Michael Medved on Virginia Tech: Words Fail (by Chris Kelly at HuffPost)

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Chris Kelly


04.20.2007
Michael Medved on Virginia Tech: Words Fail (82 comments )

It can't be easy being a movie critic. (Although I guess they have TV critics to look down on. Like no matter how bad a national anthem is, it's still better than Christmas music. There's always something shittier.) So you can't really hold Michael Medved's redolent awfulness against him. Lots of people fail utterly at a thankless job.


Still, it would be nice if Michael Medved confined himself to the subject he barely understands -- film -- and didn't write about the things he doesn't understand at all -- everything else. Because when he writes about the movies, he's just useless. When he writes about politics he sounds like the friendless guy at the old age home who smells like piss all the time because the nurses hate him too.

Take the massacre at Virginia Tech, for instance. If the killings weren't gruesome enough, now we have to suffer through the commentary. And the spin on the commentary. And the reaction to the spin. And then you get to the bottom of the barrel, and you scrape it out. And then you scrape through the bottom of the barrel, to the mud and the silverfish and the rolypolies. And then the silverfish and rolypolies run away, and there's Michael Medved.

"On TV and radio, we've already heard that the killing spree was the product of too many guns, or too few guns, or violent video games, or the breakdown of the family, or ill-considered immigration policies or, even, global warming..."

(Pause for laughter, because, haha, dead kids are funny, but a dead planet is hilarious. Get it, nurse? Nurse?)

"Glib, shallow explanations allow us to turn away from the one real lesson of these events: that evil exists, and that dark forces - forces believers would call demonic or diabolical - play a powerful role in our world..."

("Demonic" and "diabolical" mean the exact same thing, but true believes say both because they love the sound of their own voices. Just like me. Nurse? You there... in the hall... could you get my nurse?)

"Regardless of the background or motivation of the killer, Virginia Tech reminds us of the most important truth of our time: that terrorist monsters can't be explained, or excused, or appeased, or ignored, or negotiated into civilized behavior..." .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-kelly/michael-medved-on-virgini_b_46390.html

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1. medved talking about himself...

"Regardless of the background or motivation of the killer, Virginia Tech reminds us of the most important truth of our time: that (MEDIAWHORE) terrorist monsters can't be explained, or excused, or appeased, or ignored, or negotiated into civilized behavior..." .....(more)

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2. Right. Cho *can* be explained.

But all the explanations emphasize the fact that RWers are nothing but sad, sick & dangerous fools.