Run this 32 second commercial. At the 20 second point your are going to say …WHAT? …or WHOA! …or at the very least, HUH?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JkFbYxrxbA8
The commercial was prepared for the 2004 Super Bowl. The ad was produced by MoveOn.org but rejected by the network, or whomever it is that passes on such things, on the grounds that it was too political. Funny how the left detests debt only when they are not the ones doing the spending.
What this country needs is more people loafing in the workplace.
This video went viral quite a while ago. If you haven’t seen it, here’s your chance. And if you have seen it, it’ still good for another chuckle.
Meryl Streep is not Margaret Thatcher, not even in the movie. Meryl Streep is one of the great actresses of our time. Margaret Thatcher is one of the great national leaders of our time. The twain are not the same.
Not having seen the film myself, I offer this edited comment by Max Pemberton writing for the UK Telegraph.
The film ended and I sat motionless while the credits rolled. Slowly I got up and walked out into the cold January air, sickened by what I’d been party to, so acutely aware that the scenes presented as entertainment and edification – scenes I’d paid to see – were, at that very moment, possibly taking place in a grand house somewhere in central London. I had partaken of cruel, thoughtless voyeurism, the subject of which was powerless to protest at her exploitation.
Meryl Streep’s performance is mesmerising, it is impossible not to be disturbed by her depiction of Lady Thatcher’s decline into dementia. Columnists and commentators such as Charles Moore, Norman Tebbit and Douglas Hurd have opined in this newspaper and elsewhere about this distasteful approach. David Cameron has similarly questioned the morality of making the film while she is still alive. I did not expect to agree with them. But now I am even more vehement in my condemnation, because, as a doctor, I have direct experience of the reality of dementia for the sufferer and their family.
Max Pemberton’s condemnation is particularly interesting because the journalist and medical doctor hails from the left. In fact, the good doctor is a strong supporter of socialized medicine which Margaret Thatcher vehemently opposed.
Posted in Audio/Visual, Videos
Tagged Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher, Max Pemberton, Meryl Streep
The networks are replete with Reality Shows that are unreal. When we are shown lone individuals driven to the need to drink muddy water and eat insects and leeches because there is no other means of survival, we forget how big a crew it takes to film such an ordeal and never ask if the crew spends the night in a tent with the hero or are helicoptered back to their hotel.
Here we offer you some reality that is really real and, in reality, just as amazing. And we assure you, the camera crew was not helicoptered back to their hotel.
If this puts you in mind of Dueling Banjos, here is the link.
Thousands of protesters flooded the streets of Moscow to demonstrate against the election of Vladimir Putin. The Russians were exercising a freedom of which they had long been deprived. The Russian people know where they have been and do not want to go back there.
The United States is moving toward the place from which the Russian people have come. The American people don’t know what it is like where they are going but many of them want to go there anyhow. In the process, our freedoms are being lost bit by bit.
Those of us standing by the wayside shouting bridge out ahead may face difficulties having our voices heard, but heard they will be. President Reagan was able to put an end to the Soviet Union because communism does not work. We have the same thing going for us in the upcoming election. The President’s policies do not work and the voters know it.
“A common European currency is a preposterous idea and we will have none of it!” Such was the steadfast position of Margaret Thatcher’s government. For sheer entertainment the proceedings in the British House of Commons have no peer in government. The Prime Minister stands up and speaks briefly. The Sub-Prime Ministers moan loudly. When the Prime pauses, the Sub-Primes leap from their seats, some of them that is. They plop down as fast as they pop up, like bubbles in a boiling stew.
One minister refers to another as Right and Honorable and then lambastes him (or Her) with the sharpest sort of insults and both sides have a hearty laugh. They talk about each other, in front of each other, but not to each other. Like two kids tattling on one another to their mom, the ministers tell everything to a man wearing a silly looking wig. A strange lot, the British.
The issues under siege in this clip are, first, the European Union which Thatcher sees as a looming federation robbing the individual nations of their sovereignty bit by bit, and secondly, the specter of outright Socialism.
Posted in Humor, Political polemics, Videos
Tagged Euro, European Union, House of Commons, Thatcher
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