Thursday, September 04, 2014

Joan Rivers, R. I. P.

 NYTimes.com: Joan Rivers, the raspy loudmouth who pounced on America’s obsessions with flab, face-lifts, body hair and other blemishes of neurotic life, including her own, in five decades of caustic comedy that propelled her from nightclubs to television to international stardom, died on Thursday in Manhattan. She was 81.

4 comments:

Les Edgerton said...

She'll be missed hugely. No PC bullshit came out of her mouth. She was the real deal. Frickin' genius.

Anonymous said...

‘When you declare war, you declare war ... They started it. We now don’t count who’s dead. You’re dead. You deserve to be dead. You started it. You started it. Don’t you dare make me feel sad about that.’ When questioned further about the civilian victims, Joan Rivers added: ‘You were told to get out, you don’t get out, then you know you’re an idiot, and at least the ones that were killed were the ones with very low IQs.’ As near as I can tell, 1,888 people, including 446 children, have died and 9,804 injured in Gaza in the past month, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The United Nations has estimated that at least 70 per cent of the dead were civilians. When that was pointed out, ‘I am both saddened and disappointed that my statement about the tragedy of civilian casualties was totally taken out of context,’ she said. So much for PC bullshit.


Anonymous said...

Yeah Les, tell that to the three women held captive and raped repeatedly over a 10 year period in Cleveland. Ever classy, Joan said, 'They got to live rent free for more than a decade,' she defiantly told TMZ.

Nice, real nice.


Jeff

Les Edgerton said...

Well, at least Jeff used his name. Don't know who "Anonymous" is, but she should never have apologized for the Palestinian quote. Perhaps you're not aware that the Palestinians purposely set up their weapons among civilians on purpose so when Israel defends itself against attacks they go where the weapons are and that's exactly what they want so the bleeding hearts do exactly what you're doing and cry that "civilians" are being targeted? That they routinely use children as combatants? Sounds like you get your "info" from M
SNBC or Pravada (same thing). Whatever. I don't usually argue with people who won't use their names (or their brains). Israel is the only decent country left in the world with real balls. They keep murdering Israelis they'll get sent back to the Stone Age where they belong.