Oh God I love it. She looks straight in the camera with that mirror-practiced sincerity good broadcasters can do, adds a touch of tolerant amusement at the situation, and says, “I’m not a witch.” OMFG it was the perfect, crystalline symbol of a season of political absurdity I thought could not possibly get worse. And now it’s like looking at a serial killer’s baby picture in terms of how much things actually got worse. But it still makes me laugh every single time.
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Provided you’re also a teenager. And not a district attorney in your mid-thirties.
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Sleaze vs. Satan, as foretold in the book of Revelation.
Is there anyone in his audience under 60? I don’t know if that’s a good sign…
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Back then, it was absurdity, but ever so slightly funny. Remember Fiorina’s Demon Sheep ad? So bad it was good. We laughed. Those were the days. Now the Demon Sheep are grazing on the Whitehouse lawn.
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“The Devil made me do it!! Damn dat Devil!! Now I see I’m in a heap o’ trouble with all dees boney creatures chasin’ me ‘round the graveyard—I gotta get spirituul!!”
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Moore is using what I used to call the Galileo Fallacy. Yes, when you’re proposing something new and wonderful that threatens the established order, a lot of powerful people will be against you. But no, the fact that a lot of powerful people are against you is not evidence that you’re proposing something new and wonderful. Otherwise Hitler and Pol Pot would be saints by now.
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Is spiritual another word for penis? I obviously missed that…
Reminds me of the line in the series Leverage “The Homecoming Job” Yes, we loved that show.
Sophie Devereaux: [pretending to be a defense contractor]
My company’s focused on meeting Senators, but, um, I’m thinking Congressmen.
Charles Dufort: You know the great thing about Congressmen? 50, 100 grand well spent
will get one elected. But then, once they’re in, the incumbency rate is
over 95%! So you can get on an average 18, 20 years use out of one of
them. In these uncertain times, buying a United States Congressman is
one of the best investments a corporation can make!
Alec Hardison: [listening in on surveillance]
Oh, I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. I’m a professional criminal and I find that disturbing.
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"Each Congressman has got two ends—
A sitting and a thinking end.
And since his whole career depends upon his seat—
Why bother, Friend?"
E Y Harburg
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I’m Facing A ‘Spiritual Battle’
I see a new reality/game show where quasi-famous members of the religious community come together to sing old-timey religious hymns in epic battles to be judged by audience members via text. Maybe hosted by Kirk Cameron…
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I’m thinking more “Climbing for Dollars” from The Running Man.
It’s like ‘jailbait’, ‘age of consent’ and ‘statutory rape’ are foreign terms.
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Unfortunately, it was “humiliation”. The real irony, of course, is that he was citing Lincoln. Lee and Davis also called for days of humiliation and prayer in the wake of their defeats, but he didn’t turn to the local idols.
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Isn’t it interesting that God favors the minority when you are in the minority and God favors the majority when you’re in the majority? God, is either capricious or not really paying attention to these clowns…
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God actually has a pretty good sense of humor about shit like this. Remember that he suckered Ben Carson into running for president? He and the entire Heavenly Host are still laughing their asses off about that one. 90, 95 percent of what God does to fuck up morons and miscreants is to tell them: “Yeah, great idea! Go for it! I’ve got your back!”
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Yeah Roy, a lot of priests that have fought that same battle.
Always with the victim card.
Thanks for clarifying that. They sure did talk funny in them days.