John Cleese on "The Funniest Palin"

The incomparable John Cleese hits the nail (and parrot!) squarely on the head in his comments about Republican V.P.-nominee Sarah Palin.

(H/T oddjob)

Comments

[Sir Charles]

Oh my God -- how wonderfully dismissive.

A treat for all of us who have to sit through television programming that treats Palin the funnier like a serious human being.

[oddjob]

(oddjob humbly seeks to acknowledge that he found this courtesy of Sully's blog.)

[MR Bill]

Morning all. Got a short day at work and going to early vote. The Obama office here in Fabulous Blue Ridge called me last night to check on the early vote thing, urging me to do so, and 538 says early voters are favoring Obama in Georgia by some 6%. That they have resources for an effort in Fannin Co. GA(Republican since the Civil War) means they can be competitive anywhere. And Maybe, just Maybe Saxby can return to Macon to hide out on the golf course.
I'm still rerunning Rachel Maddow's takedown of "Excess of Weasels" Frum...Good times..

[MR Bill]

Oh, by the way, "This parrot is "(Brain)"dead..."

[Sir Charles]

It's just resting.

[oddjob]

OT, but it doesn't fit anywhere and it's important:

Here we fucking go again.........

[Voice o' Reason]

The ability to be reasonable, level-headed and articulate while simultaneously refusing to take any guff seems to have become the most desirable of qualities during these last few weeks before the election; good thing the Republicans just can't seem to absorb this concept. Hate isn't working. Repeatedly pointing out the other guy's flaws in a vain attempt to deflect focus from one's own lack of positive qualities isn't working. What *is* working? Focusing on the needs of the struggling middle class and on fixing the country's economic problems while keeping (largely) above the personal-attack-level fray. Fancy that.

It's delightful how easily John Cleese is able to lay out that which is frightfully obvious yet studiously underplayed by the MSM for us in friendly, unconfrontational tones. And it's admirable how Rachel Maddow was able to display the utmost in cool, calm collectedness in the face of Frum's "I know you are, but what am I?"-level "discourse." And it's heartening that Barack Obama continues to stay on message and on point as he discusses this country's challenges and his plans to address them, while "that other guy" and his support structure implode. Sometimes Willie Horton and the Swift Boats (incidentally, an excellent name for a band) don't work. Pity it's taken the near-total collapse of our nation's economy to help put people in a mind to right past election-related wrongs. No matter; Obama in office and 60 Senate seats don't seem like such a pie-in-the-sky goal anymore, and four years of reasonable and competent governance would certainly go a long way toward allaying people's discomfort about Obama's perceived "otherness" and/or lack of experience.

I am filled with hope, and yet I will phone-bank again this weekend. (At the risk of sounding all Muslim terrorist-y, trust in Allah, but tie your camel.)

[Sir Charles]

"Willie Horton and the Swift Boats" -- they were awesome. After he left the "Weekend Furloughers" who had produced the seminal album "Scary Black Man in a Revolving Door."

[Voice o' Reason]

Didn't Willie also front Lockbox for a while back in the early 'oughts?

And I believe his dad was the lead singer for Tricky Dick on their album "Plain Cloth Republican Coat."

[Corvus]

I love John Cleese so much. That laugh of his was cathartic for me.