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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts)
Sat Aug 25, 2012, 04:23 PM Aug 2012

Actor Nathan Lane compares Paul Ryan to Wicked Witch of the West

Actor Nathan Lane, star of Broadway’s “The Producers” and the film “The Birdcage” took a few sardonic jabs at the Romney campaign on Friday night at a fundraiser for President Barack Obama on Friday night, according to Huffington Post.

At the event, which was held at a supporter’s residence in the Hamptons and featured Lane alongside Vice President Joe Biden, Lane scored laughs by mocking Mitt Romney’s inconsistency and by comparing vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to the Wicked Witch of the West from “The Wizard of Oz.”

Lane’s turn at the mic saw him cracking jokes about both men on the Republican ticket. He pointed out that Romney is fluent in French, which will be useful when he tries to “flip-flop in two languages.” He urged the assembled guests to ransack the house’s medicine cabinets before they leave, which is also known, he said, as “the Republicans’ plan to save Medicare.”

Medicare brought the Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor to the vice presidential nominee and his plan to use a voucher system to reorganize the program. “I think his exact words to the Medicare program were, ‘I’ll fix you, my pretty!’ as he rode off on his broom.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/25/actor-nathan-lane-compares-paul-ryan-to-wicked-witch-of-the-west/

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Actor Nathan Lane compares Paul Ryan to Wicked Witch of the West (Original Post) Playinghardball Aug 2012 OP
love NL. MFM008 Aug 2012 #1
That is great! Lifelong Protester Aug 2012 #2
What makes you say that? Cha Aug 2012 #4
PLEASE tell me he didn't actually SAY that??? niyad Aug 2012 #6
Lyin' Ryan is Evil.. Cha Aug 2012 #7
smooches to Nathan Lane grasswire Aug 2012 #3
Maher's Busy, Booking Obnoxious Conservatives. Paladin Aug 2012 #5
TouFreakingChe'! Cha Aug 2012 #8
Fantastic wit! Would like to hear more from him n/t flamingdem Aug 2012 #9

Cha

(297,496 posts)
4. What makes you say that?
Sat Aug 25, 2012, 05:32 PM
Aug 2012
"rape is just another “method of conception” and not an excuse to allow abortions." Paul Ryan 8/24

grasswire

(50,130 posts)
3. smooches to Nathan Lane
Sat Aug 25, 2012, 04:43 PM
Aug 2012

I wish he had his own show.

Why doesn't Bill Maher have him on regularly? He's just a hoot!

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