Posted 4:23 PM by Gene

This is why movie ad-blurbists get to me: it is not enough that they are by far the basest hacks of all, full of philistinism, pretension, bad taste and worse writing; it is because they occupy a place much like the ideologues in the Kremlin who kept lock and key for their own insane hermetic dogma. When a certified jackass like David Denby storms,

There’s little gravy in attacking Joe McCarthy in 2005, and that’s only a small part of what Clooney is up to. His real intention appears to be to deliver a blow to the patella of a conglomerate-controlled press corps that, until recently, has indulged the Bush Administration’s most extravagant smears and lies. He has completely succeeded.

...he writes not for an audience -- news hacks gave up writing for PEOPLE long ago -- but much as the poor Communist scribbler would type out his reams of rubbish about the proletariat, and the revisionists, and the reactionaries, and all that jazz; but unlike the Kremlin typist not only does he seek ACCEPTANCE from the POLITBURO, but the POLITBURO seeks his GUIDANCE on HOW to not think. It is the perfect symbiosis; both sides achieve total harmony in the mutual process of vacuuming out their brains. This shtick is not unique to liberals; Michael "Ninny" Medved and Hugh "The Superblogger" Hewitt and THE CORNER attest to that; their movie dogmas are as pea-brained as Denby's. But to understand the news biz one must understand its center of hyperconformity, and it lies with people who drone about the GENIUS of FILM.

P. S. I now have second thoughts about buying that Complete New Yorker on DVD -- not because of this brilliant ad-blurbist, but because it has third-rate software, and it was evidently indexed by Indians.