March 1, 2008

Outslicking Slick Willie

Ah, the massed chants praising the leader rising in the background. The glazed eyes. The metronomic nodding. The sprinkling in of 3rd tier celebrities with ordinary people. The ritual gestures. The awestruck worship. The slickness. The repeating slogans. The slowly gathering masses.

When's the last time we saw this kind of popular delusion take hold of crowds?

And people like Ann Althouse are concerned with imagined letters in the night?

[HT: neo-neocon "A cult is born: they believe in him"]

Posted by Vanderleun at March 1, 2008 9:38 AM
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This is the most frightening piece of film I have ever seen. The Death Camps are coming to America

Posted by: Bob Sykes at March 1, 2008 10:46 AM

SIEG HEIL!! SIEG HEIL!! SIEG HEIL!!

Posted by: Barnabus at March 1, 2008 11:04 AM

I can't help it. I was getting ready for work the other day and was watching "Angel" reruns.

The episode was culmination of the "Jasmine" arc where they defeat the wonderously happy and evil demon from a parallel dimension who is bent on bringing mindless happiness to our dimension and in the process eating everyone.

It's just really freaky, the parallels. Sell your soul for peace! It's sort of the left coast version of Nazism I guess...

Posted by: Moose at March 1, 2008 11:47 AM

o-ba-MA
o-ba-MA
is the tom-tom BEAT
of the sound of THAT
which happens WHEN
people abdiCATE
their reason and THOUGHT
to the tom-tom BEAT
of hope and CHANGE
and self-reGARD
when the burden of THOUGHT
is too damn HARD
so we put our FAITH
in an empty SUIT
who can tell us WHAT
we want to DREAM
as the tribal BOOT
to the tom-tom BEAT
stomps a human FACE
to the tom-tom BEAT
and then rapes the SOUL
as in days of OLD
to the tom-tom BEAT
of o-ba-MA
o-ba-MA
o-ba-MA

Posted by: Petey at March 1, 2008 12:03 PM

Wonder when we'll see someone at a rally holding a gonfalon with a big "O" on it. If they follow form, red should start showing up as a back drop to really whip those animals into a frenzy.

Won't get fooled again.

Yea, right.

Posted by: David McKinnis at March 1, 2008 1:09 PM

If Obama is the Dems' candidate, I can't wait for the November.

Posted by: Christian at March 1, 2008 4:32 PM

Obama reminds me of the hypnotic Frodis from The Monkees episode "Mijacogeo." In the episode The Monkees and their friends are hypnotized by their TV sets which are controlled by the Evil Wizard Glick who used an alien Frodis to control people's minds in order to take over the world:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbUwhVRQPL0&feature=related

Posted by: Mary at March 1, 2008 8:04 PM

The greatist trick leftist fascism ever pulled was convincing the world it doesn't exist.

Posted by: Gray at March 1, 2008 9:14 PM

http://youtube.com/watch?v=EdM8PDu6VMg

only a movie, folks --

Posted by: buddy larsen at March 2, 2008 9:51 AM

I thought this was a parody with a Jessica Alba look-alike until I saw it on another blog.

Posted by: Morenuancedthanyou at March 2, 2008 11:06 AM

I take it the copyright ran out on "Triumph of the Will?"

Posted by: Mikey NTH at March 3, 2008 12:38 PM

Wow! Lighten up folks you are acting as paranoid as the anti bush people usually act.

Posted by: Lance at March 3, 2008 6:28 PM

All that was needed at the end of this movie was Donald Sutherland turning around and screeching at the camera.

If Obama wins in November, I plan on tearing up the garden and refusing to ever sleep again.

Posted by: Kar98 at March 3, 2008 8:01 PM

You can't call Jessica Alba a "3rd tier celebrity".... That just ain't right.

As for Obama... It has a ring to it, don't it

Posted by: Chuck Brant at March 5, 2008 11:19 AM