John Cusack: “Conservatives Suck” In 2,000 Words
Posted by Dirty Harry on Monday, November 3rd, 2008
John Cusack can write, you know, if you define “writing” as merely putting words together. In that respect, Cusack can really write. Oh, it’s meaningless, droning, pretentious twaddle, but credit must be given for maintaining twaddle like this for 2,000 words:
Finally, some blue light, tectonic plate shifts, a sea change, we hear… a wave of despair carrying us to a new place. The bastards are finally meeting their grisly ends and will be discarded and abandoned as men come to power who will actually try to govern. I know we’re supposed to be civil but I’m not a real believer in this method when dealing with crimes.
What does the sea change mean? How can we help people understand what is happening and help them contextualize it?
Yes, Cusack wrote, ”blue light, tectonic plate shifts.”
I wouldn’t have thought it possible to sustain such drivel, that is until I saw War, Inc.
You’ve heard the example that if a million monkeys type for a million years eventually one will recreate a perfect copy of Hamlet … I’m thinking three monkeys over a weekend could come up with this.
Thanks to Godzirra.
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Floyd R. Turboon 03 Nov 2008 at 7:45 pm 1He’s an idiot… it’s BLUE PLATE special. He obviously hasn’t taken Grandma Cusack out to eat at IHOP in awhile.
Kiton 03 Nov 2008 at 7:46 pm 2Dirty Harry,
I believe that those in the scientific community have a name for the disorder that appears to be ailing John Cusack, but I just can’t remember it right off hand.
Anyone know the name of it?
HARRY HERE: That would be Narcissistic Personality Disorder with a side order of pretentious, darkly artist who can’t write worth a shit.
Kensingtonon 03 Nov 2008 at 7:47 pm 3I knew a girl who dated him briefly twenty years ago. She said he was an arrogant, preening asshole who seemed to still hold a grudge over the fact that he couldn’t get a girlfriend before he became famous. I believed her then, and I believe her now.
Suck it, John Cusack. Fame doesn’t change that. You’re still the same jackass who wouldn’t have girlfriends if you weren’t famous.
Kiton 03 Nov 2008 at 7:48 pm 4I got two paragraphs in before my brain started hurting.
Did he take narrative cohesion lessons from Anthony Cardoza?
chambodiaon 03 Nov 2008 at 7:50 pm 5Gah. I have a long list of “artists” who I will no longer support due to this election. In the past, I have just voted conservatively and not paid too much attention to what the press or Hollywood or anyone else said. But this time, I have been completely dismayed that anyone on the planet could look past all the things that are wrong with Obama, his stance on the issues and the people who surround him. I refuse to support anyone in the future who has supported him this election.
I loved him in Say Anything and have forgiven him crap movie after crap movie. This I can’t forgive.
Kiton 03 Nov 2008 at 7:51 pm 6Dirty Harry,
“I’m thinking three monkeys over a weekend could come up with this.”
HEY! Don’t insult the monkeys’ intellectual and artistic capacity like that!
Mr24pon 03 Nov 2008 at 7:54 pm 7I’m thinking one monkey half awake in the span of 20 minutes can write something more coherent.
Sphynxon 03 Nov 2008 at 7:55 pm 8“name for the disorder . . .”
That would be
exhibitionistic narcissism
Kiton 03 Nov 2008 at 7:57 pm 9Mr24p,
“I’m thinking one monkey half awake in the span of 20 minutes can write something more coherent.”
Not “more coherent” but “WAY more coherent.”
I’ve seen Anthony Cardoza movies more coherent than that.
If you’re an MST3K fan, you’ll get my Cardoza bit. (He did HELLCATS, NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNDO FINE, et al.)
Kiton 03 Nov 2008 at 7:58 pm 10Shynx,
“exhibitionistic narcissism”
Good, but the term I’m looking for has more of a “detached” thing involved.
YatYason 03 Nov 2008 at 8:05 pm 11Good grief, do rich idiots like Cusack in Hollywood actually think they are so deep or enlightened. John, grab a beer, watch “The Sure Thing” and relax like your character in the movie!
Sphynxon 03 Nov 2008 at 8:06 pm 12I like Cusack’s acting, for the most part. But his essay reads like that of an undergrad with a new thesaurus who’s trying to sound important and well read.
You could boil it down to:
“Oh yeah! Capitalism is SO OVER.”
Capt. Nemoon 03 Nov 2008 at 8:08 pm 13You know this was tried with real monkeys and typewriters.
“Give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, the theory goes, and they will eventually produce the works of Shakespeare.
Researchers at Plymouth University in England reported this week that primates left alone with a computer attacked the machine and failed to produce a single word.
Another thing they were interested in was in defecating and urinating all over the keyboard,” added Phillips, who runs the university’s Institute of Digital Arts and Technologies. ”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/12/national/main553500.shtml
Wow, Harry! You were right. Same results.
Tommy Von 03 Nov 2008 at 8:11 pm 14This was good to read for me. Every time I feel like anger and frustration is overcoming my life, I can read or see something from a radical leftist and be reminded that, at least in comparison, I got nothing on them.
You can pretty much hear the hate in that man’s words. Seriously. Terrible tragedies have come from that kind of hate. Here I am, feeling guilty because I don’t know if its right to fear for my country, or whether I’m displaying a lack of faith in its greatness and Cusack goes out and makes me understand two things:
1. I shouldn’t feel guilty about it, these people are a little frightening.
2. Even on my worst partisan days, I am a bastion of rational thought compared to these people.
He sounds like a horribly unhappy person.
Bennett Marcoon 03 Nov 2008 at 8:11 pm 15This breaks my heart, but please disregard the Redskins election predictor. My boys are getting smacked around something fierce.
Instead, know ye this: in every presidential year in which the NY Jets won at least 5 games before election day, the Republican candidate has won the White House. The Jets won their 5th yesterday.
Major Grahamon 03 Nov 2008 at 8:13 pm 16BAH - the last thing this idiot did that was worth watching was Grosse Point Blank. That was what? 10 years ago? He is living proof that conservatives are happier and more content than liberals.
Phoenixon 03 Nov 2008 at 8:33 pm 17Sociopath: no conscience or empathy
Narcisist: Solipsist sociopaths, only they count, in all ways
Malicious Narcisist: poison all others so only they count
Dictators, Billary, Gore, Kerry, Pelosi, Obamessiah, Obamanoids, “Liberals”.
JohnFNWayneon 03 Nov 2008 at 8:46 pm 18Basically, Cusack’s character from America’s Sweetheart’s - he wasn’t acting.
jmcon 03 Nov 2008 at 9:23 pm 192000 words? That’s a word per dollar in box office he’s done this year
USS Benon 03 Nov 2008 at 9:37 pm 20Kit-
Cognitive Dissonance?
Michaelon 03 Nov 2008 at 9:37 pm 21Does this ever reek with the stench of self importance. Cusack does not work much any more; I suppose he doesn’t have to, which leaves him plenty of time for this narcissistic thumb twiddling to make himself feel relevant.
How does someone who has had the world handed to him since he was sixteen years old carry this much anger and resentment and bitterness for the country and the system that afforded him the time to entertain himself with this kind of thing.
How does such a petulant man-child have the gall to critique the honor of a patriotic hero like John McCain? Or to grasp the concepts of Milton Friedman?
With a basket case like Sean Penn you can kind of understand, his father, Leo, was a committed communist who was black-listed and passed his resentments on to his son. But Cusack has been coddled like few in the world, as is apparent in his writing. It isn’t hard to understand why he supports Obama, they are both self-worshipping and spoiled.
Of course it is drivel, and pretty much incoherent.
Zundfolgeon 03 Nov 2008 at 9:48 pm 22There you have it folk, disagreeing with liberals isn’t just dumb or wrong, its a CRIME.
Orwell is laughing at us from beyond the grave.
wanketteon 03 Nov 2008 at 9:49 pm 23I never liked him in anything, until I saw “High Fidelity”, and I watched that movie so many times I can recite it. It’s in my Top 25 of all time.
Then, just like Springsteen, he went after half his fanbase, and lost them, and me HALF THE FANBASE.
I was saddened but I’ve already moved past any desire to watch another Cusack film or buy a Springsteen CD (forget seeing him in person, where I’m guaranteed a lecture).
Their loss.
Zundfolgeon 03 Nov 2008 at 9:49 pm 24Lately when I see Cuzack (or worse read his drivel) I’m reminded of a line from one of his finest films;
Damn, someone threw away a perfectly good white boy!
wanketteon 03 Nov 2008 at 9:52 pm 25“Damn, someone threw away a perfectly good white boy!”
Z — I love that! which one is that from?
Michaelon 03 Nov 2008 at 10:06 pm 26After reading Cusack’s nonsense, here is a link to an incredibly strong and cogent open letter to Christopher Hitchens from Ayad Rahim, an Iraqi and long time friend of Hitchens strongly challenging him on his support of Obama over McCain. It says a lot.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/letter_to_christopher_hitchens.html
Emilyon 03 Nov 2008 at 10:09 pm 27Eh. John Cusack has a case similar to Keith Olbermann. Crop enough pretty words together and people will think you’re smart! Come to think of it…doesn’t Barack also suffer??
johnmark7on 03 Nov 2008 at 10:20 pm 28Something these fools never really expected — we’re beginning to hate them as much or more than they hate us.
The war is coming. The country is divided and will never be put together. I have no doubt they will start it. It’s what they do — instigate, provoke, offend, insult, and tyrannize.
They love to get out in the street and burn cars, smash windows, trash lives, and buildings — and then sue, steal our money, and lord it over us.
One day they will find me and a few friends waiting for them with our weapons, and I will shoot them down like looters in New Orleans.
It’s a strange thing about violence. A man coming at you with mayhem in his eyes and on his face no longer resembles a man. That makes it easy to shoot them.
Haven’t all those zombie movies taught us that?
Stephanieon 04 Nov 2008 at 4:52 am 29Yep Narcissistic personality disorder on display here. Pretentious half wit hanging out in the Hollywood half way house for dipshits…….he makes me want to dump a martini on him.
Salon 04 Nov 2008 at 5:04 am 30HuffPo, right?
I don’t think I’ll even go look.
I think it’s the bubble. Can we have a movie about a liberal mugged by reality, please? If the protagonist could be a Hollywood has-been, that would be sweet.
I know you guys could a great job with that.
Growltigeron 04 Nov 2008 at 6:04 am 31I suspect Dr. Krauthammer would consider this an example of Bush Derangement Syndrome who (as DH said about Matt Damon) is 1 IQ point from needing a helmet.
I liked “Gross Point Blank” in spite of Cuzak’s performance. The only other film I saw him in that I remember was “Being John Malkevitch” and once again, I felt anyone else would have been better cast. His sister is uglier, funnier and a better actress but just as big a jerk.
But, hey, look — he’s here on DHP — those of us who won’t spend $10.00 to see a film he’s in are watching him.
Mavison 04 Nov 2008 at 6:17 am 32I see his picture and all I can think of is Lloyd “with two Ls”, the kick-boxer. I feel thirteen again! And then…reading those paragraphs and the word “contextualize” and suddenly he seems so boring.
Roberton 04 Nov 2008 at 7:35 am 33I know we’re supposed to be civil but I’m not a real believer in this method when dealing with crimes.
Well, at least we agree on this! If someone commits a crime against my person or family or property, I say LET THERE BE NO RESTRAINTS! Of course John, this means you approve of capital punishment, torture, and lynch mobs.
@wanketteon
“Damn, someone threw away a perfectly good white boy!”
Z — I love that! which one is that from?
That quote is from Better Off Dead.
G-MANon 04 Nov 2008 at 8:01 am 34I had to read it twice, because it didn’t make sense the first time. After reading it again, and then the comments following the article, I couldn’t believe what I was reading. Change the right to left, Republican to democrat, McCain/Palin to Obama/Biden and it makes a little more sense, but it’s still a wierd perspective.
One thing is for sure, the media has to go. Their spoon-feeding of information has truly affected how and what a lot of people think. You still have to discern what you find over the internet, but it’s not so in-your-face. You have more time to mull it over and analyze it.
I saw what was happening in the media during Viet Nam, but unfortunately only after the fact. They got a lot of traction then but it’s much worse today. Like a lot of you, I stopped watching the media years ago. Occaisionally, I watch it just to see what drivel they are spewing, but it mostly just pisses me off. I pretty much watch the local news, and mostly for the weather. That’s one thing they can’t screw up too bad. And if they do, it plays out within a week.
I still don’t understand with all the information out there, people hold on to such bizarre notions about events happening in the world. Maybe it’s making up their minds early on and closing it off for more and better information.
Harry,
This is the one blog I stumbled across the past couple of months that I found to have a common sense reality to it. There are a few posters who tend to get excited, but I have learned to enjoy them as well. I’m glad you weed out the idiots who mirror what I see on the news. That’s why I keep checking in daily. It speaks well of you. Thank you!
I ran across your blog during the last election cycle as well. This time I have it bookmarked.
Zundfolgeon 04 Nov 2008 at 9:45 am 35wankette, Robert is correct, it was Better Off Dead.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088794/
Frankly Cusack’s “Savage” Steve Holland films along with Gross Point Blank are his best work. Period.
I choose to remember only those films as the alternative is too depressing.
GeronimoRumplestiltskinon 04 Nov 2008 at 10:22 am 36How can we help people understand what is happening and help them contextualize it?
A professor of mine back at Notre Dame used to detract 2 points from any essay for each appearance of what he called “academia bullshit words”. These were words that were used to a) give the impression that the author had a more “deep” understanding of an aspect of their topic than they actually had, and b) attempt to attach more importance and complexity to something than it really had.
He showed me the list one day in his office, which contained (at the time) about 25 words and phrases. Some of them I remember: ‘hegemony’, ‘consciousness’, ‘conceptualize’, ‘transgressing [the] normative…’
“Contextualize” was on that list.
Cusack’s use of it is telling, too. To ‘contextualize’ an event is a high-brow way of saying ‘assign meaning to’. So what Cusack is saying is “How can we help them assign meaning to what is happening?”, which in light of the rest of his screed means “How can we help them assign the correct i.e. ultra-leftist meaning to what is happening?”
Gee, John, good question. Maybe Hollywood could turn out a dozen or so more anti-Bush flicks. I’m sure that would do it.
PaperKidon 12 Nov 2008 at 11:03 pm 37I want my $2.