The only thing missing from the video is the Don LaFontaine voice-over…“In a world where only crazy teabaggers have a prayer of winning the Republican nomination, one man….”

It wasn’t an oversight, I’m sure. They would have included it if LaFontaine were still alive.

Also. Too. Not nearly enough phallic symbolism to attract your average Republican voter.

The music and quick cuts tended to overwhelm his banal words, which I suspect was the intent.

I like that they described that retarded Demon Sheep ad as “memorable.” Not effective, not well-done, not even adequate. Just able to be remembered.

Courage to Stand?

I’m sure he means just after getting off his knees and wiping off his chin.

I keep thinking it’s not possible to loathe this man more than I already do. And yet, he keeps eliciting more repugnance from me. Strange.

Maybe this is why he has suddenly grown a Southern accent.

All of my family originates in the Minnesota/North Dakota area, and trust me, anyone who claimed to be a Minnesotan and talked like that would be laughed out of the state. Then again, I haven’t been there in a while; maybe asiangrrlMN (or any other commenters from Minnesota) could provide an update as to whether Minnesota is part of the New South.

What comes after dumb, dumber, and dumberer? Because I think we are going to need that word real soon.

I believe the word you’re looking for is dumbererest. However, if there are any English teachers out there, I may be forced to refudiate this remark.

He’s becoming memorable, in that demonified sheep kinda way.

Pawlenty looks like one of the background extras from Mad Men, and has all the speaking charisma of a bus station PA announcer. He needs to push that phony Southern accent, grow a good-sized gut, and start bellowing his speeches into a 1930s RCA radio mike. Also: pull down the tie, start wearing suspenders and a sweat-stained shirt.
“Ah wuz the on’y one with the kerredge ta take on the special innerests!! If they wan’ a faght, I’m fixin’ ta give ‘em one!”

Jeezus… that’s is the nationalistic equivalent of a wide screen double-penetration 3D video. And I’m sure it has its audience (tea-baggers, Tim Pawlenty, people that Tim pay to sit around and say, “yeah!”) but it’s otherwise a weirdly fucked up piece of propaganda. As an anti-dote, there’s already a video of life as it would be under President Pawlenty.

Ah, but it’s to be expected. Gutshot’s spent most of the last five years — ever since Mike Hatch, one month before the election, blew what was going to be an easy win over Idiot Boy back in 2006 — hanging out in the Deep South consorting with Mises Institute and Council of Conservative Citizens types. In other words, the GOP’s primary voters and base.

And after all that whoring, all the mountains he moved to get the RNC to come to Saint Paul in 2008 so he could be crowned as McCain’s consort (watching him swallow his bile as McCain paraded around with Palin was the one bright spot in a putrid, thuggish five days that fall), all of the kissyface with Beltway reporters so they’d tout him as The Sensible Alternative even as he increased his rhetorical crazy-base suction on the rhetorical members of the GOP’s primary voters, what happens when the supremely batshit Michele Bachmann hints at throwing her hat in the ring? She instantly ties him in the polls of the party faithful.

Gee, it almost makes one sad, if it wasn’t for the fact that the skeevy mulletheaded prick damned near destroyed my state just to please some racist dingleberries in exchange for their 2008 and 2012 backings.

… you go to war with the bland lifeless demagogue you have, not the demagogue you wish you had.

Perfect.

No, the English teachers are eating chocolate bonbons covered in caviar and mocking their private sector neighbors as they toil in their electronic plantations.

Huh?

I thought going Galt-Train was the hip-hippity-doggy-dog-poo thing them Righties were into these days.

What’s next?

“The government’s too damn big!” he now tells people.

The Governor finally lost the nomination after the “Tim Pawlenty is Too Damn High!” campaign slogan rollout, in a tragic misreading of who his electorate actually was and their tolerance for counter-culture, plagiarism, and idiocy, in that order.

They missed a real opportunity by not going with O Fortuna. It is THE soundtrack for All That Is To Be Taken Seriously.

The Governor finally lost the nomination after….

If only he’d thunk outside the box a wee bit and chosen a respectable running mate* this travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery could have been avoided.

*Christine O’D comes to mind……….

amped up his stump

they could have stopped right there.

There’s Pawlenty wrong with him. He’s as flat as a certain Minneapolis bridge.

Those of us from the south don’t see those quick cuts you folks are talking about. They must be subliminal for us. Maybe that explains why the name Pawlenty now makes me think of raising the flag on Suribachi, crossing the Deleware, and other things that aren’t associated with him in any way. Were there any images of 19th century robber barons, kids working in mines and sweat shops, Pinkertons bludgeoning strikers, and other things he would actually promote?

Obviously, Lucas Baiano is no Leni Riefenstahl, but you go to war with the bland lifeless demagogue you have, not the demagogue you wish you had.

just had to see this one more time. Jesus, that’s a great line to start the day with!

I believe the word you’re looking for is dumbererest.

That would imply they’ve reached a point they cannot top. I don’t think the -est can ever be applied without clairvoyant knowledge of what they’ll do after this, or perhaps in retrospect after things have (ha) gotten better.

Nah, they’re saving that for their Red Dawn remake.

I think it might have even been more effective if they had photoshopped Pawlenty’s face into all of those events that he had fuck all to do with. So instead of Mike Eruzione’s face in the little clip from the 1980 ‘Miracle on Ice’ Olympic hockey team, we could see Pawlenty sticking a figurative finger in the eye of the old Soviet Union. We could see Pawlenty crossing the Delaware … Pawlenty raising the flag over Iwo Jima. He doesn’t just have to absorb the awesomeness from all of thest historical events by having them being randomly thrown into a short film clip about him, he can BE all those kinds of awesome.

Seriously. I just thought he would go away, but apparently, I am too gumdrop (gave up the swears for Lent. It’s how I’m preparing to run for president as a Republican. Fortunately, I can still lie) optimistic for my own Damascus Figs good.

Heh.

He also could spice up the audio a bit … “One small step for *crackle* Pawlenty … one giant [pause] leap for mankind”

I always wonder if Carl Orff’s estate gets royalties. Imagine minding your own business in Germany or Switzerland or wherever, and suddenly getting royalties from the Pawlenty campaign. “Was ist das?” you would say, holding it at arm’s length.

Anyway, I would prefer to hear a soundtrack of choice bits of The Rite of Spring. That’d make ‘em sit up in the small town donut shops.

Hey, TBogg — speaking of making Tim all hippity-hop, did you notice the second link from the left on the nav bar of the Pawlenty PAC website? I know you didn’t. You would definitely have said something…

The scene where he he pushes through the door to the cheers of the waiting thousands? They could have made that a shot of him walking out of his tomb three days after he was crucified. Maybe another shot later, of Tim ascending to heaven, with one of those backlit, waving American flags in the foreground. Oh, well–there will more videos to come.

BTW, when I first heard the name “Pawlenty,” I thought they were saying “polenta”–another tasty but bland treat made primarily of corn.

I wonder how “baked” Pawlenty is? Baked polenta’s not too shabby…..

I guess I’m a little fuzzy about the commenting rules at FDL.

Can anybody tell me why this comment:

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The alert appears to have been sent out due to concern about cyber-attacks not physical attacks.

Additionally, though there is no direct threat, it is possible that actual physical penetrations onto MCBQ property may be undertaken..

This situation is disgusting enough, it doesn’t need any hyperbole.

They see the protesters coming and they take them seriously. They are also worried others will try to take advantage of the confusion to do something worse.

That’s what I got from this alert.
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would meet with moderator disapproval?

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2011/03/19/quantico-marine-base-issues-threat-advisory-for-bradley-manning-protest/

After watching that video I’m going with Dumbageddon.

Pawlenty is so boring that I cannot even get inspired to comment on him.

How baked? P’lenty.

Enough to stick a fork in him? Is he done?

TBogg, I might add that this post has now been up for more that 24 hours with no further snark. You are approaching the “you owe us another basset pic” limit. Just so you know.

T’s in SDS BB heaven (best hope Cinci knocks off CT or them basset ears be looking like Tarkanian towels)….

I’d say way beyond “baked” if Pawlenty seriously believes he stands a chance in hell of winning the GOP nomination. I’d say it’s more like “wiped” or “faced”.

Ahhh…. This is what happens when you attempt to depict a character from an Ayn Rand novel incorporating Riefenstahl’s techniques. It loses something without the face shots of well-scrubbed, excruciatingly blonde children, and the clean-cut young men in brown designer uniforms and shiny black boots….

and the clean-cut young men in brown designer uniforms and shiny black bootsNaughty Red Monkey Pumps….

Fixed (in honor of Fuhrer Palin )!

“… human snooze button Tim Pawlenty …”

No one can open a post like TBogg. No one.