Why We Love Roland Hedley
We live in a world of appropriation – to art historians the idea of blurring the line between reality and what's on the canvas by appropriating common images thereby forcing the audience to reexamine them. Just look at the works of Andy Warhol and Cindy Sherman. Advertising is often on the cutting edge of such imagery, taking the narrative to the next level: for example, characters in ABC's soaps “All My Children” and “One Live to Live” not only buy and give jewelry and gifts that are available to viewers online but fictional characters pen real-life books off of the plotlines.
In an awesome twist of making a character three-dimensional (and making wonderful, viscous fun of the DC tweeting class), Gary Trudeau has taken Roland Hedley, a Fox News character from his famed comic strip Doonesbury, and has him tweeting in a style only appropriate to a DC bigwig. A prime and hilarious example from today:
Disregard that last tweet from a staffer.
8 minutes ago from webEnroute UK. Just re-upped membership in 1st class Mile High Club. Okay, I was by myself, but was thinking of one of the flight attendants.
10 minutes ago from webAt Dulles, on way to London for G-20 summit. In taxi to airport, practiced my English accent on Irish cab driver, which didn't go well.
about 3 hours ago from web
And, of course, I'm going to twitter this, completing the cycle of delightfully inappropriate appropriation.
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Much rather read Hedley's tweets than actually watch the real Fox News...
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I suspect that Mr. Trudeau's targets don't always represent Fox news.
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In particular I think with these two, he had ABC in his sights:
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http://twitter.com/Roland_Hedley/status/1376292161
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http://twitter.com/Roland_Hedley/status/1373543521 -
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Agree, JNS. Roland Hedley is almost my fav tweep.
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Beats reporting, though, dunnit?
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If the Wonder Twins twittered what would they say:
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just discovered solution to melting polar icecaps. form of… a GLACIER!
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waiting at the dry cleaners for batman's laundry
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unfortunate side effect of power to transform into any animal: scientists asking me to procreate w/ endangered species.waxing wonder woman's invisible plane. this superhero-in-training job sucks. guess it could be worse. could be waxing wonder woman.
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really bored. considering taking form of rabid grizzly bear and terrorizing a chuck e. cheese's.
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@TheFlash yes, my monkey has been good today, so no, i don't need to spank it.
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listening to: “secret lovers” by atlantic starr
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@greenlantern pls stop surfing porn on Hall of Justice computer. had to clean another virus today.cleaning aquaman's bathroom. how can a fishman have this much hair?
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@gleek we promise that we had no idea that your name was another word for spittle
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http://www.greatwhitesnark.com/2008/04/13/top-ten-what-would-the-wonder-twins-twitter/ -
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FlownOver:
Puh-lease. I do plenty of reporting, more than most, I think it's safe to say. I'm typing this from the Senate periodical press gallery before heading down to the CVC to see what Obama's gonna tell his House peeps. I rarely blog frivolous stuff and this is thoughtful AND fun. Stop being so sour.
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Did you facebook this though?
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Cindy Sherman link doesn't work. I blame Paul H-O.
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Jay:
Jeez, some folks can't take a joke.
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I agree you do more reporting than most – considerably more, in fact. My comment was a reaction to the cumulative effect of various info-free Twitter-related posts, YouTube reposts, talking point regurgitations and high-visibility interluminary feuds. Very little of that was your doing.
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Sour, however, goes with the territory. Walk it off. -
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Jay Newton-Small
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When you wrote
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"I do plenty of reporting, more than most, I think it's safe to say."
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, I think that you meant
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"...more than most, I think it's sad to say."
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Seriously, I really enjoyed this post Jay Newton-Small. -
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@Hedley n JNS, watching ur back, enjoy, enjoyed.
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Time magazine hails: "Why We Love Roland Hedley".
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"We"? Translation: Leftists. The dumb ones who also "love" Bill Maher, Jon so-called "Stewart" Leibowitz, Stephen Colbutt, the View, the clueless and Marxist community organizer, NPR, PBS, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSDNC, the Associated (with terrorists) Press, the New York Times, ....
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Gee, kinda, um, testy, there, testee, about Jon Stewart having a Jewish name in real life. Anything you think you might need to talk about?
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Also, I have now set a personal record for Most Consecutive Words Separated by Commas to Start a Post. It's a big day. -
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We love Roland Hedley because he exposes the complete idiocy and self-absorption of the media. But I don't blame them, they're only giving us what they think we want. As long as we're content to sit in our comfy chairs and let them, we'll keep getting the same old crap over and over again.
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F Twitter and the rampant M$M flagellation over it.
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Greenwald:
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"...the only purpose I can discern is that it provides a format for expressing thoughts that are too inconsequential to merit a stand-alone article or post. For precisely that reason, it is unsurprising that Twitter has become a huge hit among our media stars, for whom triviality is a guiding principle. -
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I'm drunk. Is that a twitter or just a statement of fact?
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I'm a fact is that a twitter or just a statement that I'm drunk.
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I think I'm drunk again.
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Miller Lite sucks warm.
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Just cooled down mine Miller Lite. Much better. -
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I luv you guys sooo much.
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Crap. I think this post is infected with porn.
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I think I was thinking of moving.
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But I didn't. -
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vicious
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eerrrr uhmmmm I don't know how to tell you this but...
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http://twitter.com/glenngreenwald -
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Twittering torture.
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Abu Zubaida was the alpha and omega of the Bush administration's argument for torture.
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Of course the press is still not covering torture or Obama's failure to act. It's like it never happen.
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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/white-house-watch/looking-backward/bushs-torture-rationale-debunk.html -
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Eh, sgw, if you read the updates in GG's blog here, none other than Jayack "makes the case for the value of Twitter" to Greenwald. So I can forgive the man for succumbing if it was Jayack himself who convinced him. At any rate, I still love Greenwald's initial statement.
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P.S, Twitter sounds like a sh!tty LA band name. "Hey, we're Twitter, good night. Oh yeah, make sure to catch our Weezer cover at the Pink Room this Friday."
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http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/03/22/various_matters/index.html -
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Nancy Giles suggests that people who twitter are...twits..
I guess I just don't get it. Is what anyone happens to be doing at any given moment that freaking important that the world is going to tune in just to read it?
Isn't that the definition of an attention ho?
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larryblankenship
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Thats the fallacy of people who don't twitter. Most people don't just "talk about what they are doing at any given moment". Many people post links to interesting articles so those people following them can read as well. You can also interact with certain msm news folks like I have had back and forths with David Shuster and Rick Sanchez among others. Or you can follow funny people like pourmecoffee who will crack you up or Christopher Walken who is just plain crazy. You have to experience it before you will understand the allure but if you get on twitter I will bet you that you get hooked. -
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Jay Newton-Small Says:
" .. Stop being so sour. .."
My solution?
I rarely read what people say about moi.
But then I don't have to. HA!
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