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Bake

(21,977 posts) Wed Apr 25, 2012, 11:13 AM Apr 2012

Jon Lovitz Slams the President in Podcast

The former “Saturday Night Live” star delivered some choice words for the president on his podcast, "The ABCs of SNL." The show is co-hosted by Kevin Smith and calls itself “Live from the Jon Lovitz Podcast Theater.”

The actor said he’s a Democrat and voted for Obama, but now he’s mad as hell at the president’s plan to raise taxes on the rich -- and his rant has the Web buzzing.

The comic called Obama a “[bleep]ing a-hole... for saying the rich don't pay their taxes." Lovitz delivered his invective after assuring the audience “I voted for the guy” and even expressed admiration for Obama’s rise from “nothing.” “He had no father -- he is mixed-race, which is a burden… and the guy ends up going to Harvard, and he's the president of the United States.”

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/jon-lovitz-rant-on-obama-has-web-buzzing.html

I have no words for this. Well, actually I do have two words, but you can guess what they are.

Bake

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Jon Lovitz Slams the President in Podcast (Original Post) Bake Apr 2012 OP

Lovitz was never relevant ... Auggie Apr 2012 #1

And no one has seen him since he left SNL ... Bake Apr 2012 #3

who is Jon Lovitz? jorno67 Apr 2012 #2

I think coming down from decades of cocaine use has made them angry people. stevenleser Apr 2012 #10

Even though Dennis Miller's career is in the toilet DefenseLawyer Apr 2012 #4

the name is vaguely familiar--but I can't quite place him. WI_DEM Apr 2012 #5

Lovitz was hilarious in the 80s and 90s. I don't want to know his politics. Romulox Apr 2012 #6

He claims to be a Dem and says he voted for Pres. Obama. Bake Apr 2012 #8

Is this performance art? Capt. Obvious Apr 2012 #7

Why does Lovitz care about the wealthy? JohnnyRingo Apr 2012 #9

I'm trying really hard to figure out why anyone cares MineralMan Apr 2012 #11

I respect and defend anyone's right to rant gratuitous Apr 2012 #12

Who cares? Comrade Grumpy Apr 2012 #13

Auggie

(31,173 posts)

1. Lovitz was never relevant ...

Reply to Bake (Original post)

Wed Apr 25, 2012, 11:16 AM

Apr 2012

Not funny. And a horrible actor.

Bake

(21,977 posts)

3. And no one has seen him since he left SNL ...

Reply to Auggie (Reply #1)

Wed Apr 25, 2012, 11:18 AM

Apr 2012

So now he's doing podcasts about the SNL days ... I guess it sucks to be you, Jon.

Bake

jorno67

(1,986 posts)

2. who is Jon Lovitz?

Reply to Bake (Original post)

Wed Apr 25, 2012, 11:16 AM

Apr 2012

Was he on SNL with Dennis Miller and that really hateful dumb Blonde chunky woman?

must have been something in the water...

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)

10. I think coming down from decades of cocaine use has made them angry people.

Reply to jorno67 (Reply #2)

Wed Apr 25, 2012, 12:59 PM

Apr 2012

Seriously, I think that is what it is.

DefenseLawyer

(11,101 posts)

4. Even though Dennis Miller's career is in the toilet

Reply to Bake (Original post)

Wed Apr 25, 2012, 11:18 AM

Apr 2012

He's not doing a "podcast". Looks like Jon Lovitz is trying to get the Miller, Jackson & Lovitz Crackpot SNL Hasbeen Tour up and running. Coming soon to a Flea Market near you.

WI_DEM

(33,497 posts)

5. the name is vaguely familiar--but I can't quite place him.

Reply to Bake (Original post)

Wed Apr 25, 2012, 11:19 AM

Apr 2012

Romulox

(25,960 posts)

6. Lovitz was hilarious in the 80s and 90s. I don't want to know his politics.

Reply to Bake (Original post)

Wed Apr 25, 2012, 11:21 AM

Apr 2012

I mean, Galagher? Yeah, fuck him.

But Lovitz as Jay Sherman on The Critic? Great stuff.

Bake

(21,977 posts)

8. He claims to be a Dem and says he voted for Pres. Obama.

Reply to Romulox (Reply #6)

Wed Apr 25, 2012, 11:25 AM

Apr 2012

But he's pissed about anything that increases HIS taxes.

Frankly, I doubt he has much income these days, unless his podcast is a huge hit (I'd never heard of it) and people pay $$$$ to listen to it.

Bake

Capt. Obvious

(9,002 posts)

7. Is this performance art?

Reply to Bake (Original post)

Wed Apr 25, 2012, 11:23 AM

Apr 2012

JohnnyRingo

(18,636 posts)

9. Why does Lovitz care about the wealthy?

Reply to Bake (Original post)

Wed Apr 25, 2012, 12:57 PM

Apr 2012

He's plying his trade on a podcast fer chrissake.
It's like me posting on DU and taking up the fight for intellectual property rights laws.

The only thing missing from his rant is "that's the ticket".

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)

11. I'm trying really hard to figure out why anyone cares

Reply to Bake (Original post)

Wed Apr 25, 2012, 01:02 PM

Apr 2012

what John Lovitz thinks about anything, really. I'm trying, but I don't seem able to figure it out.

So, never mind, John. I don't care what you think. Nope.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

12. I respect and defend anyone's right to rant

Reply to Bake (Original post)

Wed Apr 25, 2012, 01:10 PM

Apr 2012

But it really helps if there are facts to back you up, otherwise you just look remarkably foolish.

Case in point: Lovitz is all up in arms because he thinks that President Obama said "the rich don't pay their taxes." I'd bet a shiny nickel that Lovitz can't find an audiotape, videotape or reputable print report where Obama said anything of the kind. In fact, except for the well-documented instances of large corporations receiving fat subsidies on huge profits, I can't think there is anyone in the country who thinks that rich people don't pay their taxes. You go to jail for things like that.

What's being proposed is that wealthy people pay an extra three cents in taxes on their "earnings" above a certain amount each year. The threshold has been a quarter million dollars or a million dollars or some other amount. So, let's just say that Lovitz makes $5 million this year (Yeah, who's the comedian here, I know). That would result in an additional tax payment for Jon of between $120,000 and $142,500 on his earnings, the great bulk of which would not be subject to social security withholding.

When you put it that way (and I do), Lovitz looks like a whiny-ass titty baby.

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)

13. Who cares?

Reply to Bake (Original post)

Wed Apr 25, 2012, 01:22 PM

Apr 2012

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