Ethics

Worldnutdaily Gets Better

By Ed Brayton

When I read the Worldnutdaily I am often reminded of Joe Queenan's brilliant book Red Lobster, White Trash and the Blue Lagoon (see excerpts here). In that book, the author goes on a tour of the worst of American popular culture and becomes addicted to it. Each chapter is devoted to a different subject -- books, music, movies, etc. -- and if he'd done a chapter on political websites, he would surely have rated the Worldnutdaily as the best (and consequently the worst).

In the chapter on movies, Queenan decides that the worst movie ever made -- and hence his all-time favorite -- was Cannonball Run II, and if you've seen this movie it's difficult to argue with him. The secret, he says, could be found in director Hal Needham's understanding that a bad movie was like a shark; it had to keep moving or it would die.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 13, 2009 (boomark / email).