Sell the Vatican

[wipers]

Its the horse faced woman!!! /panic /runaway.

[Jefe]

Maybe my sense of humour is crap, but I didn't even chuckle once. Eh, she's terribad.

[Kerberoz]

Didn't watch because she annoys the piss out of me and I don't see how so many can find her attractive... but yeah, the amount of "treasure" the Vatican holds while preaching charity is ridiculous.

[Byrthnoth]

She's not attractive. Her humor is ditsy and simple, but she's a master of sarcasm. She gives a definite impression that she knows exactly how stupid what she's saying is. She almost has to be much smarter than she acts. It's like she's doing a satire of a ditsy idiot.
That said, the downside to acting like a ditsy idiot is that everything you say has to be crap. That kind of comedy isn't good for more than a few minutes at most. Watching a smart person act stupid without a clever slant on it just gets old. I'm amazed they ever considered giving her a show and I don't know how she's gotten as far as she has.

Not that the Vatican isn't an anomaly born out of history. Just that dissolving the museums and removing all those works from the public eye while transferring the profits to third world nations probably wouldn't help anything in the long term. If a government is corrupt and unstable, giving it money probably won't help the populace. If the first thing people do when you give them money is buy weapons, then it wasn't worth giving them money (not that there's a reliable way to distribute it to the populace of a third world nation). Unless you're going to make a sustained effort to a civic project in a foreign country (run it until they can run it themselves), aid doesn't work so well. In fact, some economists would tell you that amount of foreign aid has a strong negative correlation with GDP growth.

[Mae]

Incidentally, this was played on probably one of THE BEST episodes of Real Time I've ever seen. Seriously the panel was amazing this week (and i'm not just saying that b/c my state's next gov was on)

this^

Cornel West is goddamn brilliant. Going to pick up his new book today after work.

[Khamsin]

She's not attractive. Her humor is ditsy and simple, but she's a master of sarcasm. She gives a definite impression that she knows exactly how stupid what she's saying is. She almost has to be much smarter than she acts. It's like she's doing a satire of a ditsy idiot.
That said, the downside to acting like a ditsy idiot is that everything you say has to be crap. That kind of comedy isn't good for more than a few minutes at most. Watching a smart person act stupid without a clever slant on it just gets old. I'm amazed they ever considered giving her a show and I don't know how she's gotten as far as she has.

Not that the Vatican isn't an anomaly born out of history. Just that dissolving the museums and removing all those works from the public eye while transferring the profits to third world nations probably wouldn't help anything in the long term. If a government is corrupt and unstable, giving it money probably won't help the populace. If the first thing people do when you give them money is buy weapons, then it wasn't worth giving them money (not that there's a reliable way to distribute it to the populace of a third world nation). Unless you're going to make a sustained effort to a civic project in a foreign country (run it until they can run it themselves), aid doesn't work so well. In fact, some economists would tell you that amount of foreign aid has a strong negative correlation with GDP growth.

The plan wasn't to give third world countries money, it was to give them food. Instead of dumping crates of cash into their villages, dump frozen mac'n'cheese, lean cuisine, hot dogs, hamburgers, canned chili, chef boyardee, and ruffles potato chips. And a couple microwaves and a can opener.

[wipers]

I don't take ugly people seriously. Maybe if she put a paper bag over her face people would respect her more.

[Byrthnoth]

The plan wasn't to give third world countries money, it was to give them food. Instead of dumping crates of cash into their villages, dump frozen mac'n'cheese, lean cuisine, hot dogs, hamburgers, canned chili, chef boyardee, and ruffles potato chips. And a couple microwaves and a can opener.

Shit son, you want to kill them or just make them fat enough that they can't run away anymore?

[ZarakiKujata]

I don't know how she's gotten as far as she has.

#1 She's Jewish
#2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLG3S5WzHig
#3 Riding Kimmel's coat tails

[Tricen]

I dunno, I thought it was amusing.

[drwaffles]

She almost has to be much smarter than she acts. It's like she's doing a satire of a ditsy idiot.

Duh, you think? I'm amazed at how many people apparently don't understand her admittedly underwhelming comedic style. She's not even trying to whoosh people and they're still managing to get whooshed.

[Day]

Day, where you at

Dimm should have put silverman in the title so I'd know to check this sooner. I love her so much.

[510Meeze]

Should finish killing off all the jews and spread their wealth around the world, two birds on stone.

[Faris]

splendid idea watson!

[Alleya]

ITT: People who don't understand satire.

[drwaffles]

It's like those hispanics that took offence to Dame Edna's agony aunt column.

[Kerberoz]

ITT: People who don't understand satire.

You'd have to be retarded to some degree to not understand her satire. It's easy to understand. It's just not funny after a few seconds.

[Tricen]

Oh wow, Jimmy Kimmel has narcolepsy O-o

[quannum]

unless maher is trying to hit that, i don't see why he keeps having her on the show. she adds nothing

[zoobernut]

Oh wow, Jimmy Kimmel has narcolepsy O-o

It must be tough to be a late night show host with narcolepsy. My wife is narcoleptic and she takes provigil (the same medication as Jimmy) and once it starts to wear off (it lasts about 13 or 14 hours maybe sometimes less) it is bed time no matter what.