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Listen to Jon Lovitz call Obama a "fuckin' asshole"
By Jeff MillsApril 24th, 2012, 2:30 pmComments (25)
Twitter vigilante Jon Lovitz seemed to have fallen off the entertainment map in recent years, unless you saw Casino Jack or were a big fan of Subway commercials. But lately, the fifty-four-year-old has found that social media may be more important to your Q rating than playing a homeless guy in Hot in Cleveland.
In a recently-released podcast of "The ABC's of SNL," a series hosted by Kevin Smith that allows Lovitz to reminisce about the Studio 8H days, the comedian got political, ripping into President Obama, for whom he voted in 2008. Clearly exasperated by what he perceives as class-warfare rhetoric and already-steep tax rates, Lovitz said:
"This whole thing with Obama saying the rich don't pay their taxes is fucking bullshit. And I voted for the guy and I'm a Democrat. What a fuckin' asshole."
Though I can't see Lovitz voting for Romney, you'd think he was, after he vented:
"First they say...'You can do anything you want. Go for it.' So then you go for it, and then you make it, and everyone's like, 'Fuck you.' [Obama] is the perfect example. He's amazing. He had nothing...and the guy ends up being at Harvard. He's the president of the United States. And now he's like, 'Fuck me and everybody who made it like me.'"
It's interesting how old SNL alumni have insinuated themselves into politics. Al Franken is now literally affecting policy, Dennis Miller is pals with Bill O'Reilly, and Victoria Jackson — though she's lost her marbles — is doing her best to eradicate the Marxist homosexual Muslims destroying the U.S. from within. Throw Lovitz in with that crew and you'd have a great round table.
Commentarium (25 Comments)
Is Jon Lovitz relevant? Does anyone care what he has to say about anything?
PekoeJane, do you think any of us give a rat's ass about what you think? Or that dipshit in the white house
I miss the old Jon Lovitz. You know, the guy who would proudly beat the living crap out of Andy Dick in a bar for talking shit. This new Jon Lovitz is just so much harder to love.
...same guy. You just need to be more open-minded to points of view that conflict with those you hold.
I don't know if you're a liberal but according to Pew Research, if you are, it might explain your attitude; liberals have problems being open minded and intellectually consistent.
Greg, is that you? Betcha it is.
Nope! But you can be forgiven; you're not very smart, at least compared to Republicans.
Looks like this schlub has jumped up in weight. Wasn't he scaring teen-age girls a few weeks ago?
Yeah, because they were being hateful sleazebags.
Everything that Jon said was spot on.
+1. The top earners pay an overwhelmingly large chunk of the total taxes paid, I'm really not sure how they can be expected to pay even more. The answer isn't to raise taxes on the rich, it's to get our stupid fucking bloated government to stop spending our money like it fucking grows on trees.
If we don't keep fleecing "rich" people, how is the GSA going to keep throwing five day parties in Vegas?
At the other end of the spending spectrum, had we not had the $870B stimulus in Feb 2009, we wouldn't be back to 4.5% unemployment, low inflation and 5% GDP growth.
If idiots like Lovits insist on going back to those wonderful 50s, how about raiting the top income tax rate to 91%?
I don't care if the Presidaent IS a fuckin' asshole. He's the best hope this country's got, and I sincerely hope he gets reelected. I just wish that everyone in Congress would get it through their thick skulls that Mr. Obama is the FAIC - Fucking Asshole In Charge.
I have read, Why is it that people care how Romney spend HIS money but do not care about how Obama spends OUR money.
Really? The top earners are paying more taxes since the middle class has been decimated. That's where the money is to tax. Do a little searching on "income inequality" since the 1980's and see what you find. As for spending, you've got one party trying to wind down the *unfunded* wars the previous administration got into. And trying to get a handle on the rising health care costs that are an ever-larger chunk of our taxes. While the other party is throwing child-like tantrums every step of the way but providing NO real solutions. I'm not saying that Obama or the Dems have been perfect. But they've done a damn good job getting things done against the spoiled brats they have to deal with. Yeah, if I was making Lovitz's salary I'd bitch about my taxes too. But do you really want to hand the keys back over to the idiots that got us into this mess?
It's not your fault, OccupyReality. You simply lack the open-minded, intellectually consistent and well informed characteristics that Republicans enjoy.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/22/science-say-gop-voters-better-informed...
The real question is do we want to give the keys to those who made the worse many, many times worse than it needed to be.
LOLZ! Republicans open-minded and intellectually consistent? We support smaller government, but will rush into wars that aren't paid for. We won't raise taxes, but will call anything else a "fee" to avoid calling it a tax. And will call a Democrat to ask for an earmark for our state so our fingerprints are no where near it. We want government our of our private business, except for pregnant women and gays. We take great umbrage at any negative comments about our commander in chief, until said commander is black. Thanks for the laugh!
But denial and making absurd counter-accusations is no place to be. Read the Pew Research survey, do some soul searching and you'll likely find that you are, in fact, as dumb as the entry above indicates.
"I'm not saying that Obama or the Dems have been perfect. But they've done a damn good job getting things done against the spoiled brats they have to deal with"
The problem with this statement is that they've gotten NOTHING done over the last three-and-a-half years.
Both parties, both ideologies annoy the crap out of me pretty much equally. But what annoys me more is when those who support a particular side act as if their side is not at all to blame.
Yes, to all you said, OccupyReality.
seeing all the liberal dumbasses comment. I guess the Pew Research poll explains the abundance of dumb-assery though.
(for the liberal readers, "abundance" means "a plentiful or overly sufficient amount."
You know, So sad, I just have to take a moment to applaud your bravery. I mean, there's nothing quite as courageous as a guy calling other people names over the Internet, you know? It's so honorable, so heroic, so NOBLE. And it really demonstrates that you're a person who knows how to use his time well, who merits respect, and is intellectually rigorous and thoughtful. Your eloquent description of being dismayed by "liberal dumbasses" -- it's like Shakespeare and the Constitution, all rolled into one.
So everyone, raise a glass: here's hoping that "So sad" meets a peer of equal stature, so he can get the recognition (and everything else) he so richly deserves. It must be lonely at the top, but perhaps someday soon you'll find your counterpart -- someone to play the Burr to your Hamilton, one might say. Should that happy day come, it would certainly fulfill the hopes of just about everyone here.
Thanks for the applause. I particularly like the use of all capitals in the attempt to shore up a largely incoherent paragraph. Best of all, though, is the attempt to mock name calling by, well, name calling!
That Pew Research poll dialed you right in. Accordingly, it is highly unlikely I'd find a peer here; it's tiresome to hear the self-proclaimed nerve intelligensia pontificate on how the Buffett Rule will close the deficit or the truly clueless arguments made against Arizona's SB1070, arguments that didn't even find voice in legal debate.
I think your post is kind of cute, in an "I'm-intellectually-inconsistent" kind of way.
@@So sad: Well said. Hilarious and spot on. Not surprising that Greg/So sad/too may aliases to keep track doesn't understand what you said. He doesn't understand much except name-calling and flame-throwing. The hallmarks of his intellectual superiority. It would be funny if it weren't just so darn sad.
You're exactly right, Greg... oops! I'm mean, So Sad: it is highly, highly unlikely that you'll find a peer here.