Patterico's Pontifications

6/8/2009

Bill Whittle on Star Trek, MoDo, Intellectualism, and Obama

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 9:14 pm



This is fun.

Thanks to Eric Blair.

22 Responses to “Bill Whittle on Star Trek, MoDo, Intellectualism, and Obama”

  1. There are so many funny moments in that, especially for Star Trek fans like me. I also liked the “Smile confidently and wave” teleprompter moment, as well as the Pelosilu credit at the end.

    DRJ (180b67) — 6/8/2009 @ 9:30 pm

  2. Whittle’s video does remind me of how modest TV broadcast technology was in the 1960s, or at least how relatively low budgeted NBC’s Star Trek was. In episodes that contained supposed images of Earth as seen from space, there were no clouds in the planet’s atmosphere! A forewarning of global warming, perhaps?

    Whittle mentions the word “intellectual” quite a bit, but unless one knows the ideological biases of the intellectual in question, it’s less obvious why such a person can’t be relied upon to make good decisions, or to figure out what’s up, what’s down, what’s good, what’s bad.

    Obama isn’t unreliable because he’s an intellectual. No, he’s unreliable because he’s got too many damn nonsensical liberal instincts. He loves bleeding his heart instead of trying to figure out what makes the most sense. From that standpoint, he actually is more of a Nurse Chapel than a Mr. Spock. (And all that heart pitter pattering of liberals like Obama is rendered even more hollow since such people tend to be less generous in donating their time and money than conservatives.)

    Mark (411533) — 6/8/2009 @ 10:54 pm

  3. Good lord, that was terrible. Maybe it was great if you agree with it, but I hope I could call my side out if they were that lame with the humor.

    LYT (cf1265) — 6/9/2009 @ 1:21 am

  4. This is funnie.

    wheeler's cat (60a6ff) — 6/9/2009 @ 6:30 am

  5. This is sadly true.

    Brother Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R. (0ea407) — 6/9/2009 @ 6:41 am

  6. Mark, the problem with intellectuals is their propensity to arrogance, knowing that they are smarter than everyone else, they’re prone to dismiss everyone else’s experience and judgment. Wittle made this exact point.

    And most of the “Liberal” instincts derive from that arrogance and the narcissism it feeds.

    LarryD (243b3d) — 6/9/2009 @ 6:48 am

  7. Sowwy, that wasn’t funnie….it was just partisan and lame.
    And waay too long. You guyz aren’t funnie anymore….even the immortal Iowahawk is pissy and partisan.
    I wish Whittle would do a mock of Bruce Campell in the Evil Dead and Army of Darkness…
    He’d be a natural for this part.

    wheeler's cat (60a6ff) — 6/9/2009 @ 6:53 am

  8. I think you aren’t funnie n/e more, Patterico, because your side is so angry.
    All you got is Anger Whiggas like Rush and Levin and Beck.

    wheeler's cat (60a6ff) — 6/9/2009 @ 6:55 am

  9. Oh, Good Allah. I beseech thee to take the voice from your Sufi wheeler’s/nishi the griefing poofter.

    JD (d51050) — 6/9/2009 @ 6:57 am

  10. Attacks by WC and its ilk is an unfailing sign that the criticisms of President God are hitting home.

    Brother Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R. (0ea407) — 6/9/2009 @ 7:01 am

  11. I think it is just off its meds again, Brother Bradley.

    JD (d51050) — 6/9/2009 @ 7:04 am

  12. But I also agree with you that the criticism of the dirty little wannabe Euro-socialist is starting to hit home. JD’s First Rule of Trolls still holds.

    JD (d51050) — 6/9/2009 @ 7:07 am

  13. Anger Whiggas.

    wheeler's cat (60a6ff) — 6/9/2009 @ 7:07 am

  14. That wasn’t “funnie”?

    I think you’re just upset by being mentioned in the first 2 minutes.

    Dave (in MA) (037445) — 6/9/2009 @ 7:15 am

  15. You know, I’m not going to look at links from people I don’t trust. But “whigga” is often racist language. I presume it is being used in that context here, and needs some degree of clean up.

    I also suspect that the “meds” comment is accurate.

    As for Bill Whittle, it is amusing to watch folks from the Left insist it is not funny—but so many things during the last eight years were. It couldn’t have a thing to do with partisanship, of course.

    Harry Reid as the salt monster was humorous.

    But Maureen Dowd as Nurse Chapel. Comic gold. And like all good humor, it is the germ of truth at the center that makes it sting.

    Eric Blair (5a226d) — 6/9/2009 @ 7:46 am

  16. Someone call the orderlies … Nishi escaped again.

    JD (d51050) — 6/9/2009 @ 7:48 am

  17. It cracked me up.

    Shocking that people with opposite cultural views could find different things funny, no?

    Vivian Louise (eeeb3a) — 6/9/2009 @ 7:51 am

  18. I always have problems with pjtv’s video. Any regular video posted?

    Patricia (2183bb) — 6/9/2009 @ 9:11 am

  19. When Congress was debating the Authorization for Use of Military Force (a debate demanded by the Minority Party (D) in the run-up to the ’62 Off-Year Elections) where were all of these people?
    Oh, now I remember, they were isolated in the Terrorism Relocation Centers….
    Oh, Right! I forgot. Didn’t have any of those…
    Too Bad!

    AD - RtR/OS! (de37bf) — 6/9/2009 @ 9:43 am

  20. Would have been much better with only the first 3 minutes.

    sierra (dfb2fa) — 6/9/2009 @ 2:03 pm

  21. Bill Whittle is the first person I have yet to see on Pajamas Media with a face that was not made for radio blogging. And I have the same problem as Patricia (Comment by Patricia — 6/9/2009 @ 9:11 am), above. I can only see it in six-second segments with six-second intervals. Pajamas Media is not ready for prime-time, in my view.

    nk (c788b4) — 6/9/2009 @ 5:38 pm

  22. Gold Jersey should be an internet meme. This was a great video.

    Black (a20259) — 7/2/2009 @ 9:43 am


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