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TeaBaggers Carpetbaggers Meet John Doe
If you havn't seen this timeless Capra classic do so since it's more revelavant these days than in its own time. A reporter creates a hoax to save her job.Then she hires washed up ball player Gary Cooper to be the face of her phony public interest story. He captures the spirits and dreams of the ordinary depression era John Does as he's a clean hero compared to the ilk of John Dillinger,Baby Face Nelson ,Bonnie and Clyde who wage the wrath of ordinary folks against the crooked bankers. Anyhow folks form feelgood groups based on the words of John Doe which the paper rallies into a movement knowing full well it's all based on fraud. Then the publisher ( who sure sounds like the McCormick of the Tribune) sells the movement out to special interests and purveyors of crappy merchandise. When the hero has second thoughts the ringleaders threaten to go public with his fraud .He goes along since he doesn't want to crush the new hopes of the ordinary folk but the stench of corruption and lies drives him to the rooftop that the fictional john Doe was going to jump from over his digest with a corrupt society. Of course as with Capra tradition he doesn't. It is a good look into how easily a fringe movement can be co-opted by con men and carpetbaggers. Only a week since the illinois primary and already one has fallen.Actually 2 but 1 was around before the teabags. The morally challenged chairman of the Palatine GOP who had the nerve to file assault charges against his mail order wife when she caught him in the house with 2 hookers.He tried everymeans to remove the play for pay statements from the police reports since he was a family values type. The Pawnbroker of similar character who dropped out during superbowl halftime.He had won the Dem Lt Gov nomination by promising to be new and different but was outed as sameold sameold. Worst of all selfproclaimed TeaBagger Joe Walsh.A rich boy from the northshore who couldn't even buy an office there won over a crowed field of dreamers with more experience in the district next door. This bastard even stole music from the Real Joe Walsh to use for his campaign and ads. Hopefully he goes down in flames since the incumbent has til november to expose him for the fraud he is or Joes agent Irving Azoff will destroy him just like he did the Eagles and independent concert promoters.Son of Satan Azoff is the man behind the ticketmaster livenation merger. Back to the movie,one of the funniest things you will hear is from sidekick Walter Brennan.(if you think about it the Cheers concept of washed up ballplayer and coach as buddies started here) He talks about Heelots,this is all the censors would allow as the description of the mass of shitheels who caused the publics woes as a consequence of selfish greed. Funniest thing i heard last week was one of the Phony Walshs harpies imploring the media to stop mention of teabaggers since she believed the opposition invented it as a derogatory term to put them down.Perhaps if they had researched the term and the candidate prior to adoption they wouldn't feel so foolish and used. Myself refuses to be labled as anything other than truly independent in thinking and affiliations.
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