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Dickipedia: Rod Blagojevich

A taste:

In perhaps his most cocktacular display of dicktitude, Rod Blagojevich was caught on tape blatantly discussing plans to “sell” President-elect Barack Obama’s vacant U.S. Senate seat to the highest bidder. On the phone. From his campaign office. Knowing full well that he was under FBI surveillance at the time. And then Blagojevich denied it. That takes some serious muda (aka Serbian balls)….

Despite what seems to be incontrovertible evidence of serious criminal activity, in addition to widespread calls for his immediate resignation by a whole host of high-ranking state and national politicians, all 50 state Senate Democrats, and even Barack Obama himself, Blagojevich refuses to cede power. Maybe if Chicago starts to experience an outbreak of cholera that threatens to infect half its population Blagojevich will give up, but then, that hasn’t worked to get Robert Mugabe out of Zimbabwe, so…

When asked about the arrest, Blagojevich actually went on record saying, “the things I’m interested in are always lawful.” Well, what do you expect from a guy who has the testicular fortitude to refer to himself as the first African-American governor of Illinois?

Doh!

This is what philosophers refer to as cosmic irony.

ShamWow!

My holiday gift for everyone this year will be a ShamWow, by far the greatest product ever devised by man.   Curious to know what it does?  Wonder no more…

Isn’t that just delightful?!?!  And how money is that pitchman?  Seriously, that guy rocks.  He’s so good, I may throw in a SlapChop as well…

Did you catch that “you’re gonna love my nuts” part?  Hehe.

Turns out the guy in the infomercial is a failed comic turned pitchman extraordinaire named Vince Offer.  Back in 1999, Offer made a low budget film called The Underground Comedy Movie, which is apparently one of the worst movies of all time (this despite assembling a cast of Slash, Gena Lee Nolin, Joey Buttafuoco and Michael Clarke Duncan!).  The New York Times said that the movie “stands as a monument to ineptitude and self-delusion”.  I guess the Gray Lady was underwhelmed by the superhero Dickman, which was a man dressed as a giant penis who defeated his enemies by squirting them with semen.  Come on!  Where’s your sense of humor, NYT?  Meanwhile, over at the New York Post, the film received zero stars along with this ringing endorsement:  ”[The Underground Comedy Movie] may be the least amusing comedy ever made…How can the War Crimes Tribunal indict Slobodan Milosevic but let Vince Offer still walk the streets?”  Ouch!

Following the horrendous failure of his movie, Offer turned back to his career as infomercial pitchman, but not before he pursued lawsuits against the Farelly Brothers for copyright infringement (“We’ve never heard of him, we’ver never heard of his movie, and it’s all a bunch of baloney”), Anna Nicole Smith for breach of contract (she backed out of the movie for fear it would hurt her career – ha!), and the Church of Scientology (he was reportedly shunned and defamed by the church once he disowned it and it’s ways).  I love it.  Absolutely love it.

This guy is so awesome at hawking useless products, he even had his own writeup on Slate, which sarcastically referred to him as the next great TV pitchman:

Can Vince become the next Billy Mays—a ubiquitous, mercenary pitchman hawking products up and down the TV dial? I don’t see why not. If anything, the current moment’s more suited to Vince’s smooth-talking condescension than to Mays’ earnest fervor. Jaded consumers expect to get snowed and almost distrust the very pretense of trustworthiness. As my friend who’s been tempted by the Shamwow puts it: “What I think I like about Vince is that he is upfront and seemingly comfortable with his schtick. He appears to be saying, ‘I am a carnie huckster, you know it and I know it, but that’s OK because this product is that good.’ “

Someone please make a True Hollywood Story about this guy!

Laces Out

Couple things about that infamous shoe toss.  First, W has mad reflexes.  Cat-like best describes them.  Second, how in the world did that guy manage to get shoe number two off in time for another launch?  I figured our Secret Service would’ve intercepted him as the first shoe was in mid-flight.  Third, I wonder what sort of new security precautions will result from this.  Will future journalists be forced to attend these sessions in the nude from now on? 

On a serious note, no matter your opinion of W, this really is neither something to laugh at nor celebrate.   That our President had something launched at him out of hostility in a foreign land is not only sad, but scary.

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