Resurrecting his Shakespearean talent in getting "these motherfucking snakes" off "this motherfucking plane," actor Samuel Jackson (who did, after all, once play Othello), has a political video out, through the super-PAC graces of--oh dear Lord--the Jewish Council for Education and Research. The script's wrapping iambic pentameter I shall quote:
We're all on our own if Romney has his way.
And he's against safety nets.
If you fall, tough luck,
So I strongly suggest that you wake the fuck up.
The passage may lack Shakespeare's lighthearted ribaldry, but its rhythmic directness does have a certain elegance.
Somebody had to say it, and Samuel L. Jackson stepped up. Some people don't understand how important certain things are unless/until someone puts a little oomph into the message.
Posted by: majii | September 27, 2012 at 12:39 PM
I put his video on my Facebook page and it was shared by a republicant who is on my feed. She put the note on it that she wishes this wasn't about the "traitor" in the White House. It's a trip when the other side or alternate reality inhabitants wish they had a message from reality. Tickles the f**k outta me!
Posted by: Robinswing | September 27, 2012 at 01:04 PM
i thought the revelation that The Ryan/GOP budget kills Medicare would completely tank Romney's campaign, but I was wront. It injured him but did not kill it.
No, Romney had to get much more explicit. I once bought my daughter two t-shirts while in NJ (I was a bad single father). One said, "FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING FUCKER"; THE OTHER, "DO I LOOK LIKE A FUCKING PEOPLE PERSON?".
So Romney had to essentially say that to the electorate - and that only got him a 4-6 percentage point loss.
I wonder what percentage of the populace watches "Soylent Green" and thinks, "hey, that a good idea."
Posted by: Robert Lipscomb | September 27, 2012 at 01:45 PM