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The Internet Is for Scorn(continued)
(Photo: Getty Images) David Cross had a modest dream: a country home in upstate New York where he and his dog, Ollie Red Socks, could retire after a long day spent making hipsters laugh. So when the Boston-born comedian, who created the short-lived, beloved HBO series Mr. Show and had a recurring role in the short-lived, beloved Fox series Arrested Development, was offered a big paycheck in exchange for a few weeks of work on the disposable kiddie flick Alvin and the Chipmunks, he put aside his artistic integrity and took the cash. To his Internet faithful, he might as well have been the Fox executive who pulled the plug on Arrested Development. Cross was immediately branded a "smug, condescending asshole," and "a huge prick" on The Onion AV Club's blog for taking the role (more than 300 commenters chimed in, most in agreement). His friend, comic Patton Oswalt, mocked him on his MySpace blog. (Patton, for his part, turned down Alvin but did land the highbrow Ratatouille. He was also kidding, though most readers didn't pick up on it.) When a flabbergasted Cross took to his own website to post a defense, citing his desire hang out with friends in L.A. and make enough money to purchase the aforementioned country house, he was subjected to another round in the Internet pillory. (A commenter on Defamer called Cross' mea culpa "the shittiest fucking defense since the Nuremberg trials.") So, did he regret writing about the "small cottage on at least a couple of acres near some water" in his letter? "Well, I dunno," he told the New York Observer at the time. "The last couple days have been way less boring than they would've been." 
It takes a special breed of individual to get hated on by conservatives and liberals alike—only Michael Moore comes to mind—but you can now add DailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas to the list. Conservatives have never shied from voicing their opinions about the left-leaning Kos—Fox News' Bill O'Reilly once noted that "the site sells hate, as does the KKK and Nazis," but recent events have raised the ire of Kos' liberal base as well. Just last month, supporters of Hillary Clinton called for a de facto strike of DailyKos over what they felt were "unfair writing conditions" (getting abused in the "comment" section of a highly trafficked site by Obama-ites is taxing on both the body and mind!). One blogger's post about "never writing again" unless everyone stopped being so damn spiteful had to be closed after 1,258 commenters piped up in just five and a half hours. Quel scandal! Moulitsas himself seemed to enjoy the ruckus, telling ABC, "...I think it's great. It's a big Internet, so I hope they find what they're looking for," but he's certainly pissing off large chunks of his liberal fan base. "It's just not the open forum of discussion for liberal ideology it pretends to be," says one prominent political blogger of Kos. "If anything, it's helping to widen the rift within the Democratic party to the point where things are going to be a total clusterfuck come convention time." 
Julia Allison is "imminently quotable" - any second now she's going to say something smart... Posted by: matthew on April 8, 2008 1:40 PM I hate that cunt rachel ray with all my rage. No tits, fat ass, and sucky laugh. please die slowly Posted by: nana on April 8, 2008 5:17 PM @nana: Rachael Ray has tits. Posted by: moneycashhos on April 8, 2008 5:27 PM 11. Barry Diller 109. Amanda Congdon 1,3445. That girl from my 5th grade English class who never confirmed my Facebook request. Posted by: twitter on April 8, 2008 6:06 PM Advertisement Rachel Ray is a babe! And to the writer who said" "smokey cumin" grates on her nerve needs to seriously get a life. I mean really there are a few more important things to be angry about, doncha think? Posted by: Dr Doug on April 8, 2008 8:01 PM Damn, Rachael Ray? Okay, so people don't like "perky," I get that. So DON'T WATCH. Losers. You guys forgot two people, though: Tom Cruise and his bucket of crazy. Too obvious? How was he missed? Jackie Mackie Paisley Passey, of "I only date quality men" infamy is at least a good runner-up for the list. The twat deleted the post eventually, but she can't hide from the wayback machine! Hilarious commentary on it: http://minx.cc/?post=193209 Posted by: BethC on April 8, 2008 8:51 PM Markos "kos" Zuniga also said "Screw Them" about the 4 dead American workers in Iraq: Here it is: http://michellemalkin.com/2005/04/01/screw-them-not-a-joke/ "Left-wing blogger and Democratic strategist Markos Moulitsos Zuniga of the Daily Kos cheered the brutal murders of four American civilian contractors in Fallujah-all of them war veterans with distinguished records, three of them fathers." Posted by: quickrob on April 9, 2008 5:44 PM Wow! That Atlanta guy's a cunt. What about Tyler Max, though? A little old school, but he is the absolute emperor of douchebags. Posted by: Cookie on April 10, 2008 12:51 AM Tila Tequila is such a loser. I know people who know her. She is NO BISEXUAL!! She did it to try and become famous, because her music sucks a**!!! Isn't it funny that before a shot at love was even over...they had auditions for a shot at love 2. She is hilarious. Not to mention all the plastic surgery she has had! Looking good though for a short girl who used to be really fat!!! She also does not know how to act! Talk about the most annoying voice ever! And, to start her friends list she told people that she whore trained herself a million times to get as many friends as she has. Anyone can do that. Get a life Tila...and your name isn't even Tila. HAHAHA Posted by: scoref67 on May 7, 2008 11:51 AM Tila Tequila is such a loser. I know people who know her. She is NO BISEXUAL!! She did it to try and become famous, because her music sucks a**!!! Isn't it funny that before a shot at love was even over...they had auditions for a shot at love 2. She is hilarious. Not to mention all the plastic surgery she has had! Looking good though for a short girl who used to be really fat!!! She also does not know how to act! Talk about the most annoying voice ever! And, to start her friends list she told people that she whore trained herself a million times to get as many friends as she has. Anyone can do that. Get a life Tila...and your name isn't even Tila. HAHAHA Posted by: scoref67 on May 7, 2008 11:58 AM Post a commentYour comment will not be visible for about a minute. If you don't see your comment when the page reloads, do not post it again. Reload the page in a minute, and you'll see it. < BACK TO Features |
    
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