Ace of Spades HQ

« Playboy Survey: College Girls Want To Have Sex With Both Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie | Main | They'll "Modify" Crescent of Embrace "Memorial" »

September 15, 2005

Stupid? Or Clever-Yet-Stupid Spoof?

I don't know.

Okay, so when you're invited to check out a site called Pre$$titutes, you're already kinda tipped off you might not exactly be dealing with a quality organization.

"Presstitutes" would be bad enough. It's a bad pun. Wait, it's not even a pun. I don't know what you call that kind of joke. Personally, I call it retarded.

And then-- no, they can't leave it at that. "Presstitutes" isn't tasteless and cretinous enough for them; they have to add in those dollar signs.

"Presstitutes" -- cheap wanton streetwalker

"Pre$$titutes" -- even cheaper gutterskank who's had more tricks in the last hour than teeth in her head

But then I started to think this was some sort of conservative parody. Why? Well, for one thing, they sent me an email. A mass email, yeah, but somehow I was on their list.

And also I read this-- this, their list of people in the media who shill for Bush and give him a "pass" and lean just too goshdarn far to the right:

Wolf Blitzer, Chris Matthews, Paula Zahn, Dana Milbank, Howard Kurtz, Kyra Phillips, Bill Schneider, Tim Russert, Howard Fineman, Norah O'Donnell, Elizabeth Bumiller, Adam Nagourney, the Bush apologists at ABC's The Note and others with a similar veneer of neutrality exert a more insidious influence on the public debate than rabid partisans like Limbaugh, Coulter, and Hannity.

Do you see that list? Adam Nagourney? Dana Milbank? Chris Matthews? Elizabeth Bumiller? It's like a 1927 Yankees Murderer's Row of liberal partisanship.

So I don't know. A goof or not? If it's real, I guess I don't want to give them the traffic; but then, I have a feeling that all the links in the world won't help them.

If it's a goof... well, let's see how far they can go with this. I've always kinda wanted to do a left-wing blog and see how long it would take until people figured out I was just shitting them.

And... well, see, they have a gimmick: they'll send you $10 by PayPal for each instance of the press covering up for Bush you send their way.

Now, you can say, for example, that a piece about high gas prices fails to mention that President Bush flew out to Iraq under cover of darkness to personally murder Casey Sheehan. Or stuff like that. And you can do that all day.

Fifty, sixty emails an hour, ten bucks a pop... a man could do worse. A man could do worse.

Thanks to Lorie of PoliPundit, who prints a good reader email suggesting the media is missing a great opportunity to inform the country about disaster-preparedness in order to futilely chase after the presidential Road Runner that is George Bush.

posted by Ace at 01:23 AM

Comments

Chris "Billgasm"Matthews?

Gotta be a spoof site collecting a moonbat mailing/email lists they can sell.

Posted by: Tony on September 15, 2005 02:06 AM

I bet you'd tire of the schtick in Allah-like time.

Am impressed how long this guy has stayed in character, though.

Posted by: someone on September 15, 2005 02:12 AM

I bet you'd tire of the schtick in Allah-like time.

Depends on how much of that crazy blog money was rolling in I would think. If you got paying suckers on the hook, it would be criminal to let'em take their money elsewhere.

OMG - Ace is a Kos 5th columnist...

Posted by: Tony on September 15, 2005 02:29 AM

Uhhh, I would disagree that it has to be anti Pres. Bush.... The statement on the link reads:
-----------
Use the following guidelines when submitting an item:

Wherever possible, include audio, video, or written transcripts to document your submission.
Provide a brief description of the content, including source, time and date.

Include your PayPal account, email address and any other relevant contact information.
Include the name and contact info, website, etc. you’d like us to use when crediting you. (All submissions will be kept anonymous unless otherwise requested)

If your submission is based on the work of another blog or website, please provide a link to the original source.
---------

So, I am thinking that Pre$$titues works against the Dems also. Lots of links to the Ds in LA concerning, oh I don't know, Buses, getting personal property in Govt. vehicles, people asking bogus questions in a senate committee . . . . might get you some of that hot capitalist mama's hiney, oops, money!

Posted by: Mike on September 15, 2005 02:54 AM

I bet you'd tire of the schtick in Allah-like time.

I miss Allah's old schtick - I loved being called a Kufr and a Jew. I guess it takes real stamina to stay that low-brow, but I wish he'd get back to it occasionally (if his legal issues permit).

Posted by: geoff on September 15, 2005 03:06 AM

Checked out the site. It's Orwellian and obstinately obtuse, but I don't think it's parody.

Posted by: Barbula on September 15, 2005 08:24 AM

Where do you suppose they are getting the money to pay people to bring them stories? Sounds like another Air America-like scandal brewing.

Posted by: Shaun on September 15, 2005 09:04 AM

I suppose if you aren't on CNN 24/7 calling for the public drawing and quartering, resurrection, and further drawing and quartering of George W. Bush, you're just carrying the administrations's water.

Weird.

Posted by: Mike on September 15, 2005 09:19 AM

I think it's real. I think certain members of the anti-Bush crowd really have come that unhinged. I half expect a new incarnation of the Weather Underground or Black Panthers to be popping up any day now.

Posted by: Defense Guy on September 15, 2005 09:44 AM

(slaps glove across Ace's face)
RETRACT that Yankee reference, sir! Your smearing of the most glorious baseball team of all time by associating them in any way with a cabal of nincompoops SHALL NOT stand without response.
(tosses glove on floor)

Posted by: TC@LeatherPenguin on September 15, 2005 11:55 AM

Suggested replacement: The Big Red Machine.
Works on a couple of levels

Posted by: TC@LeatherPenguin on September 15, 2005 11:57 AM

"Presstitutes" would be a neologism, and both definitions probably fit:

1 : a new word, usage, or expression
2 : a meaningless word coined by a psychotic

Posted by: Karl Maher on September 15, 2005 02:27 PM

It's like a 1927 Yankees Murderer's Row of liberal partisanship.

How in god's name can you believe that the people who broadcast White House press releases verbatim as "news" are part of some liberal cabal?

Posted by: Don Myers on September 15, 2005 06:29 PM