No, seriously, it makes perfect sense. Let me count the ways:
1) He’s purple.
2) He’s fictional.
3) He’s prehistoric.
4) He’s all the time talking about how we should all cooperate and get along with each other.
5) He has the same name as both a Democratic congressman and a Republican president’s dog.
6) He annoys the living hell out of me.
Look, I’m all in favor of teaching the little kids to cooperate and get along with each other, and Barney provides a valuable service for that demographic.
But if the little kids are plotting to conk teacher with a lead pipe and take her money, or the nerds are facilitating their own beatings, then "cooperation" somehow doesn’t seem quite so benign anymore.
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By get along you mean shut up and go to the back of the bus?
Oh ZED
Or help to drive it off the cliff.
But if the little kids are plotting to conk teacher with a lead pipe and take her money, or the nerds are facilitating their own beatings, then “cooperation” somehow doesn’t seem quite so benign anymore.
Barney is a GOP dinosaur?
Well, I never liked Barney that much.
But, still?
Aren’t you stretching this a bit?
Come on.
How does this help? Kids plotting to conk teacher with a leap pipe?
Hmmmmmmm.
I know it’s not nice to question the headliner, but on the other hand…nice comments get what?
I think we’re all bozos on this bus…
3) He’s prehistoric.
Hey he’s still younger than John McCain!
Or a DINO…
Bipartisan support for worthy goals is a fine thing. Broderesque “bipartisanship” for its own sake is just a way to block or water down worthy goals.
Until our Beltway elite accept that the people they’re demanding we compromise with are the ones that killed bipartisanship (and did it deliberately for their own gain), their demands for more bipartisanship will continue to be delusional.
Just think of Barney as Broder’s platonic ideal of what a Democrat should be.
EPU’ED:
From Left in Alabama:
Teacher is the Constitution. Does that make the metaphor work better?
2) He’s fictional.
No he’s a media Creation, GOP calls for Bipartisianship are fictional
Yeah It starts to look like we might win and suddenly the GOPers are all about being bipartisian.
6) He annoys the living hell out of me.
Somehow, my son never quite found Barney on the teevee.
Wonder how that could have happened?
They’ve been all about bipartisanship ever since they realized that minority Dems could still filibuster.
ot – ecahn, if you are here. the document is, “US Space Command Vision for 2020“, propaganda document published in feb 1997 by the US Space Command and available from FAS (scroll down the page). it’s a pdf, but only 1MB, so even folks on dial up may be able to down load it.
now that i read it, i remember it from 2001/2002 when i was playing catch up on our military/foreign policy.
here’s a useful bit:
and this, under future trends (my bold):
could it be any clearer that bill clinton’s corporate globalization had nothing to do with anything the clintons or virtually any other dem told us it did?
Ah, the inherent danger of metaphor. Certain types of minds just don’t get it…
Me?
n) His head is full of foam rubber.
o) He’s actually better behaved than most ReThugs.
p) He’s smarter than McCain’s economics advisor.
In closing, a little humor never hurt anyone…’cept the humorless.
Where does this leave the Teletubbies?
But what happened to 7 through m?
Bush Clinton Bush Clinton
Cheney Wolfowitz Rumsfeld
Nixon Reagan
There is no difference. IMHO
Liberals. It is well-documented that Tinky-Winky is a gay homosexual.
tinkling and winkling?
Did you intend this as an attack on Obama, or is that aspect merely a coincidence? ;-)
Great Eli! I love it.
in the previous thread, ecahn recommened the interview of Bruce Gagnon at antiwar.com
i just want to second the recommendation. before i head out in a few.
Are Teletubbies like couch potatoes?
Uh, I assume then that you’re not aware that St John of McSame is supposed to be the maverick who votes with the Dems in a bi-partisan fashion?
oops. last two lines should not be in the blockquotes.
I heard they taste more like chicken
hahahah!
But only when said Dems are voting with the Republicans.
Goodbye Barney
Or even better, here’s a burning of Barney, not sure about the cross imagery…
please forgive me for quoting myself:
There seem to be rather a lot of Death To Barney videos floating around…
Military policy is not under the control of the political structure of this country. Nothing could be further from reality. It exists as a parasitical infection which permeates the entire country. Read my post: Military Keynesianism: What is that and why should I care?
To assign blame to some particular politician based on the date of some white paper report from the DOD is to completely miss the point.
Political decisions to create, implement and then use new means to project military force are now beyond the control of Congress, the President or SCOTUS. This must be so when the occupation of Iraq grinds on and on despite huge majority opposition. Just as it did for Vietnam which only stopped when the MIC concluded it was wasting it’s time. And…the fact that a huge percentage of the U.S. budget is ‘black’ shows that the MIC isn’t even worried about hiding the fact that it, not Congress, is calling the shots.
As we move forward past the elections with bigger Dem majorities and hopefully a Dem President and we see nothing change in Iraq…when we see nothing being done to fix our decaying infrastructure…when we see Trillions to continue to ‘disappear’ down the rathole that is Iraq…
Then we can get on with the work of cutting the cancer out of the body politic.
skipped ‘em…heh…
Of course. Otherwise, it’s just a bunch of Dem/Libruls trying to cram their elitist, arugula eating, white wine spritzer drinking, vovlo driving fiends trying to steal some doG fearing Christianist’s guns.
And the people on youtube seem to have this thing with fire…
And if you search “bottlerocket” and “butt” on the good ol’ youtube, it will open a whole new world of future right wing leaders.
There was a burning Tickle Me Elmo video that was rather disturbing…
(Not sure specifically *which* of the multitude of Burning Elmo videos it was…)
Don’t like Barney-burnings?
So find a UTOOB of a Barney-storming.
C’mon. Be a trooper.
that sounds suspiciously like Darwin Award winning behaviour.
Can someone tell me when the feature starts? I’m gonna take a nap…
How does Barney fit into intelligent design?
Nothing reassures my parenting skills more than watching someone else’s child try to shoot a bottle-rocket out of their ass…
And for the record, I have no problem with the Barney burning, per se, it was the pre-burning crucifixion that I thought could be considered… …over the top.
i forgot – clinton wasn’t the cic, he didn’t have any influence over any aspect of military goals or publications. he never had the opportunity to speak out against it. and all the reforms of the ’90s – in trade, in banking, in civil rights (re terrorism), in telecommunications, in torture – were done completely behind his back and without his knowledge.
just like with the iraq war (and firing generals like shinseki) or the pentagon propaganda or anything else that’s happened over the last 7 years – we shouldn’t blame bush either.
my bad.
p.s. and just to be clear – just like i don’t put all the blame on bush, i don’t put all the blame on clinton. but to claim that either one of them should not be held accountable for the major policy goals and decisions of their administration is not something i am going to back off from.
Figured somethin’ like that was comin’ & didn’t stay to watch.
Lotta blame to go around, including dozing electorate…
I think he does guest appearances at that creationist museum in Kentucky.
your honor, i plead guilty.
Didn’t you know? Barney was the babysitter for Cain and Able…
Hey, I guess I’m s’posed ta’
speak upgrunt for our in OH.Ugh. So little foam stuffing, so many over-size noggins.
*Gah* I don’t want Barney anywhere near the button…! ;-)
as judge and jury, i over-rule.
Definitely unqualified to be labelled dozer.
Next? Nope, none here that I can see.
Good Gawd! Shrub is handing out the diplomas to the students of Greensburg HS…
slow as….
Hey. Our broccoli’s still growing. Neighbor’s dawg stepped on the parsley, but then, it was Italian parsley. Mebbe Hobbitland security would like to hire him. perhaps to write and approve policy.
he’s not gonna hug ‘em, is he? *grabs brain bleach*
kitties are hungry. gotta go guys. be good when ya’ feel like it…
oh! and
! P. E. A. C. E. !
Eli,
Here’s what’s gonna be the next political critter to hit the malls
The Pander Bear
Talk’s Real Tough, Panders to the public
David has Frank Sharry of “America’s Voice” upstairs for a chat, if anyone is interested
And McBush too from what I understand.
it’s those SCORPIO kids!
they are the first generaion.
then comes the next.
:)
Eli, this was wayyyyy relevant!
there are answers that work.
thank you.
Hillary & Joe Lieberman are DINOS. Interesting…
You speak of that insipid purple Donkephant we see on TV all the time, right? I want to throw a brick at the TV every time those idiotic commercials come on.