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Red meat: Angry guy dressed as Founding Father calls for march on D.C. or something

posted at 8:40 pm on March 18, 2009 by Allahpundit
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Jokes Karl, “How soon ’till he turns up on Glenn Beck?” Pretty soon, I figure: His last video drew more than 2.5 million hits and this one’s bound to do big business as well, although it leaves me ice cold. So ambitious is his agenda, in fact, that I half-suspect it’s a parody of enraged populist demagoguery. Indifferent politicians, taxation without representation, jobs being outsourced, national suicide, “wake up, America!”, more money for troops’ salaries, universal service — all of it sprinkled with rhetoric about “the almighty wrath of we the people” and marching on Washington and a second American revolution and buying a gun if things don’t work out. As if there aren’t enough destabilizing threats to worry about, now there’s this guy and his contingent to fret over if Congress doesn’t snap to attention when they get those tea bags in the mail. Exit question: Is this Thomas Paine or Robespierre?

Update: Commenters tell me that Beck actually already played this on today’s radio show. Perfect.


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March on Washington, eh?

1. All of a sudden the IRS will audit you. There will suddenly be back taxes you never knew about.

2. Try to buy a gun and because of the background check you’ll be denied.

3. For reasons unbeknownst to the Passport Office your application is denied.

4. The police will kick down your door early one morning and ‘find’ hundreds of risque Shirley Temple pics on your computer…pervert.

5. You can’t figure out why you can’t get that job at the county/state/federal agency…gee, I submitted my fingerprints and have no prior felonies? Odd.

6. It comes down through the grapevine/old boy network to your boss that perhaps it is best you ‘move on’.

7. “Officer, I just know I registered my car…I just don’t understand it! Drugs? What drugs?”

1. I’ve got all of my paperwork. I’m covered.
2. Already have/carry a gun.
3. Renewed my passport last year.
4. The dogs will get the police first, and I’m a tech geek. My computer is safe.
5. I’ve got a job.
6. My boss is also my friend.
7. I don’t get pulled over.

cannonball on March 27, 2009 at 9:28 PM

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