Eventually Margaret Cho Had To Say Something
Posted by Dirty Harry on Thursday, September 18th, 2008
What would Hollywood’s Palin Derangement Syndrome be Cho-less?
At first I thought Sarah Palin was some kind of Republican pandering — a misguided attempt to woo Hillary voters over to the dark side, as if they believed women voters were so stupid that they would vote for anyone in a skirt, but now I see that she is much, much worse. I have nothing against hockey moms — I just don’t want to be one. If Sarah Palin had her way, she would take away that right not to be a mom. She wants to outlaw abortion — so to call her a feminist is as laughable as calling evangelicals ‘Christians.’ They shouldn’t have the right to call themselves Christian, for they have no Christ-like attributes.”
You know, I’ve never used the word celebutard before. Not going to here. Just thought it might be a good time to point out that I haven’t. Yet. Which is the long way of saying I won’t be voting for Barack Obama because he’s black.
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David Marcoeon 18 Sep 2008 at 9:46 pm 1Cho, you haven’t been funny since the mid-90s. Joining the rush of the Lemmings isn’t going to change that…
Blackiswhite, Imperial Agent Provocateuron 18 Sep 2008 at 9:52 pm 2Ok, I’ll bite. What do you consider “Christ-like” attributes, Maggie?
Kensingtonon 18 Sep 2008 at 9:53 pm 3Liberals like Margaret Cho really think that Jesus is indistinguishable from Howard Dean wearing sandals. I think their Jesus is closer to Santa Claus or Che Guevara than the One True Messiah (the real one, not Barack Obama).
Kensingtonon 18 Sep 2008 at 9:58 pm 4Also, Ace of Spades puts the “genius” of Margaret Cho in proper perspective here, here, and here. Enjoy!
Attmayon 18 Sep 2008 at 10:15 pm 5[quote]Ok, I’ll bite. What do you consider “Christ-like” attributes, Maggie?[/quote]
Jesus died in his 30s. Margaret Cho is in her 30s and her career is dead.
Jesus has been the subject of art, both good and bad. Margaret Cho had a short-lived sitcom on ABC.
billypaintbrushon 18 Sep 2008 at 10:23 pm 6These morons see nothing but stereotypes among all their associates so its just natural that everybody, especailly those they don’t like, fits a definable group criteria.
yep, they are the much smarter ones. Its pointless to analyze, argue or discuss because these opinions were not generated from thought.
i’m voting for barry so i can join Peace Allies and bring my torch and pitchfork
Carolynon 18 Sep 2008 at 10:24 pm 7“….as laughable as calling evangelicals ‘Christians.”
I sat in front of my computer for 20 minutes trying to think of what I could type that would reveal the utter stupidity of what Cho just said. Then I found the words.
“….as laughable as calling evangelicals ‘Christians.”
Christian Totoon 18 Sep 2008 at 10:34 pm 8I spoke to Cho for a story I wrote a couple of years ago and was struck by her intellectual shallowness.
That’s forgivable if she could make me laugh … at least once.
Vincent Wongon 18 Sep 2008 at 10:54 pm 9I find Cho repulsive in every aspect. Further, why can’t libtards understand that being against Roe v Wade doesn’t automatically equate to being against abortion (no matter how much I wish that were the case)?
wanketteon 18 Sep 2008 at 10:58 pm 10I used to think she was funny. Even my gays — her target audience — can’t stand her anymore. “Too political!” they shrug.
Vincent Wongon 18 Sep 2008 at 11:00 pm 11“My gays”? That your posse, wankette?
abeon 18 Sep 2008 at 11:03 pm 12You guys are so sensitive about anyone joning on Failin Pailin.
David Marcoeon 18 Sep 2008 at 11:09 pm 13You guys are so sensitive about anyone joining on Failin Pailin.
Yours is the only comment about her in this entire thread…
The Ugly Americanon 18 Sep 2008 at 11:24 pm 14Okay, speaking as a fellow traveler, Cho seriously grosses me the hell out.
I cannot even imagine spending 5 minutes talking to this woman, let alone having any sort of intimacy with her.
If anything, my fantasy would involve washing this broad’s mouth out with a bar of Irish Spring.
And I just love how feminists like Cho refer to abortion so casually as if it’s akin to having a mole removed.
This entire anti-Palin hysteria has finally revealed women like her as the self-hating, lying-hypocrites they are.
Thank God I managed to find my way back to conservatism or this could’ve very well been my future.
soulpileon 18 Sep 2008 at 11:40 pm 15I think I’m becoming immune to this stuff… makes me shrug and say, “so?” To be expected. Plus, PDS is bringing all these barely-known has-beens out of the woodwork. Yawn.
The only thing about this that makes me worried is if I go to a concert. to which I have tickets, will the artists play or preach? I’m hoping play.
EPorvaznikon 18 Sep 2008 at 11:41 pm 16I hear ya, Ugly American. I don’t credit my ex-wife for many good things in my life, but her letting me borrow Larry Elder’s “10 Things You Can’t Say in America” when we first started dating certainly qualifies as one. My first steps gladly away from the dark side known as Modern Liberalism.
Splashon 18 Sep 2008 at 11:50 pm 17Margaret who? [Splash yawns, hits the snooze bar.]
Jillon 19 Sep 2008 at 12:18 am 18She ruins a perfectly lovely name (Margaret). Ugh.
One good thing about this election being close is the celebutards (there, I’ll say it) are really coming out of the woodwork so we can get these stupid quotes down in writing FOREVER.
If this was a runaway Obama year, they’d all be quiet.
The worst thing I’ve seen written about Palin so far is the one I heard today on Greta — that columnist/writer for the CBC in Canada. It was VILE. And I’m including that South Carolina “all she has for qualifications is not having had an abortion” one, so you know it’s pretty bad.
jack Marinoon 19 Sep 2008 at 12:22 am 19Cho has enough brains to full up a fortune cookie. I love when liberals compare their heroes to Christ or being Christ like. I am sure that Christ would support abortion, after all he killed a lot of people while he was doing his ministry.
SpideyTerryon 19 Sep 2008 at 12:25 am 20“Margaret Cho is in her 30s”
Really? I so would’ve guessed older- much older.
Sheesh, another Hollywood pinhead saying something overwhelmingly stupid. You can set your watch by it.
firefirefireon 19 Sep 2008 at 12:31 am 21If Sarah Palin had her way, she would take away that right not to be a mom. She wants to outlaw abortion
Ms. Cho,
tubal ligation is one option for those women who don’t want to be moms. condoms,birf control pills and abstinence are others.
Ms Cho I don’t mean to be rude but since when can a strap-on device cause pregnancy?
whiskeyon 19 Sep 2008 at 12:52 am 22The one thing we have going for us …. is Celebutards.
DH, I think you should use that word often. Margaret Cho is a perfect example — a Celebrity who is so retarded that she thinks being a celebrity both fixes all her personal problems and makes her an expert on everything.
Margaret Cho single-handedly got more guys to vote McCain-Palin than any ad McCain has run.
We ought to send her an email, thanking her. Really. We should.
Now, thank god, Michael Lohan is blasting Obama for turning down Lindsay’s effort to host parties for Obama. The fun just never stops.
Abe — I predicted Palin would not draw young female votes. She does however deeply appeal to guys. Obama is snob, the yuppie entitled Affirmative Action hire that pushes every average joe aside, with the harpy wife from hell. It’s like Michelle Obama saw the villainous wife of David Palmer on “24″ and said, “yeah, I’ll be THAT woman.” Joe Biden is the typical arrogant, clueless entitled pol who is a yes-man besides. He makes Dwight from the Office look like Sgt. Rock.
Guys like/respect the old wounded war-horse McCain, the more Obama acts like a Jay-Z video with him, the more Joe Average likes him. Plus Palin is a Lara Croft figure come to life. Older women also love her (and can relate to the arrogant Yuppie Affirmative Action hire pushing them aside).
There are more older voters than young ones, in absolute numbers, and they vote in a greater percentage. Obama is not going to win with the youth vote, ever. He’s probably locked up a greater percentage of young women on his side who don’t like Palin and follow celebutards, but that has a cost — young men are more drawn to Palin. A woman shooting guns? Heaven.
abeon 19 Sep 2008 at 1:22 am 23whiskey, after that hate filled rant it’s a wonder how you can take umbrage at anyone–celebrity or not–making fun of Failin’ Palin. And you know something? She appeals to me too. She appeals to a lot of guys. Because she’s gorgeous and appears to be charming. It’s why she was a brilliant pick for McCain, who could have just as easily chosen women who were far more qualified and–probably–less attractive than the former beauty queen. But he went with the airhead because of those same attributes that happen to strike such a chord with us average dudes. So go ahead and keep trying to tar Obama with the label “affirmative action.” I’m sure that’s why he’s beating your guy in the polls.
Manbearpigon 19 Sep 2008 at 3:40 am 24The polls have been even, asswipe. Plus, Palin is not failing and she’s not stupid.
Why to these libtards always assume she’s stupid? Is it because she’s good looking? Do you people honestly think that good looking people are incapable of being smart?
memomachineon 19 Sep 2008 at 4:23 am 25Hmmmm.
I never thought I’d agree with Cho but here I have to say that we are in complete accord.
Neither of us want her to procreate.
Sawbuckon 19 Sep 2008 at 4:39 am 26abe - and I say this with love - STFU. You are all hat and no cattle. So is your candidate.
JBon 19 Sep 2008 at 5:01 am 27“You guys are so sensitive about anyone joning on Failin Pailin.”
“You” guys are so sensitive about her existence.
shunha7878on 19 Sep 2008 at 5:35 am 28Like splash ask, Who?
JBon 19 Sep 2008 at 5:51 am 29“Plus, Palin is not failing and she’s not stupid.”
The narrative is more important than the reality.
It’s true because they say so.
They are the (meme) deciders.
All conservatives are either stupid (GWB, Reagan, Palin) or evil (Tricky Dick, Karl Rove).
Jimbo2on 19 Sep 2008 at 6:05 am 30I never, ever, thought she was funny.
As an Asian-American lesbian, she just doesn’t connect with the regular folks.
Her 15 minutes of fame ended long ago.
Enderon 19 Sep 2008 at 6:14 am 31In the Janeane Garafolo category of “Used to be Fat and Funny.”
mjkon 19 Sep 2008 at 6:15 am 32Margaret Cho is the single most unfunny comic in the entire world. I tried to watch her comedy on the DVD once and decided instead to have my left arm removed without the benefit of anesthesia. That was way more enjoyable than her “comedy.”
Again, why do celebs and pseudo-celebs think anyone cares what they think of politics? They’re a bunch of narcissistic morons who can barely tie their own shoes, much less understand the underpinning of the Middle East, tax code, and Wall Street.
T.S.Benchon 19 Sep 2008 at 6:41 am 33A couple of years ago, my wife and I went out to LA for a week to visit my son, the not-quite-starving screenwriter and his wife. We did all the usual goofy tourist-y stuff, the Warner studio tour, some supposedly famous local-haunt chicken/waffle house in a warehouse district, Beverly Hills, Malibu, shopping on Rodeo Drive, dinner at Vitello’s and seeing the spot where Robert Blake offed his wife. I even duked some 300- pound, white-suited Elvis impersonator a couple of bucks for posing for a picture with my wife and daughter-in-law near the Walk of Fame and bought a pair of sunglasses from some guy in a Spiderman costume. In our travels around town, we were introduced to a bunch of recognizable, but not big-star-famous, industry folks my kid had met through the WGA or on shoots, including some guy who had worked as a caterer on the Money Train set, where my son had worked as a safety PA, who casually mentioned that his major qualification for the gig was being Wesley Snipes’ coke connection.
We watched the Academy Award at a house my son was renting in Glendale, packed with his friends from the WGA and assorted hangers-on. They all, save one, spoke in standard-issue lefty clichés, and there wasn’t an original thought in the bunch. Plus, they were attacking just about everyone, and you got the feeling that writers had an adversarial relationship with the rest of the industry and thought that everyone but they themselves were ignorant dipshits. Hollywood may share a common political philosophy, but that doesn’t mean they like each other. The only person not sharing in the barb session was a kid, a boyhood friend of my son’s who I had known for almost 30 years, who, unique for the group, was actually making a decent living writing non-union scripts for cable TV quickies at five grand a pop. He was sitting in the kitchen, munching on pizza, and editing some script he was working on for the Sci-Fi network. He was regarded with condescending amusement by the WGA types, who ribbed him relentlessly, especially about the chump change he was making compared to the WGA megabucks they were going to haul down as soon, of course, as they could get one of their scripts actually made.
On the way back to the hotel, my wife commented “‘I didn’t know how right I was, but I really had this town really pegged yesterday.”
Walking around town the previous day, we had chanced upon the outdoor red carpet set for the Academy Awards. My wife had checked out the set, the worn red carpet and the huge prop Oscar statuettes. She finally turned and said…
’It’s all so shabby, cheap, and phony looking, but it all photographs so beautifully,” she paused for a beat, “sort of like this entire town and the people in it.”
Regards,
TSB
T.S.Benchon 19 Sep 2008 at 6:44 am 34PS: You and my kid excepted, DH.
Regards,
TSB
Carolynon 19 Sep 2008 at 6:54 am 35TSB - of all the accurate descriptions of Hollywood, your wife absolutely nailed the best one. Thank you! Well, actually, thank her.
photomanon 19 Sep 2008 at 7:06 am 36“No Christ-like attributes”
Well, except for the caring for the sick, feeding the hungry, seeking the lost, rebuilding families, forgiving the fallen, loving our neighbor part.
Our church is still in New Orleans assisting in the rebuild after Katrina and just sent another group to assist in Texas.
We are sponsoring a AIDS walk and run this Saturday to fund HIV education and treatment in Africa and here.
Next Saturday is a work day for the church. We will send out about 500 people into the community to help the homeless, do housing repairs for the elderly, and work at a battered women’s shelter.
What are the liberals doing?
wanketteon 19 Sep 2008 at 7:08 am 37“That your posse, wankette?”
Ohhhh, Vincent — one of ‘em.
Plissken79on 19 Sep 2008 at 7:23 am 38Abe calls Sarah Palin stupid because that is simply what liberals do in lieu of making a coherent argument against a particular candidate. This has been going since the 1950s when liberals commonly called Dwight Eisenhower, leader of the Allied Expeditionary Force and later president of Columbia University, stupid, continuing with Ford, Reagan (Clark Clifford’s “amiable dunce”) and George W. Bush, Nixon was of course too much of an Evil Prince of Darkness to be considered stupid. This of course did not stop Eisenhower, Reagan, and Bush defeating the Left’s “brilliant” opponents twice in elections. I doubt Abe has even run a household, much less a town or a state, but I suppose he can still claim to be an expert on the degree of Sarah Palin’s intelligence. Regardless, it is a sign of the intellectual immaturity of the modern left that their common rejoinder about politicians they do not like is “there are stupid” When someone resorts to such foolish name-calling, they are have already lost the debate.
Leaving out her politics, I have never understood Margaret Cho’s appeal, such as it is. She has always struck me as a bitter, angry person whose “comedy” seems to be grounded in complaining about whoever or whatever pissed her off on a particular day.
Vincent Wongon 19 Sep 2008 at 7:26 am 39@photoman
I’m truly impressed by the zeal of you and your church’s Christian witnessing and I understand why you posted that comment. But it does sound a little like blowing your trumpet (Matthew 6).
Zundfolgeon 19 Sep 2008 at 7:31 am 40Yeah, that Sarah Palin … Mayor, governor, the first woman to be a VP candidate for the GOP and possibly becoming the first woman VP … yeah, she’s doing all she can to hold women back.
Salon 19 Sep 2008 at 7:42 am 41Maybe, Vincent,
but after a while you get tired of being asked, ‘So what are you doing to make the world a better place, you rich racist sexist homophobic Republican who doesn’t drive a Prius? Huh? Huh?”
The woman at the aid event, who learned that I was a Repub and asked ‘Then why are you here?”? Gets old.
Then, too, given the Left’s strategy of moving the goalposts, whatever you do is never enough, or the right thing. But I guess that’s all they can expect, since we’re so decent but stupid and all…
Salon 19 Sep 2008 at 7:48 am 42Maybe, Vincent,
but sometimes you just get tired of being asked what you, the rich, racist, sexist, homophobic Rethuglican who doesn’t drive a Prius are doing to make the world a better place.
No, scratch that- Utopia. It has to be perfect, or you’ve’ failed
More on Miss Cho here, for those with strong stomachs: http://rsmccain.blogspot.com/
Stay classy, Dems.
photomanon 19 Sep 2008 at 8:21 am 43Vincent….
First, we are not witnessing as it is normally defined. We are trying to be Christ’s hands and feet in a terribly fallen world. If men and women are drawn to him by our actions so much the better. But we can not call our selves Christians and see suffering and loss and not do something about it when we have the resources to do so. (James 2:14-17)
I understand your reasoning BUT we can’t allow evil to be depicted as good and good to be depicted as evil.
We will win out…. As Christians we have the advantage of knowing how the story ultimately ends. Christ himself demonstrated a little righteous indignation on those who had ventured so far afield that they couldn’t recognize who he was. I’m SO tired of the clueless defining me, my church, and my Christ.
And the question for the left still stands. “What are you doing?”
T.S.Benchon 19 Sep 2008 at 8:34 am 44….The one thing we have going for us …. is Celebutards.
DH, I think you should use that word often….
I respectfully disagree. I think he should retire it. Beside being somewhat, shall we say, distasteful in its implications, my usual rule is that whomever goes to the name-calling locker first has lost the argument. The opposition here isn’t exactly the membership of Mensa. It seems to me that the best way to counter these folks is to repeat their words back at them. They’ll consider that insult enough. Hard to disagree with them on that one.
Regards,
TSB
MrSideouson 19 Sep 2008 at 9:02 am 45I remember renting one of Cho’s comedies, just to see what the hoopla was about. Really, sheeple, just because you feel strongly about something doesn’t make it right. the ignorance was just stunning. Then cut to the lesbos in the audience doubling with laughter, nodding at how right on she is. I started to get a headache.
But because she was so *&%&$in’ angry makes it all true!
Yikes.
Publius804on 19 Sep 2008 at 9:35 am 46Ahh, Margaret Cho is now a theologian.
a. acaciaon 19 Sep 2008 at 9:47 am 47She’s part of the ‘Cult of Che’ crowd, so no surprise here. Always found her more abrassive than funny. Maybe she has a following in urban markets (especially San Francisco) but the rest of the country recoils at the sight of her.
Btw, I suspect Roe v Wade is practically written in stone so nobody’s going to “outlaw abortion.” Pure fear-mongering. There’s still much debate over partial birth which is a horrible procedure and *should* be outlawed.
Zundfolgeon 19 Sep 2008 at 10:55 am 48That’s a fact that liberals don’t want to admit. They act like Roe v. Wade is always on the verge of overturn and overturning Roe would instantly revoke EVERY gain women have made since suffrage.
Its a scare tactic used to keep stupid women (and the stupid men sleeping with them) voting for Democrats.
1) A president can’t, by him/herself, overturn Roe v. Wade.
2) If magically they did, abortion would become a state issue and most states would keep things exactly as they are (a few would place some restrictions on it and maybe a couple would ban it outright).
Once your typical “libtard” or “libtart” gets that through their heads its amazing how fast they become Republicans.
EPorvaznikon 19 Sep 2008 at 11:30 am 49>>What are the liberals doing?>>
A question I threw Evan Sayet’s direction in his traditional end-of-show Q&A session, specific to the hurricane/flood victims in Texas and Iowa, who didn’t get the same treatment as the post-Katrina folks.
His condensed answer: “Nothing, because what’s in it for them?”
Audietooon 19 Sep 2008 at 12:28 pm 50As God is my witness, I had not read Cho’s assinine remarks about Roe vs Wade before I stated on the thread above that the next dumbass liv remark would be that “Roe would be overturned” would be said by one of the Desperate Housewives.
What I can’t figure out is if Cho Really is a sincere and practicing Lesbian why does she give a hoot about Abortion, short of rape she should never need it.
whiskeyon 19 Sep 2008 at 12:58 pm 51T.S. — you nailed it.
I think Celebutard should be used — it’s a good phrase that encapsulates the failing of celebrities — they think because everyone fawns all over them that they are gods. They are not.
Sad and strange.
Abe — McCain is down because of Wall Street and Palin — however he seems to be limiting for now Obama’s rise, and there are huge problems Obama has competing with McCain on that reason largely because of his massive tax increases which no one wants.
Palin does have a huge appeal, to men and turns off younger women. Mostly because she is in fact, smart and determined (though not credentialed and approved by the fashionable fashionistas). Men love her for that reason, and that she married an idealized version of them, and younger women hate her for that reason.
That Cho hates her pretty much cements that younger generational divide.
T.S.Benchon 19 Sep 2008 at 1:20 pm 52……T.S. — you nailed it.
I think Celebutard should be used — it’s a good phrase that encapsulates the failing of celebrities — they think because everyone fawns all over them that they are gods. They are not…….
Nailed what? If you think I was on the money when I mentioned that the term shouldn’t be used, are you then disagreeing with yourself?
I object to the term because it takes a, probably unintended, shot at a segment of the population which doesn’t deserve it. There are plenty of perfectly good Anglo-Saxonisms which fit these Hollywood know-nothings to a ‘T’…asshole, shithead, ignoramus, dipshit, dope, jerk, illiterati, dumbfuck, etc which don’t take a shot at anyone other than the object of derision because nobody, through happenstance at birth, is born a asshole, shithead, ignoramus, dipshit, dope, jerk, etc. but has to earn it all by themselves.
Regards,
TSB
Zundfolgeon 19 Sep 2008 at 1:41 pm 53As Rush puts it, Abortion has become the sacrament of the religion that has formed on the left.
Tell a Christian they’re not allowed to take communion anymore and even though most would acknowledge that its not going to keep them out of heaven, they’d still be pissed.
billy rubinon 19 Sep 2008 at 1:47 pm 54on all things margaret cho, i have to quote jim treacher:
ALL-AMERICAN GIRL IS COMING TO A NETFLIX QUEUE NEAR YOU, IF YOU HAPPEN TO LIVE NEAR SOMEBODY WHO WOULD WANT TO WATCH IT FOR SOME REASON
I’ve been working on a new sitcom for Margaret Cho. An affordable, fuel-efficient comeback vehicle, if you will. It’s about a woman who sells pie tins she makes by smashing her face into sheet metal and uses the money to open a holistic abortion clinic. As for a title, I’m torn between Slippery Slope and Me Loathe You Long Time.
Moon 19 Sep 2008 at 4:54 pm 55These people make me sick.
And why is it they can continue to spew this stuff every single day and no one seems to care? WHY? You don’t see our side behaving this way day in and day out!
Stephanieon 20 Sep 2008 at 5:25 am 56Margeret Cho? Can I say wtf? GUHHHHHHHHH who cares. She is another who thinks her opinions are more important than other peoples because she has access to sound equipment and the Manhatten and LA people who never leave their Islands (literally and figuratively) give her a podium. Its sort of like a free range insane asylum for them.
StringerBon 20 Sep 2008 at 12:22 pm 57Does Margaret Cho even QUALIFY as a celebrity? Seriously, what has she done, other than NOT be funny and make ill-informed, divisive statements…is THAT enough to make you famous now?