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Blog Exposes Mel Gibson Cover Up
Today seems to be my Shmuly Day so I am going to end with a Shmulyish story. It has intrigue. It has a scandal. It has a raving anti-Semite. I’ll even try to throw in some Shmuly-quality humor and then Digg it. So everyone, Digg it!
Last Friday at lunch someone was questioning why presidents no longer seem trustworthy. Remember JFK? We’re not sure if he slept with Marilyn Monroe. He might have but the media didn’t cover him that closely. Imagine if bloggers were out there to break the news. Now, instead of a few journalists following etiquette, we have the mainstream media, bloggers and tabloids. What’s a president to do?
Well, the blogosphere broke a cover up this weekend. It happened in my home town, well, in my home county. Mel Gibson was arrested for drunk driving. That wasn’t bad enough for good ol’ Mel. Nope. He had to state that Jews are the cause of all wars in this world. Lots more too. Then he asked the arresting officer if he was Jewish. His last name is Mee. Guess what… HE WAS! Poor Mel.
After Mel’s little tirade, his buddy, Sheriff Lee Baca (for full disclosure I will admit to voting for Sheriff Baca every time he has run for office in LA County) seems to have arranged (or one of his subordinates did to give his boss plausible deniability) to have the original arresting report ditched in a safe and have one without Mel spewing forth hatred against Jews as the official report.
In steps the blogosphere in the form of TMZ.com. Check out the story on the cover up. Kudos to TMZ! TMZ broke this story that day. This is the Internet at its best.
We can only hope that Mel was correct when he said: “My life is f****d.”
Maybe Mel will make a nice donation to his friends at the Anti-Defamation League.
Note: TMZ is owned by AOL, the parent company of CNN. This reporting of anti-Semitism doesn’t make up for CNN’s Nic Robertson allowing himself to make CNN a platform for spewing Hezbollah’s lies and hatred. Great story about it here.
Maybe Mel was right about his life. ABC canceled his Holocaust mini-series. Check it out at http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/exclusive-abc-has-canceled-mel-gibsons-holocaust-tv-mini-series/
The real question on that is who greenlighted a Holocaust mini-series by a Holocaust denier?!?
“then Digg it. So everyone, Digg it!”
Revenews can’t get Diggs. Shmuly got Revenews banned from Digg.
Jim talking about Shmuly:
“He’s been dugg a few times, and we still love him even though he got us banned from Digg.”
Hey David -
Great to see that you’re coming around and referencing NewsBusters.
Maybe I have less work than I expected to influence your 2008 vote.
Jonathan, Jonathan, Jonathan… have you no sense of humor? Can you not see that this is an homage to Shmuly and that any tribute to our man Shmuly would be incomplete without a Digg reference?
Oh, and you don’t think Shmuly would let a Digg ban get in his way, did you? Take a look at Shmuly’s”>http://digg.com/tech_news/Overstock_com_Auctions_Typo_Squatting_on_Ebay_with_URL_Obay_com“>Shmuly’s latest Digg.
Dang, trying to get extra banned or something?
That is the power and beauty of the Internet and exactly what I was writing about above. The blogosphere can’t be controlled like the press was in the old days.
Mel is a drunk bigot!
[SPAM URL deleted. This anonymous person put up a useless site and then started spamming blogs. It is unfortunate that he chose to act in this way on Revenews. I am not deleting his comments but I am editting out the URL. There is no reason to either help him or alter the way this community interacts with each other.]
> http://www.melhatesjews.com
He is so deplorable and offensive. Hmmm… how can I capitalize? So lame.
“Hmmm… how can I capitalize? So lame.”
It’s called a “parody”….look into it.
I’ve lost money on this site.
I think it’s time you come down off your soapbox and stop embarrassing yourself.
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> It’s called a “parody”….look into it.
> I’ve lost money on this site.
A parody of what - some other lame site with no content?
Anyhow that doesn’t entitle you to spam the comments in this blog.
“A parody of what - some other lame site with no content?”
Take my hand, I’ll walk you through this. Don’t be scared.
I thought it was obvious. The site is a parody on the Mel-Gibson-drunken-anti-semitic-tirade episode. Maybe you need to check your eyesight, because content can be seen on all pages.
“Anyhow that doesn’t entitle you to spam the comments in this blog.”
Don’t worry, everything is going to be ok. You can let go of my hand now.
Sorry to be a party pooper for you, but you are not parodying anything. Pick up your Webster’s, funny guy.
For instance, http://www.drudge.com is a parody of the Drudge Report. They are imitating the Drudge Report.
And content - you’ve written more here than on your site. A blog with one short post and 2 faked pics.
Quit blog spamming and work on getting in the black with your witty attempt to sell t-shirts and your domain.
End of class.
“Pick up your Webster’s, funny guy.”
Ummm, ok…
# make a spoof of or make fun of
# humorous or satirical mimicry
I don’t see how you don’t get it yet. Keep trying. Being a mental midget may be tough, but if you try, you just may succeed!
“And content - you’ve written more here than on your site. A blog with one short post and 2 faked pics.”
Why would a simple, parody site made just for fun need anything else? It serves its purpose that I created.
But seriously, thanks for playing.
I got it from the start, spamboy - you tried to spam this blog with your weak attempt to sell a domain and t-shirts.
You did accomplish your effort to make a parody - your posts here do imitate real, topical posts.
If you want to mask your ignorance of my intentions with mischaracterizations, go right ahead.
Oh, and the funniest part about this was when you tried to tell me that my site wasn’t a parody and when I came back with the definition, you then deflected your embarrassment by telling me my posts were parodies. Wow…you really got me there!
FYI, since our little discussion here, the click throughs from this blog have quadrupled.
Have a great day!
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> Oh, and the funniest part about this was when you tried to tell me that my site wasn’t a parody and when I came back with the definition, you then deflected your embarrassment by telling me my posts were parodies. Wow…you really got me there!
I had written you off at that point, but if it’s important to you - see all of the definitions from different sources - you used a partial defintion to suit your needs - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-17,GGLJ:en&defl=en&q=define:parody&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title
If it doesn’t sink in after reading the dozen plus definitons, I’ll summarize for you…
parody: an imitation
> FYI, since our little discussion here, the click throughs from this blog have quadrupled.
It’s not news to anybody that spam can be profitable. Congratulations.
I bet a lot of those people bought your shirts and made attractive offers for your domain.
If I were you, I’d hide my identity, too. Natch.
“If it doesn’t sink in after reading the dozen plus definitons, I’ll summarize for you…”
Haha, you’re telling me I’m using a partial definition in an argument when you’re doing the same thing…haha, oh, that is rich. Imitation is not the only definition of parody. Did you not understand that or just thought I wouldn’t point that out? Why did you come back only to get embarrassed again?
“I bet a lot of those people bought your shirts and made attractive offers for your domain.”
Hahaha, I’ve made zero money on this site and I couldn’t care less as that was not the purpose. I won’t turn away sales, but again, this site was created as a joke in the flurry of news activity regarding our favorite anti-semitic lush, Mel Gibson.
Hey, come back with some other BS, I want to see if I can get 150 hits from this site alone today. Thanks!
This is disappointing. This article was about the power of blogs to do go. I wrote about how TMZ exposed the cover up by the LA County Sheriff’s department.
Unfortunately, an anonymous commenter has chosen to show the bad of blogs. Not only is s/he anonymous here but s/he has chosen to be anonymous in the domain registration.
Congrats on the traffic spike. I’m not surprised that there was no revenue from it. You also missed the sarcasm in Shawn’s comment. Sarcasm is an art form.
Shawn, thanks for contributing to the RN community.
Chris (aka anonymous commenter), come clean and say who you are. Parody is legally protected. I have humor sites up with extensive and original content and none have a for sale sign on them as that takes away from their bite and potency. Shawn knows his stuff… you should listem to him.
Just a few points from a casual observer:
- Chris is a dimwit - his site is a satire (definition at http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/satire ) not a parody
- A parody is indeed an imitation as anybody can see in the many definitions. Gee, why does http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/parody say “See Synonyms at imitate.” Get it?
- posting self serving domain names with no value to the readers is spam, plain and simple
- measuring your traffic by hits means you are either a total newbie or a clueless goof
Mods - just close the comments already before this genius breaks a record and gets 200 “hits”
Christ, is this where the retard bus gets dropped off?
“Chris is a dimwit - his site is a satire (definition at http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/satire ) not a parody”
From the link you gave above:
Something so bad as to be equivalent to intentional mockery; a travesty: The trial was a parody of justice.
–my site is satirical in nature, but also parodies Mel’s DUI incident. Seriously, do you guys get it yet?
“A parody is indeed an imitation as anybody can see in the many definitions.”
Again, parody *obviously* has a few different meanings, yet you like to hold onto the definition that suits your argument.
“posting self serving domain names with no value to the readers is spam, plain and simple”
I never said it wasn’t spam. I’m sorry you guys are losing sleep over me posting my link here to a site put up just for fun. But no, run with your assumptions, you’ll sleep better that way.
“measuring your traffic by hits means you are either a total newbie or a clueless goof”
I was talking about hits exclusively from this blog, and in the context I was using it in was to show Shawn how his bitching just keeps the people coming to my site.
“Mods - just close the comments already before this genius breaks a record and gets 200 “hits”"
I know right? Why these pointless posts haven’t been deleted yet is beyond me. Hey, all 3 of you kids have fun on this blog, mmmkay?
P.S. [SPAM URL deleted]
Mel Gibson is the best!!