Posted by Derek Janssen on 07/15/06 16:57

Nick Macpherson wrote:

>>...We seem to have a dimensionally onion-like multi-tiered level of
>>self-backpatting UPON self-backpatting.
>
> There's plenty of politically incorrect movies being made. Soul Plane,
> White Chicks, Little Man . . . but they're not funny or incisive so
> it's not as if being "unPC" is even much of a virtue taken on its own.
> It's like the National Review review of Team America. The reviewer
> thought it was dull, tasteless and not especially funny but he liked it
> because it pissed off liberals, and once you go down the realm of
> associating "unPC" with "it's good because it pisses people off" then
> you're showing the critical rigor of Calvin Rice.

And actually, the MSNBC column was just a filler "trivia" sidebar
companion to an interview with the South Park guys (about Comedy Central
editing and rerunning the Muhammad-cartoon and Tom Cruise episodes, etc.)
Just that Fred Goodwin, CMA, had been embarking on his periodic hobby of
cut-and-paste cross-trolls, dreamed the article was some world-changing
statement, and thought Disney groups would all gasp and turn pale at the
mention of Song of the South.

It's usually the case that those who want to "shock" the most are those
who get out in public the least.

Derek Janssen
ejanss@comcast.net

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