What does Adam Carolla think of the Occupy Wall Street movement? Glad you asked. According the former Loveline co-host, who expounded on the topic on his podcast yesterday, we are dealing with “the first wave of self-entitled pricks who think the world owes them a living.” You know what it reminds him of? If you “extrapolate this, it’s essentially what the terrorists did with us,” Carolla said. “They see us with our hot tubs, driving our big cars around, having our parties…chicks looking hot…fake boobs all around…and say fuck it, Allah’s gonna take care of these guys and then Allah doesn’t take care of shit and they come down and blow our buildings up. It’s one culture can’t live next to another culture that’s thriving.” How did we get here? The way Carolla sees it, we can thank a new phenomenon called “envy” which is “a big issue that didn’t used to exist in this country.”
After you’re done extrapolating, you can advance that thesis further by thinking about the fact that 20 years ago, Carolla says, we started telling kids they’re great when they’re not and now those kids are adults who want a “participation trophy” just for showing up. When they see other people getting trophies they “feel shame” and that’s when they start acting like “terrorists,” apparently. You want to feel good about yourself? “You should feel good about yourself,” Carolla argues, “Because of your accomplishments.” Did Carolla find self-worth out of the clear blue sky? No. He did it by busting his ass dispensing advice to guys with rashes on their dick and women turned off by their boyfriends’ apple-sized testicles, riding Jimmy Kimmel’s coattails, and hoping for a Crank Yankers reunion, that’s how. Don’t get jealous, get your shit together.
Do Occupy Wall Street Protesters Represent A ‘Self-Entitled’ Generation? [WSJ]
More genius from one of the men that brought us girls jumping on trampolines.
I'm supposed to take anything this guy says seriously?
He's a friend a mine, you know.
- cg
mandate: get it on!
Genius and suck it O's
You've got to get on it, COME ON!
- Guy who also enjoys a Carolla rant.
This guy knows what's up. Suck it OWS cocksuckers.
Adam Carolla. A true role model for hard work.
Allah & Wollensky?
And customers just expect that money will be in their account
-J. Corzine
It's funny, Jimmy Kimmel once said that Adam Carrolla was possibly the laziest person that he knew and it was a problem on the man show (something that I loved). This is all kind of indicated by the relative career paths of the two guys.
"chicks looking hot…fake boobs all around"
that's so gross
-Barney Frank
Adam Carolla 2012
Zip it cunt!
Ass douche
Yeah but still
well played sir!
your debating point has merritt (sic)! See what I did there?
Choosing to side with Adam Carolla or OWS, is like choosing to bang the fatter ugly chick, or the fat uglier chick.
Any of them need help with rent?
-Herman Cain 2012
sounds like adam was a sociology major at North Hollywood Community College
Zicke zacke, zicke zacke, hoi hoi hoi! Go fuck yourself and go bust your ass because I have the trophy.
Oh… and thanks Jimmy…
- A. Carolla
Is it true Carolla wears a toupee made from Jimmy Kimmel's pubic hair?
The rant says, "I'm the hardest working man in showbuisness," but the chest hair says, "I'm too lazy for the second-to-top button."
RIP Bill "The Fox" Foster
-Chug Quant
"Herman Cain's penis is like a raccoon in a dumpster."
Aceman
Civics > Carollas
UBS MD
According to Wikipedia, Carolla's mom was chronically unemployed and addicted to welfare. Not that I agree with OWS, but I smell a hypocrite.
What an absolute dickhead.
The bums will always lose
Carolla sees it, we can thank a new phenomenon called “envy” which is “a big issue that didn’t used to exist in this country.”
A good english lesson (on trampolines) would do him well.
After that, he needs to contemplate his ramblings on "self-entitlement" at the tree of woe.
Horrible point.
Bess types as Participation Trophies adorn her cubicle.
If he was a woman, I would still have sex with him.
-Matt
That's how he got the loveline job.
Derp
and the face says "I'm the missing link."
I guess this would be a funny comment if she weren't in fact a pretty damn accomplished writer who is one of the most widely read writers on Wall Street, has interviewed people you'd cut your left nut to take a meeting with (Einhorn, Chanos, etc), has been published in New York mag, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Esquire, Elle, and so on and so forth. You keep winning it though, okay?
You're a moron.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day
"She was a 15"
"What!? She was 15"
"No like in Blackjack"
"Oh you didn't know whether or not to hit it"
"Exactly"
Not to mention beats the Journal/Bloomberg/Times on many a story. But sure. She's just "participating."
'new phenomenon called "envy"'? I suggest you see Bible/Commandments/10th.
…and has been profiled by a whole bunch of publications (NYTimes, MarketWatch, Elle, etc) in glowing terms.
is that envy I smell on Art's breath? er, my mistake, just stale cheetos
This is America. Fame and wealth as a byproduct of creativity (no matter how low brow) has always been the NKI.
I actually think this is a big reason why the terrorists attacked us.
I don't think the word "hypocrite" means what you think it means
Why – because Adam Corolla is allowed to speak in public on topics more serious than tits and ass? I tend to agree.
Enough Matt, you can keep your job…
-Bess
Amen to that.
-Phineas T. Barnum
First off, a little factual correction. Bess, the podcast you refer to is from about two weeks ago and not yesterday:
http://hw.libsyn.com/p/8/3/4/834b8f3c4a04eb9a/201... (you can see 11.18 in the URL).
Second, as a regular listener of the podcast, I take issue with this:
"Did Carolla find self-worth out of the clear blue sky? No. He did it by busting his ass dispensing advice to guys with rashes on their dick and women turned off by their boyfriends’ apple-sized testicles, riding Jimmy Kimmel’s coattails, and hoping for a Crank Yankers reunion, that’s how."
A frequent theme in the podcast (and from Loveline) is that Carolla has always had low self esteem and solves this problem through doing the things that make him happy. Now, perhaps hosting a show about cars or doing live podcasts is less admirable than writing a gossip blog about Wall Street. Nonetheless, his point here is being taken out of context. Carolla resents people who complain rather than accomplish and sees OWS as a manifestation of this attitude (which, to some degree, it is). With regard to the riding on Kimmel's coattails and hoping for a Crank Yanker's reunion, let's give credit where credit is due. He has the most downloaded podcast in the world and a best-selling book on the market.
Whoa – creepy that you just quickly threw down a paragraph of all of Bess' credits to defend what was obviously a joke. Fanboi much?
Good Lord, man, lighten up.
Dude, He went to LA Valley College.
It's the finishing school before UC Merced
Wait till the Ace Man faces off with Donald Trump…Apprentice 2012!
kids who got participation trophies = terrorists flying into buildings
AC might want to rethink his metaphorical equivalences
"Now, perhaps hosting a show about cars or doing live podcasts is less admirable than writing a gossip blog** about Wall Street. "
Nice ad hominem attack. Sorry someone failed to give your hero a literary blow job like you did just now.
" Carolla resents people who complain rather than accomplish"
Wait, what? You realize this is like…his entire schtick, right? Complaining about shit?
**You know that referring to Dealbreaker as simply a gossip blog kind of spectacularly fails to get 95% of what else it does, right? Don't bother responding, just slink back to your teller window.
As someone who listened to Loveline back in the day, just an FYI, there was an actual caller who complained about her boyfriend's "apple-sized testicles."
Just a little factual correction.
Nah, just a fan who’s been following her work (as many others have) for years. Accomplished writers tend to garner fans, something Art Vandelay (and yourself) apparently know nothing about.
When you're done working Carolla's crotch, please offer us your thoughts on equating a bunch of people complaining/being annoying to a bunch of people flying two planes into a couple buildings and murdering thousands of people. Interesting your comment did touch on that aspect of his rant.
He's still utterly unfunny. "Ass-douches"? Wow. Hilarious.
What's it like being rabid Adam Carolla fan boy? (And please, let's not have a knee jerk response about not being one. Surely you can see your comment suggests that is not the case.)
/DB doesn't really do "gossip" anyway. The stories that contain news? They're stories that DB is reporting, just as the Journal reports shit like layoffs or hedge fund performance, etc. It's called having sources, making calls, and printing something when it's verified. With the exception of the extremely occasional "unfounded rumor," that's the "gossip" Ben was adorably trying claim is <Adam Carolla's hack rants.
As someone who regularly reads the site, I'd agree with the above as well as add that a bigger draw for me is the humor/commentary/satire. It really is the closest approximation to the Daily Show we have for Wall Street.
I admittedly have never listened to Carolla's podcast but if the above is representative…I'll seek comedy elsewhere. "Ass douches"? I guess there are people who would consider that the pinnacle of funny…to each his own.
Would also love an explanation on envy being something that "didn't used to exist in this country," rather than being something that's been around since, uh, humans walked the earth.
"Envy" is a new thing, AC? Really?
In which room in your apartment do you keep the Bess Levin shrine? Oh you're getting a tattoo of her face on your chest? Nice.
FYI, the above assessment is shared by others, and one needn't be a Bess Levin acolyte to agree.
Let's see. The site- and this is, like, an objective statement of fact- is a mix of news, commentary and humor. It is often executed quite well. In your mind someone needs to keep a shrine to the editor in their apt? Oh. Okay.
Just listened to the podcast and read the post. None of his statements are taken out of context. Don't let the Carolla jizz get to your brain.
I love that you just felt the need to vociferously of Adam Carolla.
Aww. Did you get upset that someone dared not show utter deference to your hero?
Did you ever notice the quality of posts declines as you screen down?
A little reading comprehension is in order. Here is what Levin wrote:
"Did Carolla find self-worth out of the clear blue sky? No. He did it by busting his ass dispensing advice to guys with rashes on their dick and women turned off by their boyfriends’ apple-sized testicles, riding Jimmy Kimmel’s coattails, and hoping for a Crank Yankers reunion, that’s how."
Ignoring whether or not she thinks these are actual accomplishments, she's stating EXACTLY what is point is- if the OWS people don't want to be envious or want to "solve this problem" of low self-esteem which manifests itself in their protests, they ought to do something with their lives/accomplish things. One needn't be a regular listener of Adam Carolla, or know what his "frequent" themes are, to understand that. So, no, nothing was taken out of context, but I'm glad you got to feel like you were defending your boy and his point when it needed no defending/explaining (as well as trotting out his achievements, that was a nice touch).
I think people are misunderstanding Carolla's point simply because he uses terms like "ass douche", and was once on shows that objectified women (Man Show) or provided colorful demeaning commentary to people with "problems" (Love-line). You don't have to like him to understand that, minus all the bullshit, he is right. Pointing out how on earth he could compare "innocent" OWS protestors who just want the evil banks to stop to evil terrorists who don't like freedom is ridiculous. He wasn't saying that the actions are comparable. He was saying that the thought process is. And he's right to a varying degree depending on which section of OWS you are talking about. Just as Islam has a radical section that is responsible for most of the terrorism, OWS has a radical section that doesn't represent the entire population of OWS.
Envy is clearly the cause for those in that section of OWS, because what else could it be? And that section is the larger, more outspoken within OWS. You can make your point by saying these people don't need all this, or all that, why can't they just share it with the rest of us, but in reality that is a thin veil for what people really can't stand. People having more than them. And terrorists, while using a more religious basis, still want to demand that the rich give it up or they want to take it from them. You want to know why people on Wall Street or people who work for banks make average salaries that are far beyond what the normal workforce gets? Because they work longer hours in a more stressful environment. These aren't people sitting around a table leisurely drinking coffee and laughing about the days exploits, and if some are they are the exceptions, not the standard. If you work at an investment bank such as Goldman Sachs you'd consider yourself extremely lucky to work a 40 hour week, not to mention getting work free weekends. Yet people who work less than 40 hours a week, while still getting paid as if they did work a 40 hour week, are complaining that these people should give up their money for a greater cause. And maybe they should, but trying to force them too is ridiculous and not something that should happen in the land of the free.
Entitled is exactly the right description. And maybe Carolla should have known the ire that he would draw for making a comparison to terrorists, but he's not that far off based when it comes to thought process. He is simply off based when it comes to moral standards, because the OWS protesters have a greater moral standard than terrorists do. They aren't likely to blow up buildings, even if he thinks they will. They do have a radical section though that very well could terrorize banks in a very physical way, even if it isn't in the form of a bomb. Terrorists feel entitled in the sense that they think it's their job to bring down the infidels if they don't comply with their idea of what is morally right. A good amount of OWS protesters are entitled in the sense that they think they have a right to tell other people what to do, and that they should give more money to them, based on their idea of what is right. You can't tell other people what to do with their money, with you or others like you as the benefactors of that windfall, and not be considered entitled. It's simply impossible. Carolla should have been more PC if he wanted a wider array of acceptance about his opinion, but that's not Carolla's style. Just because it's not his style, doesn't mean he's wrong though.