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You can't make this **** up.

It's been a while since I was really active blogging. I guess it is because summer is so incredibly boring when you're a grown up in the U.S. I can remember when I was a kid that summer was the most awesome time EVAR.

But as an adult, well, there aren't really any major game releases. My favorite sports aren't going on. I don't have three months of vacation. Also, I don't live on a beach with half naked women parading around me constantly. Even if I did, the sensation would be kind of like going to a buffet without being allowed to grab any of the food. As a married man, all I would be able to do is look and salivate.

Thank god though that we have the continued degeneration and devolution of the Republican right into complete and utter insanity. From "Death Panels", "Tea Party succession talk", "You Lie" to "Birthers" to "Deathers", it has been a non-stop, awe-inspiring summer of "can you top this?" among the Republicans in this country for nuttiness. It's been entertaining, if more than a little depressing. But then, I think Newt Gingrich just won the gold medal today.

Straight from the "you can't make this **** up" archive...

Former Republican Majority Leader Newt Gingrich has awarded Allison Vivas of pron studio "Visual Pink" his "Entrepreneur of the Year" award.



Link to article

Link to Actual Letter

Er...."Money Quote"

Allison Vivas wrote:
"I'm honored, and more than a little surprised, to receive this prestigious award. Rest assured, I'll take the opportunity to inform Mr. Gingrich of some of the major challenges facing the adult entertainment industry in the current market ... from obscenity prosecutions to content piracy. I'll make sure he walks away from that dinner educated about the realities of the online porn market."


I think my favorite part of the letter itself is the part where it invites her to an "intimate event" with Newt!

Obviously a case where Gingrich's 527 group got a little too eager to sucker in potential big money donors by giving out awards and didn't do enough research, but still funny as all hell.
Posted by nocoolnamejim, 09/11/2009 4:25pm
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Even if you tried to make this **** up, it wouldn't be as funny!

So is there another Alison Vivas who was actually supposed to receive the award or did they just give it to the first person they came up with? Either way, it's hilarious.
Posted 09/11/2009 4:39pm
I'm guessing it is awarded on the basis of money donated.

I don't think I've enjoyed myself this much all summer. Er...except for my own intimate events with the wife of course.
Posted 09/11/2009 4:43pm
So here's a question for you. Is the thought of the "intimate event" between Allison Vivas and Newt Gingrich being filmed and posted to YouTube hilarious, or just horrifying?
Posted 09/11/2009 4:53pm
What the heck? He got awarded entrepreneur of the year for porn? What has this world come to?
Posted 09/11/2009 5:06pm

O.M.G. ~ you have got to be joking!
Maybe it's just me (probably), but the whole letter seems absolutely saturated in innuendo ... I mean ... "recognition of the risks you take to ... stimulate the economy" ..???

Posted 09/11/2009 5:27pm
@s_h_a_d_o
Oh trust me, it's not just you. I was giggling like an idiot my entire last hour at work today
Posted 09/11/2009 5:42pm
i like how you described being an adult(a lot to look forward to)
Posted 09/11/2009 6:17pm

@ChiliDragon ... and funnier still when coupled *succumbs to puerile giggle* with the potentially euphemistic nature of that nickname of his!?!

Posted 09/11/2009 6:27pm
@s_h_a_d_o
What do you mean, "potentially"...?
Posted 09/11/2009 6:33pm
I guess you're right. Nobody can.
Posted 09/11/2009 6:44pm

@ChiliDragon ~ perhaps the headline for the article should've read
"Newt gets more Bang for his Buck."

EDIT: I meant the linked article, not your blog Jim, which is superbly titled.

Posted 09/11/2009 6:54pm
Sorry, the other stuff was great, but I believe in the first two paragraphs you've captured the married American male in a nutshell, bravo! Damn that's exactly how I feel.
Posted 09/11/2009 7:43pm
i'm sorry, I kinda zoned out after the naked women on a beach part =P
Posted 09/11/2009 8:08pm
Wow, that's effed up.
Posted 09/12/2009 2:06am
That is just a whole lot funnier than watching someone trip with a banana peel. It's hilarious. I missed laughing like that. Buh-Bye.
Posted 09/12/2009 8:26am
Real life comedy! Better than any sitcoms
Posted 09/12/2009 9:36am
Jim, need I remind you that I'm from a state that might have a porn star with no true political experience running in the next election?

No, but seriously...WTF? Did they REALLY think that praising someone from the porn industry would make them look good in Christian America, the most sexually repressed country outside of the Middle East? Oh, and they seriously need to hire an editor before writing any more letters like that. Even a pre-teen could point out the things that sound just plain wrong in there, unless that was the point...which I suspect it might have been...
Posted 09/12/2009 12:54pm
... blog title is very apt
Posted 09/13/2009 8:38am
Porn = Bad for public
that's the logic of the world.
Posted 09/13/2009 10:55am
Wow....
Posted 09/24/2009 8:07am
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