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I've got my head stuck in the cupboard! I can't SEE anything!
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I dare you to watch this without cracking up:
Insani-TEA - Rachel Maddow contemplates all that tea-bagging.
The one endearing quality that all these wingnut types have is their adorable cluelessness. They seem never to have learned the meaning of the phrase "basic research". Take, for instance, their enthusiastic co-opting of the term "teabagging". (Check the link if you need to - I'll wait.) They've done dumb things before, but my gods! If the Republican Party had actually tried to come up with a tactic that would ensure they'd be laughed at pretty much everywhere, they couldn't have done a more stellar job than they have here. It could be seen as a kind of snarky poetic performance art - if they hadn't proved time and again that such things are beyond their ken. Irony is a mineral they're woefully lacking in, after all.
In this clip, Rachel Maddow, Girl Reporter, tries valiantly to take the issue seriously, but fails, to our benefit. Really, how can a responsible reporter be expected not to fall on the floor laughing at this sort of drivel? It's the kind of thing you'd expect to see on SNL, as a parody. It's priceless, and the funniest thing about it is, as I mentioned, their complete and utter inability to understand why they're so ridiculous. They're just so CUTE - I wish I had a camera right...oh, wait.
But there's just one thing bothering me. Someone please explain why Jon Stewart hasn't assigned one of his correspondents to do a piece on this. Because it's just MADE for Jason Jones.
ETA: Because nobody does it like the master:
IndigNation! Populist Uprising '09 - The ENRAGEning
Jon contemplates the challenges involved in teabagging the White House.
He Wins the Toobs every time.
I dare you to watch this without cracking up:
Insani-TEA - Rachel Maddow contemplates all that tea-bagging.
The one endearing quality that all these wingnut types have is their adorable cluelessness. They seem never to have learned the meaning of the phrase "basic research". Take, for instance, their enthusiastic co-opting of the term "teabagging". (Check the link if you need to - I'll wait.) They've done dumb things before, but my gods! If the Republican Party had actually tried to come up with a tactic that would ensure they'd be laughed at pretty much everywhere, they couldn't have done a more stellar job than they have here. It could be seen as a kind of snarky poetic performance art - if they hadn't proved time and again that such things are beyond their ken. Irony is a mineral they're woefully lacking in, after all.
In this clip, Rachel Maddow, Girl Reporter, tries valiantly to take the issue seriously, but fails, to our benefit. Really, how can a responsible reporter be expected not to fall on the floor laughing at this sort of drivel? It's the kind of thing you'd expect to see on SNL, as a parody. It's priceless, and the funniest thing about it is, as I mentioned, their complete and utter inability to understand why they're so ridiculous. They're just so CUTE - I wish I had a camera right...oh, wait.
But there's just one thing bothering me. Someone please explain why Jon Stewart hasn't assigned one of his correspondents to do a piece on this. Because it's just MADE for Jason Jones.
ETA: Because nobody does it like the master:
IndigNation! Populist Uprising '09 - The ENRAGEning
Jon contemplates the challenges involved in teabagging the White House.
He Wins the Toobs every time.