Word: amateurish
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...think that the letter that the republicans sent was an amateurish and transparent ploy to separate progressives.” Golis said. “I think that the Dems need to stay in the HSF but I think that HSF needs to be reformed—HSF right now is a small group of people who choose to do things on their own without consulting the other members of what is supposed to be a coalition of progressives...
...sure, Coulter's historical efforts can be highly amateurish. Her writings on the Civil War--she calls Confederate soldiers "a romantic army of legend"--could only be penned by a (Northern) dilettante. And although she has admiringly cited the work of cold war historian Ronald Radosh, he says she misinterpreted that period in Treason. "There were Soviet spies in postwar America," he says. "But McCarthy was really a nutcase ... She's like the McCarthy-era journalists in a way. She's just repeating what they said, that the only patriotic Americans are on the right." Radosh, a fellow...
...says, they have "failed to mount a coordinated offensive." In 2004, according to the U.S. military, villagers turned over more than 100 Taliban arms caches-compared with only 13 in 2003-leaving the rebels weaponless when they arrive from Pakistan. Most of their rocket attacks and attempted bombings are amateurish. "We've had Taliban trying to make [a bomb], and it's gone off in their hands, so they come to our hospitals for treatment," says Major David Flynn, a Bostonian from the 25th Infantry Division, whose men have yet to fire a single shot at the Taliban during their...
...conception of Hollywood, lacks any sophistication. The comedy is way broad (ba-dum-bump!) and when it hits, it's very funny, as when Alley complains about the double standard for chubby actors ("Jason Alexander looks like a freaking bowling ball!"). When it's bad--more often--it's amateurish. When she pitches a sitcom to Zucker, he answers, "Oh, I'm sure it will be huge. Enormous." This is as Cole Porter--esque as the repartee gets. Other plots hinge on black men who like big butts and Alley's getting mistaken for a pregnant woman. Did I mention...
...first was a Moore-style stalking documentary, ?Michael Moore Hates America,? whose quixotic auteur, Michael Wilson, got a lot of press last summer. The film was finally unveiled in September at the Dallas American Film Renaissance Festival, where one reviewer, Brian Orndorf of FilmJerk.com, called it ?a shockingly amateurish production....making an absolute ass of director and star Michael Wilson...