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El Cid
If this was the 2nd American Revolution, I think the 1st American Revolution is going to really be pissed.
margaret
I notice how they show the same black guy over and over, presumably to make them look less pasty white.
Ugh
This would be straight to DVD then eh?
R-Jud
I can’t bring myself to watch the clip (there will be a Tea Partier at Thanksgiving dinner, I’ve just learned), but two of those dudes in the freeze-frame look like Goddamn redcoats to me.
YellowJournalism
Are you sure this wasn’t a Daily Show parody? Maybe it was from Colbert?
Like the Left Behind series and The Passion of Mel Gibson, do you think this will be screened in churches across the nation?
Singularity
That hurt my brain.
Ugh
What is with the guy who hates the government visiting the WWII memorial and wearing an Army T-shirt?
BARRASSO
I have an idea that modern conservatism has become a conspiracy theory. Therefore modern conservatives are conspiracy theorists by definition. Is there any great difference between the thought processes of conservatives and moon landing denyers? Everyone is out to get them, and the whole media is in on it.
Someone do all the work and connect all the dots, then give me the credit and I will share half of your book sales with you.
JenJen
Tea Party THE DOCUMENTARY: Now, with extra Dick Armey flavor!
Guster
I’m trying to convince my wife to help me make a video response to this. Inspired by this blog, as a matter of fact: “BJ Party: The March in My Pants.”
S.Bones
I especially liked the tiki torch the redcoat was holding.
Guster
@Ugh: The military is in no way affiliated with the government. C’mon. That’s basic.
The Grand Panjandrum
@JenJen: Teabagging with some Dick Armey flava. Sounds like some hot times …. ahem.
Chat Noir
@R-Jud: I’m still laughing. It’s so stupid and surreal.
Annie
These people really are delusional—except of course when they are asking for money as in pre-order the DVD.
Next thing you know they will demand that we teach the “2nd American Revolution” in schools along side intelligent design, fiscal conservatism, and the religious roots of our founding fathers.
Midnight Marauder
@Ugh:
Not before it made the rounds on Laserdisc first.
JMC in the ATL
In a world… without civics education…
In a world… where Glen Beck and Lou Dobbs are true patriots…
In a world… where it’s okay if you’re a Republican…
In a world… where civil rights are subject to mob rule…
In a world… where only Democrats threaten to destroy the very fabric of society…
One man stands up for justice…
One man stands up for truthiness…
One man stands up for white privilege…
Against the forces of the liberal media…
Against the forces of ACORN…
Against the forces of lax monetary policy…
Until he realizes that it takes two to teabag!
Coming soon to an Elks Lodge near you … The Teabaggers!
Zifnab
@BARRASSO:
Remember back in ‘03 and ‘04, when a handful of guys were saying things about secret prisons and torture and government spy programs. And everyone in the media laughed and rolled their eyes and called them crazy conspiracy nuts.
What happened to those days?
JMC in the ATL
(This film has not yet been rated)
lamh31
OT, but watch the wingnuts head explode. A poll said that almost 70% of the country likes Obama personally, even about 1/2 of those who “doesnt’ agree with his policies”
It’s stuff like this that makes the wingnuts heads explode. I guy just looks too cool at everything, and it really pisses them off.
Obama, NFL Players Star In Thanksgiving Day PSA
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpoin.....hp?ref=fpb
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President Obama and NFL players Troy Polamalu, Drew Brees and DeMarcus Ware are starring in a public service announcement to air during three Thanksgiving Day football games.
The PSA, which promotes Play 60 and United We Serve, encourages kids to exercise and adults to volunteer in their community.
Watch Obama make a slow-motion catch (and try not to cry):”
Joshua Norton
The Stupid is strong with these people….
eastriver
Trust me, Baggers. Obama is listening to you much more than Dubya ever listened to the fringe left. But listening doesn’t mean he has to do what you want. He doesn’t do what the left wants, for cripe’s sake.
EnderWiggin
@margaret:
A good portion of the target audience won’t pick up on that, since all those people look the same anyway :)
beltane
@El Cid: Can you imagine the words Ben Franklin would have for these people?
Annie
I had to watch it again to make sure I wasn’t delusional…
PeakVT
Shouldn’t the Teabaggers achieve something before making a documentary? I guess mass hallucination dispenses with that problem.
licensed to kill time
I have a hard time believing this is not a parody. It sure sounds like one. And the voice-over guy sounds just like the “In a world gone mad….” dude, who’s dead now, right?
nikkos
First revolution ever to use tiki torches.
goblue72
Far be it from me to say this, but a bunch of bearded middle-aged guys dressed up in froofy tri-corn hat, knee breeches and lace is kinda….gay. Then, again that hasn’t stopped the TEA BAGGERS before.
El Cid
@beltane: Ben Franklin might have said something like “...a more cordial and thorough Contempt for [them] than I ever before felt for any [men] living—a Contempt that I cannot express in words… [Such types would, in the likely course of history, be] gibbeted up to rot and stink in the Nostrils of Posterity.”
Trinity
@JMC in the ATL: Hahahahahahaha!
Comrade Dread
Well, some of the Founders would probably be against the Federal government as it stands, but I’d like to think if they let these Tea Baggers into their Revolutionary Army, it would be as a special battalion to march ahead of the Founders as part of Operation Meat Shield.
geg6
That’s an SNL film, amirite?
If it isn’t, it should be.
geg6
@nikkos:
Bwahahahahahahahahaha! Glad someone else caught the tiki torch. It made me lol at my desk. I was dying.
ChrisZ
Wait, I was positive that was a parody. It’s not? Have I been had by Poe’s Law?
Pangloss
Just don’t let the government get control of the military or the interstate highways.
Now if you’ll excuse me, the postman is five minutes late with my Social Security Check, and I have to harass him.
El Cid
I’ve been involved with some left groups that took themselves way, way too seriously—speaking about “The Revolution” and whatnot.
But none of them, not one, ever dressed up in period clothes and filmed themselves acting out their proto-revolution and then used footage of their costumed acting out as commemoration of their revolution. Or they did and I just forgot.
How is this different from Civil War re-enactments and Star Trek conventions?
Alex S.
Didn’t it all “begin” with Rick Santelli’s “rant” on CNBC?
Josh
Oy. I decided, against my better judgment, to read some of the YouTube comments for this movie. Most were from people who were laughing hysterically, but there was some semi-cogent debate (which is amazing for YouTube).
It’s apparent that people that claim to be conservatives don’t really know the history of their body politic. More than that, they don’t understand political theory.
One of them defined conservatism and—it would be enough to make Sully weep and wipe away his tears with pages from Burke.
I tend to think these people are indicative of the Tea Party movement as a whole. They have definitions for their beliefs that don’t actually match up with reality; which is why, I think, they are easily duped. They seem to run off of raw emotion more than logic or reason, which is why they can come to some of the most outrageous conclusions possible and just stare at people unblinking when a sensible person hears what they think.
They toss around words like “tyranny” and “socialist” and “dictator” and “patriot” without understanding the true definitions of those words. This frightens me more than their raw emotional power. When words lose meaning, they lose matter. They become a blunt tool, as we’ve seen, to destroy, rather than enlighten or illuminate.
What will “tyranny” mean ten years from now? What will be the prevailing definition of “socialism” in these groups five years from now? They will continue to be watered down until anything that the federal government tries to do (even if it’s Constitutionally mandated) will be seen as totalitarian, evil, and “socialist.”
SpotWeld
@El Cid:
Well for starters, the people wearing the Gray uniforms during a Civil War re-enactments are in fact aware the South lost.
Mike in NC
Meh. Just a typical teabagger lost in DC and trying to get his bearings. The t-shirt was supposed to say “Armey” but you know how spelling-challenged those folks are…
comrade scott's agenda of rage
Knowing people heavily involved in both, I can take a stab at this:
Civil War Re-enactments: Not much different since politically, most re-enactors I knew if not wingnuts, definitely tilted that way. Oh, and they used rifles, not smoothbore muskets.
Star Trek Conventions: Different in that Trekkers/ies/whatever trend left. And don’t mind wearing form fitting fabrics despite having body types that don’t wear form fitting fabrics well.
pharniel
this showed up on LGF awhile ago.
It got panned, and mocked for about a thousand posts.
I don’t think it’s paradoy, but I think it’s pretty much designed to take money from stupid people.
Which is pretty much the GOP MO right now.
licensed to kill time
This comment from the MY link is good:
comrade scott's agenda of rage
Many that I know remain convinced that that Was A Bad Thing. These are the same people who wargame and always play the Germans in WWII games. Hmmmmm…..
El Cid
@SpotWeld:
For most of the 1994 – 2006 Republican control of Congress with leadership primarily in the South, and the Bush Jr. triumvirate, and Ronald Reagan launching his campaign in Mississippi talking about “States’ Rights!”, you might forgive them for getting a bit mixed up about that.
Pigs & Spiders
I’m not sure which is my favorite part, the far off stare with the Tiki Torch in the foreground or the fact that the token black guy could not be bothered to take his earbuds out of his ears for any of this.
This made my day.
Citizen_X
Strangely enough, this makes no sense.
Because I thought it all began with a coordinated publicity push from a major news channel.
And what’s the “new threat on freedom?” Any time I try to figure it out, all I can come with is “a n***** in the White House.”
And look at that giant trillion-dollar check the white guy in the Obama mask is holding at 1:20: it’s from China (to the “United SOSHULIST
States of America,” and dated “The End of the Capitalism”), and stamped “REJECTED,” but by who? Did China reject their own check? Or is Obama writing Hu Jintao’s checks?
Steph
I hate myself for this, but all I could think while watching that preview was “Canada”.
Svensker
Was about to post something, then realized I am speechless.
Joshua Norton
I’m pretty sure that a lot of them think the CSA army is just re-grouping.
Bubblegum Tate
@R-Jud:
You should—it is really fuckin’ funny.
@lamh31:
You know what was all about exercise and volunteerism? HITLER YOUTH!
AaronLaperle
@comrade scott’s agenda of rage:
lol, not our fault board game designers made Germany such a strong power in Axis and Allies, World in flames, Diplomacy, etc etc…
ppcli
Ohboy Ohboy, I know what I want for Christmas this year. An hour or more of unadulterated laughter distilled onto a DVD.
(I mean – that’s what I would want for Christmas if I weren’t making war on it.)
Mark S.
I’m trying to figure out why there weren’t any of these protests during the debate on Medicare Part D. I’m currently trying to isolate all the variables and see why this time it’s different. I’ll let you guys know what I come up with.
Annie
@Mike in NC:
According to the “voice,” that guy is “yearning” for something, which in itself is a bit creepy…
JM
Still waiting for BOB to come buy and tell us how this video proves that Obama hasn’t read his Sun Tzu.
geg6
@JM:
And how all that relates to shale oil and Plato.
Liberty60
@margaret:
Well, when there is only one black guy out of 70,000, you kinda have to stretch and fill, y’know?
Yglesias made some observations that the Tea Party uses stirring patriot, populist, libertarian phrases and imagery- brave independents, standing up for freedom and liberty, agains the forces of corruption and tyranny…
yet they embrace so much of that very same corruption-
Warrantless wiretapping? Yes, please!
Suspension of habeas corpus? Absolutely!
Indefinite imprisonment! Of course!
Torture? Affirmative!
Public health care option? GOD NO!!
Smoking restrictions? FASCISM
It is this incoherence and dissonance that makes it impossible to take them seriously- it is what causes me to see an underlying agenda since their cover story is so absurd.
Comrade Dread
Well, it’s rather obvious, they want freedom and liberty for their tribe.
Waterboarding for everyone else.
r€nato
Actually, production-wise the trailer is very high-quality.
But what it’s trying to sell… it really comes off as satire. I keep expecting to see Harry Shearer pop up in some ridiculous teabagger getup toting a poorly-spelled protest sign.
GregB
Ah, love the conservative affirmative action trick of using the same black man over and over and over.
I was convinced that the tea bag rallies had 50% attendence by African-Americans.
-G
El Cid
Republicans decry the Democraps’ master baiting techniques:
jibeaux
they “were” mocked? Are they under the impression this trailer is going to put a stop to that sort of thing?
Martin
@BARRASSO:
Become?
Aside from sounding way too much like BoB/Glenn Beck, it was apparent enough back in the ‘60s to commit to film.
Exactly
RememberNovember
Guess they rifled the cast from Colonial Wiliamsburg.
sbjules
It’s got to be a satire. I kept waiting for Colbert’s raised eyebrow.
Pigs & Spiders
@Martin: I can’t wait for TEA BAGGERS to come out so I can splice in the vast majority of Dr. Strangelove and resell it to the rest of the country looking for a good laugh.
Cain
I am a Peter DeFazio fan
cain
Janet Strange
@BARRASSO:
Absolutely.
I’ve been going with cult for years, but lately I’ve been leaning toward conspiracy theorists.
I have a friend who is a truther and an anti-vaxer. I simply cannot talk to him about these issues – every attempt at bringing facts to the discussion is, in his opinion, just more proof of how powerful the interests are (Bu$hCo for the first, Big Pharma for the second) who have orchestrated all of this.
It struck me lately that trying to talk to him is just like trying to talk to my wingnut relatives.
JenJen
This just in from Chuck Todd:
ROFL.
gwangung
Should go to the Denialism blog over at Scienceblogs. They connected the dots between the birthers, the anti-vaxers and the creationists. And we KNOW two of those groups have heavy overlap with wingnuts.
licensed to kill time
Maybe all these teabaggers should move to Missouri where a new billboard tells Americans to prepare for war against the government. Since they’re practicing and all, in their cool costumes and funny hats. And tiki torches.
jibeaux
I would just like to say, geektacularly, that I have purchased tickets to see, in a movie theater, for a price exceeding that of a traditional movie ticket, the guys from RiffTrax plus special guest Weird Al—live but not in person, sort of a teleconferencing type deal—showing and mocking Christmas short films. And yet, somehow*, the Second American Revolution is straight to DVD.
(Also, too, damn, the profit margins on the RiffTrax cinematic endeavors. Why couldn’t I have thought of these things?)
cleek
it’s odd how they seem to be terrified of things like “tyranny” and “socializum” and “communism” and “dictatorship”, but give no evidence of knowing what any of those words mean.
and it’s also odd how they all look exactly like every loudmouth douchebag i’ve ever been stuck with at a family gathering.
Pigs & Spiders
In particular, I can’t wit to find a good place to splice in this line:
General “Buck” Turgidson: Mr. President, we must not allow a mineshaft gap!
I’m sure there will be many excellent candidates for its inclusion!
Liberty60
God I hope this isn’t a Yes Men satire; and I hope and pray John Stewart is on top of this.
replicnt6
Like a lot of people, as soon as I had watched the first 30 seconds of this trailer, I immediately thought of the German literary critic Hans Robert Jauss.
Brachiator
The voice over guy certainly had to be laughing his butt off as he cashed the check for his work on this one. Best thing about the whole wank-fest.
Pigs & Spiders
@replicnt6: POTD
BFR
@El Cid:
Civil War re-enactments is exactly what popped in my mind. I’m guessing a venn diagram of the people in this film and re-enactment participants would mostly overlap.
GranFalloon
The only reason I think this might be a parody is that it’s a bit too moderate.
El Cid
@replicnt6: FTW.
Dream On
@JMC in the ATL
I was going to do a parody, but you lifted it from me through pure ESP. Now I don’t have to do a thing. Now I can get straight to drinking.
Interrobang
I’m so tired that when I looked at that headline, I saw “PEA TARTY: THE DOCUMENTARY.” Kinky!
The difference between these guys and people at Star Trek conventions is that people at Star Trek conventions generally don’t believe that Star Trek is real the way that these guys think whatever horseshit they get beamed into their brains by Planet Wingnuttia is real—at least the ones who need meds and are on them don’t, anyway.
Scary thought, though—these guys are the hardcore lifestyle geeks of far right-wing politics. Eek. Who’d’a thunk geekdom could coexist with anti-intellectualism?
Dream On
I thought Don LaFontaine was dead…
He is, and here’s a nice tribute. He wouldn’t do a voicover for crap like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM0c-2rFxiI
janet
My boyfriend is into Michelle Malking and these guys. He drives me nuts and I think I’m going to bonk him over the head.
Randy P
@Josh:
Well, if your insurance company won’t pay for your cancer meds but there’s a government program that will… obviously that’s tyranny. And socialism. And Hitler. And probably ACORN.
Legalize
Civil War re-enactors and Star Trek conventioneers get out of the house more often?
Comrade Darkness
@Zifnab: You gave me a bad bad shiver.
tamied
@janet: You go girl.
El Cid
You know, I think we should have been doing a 2nd New Deal about now, but it didn’t make me want to dress up like FDR and limp around giving old radio sounding speeches about economic royalists.
Okay, I lied, I wanted to, but I didn’t. Yet.
calling all toasters
@El Cid: If you were really ambitious you’d go for the second “Whip Inflation Now” movement, compete with bumping your head on all sorts of stuff.
nikkos
Thanks geg!
Pigs & Spiders
@janet: You must be a patient soul. Or something.
jibeaux
@janet:
I don’t know you from Adam, honey, but you can do better. /cue guy from the Men’s Wearhouse./ I guarantee it.
Randy P
I have a comment awaiting moderation. Are there certain key words that trigger that? My comment mentioned a certain moustachioed Austrian fellow who achieved notoriety in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s and a certain nut, the fruit of the oak tree.
jibeaux
@Randy P:
Those are cool. You probably said something about s-h-o-e-s.
licensed to kill time
@Randy P: You musn’t mention s h o e s or pen!s or soc i alism – oh, fugeddaboudit, the list is too long.
But if you do want to spell sociaIism w/o tripping the WP filter, replace the L with a capital I and you will have SUCCESS!
Joel
@lamh31: Looking at that video it looks like Brees is throwing one deep to the kids and Obama is sneaking in for the interception, Darren Sharper-style.
gizmo
There is enormous frustration with Washington, it’s not confined to either the Left or the Right. What we need is a political genius who can make everyone see that they have a lot in common—we’re all getting screwed by the same entrenched economic interests. The problem at the moment is that Teabag types are clueless and are doing the bidding of the very people that they ought to be challenging.
R-Jud
@El Cid:
Yo, if you need an Eleanor to ugly up the background, let me know. I’m tall and come with my own grey wig.
Shawn in ShowMe
There is no doubt in my mind that this is parody that won’t admit to being parody. Andy Kaufman would be proud.
Joel
This voiceover is the guy who does most of the movie trailers, IIRC. He’ll do anything for the money. There used to be a canadian troupe that made mock movie trailers. He lent his voice to those. Some were pretty funny.
Trailervision, they were called.
cleek
this cannot be done in a system with political parties. the party that’s out of power has every incentive to do all it can to make the party that’s in power look as bad as it can.
any party that isn’t fighting to get on top of the pile is a dead party.
Mike G
You know you’re a peasant when you worship the very people who are right now, this minute, conning you and taking your shit. Whatever the master does, you’re on board. When you get frisky, he sticks a big cross in the middle of your village, and you spend the rest of your life praying to it with big googly eyes. Or he puts out newspapers full of innuendo about this or that faraway group and you immediately salute and rush off to join the hate squad. A good peasant is loyal, simpleminded, and full of misdirected anger. —Matt Taibbi
Violet
OMG, that is awesome. The token black guy just cracks me right up. If you stop the video at the crowd shots it’s a sea of lily whiteness. Did the hire the black guy for the film?
Jay in Oregon
@replicnt6:
... well, shit, I should just go to bed now.
Not gonna top that any time soon.
JenJen
The Sadly, No crowd kills.
Scott
Tagline: “Liberty’s march has a new generation of patriots.”
And the new generation will die of old age in 20-30 years…
parksideq
@ChrisZ: This is like the converse of Poe’s Law: wingnuts’ reality is so fanciful that unknowing observers will mistake it for satire.
Is The Onion out of business yet? Because I’m not sure how much acid their writers would have to drop in order to come up with this vid. Sheer, unintentional hilarity.
parksideq
Now that I’ve picked myself up from ROFLMAO, I wonder how soon it will be before spoof remixes of this trailer hit YouTube. You just know someone is going to dub Yakety Sax over the original background music.
Kevin
So, I’m guessing “Nate” was the only black guy they found? I mean, they didn’t show anyone else more then once, but they used shots of him a half dozen times. I guess they all look alike, so no one will notice that they have only one…
Kevin
So, the first American Revolution was a war against Britain for autonomy.
The second American Revolution was a bunch of old white guys (and Nate) protesting…something…and the end result was…uh…getting “death panels” removed from health care?
The third American Revolution will be an angry tweet by Redstate.
serge
Oh. My. God. I just pissed myself laughing. I just pray it’s not a clever fake. Parody this pure should be intended first as the real deal.
Trollhattan
@ SpotWeld
Well for starters, the people wearing the Gray uniforms during a
Civil WarWah of Nahthen Ah-gression re-enactments are in fact aware the South lost. Fxt.An acquaintance who was raised in Memphis told me this is how he was taught about the war. There were intimations that the South didn’t really lose so much as lose interest. Or something.
It was a bit similar to how Japanese schoolkids are taught about WWII. Pretty much Roosevelt’s fault.
Trollhattan
Teh kerning is all wrong on that film title! I smell a rat. Rather! ! !
And yeah, seconded on the John Facenda knockoff being an inadvertently humorous touch. Not a good fit with the pastey old white dudes.
beanini
That was the voiceover guy from Scorcher: Part 6 in Tropic Thunder.
ruemara
@Guster:
FTW
Jonathan Holbert
I’m stupider for knowing this exists.
Deb T
Ahh yes, the “Tikki Torch or Fredom” – that’s on the nickel isn’t it.
Deb T
Ahh yes, the “Tikki Torch or Freedom” – that’s on the nickel isn’t it.
licensed to kill time
A tiki torch burned up my reply arrow, I blame ACORN!