Has John Nolte of the Breitbart remnant blog Big Hollywood gone completely nuts, or has he perhaps just read so much of his own bullshit that he is incapable of distinguishing his usual brand of faux outrage from absurd self-parody? Or is he actually indulging in self-parody? It would be irresponsible not to speculate! How else can we explain his thoroughly bizarre post that purports to expose the sinister purpose behind a rather odd advertisement for Skittles? Is Nolte serious, or is this a brilliant example of Poe’s Law in action?
Consider, if you will, the stilted intro to the piece:
Skittles is sold and manufactured by the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company and according to Merriam-Webster, one of the definitions of bestiality is:
sexual relations between a human being and a lower animal
John Nolte is a grown-up human being, a professional screenwriter, blogger, and occasional columnist for what almost counts as a real newspaper, the Washington Times. He is well-known enough to have been honored for writing “the most epically idiotic article on the internet.” And yet he begins an actual article, for which he was presumably paid money, with 1) a complete nonsequitur and 2) a goddamned dictionary definition??? The guy says he’s a traditionalist, but isn’t honoring the conventions of fifth grade Language Arts class taking tradition a little far? This introduction alone suggests that we are being toyed with. In fact, Webster’s defines “taking the piss” as “what that puffed-up dildo Nolte did in that Skittles thing.”
Now, on to Nolte’s actual book report on “Our Friend the Walrus” analysis of the Skittles ad. You see, it’s not merely a kind of stupid ad featuring a woman making out with a computer-generated walrus. No, indeedy — it is part of a coordinated Hollywood “assault to define deviancy down and to normalize destructive behavior.” Wow, this is going to be shocking! Nolte warns the viewer to “Pay special attention to the thoroughly disgusting sound effects:”
“Humor,” Nolte intones, “is an excellent way to get us used to and to take the shock value out of something hideous and immoral.” Indeed! Were it not for the little comic strips, we almost certainly wouldn’t have gone on to chew that awful Bazooka Joe bubble gum. Nolte continues:
If you don’t think there’s an agenda behind this, you haven’t been paying attention the last 40 years. And if you don’t think that there are those who hold the levers of power in our popular culture that would like to remove the stigma from bestiality, you don’t understand the depths of sexual depravity the human animal is capable of.
I used to laugh at loud at the term “slippery slope.”
Then I grew up.
Oh, my. A lady is making slurping sounds with a pinniped, and Nolte says it’s a “slippery slope”? Yes, this is the lowest sort of buffoonery, is it not? The good gentleman is winding us up — he has to be. We know exactly where he’s headed with this. We saw it coming way back in 1982:





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Shorter John Nolte: Come on, you know you want to.
Nolte must have a lot of bottled up self-loathing over that marathon weekend masturbation session with the DVD box set of Blue Planet
I miss I Miss Opus.
Word.
Can't upfist this enough
A nation turns its lonely eyes to Berkely Breathed.
Agreed.
Aw, you guys are killing me.
Isn't Paul the walrus?
I was the Walrus – Paul wasn't the Walrus!
I was just saying that to be nice, but I was actually the Walrus!
–"Magical Misery Tour," Tony Hendra, 1972
(Also: Bonus reading! http://everything2.com/title/Magical+Misery+Tour?… )
Thanks for the link Dok! You rock!
Bristol is the walrus.
Actually, that would be my friend/former boss. I myself am the Carpenter.
Amateurs. All of 'em. Breitbart was the only one any good at this stuff over there.
Koo – Koo – Ka – Choo.
She's got Skittles!! Shoot dat bitch!!
But she ain't wearing a hoodie!
…and where is the iced tea?
Considering the epidemic of Diabeetus 2… justifiable.
You can laugh and say it's just a joke, but through a war of inches, Hollywood continues its assault to define deviancy down and to normalize destructive behavior
Wow. Just… WOW.
Gay men are taking over this country, one inch at a time.
According to craigslist, you are incorrect by a factor of 8.
These are Republicans.
Would you go so far as to say that they've penetrated deeply?
In Nolte's case, it's probably a war of about three inches.
He's just jealous of the walrus.
Our dicks are bigger?
"You can laugh and say it's just a joke, but we actually plan to vote for a robot in November."
Ah. Like normalizing torture, wars of aggression and extralegal murder and rendition.
What? That's not what he was talking about?
I'll bet he offered her a mustache ride.
Her koo koo kachoo.
Two tusks, one walrus.
Ever noticed that the people most easily shocked are also the ones who go out of their way to find things that shock them?
There's an overactive revulsion/arousal drive going on there. I bet he had a raging semi the entire time he wrote his column, with the offending walrus-fucking skittles video on a continuous repeat loop.
Victim of malevolent social ills, peddles shock value of those same delusional observations for attention and personal gain. The viper bite stings only long enough til you realize you can take and distill the poison into an antidote, marketed and sold to the nearest rabid buyer, for profit$.
"sexual relations between a human being and a lower animal"
So by that definition, sex (or sharing Skittles) with a Breitbart-o-phile is bestiality?
Ann Rmoney libel!!!
In the photo, which one is the lower animal?
…you don’t understand the depths of sexual depravity the human animal is capable of.
Presumably, judging from his sentence structure, John Nolte does know.
Exactamundo.
John Nolte majored in Animal Husbandry at the University of Phoenix School of Genetic Mutations
And animal wifery in his dorm room
The only thing stopping me from having sex with a walrus is geography.
Who thinks about shit like this?
The mind of RW nutjobs is a scary sick place
If he sees kissing and races to the dictionary to cut-and-paste the definition of a sex act, that loony wing nut panic about anything sensual seems to be affecting his deductive reasoning skillz.
Exactly the kind of perv I don't want telling teenagers that abstinence is a cake walk.
This slippery slope started when that princess kissed that frog.
Yeah, her father didn't believe that story either.
Win.
“Humor,” Nolte intones, “is an excellent way to get us used to and to take the shock value out of something hideous and immoral.”
I don’t know the world has been making fun of the political right for my whole life and they seem just as hideous and immoral as ever to me.
It's amazing how thoroughly they don't understand how humor -which in this case relies on the "shock value" in question- works. Yes, they're trying to make this less shocking, just like when Charlie Chaplin made fun of Hitler, or when the Daily Show makes fun of Fox News, or when we make fun of the ghost of Andrew Breitbart, who is dead. It's because we all want more of those things in our society, not because we're trying to ridicule them into irrelevance.
Well, I suppose this all goes a ways to explaining conservative "comedians", at least.
All true and on a side note no day is so dark that being reminded of Breitbart absence can’t bring a smile.
Is true. Among the things we all want more of is dead Andrew Breitbart.
Keep fucking that chicken, Nolte!
This commercial doesn't even make me want to eat skittles (it's the ground up beetles that make 'em shiney!) much less fuck a walrus, so I'm not sure WHO wins here.
Mrs. Christie has to fuck a walrus, I suppose as frequently as walri can muster the energy.
You must google "autofellatio walrus," I tell you, you just gotta.
All right, all right, I guess I kind of have to now. Since apparently walruses now define my sexual preferences, I suppose I need to see what they like.
Looks like I picked the wrong summer to go on a diet…
Oh god no. I watched the video. I am afraid of walruses now. One of the best comments was "now we know why President Taft REALLY drowned in the bathtub" so, that was kinda worth it.
Prommie, I'm not even gonna ask how you know about this.
Hey, you know, guys talk, word gets around.
Pardon me good sir, but haz you seen mah…
NOOOOOOO!!!!
But look at those tusks!
Luckily the one doing his ownself in the video didn't have such puncture-possibilities. Even walri know the "no teeth" rule.
Its as important as the golden rule.
Agreed. But it does make me want to have lunch with the blond.
Just to make up for the walrus, if you think the ground up beetles is strange, go read the wiki article on how xanthan gum is made, weird as hell. Its ground up bacteria, and its in everything. They even pump it into oil wells for some fucking reason.
At the risk of exposing myself for the complete nerd I truly am, I have actually watched an episode of "How's It Made?" on the topic of xanthan gum. It's an amazing, disgusting, ubiquitous substance, you are right.
I'm shocked Nolte went with such a subtle ad when theres one that even MORE about bestiality…
Going anti-beastiality is gonna totally alienate the GOP base.
Right? It would be like coming out against incest.
"A good goat will do that" is the punch line of an old, old joke.
Steve King is drafting his rebuttal right now.
You can also rape a walrus, abduct it and force it to have an abortion across state lines, and drop it off at the swimming pool, and that's perfectly legal in the United States of America.
MacRaith for congress!
Actually, I think the raping the walrus part might prove difficult.
How do you get a 2-ton animal with tusks to do what you want? Answer: you don't.
AND STEAL ITS BUKKIT
100% of individuals wearing hoodies and carrying Skittles who are shot by George Zimmerman end up dead. Ergo, Skittles are fatal. OUTLAW SKITTLES IMMEDIATELY.
If you soak Skittles in cat piss and dry them out in the oven and then smoke them, you can get super high and it's totally legal!
Brother? Is that you?
This will give me night terrors. Not the bestiality; the thought process of a wingnut. Speaking of "slippery slopes" fer fucks sake.
He is correct that humor is his true enemy, and the enemy of humorless, angry batshit crazy wingnuts everywhere, John Stewart, watch yourself!
You know, it is wonderful how the debate has gone from the right mocking the left for being too sensitive (It's just a joke!) to the left (the good guys in this story) mocking the right for their incredible lack of humor. It is a sign of their increasing marginalization.
Just wait until he finds autofellatio walrus (google it)
Has this dude even ever seen an Old Spice commercial?
For many reasons, he only watches the first 15 seconds and nods off.
Yeah, NODS off.
The Walrus was Paul.
"sexual relations between a human being and a lower animal"
So by this definition, whoever bangs Nolte is into beatiality?
That's no walrus. It's John Bolton. Ewwwww, even worse.
Every time I see the words "John Bolton" (mercifully seldom these days), I think of the cranky old guy's blog that called him "mustache on his ass".
Tusks up on the new motto.
"you don’t understand the depths of sexual depravity the human animal is capable of."
We just sit back and enjoy it, dude. We don't analyze it.
This guy needs to log on to 4chan random if he wants to see depravity.
Conservitards will never understand humor.
When he sees those tusks, it takes him to a very different place than it does the rest of us.
True story.
I was cross-examining a sexual harasser in a case (partially) involving beastiality porn. I asked him if he had ever viewed or shown beastiality porn. His answer:
"No. I would never do that. I'm an animal lover."
Albanian, huh?
I blame Chick Fil A.
Wow, I didn't know growing up meant deciding that logical fallacies are actually pretty fuckin awesome.
Or just lurk here.
Say, that's a really pretty chinchilla you got there…
I can understand taking offense at lower animals, but them giraffes have some serious tongue skills.
NO ONE TELL HIM ABOUT FURRIES.
I disagree. Tell him about furries, please. It would be so hilarious to see the ensuing explosion.
Hell, he probably IS a furry.
EVERYONE TELL HIM ABOUT FURRIES.
Given his logic skills, he must also assume that 'animal husbandry' is a marital state.
Wait–I thought it was Nick Nolte that was dain-bramaged?
I dunno about a walrus, but it is definitely better to do a chiken than pullet.
You will win the Pullet Surprise for that one.
If it had been sheep instead of a Walrus I suspect that Mr. Nolte would not be objecting.
Brown chicken, brown cow
Hee!
That's a creepy ad that doesn't make me want to buy skittles. Or make out with walruses.
Um, that's not a boy walrus. Hey look over there, there's no line at Chik-Fil-A today.
Nolte probably won't like this one either. Warning: swallow your coffee first.
Aw, I bet that's not a real skittles commercial.
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Now that's fucking funny! Hey Nolte! Which one is the lower animal?
Thanks for the link. Kid Zoom informs me he is now going to research which monastic orders offer a vow of celibacy.
Nolte is trying to start a moral panic over a commercial that is obviously fiction and played for laughs? In that case, nobody tell John Nolte about furries, or about anthro cartoon fandom, or My Little Pony fandom.
Actually wait, do tell him, about all those things I'm pretty sure the resulting rage-derp will be hilarious. "WARNER BROTHERS AND HASBRO ARE TRYING TO CONVERT US ALL TO BESTIALITY!!!!1!!1"
"Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny?" — Garth Algar
"Me neither."
I am beset by recurring overwhelming urges to hug and/or snuggle Pinkie Pie. TELL ME, NOLTE, AM I THE SYMPTOM OR THE DISEEEEASE? (Disclaimer: I do NOT hang around farms or stables in a raincoat, "clop," nor wear any sort of "fursuit.")
(quote) “Humor,” Nolte intones, “is an excellent way to get us used to and to take the shock value out of something hideous and immoral.” (endquote)
This…this is actually true. It's my primary concern about Jon Stewart's daily LOL! YOU'RE ALL SCREWED *GOOFY FACE* AND NOBODY CAN DO ANYTHING TO STOP IT LOLOLOLOL! routine.
But in this case, Nolte? You just batshit crazy, boy.
I'm so much dumber after reading Nolte's idiocy, I'm going to sign my kid's college fund over to the GOP.
OK, make the check out to me, and I'll make sure that the funds are handled responsibly.
It probably took Nolte about ten viewings to realize this wasn't some redneck cousin of his from Alabama. He should have noticed right away there was more than one toof.
Hey buddy, go fuck yourself, I have ALL my teeth and they are spectacular. And sharp.
Are they the wax ones you can buy at a novelty shop?
I don't know about you, but i wasn't looking at the walrus. That chick, ahem, "acts" very well. But, you are right I'm sure Nolte never even looked on the left half of the screen.
I'm not sure why wax is sharp wherever you live in superior land, but I can ASSURE you, you would not be confused if I bit you. Come here.
This had better be foreplay…
Nolte feels threatened by a walrus stealing the pool of available women.
My name is Jus_Wonderin, and I must admit I have a monkey on my back and an albatross around my neck.
*raises hand*
Bats in the belfry, here.
Also, sometimes when I'm nervous, butterflies in my stomach.
And a tiger in my tank.
Ladies…
Do you remember when Esso used to give a free tiger tail to hang out/under our gas caps???? I'm an oldz.
Does a trouser snake count?
The comments are precious:
Now, I'm not saying it should be ILLEGAL (it shouldn't — animals are property, you can do what you want with your own property as long as you aren't violating someone else's rights) but it certainly isn't moral or normal psychologically.
At least the libertardian is being consistent.
"Now, I'm not saying it should be ILLEGAL (it shouldn't — animals are property, you can do what you want with your own property"
I sure hope this person doesn't have kids.
He can't have kids from fucking a walrus, can he?
When someone reaches for the dictionary to make their argument, they've already lost.
I've watched the ad, and I feel no perverse sexual lust for a walrus. For the bespectacled brunette, on the other hand…
You need to watch it as much as Mr. Nolte did. You'll never look at tusks again the same way.
Methinks the goatfucker doth protest too much.
walrusfucker
You know he's just trying to work this into his pre-conceived narrative that says woman-on-walrus is the next step after gay marriage. Taste the Rainbow!
"thou shalt not fuck a walrus". Unfortunatly Moses' hands were too full for that last stone tablet.
Also, no walruses in the desert.
"The Lord Jehovah has given unto you these fifteen … oy … ten, ten commandments, for all to obey."
I remember my children's illustrated bible. Those things look heavy. Ima go ahead and thank you for god not being smart enough to use paper or papyrus or whatever. Then we would have the 1001 commandments and 900 of them would be about where we should and shouldn't put our privates.
Funny how it's only your neighbor's wife that's actually off-limits. That leaves a pretty wide open field, when you think about it.
When are we going to get civilized and institute public flogging for such flagrantly bad writing? When?
By fundie Republican standards any human male having sexual relations with a human female is having sex with a lower life form, we being too stupid to make our own healthcare choices and using inappropriate words in senate hearings and all.
Oh wait! I get it now! Rainbows = accepting teh ghey = accepting pedophilia/bestiality/necrophilia/toe-sucking/gerbil farming/etc. The man's a genius.
"By fundie Republican standards any human male having sexual relations with a human female is having sex with a lower life form"
What a coincidence: By my standards, anyone having sexual relations with a Republican is having sex with a lower life form.
But, anyone having sexual relations with a Republican is a lower life form having sex with a lower life form, so it's like two jackals or badgers or Tasmanian devils going at it, if two jackals or badgers or Tasmanian devils could actually have boring sex.
These people have a point, though. Those Five Gum commercials ruined my hearing by getting me to buy huge stereo speakers and lay naked on them while surrounded by ball bearings.
Mine is but a cautionary tale, ladies. Don't let Wrigley's lead you into walrus sex. It can happen here. Really it can.
I have seen this stuff i speak of in the course of doing a research paper. If you won't see it for yourself then you cannot know if it poses a threat or not.
'It was all for a research project, really.' This stuff is golden. I always assumed Big Morons visit Big Whatever but I didn't think it would be so blatant.
The paper was supposed to be on the Lincoln-Douglas debates, but that's how academic exploration works.
"I'm just doing this for research purposes." Is this Nolte's new pickup line? At Sea World?
"that would like to remove the stigma from bestiality"
I'm thinking that removing the smegma from bestiality is probably the worst job in the pron industry.
No wonder Lowell Turpin is so jealous. His girlfriend is HAWT!
The walrus P-E-N-I-S goes into the anus…
Hollywood is just continuing the fine work started by Hieronymus Bosch.
Post walrus, ergo propter walrus.
Don't look to the Animal Kingdom for "moral values".
Over 1500 species have homo behavior:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavio…
WHERE IS THE DEFENSE OF GUT WORM MARRIAGE ACT???
Uh, he missed the big Skittles story. If you go to Skittles.com it greets you with an invitation to "Taste the Rainbow." So really it is gay bestiality going on and that's, as we know, the worst kind.
"If you don’t think there’s an agenda behind this, you haven’t been paying attention the last 40 years."
Step 1: Make commercials that subtly imply bestiality.
Step 2: Get everyone to accept that bestiality is OK.
Step 3: ?????
Step 4: Profit!!
Blonde-"No, this is the eggman."
Where the land-dwellin' wimmenz at?
I watched it with the sound off. Is Zooey Deschanel distressed because she disapproves, or because her roommate didn't share the skittles and/or walrus?
I agree with Nolte, this is insensitive and offensive to all of us who enjoy having sex with walruses. And those sound effects! It's like they secretly recorded Nolte in the Sea World men's room.
Why are we blaming the woman here? What about that walrus? Isn't he just as responsible? What about Walrus morality? That walrus was probably paid handsomely to whore himself out like that on national TV. Oh wait, how can we even be sure that's a male walrus? Could this be a lezzie walrus? Impossible to tell but they aren't denying it are they? Also, too, I found this on the google.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/07/walrus-o…
Why are we blaming the woman here? What about that walrus? Isn't he just as responsible? What about Walrus morality? That walrus was probably paid handsomely to whore himself out like that on national TV. Oh wait, how can we even be sure that's a male walrus? Could this be a lezzie walrus? Impossible to tell but they aren't denying it are they? Also, too, I found this on the google.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/07/walrus-o…
A lezzie walra and her girlfriend would be a couple of walrae.
Sorry, but this commercial is disgusting!
According to Wikipedia, walruses are fond of eating clams.
You're welcome.
Really, Andrew said it more succinctly, "behave yourselves!!"
"STOP RAPING WALRUSES!"
What the Breitbart people are really saying is "see, anyone who eats skittles deserves to be shot, so free Zimmerman"
i don't think that lady and that walrus actually happened.
but i guess that's just me.
You're out of your element here, Donnie.
A Bloom County cartoon on Wonkette. This is THE BEST THURSDAY EVER.
Would that I had more thumbs to give. Or any.
Poor little flightless wings. {flap flap flap}
Extra-special secret: I personally scanned that from my very own copy of the first Bloom book, acquired in college in 1983.
Ooh, sik!
This is it; the prophecy has been fulfilled: right wing Götterdämmerung, It can't get any worse than this. From here on in, it's drooling and Napoleon hats.
When you fixate on bestiality, then you see bestiality everywhere!
Skittles do refresh the mouth after fellating a horse.
I'd say what I think of John Nolte, but it violates the rules of commenting on this forum. John Nolte, as a paid editor at Breitbart's Decaying Earthly Remains, evidently is under no such restrictions as to what sorts of things are acceptable to say, as he regularly calls for people to be murdered for such crimes as allowing their children appear on television.
Our society has been going downhill since the Army started recruiting talking mules in the 1940's.
I cannot for the life of me understand how some people can totally obsess with what others do with their genitals. I've spent over 71 years on this mortal coil and I'm still totally preoccupied with my own.
What's fascinating to me is that there's an "agenda behind this" — and has been for 40 years. I look forward to reading Nolte's disclosure of who is behind this 40-year-old plot to make Nolte succumb to the temptations of bestiality.
"I has an interspecies sexual relationship!"
"Noooo – They be stealing my interspecies sexual relationship!"
Someone seriously needs to do a psychological profile of these people. There sexual hangups are so blatantly obvious in their self conscious homophobia, there frequent reference to injuring others by anal penetration when they get all hot and bothered during comment wars online; and now this bestiality focus.
Seriously, it's called projection, guys, Psych 101 stuff. Blatantly obvious.
Which one of the Fantastic Four was made of rubber? Rubber man? He could stretch? That is clearly that walrus's superpower, as well.
Mr Fantastic
This reminds me of Plastic Man jokes from my yout'.
Fantastic indeed.
Thats probably what John Bobbit was hoping, too.
suuuuure it is, I prooooomise, truuuuust meeeee.
I kinda like a guy willing to take chances with the redneck underbelly of society.
Please, Lorena needed a knife – I got angry resentment and something to prove after years of this shit on my side.
I just know I don't ever want you mad at me. It'd be like Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
"Because he CAN."
I was thinking Species, but whatever.
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