I've got my head stuck in the cupboard! I can't SEE anything!

[serai]

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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.

Comments

[belleferret.livejournal.com]

Jon Stewart did mention it on his show a couple of weeks ago.

I must say I have the greatest admiration for Ana Marie Cox for not once bursting out into fits of giggles.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

If he doesn't send Jason to one of the big "parties" coming up, I'll be sorely disappointed. I'm dying to watch him allow some ninnies to humiliate themselves - he's so damn good at it. With in-studio analysis by John Oliver, of course. It would be a blast.

[elasg.livejournal.com]

Or John Oliver... I saw this the other night and just LOVED it when she was telling those off camera to stop laughing because she was barely holding herself in check as it was! I just lost it then.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

This whole thing has been so delicious. Every now and then something comes along to make politics funny again. Keeps me going.

Or John Oliver.

See, I think John would be perfect for the in-studio analysis afterward. He'd be brilliant pontificating about history and tea and the Queen, and getting all outraged, and wrap it up with some deflating zinger. Actually, Jon, no. It was revolutionary 200 years ago. Now it's just silly.

I find Jason's the man for on-the-street, because he somehow manages to get people to dig themselves in deeper with every word. He's got this deadpan style that seems to disarm the clueless. It's awesome.

[elasg.livejournal.com]

They're both awesome. And Rob Riggle was good too - he could do that 'happy go lucky, a little dumb jock' thing that right-wingers were just completely disarmed by. It was also awesome.

Actually, Jon, no. It was revolutionary 200 years ago. Now it's just silly.

LOL! YES! I can so see him saying that! Do you listen to his weekly podcast? It's hysterically funny, especially if you like brit humor (which I do). If you haven't you must take a listen!

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/the_bugle/

[honeyandvinegar.livejournal.com]

Ms. Cox in the first one has teabags of steel, dude. I'd be snarfing and guffawing all over the place.

So, how many people in the YT comments have asked, "What's so funny?"

Edited to use REALLY appropriate icon.

[marigold6.livejournal.com]

I adore Rachel...I want her for my very own.

Jon kills me - all he has to do is look at the camera with that "WTF" look and I fall apart.

I'd love to be in the same room when someone tells that idiot Beck, or one of these other Rep pundits what they're actually referring to - it would be the biggest "wash your mouth out with soap" moment in the history of the Republican party.
*snort*

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Rob was so fucking great. Sometimes I wanted to slap him, but his Big Bluff Marine thing was, indeed, just the bit needed to get the Repugs to trust him. Awesome.

Thanks for the link! I had no idea he did a podcast. Will bookmark to check regularly.

[oxer12.livejournal.com]

I loled and roffled and loled some more when I watched these 2 clips. Then I immediately sent them to my sister.

HEE.

[gloryunderhill.livejournal.com]

OMG, I was watching Rachel with my mother that day and I kept laughing and snorting. My mother kept complaining that she didn't know what was so funny and I tried to skirt the issue by saying "Teabagging means something dirty, Mom." But that wasn't enough for her, she kept prodding me to explain what it was, so I had to explain teabagging to my very prudish MOTHER! Then she kept saying "ewwww" and that just made it all funnier.

I suppose it just goes to show that no one in the conservative movement knows what's going on in the world outside their little bubble of weirdness. So what's next? Felching? Salad Tossing? *snort*

[serai1.livejournal.com]

I think someone ought to infiltrate the wingnut boards and toss the word "felching" around, with the implication that it means "to rebel" or "stick it to The Man". Then we could all sit back and ROFL as it makes its way up the chain to the Faux Loony Brigade.