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protein wisdom —
So funny! [B]ut near the end of the show things turn tasteless as well. Ferrell/Bush asks the audience for a moment of silence to honor our troops who died in Iraq and Afghanistan. At the performance I saw, most of the audience members went silent but a few tittered nervously. Who can blame them? This is a comedy show. They were expecting a gag, and they soon got one. After a few seconds of silence a phone on the stage rings, and everyone laughs. The relief is palpable. Hurrah! That thing about honoring our war dead? It really was just the setup to a joke! Ferrell/Bush is ...
More on Will Ferrell’s Bush-bashing Broadway show: It bashes the troops, too
Sister Toldjah —
... Anyway, if you think that was bad, make sure you read the write-up the NY Post has on the show. It doesn’t just bash Bush; it bashes our troops, too (via ...
alicublog — ... on Broadway in a one-man George Bush show. At the New York Post Kyle Smith says, "Is it too much to ask for Hollywood's leading comic actor not to use the deaths of our troops in combat for a giggle?" ...
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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... destroying both property and lives.
We Californians, basking in sunshine, are having an equally disastrous winter. It's the third dry winter in a row, notwithstanding a little recent precipitation, and the specter of severe water shortages is hanging over the state, compounding its severe economic woes.
The Sierra snowpack is just 60 percent of what would be considered normal and, barring a late-season onslaught of storms, water agencies will impose sharp cutbacks.
WILL FERRELL'S BUSH LEAGUE SHOW - BDS and Insulting America's Dead Troops
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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... WILL FERRELL'S BUSH LEAGUE SHOW - BDS and Insulting America's Dead Troops
Here, Hollywood is letting its mask slip. Ferrell and his director Adam McKay are so confident that everyone shares their contempt for Bush that they slosh over into contempt for all things ...
Talentless, unfunny moron dumps on dead soldiers
Cold Fury —
... Posted by Mike @ 9:24 AM Monday, 9 February 2009 I never have liked this lame-ass sucker of cock and his sub-adolescent fart-joke “humor,” and I never will : Pointless? Pretty much, but near the end of the show things turn tasteless as well. Ferrell/Bush asks the audience for a moment of silence to honor our troops who died in Iraq and Afghanistan. At the performance I saw, most of the audience members went silent but a few tittered nervously. Who can blame them? This is a comedy show. They were expecting a gag, and they soon got one. After a few seconds of silence a phone ...
