Educate Robin Pogrebin & Kate Kelly

Breitbart's John Nolte tells us:

The new anti-Kavanaugh book written by two New York Times “reporters” is a massive bomb. According to the source you choose, The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation, which received an enormous amount of free publicity through excepts published at the Times and a extensive media tour for authors Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly, either sold 3,120 copies or 4,000 copes during its first two weeks in release. Either way, it’s a catastrophe.

The Amazon ranking was 6175.

To put those numbers in perspective, during Israel Strikes second month, we moved more than 2,000 copies and were ranked in Amazon's top 3,000. For a while we were ahead of Tom effin' Clancy.

These two Slimettes had the support of the NYTs, media interviews, etc etc. We had none of these advantages. Even so, Israel Strikes made a lot more money for us than the Education of Brett Kavanaugh is making for these broads.

Pogrebin and Kelly surely got an advance to write their book. Our guess is they're splitting 30% of book sales. That's 30% of a bomb. But Pogrebin and Kelly face a larger problem. The Education of Brett Kavanaugh is a current events book. In two years nobody is going to buy it. Talk about an education.

If one wants to read about Brett Kavanaugh, this blog recommends Mollie Hemingway's book:

Nolte to Chappelle: Brilliant!

Breitbart's John Nolte (PBUH) reviews Dave Chappelle's new comedy special and comes away both impressed and inspired:

Comedian Dave Chappelle’s latest Netflix special, Sticks & Stones, is one of the greatest hours of comedy I have ever seen — which is saying a lot. As much as I enjoyed his legendary sketch show from 15 years ago (which I only recently caught up with), I had not been all that impressed with his Netflix specials.

This blog wondered if we were viewing a cultural touchstone, after reading Nolte we're sure of it.

We suggest reading the whole thing. Nolte is right on everything about the Chappelle special. Chappelle is gonna joke about what he wants to joke about and people who don't like it can go show their A-hole's to Michael Jackson's rotting corpse.*

We're lucky from a comedy standpoint in that we came of age during the golden age of comedy. 

What were the great comedy specials of the 80's? Bill Cosby: Himself, Eddie Murphy: Raw, Robin Williams: A Night at the Met...Weigh in below, people.

*You'll have to watch the special.

Hollywood: Embrace the Suck

That's an old term from the Iraq Campaign. You can look it up.

Anyhoo...

The great John Nolte [You're man-crushing-Ed] tells us how much Hollywood sucks. He deals with all kinds of structural issues, but we're interested in the creative side, that's what we do, after all:

Outside of low-budget horror, today’s movie biz is only about insanely expensive franchises, which is fine, if you have enough of them. What happened this year and last, unlike any other years I’m aware of, is the death of a whole bunch of golden geese:
Straight up bombs include Alien, Transformers, Cars, Smurfs, Resident Evil, Underworld, Wimpy Kid, Xander Cage, Nut Job, Independence Day, Ice Age, Ninja Turtles, Divergent, Huntsman, Alice in Wonderland, Inferno (DaVinci Code), and Jack Reacher.Underperformers include Pirates, Kong/Godzilla, Planet of the Apes, Star Trek, and X-Men.Add to this an entire genre: the comedy, an area in which Hollywood painted itself into a corner primarily with raunchy titles aimed at teens. Casualties include Baywatch, Snatched, Fist Fight, Rough Night, Ghostbusters, The Boss, Why Him?, Neighbors, Barbershop, Dirty Grandpa, and Zoolander 2.

We'd like to make suggestions for some movies.

A decade ago Hollywood cranked out a series of War on Terror stinkers. We don't remember their titles and we don't care to look them up. They all bombed [Nice pun-Ed].The reader(s) will just have to trust us on this one.

There's a tremendous opportunity for war movies here. Ok, its a risk we admit, its not like war movies have a 75 year track record of success or anything. We suppose there are some obscure films out there that the modern Hollywood exec might look into. The Longest Day, Saving Private Ryan, All Quiet on the Western Front.

We have done so before and doing so again is probably in vein, but what the hell. Here's some war movie ideas:

-The Marines at Fallujah: (no explanation necessary).
-Operation Viking Hammer: This would be a commando flick about the special forces and CIA paramilitaries working with the Kurds in Northern Iraq in 2003.
-First In: Based on the book of the same name, about the CIA working with the Northern Alliance in 2001. Follow it up with or combine with Jawbreaker, also based on the book of the same name.
-Snake Eaters: Based on Owen West's book on training an Iraqi infantry company.

Just a few thoughts guys.

Remember American Sniper? Lone Survivor?

Don't you like making money?

Springsteen, Madonna, way before Nirvana

On the complete disaster that was the MTV Video Music Awards the indispensable John Nolte says it better than we can:

This is not science. No one needs a slide rule to figure what is going on here. MTV sucks. MTV has sucked for years. Today’s music sucks. Today’s performers suck. It is all a giant ball of suck desperate to cover up that suck with perversion and obnoxious politics.

Go read the rest of that piece younger reader(s). Mr Nolte (PBUH) tells us what MTV used to mean.

We learn that a 'rapper' named Logic took to the stage to talk about mental health. Mental Health at MTV, are the freakin' kidding. This. Is. Mental. Health:

Bang your heeeeeead! Metal health will drive you mad!

MTV has become a prog suck-hole.

You know what? MTV used to be for everyone. You like rap? No problem, MTV had Yo! MTV Raps!. You like dance music? No problem, MTV had Club MTV. You like Metal? Well of course MTV had Headbangers Ball so unbelievably appropriately on at midnight. You like comedy? Well then the MTV Half Hour Comedy Hour is for you. This is where we discovered David Spade and Dennis Leary, in the same episode if you can believe it. You like funny sketches, how about Liquid Television?

MTV was un-serious, but mostly it was fun.

Now, not so much.

Stroock's Rules

Alert and appropriately named commenter  'Unkown' asks about my post regarding the Bundy Ranch, Sheriff Arpaio, and jury nullification.

We can't speak to President Trump's motivations. Basically a judge 'convicted' Arpaio of violating a court order that prevented him from 'profiling' Mexicans. As if the problem down their on the Rio Grande is Swedes, Burmese and Basques. Arpaio quite sensibly ignored the order.

We don't really care what the law here is. Arpaio and then Trump stuck it to the left. This is their bag, baby. This is how they operate, man. Pure will to power.

For further thoughts on the matter, we urge reader(s) to explore the works of the incomparable Kurt Schlichter who has gloriously declares, 'Liberals you're going to hate the new rules!'

Remember Alinsky's rule #4: Make the enemy live up to his own set of rules.

Try Reading Books Instead of Burning them

Related to our previous post on Gone With the Wind, the mighty John Nolte, just returned to Breitbart (PBUH) notes this:

And then there is our corrupt national media that plays right along with the new book burners. Did you know, for instance, that 73% of black people rank Gone With the Wind as a good/very good movie? That is only 14 points lower than whites. Our media would never tell you that. Doesn’t fit the narrative.

Wow, turns out black people aren't overly sensitive children. Who knew?

Being Jewish, one occasionally stumbles on to something in a movie that seems motivated by judenhaus.

Our favorite western ever, the Searchers, has a ruddy, backstabbing, money grubbing shopkeeper named Futterman.  Of course there's always Shakespeare's Rosenkrantz and Gildenstern. We shrug and move on.

We suspect most blacks do the same.

How long before lefty book burners ban World War Two movies because the Marines say 'Jap'?

We really can't say things any better than Dr. Jones: