Billy Crystal Calls GOP Candidates 'Dark Knight, an American Psycho and a Charismatic Crack Addict'
NewsBusters reported Friday that Oscars host Billy Crystal intended to mock GOP "idiots" during Sunday's awards presentation.
Roughly forty-five minutes in, Crystal was true to his word taking a cheap shot at the Republican presidential candidates (video follows with transcript):
BILLY CRYSTAL: A dark knight, an American psycho, a charismatic crack addict. You'll get to choose one on Super Tuesday.
And of course the audience found it hysterical.
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Submitted by Maytag on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 10:39pm.
Was he looking in a mirror? They all describe crystal no?
Obama is the charimatic crack cocaine addict
Submitted by frank14 on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 3:28pm.
Billy must have confused things, being that his movie career ended 20 years ago and the mind wanders with nothing to do except lame award shows for 2 decades.
What a shame.
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 10:42pm.
Another entertainer down the toilet. By billy, you were worth watching, no more.
crystal
Submitted by angelann1 on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 10:45pm.
I didn't think that occubama was a republican !
Meanwhile
Submitted by Gothampc on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 10:46pm.
Meanwhile Billy, your friend Obama is doing everything he can to destroy both America and Israel.
But.......
Submitted by GregE on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 11:24pm.
...........don't dare that friend Dark Knight or crack addict, that would be racist.
or on the Democratic side
Submitted by Jonah Johansen on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 10:52pm.
you get to choose between a Communist, An Anti-Colonial African Nationalist or a closet Muslim extremist sympathizer.
The Oscars, a bunch of
Submitted by ForeverOnTheRight on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 10:52pm.
The Oscars, a bunch of Holywood millionaires insulated from the real world congratulating each other and promoting self-indulgent politically correct fantasies.
Booorrrring.
Submitted by KyWriter on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 10:55pm.
The show and especially the host. The Oscars were at one time mildly entertaining, when one truly had no idea who would win, and it was capable of memorable moments such as when Hattie McDaniel won her Best Supporting Actress oscar in 1939. But the Oscars today are overblown, predictive and merely symbolic of the narcissistic superficiality of American pop culture. I'm surprised Barack and Michelle weren't invited to box seats.
McDaniel's award was no true breakthrough
Submitted by Galvanic on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 11:46pm.
George Clooney has cited it as some kind of Jackie Robinson moment for Hollywood. He says he is proud of an industry that helped blaze the civil rights trail by awarding the performances of African Americans.
But what was the Academy really saying?
Remember: Hattie was cast as a slave, including stereotypical dialogue -- written by white screenwriters and not far removed from the lines they wrote for Mantan Moreland and Buckwheat. Essentially, they thought she convincingly played a slave in the image that they concocted from the novel.
Meanwhile, they continued to cast talented black performers like Paul Robison in films like the Emperor Jones. The first black entertainers to get into Hollywood films in other than stereotypical roles were musicians and singers like Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, and Lena Horne.
If not a breakthrough, it was at least a beginning.
Submitted by KyWriter on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 12:03am.
She still had to sit at a segregated table, apart from the rest of the attendees and even her fellow actors from the movie, and there was no rush afterward to recruit black actors. A year after the award ceremonies, the country was plunged into war and the armed forces were still segregated. However, the fact remains that McDaniel's award was based on the quality of her work, even if her character (and all the black characters in the movie) was stereotypical. There was no way to deny the excellence of her performance and her ensuing popularity. There was no affirmative action forcing the Academy to award her anything and no liberal press bemoaning the lack of a black presence. She won it on her own, fair and square, and that engendered something far more lasting than any top-down pseudo-socialist program could ever create.
McDaniel won her Oscar as fairly and squarely as . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 4:05pm.
. . . as most any Oscar winner. That is to say that there always exists some conscious or subconscious bias in comparing the performances of 5 actors in different roles under different directors and scripts.
The point is that while Hollywood pats itself on the back for awarding her an Oscar, it was for a stereotyped role performed to their satisfaction. I don't think black Americans got 'colorless' leading roles roles in major motion pictures until well after WW2.
.......and don't forget.......
Submitted by Herbster on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 12:40am.
And don't forget Butterfly McQueen in Gone with the Wind......."I don't know nuthin about birthin babies" was the line she was remembered for.
Hollywood hypocrites all!
and Hollywood
Submitted by misterbee241 on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 9:46am.
Is STILL racist.
⇒ You must forget
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 9:49am.
Halle Barry claimed, in her acceptance, to be the first black actor to win an Oscar.
Leading Actress
Submitted by Gothampc on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 11:42am.
I think she was the first black actress to win in the Leading Actress category. Whoopi Goldberg won for Ghost as a supporting actress several years before Halle.
are you sure
Submitted by Tidy Bowl Man on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 10:57pm.
Are you sure he wasn't talking about Obama, Clinton and Kerry?
They all apply to Obama.
Submitted by MrSnuggles on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 11:51pm.
They all apply to Obama.
In January he can call one of
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 11:00pm.
In January he can call one of them President.
How utterly lacking in self-awareness..
Submitted by greggy on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 11:11pm.
for the host to make a joke like that, while entertaining a room full of "dark knights" (atheists, hedonists), psychos (narcissists, and addicts), and cokeheads.
Exactly
Submitted by Galvanic on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 11:35pm.
Most of the Academy Award audience can identify with those personality descriptions.
It's humorous to see "One Percenters" all decked out in expensive clothes and jewelry while pretending they are champions of the Proletariat.
But I don't watch the event anymore for that reason. Stopped many years ago.
Why no "Occupy Oscars"?
Submitted by drsamherman on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 11:47pm.
Was the OWS bowel movement too busy trying to occupy a church potluck dinner to protest these arrogant, mindless one percenters? Apparently.
The level of hypocrisy in Hollyweird never ceases to amaze.
As I have mentioned before, psychiatrists generally view movie stars as having a common cluster of symptoms, but primarily the attention seeking, borderline and narcissistic personality disorders in cluster B, multiple substance addictions and more serious mood and dissociative disorders than could be accounted for otherwise. The American Psychiatric Association every once in a while has a nice satellite program at the professional meetings on the psychiatry of American celebrities, and it is always a very well-attended session. The discussion slices and dices every movie star with known problems using publicly available information. Several well known comedians (Jonathan Winters, Robin Williams, Carrie Fisher, Patty Duke) are known bipolar disorder patients who have been public about their illnesses, and close examination of their performances and public appearances always gives a nice clue as to which particular cycle they are in at the time.
Still Alive?
Submitted by SimJim on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 11:36pm.
I didn't know Crystal was still alive. Are we sure that's really him? His face looks rather taut for a 64 year old. Maybe all the surgery and chemical injections made his mind go?
Clusterfark
Submitted by Nosmo on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 11:54pm.
Just a big liberal 1%er circle-jerk.
crack addict joke...funny
Submitted by WarEagle66 on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 12:03am.
crack addict joke...funny stuff....not.....did he make any jokes about obama snorting cocaine?
Sorry Billy (snd the rest of
Submitted by rbosque on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 12:28am.
Sorry Billy (and the rest of the Hollywood trash), we had it your way and the country elected a piece of Marxist garbage and now look...the economy is in the tank and Obama is rushing to make us more like Soviet Russia than America and you STILL want us to vote for this fool.
No thanks, ass****. A camera in front of you does not make you a genius. You want us to give Obama another 4 years? You're out of your ******** mind.
Idiot.
Someone actually watches this show...??
Submitted by wizardjr on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 12:31am.
A bunch of over dressed narcissists who make a living pretending to be someone else, patting each other on the back regardless of what the paying public thinks. Meh. I'd rather watch paint dry.
Crystal
Submitted by mmilesll on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 12:47am.
If anyone wonders why the movie business is in such a mess-oh yes, it is-the years of making crappy movies that insult American values has finally come back to bite them in the ass. Crystal is a great example of a has been who hasn't been even slightly funny for years, yet he continues to think he is. In the glory days of Hollywood actors and actresses were proud of America. Now they all think it is great sport to make fun of America. The sick part is that the media seem to think that most Americans care what Hollywood thinks, we don't.
Christopher Plumber gets an
Submitted by ForeverOnTheRight on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 1:22am.
Christopher Plumber gets an Oscor for playing and old man coming out of the closet. What a politically correct awarding if I ever did see one. It was so in your face obvious, they may as well admitted it openly and honestly. Geesh!
I caught that, and yes, it was a diss, but,,
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 2:31pm.
Thats about all he said on the subject of politics. Its funny that, when the country, AND world, are going in the crapper, they cant come up with ANY ridicule for the Pres. Of course, since hes a raging Marxist means he can do no wrong. BUT, if a Republican was in power, the insults would have come full force! Wait til next year, Billy Has-been-that is, if YOURE still around.
Seriously, I didnt think he was half bad. Much better than the last few hosts!
I Never Did Think This Guy Was Funny
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 1:27am.
Now he has proved it once and for all.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
Billy Crystal...sticking up
Submitted by ConservativeRex on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 1:29am.
Billy Crystal...sticking up for, and proclaiming his love for a man that couldn't give two sh!ts how many Jews muslims murder, who in fact is encouraging it. Crystal, typical America Jew, sell/buy the rope they get hanged with. I have absolutely no sympathy for them when it does happen. And if obama has his way, it will happen, again.
Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum
Billy Crystall
Submitted by Constantine2112 on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 1:39am.
Billy Crystal.....A Jewish man that supports the current president and an administration that hates and defies the existence of Israel, and all in the name of politics and money. Billy, thank you for confirming the stereotypical view of Jews. Anything, including faith, religion, race and creed is for sale.
You are a shining example of the Jewish faith and persuasion.
Thank you for proving all of you bigots/racists correct.
The Oscars were on?
Submitted by Restless Legs on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 1:53am.
First of all, why would a conservative like myself tune into this show when we were told ahead of time that the host would be making fun of Republicans? Keep your politics out of it, and you might actually get some more viewers.
I used to be a big movie buff... would see dozens of movies a year in the 70s and 80s. I'm lucky if I go to one or two movies a year now. I can no longer stomach most of the trash put out by Hollywood. I had no idea the Oscars were even on tonight until I read this on Newsbusters. Years ago, I used to love to cheer for my favorite actors/films to win. Tonight, as I read over a list of nominees and winners, I didn't even recognize 90% of the movies or actors. The only movie I saw this past year was "Puss In Boots" because I took my kids to see it.
Same here. I didn't even think about the Oscars being...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 4:13am.
on tonight. I watched the last few minutes of the All Star game then a couple of movies I had on my DVR.
Afterwards, when I checked Drudge, I was reminded that I missed the Oscar show,. Oh well.
Im not
Submitted by bobbys on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 4:05am.
Im not going to see Billy in the remake of "Cocoon" or Harry and Tonto now.
Weak joke
Submitted by Yarbles on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 4:48am.
Even the audiences's response wasn't very good, just above polite laughter.
Which had the better rating?
Submitted by donsaliman on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 6:06am.
The All-Star game or Hollywood patting themselves on the back?
Another reason
Submitted by Ozconservative on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 6:49am.
Another reason not to watch this 6 hour libtard love-fest
Even a year after the
Submitted by NCfairandbalanced on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 7:03am.
Even a year after the Giffords attack, it's nice to see Hollywood taking the lead in bringing back civility to the political process.
Yuk it up, Billy.
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 7:42am.
Your show tanked; no one this morning has anything good to say about it.
But what the hell....you'll get paid anyway.
OSCARS: Angry Leftists backslapping other Angry Leftists
Submitted by ChrisNH on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 7:49am.
I never watch the OSCARS. As an Arbitron meter family, I know that they extrapolate our viewing & listening preferences over thousands of people. So, our refusal to watch angry Leftists backslapping other angry Leftists means that we were really representing thousands of other people who refused to watch angry Leftists backslapping other angry Leftists.
We win.
Are you really?
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 2:37pm.
You and your family can exert mass influence on popularity of TV shows, movies, and produts advertised! Just dont watch any reality shows, and you may help to obliterate that mess! Do you know any other Arbitron families? Even ONE other family, combined with yours, could totally control the ratings!
I don't care what actors think.
Submitted by johnsonl on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 8:05am.
They pretend to be someone else for a living. They have no sense of reality.
Awards
Submitted by oldfart on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 8:36am.
Was their some kind of awards program last night?
Yawn
I was watching real movies (you know the ones where the actors learned their lines rather than reading them from a cue card) on cable. Also - you know the ones where the actors could actually act rather than fake it, where actor talent made a difference, not the special affects.
Yet pretending there are three contestants in a 4-man race?!?
Submitted by sarcasmo on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 8:36am.
No bias there! Sigh. This is why NB desperately needs explicitly-libertarian competition, IMO.
The hard vacuum created by all this sucking keeps getting filled anyway, but people like me or Daily Show joke writers always need to do the job, instead of NB, when it comes to statist-not-liberal bias. Why not just do your jobs, and bust ALL mediabias? (I know, I ask that "do your jobs" question of the "mainstream" media, too, and I never get an answer from them, either.)
And for another example of totally-unbusted bias, check out what "not campaigning in Michigan" looks like, for some REAL comedy. First, let's hear the media's oft-repeated talking point lie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1Owp11ITtk
And then a few unintentionally comedic refutations:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGmz10o1Zk8
And another example of "not campaigning."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLG1ItcrmGQ
Basic research is apparently now a novel concept.
It's the spending that's killing us.
Be a Nike shoe
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 8:48am.
This is why NB desperately needs explicitly-libertarian competition,
Just do it!
⇒ Crystal Method
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 8:51am.
"A charismatic crack addict"? Which candidate best fits that description?
Pimp:
"You deserve better"
"Let me take care of you"
"Try this. It will make you feel good"
"See, I promised to take care of you"
"Now, go sell your body to strangers. You owe me, b!tch!"
Sounds more like Barack Hussein Obama to me.
The Artist is a glorified
Submitted by Mr. Mike on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 8:56am.
The Artist is a glorified arthouse movie. Seriously, Hollyweird this is the best you can find?!!!
Billy has become a little too smug as a host. He really didn't entertain. It was more like he was letting you in on some kind of inside joke that really wasn't very funny.
They can't all be Useful
Submitted by Semus on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 9:26am.
They can't all be Useful Idiots, and Commies, some must be amazing cowards. I use to think Crystal was a classy funny guy anyway.
Chris "Housing Bubble" Dodd,
Submitted by Old Europe on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 9:28am.
Chris "Housing Bubble" Dodd, the president of the MPAA, tries to take away internet freedom with his SOPA and we are supposed to watch their crap and pay for their lawyers, too? Funny how leftwing Hollywood in cahoots with the Democrats try to stifle internet freedom in order to save their profits while in their leftwing movies they go out of their way to trash capitalism and obscene profits. But when it comes to their own obscene profits they don't hesitate suing a grandma or taking down a legitimate business together with the corrupt Justice Department under corrupt Eric Holder. But when a small man on the street cries foul on the Tea Party, they don't care a fig and call you racist capitalist. It's true that Socialists project their own faults onto Republicans and capitalism.
Crystal and Hollywood
Submitted by NVRAT on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 9:45am.
This is the reason I don`t watch Hollywood productions or anything else they do or say. Tinseltown has gotten to be a pure Den of Sin filled with Self-serving morons who think they are better than anyone else and will do anything to get attention and of course make money off of the backs of the little people, the ones that have made them rich. There are very few that would not be on a list of Marxists (communists) in the days of old. The thing they were afraid of is their ratings would be way down this year so, it will be interesting to see what the viewing ratings will be. I did my part I hope you done yours.
I wasn't aware
Submitted by fivestring_assassin on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 9:50am.
he was still alive
I cant say
Submitted by misterbee241 on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 9:50am.
enough times: I don't care about Harlotwierd. The whole place can go to...
The hate us. They hate everything good and moral, and most of all they hate America.
There is no good in them.
Interesting choices
Submitted by jon_torlin on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 10:12am.
That's interesting that Crystal used those choices, I thought for a second he was talking about Christian Bale. Those are roles he has played.(not sure about the crack addict part)
-Jon
They're the Euro-Oscars now...
Submitted by Mary Louise Turner on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 10:17am.
For decades, the Oscars rewarded commercial as well as artistic success (see "Titanic" and "LOTR: Return of the King"). But now the awards have gone Euro-weenie on us, preferring films that are strictly "Art" (yecch!). While "The Artist" is beautifully made (from the clips I've seen), it is clearly not a big box-office draw. "The King's Speech", another handsomely-crafted movie, did better at the BO but was not exactly a blockbuster. No wonder the show's TV ratings have been sinking...
A silent movie wins, Shut up while acting...
Submitted by upcountrywater on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 12:16pm.
The con artist
You Didn't Build That.
Typical
Submitted by lkotur on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 4:47pm.
Billy should have stayed with
"We The People".
Looked like a zombie from old Berlin
Submitted by billrowe on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 7:11pm.
Crystal's "joke" was ad hominem, personal, and no substance. Who's supposed to be a charismatic crack addict? He named three with four on the ballot. Does that mean one is good?
On the ad hominem side myself, Crystal hasn't aged well. He looked like a zombie from a 1930s Berlin cabaret, but with lots of makeup. Creepy.
And, what was that awful and disjointed schtick in the beginning? Just horribly lame.
Billy, Billy, Billy...
Submitted by HockeyKid on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 12:53pm.
you forgot to add, "I'll be here all week; don't forget your waitresses".
With material like that, you'd have been better off with recycled Milton Berle lines.
"I tell ya, when Michelle sits around the White House, she sits--AROUND--the White House!" (ba-domp bomp)
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Billy, has had a pretty good gig
Submitted by lrgon on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 2:53pm.
Being the Master of ceremonies at the Oscars is a high paying gig; it helps keep him in the eyes of the entertainment happy public.
If the public did not put such a high value on celebrity status and placed a higher value on true traditional virtues like honest marriage, honest money, honesty in our lives, honest declarations of war, honest US independence, honest adherence to the Constitution and not to the Party, we've have somebody like Jane Seymour as MC of the Oscar awards. The presenters would be handing out Oscar to actors for portraying characters in clean movies. Remember those movies?
Today Crystal has to be politically correct and play to that environment. If he was behaving like John Wayne he'd be out of a job.
Crystal isn't doing anything differently in attacking the Republican party contenders than would a GOP celebrity deliver typical snide remarks at the Obamacrats at a GOP gabfest.
Truth is the first victim in war. And on that stage is a war of words being waged on the American public. The left is winning because they are organized while the "conservatives" are still suckling at the GOP tit incapable of making a move without permission from mama GOP.
This leads me back to the original thought I had when I read the first knee jerk reply in the comments section: Hollyweed news reports a comment made by a Billy Crystal, Tony Bennett, or whoever and GOPville reacts to a symtom and reacts violently in a "how dare they" manner but then they zombie-like open the bottle and swallow the same old drugs purchased at GOP drug store..
Crystal was being easy on
Submitted by lrgon on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 12:37am.
the party of Major Alvan Bovay. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvan_bovay
Here we have Tea Party people voting for a guy that Obama patterned his facist "healthcare" bill after! We have hoards of good old boy GOPers and ladies GOP auxillary members casting their ballot for a guy that supported the Troubled Assets Relief Program. It's amazing how soon they (Tea Party) forgot why they lined up all across America to protest TARP!
Hundreds of thousands dropped the "conservative-traditionalist' principles from their repertoire just to vote for the businessman with the smile and the suit.
God in heaven forgives sinners because He is pure love and full of mercy. His mercy however has certain limitations. The Israelites had to wander the desert for 40 more years due to their worship of false idols. America will not last long when "conservatives" like those voting today who have forgotten their heritage; who have thrown their support behind a "businessman" that can never hide his socialist past nor be anything other than a socialist. They may try with all their might to believe him to be otherwise; they may even have his image cast in gold, but Romney the businessman, the man that led the Olympics out of the desert into the desert of Utah, will always be the loser his father was - a GOP socialist. And never has a socialist saved anything but power unto himself and to those around him who direct his every step to take America into the New World Order.
Mitt's advisors: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/9306-romneys-advisors-are-...