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Way to fight the good fight.

Yeah! Right on! Or I could not have written the article at all, genius. Looking for an angle, do you know why? Check the number of comments, Nobody gives a shit. Climb off your high horse.

nuff said

y'know Reaper,(doh) i like most of the articles you write, but even i have to admit, this one's pretty fucking petty.
and your comments have ben pretty crappy too.

A Jim Carrey speech, a Rambo film, or an article on Suicide Girls: they all seem equally unlikely conduits for a message which raises the issue of human rights abuses in Burma.

Which is the least trashy? I'd probably go with the Carrey speech.

clap, clap, clap. You win the high school debate.

Sadly enough, my biggest focus was on the John Rambo trailer, also. Seems there has been needless torture in foreign countries since damn near the beginning of all life. There's the Rebecca Sommer film about the Hmong's present genocide in Laos. There's Anne Geddes forcing children into baby fruit costumes. There's too just too much torture all around us.

I'm confused, who is the new Rambo movie supposed to appeal to? That was scary.

As for Jim Carrey delivering the message; I can understand it being weird to some people considering who he is. Personally, it didn't bother me at all. I liked the fact that he is making an attempt to get people involved in a very serious struggle.

It is absolutely ridiculous that a Sylvester Stallone movie and Jim Carrey are being utilized to show people that there is a struggle in Burma and that perhaps we should be doing something about it.

Anyway, if people are interested in doing something, then instead of worrying about this article, perhaps they should join the Human Rights Action Center:
http://www.dyr.org/index.html
and the US campaign for Burma:
http://www.uscampaignforburma.org/

Oops, I had my pomposity dial set to 11.

I just think that arguing a 'comedian' can't raise serious issues is similar to saying you can't get decent political comment in an online community such as this. Both of which, I think, are wrong.

I'm not attacking your usual articles, which I honestly enjoy, but you're not very good at taking criticism are you. You need to realize that some of these people have a good point. Maybe instead of hypocritically responding with childish remarks you should take it to account.

Yeah, there is a reason that they call it acting. It's 'cause they're like, acting.

I am sick as fuck of this idea that your day job dictates what you can talk about in our culture.

Anyone can take an interest in anything, study anything, become expert in anything. The idea that one has to have "credentials" to speak to something is just fucking stupid - not to mention elitist and self-defeating.

I mean if we used that criteria FTR no one could ever say anything to you but "Shut the fuck up, you, you comic!"

Funny how this turned into a quibble about the way FTR approached the article. I vote for next time to have two articles. We can all make fun of Jim Carey and not feel guilty that we have missed the point that FTR was trying to make.

Seemed to me that FTR was trying to make the point that Jim Carey is a numbnuts who shouldn't be allowed to comment of issues of import.