Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED: I know more than you. I make lots more money than you. I'm smarter than you. I'm sexier than you. I appear on TV all the time. I work ten minutes a day. I rule the universe. I'm going to live forever. You are an idiot. THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2: A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH. THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3: I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity. --JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL. THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4: News isn't news when we don't report it. PERMALINKS: THE NEWS HACKS' DICTIONARY THE EUGENE DAVID GLOSSARY AMERICA'S MOST UNINTENTIONALLY FUNNY WEB SITE! Blogroll Me! |
Saturday, March 20, 2004
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7:38 PM
by Gene
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7:31 PM
by Gene
![]() Does that mean sieg heil, or something? Enough already. Ignorance was unbowed throughout the world today.
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7:30 PM
by Gene
![]() More brilliant symbolism: the Statue of Liberty is, of course, closed to tourists.
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7:29 PM
by Gene
![]() Time for some FUN IN THE SUN in RIO, where we get to show off our flabby bodies, and flabbier morals.
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7:22 PM
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![]() SIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!! Or is that Eh?
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7:02 PM
by Gene
I know I'm starting to post on this @#$%&* business as much as STERNO, but given how cement-headed he and his followers are I have no choice.
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6:58 PM
by Gene
Mayor Michael Bloomberg estimated the crowd at about 30,000, but organizers said later that number had grown to more than 100,000. Why didn't you use 200,000? 500,000? A MILLION? You could put out ANY NUMBER you want, because, Tom NYUK! NYUK! NYUK! Curley, THE NEWS BIZ IS OWNED BY CONSERVATIVES.
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5:19 PM
by Gene
One other thing: the Metropolitan Opera is in danger of losing its radio voice thanks to its inability to attract sponsors; yet BAD DIRTY JOKES seem to draw millions in ads. How can you defend this, STERNO?
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5:04 PM
by Gene
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5:01 PM
by Gene
Now can we be sure it's anti-Semitic?
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4:56 PM
by Gene
I'd feel a little more sympathetic if you Spaniards weren't trying to cast a pall of gloom over the whole world with your APPEASEMENT AND SURRENDER. Here's how to feel better: just remember -- you're SUPERIOR TO THE YANQUIS.
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4:46 PM
by Gene
Well maybe they do. But you're part of a tiny clique of reverse snobs and gliberals and glibertarians and permanent adolescents who want to tell the rest of America what it can hear on the radio. And while the hayseeds may rely on primitive things like faith and the Bible, you rely on superzillionaire media tyrants. To me it's no contest. The hayseeds win. If I could challenge this lout the next thing out of his mouth would be, YOU CAN ALWAYS TURN THE RADIO OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To which I'd say, as I've said in a different vein, WHO CAN TURN RADIO OFF?!?!? It'll be a while before I surf STERNO's site again. He's getting as off his rocker on bad dirty jokes as ANDY S. is about gay marriage.
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2:42 PM
by Gene
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2:36 PM
by Gene
Did this come before or after 9/11?
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2:25 PM
by Gene
Is that anything like P. R. MEL in the Bible Belt?
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2:06 PM
by Gene
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1:57 PM
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1:51 PM
by Gene
One way or another they got bonged.
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1:49 PM
by Gene
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1:43 PM
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1:37 PM
by Gene
I had problems: my computer bloop-bleeped after I put in the Ethernet card (of course I didn't follow directions), but Dell saved me -- it apparently installed the software when it built the computer, so I didn't need the CD. (Thank you, Michael!) And the Creative Broadxent (pronounced broadgzent?) modem is spiffy, but it has a big footprint. And just as I suspected -- GOOGLEBLOGGER STILL HICCUPS! Friday, March 19, 2004
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8:45 PM
by Gene
This hed is so rife with meaning, so delicious in its insinuations, that -- no, NO. Some things are best left to the imagination.
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8:43 PM
by Gene
We'll never know if Capt. Yee did something nasty or was a victim of circumstance, but I love the reason for dropping the charges: "In the grand scheme of things, and in the interest of national security, Gen. [Geoffrey] Miller [the commander at Gitmo] felt like the charges needed to be dropped.'' In other words, we can indict you on national security, and when we don't have a case, we can drop the charges on national security. NEATO! What else do John ASHcroft and Co. have up their sleeves?
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6:12 PM
by Gene
I think of the famous screed Mark Twain wrote to his lawyer not long before he died blasting a "humor" anthology bearing his name, featuring such "celebrated" "humorists" as "Artemus Ward" and "Petroleum V. Nasby", most of it from Twain's time, all of it unfunny. (Perhaps he was staring himself in the mirror; nearly all of Twain's short pieces are today unfunny.) It will not do to say humor has a short shelf life, or that it's a child of its times; Sheridan's best comedies sparkle now as they did two centuries ago; and we still laugh at the sage wit of THE MASTER, who invited Sheridan into his own Literary Club. No, too much of big-name reps (especially big-name MEDIA reps) depends solely on groupthink, and something as fragile as comedy especially relies on it, and the groupthink had it from early on that CHARLIE CHAPLIN was a LAFF RIOT. And the bigger they are, the harder they fall, until nothing remains of Chaplin's rep but his grotesqueries, public and private. I can't believe this blog gets less than 30,000 hits a month on average. Oh well, we fans can applaud ourselves.
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5:50 PM
by Gene
(S)He should know.
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5:50 PM
by Gene
These guys couldn't shoot straight if the Lord God aimed and pulled the trigger.
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11:59 AM
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11:06 AM
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10:59 AM
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10:54 AM
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10:45 AM
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Just so long as the right guys get killed.
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10:33 AM
by Gene
Every time our beloved gov opens his big fat PR trap he makes a jack*** of himself. (Wait! Wasn't that the name of a show on MTV? JACK***?)
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10:29 AM
by Gene
The word is JACKASS, which the last time I heard was not obscene. GETTING TOUCHY THERE, MR. X-RATED FX RUPERT????????????????????? I wonder if RUPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! did this on purpose to help undercut the FCC.
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10:23 AM
by Gene
At least no one got hurt this time.
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10:11 AM
by Gene
But that's what they do EVERY time they hold a "SEMINAR."
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10:09 AM
by Gene
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6:55 AM
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Kerry Capitalizing on Party Resources to Fill Coffers!!!!!!!!!! Paid for by Kerry for President, Warren Buffett, Treasurer.
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6:43 AM
by Gene
How does the "Marseillaise" go? Da-daaaa-da-daaaa-daaaa-daaaaaaaaaa-daaaaaaaaaa.... WE WANT OUR BAD DIRTY JOKES!!!!! OR: : PREVIOUS STERN POSTS: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thursday, March 18, 2004
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5:52 PM
by Gene
What? To make $50 million a year flaunting my ignorance? COUNT ME IN!!
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5:48 PM
by Gene
Antiwar Groups to Rally Around World on March 20 Oop! TIME TO EXAGGERATE THE NUMBERS AGAIN!
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5:43 PM
by Gene
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5:39 PM
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5:31 PM
by Gene
Where's the news? Lots of people are fake magazine editors.
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5:26 PM
by Gene
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5:23 PM
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5:17 PM
by Gene
Today's Doonesbury: The usual suspects. Yeah. Including the author.
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5:14 PM
by Gene
Dippity-Do! and WEIRDO, too! And with them we'll beat little BUSH, BUSH, BUSH is some used up MOOSH! And with them we'll be little BUSH, BUSH, BUSH, BUSH, BUSH, BUSH, BUSH, BUSH.... Another instance of (to paraphrase the immortal MASTER) a louse trying to set precedence over a flea.
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5:08 PM
by Gene
More! MORE!! He's still not satisfied!!
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1:33 PM
by Gene
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12:17 PM
by Gene
(To the tune of "Little Pig's Tail" or "Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too," whichever came first) Dippity-Do! and Rodham, too! Dippity-Do! and Rodham, too! But which of the two is a man, man? Man they're a screwed-up clan! And which of the two is a man?
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12:06 PM
by Gene
What's the difference?
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11:44 AM
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11:37 AM
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He probably meant to say the Chicken should never have said it PUBLICLY.
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9:59 AM
by Gene
HEY REVERSE ROBIN HOODS! MAYBE IF YOU DIDN'T FINANCE EVERY PIECE OF DOG DROPPINGS THAT GETS PLOPPED ON THE SIDEWALK WE WOULDN'T BE TALKING ABOUT A "CHIEF NATIONAL CENSOR."
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8:20 AM
by Gene
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8:16 AM
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6:52 AM
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OR: : PREVIOUS STERN POSTS: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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6:48 AM
by Gene
Witch hunt! WITCH HUNT!!!!! ![]() She's the one on the far left. Is it me or does she look like The Hero NER -- RENO?
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6:46 AM
by Gene
Wednesday, March 17, 2004
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5:39 PM
by Gene
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5:30 PM
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SIIIIIIIIII! SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No.
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5:18 PM
by Gene
Why are Hollywood actors starring on your PlayStation? Well, for one thing, maybe it's because they want to make money.
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2:38 PM
by Gene
Rap isn't dying. Pop-culture's current structure, with its permanent status quo backed by mega-zillion media tyrannies, makes good change impossible. Besides, there's nothing to replace it, save possible worse mutations (ultra-tech, or the umpteenth variation of disco). And while the -- GENRE (I will NEVER call it MUSIC) may have been born brain-dead, its heart beats with a nonstop infusion of green blood.
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9:06 AM
by Gene
Any relation to an Anti-Idiotarian? (sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh)
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9:01 AM
by Gene
The lobbying has begun, and those who think this spectacularly vain WAR HERO immune are kidding themselves.
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8:45 AM
by Gene
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8:31 AM
by Gene
Not entirely kidding. OH oh, THE PRODUCER OF THE GREATEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME THINKS MAYBE WE SHOULDN'T HAVE FOUGHT IN IRAQ!!!!! Count on a champion wind breaker like Sean to "change the subject."
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8:25 AM
by Gene
OR: : PREVIOUS STERN POSTS: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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8:16 AM
by Gene
By the way, when does an AMERICAN news hack interview him? Not that it would make any difference; it would be like Lollipop Lou Dobbs interviewing Legendary Welch. Tuesday, March 16, 2004
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5:34 PM
by Gene
The nice thing about Dippity-Do! is he won't put up and he won't shut up. He wins both ways.
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5:25 PM
by Gene
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5:17 PM
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5:13 PM
by Gene
You may have killed THE POET but you haven't begun to kill THE PROBLEM.
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5:09 PM
by Gene
Shucks, I guess appeasement isn't enough.
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5:05 PM
by Gene
Can we say the feeling's mutual? The usual grain of salt: "The polls were taken in February, before the train bombings in Spain that claimed the lives of at least 200 people." Translation: we may control the people but we can't control events.
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10:21 AM
by Gene
SHUT UP already -- BOTH of you!
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9:44 AM
by Gene
Here's another instance where POLITICS trumps TRUTH. Had this clown not decided to see what it's like turning your face beet red and your head three times normal (just like THE GLIBERAL when HE imagines Dubya) he'd have had a column.
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9:11 AM
by Gene
Further proof these "churches" have abandoned The Word for words.
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8:55 AM
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8:42 AM
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8:40 AM
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Monday, March 15, 2004
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5:55 PM
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5:27 PM
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This is like using ads to convince people A POLITICAN'S TELLING THE TRUTH.
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5:21 PM
by Gene
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5:14 PM
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5:09 PM
by Gene
I don't trust Microsoft. I don't trust the EU either. Six of one....
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5:03 PM
by Gene
It was, wasn't it? I think the Dems should nominate Rep. Cowface Flipflop as vice-president and then he'd teach us how to solve all problems with LOVE. And maybe a few late-term abortions.
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12:45 PM
by Gene
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12:21 PM
by Gene
See Carlos, or Juan, or whomever, you don't have to worry as they only attack US. I wonder if a travel-and-trade backlash will develop. It depends on how Nevillian the Spanish leadership is.
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12:09 PM
by Gene
OOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooh, ought to go easy on that GEL, Dip! The FUMES!
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7:54 AM
by Gene
Spain is a third-rate power that is still upset that it lost the battle in colonizing the new world. If it wishes to thumb its nose at us, fine. It didn't do a lot of good for the French, or the Germans, or the Russians. As for the notion that the holy cockroaches are going to WREAK HAVOC on democracies, haven't they already done some of that? Sunday, March 14, 2004
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9:05 PM
by Gene
Why not the THIS SPACE FOR RENT CENTER.
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8:58 PM
by Gene
Annoying how you have to pay attention to this sort of news when you didn't have to before. Especially annoying you have to pay attention to sixty-zillion-megahit-per-second bloggers when you don't have a hit to your name.
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5:53 PM
by Gene
More and more this event's looking like a farce of epic proportions.
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5:50 PM
by Gene
Now does Spain do the international ostrich trick? Or will it turn overtly Nevillian (as in Chamberlain)?
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3:54 PM
by Gene
Where's the PUBLIC EDITOR been lately? Preparing his next cutesy column?
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1:44 PM
by Gene
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1:37 PM
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1:16 PM
by Gene
It's days like these that make you think that if God isn't angry He's getting there (or as Jonah Goldberg would write, "he").
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12:46 PM
by Gene
![]() Despite the HUGE INTERNATIONAL AWAKENING created by THE GREATEST FILM OF ALL TIME, how many churches will look like this today?
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12:06 PM
by Gene
MR. MARK, Carl Limburger, millionaires and bums taste about alike to me -- especially when they're all millionaire bums.
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12:00 PM
by Gene
You're a regular LAFF RIOT, JONATHAN ALTER -- trying to make TERRORISM FUNNY! Wonder what this jerk would do if Osama's gang ever blew up a BOMB?
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11:51 AM
by Gene
And of course the "rabbis" is chiefly Monsignor Lapin, one of P. R. MEL's biggest PRESS AGENTS and PAT ROBERTSON'S idea of what a good, pliant, er, GOD-FEARING, er, whatever you'd call a Catholic rabbi should be like. I'll be glad when this stunt is finally over, then NEWSMAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! can go back to hell again from whence it came. Not that it seems to have left the place.
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9:05 AM
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8:53 AM
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8:42 AM
by Gene
BYE BYE, HOWARD!
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8:34 AM
by Gene
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8:31 AM
by Gene
What a group. Insta has his SPIKES, HOWARD has HOWARD, lgf has gory photos, and ANDY S. wants to marry himself. These prophets shall lead us to the promised land. Ever hear of lemmings?
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8:16 AM
by Gene
Where is all this money? Why is not some of it being spent in this country? Because we have to wipe out INFIDELS.
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