CSotD: Stranger than fiction. And not in a good way.
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In his last animation at Daily Kos before the elections (which is good for him, I guess, but feels kind of like having the surgeon scrub out just as the tricky part of the operation is beginning), Scott Bateman takes an actual Mitt Romney speech and adds a few MST3000 style wiseass comments in the margins:
Which is pretty darned funny and relies in large part on Romney's gift for saying sweet nothings like that the trees in Michigan are the right height.
As Bateman notes, this remarkable talent for the vacuous is not the same as W's delightful, Yogi-like manglings of the English language, as immortalized by Richard Thompson:
Bush had something to say. He just couldn't get the right words together and his malapropisms were often hilarious but at least — as with the (purported) verbal miscues of the Rev. Spooner — you could sort out what he had actually meant to say, once you stopped laughing.
I'm not sure about Mitt. Here's a video from Bad Lip Reading and, you know, I dunno that the words they've put in his mouth are a whole lot more foolish sounding than ones the really did come out of his mouth in the speech Bateman selected.
If this guy wins in November, our grandchildren will be able to play a game in which they take real speeches and BLR clips and try to guess which are which.
But just to show I'm not completely partisan, and as a reminder of someone else who needs to get a brain-to-mouth filter installed, here's today's Prickly City:
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