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Other Than That, How Did You Like The Play?

By Big Tent Democrat, Section Media
Posted on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 02:26:03 PM EST
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Protecting a "legacy", the Breitbart adherents report:

In 1998, a small Chicago theater company staged a play titled The Love Song of Saul Alinsky [. . . President] Obama was not only in the audience, but also took the stage after one performance, participating in a panel discussion that was advertised in the poster for the play.

In the words of Colonel Jessup, "Please tell me you have something more[.] Please tell me that [the keepers of the Breitbart flame] ha[ve]n't pinned their hopes to a [play]bill."

Speaking for me only

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    Other Than That, How Did You Like The Play? | 40 comments (40 topical)

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    Didn't you just know Bill Ayers would (5.00 / 0) (#1)
    by oculus on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 02:34:15 PM EST
    be mentioned too?  But the keepers of the flame don't intend to rehash 2008.  

    4 days. (This is the answer to an earlier (none / 0) (#2)
    by oculus on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 02:47:14 PM EST
    question re time required between RIP and something else.)

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    And I thought for sure (5.00 / 1) (#5)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 02:56:16 PM EST
    YOU would appreciate my "pinned their hopes to a playbill" gambit.

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    Yes. And, as opposed to some recent (none / 0) (#7)
    by oculus on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 02:56:55 PM EST
    lede's, this one I "got."  

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    Also too (5.00 / 1) (#9)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 02:59:32 PM EST
    Keeper of the Flame reference.

    Not to mention A Few Good Men (also a Broadway play first.).

    A lot of snooty stuff going on in this short post.

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    Hey, i got the Few Good Men ref! (5.00 / 1) (#26)
    by ruffian on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 03:31:06 PM EST


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    Yes. Well, I had to look up the Colonel. (none / 0) (#11)
    by oculus on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 03:01:03 PM EST
    An illusion (or is it allusion)-packed piece.

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    From Keeper of the Flame Wiki article (none / 0) (#13)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 03:04:55 PM EST
    "Forrest (backed by secretive, ultra-wealthy, power-hungry individuals) planned to use racism, anti-union feeling, and antisemitism  to divide the country, turning one group against another if it became too powerful to control, in order to create the chaos that would let him seize power."

    Any resemblance to the GOP is wholly coincidental (mebbe.)

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    Too subtle. Missed it. (none / 0) (#14)
    by oculus on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 03:05:53 PM EST


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    Takes a film buff (none / 0) (#16)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 03:07:11 PM EST
    to remember that. KoF was modelled on Lindbergh of course.

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    "Of course." !!! (none / 0) (#17)
    by oculus on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 03:09:10 PM EST


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    Not, "of course?" (none / 0) (#20)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 03:12:14 PM EST
    American hero becomes a Fascist sympathizer? I can only think of Lindbergh in that scenario. Ezra Pound was a literary hero I suppose, but not a popular hero like Lucky Lindy.

    BTW, my father pointed me to a book he is reading, defending Lindbergh, who, according to the book, was the victim of an FDR smear campaign.

    Yes, my father is a raving lunatic. AKA a Republican.

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    The guy at the ticket booth to a park at Lake (none / 0) (#22)
    by oculus on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 03:15:16 PM EST
    of the Ozarks told my dad he looked just like Lindy.  I didn't realize the implications at the time!

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    "Keeper of the Flame" is in common (none / 0) (#12)
    by oculus on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 03:03:24 PM EST
    usage, no?  But the elliptical bracketing has to be a first.  Impressive.  

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    I could have paraphrased (5.00 / 1) (#15)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 03:06:15 PM EST
    but I like the rhythm of A Few Good Men's words.

     

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    How did you find the illustration for the (none / 0) (#18)
    by oculus on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 03:10:11 PM EST
    DK post?  

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    Not the crop circles. The print. (none / 0) (#19)
    by oculus on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 03:10:29 PM EST


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    Wikmedia Commons (none / 0) (#21)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 03:14:25 PM EST


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    "state religion"? (none / 0) (#41)
    by oculus on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 11:42:32 PM EST


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    I'm Colonel Jessup'd OUT (none / 0) (#24)
    by Militarytracy on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 03:23:01 PM EST
    And when you reach that point, this is where you go.

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    At least I used (none / 0) (#25)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 03:30:15 PM EST
    a less well traveled quote.

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    Yes you did (none / 0) (#27)
    by Militarytracy on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 03:31:37 PM EST
    and in light of the deceased your writing is very tasteful.

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    Is that Aaron Sorkin? He is good. (none / 0) (#28)
    by ruffian on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 03:31:37 PM EST


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    Too soon? (none / 0) (#4)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 02:55:08 PM EST
    I went for the indirect disdain.

    i think it remains "tasteful."

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    Quite respectful. Who can say whether (none / 0) (#6)
    by oculus on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 02:56:21 PM EST
    the recently deceased would approve of those claiming to speak for him now?

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    Indirect disdain is perfect (none / 0) (#35)
    by Towanda on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 06:28:17 PM EST
    -- difficult as it is to type with the pinkie finger crooked, like royalty sipping tea and looking down on the muddling, middling classes, dontchaknow.

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    It's quite obvious where that (5.00 / 1) (#3)
    by Anne on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 02:53:06 PM EST
    so-called "flame" is emanating from...

    These people can't be serious, can they?  There aren't 10 random people on the street who have the foggiest notion who Saul Alinsky even is...I'd be willing to bet that at least one would respond, "oh, I think he's related to that woman Clinton got into trouble with."

    This is just sad.

    Not the audience they're (5.00 / 2) (#29)
    by gyrfalcon on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 03:51:33 PM EST
    aiming to reach.  Their purpose in life is to keep the right-wing all exercised and "outraged."  Not that most of them have a clue who Saul Alinsky really was, it's just a scary-sounding guy who must have been first cousin to Karl Marx.


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    SITE VIOLATOR (5.00 / 1) (#43)
    by oculus on Tue Mar 06, 2012 at 12:44:43 AM EST
    Lacking creativity.  

    sight violator (5.00 / 1) (#44)
    by DFLer on Tue Mar 06, 2012 at 09:52:32 AM EST
    I read your comment. It was funny.

    Toupee cleaning.

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    I firmly informed a high school (none / 0) (#8)
    by oculus on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 02:58:33 PM EST
    classmate via Facebook Obama never worked for ACORN.  Was I wrong?

    In 1995 (5.00 / 1) (#23)
    by jbindc on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 03:18:38 PM EST
    He and two other lawyers represented ACORN in a suit against the State of Illinois.

    That's about all he did as far as "working FOR them"

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    You were correct (none / 0) (#10)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 02:59:59 PM EST


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    Well, lawyers do work for their clients (none / 0) (#36)
    by Towanda on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 06:29:15 PM EST
    we hope.

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    Most do (none / 0) (#40)
    by jbindc on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 09:28:06 PM EST
    Some work for TV cameras.

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    Breitbartians are too much (none / 0) (#30)
    by Dadler on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 04:26:40 PM EST
    I can't wait for the footage of Obama smoking crack with the illegitimate daughter of Che Guevara during a weekend at a swinger's resort in Sweden.  While wearing a kilt.  And sandals with tire tread on the bottom.  Chinese tires.  

    Donald (none / 0) (#33)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 04:53:41 PM EST
    You NEED me on that wall!!!

    Just sayin'

    LMAO! (none / 0) (#39)
    by Jackson Hunter on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 07:37:07 PM EST
    Seriously, I wish I had one of those laughing emoticons. The Chinese have neither the capacity nor, most importantly, the will to invade America. The average Joe on the street here likes America and they really respect our strength. Of course as a guest here I am treated very nicely so perhaps they are lying for my benefit, but I have a good sense of people and I just don't sense any real hostility here. That could change if we start getting too aggressive with them, they're not chumps and won't be treated as such.

    Great link Donald, thank you.

    Jackson

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    A sad Irony (none / 0) (#45)
    by Iona Peecee on Wed Mar 07, 2012 at 01:17:49 PM EST
    Brietbart heavily edited all of his output, and fate has cruelly edited him. Loony or not RIP to him

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