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It’s fair use to post it as long as you are using it to make commentary. John at Crooks and Liars hasn’t been sued yet.

I’d be more worried about being slammed with bandwidth usage. And that’s not a trivial consideration either.

Oh yea? cool… Never sure what the rights issues for this kind of material is.. Have to pull it off the TiVo! 🙂

I’ve got some bandwidth to spare (25GB) if you wanna give it a try. I’d love to see it. And seriously, how old is that mustache of his anyway.. ewww!

Oy vey. That man is such a fossil, I’m surprised he can stay upright long enough to give a review….

Ok MJ.. ya sold me… Just posted the vid – check out the link above

Lame. The way he boils the movie down to being all about Jack swindling Ennis into more and more “trysts” really misses the point. If that’s all he got out of this movie either he’s got strong pre-conceived bias against homosexual plots, or he fell asleep during the movie. Because, seriously, even the American Family review got more out of the movie than that.

Even Katie Couric looked a little shocked when they cut back to her after the review.

Linky brokey. *cries*

Really? I just tried the link and it seemed to work for me… hmmm…

Yeah I just get a 404.

“outside the buns…” WTF? I agree with ya Pete. He’s an ass.

Sorry I found your site a bit late. But I came across your comments while researching the Gene Shalit “snafu” for an article I’m writing on GLAAD’s intolerance towards intolerance within the fictional media.
To perpetuate and preserve a “free society” there must be tolerance toward all, even those who see a fictional character in a fictional story in a different light. In his opinion he saw Jack as a sexual predator and I can see that from one point of view. To label him a bigot, I’ll give you the crusty part, based on a single review of a less than sympathetic character is “overreacting”. It is apparent that you were all ready biased towards Mr. Shalit and disagree often with his views.
The laws that have been placed to protect our opinions and statements must stand just as strong for ideas and speech that are less than popular or even contrary to popular believe. It’s kind of pointless to establish a constitutional cornerstone that would only guarantee speech if it meets with certain approval and those with special interest or agendas would fair better to remember that. Don’t weaken your position by attacking a movie critic for speaking his mind. His review was not overtly derogatory. It was what it was, a movie critique. He questioned Jack’s motivations and saw Ennis as weak and uncommitted.
Overall I found the movie dull and unconvincing. But I’m not a professional critic so take it easy on me.
At least they didn’t molest the sheep.

Keep smiling
John Deschain

All fair points… I would make a few of my own… First – read the entire thread on the blog about this before making judgements – My opinions about the man changed drastically based on his actions in the following days which were exceedingly cool…
Second, He definitely has the right to say whatever he feels about any subject as do I have the right to be offended by how he states them. The thing I was posing in this particular post is that NBC also has to evaluate whether it makes good business sense to use their medium to reflect these opinions… That said, as I said before – he since clarified his position in a noble way and in a way that i’m very satisfied with… Laws definitely protect the right of speech – but they don’t force private broadcasters to air them – the broadcasters make that choice based on the nature of the message they want to portray. There are other messages that reviewers could communicate that would have forced NBC to not air the segment – I was just asking for the same consideration (in an arguably less than eloquent way! :):)). Hell – if that weren’t the case Fox News would do a better job of covering stories in a way that didn’t piss the shit out of me – but i’m not their market….

Also keep in mind that this is a blog which chronicles my opinions at the moment… If you don’t follow the thread you won’t see my opinions grow and change… i’m not going to go back and change entries as my opinions change because I find it interesting to go back and read – but if you don’t follow the thread you’re gonna miss something…

Still Smiling! :):)
Pete