Campaign idea: The 2012 campaign as Blazing Saddles.

[darkstar3]

Joe can be the Waco Kid, and he and Sherrif Bart can battle the impotent and whackadoodle lackeys of greed.

I figure the townsfolk work well as the American people, and we already know who'll have to play Lili Von Shtupp. . But who plays Taggart, Hedley, Mongo, and Gov. Lepetomane?

I could SO see a YouTube spoof like this going viral if it were done correctly. The question is, who is diabolical enough in Right field to play Hedley Lamar?

Thoughts?

[valerief]

1. Hedley played by Newt. Mongo played by Trump. Taggart is Louie Gohmert.

And no one plays the race card to inject divisiveness more than Beck, so he'd play the governor.

[darkstar3]

8. I could see Trump as Mongo,

especially when you think of the line "Mongo like candy." You could voice that over Trump's newest birther-ism.

I don't know about Newt as Hedley, though. He doesn't really strike me as the leader type. Never has.

ETA: I learned a new name. I'd already heard of Gohmert, but now I know exactly why. Sheesh!

[iris27]

32. HAHAHAHA....Trump as Mongo...that is perfect!

:rofl:

[DJ13]

2. Needs a campfire scene

:evilgrin:

[darkstar3]

3. Any camera footage from CPAC should do.

;)

[lob1]

4. With lots of beans.

[Turbineguy]

5. Excuuuuuuse me

while I whip this out!

[izquierdista]

6. Gabby Johnson played by Jon Kyl

A master of authentic frontier gibberish.

[Capitalocracy]

7. Candygram for Mongo

[msongs]

9. You left out Greasy Mitt! can he be a horse? nt

[WillyT]

17. He's Already A Horse's Ass...

:evilgrin:

:hi:

[darkstar3]

21. Greasy Mitt could be Lyle.

"When you was slaves, you sang like birds!"

[Cirque du So-What]

10. In the role of Lili von Shtupp:

Michele Bachmann!



OOPSIE! I mean...

[darkstar3]

11. Interesting choice.

I figured Palin was the obvious shoe-in for that role, since denizens of the Right's basement seem to...

The preceding sentence has been truncated to protect the young, the infirm of heart, and generally anyone with sanity.

[Cirque du So-What]

25. Yes, but...

have you ever seen Grifter Palin with such an ecstatic expression? That's a prerequisite for the scene in which she gets...err...Schtupped, yunno.

[darkstar3]

27. Ew.

Somehow, as brazen as I am, I don't like how this conversation is steering toward right-wing o-faces.

Just...ew.

[eppur_se_muova]

29. Those two pix belong on a bumper sticker together!

Bachmann/Batboy 2012
Elect a bloodsucking predator
and Batboy!

[Drale]

12. "We almost lost a 20 dollar handcart"

That is the republican mentality.

[darkstar3]

13. Actually, Taggart's line from the end of the scene RIGHT before that one is better.

"HORSES, you idiot!? We can't afford to lose any horses! Send over a couple of n******."

Now THAT'S a Republican mentality.

[Motown_Johnny]

14. I am against it, the "N" word is in that movie and if we open that door we

open the door to everything that goes with it


Let that movie and, it's scene comprised entirely of 10 minutes worth of farting, fade into obscurity where it belongs.

[Drale]

16. I don't like the "N" word but

If we ban one word, then other words will be banned and soon whole books. It is a very slippery slope. Mel Brooks made that movie because he could and its a damn funny movie and I know plenty of African Americans who think so as well.

[valerief]

18. Stop giving "the N word" power. Mel Brooks took its power away and we all laughed at it. nt

[darkstar3]

19. Actually, the usage of the N-word in that movie is a GOOD thing for this political climate,

at least in my book.

Hear me out. We have a whole lot of people in this country who are scared to death to talk about the subject of race. There were a myriad of people who opposed President Obama simply because he was black, but most of them were too afraid to say it outright, so they came up with shit like the birther conspiracy. Meanwhile, many people who supported President Obama were and are terrified of calling the racists what they are, for fear of being labelled as "using the race card." (That phrase right there could be a whole debate about legitimizing racism.)

This movie doesn't treat the topic of racism with kid gloves. It lays it out bare, and if it makes people uncomfortable, it does so rightfully, because race relations in this country are fucked up and it's long past time we talked about it.

Another possible debate topic: A postracial society is one in which the word "postracial" never gets used.

[valerief]

22. It addresses the "white flight" that we knew in the seventies, too. nt

[darkstar3]

26. I never thought about it that way, but you're dead on, now that I do.

[Drale]

31. I don't fear calling out the racists

in fact I do it at every opportunity I can, because most Americans at least pretend to hate racists, at least in public

[name not needed]

28. So what's it like not having a sense of humor?

[Motown_Johnny]

36. That movie is funny to 12 year olds. IMO it is among the worst films Brooks ever did

With "The Producers" being the best by far


I have a sense of humor, it just isn't an immature sense of humor.

[Earth_First]

15. "Unfortunately there is one thing standing between me and that property: the rightful owners."

-Hedley Lamarr

[darkstar3]

20. Fits the banks to a tee, doesn't it?

That movie is applicable on so many levels.

[valerief]

23. But the banks don't let rightful owners get in the way anymore! nt

[darkstar3]

24. And they do that through what process?

"Land snatching!"

[eppur_se_muova]

30. Bu**sh** should be Lepetomane.

Once you brought up the topic, I realized he's the embodiment of Brooks' parody -- as well as his namesake.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_P%C3%A9tomane

Bu**sh** was rumored to have given a few 'recitals' in the WH.

[HopeHoops]

33. Gov. Christie is a natural for Lepetomane.

The Senate is full of Republicans who could play Mongo.

[IDemo]

34. Frontier gibberish courtesy of Snooki Snowdrift

[MrScorpio]

35. I beat you to it...

I've already done that with the health care debate. Enjoy: http://journals.democraticunderground.com/MrScorpio/73

[darkstar3]

37. Funny reading. Thanks.

I guess GMTA. :hi: