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DENBY LIVE ON KQED NOW! Sloppy snark-hater David Denby is on the very good KQED talk show Forum with Michael Krasny right now. Listen on the FM in the Bay Area, or online at KQED.org, or on Sirius NPR Talk. Denby really wants to destroy Wonkette, by just making shit up about us. Call in! But be nice to Krasny and the screeners, and make your Wonkette proud. [866-733-6786]
Wait… are we the Howard Stern of blogs now?
Serolf Divad: God I hope not. Be nice, people! Just call him on his bullshit. Like, how can a NEW YORKER FILM CRITIC not get a reference to “The Miracle Workers,” etc.?
Hmm…if I called in, I would probably just say something stupid like “Wonkette…good…nerd!”
Or something extremely hateful about Ken Layne, for laffs.
Please ask him how his editors managed not to catch his many factual errors. Thanks.
GIT OUTTA MIE TOWN YOU FUCKING HACK. Also.
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Curses! They’re on to us Ken!
Agh! Pledge drive! Layne, you evil bastard!
I can haz factchekrz?
Ken Layne:
Pauline Kael is and ever shall be the only New Yorker film critic.
I miss ya, Pauline! Sniff, sniff.
God, I just remembered why I never listened to KQED when I lived there.
Well, KQED, I have driven through Healdsburg and it is such an asshole, no I don’t want to give you $30 to win a trip up there. NO I WILL NOT GIVE YOU $100 FOR A FREE GIFT OF A CD.
Serolf Divad: No way, Anthony Lane is great too. And he probably hates Denby.
Ken Layne: Like, how can a NEW YORKER FILM CRITIC not get a reference to “The Miracle Workers,” etc.
No. No, definitely not Howard Stern.
Eh, Miracle WORKER, singular. Ha ha the Miracle WorkerS actually came up in itunes shuffle this morning.
I’m surprised that the typical charges for satire and snark aren’t levied by this puke.
“Literarily, the effuse pejoratives cast from the acerbic fingers of class clowns that couldn’t concentrate through their cherished senior AP English class, strike to be heard as a bell with the pleasant, airy ring of a quote by Oscar Wilde. It’s sad, however, for our curmudgeony Wonkette staff, that the peals ring hollow and listless… a la the New York Post.”
When someone attacks satire, they should be pleased about getting published… but they should go hari-kari, for being so hard on satirists. “Oh, hang it all about Diaperhead… what the fuck did Ken Layne say about him?”
Serolf Divad: Pauline was wonderful. Anthony Lane is pretty damn good.
Throw a shoe at Denby! Shoe throwing is the new streaking. (chinese premier just got one….)
Takeaway: Winston Churchill and Dorothy Parker were mean, but “with invention,” so: not snark. The anonymous nets, on the other hand, doesn’t invent anything, so: snark and bad. Churchill and Parker would crush this idiot.
Why am i so hungry for Pizza Hut ?
I’m calling in and telling him that I regret his shitty review of Big Momma’s House 2.
Chickensmack: That paragraph reminds me why you should not give a Meth freak a LEGO set.
I will never read the New Yorker until they rehire Elaine Benes.
There is NOTHING and NO ONE who could get me to listen to one single second of that unctuous, suck-uppy twit’s schlock show. Krasny makes me retch. My own personal vision of hell would be listening to an endless loop of Forum with Michael Krasny in which he interviews first Isabel Allende and then Barbara Kingsolver but I can only hear Krasny’s side of the conversation.
I’m pretty sure this dude was on the Diane Rehm show on NPR last week.
Would it be offensive if I said he sounds like a “fag”?
Gorillionaire: Looks like NPR has a self-interest in downplaying the blogosphere as a source of information.
These assholes shot down Low Powered FM by lobbying the FCC, disseminating false information Denby-like. These fart fans are committed to free speech by elites. ‘Traditional’, ‘accountable’, and ‘respected’.
How’s that for some fascist buzz-words, Denby and NPR are two of a kind, it’s not surprising they’ve adopted him as their little bully boy.
Is this “David Denby” a PUMA because, as PUMAs go, he’s not a bad looking woman.
Cicada: All public radio stations coordinate so you cannot escape it. The two local ones here time it so they do it at the same time. If I travel out of town during that week, the local station wherever I go is pledging, too. My guilt makes me want to give to it, too, because I am listening, even if for a few days, so I must give!!! Otherwise the station will die! It is a sickness, should be in the DSM Public radio guilt syndrome.
The last time I listened to talking on the radio I was about six and I said “Mommy! How can The Lone Ranger be on the radio there is no pictures?” We have the power never stop using it.skutre: My thoughts exactly on the subject of Low Power FM.
Pat Pending: Wow, that’s a disturbingly specific vision you have there.
rev_matt_y: based in being forced to listen to Forum in the past. Go listen to the little fuck talk his little fawning-over-his-favorites talk and snippily correcting the grammar of those he favors less. GAH!!!
BitterPolitico: I just listened to the opening music for The Forum and nearly wept from the memories. Of hating The Forum.
Gorillionaire: He was indeed. http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh013009.shtml
Pat Pending: Agreed, I used to live there and Krasny made me vomit. Epically so. Whilst driving.
Has no one else noticed that Michael Krasny’s last name is an anagram of “Snarky”?
That is all.