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[mita4264]

yoo...@backflip444 that rail tin hipster girl with bangs is my acting teacher. dont talk about people you dont know.

[kickisaacout]

@mita4264 if the farthest she's gone is some shithole commercial where she depicts the epitome of the type of person TRUE new yorkers absolutely despise, well... does she really have any authority in teaching people how to be a good actor?

[ErikNorseman]

I have never grimaced so much while watching an ad before. If I didn't know better, I would have thought it was a parody.

[PerfectRodo]

Black turtleneck guy seems to be the only one in on the joke.

[IBstylinz]

i hate this commercial, but even worse was their ad a few years ago: 'There's the Times, then there's everything else'. Does anyone remember that? lived in nyc for 10 yrs, never met anybody like these assholes.

[ravekid23]

That Asian girl is hot

[presidiorager]

So according to this ad, you need to be "fluent in three sections" to have the self confidence to carry on a conversation with others.

[theironworker781]

Anyone who thinks the type of people portrayed in this too-stupid-to-believe commercial are anywhere near left-leaning haven't a clue. Rich, privileged people are rarely and truely leftist. Talk to them about progressive taxation, the class war, imperialism, or anything remotely radical, and they'll run screaming. Note to regressives: These people aren't much different than you. Their love of the status quo and hatred for the vulnerable is just more subtle than yours.

[rhenfield]

I think I've just come up with a new euphamism for gay. "Don't waste your time hitting on the hot new guy in accounting, Sarah. He's fluent in three sections."

[rhenfield]

I wonder if I could beat that smug prick in the black turtleneck to death with the Sunday edition? "Who's fluent now, motherfucker?!?!"

[ErikMartin81]

This commerical is being shown before every single online video clip of FOX News' "Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld," so I watch it 4-5 times each day. Now, whenever I get into an argument with a liberal, I accuse him of being fluent in three sections.

[ErikMartin81]

It's like a parody of smug and pretentious douchebags. I always crack up when the guy says "I'm fluent in three sections, actually", then closes his eyes and makes that smug little smile. Hilarious.

[rhenfield]

@ErikMartin81 I thought I was the only person who wanted to slap the shit out of the pretentious dick in the black turtleneck.

[Ramal123]

I need to get my teeth straightened like the gay black man.

[DonVueltaMorales]

I'm a NYer and I know gay, liberal NYers who dispise this commercial as much as you rednecks do. It doesn't represent true NYers as much as the Post parody does. All those people in the ads are snobs who moved to NY from Wisconsin and Kansas to get away from you guys. You can have them back, btw.

[dmbfannh]

This commercial is SO ANNOYING!!! I see it on tv every morning.  I am always reaching for the remote to hit that MUTE BUTTON as fast as I can. What is up with the guy with the UGLY GLASSES. The guy the blue shirt seems like a complete DOPE. The black guy is good looking but obnoxious. He is way to happy and excited over a NEWS PAPER!!!. Look up LAME in the dictionary, you probably will be refered to this STUPID ADD. SO.... "THat;s Why i HATE the weekender" !!!

[ZingsVideos]

I want to strangle you with your turtleneck, actually.

[primohomme]

The guys look sooooooooooo annoyingly gay, specially turtleneck/glasses and femme black guy.

[DontCancelThisAcctYT]

0:54-0:57 "The best journalists work for the Times, and there's no debating that". No debating that, right? Said like a smarky, self-righteous upper east side liberal prick. They just know better. Reminds me of Keith Olbermann.

[ptaaffe]

This commercial would be great for about 1998, just before everyone switched to reading the articles online. Who the hell gets this subscription? My only thought is that people who are not plugged into the internet, and somehow view these actors as "aspirational", might be tempted. One way for the Times to cut down its costs would be to stop running these ads.

[JackStraw65]

It would be fun to "put myself in the center of this conversation"...I'd spout all kinds of conservative republican rhetoric just to watch these peoples' heads explode.

Then I'd put the moves on that pretentious Asian chick, getting her down to her panties... but she could leave her boots on...

[laughingcrows]

Your "fluent" in newspaper sections, really? Like reading the newspaper is like ... Oh, I don't know, speaking another language fluently? What a hype.

HURRY UP AND DIE NEWSPAPERS! Your wasting paper!

[dmbfannh]

@laughingcrows  LOL!! awesome comment!!

[CalPolyisinPomona1]

They should have added another out-of-touch-with-reality prick saying:

"I once saw this riveting picture of a homeless man while reading the Times on my iPad... a pure stroke of genius and well worth of, yet another, Pulitzer Prize."

[flurmflam]

These people should all be sterilized. Oh wait, they were born neuter.

[MRSpeckers]

This commercial makes me want to drop my subscription every time I see it...

[elaina1268]

This commercial makes all New Yorkers look like pretentious snobs. As a New Yorker, I find it insulting. I've never liked the NY Times because every article I've read from it has been biased. The only honest part of this commercial is to show how elitist the NY Times is.

[StuMcKoo]

For all the haters, please realize that without this ad, the awesomeness that is the 92YTribeca parody of this wouldn't exist.

[JuVega78]

It's good to see that I'm not the only one who despises this commercial.

[Whatisthescore]

This commercial makes me want to set fire to the upper west side of manhattan

[LMDNW]

That bald guy at :35 is the most irritating of all with his "fluent" in Travel, Book Review, etc. What a smug pretentious a** hole !!

[LMDNW]

omg! This TV commercial bugs me no end. 

[jeeter1980]

The depth and breadth of reporting is exceeded only by the depth and breadth of his asshole

[dmbfannh]

@jeeter1980

LMAO YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[chendrik]

Wow that asian chick...

[nooyawkfun]

@chendrik yeah asian chick only redeeming quality about this what can only be termed a faggoty-ass, douchebaggy commercial. I used to read the Times in HS, thinking I was cool and all that. Until I got a little older and found out what a bunch hypocritical, biased bunch of unethical mofos they are. Now I read the Post. At least they're up front and don't hide their agenda. And I get entertained. Fuck the Times. "Only News That's Fit to Use to Light a Bunch of Charcoal Briquets"

[tollplazahero]

It makes me feel better to know that there are so many of you that hate this ad as much as I do. I wanna strangle everyone in it and up till now I just thought I had an anger problem.

[dmbfannh]

@tollplazahero

SAME HERE!. I am always racing for the mute button when this one comes on. So STUPID. BTW How many sections are you FLUENT in? LOL!.

[uncommonsensical]

thought they had sent this ad out to pasture but it's back in regular rotation on cnbc.

i actually have a violent reaction to this ad. the pretentious 'i'm fluent in 3 sections, actually' guy literally makes me want to find out his name, hunt him down and wipe the smugness off his face!

pretty much drives home who the target demographic is fo rthe ny times. serves to reinforce why do not read it.

[gli7utubeo]

They're still showing this all the time in May 2010!

[RavenMichaels]

The guy at 0:35 is the most annoying...

[rpsm1d]

Hmmm... Travel, Style, Magazine, Book Review, oh yeah and business section. Yes, the NY Times is giving you hard hitting journalism (all the news that's fit to print) about Travel, Style, the Weekend Magazine, and yes Business. So their saying 25% or less of the NYT is devoted to actual news. Excellent, just what I expected from the undebatable journalists in their dessicating cocoon!

[Univermag]

I think it was the HUGE trust fund, not the NY Times that brought you (bulimic, hipster bangs girl) and the geek (liberal, emasculated wimp) together..........lol

[MusicalAgenda]

am fluent in NO sections

[redjac666]

0:34 ....The follically challenged gentleman is fluent in business, (monkey business) travel, (probably to Thailand and other child sex trade countries) and the book review, (The Audacity of Hope). He's a NY Times "Weekender", and a "Backender" too!

[celerant]

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucking stoopid.

[JustShoveJayOhBe]

Why are guys who read books/papers always portrayed as faggy looking dorks with thick black rim glasses? :-(

[bluv6]

The Times always seems to have the dorkiest commercials for some reason. Like they hired a bunch of people from LA to try to sell a product they would never actually read. Really embarrassing and grating in the way that only the pretend-hip can be.

[MichaelDavidPeter]

The best journalists in the world work for The Times..............AND THERE'S NO DEBATING THIS!!!!!1!

Because the last thing the NY Times wants is a debate.

[MaximusNYC]

@MichaelDavidPeter Yeah, like Jayson Blair and Judith Miller. Heckuva job!

[ReaganHumpedDogs]

This revoltingly smug POS is still running on MS-NBC. 

I hate New York.

[Joebuddha]

I actually played the guitar you hear in this commercial.

[palmbeachsooner]

The best writers in the world work for the Times?

Ever heard of Jason Blair? LOL @ these gay libs.

[faeyin]

He actually said best journalists. You're letting your ideology down if you can't even get your slams right.

[CH3MIS7RY]

Jayson Blair is a "life coach" now. See also: "unemployed".

[XtreemMetalMan]

liberal hipsters.

[MIMIC8801]

everytime i see this commercial, i go out and kill puppies.

[ggrotz]

When I think about who reads the NY Times, these are the retards that come to mind.

[backflip444]

typical liberal douche's. Gay black guy, bald asshole with thick rimmed glasses, token asian, messy haired rich trust fund hipster, rail thin hipster girl with bangs...

[laughingcrows]

@backflip444 Totally, looks like they would add at least one fat, aging, stupid, lower middle-class, tea-bagging, white person with a chip on their shoulder :)

[mdumas43073]

@laughingcrows - Nah, they know Murdoch's got that demographic wrapped up with a bow.

[ggrotz]

These people seem sooo smart.

[pcrater]

I want to light myself on fire every time I see this commercial.

[TomKWS]

I was behind the commercial's tall guy in my local Brooklyn bagel store this morning.

[plesmond]

ohhh, happy Upper West Side smug white people....I'm gonna call now!

[cmonbugmenot]

anyone know the name of the actress with the bangs?

[KaceyinVermont]

Danielle...... that's all you're getting

[yearofox]

"i'm fluent in THREE sections, actually."

[CH3MIS7RY]

i want to stomp his face

[timpage54]

Smug is right. Makes me never want to buy the Times again, and maybe walk frothing Dobermans through the East Village.

[ReaganHumpedDogs]

Don't these smug people simply DEFINE everything you hate about New Yorkers?

Yuck.

[WildmanWoodie]

@ReaganHumpedDogs I was born, raised, and lived in nyc for almost 34 years. You're right - it defines everything I hate about New Yorkers.

[Nikatsu]

@ReaganHumpedDogs These people are not New Yorkers. They are the kind of gnats that swarm New York in droves, in search of money and status. It ain't a liberal or conservative thing; it's an elitist poser thing.

[ucihapokujin]

@Nikatsu actually i think they're actors

[MaximusNYC]

@ReaganHumpedDogs Trust me, I'm a New Yorker, and I and all my friends hate this ad. It's like they distilled all the worst stereotypes of this city into 1 minute.

[CrazyOldMaurice69]

@ReaganHumpedDogs Those people aren't New Yorkers. They're transplants from other parts of the country who are currently occupying the five boroughs. New York does a great service to the rest of America by serving as a dumping ground for the country's pretentious yuppie douchebags.

[KLofaro1]

it makes no sense to me the kind of mentality behind a pointless comment like the one from onandon19. it really doesn't.