ROFLMAO !!!

http://thirdestatesundayreview.blogspot.com/2007/12/tv-charlie-rose-by-any-other-name-would.html

Anyone with a set of eyes can see all sorts of military people freely posting on this blog and engaging in intelligent debate. In fact, they have become a regular feature, while the critical anti-imperialist left for which this site intended to cater is almost invisible. The site gets more incoming links and trackbacks from conservative Republican sites, than from critical leftist ones–usually though, those Republicans in line with Pat Buchanan, Ron Paul, and Justin Raimondo, who are against empire. Therefore, to suggest that there is some totalitarian refusal to engage others who are not of the correct ideological background, is just pure shit.

Keep ignoring facts and spouting like a moron, it’s your right…but you have no right to do it in my space. Got that?

If you find this difficult to understand, please ask for an explanation from your legal guardian or therapist.

Anyway, if you can indeed take it as well as you can give it, don’t stifle free speech! Just saying…hypocrisy reeks.

June, I wish I saw more of you on this blog, because what you said was stated beautifully, and I hope people pay attention to it and seriously reflect on it.

Brian! What a surprise to see you posting here, a very welcome one. You don’t seem to have any trouble understanding the video, its nature, its purposes, its meanings. Some of the little tricks I will tell you about in person.

Both Brian and Mike, on Marilyn Manson, I share some of the same likes, to a limited extent. The music I can take in small doses. The videos are much more interesting to me, and I wonder to what extent they are an expression of his own creative input and vision, or that of producers attached to commercial studios and record labels. Otherwise, he is a great performer, and a unique artist. I have seen a couple of interviews with him, including the one above, and I would agree that he has a fundamental anthropological sensitivity, far more than anything I hear in the droning of HTS fanatics and their sordid appeals to “applied anthropology” (a phrase they have managed to soil far beyond what any critic of applied anthropology could have done). Nothing at all came in from those people today–they are possibly tiring of being cooked alive each time they set foot here.

We’re taught that the anthropological way of seeing things is to question the taken for granted, to see our own culture through alien eyes and not take it as natural. I thought this was a great example of that. It’s not easy to insert distance between us and us. Horror and comedy are sure fire tricks for turning everything upside down. I mean I REALLY like this.

Forgot to ask also about who sings that song at the very end? Is it a 60s band? Great line. You’ve got Marilyn Manson up there too and I want to know what you think about this if you saw it. It’s Manon on Fox News, listen to what he says at about 0:47. Is he doing anthropology?

DRACULA PETRAEUS
CHARLIE ROSE LOSES HIS HEAD
CHARLIE ROSE, GARGOYLE OF WAR
DEMON SARAH
NOT OCCUPATION (BODY ON THE FLOOR)
CREEPY JULIE ANDREWS, EERILY RELEVANT LYRICS
CROWD REVOLTS

It’s like a series of newspaper editorial cartoons that made me laugh so hard in some cases that I didn’t get what was said until I rewound. I was laughing at Sarah Jigsaw Sewall way past when she stopped speaking. It’s only by reading some of the comments here that I see how much I missed. I also watched the original. It aint any less scary or funny!!! Rose is off the rails with this one.

I wanted to ask where you got the part of McFate guffawing? I can’t see it or hear it in the original. Thanks Max, see you soon.

Secondly, the tactics. Don’t criticize, or I’ll join them just to spite you for your (IMHO great, excellent, talented) video. As you said to Ryan, they want respectful silence at the least while they commit their dirty deeds – and what Jon Price wrote in that article you just posted shows they have a heap of dirt to cover up. The other tactic, I’m really with you, but your video hurts our opponents so much that I may have to disown you (posted: anonymously). Nope, doesn’t sound like Hugh Gusterson or David Price to me, and the Network of Concerned Anthros loves this blog. Pretty much the same thing again: retreat. I for one am glad you’re not stopping. Let the resistance continue. We’re talking about peace here, not making kissy faces with mercenaries and opportunistic halfwits.

Do me a favour: take the underwear off of your head, put down the beer and pills, and watch the video. Then you can criticize it. We can take it, and we can give it back too. Ah, but that’s the problem, isn’t it ;-)