My First CNN Anderson Cooper 360 Appearance/Good Bob Hunting

Sure, they chopped the part where I described my writing as "political satire" and some absolutely charming and devilishly clever jokes, but what the hell. I.was.on.tv.

Oh God, this is so funny. Matt Damon got the email! Check it out at the 1:22 point.

Comments

[Desert Cat]

Y'know as soon as I read of that I wondered to myself whether that 4000 year thing was a coincidence...nah. He had to have seen Bob's rumors!

Teh funneh! Someone needs to e-mail him this CNN segment.

Boy oh boy, you sure don't want someone who thinks the dinosaurs were around 4000 years ago to have the nuclear codes Matt. That's really really important to international relations!

Or something.

[Thom George]

An Honest-To-God Opinion Maker! You've gotta be nudging up the 100 Most Powerful People in Hollywood list!

[David Elton (EltonResearch.com)]

This is great. You can see now just how deep Hollywood "pundits" are. The chances are very good that Damon got this directly from you Bob....PLUS....Damon specifically mentioned your number(4,000 years)twice between 1:22 and 1:34. It is the nucleus and the very essence of his concern about Palin.
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This is just too good to be true.
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~Bob~ I may just start praying five times a day while facing your direction. (-:
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David Elton
Spokane, Wa.

[Jennifer]

Bob- I think you need to make a video entitled, "I'm Fucking With Matt Damon".

[toadman]

Damon's wrong, everybody knows Dinosaurs were here 6000 years ago! God made them into petroleum products for us 4000 years ago...sheesh.

[Janet]

ROTFL Jennifer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My God, what a GREAT idea!!!!!

So Bob, now that you are a big star, you are probably going to forget all of us "little people", right? ;)

[Michael]

I ended up here googling to figure out where Matt Damon got his weird ideas. Pretty funny stuff. Sometimes things just resonate so well with what people want to believe that it's "too good to check," and your "Lizards of Satan" line seems to have hit that nerve for a lot of people.

Sorry to get too serious on a "satire" site, but no one drugged Trig. Babies with Down's syndrome are typically quite docile and happy; most that I've been around behave quite like Trig did, even in chaotic situations. Also, you keep calling him retarded, but not all people with Down's syndrome are retarded (just like not all satirists are jerks who use their satirical style as a cover for when they inadvertently say stupid or hateful things intending to be serious). Trig's intelligence probably hasn't been tested yet. There is also a high correlation between the IQ of the mother and child and Palin seems rather smart (in some ways, at least), so Trig has a decent chance of being in the upper range.

Doubtless you are already trying to figure out a way to use this info for a new satirical angle.

[joanna]

The Lizards of Satan, Sarah Palin, Anderson Cooper and you, Bob, were all part of my lesson yesterday in freshman comp. We've been reading op-ed articles about Palin, and I used your blog as an example of how rumors getting started, go unchecked and flourish on the 'net. My students asked how could it be possible for people to ignore(or just plain not get)the fact that you were writing imaginatively and satirically. And our class discussion of political language, haste and making snap judgments ensued.

[toadman]

Bob!! Did you see the message from joanna? OMG! You've become a topic of discussion in (I assume) a High School Freshmen comp class! YOU ROCK! Before long, this incident will be archived in some college or high school textbook for ALL ETERNITY!!

You will live forever.

HA!

[blue girl]

Did you see the message from joanna? OMG! You've become a topic of discussion in (I assume) a High School Freshmen comp class! YOU ROCK!

LOL!

You guys, be nice to Matt. Think about the crud we've been told OVER THE LAST EIGHT YEARS. Think about the "reality" Bush/Cheney has tried to shove down our throats for so long. I wouldn't be surprised about *anything* those people said. So, be nice to cute, sexy Matt.

Plus, I'm *really* hoping Clooney starts reading Bob's blog. He's supposed to be a huge practical joker. He will KILL Matt Damon over this. lol.

[SlowDown]

Palin/Tubob '12

[joanna]

College, toadman. College. Bob's blog has begun to circulate the halls of ivy. And the community college where I teach.

[toadman]

College, toadman. College.

Hell yeah joanna! That's even better! I just hope it gets picked up at the University where I work as well (I don't "profess," I just help those who do..).

[evilive]

MAAAAAATTTT DAAAAAAMUUUUUUNNN

[evilive]

hey dipshit, wasn't Abraham Lincoln a self educated country lawyer from Il.

[mik]

So evil, Abe was great for the 19th century. Won't a Harvard educated senator from Illinois be more prepared for the 21st century? Or would you prefer to remain in the 19th?

[Susan]

Ha Ha, Bob, somebody called you a dipshit. I haven't heard that word in years.Well, at least you are our dipship. The 20 or so readers of your blog. (We were mentioned on T.V., too. Thanks for the plug.)

[Desert Cat]

Heh. I have a feeling it's going to be quite a many more than 20 for a while until this thing dies down.

[Michael]

"Abe was great for the 19th century."

Abe was great for any century. I'd take him over any of the four people we're looking at now. So I guess in this rather limited respect I would rather "remain in the 19th," were it possible.

In any event, Harvard has a disproportionate share of the best people, but by shear numbers the top talent is populated with a lot more Nowhere U grads than Ivy Leaguers. And I say that as someone that went to HLS but has been in the real world. I go up against middle-of-the-class-at-State-U lawyers all the time that far outshine most of my classmates. And they often win, in part, because their elitist opponents underestimate them.

[Michael]

P.S. Matt Damon went to Harvard. Q.E.D.

[Ordinaryshark]

Hey Bobness, I like the salmon poster on your wall. See what I get from the news!