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Transparent Idiocy

by John Cole|  November 12, 20031:12 pm| 4 Comments

This post is in: Democratic Stupidity

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Also while I was ill, I see the former Vice-Robot made a speech to our favorite group of activists, MoveOn.Org. With the recent influx of five million in cash from convicted insider trader (really- it is only bad when Republicans do it) and Jew hating Jew George Soros (“Jews run the world, and now to prove it I am going to shower everyone who is against Bush with money so my choice for President wins!”), perhaps this ‘grassroots’ movement should think of a name change to ‘MovingOnUp.Org.’

At any rate, Gore’s speech reminded me of the last time I saw a sad man in a clown suit shuffling across stage in a display of impotent irrelevance:

If someone stood up in a crowd,

and raised his voice up way out loud,

and waved his arm and shook his leg,

You’d notice him.

“For my part, I

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  1. 1.

    HH

    November 12, 2003 at 2:29 pm

    “TV has made nation complacent, Gore said” That’s Gore, soon to own his own TV network

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    Stormer Stormer

    November 15, 2003 at 1:13 pm

    I, like you, am totally fed up with the vast majority of politicians. It is evident that their sole reason for existence is to perpetuate their position in office. Winning is the ONLY morality and their ONLY principle. Not too many years ago, most of these clowns would have been literally ridden out of town on a rail…covered with tar and feathers.
    Keep up the great work. The web is becoming the last outpost of patriots.

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  1. Matthew J. Stinson | weblog says:
    November 12, 2003 at 1:28 pm

    Al Gore: the musical

    In one of the most creative posts I’ve seen in awhile, John Cole skewers Al Gore’s speech to Move On (their motto: “We make ‘Bushitler’ rhetoric mainstream!”). I don’t want to give too much away, but you’ll appreciate John’s riff…

  2. Matthew J. Stinson | weblog says:
    January 16, 2004 at 4:06 am

    Frozen, Flustered, And Lame

    Given that Al Gore’s global warming speech got a frosty reception from Mother Nature, it’s all the more fitting that Mr. Cellophane himself seems stuck in rhetorical deep freeze: Gore, in a speech before a full house at the Beacon…

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