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I have no specific blast of DCist for this particular post, but rather the pronounced, hypocritical and contradictory idiocy of one of its commenters.
DCist imbedded this admittedly hilarious clip from the daily show last night where Stewart and Aasif Mandvi take a scripted jab at Baltimore and our notorious violent reputation:
This caused IMGoph to respond with this comment:
IMGoph, I do not live under the delusion that Baltimore is a paradise, and I’m more than willing to laugh along with others when they take their jabs at Baltimore, as long as those others are not Washingtonians. Self delusion is not one of our flaws. My issue with Washingtonians, and DCist in particular, is that they choose to cherry pick what they perceive a Baltimorean positives and try to claim them as their own or somehow reflective of their culture to compensate for that which they know to be their own shortcomings, namely, the fact that D.C. is a cultureless, rootless, colorless imaginary city. Of course, it is an absurd claim, as it is a universally accepted fact that our cultures share no ties.
On a vaguely related note, it just so happens that Jon Stewart has a particular wild hair up his butt about Baltimore and frequently chooses to make us the butt of his jokes, although I’ve never heard him crack on Detroit or even Camden, New Jersey, which is odd, seeing how he the product of a privileged background in central Jersey. I remember how, prior to the Ravens/Giants Super Bowl, he sent a film crew down to Baltimore to mock our city as weak, effeminate and insignificant. Oddly enough, I have no memory of him retracting after we handed the Giants their ass in that game. I also remember a couple of years ago, when Ice Cube was on the show to promote a horrible movie that was largely filmed in Baltimore, and Stewart used the opportunity to attack Baltimore as being a “dump”... to ICE CUBE... who is from Compton! To Ice Cube’s credit, he didn’t take the bait. It has always been my suspicion that Stewart has some relatives in Baltimore that he despises, or worse, is a Yankees fan. Nothing in this world is more pathetic than being a Yankees fan. Any New Yorker that has an ounce of character roots for the Mets.
But I digress... Jon Stewart is intelligent and talented, DCist is not. Jon Stewart is also a New Yorker, and lets face it, if New York wants to look down their noses as lesser cities, they pretty much have the right. Washington does not. Washington is nothing more than the Canberra of the Northern Hemisphere with an unjustified high opinion of itself. You are not real, and EVERYTHING you have is federally subsidized. Have the feds agreed to pay to rebuild Eastern Market yet? That’s right, even that last remnant that your city had to pretend that you had one degree of something remotely resembling authenticity is dependent on the charity of the American tax payer.
Up here, though, we have it hard. Unlike you, we have to make our own way. American steel is largely dead. Midwestern grains and exports are now mostly routed through the St. Lawrence Seaway instead of our ports. We’re left to diversify our own economy and fight an uphill battle. Meanwhile, you can just sit on your asses and wait for the needs of the federal government to grow, causing more money to pour in while you pat yourselves on the back as though you’ve done something special.
By your perception, you would think that I would be ashamed to be associated with cities like Detroit, Cleveland, Gary and Buffalo, but I’m not. I’m proud of associations with those cities that are left to fight their own fights. What makes me feel shame is being associated with a weak, subsidized, self congradulatory fake city like D.C. for no better reason than we’re close to you. You try to claim us as belonging to you when it suits your needs, and then piss on us for being poorer and more violent what that suits your needs? Well... lets just say you all don’t have the character it takes to be a Yankees fan.
But you know what the funny part is? Even though D.C. has every advantage in the Universe, even though the money pours in hand over fist, you’re still pretty much a dump too. We’re poor. What’s your excuse?
Just remember what Aasif Mandvi said on the Daily Show last night, D.C. isn’t Baltimore. If you don’t want to be associated with our problems, then stop trying to pretend that we’re associated when it suits your needs. That’s been my point to DCist from the first. So, IMGoph, you can stick it in your pipe and smoke that.
DCist imbedded this admittedly hilarious clip from the daily show last night where Stewart and Aasif Mandvi take a scripted jab at Baltimore and our notorious violent reputation:
This caused IMGoph to respond with this comment:
"Washington DC is violent, but they're not finding 30-50 corpses in the street every day"
"well of course not, it's not Baltimore"
stick that in your pipe and smoke it, dcistgohome guy!!! :)
IMGoph, I do not live under the delusion that Baltimore is a paradise, and I’m more than willing to laugh along with others when they take their jabs at Baltimore, as long as those others are not Washingtonians. Self delusion is not one of our flaws. My issue with Washingtonians, and DCist in particular, is that they choose to cherry pick what they perceive a Baltimorean positives and try to claim them as their own or somehow reflective of their culture to compensate for that which they know to be their own shortcomings, namely, the fact that D.C. is a cultureless, rootless, colorless imaginary city. Of course, it is an absurd claim, as it is a universally accepted fact that our cultures share no ties.
On a vaguely related note, it just so happens that Jon Stewart has a particular wild hair up his butt about Baltimore and frequently chooses to make us the butt of his jokes, although I’ve never heard him crack on Detroit or even Camden, New Jersey, which is odd, seeing how he the product of a privileged background in central Jersey. I remember how, prior to the Ravens/Giants Super Bowl, he sent a film crew down to Baltimore to mock our city as weak, effeminate and insignificant. Oddly enough, I have no memory of him retracting after we handed the Giants their ass in that game. I also remember a couple of years ago, when Ice Cube was on the show to promote a horrible movie that was largely filmed in Baltimore, and Stewart used the opportunity to attack Baltimore as being a “dump”... to ICE CUBE... who is from Compton! To Ice Cube’s credit, he didn’t take the bait. It has always been my suspicion that Stewart has some relatives in Baltimore that he despises, or worse, is a Yankees fan. Nothing in this world is more pathetic than being a Yankees fan. Any New Yorker that has an ounce of character roots for the Mets.
But I digress... Jon Stewart is intelligent and talented, DCist is not. Jon Stewart is also a New Yorker, and lets face it, if New York wants to look down their noses as lesser cities, they pretty much have the right. Washington does not. Washington is nothing more than the Canberra of the Northern Hemisphere with an unjustified high opinion of itself. You are not real, and EVERYTHING you have is federally subsidized. Have the feds agreed to pay to rebuild Eastern Market yet? That’s right, even that last remnant that your city had to pretend that you had one degree of something remotely resembling authenticity is dependent on the charity of the American tax payer.
Up here, though, we have it hard. Unlike you, we have to make our own way. American steel is largely dead. Midwestern grains and exports are now mostly routed through the St. Lawrence Seaway instead of our ports. We’re left to diversify our own economy and fight an uphill battle. Meanwhile, you can just sit on your asses and wait for the needs of the federal government to grow, causing more money to pour in while you pat yourselves on the back as though you’ve done something special.
By your perception, you would think that I would be ashamed to be associated with cities like Detroit, Cleveland, Gary and Buffalo, but I’m not. I’m proud of associations with those cities that are left to fight their own fights. What makes me feel shame is being associated with a weak, subsidized, self congradulatory fake city like D.C. for no better reason than we’re close to you. You try to claim us as belonging to you when it suits your needs, and then piss on us for being poorer and more violent what that suits your needs? Well... lets just say you all don’t have the character it takes to be a Yankees fan.
But you know what the funny part is? Even though D.C. has every advantage in the Universe, even though the money pours in hand over fist, you’re still pretty much a dump too. We’re poor. What’s your excuse?
Just remember what Aasif Mandvi said on the Daily Show last night, D.C. isn’t Baltimore. If you don’t want to be associated with our problems, then stop trying to pretend that we’re associated when it suits your needs. That’s been my point to DCist from the first. So, IMGoph, you can stick it in your pipe and smoke that.
posted by dcistgohome at 1:04 PM
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Actually, this is true. I generally catch clips when friends insist I watch them, and the baltimore digs always inspire someone to tell me to check it out. But alas, self depreciating humor is a very different animal than mocking that with which you share no empathy. But like I said, as a New Yorker mocking baltimore it is somewhat palatable, as New York is inarguably superior. But D.C.? That’s like wonder bread making fun of rye.
The funny thing about that clip was that it was mockingly pointing out that D.C. isn’t quite as a violent as Baltimore, which the Washingtonians apparently loved. Like THAT is something to be proud of. That's like Somalia being proud that it isn’t as fucked up as southern Sudan.
Once again, patting themselves on the back for nothing.
Ice Cube was filming that really bad film around my daughter's school and took time to go over the kids, shake their hands and talk for a bit. I bet he couldn't do that in New York.
Gee whiz, Ian, why did you delete your comment?
Here, let me paraphrase you:
"Well I guess you don't watch The Daily Show very often, because Jon Stewart makes fun of his home state of New Jersey all the time."
I can't say it was a stinging rebuke, but it was a valid point.
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