Dear Michael Medved:

[Brigid]

Fuck you. Sideways. That is all.

[CatWoman]

1. tell me about it

what a fucking waste of space.

and airtime.

[spanone]

2. i was just about to post something on this fucking cretin.

he represents everything i despise.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Yup.

[ibegurpard]

4. I tend to agree but could you elaborate?

[Brigid]

10. He was just on "The Ed Show."

He was pontificating about the 0bama administration suposedly apologizing to Egypt -- pretty much saying what Mitty has been saying about it.

[JackBeck]

12. Mitt must be scraping the bottom of the barrel if he needs Medved.n/t

[frylock]

22. i can't imagine that eddie let that fly

[Brigid]

23. Ezra Klein was in for Ed tonight.

I like him, but Ed would have done a much better job of smacking down Medved.

[Gabi Hayes]

24. he DOMINATED the conversation. disgusting. Lawrence Korb didn't get a chance to

say squat

among Medved, Ari Fleischer, Rudy G, and the abominable Bob Woodward (the latter three on CNN), it would be hard to pick the biggest cod. gotta go with Woodward, who put the blame for the almost credit default fiasco on OBAMA because he wouldn't compromise enough with the pugs!!!!!!! he said O's predecessors were much more successful in dealing with the pugs (like when he got ZERO votes for those tax hikes which all wingers ASSURED us would tank the economy.....remember that, Bob?), failing to mention how completely crazy the pubs have become in the last 20 years

very sad to see this on the eve of release of his book on Obama, which looks to be quite the craven hit piece.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. As soon as I saw that asshat on my teevee screen I turned the sound off.

He really is one of the worst, most annoying apologists for all things GOP. And a bit of a religious nut too, IIRC.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. I missed it. What did Mikie say *this* time?

[Brigid]

13. Pretty much agreeing with Mitty . . .

About the Obama administration supposedly apologizing to Egypt.

[Laurian]

7. Yep, had to mute that segment. He makes my skin crawl....

[malaise]

8. I say fuck him every which way

[gateley]

9. I hate that he lives in MY city! People like that don't belong here!

[regnaD kciN]

15. Actually, he doesn't...

He lives on Mercer Island.

[gateley]

16. That's essentially Seattle -- King County. Initially it was called East Seattle (even before

my time .) I'm sure the denizens of MI feel their tony enclave elevates them above their neighbors on this side of the Lake.

[malokvale77]

19. Sounds like Highland Park and Dallas.

[regnaD kciN]

11. He's a real piece of work...

I know several members of his in-laws, and understand from them that he and his second wife (their relative) carried on an affair while each was still married to their first spouse. (I also knew his wife's first husband -- he was a real nice guy.) Then, after Medved and Wife 2.0 dumped their respective spouses and married, she had the nerve to come out with a book on "the sanctity of marriage," and blaming liberals for destroying traditional family values by condoning divorce and remarriage.



P.S.: How do the in-laws view the situation? Let's put it this way: several years later, when her first husband finally remarried, they offered to host the wedding reception for him and his new wife!

[JackBeck]

14. I interned at an LGBT documentary news show and started cataloguing some unmarked tapes.

I came across a 'conversion therapy' conference that both he and Maggie Gallagher spoke, which solidified form me that he is fucking insane.

[madaboutharry]

17. He is a pompous ass.

He is also a Likudnik. His heartthrob is Bibi.

[WillyT]

18. HUGE K & R !!!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

20. He was consdered a joke by his professors at the UCLA flm school

When I went there in the 80s, they said he had a knee jerk reaction towards any European film, no matter how highly regarded, claiming that it was pure crap.

[Gabi Hayes]

21. remember when he was on Sneak Previews? about 20 years ago. Spy Magazine

used to go after him, because he was such a HUGE, GAPING, egomaniacal asshole

here's a link to some stuff about him.....hard to navigate to, but click on his name in a sea of other celeb names, and it will lead you to page 18 of one of their issues, in which you'll find an article about him, and how he tried to use Sneak Previews as a launchpad to a>>>>>>congressional campaign run! also delineates huge, sleazy conflicts of interest involving ''anonymous'' religious wingnut donors, and examples of his all around aholishness. Poor Jeffrey Lyons. I'd copy paste excerpts, but it's in PDF:

http://books.google.com/books?id=DdQ9WL9ODdwC&q=Michael+Medved&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=2#v=snippet&q=Michael%20Medved&f=false


here's another fun link which shows what a butt this guy is:

http://www.efilmcritic.com/feature.php?feature=1759

snip: Now, one might ask, what sort of utter fucktard looks back on the McCarthy era as a GOOD time in America’s history? What sort of absolute maroon finds anything but poison for McCarthy and his witchhunts, which put good American families on blacklists and kept them out of jobs because one member of the family might have attended a Communist Party meeting (or might not have) twenty years previously, during the heights of the Great Depression?

I’ll tell you what sort of asshole says things like that. Michael Medved does. A contemptible prick who would tell you what a great American movie Cinderella Man was, without realizing that the man who SAVED Jim Brannock and his ilk from starvation was Franklin Deleanor Roosevelt, and his New Deal – a change in America’s system of government so dramatically better for America’s poor that people like McCarthy (and later, Medved) spent decades trying to break it down.