Comments on: Video: The Norwegians take Manhattan — the complete segment

By: netherman79

netherman79 — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:51:25 +0000

OK…I watched the first interview and one of the subsequent ones with Oddo explaining his ire. He thankfully didn’t apologize for throwing out the faux (or is that faen?) news crew or for the colorful language used to do so. Oddo is obviously someone whose time is precious and who takes his job in service to his country seriously. I am sure that had the interview been conducted under different circumstances, (say, for example where he was more relaxed and not under time pressures) he may have reacted with a bit more humor.

So I applaud the councilman and hold the rest of faen New York Republican Party up to his standard.

On another note, I am surprised that none of the commenters made a link between the Norwegian interview questions and subtitles with the classic openning credits to Monty Python and Holy Grail. There’s something inherently humorous about the Norway, it’s spoken and written language, geography and peoples.

By: MSGTAS

MSGTAS — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:57:02 +0000

Great clip. Oddo is a (R) in name only. He does not listen carefully, and needs many labels (see the wall behind him) and signs so he can show people how Nacho Libre he is.

If he was really a Republican he would have been able to see the charade being played and played with it by coming up with a bit of igpa atlina or other means to translate what he thought was being said and have fun before asking them to leave because the interview was not going to be constructive.

In effective communications listen carefully. Project back to the originator what you think they are saying (with a twist-like Norm Crosby would do, or emphasizing a point they do not agree with that you thought they were trying to convey). This keeps the other person off guard or balance. When they sense you have figured out their agenda they become a blabbering bowl of jello and they leave in a huff.

By: Roger Brown

Roger Brown — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 04:49:41 +0000

But you have to admit, she is hot. Strikingly beautiful. Absolutely gorgeous. Cleavage. Wow. But she couldn’t possibly be THAT DUMB. Or ignorant. I dearly hope it was an act. If not. Oh, my. Major, major DITZ. No, really, she couldn’t possibly that out of it. Could she? My brain is overheating trying to cope with this…it’s just not possible to be that inept with our language, even as a foreigner. Is it? AARGH! Maybe if she conducted the interviews in a bikini…whatever she said would have gone totally unnoticed.

By: Albertanator

Albertanator — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:03:48 +0000

Man, when is getting angry there, I thought he sounded like John Travolta or something…classic New Yawk accent….

By: Kini

Kini — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 21:45:47 +0000

A hangy dangy uola floola smarta darta hotta blonda notta smarta atta alla!

Bumuseda ama i ah!

Whosa da guido ata da enda? Hea farga farga lota, ya!

By: jihadwatcher

jihadwatcher — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 21:11:50 +0000

I would have told her that her Ali G routine didn’t work, she is a bad actress, not funny, a rank amateur, and that she should find other work. I’d tell her she should have studied Cohen for awhile before trying to emulate him. Just because one comedian can pull that stuff off, doesn’t mean any untalented nitwit can do the same. She is proof of that.

By: Its Tommy

Its Tommy — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:23:32 +0000

You have to love the fact that the rest of the world concerns themselves so much with America that they follow our elections pretty closely. We really are the world’s superpower.

By: captivated_dem

captivated_dem — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:06:27 +0000

Note to self. Add faen to colorful lanquage lexicon.

By: Joey1974

Joey1974 — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:02:45 +0000

There may only be 3 Republicans out of 51 members of the N.Y.C. council but he is also the leader of them.

By: Joey1974

Joey1974 — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:00:23 +0000

As a lifelong New Yorker (not totally proud though) I can say with a degree of certainty that Staten Island is the last bastion of Republicans in any of the 5 boroughs or even Long Island. Guys like Oddo are unfortunately all too rare these days, as someone in an early post wrote….. A Republican with balls!

By: SuperManGreenLantern

SuperManGreenLantern — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 13:36:51 +0000

I needed a good smile this morning. :) I almost fell out of my chair when she talked about Obama not being a citizen, because he’s “African Ameriacn”.

By: Jaibones

Jaibones — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:18:16 +0000

There’s something about an attractive blonde winsomely pretending to be stupid…

AllahPundit

I often miss AP’s swipes at KP; they can be quite subtle.

By: radjah shelduck

radjah shelduck — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:02:56 +0000

If it had been me she’d interviewed asking what a President would do for the “southern states like Chile and Argentina,” I’d just have assumed she was using “state” in its less frequent meaning–in English, at least–of a sovereign nation rather than a province of a nation. “Secretary of State” is a derivation of that meaning.

By: silverfox

silverfox — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:31:06 +0000

Oddo… that’s the NY we all know and love, baby.

By: Speakup

Speakup — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:45:26 +0000

A Norwegian Borat?

By: omegaram

omegaram — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:16:50 +0000

I would much rather see an intelligent beautiful woman speak, than a beautiful women that is not well enough informed on even basic facts to hold an intelligent, or even mildly interesting, conversation without taking her clothes off. The only way this woman would hold my attention for any length of time is showing lots of cleavage and sexy attire.

Give me Ann Coulter any day. She is intelligent, beautiful, and has a point of view that makes sense. You may not agree with her, but her positions are clearly defined, coherent, and make sense from someone who shares her values. That is a necesary part of what it takes for me to find a woman sexy.

By: Jaibones

Jaibones — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 04:51:16 +0000

Word.

By: slp

slp — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 04:36:29 +0000

I would have answered her stupid questions all morning long.

Then we could have had lunch.

By: Mojave Mark

Mojave Mark — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 04:34:10 +0000

The Monster on October 13, 2007 at 12:23 AM

We get it.

By: uptight

uptight — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 04:31:14 +0000

She was hot, though

By: uptight

uptight — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 04:30:34 +0000

I don’t know who James Oddo is, but what a star!

If he’d really been on the ball, he’d have said “get this cheap, blonde Borat rip-off outta my office”, but even so…

By: The Monster

The Monster — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 04:23:00 +0000

No pity for an impossibly hot dumb blonde. Have you no decency?

I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don’t have pity and I believe that our education like such as South America, Vietnam, and the Iraq, everywhere like such as. And I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help South America and should help the Iraq and Vietnam so that we will be able to build up our future.

By: Yakko77

Yakko77 — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 04:22:09 +0000

It’s nothing to take too seriously and it was all in good fun IMO. I laughed at more than a few parts.

By: Buy Danish

Buy Danish — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 04:13:27 +0000

Good point about the Republican stopping the interview when he did. Would a Democrat do the same if she went there against Bush? Things that make you go hmmmmm.

Ordinary1 on October 12, 2007 at 11:18 PM

Nope, they’d be hi-fiving them. It would be really funny to see someone punking out a Dem, going on and on about Haliburton and Karl Rove.

By the way, when Fox showed this video they said the councilman was a Democrat by mistake. In the Democrat Party’s dreams.

By: Mojave Mark

Mojave Mark — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 03:55:15 +0000

I’m struck with how little of a sense of humor these guys have. They are joyless prigs. Oddo is an angry jerk. No pity for an impossibly hot dumb blonde. Have you no decency?