George Clooney at the Oscars: "We are better than you."

[Triforcer]

Anyone else catch this stuff?  Way to conform to ever sneering, elitist conservative caricature of Hollywood ever, dumbass.  You probably single-handedly won a couple seats for the Repubs in the next set of House elections.

EDIT: And not everything that Hollywood "supported" at the time came to be something that everyone loved and took for granted years later.  Communism comes to mind. 

[Trippy]

I'm not even sure this dignifies a response but for those of you wondering what Triforcer's babbling about you can listen to George's acceptance speech here. Skip to the middle if you don't want to hear the whole thing but you'll miss the amusing parts.

[Abagadro]

I'm not even sure this dignifies a response

Should have stopped right there.

[Trippy]

I'm not even sure this dignifies a response

Should have stopped right there.

Yeah I know but some people may have missed his speech since it was right at the beginning of the show.

[Ironwood]

Transcript ?

[Trippy]

Wow! Alright so I'm not winning director. It's a funny thing about
winning an Academy Award this'll always be synonymous with your name
from here on in, it'll be Oscar Winner George Clooney, Sexiest Man
Alive 1997, Batman, died today in a freak accident of a...

Um, listen, I don't quite know how you compare art I just you look at
these performances this year, uh, of these actors and ah unless we all
did the same role, everybody put on a Batsuit, we'll all try that,
unless we all did the same role I don't know how you compare it. They
are stellar performances and wonderful work and I'm honored, truly
honored to be up here.

And finally, I would say that, uh, we are a little bit uh out of touch
in in Hollywood every once in a while I think, it's probably a good
thing. Um, we're the ones who, uh, talk about AIDS when it was just
being whispered and we talked about Civil Rights when it wasn't really
popular and we, uh, you know, we we bring up subjects we're the ones
this Academy this group of people gave Haddy McDaniel [sp?] an Oscar
in 1939 when Blacks were still sitting in the backs of theaters. I'm
proud to be a part of this Academy. I'm proud to be a part of the
community and I'm proud to be out of touch and I thank you so much for
this.

[eldaec]

art

/Snigger.

[Ironwood]

Wow! Alright so I'm not winning director. It's a funny thing about
winning an Academy Award this'll always be synonymous with your name
from here on in, it'll be Oscar Winner George Clooney, Sexiest Man
Alive 1997, Batman, died today in a freak accident of a...

Um, listen, I don't quite know how you compare art I just you look at
these performances this year, uh, of these actors and ah unless we all
did the same role, everybody put on a Batsuit, we'll all try that,
unless we all did the same role I don't know how you compare it. They
are stellar performances and wonderful work and I'm honored, truly
honored to be up here.

And finally, I would say that, uh, we are a little bit uh out of touch
in in Hollywood every once in a while I think, it's probably a good
thing. Um, we're the ones who, uh, talk about AIDS when it was just
being whispered and we talked about Civil Rights when it wasn't really
popular and we, uh, you know, we we bring up subjects we're the ones
this Academy this group of people gave Haddy McDaniel [sp?] an Oscar
in 1939 when Blacks were still sitting in the backs of theaters. I'm
proud to be a part of this Academy. I'm proud to be a part of the
community and I'm proud to be out of touch and I thank you so much for
this.

Ok. 

Triforcer;  So What ?
 
I can't see anything in that to get your panties in a wad over.  And Communism ?  You're reaching a little, aren't you  ?

I mean, if the guy had a strong statement, that would be one thing.  But what I just read didn't even make any sense, never mind being offensive.

[schild]

Wow. That little speech was so unoffensive and devoid of content that I think Triforcer woke up this morning with something sharp stuck in his snatch.

[Ironwood]

heh.

[Murgos]

Clooney touched his wee-wee.

[Shockeye]

Clooney touched his wee-wee.

I'd let Clooney touch my wee-wee any day.

[Murgos]

Clooney touched his wee-wee.

I'd let Clooney touch my wee-wee any day.

You would too; you sick bastard.

[Ironwood]

Say what you will, he's a handsome man.

Perhaps Tri is someone with Quasimodo type features who sits endlessly in his subterranean cave, weeping over pictures of Clooney and what He himself may have looked like if it wasn't for the freak accident of his genetic ruin.

Or, considering the aforementioned hawt Asian, possibly not.

On that note, however, I just got my first scan of my new baby.  He/She is gorgeous and has her/his mothers nose already.  At 15 weeks.  Kicking and waving for the camera already too.

Yeah, yeah, I know, this has fuck all to do with fuckall, but it's not worth a new thread and it may just brighten up this fucking stupid excuse for one.

I am proud and happy today and not a single one of you motherfuckers can take that from me.

[Tebonas]

The kid is roughly the same species as Triforcer. It could end up like him.

Still happy?

[Ironwood]

I am proud and happy today and not a single one of you motherfuckers can take that from me.

[Tebonas]

Obviously, but can't blame me for trying.

Congratulations, the best thing that can happen to us and the world, is another human born into a happy family.

[Ironwood]

To be honest with you, I'd challenge your assertion that Triforcer is the same species as me.  Really.

[Yegolev]

Not everyone that thinks they are better than everyone else is a Republican.  I, for example, am closer to Libertarian.

[Sky]

Wow. That little speech was so unoffensive and devoid of content that I think Triforcer woke up this morning with something sharp stuck in his snatch.

Well, I wouldn't say completely unoffensive. Not that I was offended, but the last line was a jab at Stewart who berated just Hollywood for being out of touch without a joke to soften the blow. He was probably a bad choice for host, a bit too smart and politically aware. Maybe he made up for it (within hollywood circles) by the endless jew jokes.

I had to sit through the first three fucking hours because my girlfriend wanted to watch. Luckily my guitar magazine had just arrived. She actually said, after an hour of the preshow and two hours of the 'ceremonies' "I hate when they pat themselves on the back", referring to the eighteenth montage, iirc. I told her that I hate when I watch Jacques Pepin and he cooks food.

[Ironwood]

"I hate when they pat themselves on the back"

 

Boggle.

[Merusk]

Well, I wouldn't say completely unoffensive. Not that I was offended, but the last line was a jab at Stewart who berated just Hollywood for being out of touch without a joke to soften the blow. He was probably a bad choice for host, a bit too smart and politically aware. Maybe he made up for it (within hollywood circles) by the endless jew jokes.

I had to sit through the first three fucking hours because my girlfriend wanted to watch. Luckily my guitar magazine had just arrived. She actually said, after an hour of the preshow and two hours of the 'ceremonies' "I hate when they pat themselves on the back", referring to the eighteenth montage, iirc. I told her that I hate when I watch Jacques Pepin and he cooks food.

I don't forsee Stewart being asked back.  Actors take themselves too damn seriously, and after a few jokes some folks looked a touch offended.  After the first 'attack ad' using the Republican's Social Security couple, Reese Witherspoon looked mortified that the ad was in favor of her. You're getting paid millions to play dress-up, have a sense of humor about it.  Spielberg didn't look amused that first Stewart and then Stiller felt like pointing him out, either.

I loved his joke about all the damn montages, though he didn't win any friends with that one either.  Overall I thought he was pretty funny, but he seemed nervous as hell, so it threw him off kilter a bit.  

[HaemishM]

Triforcer, do you just HAVE to have some faux sense of Republifag outrage at anything an avowed liberal has to say? Is it just that his roguishly handsome good looks distracted the Asian chick you are currently obsessing over from even noticing you during the Oscars, or am I confusing you with Mediocre? Do ninja lawyers really give this much of a shit what actors think?

He said the Academy noticed a black actress when blacks were still being Jim Crowe-d. This is true and a good thing. He said Hollyweird were activist about AIDS when Ronald Reagan was still ignoring it as a gay disease. This is true and a good thing. The whole goddamn show is a fucking self-referential circle jerk and yet somehow it's a high insult to speak the truth on the show without being offensive?

Michael Moore you can get offended at, because not only is he an affront to humanity and free thinking everywhere, he's a fat cunt with a penchant for hyperbolic distortion of the facts just like the people he criticizes. He TRIES to offend.

You don't just need to douche that vagina of yours. It's defective, sandy or not.

[Paelos]

I consider myself conservative, and that speech was totally tame. Yawnworthy in fact.

[Strazos]

I am proud and happy today and not a single one of you motherfuckers can take that from me.

Just wait until you find out the little babe is part sheep.


I kid, I kid.

[eldaec]

Congrats Ironwood.


As to the orginal post, if it must be addressed, one could point out that the very concept of the oscars is so bizarre that Clooney's comments pale into insignificance. What is more remarkable in that people actually want to watch such a grotesque excercise in self-glorification, and that they give a flying fuck what anyone says there. I am quite certain that most people here have said something stupid and self-important at an alcohol fuelled industry get together before now, the only difference is that swathes of idiots listen to George Clooney. The problem is with the swathes of idiots, not with George Clooney.

Seriously, average joes are contributing millions of dollars to laud George fucking Clooney in a celebration that Charles Foster Kane would have thought was way over the top. Can you blame the guy for thinking people give a damn about his politics?

[WayAbvPar]

Grats, Ironwood. Your boys can swim!

I  George Clooney. He is what a movie star is all about- ridiculously good looking, suave, and plays a mirror image of himself in almost every movie. He is just like all the stars of the 40s!

The truly offensive part of the Oscars-





WHAT. THE. FUCK?

[Rasix]

Clooney was the bomb in "O'Brother, Where Art Thou", yo.

Charlize looks like a badly wrapped present.  One that I wouldn't mind getting for my birthday..

[Murgos]

Clooney was the bomb in "O'Brother, Where Art Thou", yo.

Yes, he was.  He wasn't anything special in Siriana though so I'm thinking this is a make up award.

[Abagadro]

I actually thought he was excellent in Syriana and deserved the award.

/shrug

[Llava]

I'd  just like to say that Salma Hayek was hotter than the sun last night.   Usually she just approaches its heat intensity, but last night she surpassed it.

[squirrel]

I'd  just like to say that Salma Hayek was hotter than the sun last night.   Usually she just approaches its heat intensity, but last night she surpassed it.

Agreed! Recoupped my entire overpriced HD cable bill right there. Thanks Selma!

[Nebu]

I'd  just like to say that Salma Hayek was hotter than the sun last night.   Usually she just approaches its heat intensity, but last night she surpassed it.

What... no pic or link?

[Miasma]

I could only find a head shot of Hayek so here is one of Eddie Van Halen from last night instead.

[WayAbvPar]

I'd  just like to say that Salma Hayek was hotter than the sun last night.   Usually she just approaches its heat intensity, but last night she surpassed it.

What... no pic or link?

I live to serve.