December 03, 2005
JUST PLAIN NUTS
Barbra Streisand cancelled her LA Times subscription after it replaced oped liberal Robert Scheer with conservative
Jonah Goldberg, leaving her with no breakfast reading except the NY
Times & Revolutionary Worker:
"I'm almost embarrassed for you seeing the LA Times being
referred to as the Chicago LA Times* on the myriad of
internet sites I've visited in the last few days."
A quick google shows that myriad = 2, Talk Left & Think Progress, where a commenter helpfully notes that Scheer can still be read at the World Worker Party [sic] paper (link here, pdf). Fun game: read the entertaining comment threads at Talk Left & Think Progress & try to guess which commenter is Barbra Streisand.
Babs' letter, which at least was spell-checked, rambles about "diversity blah blah integrity yada yada swiftly diminishing free press" etc. Her Truth Alerts are always fun - she just called for impeaching Bush - but my fave riff is this give-her-enough-rope segue:
"August 6 marks the 60th anniversary of the US bombing of Hiroshima. This is also the anniversary of another 'bomb' that was dropped 4 years ago into the lap of President Bush in the form of a memo titled Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the US."
Gee Babs, that's kinda poor taste. Couldn't you think of another bomb, like The Mirror Has Two Faces or Nuts?
See also Silly Barbra Streisand
*The la times is owned by the chicago tribune
Posted by Jeff at December 3, 2005 12:25 PM
Comments
The internet needs this kind of awesomeness. Dude, next time you're in Culver City, let me know. Lunch is on me.
Posted by: Jeremiah at December 2, 2005 10:55 PM
And what's up with her severe phobia of being photographed from the right side? She makes talk-show hosts rearrange their stages so that only "her good side" is visible from the audience's perspective.
Vanity. Thy name is Babs.
Posted by: sadie at December 2, 2005 11:41 PM
Culver City? Wait! Are you Jack?
Posted by: Patrick at December 3, 2005 01:09 AM
"Barbra Streisand was never capable of keeping her ample schnozzle out of other people’s business; she has always been the same pushy buttinski from Pulaski Street. The loud mouthed kid from Brooklyn is now a sixty-year-old yenta and as obnoxious as ever." From the "Silly Barbra Streisand" link.
Priceless.
Posted by: Redhand ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](/nav-commenters.gif)
at December 3, 2005 03:18 AM
I suppose the press is "free" and "diverse" as long as it does what exactly what she wants.
Posted by: The Unabrewer at December 3, 2005 03:46 AM
In the movie "Hello, Dolly!" she portrays a matchmaker who is incapable of keeping her ample schnoz out of people's business. The part she was born to play.
Posted by: Attmay at December 3, 2005 12:37 PM
Barbra needs to take heed from one of her songs: Enough is enough!
Posted by: Attmay at December 3, 2005 12:52 PM
The World Workers Party paper? That's pretty obscure, and I'm sorry Scheer has sunk so low. Maybe Barbra can help boost their circulation.
Posted by: Eric Scheie at December 3, 2005 02:14 PM
actually Hack Scheer is spending his time as 'editor' of the hilariously named website TruthDig
Sample intros:>
*Now that the Pentagon has admitted to subverting the fragile efforts to build democracy in Iraq, will Congress begin an investigation of how this happened? The first question should be who in the Pentagon decided that he or she had the right to put words in the mouth of the Prophet Muhammad.
*Prediction: It’s the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, not Iraq, that will unravel the Bush empire.
*U.S. Occupation Is Worse Than Hussein
It is time we called a halt to our mindless messing in the Iraqi people’s lives.
And this priceless prose:
The People of Fallujah Love Cindy Sheehan - Sheehan should be congratulated for showing the Iraqi people and the rest of the world what democracy is all about. >
via Jeff Harrell
Posted by: Darleen at December 3, 2005 05:05 PM
And we wonder why "Barbara Streisand" is the only example in the English language where a two unabbreviated words are used in the place of an abbreviation (BS) for two other words. Something for which those who know her can take pride long after her passing to greener pastures.
Posted by: Martin at Blogbat at December 4, 2005 01:13 PM
I'm not Jack. But I like the station.
Posted by: Jeremiah at December 4, 2005 01:45 PM
In the This Week section of the 12/5/05 issue of Nat'l Review she is described as "a lounge singer popular around 1970".
I think they were being kind.
Posted by: harrison at December 4, 2005 05:53 PM