Will Ferrell Update: Partner Says Bush Burned Down America's House

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Here’s an update on the Will Ferrell one-man Bush-bashing show. The Washington Post also promoted the upcoming show "You’re Welcome, America" in Sunday's Outlook section by interviewing Ferrell’s Bill Maheresque writing partner, Adam McKay. The Post’s Rachel Dry at least added a little skepticism to the proceeding as McKay (employing the royal "We" to associate Ferrell with his every liberal gurgle) suggested Bush had burned down America’s house and had no right to attempt self-deprecating humor:

POST: Bush himself seemed in a pretty wisecracking, self-deprecating mood these days, especially in his final news conference last week. What did you think?

McKAY: We were flabbergasted....It's not the time or place for any of it. It's sort of like if I burn down my house by falling asleep with a cigarette in bed and then I was being interviewed by the local news and was making jokes.

POST: It's not the time or place for him to be doing it, but it is the time or place for you?

McKAY: We aren't the president. As citizens, there's only a couple things we can do. One of them is to interpret, and the other is to try and laugh a little bit about it because it's been such a brutal eight years....That is one hundred percent our job to do that. You don't want the person who's in the middle of everything to be making jokes and be doing fake tap dancing.

If the president can’t do humor, just policy, that would suggest McKay and Will Ferrell should just do humor, and lay off all the wild-eyed political analysis about America’s house burning down.

But McKay continued by suggesting the public is uncomfortable when people in authority like Bush "do bad things,,,.But at least the public can prosecute them to some degree or form opinions about what happened." The Post challenged him again: "But it's going to be funny? In the way that public prosecutions are hilarious?" McKay defensively suggested he was angrier in his interview mode than the play is.

McKay added that unlike Bush, Barack Obama is an "actual adult who knows how to work," like Lisa Simpson, implying that Bush is more like Homer:

POST: How will President Obama work as a punch line?

McKAY: It's sort of like how Homer Simpson is the funniest character ever, and Lisa Simpson's not necessarily the funniest character. Obama's an actual adult who knows how to work.

POST: Wait, so Obama is Lisa Simpson?

McKAY: Homer Simpson is crazy funny -- a complete idiot and narcissist, and Lisa's the mature one, and she probably gets a laugh once an episode or something.

In other words, he's too smart and socially conscious to ridicule.

—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.


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Homer Simpson and Narcissism

Does this guy even know what narcissism means? 

It looks like some people are going to try and milk this BDS thing all the way to the unemployment line.

Wait a sec, Marge is the

Wait a sec, Marge is the most mature of the Simpsons. Actually now that I think of it Lisa is the most liberal but is often portrayed as doing stuff not because she thinks it's right or anything but because it's the hip, now thing to do. (Like cleaning up a oil spill where she practically begs to go and do it but once there actually would prefer to quit when she finds out it's work.) Hell, she often does stuff because some cute boy she likes is into whatever it is. What I'm saying is that Lisa is the most liberal character but she is often extremely shallow and thoughtless. (How could anybody watch the show and not notice that?)

If there was anybody burning

If there was anybody burning down anything, it was Obami supporters after the election...after winning sports championships...after jury verdicts....after etc, etc, etc.

Nothing pleases them does it

Nothing pleases these people. He is damned if he says something and damned if he says nothing.

As much as I dislike the job Clinton and Carter did, I didn't hate them personally. I didn't enjoy attacks on their daughters or their family. And when they left, I did dwell on them with spiteful comments.

The hatred in their hearts stinks to high heaven. I will never go to see a Will Ferrel movie again.

Hate...venom...vitriol

Apparently that's what's selling these days.  As has been said about this indulgence by some leftist twits...they are alienating about half of their audience.  Their hatred and narrow view of the world leaves them unaware of the consequences of their actions.  Maybe they just feel that they "have the power", so to speak and can be as nasty as they care to be.

Regardless...I don't really want to see his face any more if I can help it.  Another in a long list of faces that have become associated in my mind with hate filled people.  I just don't care to be reminded of their views by seeing their faces.  That simple.

Happy Trails...

They''ve all graduated from a common school . . .

. . . the one of over-the-top, outrageous, hyperbolic B.S.

It's where those liberals and leftists go because they cannot make any logical argument or statement that expresses their displeasure or disagreement with someone with whom they disagree.

But Bush burned down the White House.

If so, then when Obama leaves, there won't be a burnt timber or scorched stone, or even scorched earth, left.

Such a High Standard is Set by These Guys...

Your, right, It is so much more appropriate to have an infant swear at a drunk while trying to collect rent... (LINK)

www.ScottOnCapeCod.com

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation"... until they get fed-up enough to finally say something about it!

The two biggest jokes,

The two biggest jokes, obama and the retards that voted for him.

List of jerks on my "do not support ever list"

will farrell- check!!  He was never very funny anyway. 
     woohoo. 
My list is pretty long.  I have it written on a roll ot T.P., knowing it will continue to grow!  I hope all the pukes hopping on the b hussein bandwagon, and BDS haters, suffer some type of dixie chicks effect!!  My memory is VERY good.

The List

Danny Glover
Sean Penn
Alec Baldwin
Dixie Chicks
Babs Streisand
Chevy Chase
Gloria Reuben (see story below)
MSNBC...

www.ScottOnCapeCod.com

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation"... until they get fed-up enough to finally say something about it!

"...it's been such a brutal eight years...."

McKay must be one of those Hollywood types snatched off the street, taken to Gitmo and personally beaten by VP Dick Cheney then released.

Liberal Progress ?

Blacks were once slaves because they were declared NON Human, and to declare them humans would destroy slavery.

Now a black, Barack Obama declares babies 'Born and Separated' from their mothers are NON human and to declare them humans would destroy abortion.

2000-2001
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Obama opposes a bill that defines as a “person” a fully born baby who survives an abortion.

Obama votes “present” on legislation that would require doctors to give medical attention to babies who survive abortions.  Obama argues that defining “…a pre-viable fetus" that survived an abortion as a "person" or "child would essentially bar abortions, because the Equal Protection Clause does not allow somebody to kill a child, and if this is a child, then this would be an anti-abortion statute."

2002-2003
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In 2002, Obama, as an Illinois legislator, votes against the “Induced Infant Liability Act,” a law meant to protect the lives of babies who “inadvertently” survive attempted abortions and then need medical attention to survive; Obama’s is the sole vote against the bill, and a similar bill later passes unanimously in the United States Senate.

Obama votes against an Illinois bill banning state funding of late term abortions.

In 2003, the Born Alive Infant Protection Act again comes up in the Illinois Senate; as chairman of the Health and Human Services Committee, Obama shelves the bill, preventing it from even being brought to the Senate floor for a vote.

The Barack Obama 'Change' is just more of the same EVIL Liberal thinking.

Liberals call that progress.

It's hard to quit the

It's hard to quit the Bush-bashing addiction, isn't it now?

One of the 24% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 89% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

McKay involved in Farrell's swearing baby video?

I remember Farrell did this swearing baby video, the baby demanded he pay his rent? This is his writing Partner..what do they call those kind of people "Special" McKay, is what the French call Le Mediocre'

 

http://www.people.co...

Funny or Die

Evidently this guy is part of that excrement that is on FoD. Remember the Opie video? The Palin one? The Gay stageshow w/ Jack Black? I have not seen anything Ferrell was in since his SNL days. I have heard that he has made Bush bash comments for years. Funny how Ferrell got his most popularity, i.e., MONEY, during the Bush years. Must be hell to make all that money, and be famous. What a joke these ridiculous narcissists are. I hope we don't go to a depression, of course, but I wish these vile creatures could experience what real suffering is.

 

 

Bringing the government in to run Wall Street is like saying, "Dad burned the dinner, let's get the dog to cook." PJ O'Rourke