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TORTURE DAVID DENBY WITH TRUTH & ETHICS: Porn-addict day-trading slimeball David Denby continues his ignorant campaign of malice against Wonkette, on your public radio stations. Right now, he’s on Larry Mantle’s very good “AirTalk” show on Pasadena’s KPCC. Call in, be polite, get past those screeners, 1-866-893-5722, and MAKE DENBY CRY. [KPCC Airtalk]
Warblog!
If you do call in, try to slip in a “Miracle Worker” reference while you’re at it.
Dave, lighten up. We’re laughing at you, not with you.
And none of that awful snark stuff that everyone so disapproves of. For example, when Winston Churchill said, by way of aplogizing for saying he wouldn’t touch a certain female with a ten-foot pole that, “I was mistaken — I would touch her with a ten-foot pole,” that is brilliant and innovative use of language, because anything Churchill said is classic and probably etched in stone somewhere.
Conversely, when someone outside of the Canon suggests that David Denby harbors a grudge against God and the Universe because he can’t give himself oral satisfaction, that’s snark, which lowers the level of discourse and erodes the fabric of our society. The distinction is clear.
Ken, why don’t you just call in and have a civilized debate with this so-and-so? Then after that, I will call in and yell obscenities. Promise.
JeffGoldblum: Public radio hates any kind of confrontation. So I am not invited, even as this sleazebag slanders us.
JeffGoldblum: Yes…dammit….Ken. Call in and put this asshat in his place.
I called in…got through…but the show ended before they got to me. CURSES!
However, he’s appearing tonight in Century City and Thursday in Pasadena for book signings…hmmm…
“Porn addict, day- trading slimeball?”
Moral to the story? Do not tread on wonkette or the wonkeratti because our senior editor comes loaded for bear.
You should trade out the words “The DC Gossip” in the masthead to “Make Denby Cry.” Just for a day.
Call in as Peggy Noonan and agree with him. Then say you’ve just realized he isn’t writing about yachting and hang up.
Left out porn-trading.
I’m also going to go out on a limb at this point,
but I think I will be vindicated: wimmin-trading.
All this because he called you a girl, Ken? Can we let it go already?
The fact that you’re doing this will be the main theme of Denby’s next book, “Those Snarky Wonkette Girls (and How They Are Destroying America).”
You can also go frakk-up the reviews of Snark on Amazon! Wonketteers have already left several worthy posts of TRUCKNUTZ!
Now look at me typing when there’s snarking to be done!
joezoo: With a chapter entitled: “I Prefer TheSuperficial Because of the Nipple Slip Potential”
AllHat: EXACTLY Allhat! His issues with Ken and Wonkette and snarkdom are nothing compared to his applying the same asshattery to New Yorker movie reviews.
I heard this guy on public radio the other day saying it’s lame to be snarky. I didn’t go to work today, it’s almost 4:00 pm and I’m still in my long undies… oh, and I’m drunk, and I’ve been reading wonkettes all day. I guess he has a bit of a point.
So what if you knew Pauline Kael, Denby? It’s time to move on. (This could be a new enterprise for Moveon.org.)
Sorry, I’m still pissed off and freshly pissed off every week Lane is out.
Wonkette Brown: Cutting Through the Denb.
People wonder why liberals never get chosen as Defense Secy., even with liberal presidents in office! Obviously liberals failed to craft the appropriate public identity, partly by failing to respond properly to slanderers. The Warblog will never make this mistake! W… for Wonkette! W for Wookies! For Winston Churchill! For Whore Diamonds!
chascates: Great!
If you are in the neighborhood:
TUESDAY, Feb. 2
David Denby The film critic for the New Yorker will discuss his new book, “Snark,” with Times columnist Patt Morrison. http://www.writersblocpresents.com. ICM Screening Room at MGM, 10250 Constellation Blvd., Century City. 7:30 p.m. $20.
February 5 : 7 p.m.
David Denby reads from “Snark”
Price: Free
Event Phone Number: 626-449-5320
http://www.vromansbookstore.com
Vroman’s Bookstore
Neighborhood: Playhouse District
695 E. Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91101
626-449-5320
Giant Robot:
Then why do I envy you?
Ken Layne: Is is possible to slander the willing?
Fools! You cannot even imagine the awesome power of SNARK! Join me, and together we can rule the blogosphere! Denby fears us, because he has forseen it!
It’s a TARP! Also!
Humble Respectable Flexible: Read ‘the most helpful favorable review’ on Amazon. And be sure to add your vote, to keep it number one!
Monsieur Grumpe: Because we’re not as lame as gamers - generally - there was that awful eco-driving thing…
http://www.amazon.com/review/product/1416599452/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?%5Fencoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
The Amazon book reviews are in!
American sucker says “What?” again.
DAVID DENBY IS THE WORLD’S SADDEST MAN. HIS WIFE LEFT HIM FOR A RICH GLAMOROUS LADY HOLLYWOOD TYPE PERSON AND NOW THEY COO AT THEIR DOG TOGETHER. MEANWHILE, DENBY POPS VIAGRAS IN THE HOPE OF GETTING A BONER TO NAKED STRANGERS.
This is not snark. This is simple reportage.
Monsieur Grumpe: OMG, after reading the Amazon reviews and comments, I feel sorry for the poor schnook. I will never fuck with you Wonketteers, never, never, never.
Anyone who writes a review on amazon and mentions trucknutz gets a “Yes” click for “Was this review helpful to you?” Good work, Wonketeers.
slavojzizek: All over that like stupid on a PUMA. Roar!
peachgirl: Good, bad, we’re the ones with the SNARK.
PerhapsSo: Denby’s book is the ONLY one in the whole Amazon catalogue tagged “Trucknutz”
It’s really worth the time to learn their meta-tagging system. Just to frakk with Denby that is.
Denby’s book is the ONLY one in the whole Amazon catalogue tagged “Trucknutz”
It’s one of several tagged “pathetic” though.
Paranoiac thought: Denboy DELIBERATELY libeled Wonkette for the free publicity. Of course, I’m sure that no one from here is actually buying this “book.” Can we make people take it back? If you see the book anywhere, steal it and return it for a merchandise credit. Whew. Now I feel better.
Now he’s amongst much better(?) company:
http://www.amazon.com/tag/asshat/ref=tag_unk_cf_itdp
Here’s the product description of his book (from Amazon):
Product Description
What is snark? You recognize it when you see it — a tone of teasing, snide, undermining abuse, nasty and knowing, that is spreading like pinkeye through the media and threatening to take over how Americans converse with each other and what they can count on as true. Snark attempts to steal someone’s mojo, erase her cool, annihilate her effectiveness. In this sharp and witty polemic, New Yorker critic and bestselling author David Denby takes on the snarkers, naming the nine principles of snark — the standard techniques its practitioners use to poison their arrows. Snarkers like to think they are deploying wit, but mostly they are exposing the seethe and snarl of an unhappy country, releasing bad feeling but little laughter.
In this highly entertaining essay, Denby traces the history of snark through the ages, starting with its invention as personal insult in the drinking clubs of ancient Athens, tracking its development all the way to the age of the Internet, where it has become the sole purpose and style of many media, political, and celebrity Web sites. Snark releases the anguish of the dispossessed, envious, and frightened; it flows when a dying class of the powerful struggles to keep the barbarians outside the gates, or, alternately, when those outsiders want to take over the halls of the powerful and expel the office-holders. Snark was behind the London-based magazine Private Eye, launched amid the dying embers of the British empire in 1961; it was also central to the career-hungry, New York-based magazine Spy. It has flourished over the years in the works of everyone from the startling Roman poet Juvenal to Alexander Pope to Tom Wolfe to a million commenters snarling at other people behind handles. Thanks to the grand dame of snark, it has a prominent place twice a week on the opinion page of the New York Times.
Denby has fun snarking the snarkers, expelling the bums and promoting the true wits, but he is also making a serious point: the Internet has put snark on steroids. In politics, snark means the lowest, most insinuating and insulting side can win. For the young, a savage piece of gossip could ruin a reputation and possibly a future career. And for all of us, snark just sucks the humor out of life. Denby defends the right of any of us to be cruel, but shows us how the real pros pull it off. Snark, he says, is for the amateurs.
Denby promised moar Truck Nutz and all I got was some snarklessness.
Troll early, troll often, folks.
Why is there a picture of a dowdy lesbian with out-of-control post-menopausal chin hair featured on this post?
Where else will this asshat be signing books? Might be nice to get out and do a little snark hunting.
ok, at first I just thought Jim was being too sensitive and maybe just needed to get away to a nice sunny beach for a while, or something nice, but NOW I see that this evil bastard Denby is out to destroy our beloved Wonketter and it’s Wonketters. Well….the gloves are off and I am joining your army to defeat his plans! Yeah!
Humble Respectable Flexible: “All over that like stupid on a PUMA”
This is now my favorite Wonkettism (TM) of 2009.
I know that face! He was at the Pacific Dining Car!
I trashed Denby’s book for making fun of my beloved Dowd on Dowd Report today and cross-posted it on DailyKos. Anything over there praising Maureen Dowd goes over like a turd in a punchbowl, but I did get one great Wonkette related comment:
So, suck it Denby!
Who the hell is this “g charles steiner” character who keeps defending Denby’s idiot book over on Amazon? Can he be banned from the intertubez like that “cussingnews” fucker. Also.
When is this fart-blossom going to be at Powell’s? I’m going to throw slippers at him. Poofy pink slippers.
operation limey: Click on his name. He likes to write boring reviews like Denby, sort of a soul mate and an idiot, also.
JeffGoldblum: In this case, “civilized” should mean telling young master Denby to masticate a cloth container of phallic tissue, and I mean that in an NPR sort of way.
Humble Respectable Flexible:Loves it!
operation limey: He looks like a future Timothy McVeigh.
Mo MoDo: His attacks on Dowd are particularly weird. She writes columns full of pop-culture references for the NYT, he reviews pop culture for the New Yorker. Difference? Oh right, she’s a woman, so she’s “snarky.” And she has clever put-downs, while he’s just a sad masturbator on the internets.
I would just file a libel suit to make them cry at this point.
Ken Layne: Denby: v. trans. 1. to masturbate into a handkerchief stolen (see: pick-pocket) from a matronly writer with whom the completer of the act (masturbater) competes. 2. slang “navel-watching”
Whoops. Gotta poop.
Seriously, someone come up with a Santorum-ish verb for this wanker.
Vanity Smurf: snarktivism?
His wikipedia page describes some of the Wonkette related errors, but could perhaps use some snark: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Denby_(film_critic)#Books
LATimes on the controversy:http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/02/denby-vs-wonket.html
Great photo–my Great Aunt Henrietta called, and she wants her scarf back, dude!
operation limey: I smell sock puppet.
Ken Layne: Cat fight!
facehead: so really, it’s a bunch of bullshit semantics deployed to sell a silly book. nice work if you can get it!
operation limey: Operation Limey,
I was amused by g steiner at first, then I started wondering why his replies were so bizarre. My wife (clinical psych type) took a look, and (based on nothing more than his responses, so take this with a grain of salt) thinks he’s probably a high-functioning autistic. Hence his sense of validation and comfort from a book that tells him “It’s not that you don’t get the joke, it’s that the joke is not funny.”
Who’s this Denby person again?
Ken Layne: No, he doesn’t review pop culture, he reviews film. (2 syllables please) And he carefully removes every trace of wit from every review so that no one can accuse him of snark. And no one does. In sisterhood, Ken, FOR sisterhood, please make him go away.