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1. That's great news, but in regard to the string below about Heath's Leno appearance, we fear the dumb fucks at the "Washington Blade" have turned you into that "hysterical hen" as they reference your original post as affirmation of their own absurd belief that there is a plot at this late date to "de-gay" Brokeback. "It’s becoming increasingly clear that executives at Focus Features, the company behind the film, are working overtime to downplay the obvious gay themes in the movie." Clear, huh? Working overtime, huh? If so, it seems they've failed big time.

   http://www.washingtonblade.com/blog/index.cfm?type=blog&start=1/18/06&end=1/20/06#4632

   More concerning than the paranoia of a bar rag editor, and Leno's unfunny horse gag, is shrill but pro-gay pundit Chris Matthews playing along about BBM with the wizened homophobia of tumbleweed troll Don Imus whose ability to make millions with his snarky demagoguery is as incomprehensible as Howard Stern's sleazeoramas. Pissing on himself even further, note how Matthews describes troglodyte Michael Savage. Jesus wept!

   The Don Imus Show, 1/18/06:

   MATTHEWS: Have you gone to see it yet? I’ve seen everything else but that. I just—
   IMUS: No, I haven’t seen it. Why would I want to see that?

   MATTHEWS: I don’t know. No opinion on that. I haven’t seen it either, so—

   IMUS: So they were—it was out when I was in New Mexico and—it doesn’t resonate with real cowboys who I know.

   MATTHEWS: Yeah—

   IMUS: But then, maybe there’s stuff going on on the ranch that I don’t know about. Not on my ranch, but you know—

   MATTHEWS: Well, the wonderful Michael Savage, who’s on 570 in DC, who shares a station with you at least, he calls it [laughter]—what’s he call it?—he calls it Bare-back Mount-ing. That’s his name for the movie.

   IMUS: Of course, Bernard calls it Fudgepack Mountain...
   

   Posted by: Tagg | Jan 19, 2006 7:50:59 PM

   
   

2. Say it ain't so Google, say it ain't so.

   Posted by: Chad Hanging | Jan 19, 2006 8:24:11 PM

   
   

3. The more I see of David Gregory the more I admire him. He actually seems like a reporter and he doesn't seem to challenge people just to impress the guys back at the office or further his career by being combative and low brow like FOXNews.

   Posted by: Chad Hanging | Jan 19, 2006 8:27:58 PM

   
   

4. David Gregory is beginning to come into his own, slowly, oh so very slowly, but it's happening finally.

   Posted by: Robert In WeHo | Jan 19, 2006 9:34:32 PM

   
   

5. The biggest thing to fear about the Google subpoena is not necessarily the immediate invasion of privacy but rather what draconian measures the Feds might use the data to justify - like shutting down sites. Remember, lots of wingnuts think any site that discusses GLBT issues is harmful to children.

   Posted by: Jeff | Jan 19, 2006 9:51:12 PM

   
   

6. Given that BBM has now made $20 million over it's budget, where are Fox and others who were claiming it was a failure?

   Posted by: Chad Hanging | Jan 19, 2006 10:43:11 PM

   
   

7. >>White House subpoenas Google

   Get it right Andy. The Justice Dept. supoenaed those records, not the White House. They've asked for Google to produce a random sample of one million Web addresses that result from web searches. It's an attempt to test the efficacy of child protection software, and see how kids are able to circumvent all the efforts to sheild them from objectionable material. The request seems reasonable to me. Futile, but not unreasonable.

   I don't think it will help them anyway, but they are not asking for the names or ISP's of the people using Google's seach engines, and they aren't invading anyone's privacy. They'll never be able to control access to private web sites, and in the end, they'll spend millions of dollars to discover what we've known all along. The genie is out of the bottle. AlGore invented the Internet you know, and it's the most foolproof key to freedom ever presented to mankind. You can't legislate morals, and you can't protect people from themselves.

   The Internet will always be out of the control of any group or government. There may be changes proposed, but think about it. How many government employees can there be? Do you think they can hire enough people to spy on everyone? They can't hire enough people to translate all their foriegn phone taps and radio messages. They can't hire enough people to guard our frontiers. They can't even hire enough people to do all the IRS audits that need to be done. How do you expect them to monitor your Internet usage?

   It's good to question these things, but I think this is much ado about nothing.

   Posted by: Jay Croce | Jan 20, 2006 12:38:03 AM

   
   

8. Odd then that the RIAA was successful in obtaining personal information of those who used ISP's to download MP3's in order to sue them. Blows a hole right through that theory.

   This story would be received differently had we not just found out that Bush personally ordered the warrantless surveillance of persons living in the U.S. even though there is a system set up to allow him to cover his ass legal retroactively and chose to vehemently not do just that. Had this story come at any other point in history it would have been viewed in a different context. As it happens, most of us cannot divorce ourselves from reality for the sake of winning a fleeting and insignificant argument.

   Thank goodness and may god bless the united states of America, so to speak.
   

   Posted by: Chad Hanging | Jan 20, 2006 12:55:34 AM

   
   

9. Brokeback nominated for 9 BAFTA's including:

   Best Film.
   Best Actor.
   Best Actor Supporting.
   Best Actress Supporting.
   Best Adapted Screenplay.

   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4626932.stm

   Posted by: Stevie B | Jan 20, 2006 6:20:37 AM

   
   

10. I'm going to type as many bad things as I can think of about George Bush into Google. Purely because I want to be kidnapped by burly FBI agents, heh.

    Posted by: RickB | Jan 20, 2006 7:35:02 AM

    
    

11. Croce, Al Gore NEVER said he "invented" the internet, this was pinned on him by the conservative media after he said he "helped to create the internet".

    Senator Al Gore was instrumental in getting congress to fund ARPANET, the pre-curser to the internet. He was only doing what all politicians do, taking credit for a pet project that he believed in and worked hard to fund.
    

    Posted by: Ken | Jan 20, 2006 7:35:04 AM

    
    

12. David Gregory proves again that he's the best television news reporter.

    Posted by: wayne | Jan 20, 2006 8:26:07 AM

    
    

13. So how do we start a grassroots movement to impeach Bush before we have no freedom. Someone please give the idiot a blow job!

    Posted by: ray ray | Jan 20, 2006 10:46:02 AM

    
    

14. I just checked and it's acutally the Brokeback Audio Book at #1 on itunes! The soundtrack is #2! Even more amazing that it holds the 2 top spots.

    I can't fault the Focus Features marketing team for doing their job. We all agree that this movie is so much more than just a "gay cowboy movie." They're just trying to get butts in the seats - and the more butts in the seats the better - no matter how much they "de-gay" it for promotional purposes. Some people don't want to see a "gay cowboy movie." But those same people might be willing to see a love story that also involves women. Can't we all agree on that?

    Posted by: ROB | Jan 20, 2006 11:04:07 AM

    
    

15. Ken raises an extremely good point about Jay's post. Why do Bush apologists insist on minutely detailed accuracy, and then come out swinging with tired old bromindes and outright lies? If they have nothing to say, they'll haul out Al Gore and the internet or Tawana Brawley. It's the Fox News version of the truth: Hear no Evil but Speak Lots of Bullshit.

    Posted by: PSMike | Jan 21, 2006 10:21:40 AM

    
    

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