to convince you that AGW is not a big problem?" If they don't just get pissed off, their reaction is often priceless: they'll start to say something about evidence that the seas are not rising, or the glaciers not melting, or global average temperatures are not rising, then catch themselves when they realize that that is exactly the situation now.

For my part, I'll reconsider my skepticism when climatology researchers supporting AGW assertions start making predictions (falsifiable on the human timescale) that are borne out. Predictions, not retrospective rationalizations ("Oh, we would've predicted that").

Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 15, 2012 02:22 PM (7tPfr)

102 I'm so tired of the self-important people in Teh Arts.

Posted by: mama winger at March 15, 2012 02:23 PM (P6QsQ)

103 It's not Obama's (PBOH) fault! Its BUSH's!!

He COULDN'T have know how bad the education system was until he got into office, and now hes been working very hard every day to correct what BUSH did!!!

Geeeze, idiots!

Posted by: David Googlehiney at March 15, 2012 02:23 PM (8yPsP)

104 Â“One of my predecessors, President Rutherford B. Hayes, reportedly said about the telephone: Â‘ItÂ’s a great invention but who would ever want to use one?Â’Â” Obama said. Â“ThatÂ’s why heÂ’s not on Mt. Rushmore.Â” Â“HeÂ’s looking backwards, heÂ’s not looking forward. HeÂ’s explaining why we canÂ’t do something instead of why we can do something,Â” Obama said. Â“The point is there will always be cynics and naysayers.Â” Have your speechwriters check their sources, Mr. President. President Hayes probably never said that bit about the telephone. We thought it was a bit unsporting of Obama to attack President Hayes, who is quite unable to respond. So we called up the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center in Fremont, Ohio, where Nan Card, the curator of manuscripts, was plenty willing to correct ObamaÂ’s ignorance of White House history. Just as soon as she finished chuckling. Â“IÂ’ve heard that before, and no one ever knows where it came from,Â” Card said of HayesÂ’s alleged phone remark, Â“but people just keep repeating it and repeating it, so itÂ’s out there.Â”

Posted by: steevy at March 15, 2012 02:23 PM (7W3wI)

105 Hroth, that was the message I wanted to badly take away from'WFS'. You know how you start watching one of those wild animal shows and it has you all thinking and things but in the last thirty seconds of every one of them the narrator telsl you that due to humans, this majestic cheetah, girrafe, pygmy skink, whatever, will soon be extinct? That was WFS for me. sorry to be a downer, I will watch it again but I thought it was more stealth propaganda.

Posted by: Artruen at March 15, 2012 02:23 PM (fDGF1)

106

Obama smokes, which some would consider a fault (or at least a vice), and we all know he did blow as a younger man, but no, no faults at all.

Hollywood: We Don't Even Pretend Anymore

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 15, 2012 02:24 PM (kFnmp)

107 To be fair, his movie is pretty good, but you can tell that one part where Obama kills Bin Laden with a roundhouse kick was totally CGI.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at March 15, 2012 02:24 PM (+lsX1)

108 http://tinyurl.com/nxulxc

Posted by: creeper at March 15, 2012 06:09 PM (gre5a)

creeper, it is true what about a persons sense of accomplishment , when it's a really difficult task you have willingly set before yourself but you succeed , when AffAc is in the mix how would one be able to judge oneself to oneself let alone others.

i think what aff-ac it set out to do is a failure because how could one be sure, even to themselves. I don't know ..

Posted by: willow at March 15, 2012 02:25 PM (TomZ9)

109 All of this Obama worship is not simply due to white guilt or affirmative action. I will not even comment on the support of the Peggy Joseph crowd, at least their support is honest.

A lot of this support is from leftest who truly think communism is the answer to all our prayers and the needed utopia on earth.

This despite the fact that it has failed everywhere it has been tried, even in the US.

Posted by: Vic at March 15, 2012 02:26 PM (YdQQY)

110 Well, my biggest fault is that I'm sloppy and don't mind delivering a far-less-than-perfect solution or product.

Betcha thought I was going to say that I'm a perfectionist e and that I accept minimum wage.

Do I get the job?

Posted by: Job Interviewee at March 15, 2012 02:26 PM (JVEmw)

111

Obama smokes, which some would consider a fault (or at least a vice), and we all know he did blow as a younger man, but no, no faults at all.

Unnecessary word following the first conjunction?

Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 15, 2012 02:27 PM (7tPfr)

112 This Obama Mutual Masturbation Society is full of delusional idiots. How many awards do they hand out each year, it must be a lot.

Posted by: befuddled at March 15, 2012 02:28 PM (xJU23)

113

This despite the fact that it has failed everywhere it has been tried, even in the US.

But this time Lucy will hold the football.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 15, 2012 02:28 PM (7tPfr)

114 It is so fundamentally simple:

Rule 1: Obama can do no wrong
Rule 2: Obama's policies are always the best for the US
Rule 3: Bush (and Rove and Cheney) fundamentally altered the nature of the universe for evil, and only the goodness of Obama's progressive actions can save us.
Rule 4: See Rules 1, 2, and 3!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 15, 2012 02:28 PM (i3+c5)

115 Wyatt Earp, you know that to the leftist, doing drugs makes him better than you are. He's better because he did drugs and you didn't. Just ask them, they'll tell you. But the best of the leftists, the ones who are the most better than you, they'll tell you without you asking. They know you're so backwards, you don't even know what you don't know.

Posted by: Truman North at March 15, 2012 02:28 PM (I2LwF)

116

Unnecessary word following the first conjunction?

Well played.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 15, 2012 02:28 PM (kFnmp)

117 "Waiting for Superman was an aberration. He also did Gore's Inconvenient truth. "
===============

But you know what? An Inconvenient Truth is actually a really entertaining movie, so this guy must have some filmmaking skills. It's not easy to make a PowerPoint presentation into a compelling cinematic experience, but he did it. An Inconvenient Truth is really compelling.

There's the tiny problem if it being 100% horseshit, true, but it's still a damn good film.

Posted by: Kensington at March 15, 2012 02:29 PM (/AHDz)

118 I thought his cum would taste like strawberries, but it was standard man-jizz. But that's all I can think of.

Posted by: Davis Guggenheim at March 15, 2012 02:29 PM (MMC8r)

119 Well he could go off teleprompter more.
There hasn't been enough Stuttering with the Clusterfucking of Miserable Failure lately.

Posted by: DaveA at March 15, 2012 02:30 PM (058ss)

120 Hipster.

Douchebag.

Posted by: Cicero at March 15, 2012 02:30 PM (QKKT0)

121 New post up to restart the Mutt v Sanatarium bloodbath.

Posted by: Vic at March 15, 2012 02:31 PM (YdQQY)

122 120 Wyatt Earp, you know that to the leftist, doing drugs makes him better than you are. He's better because he did drugs and you didn't. Just ask them, they'll tell you. But the best of the leftists, the ones who are the most better than you, they'll tell you without you asking. They know you're so backwards, you don't even know what you don't know. ---------- True enough, but this man cannot think critically enough to even see through an obvious example. Further, he cannot see the extremely obvious narcissism and outwardly pettiness of the man. Well, I'm sure he can see it, but Davey Boy doesn't have the courage to admit it.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 15, 2012 02:31 PM (kFnmp)

123

But you know what? An Inconvenient Truth is actually a really entertaining movie, so this guy must have some filmmaking skills. It's not easy to make a PowerPoint presentation into a compelling cinematic experience, but he did it. An Inconvenient Truth is really compelling.

There's the tiny problem if it being 100% horseshit, true, but it's still a damn good film.

I hereby move to nominate him for the Leni Riefenstahl Award. Anyone second the motion?

Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 15, 2012 02:31 PM (7tPfr)

124 Art
Maybe I missed the "real" message, but what I took away was the very real despair felt by parents that believe that their kids could thrive in a meaningful educational environment and that see the very chance of being in such an environment being denied them by the establishment and the unions.

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 15, 2012 02:32 PM (i3+c5)

125 Reporter Asks President Whether Dog Favors Releasing Petroleum Reserves
http://tinyurl.com/78oxn3h

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at March 15, 2012 02:32 PM (d6QMz)

126 @126 CAC is getting a little obvious with the use of his projections in support of his agenda.

Posted by: Y-not at March 15, 2012 02:33 PM (5H6zj)

127

If he were an ice cream flavor, he'd be Pralines and Dick.

/Garth Algar

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at March 15, 2012 02:34 PM (EgUGc)

128 Do we know the name of the younger man he blew?

Posted by: dagny who loved andrew at March 15, 2012 02:37 PM (u50z0)

129 C'mon Davis, I'm not perfect. I once shot a horrendous 38 with only three holes in one at Andrews AFB South Course.

Posted by: Barack Jung-Il at March 15, 2012 02:40 PM (GZitp)

130

That's Mike Meyers.

We're being punked.

Posted by: Gunslinger at March 15, 2012 02:40 PM (OyQf0)

131 128
But you know what? An Inconvenient Truth is actually a really entertaining movie, so this guy must have some filmmaking skills. It's not easy to make a PowerPoint presentation into a compelling cinematic experience, but he did it. An Inconvenient Truth is really compelling.

Wow. Imagine if it weren't a giant fucking lie intended to scam the world out of all their money, turn good countries into radical redistributionist race utopias and make some really evil elites super-billionaires. It like admiring the Chinese Olympics. Yeah. They looked great for what was underneath.

Posted by: dagny who loved andrew at March 15, 2012 02:40 PM (u50z0)

132 136 Sorry I didn't mean to make that sound so negative to the commenter just the film maker

Posted by: dagny who loved andrew at March 15, 2012 02:41 PM (u50z0)

133 Dagny, I did acknowledge that the content of the movie is 100% horseshit, right below the part of my post you quoted.

Posted by: Kensington at March 15, 2012 02:43 PM (/AHDz)

134 I think it's pretty obvious what happened. The guy has always been a huge liberal, but he disagreed with them on one point and made Waiting for Superman. After that movie, whispers of "conservative" started floating around Hollywood because if you differ from liberal orthodoxy on a single issue you're a card carrying Republikkkan. This propaganda is his penance.

Posted by: Justin at March 15, 2012 02:48 PM (yoAYX)

135 Guggenheim: "...I took a pay cut to make this. But you know, the-- the--, again, I make movies--"

Morgan: "I'm surprised you aren't paying him by the sound of it. For the sheer honor and joy."

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at March 15, 2012 02:51 PM (d6QMz)

136 Barack Obama popped my political cherry and it was rapturous.

Posted by: Davis Guggenhymen at March 15, 2012 02:54 PM (KWdVT)

137

@ 139

Exactly. So, then Davis broke out the kneepads (he borrowed from his actress wife, no doubt) and went to work. The one certain thing that can be done to escape poverty is to get a good education. The worst school systems in the country are in the big cities, run by Democrats and the Teachers Unions as they have been for the past 50 years. And the first thing Obama did when he got into office was kill the successful DC voucher program. Why does Barack Obama hate black kids so much?

Posted by: ole scratch at March 15, 2012 02:54 PM (+56Bh)

138

Jeez, not even one Sgt Shultz comment yet... Ya'll are seriously slipping.

"I know nothing!"

/I denounce myself

The man is seriously deluded under has partaken to much of the coolaid.

Posted by: Gmac at March 15, 2012 03:29 PM (A86sT)

139 Tiger Woods is 'Amerasian'. Soetoro is ...what? Certainly not unifying.

Posted by: Truth Re:Barry at March 15, 2012 03:33 PM (c3mby)

140 Guggenheim sounds Strictly Barky Dicky.

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 15, 2012 03:33 PM (niZvt)

141 This film will sound better in it's original German..

Posted by: newmike at March 15, 2012 04:32 PM (1OLmL)

142 Triumph of the Shill

Posted by: sherlock at March 15, 2012 05:31 PM (8ra42)

143 Shorter Guggenheim: Superman Arrived.

Posted by: toby928© at March 15, 2012 05:35 PM (GTbGH)

144 I had something I really wanted to say, but when I stop gagging I start laughing, until I gag again. Maybe later

Posted by: barbarausa at March 15, 2012 05:36 PM (t0Sb9)

145 Guggenheim a tool? Sacre bleu!

Posted by: OxyCon at March 15, 2012 05:37 PM (ur8o6)

146 129 Art
Maybe I missed the "real" message, but what I took away was the very real despair felt by parents that believe that their kids could thrive in a meaningful educational environment and that see the very chance of being in such an environment being denied them by the establishment and the unions.

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 15, 2012 06:32 PM (i3+c5)

yeah, man. I know. Not arguing with you, just my take.

Posted by: Artruen at March 15, 2012 05:41 PM (fDGF1)

147 As mittens will tell you, one's ideological perspective can be skewed by a little money in your pocket.

Posted by: wondering at March 15, 2012 06:03 PM (oZfic)

148 Davis Guggenheim: OK, well maybe one fault. I sometimes get a cramp from tonguing his asshole too much.

Posted by: Parking Lot Bozo at March 15, 2012 06:09 PM (eQI0M)

149 I thought I was going to make a brilliant, unique point but 49 beat me to it. Cognitive Dissonance.

Posted by: SamIam at March 15, 2012 06:26 PM (BBm11)

150

Good grief, thank you, finally. Doesn't it kind of make you question what Guggenheim's real motivations were for "Waiting for Superman" I mean, come on, he did do "An Inconvenient Truth" too.

I honestly do not believe that this was a case of a blind squirrel finding a nut in terms of "Waiting for Superman". There's something there that doesn't square. Besides Guggenheim's snotty kids go to private school where they probably sing anthems to Obama so why the heck is he in any position to do an expose on public schools/charter schools? Who really put him up to it and why. I suspect the reason is green and can be legally traded for goods or services.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at March 15, 2012 06:33 PM (RZ8pf)

151

Oh and I want to clear up some "facts" in this thread, Waiting for Superman was made in 2010, NOT during Bush. And, the liberals weren't secretly whispering "Republican" about Davis Guggenheim after Waiting for Superman. They were wildly embracing him. they were trotting him out on the circuit, they thought it was the best damn documentary since "An Inconvenient Truth"

So don't fool yourselves into thinking this Obama love was to get back in the good graces, he never fell out, Waiting for Superman was not some sort of conservative solution to the schools crisis. It was very much about how to re-distribute money, especially to some very well connected long time allies of the Obama administration. (Michelle Rhee and her lover boy Kevin Johnson for example).

Wheels within wheels people. Wheels within wheels. (And, yes I am over the top passionate about this)

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at March 15, 2012 06:42 PM (RZ8pf)

152 One of the mutant powers Liberals have is the ability to consider two mutually exclusive ideas as completely true without their heads exploding. This is because their brains live in a dimension where reality doesn't apply. So this doesn't really surprise me.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 15, 2012 08:35 PM (i0App)

153 If you cannot recognize the problem then you are part of the problem. I loved Reagan and cherish his memory but I didn't agree 100% with everything he did. This man is either a liar, a fool, or a co-conspirator (perhaps all three).

Posted by: arnonerik at March 16, 2012 06:23 AM (mmI0p)

154 Sounds like Davis wants to be employed as presidential salad tosser.

Btw, has anyone noticed the groundswell of hubris coming from the left, the growing confidence that The One will win re-election in a landslide this November? I'm incredulous, but I think that just makes it imperative that we not get hung up on socon issues and unit 100% behind WHOEVER the GOP nominates this summer. The yahoo in the WH needs to be hit by the door on the way out.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 16, 2012 08:24 AM (9eDbm)

155 Well, I guess I could find one fault. Barry promised he would not come in my mouth and he lied.

He did however help clean up the mess with his own tongue while telling me this is how he does Reggie Love.

Posted by: Davis Guggenheim at March 16, 2012 09:01 AM (51Nv7)

156

what about looking like a complete douche riding a bike or that miserable failure throwing the first pitch at the allstar game?

Posted by: kj at March 16, 2012 09:12 AM (zdvxY)

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