Despite a smudge on my camera lens (it was impossible to see on the LCD screen in broad afternoon sunlight), I'm very proud of this video. The Tea Party Express is either a brilliant piece of surrealist theatre or a massive exercise in cognitive dissonance. Enjoy.
Heh. The Tea Party Express was in Nashville on Sunday --Easter Sunday, no less! Politickin' on Easter Sunday remember when Republicans were outraged that Congress would be debating the healthcare bill on Ash Wednesday or Palm Sunday or whatever holy day it was? Hell, I think it was just an ordinary ol' Sunday, come to think of it.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, the local media was all over the Tea Party Express gathering on Monday morning. And the funniest thing was hearing the TPE spokesbot say how everyone on the Express was a "leader" of their movement. I'm thinking ... Victoria Jackson? Really?
Ok that was a great video. Victoria Jackson ... oh, my. I don't know what to say. Seriously, what the hell happened?
ReplyDeleteWow! I thought Sarah Palin was dumb, but that Victoria Jackson is in a universe of dumb all her own.
ReplyDeleteThat's the best the tea baggers got? Seriously? Victoria Jackson couldn't win an argument against an otter.
Poor benighted souls.
Matt, that was fantastic...
ReplyDeleteNo siree, we don't don't want no government spending...
I'm still laughing!
A protest against government spending literally in the shelter of a giant monument to government spending.
ReplyDeleteYou can't make this stuff up.
Excellent vid Matt! Victoria Jackson is a nightmare; she sounds like Betty Boop with laryngitis and looks like an aged Pippi Longstocking.
ReplyDeleteRocky - funny, funny. I quipped not long ago that Jackon, Palin and Bachman could be the three monkeys for the GOP: I hear nothing, I see nothing, I speak everything.
ReplyDeleteReally good video Mr. O. I couldn't help but wonder if my Huntsville relatives were there.
She's a clown. I get it: she's the laughing clown who rants. What an act.
ReplyDeleteGreat job, Matt. Thank you for sacrificing a bit of your sanity to bear witness to this spectacle.
ReplyDeleteSay what you want about Vicky J., she's done the impossible: she's managed to make Sarah Palin look almost intelligent. No small feat.
Say what you will about the right wing and their political arm, the GOP, they do have a proud (if checkered) history of inclusion. It's a bigger tent than we suppose. They aren't all about greed and mean-spiritedness (though those are specialties). They're about ill-informed, inept and just plain stupid as well.
ReplyDeleteHarold G. Carswell, a Nixon nominee to the Supreme Court back in 1970. Sadly his time hadn't yet come. Today? Likely a winner.
From Wikipedia:
"Sure it may seem surprising In defense against charges that Carswell was "mediocre", U.S. Senator Roman Hruska (Republican, Nebraska) stated, "Even if he is mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren't they, and a little chance?"[3][4] That remark is believed to have backfired and damaged Carswell's cause."
And believe you me, Hruska knew mediocrity when he saw it.
I remember that quote but haven't been able to remember the source for a long time.
ReplyDeleteThe press shortened it "mediocre people need representation too" but even in the original, it was a jaw dropper to me at the time and still is. It may be the most important analysis of American politics since the beginning and explains such things as Dan Quayle, George W and a host of lesser mediocrities.
It's why we can be made to identify with barons and hate the educated. It's why idiots want idiots to lead them and why smart people pose as idiots to do it.
Great video there, Matt -- one couldn't make this stuff up, really!
ReplyDeleteAs for "mediocrity," I recall a hilarious Onion Press article years ago that had one William Jefferson Clinton signing a bill to recognize and promote the interests of "135 million talentless Americans". It's almost as good as the one about the need to sit down with your cat and have that all-important talk about Jesus and salvation: "Is Your Cat Old Enough to Learn about Jesus?"
It's a little bit revival tent, a little bit salesmanship, a little bit of collection-plate passing, a little bit of indoctrinating...yeah, it's showbus.
ReplyDeleteOMG. Showbus. Why didn't I think of that?!