Video: Krauthammer a Monty Python fan?
posted at 7:12 pm on August 19, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
If so, my admiration for Charles Krauthammer has hit maximum proportions. I’m not sure I agree with his assessment that the public option is dead — I think it might just be pining for the fjords — but check out this Dennis Miller-style pop reference at the end, via Greg Hengler at Townhall:
Awesome. Unfortunately, I’m not convinced that the public option is an ex-parrot just quite yet. I’d certainly like to think it’s bleeding deceased, but I suspect it may just be mostly dead. We’ll need a miracle to keep Democrats from shoving that chocolate-coated potion down our throats. In other words, have fun storming the castle for the foreseeable future.
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The Public Option is pining for the fjords.
29Victor on August 19, 2009 at 7:15 PM
And…Hot Air jumps the shark. :-)
amerpundit on August 19, 2009 at 7:15 PM
Princess Bride–one of my 10 best all-time flicks.jgapinoy on August 19, 2009 at 7:16 PM
Krauthammer, some Python, and the Princess Bride, all in one post? Awesome. Throw in the epic police car pile up scene from The Blues Brothers, and I think ill pass out.
Weight of Glory on August 19, 2009 at 7:17 PM
I think the more appropriate Python line for Obama would be “It’s just a flesh wound”…
BigWyo on August 19, 2009 at 7:18 PM
And might I say, Ed, that I’m disappointed in your failure to post Margaret Thatcher’s calling Labor a dead parrot.
amerpundit on August 19, 2009 at 7:20 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhRUe-gz690&feature=fvst
the_nile on August 19, 2009 at 7:20 PM
Krauthammer is a class act and forgive me… but parroting is a concept. I’d lay odds Krauthammer is not familiar with Monty Python or has any idea what the ground speed of an unladen european swallow is.
Danzo on August 19, 2009 at 7:22 PM
“If you want to get anything done in this country you’ve got to complain until you are blue in the mouth.”
“That’s Inter-City Rail for you.”
“I don’t have to do this, you know, I’m a qualified Brain Surgeon. I only do this because I like being my own boss.”
And phrases like these will become more and more common if Obamacare passes.
As we all join the Choir Invisible.
coldwarrior on August 19, 2009 at 7:23 PM
I don’t think the public option is dead yet, so we need to keep hammering at HR 3200 until the entire beast is dead.
Meanwhile, Obama’s approval is tanking, so he will be desperate to drum up support somewhere, currently the gay vote. He originally thought he had them in his pocket no matter what, so he tossed gay marriage under the bus. Now that he sees he is in deep trouble, he needs to resurrect the issue and show them that he supports it.
He’s going to do this to many issues in an attempt to prop up his numbers. We should be prepared for the oncoming battles.
atheling on August 19, 2009 at 7:25 PM
I tend to think of them more as the Spanish Inquisition…
Maybe not so much Python as Tomás de Torquemada
Wolftech on August 19, 2009 at 7:25 PM
U ≈ 3fA
f ≈ 15 (beats per second)
A ≈ 0.22 (meters per beat)
U ≈ 3*15*0.22 ≈ 9.9
In other words, 9.9 meters per second.
Wolftech on August 19, 2009 at 7:27 PM
Are you the president?
No maam, we’re musicians.
califdreamnred on August 19, 2009 at 7:27 PM
African or European swallow?
coldwarrior on August 19, 2009 at 7:29 PM
Dennis: Listen, strange men lying around Washington distributing stimulus checks is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical signing ceremony!
You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just because some air-headed tarts fainted when you spoke.
If I went ’round sayin’ I should be President, just because some nonsense about raising the seas and providing hope and change, they’d put me away.
(Obama grabs him and shakes him)
Dennis: Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Help! Help! I’m being repressed!
Obama: Bloody racist!!
Dennis: Oh, what a giveaway! Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That’s what I’m on about! Did you see him repressing me? You saw him, Didn’t you?
PackerBronco on August 19, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Neither do I……
……….. the Dems will hide it somewhere.
Seven Percent Solution on August 19, 2009 at 7:30 PM
I think it is time for Brother Maynard to bring out the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch just to make sure the healthcare bill gets the treatment it deserves.
Lily on August 19, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Ground speed?
Sorry, I don’t get the reference?
malclave on August 19, 2009 at 7:33 PM
Is this wishful thinking on the part of Dr. K or does he know something we don’t?
d1carter on August 19, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Danzo did specify European, but after re-reading I did notice he said ground speed. I assume that is a mis-type so I ignore it (See, I am learning from 0bama).
Wolftech on August 19, 2009 at 7:35 PM
5 is right out.
Wolftech on August 19, 2009 at 7:36 PM
I think all right-thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired.
Bullseye36drum on August 19, 2009 at 7:36 PM
Pelosi turned me into a newt.
I got better.
viking01 on August 19, 2009 at 7:36 PM
Perhaps it would behoove us all to spend a bit of time reading from the Book of Python this evening? :-)
coldwarrior on August 19, 2009 at 7:37 PM
CK is a common man?
Can cargo shorts and a tank top be far behind?!
Y-not on August 19, 2009 at 7:37 PM
I’m legally deaf and have a hard time following the audio.
I don’t get Fox News anymore having moved into an apartment recently and don’t have any cable yet, so I couldn’t watch this with the captions on as I normally do.
Can someone please provide a sort of running transcript of what The Kraut One said?
manofaiki on August 19, 2009 at 7:38 PM
Dead Parrot
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dead+parrot
Wonder which one he meant?
chicagotrauma on August 19, 2009 at 7:38 PM
More like twit of the year
larvcom on August 19, 2009 at 7:39 PM
“Listen, strange women lyin’ in ponds distributin’ swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.”
coldwarrior on August 19, 2009 at 7:40 PM
chicagotrauma on August 19, 2009 at 7:38 PM
Thought that was dead meat.
califdreamnred on August 19, 2009 at 7:41 PM
Of all the Pythonisms, this ones the best…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvs5pqf-DMA
chicagotrauma on August 19, 2009 at 7:41 PM
LOL Awesome!
behiker on August 19, 2009 at 7:42 PM
‘elp ! ‘elp! Ahm being repressed.
viking01 on August 19, 2009 at 7:42 PM
Let’s challenge Obama with a question that he has at least SOME chance of answering correctly, e.g. “What is your favorite color?”
My collie says:
CyberCipher on August 19, 2009 at 7:42 PM
Spanish Inquisition time. (Mel Brooks Style)
portlandon on August 19, 2009 at 7:43 PM
That’s it buddy, screw up just one more Monty Python quote and yer toast!!
Lighten up Francis……
BigWyo on August 19, 2009 at 7:43 PM
I’d also strongly recommend checking out Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister; a British comedy from the early 80′s that highlighted the absurdity of the bureacratic state. I especially recommend the following episode:
The Compassionate Society
in which minister Hacker has to deal with a government hospital that is fully staffed but has no patients.
PackerBronco on August 19, 2009 at 7:45 PM
If Obamacare passes, we’ll be seeing a lot of this
behiker on August 19, 2009 at 7:45 PM
Also a winner.
califdreamnred on August 19, 2009 at 7:48 PM
Hopefully, we’ll also get Barney Frank singing The Lumberjack Song at a Town Hall meeting before this is all over.
jon1979 on August 19, 2009 at 7:49 PM
The only thing that held that country together was its ability to laugh at itself…
Perhaps this episode of Yes, Minister, is most apt for these times…Empty Hospital.
coldwarrior on August 19, 2009 at 7:49 PM
You stay here and make sure he doesn’t leave.
…and I’ll come and get him…
Bullseye36drum on August 19, 2009 at 7:50 PM
Someone should cut a person going to the doctor under Obamacare and replies being the Black Knights lines.
“Ya Pansie!”
- The Cat
MirCat on August 19, 2009 at 7:52 PM
Hellllooooooo—
Obama’s trying to sell dead parrots. At the rate he’s going, I doubt he’d be able to sell live ones.
Ol’ Chuck K has Obama figured out. He needs to double his quota of columns to two a week.
ted c on August 19, 2009 at 7:52 PM
It’s not dead. It’s just fagged from a heavy squawk.
Hucklebuck on August 19, 2009 at 7:54 PM
Same episode methinks. And it should be required viewing during this debate IMHO.
PackerBronco on August 19, 2009 at 7:54 PM
Barney “Twu wuv” Frank, you mean.
My collie says:
CyberCipher on August 19, 2009 at 7:54 PM
The Parrot Sketch is probably the most famous skit in television history. You don’t have to be a Python fan to know it.
Funny, you’ve got a lot of books here.
YYZ on August 19, 2009 at 7:55 PM
Huge tracts of land.
viking01 on August 19, 2009 at 7:55 PM
Every guy I’ve ever been involved with has been into Monty Python.
I have tried. Seriously, earnestly tried.
Mommypundit on August 19, 2009 at 7:55 PM
Not complete without Clevon Little: “Scuuuze me while I whip this out.”
peski on August 19, 2009 at 7:56 PM
Awesome.
peski on August 19, 2009 at 7:57 PM
Yes!!! I heard that last night too and I wondered at first if it was indeed an homage to Python but then I figured that it had to be…
I mean what else could “dead parrot” be referring to?
powerpro on August 19, 2009 at 7:58 PM
It’s a guy thing. You just wouldn’t understand.
- The Cat
P.S. (Silly Walks away)
MirCat on August 19, 2009 at 7:59 PM
Meh. I prefer Blackadder, Are You Being Served, The Thin Blue Line, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and Red Dwarf.
Krauthammer earned a lot of ire near the end of the election for his criticisms of Palin, but the guy has been sharp as a tack for years.
MadisonConservative on August 19, 2009 at 8:00 PM
British TV…the only reason I ever gave any money to PBS back in the day…from Are You Being Served to Faulty Towers, Monty Python, of course, and, yes, Benny Hill.
Wish we could drop all those “reality” shows and get some well-written comedy again, God knows, we need it.
coldwarrior on August 19, 2009 at 8:02 PM
I’m thinking more of the guy who yells “Hey, Abbot!” at Dick Van Patten in Robin Hood: Men in Tights.
malclave on August 19, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Krauthammer’s the best conservatives have got. He makes the argument as good as anyone, and were i not already convinced that GOP reps are no better than dems on anything but taxes…well, maybe id consider voting for one ;-)
ernesto on August 19, 2009 at 8:05 PM
And I prefer Top Gear.
Mommypundit on August 19, 2009 at 8:05 PM
Notice the Terry Jones character taking complaint for the train company was a fully qualified brain surgeon but preferred to be his own boss, i.e., rather than work for the British NHS!!!
tommylotto on August 19, 2009 at 8:06 PM
Dead as a doornail. I hope.
Terrye on August 19, 2009 at 8:06 PM
I always loved this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltmMJntSfQI&feature=related
Mrs B.J. Smegma LOL!
Dino64 on August 19, 2009 at 8:07 PM
I love Monty Python. The black knight cracks me up.
It’s only a flesh wound.
Terrye on August 19, 2009 at 8:07 PM
I’m not dead yet!
BacaDog on August 19, 2009 at 8:14 PM
Wouldn’t you love to see a politico with ‘nads stabbing that behemoth train wreck of a bill a la Rahm Emanuel with his steak knife, citing each lousy section and saying, “Dead…dead…dead” with each thrust?
onlineanalyst on August 19, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Apparently a lot of senators and representatives have been practicing this during the recess.
behiker on August 19, 2009 at 8:25 PM
I like Monty Python, Krauthammer likes Monty Python libral343 banned. I love today.
FontanaConservative on August 19, 2009 at 8:25 PM
Absolutely! We just don’t have the advantage of flushing them out in such an explosive fashion.
Dino64 on August 19, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Heh, forgot to include that!
Dino64 on August 19, 2009 at 8:31 PM
1….2….5!
ThePrez on August 19, 2009 at 8:31 PM
hey remember those dastardly protesters are nothing more than Hells Grannies!!!
have fun storming the deficit!
ginaswo on August 19, 2009 at 8:41 PM
madisonconservative
LOVE Black Adder!!!
ginaswo on August 19, 2009 at 8:42 PM
Still the greatest and most powerful final scene of any series I’ve ever seen or ever will see.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ba-64h6d6Q
Blackadder Goes Forth.
Dino64 on August 19, 2009 at 8:44 PM
“what’s endearing here is the way Sebelius has adopted the Obama habit of saying that I’ve never ever changed or waivered. Remember Obama did that at first when he said that he wouldn’t take public in campaigns, and then of course he did. He changed his mind on eavesdropping and wire tapping, and pretended he never… he always, er,he always says “as I have always said,I never change”. And of course if you are omniscient, omnipotent and unerring, then obvious it’s in the eye of the beholder whose not able to read Obama scripture correctly. He clearly has shifted radically. You can’t say on the one hand, it must be in anything I sign, and then say it’s only a sliver and pretend that you are consistant. What happened, is they understood that with the public option the public anger is so high they will pass nothing and that’s why it’s been abandoned. All of this has been a way to plackate the left. Which understands it’s a Kabuki dance. It’s a way of pretending it’s still on the table, it’s off, it’s gone, it’s dead, it’s a dead Parrot” (background applause added)
batterup on August 19, 2009 at 8:47 PM
100% Grade-A Krauthammer. Nice.
Marcus on August 19, 2009 at 8:48 PM
Public Option? You’ve got no Public Option. You’ve got two empty halves of a coconut and you’re bangin’ ‘em together!
Kafir on August 19, 2009 at 8:51 PM
Oh smeg!
Mangy Scot on August 19, 2009 at 8:52 PM
That was so nice of you, I didn’t have a clue as to where I could find the information.
Cindy Munford on August 19, 2009 at 8:55 PM
That bill’s dynamite!!!
FontanaConservative on August 19, 2009 at 8:55 PM
Cindy Munford on August 19, 2009 at 8:55 PM
:-) thanks. Lightning took out my receiver last week – I feel the poster’s pain. It’s was only a minute long. I learn a lot reading things here – give back what I can. Plus it’s dead parrot!
batterup on August 19, 2009 at 9:02 PM
Obama has a cunning plan.
29Victor on August 19, 2009 at 9:03 PM
The public option is no more dead than the Fairness Doctrine, reparations and the United Socialist States of America. They may be called other names, at different times and they will deny, deny, deny, but they will not stop until they have achieved their socialist/Marxist utopia.
Star20 on August 19, 2009 at 9:04 PM
Watched the new episodes yet?
29Victor on August 19, 2009 at 9:07 PM
I live in what is suppose to be the lightning capital of the world, it’s only a matter of time before the same thing happens to me. Good things happen to good people, I just know it.
Cindy Munford on August 19, 2009 at 9:11 PM
NONE of us should be. None of us should let up on that point in the LEAST until it’s taken out of both the House and Senate versions of whatever bill they come up with. And then, we need to remain vigilant that the Democrats don’t try and play a game of chicken by using reconciliation.
Anything less, and they’ll pass the public option, and damn us all.
Vyce on August 19, 2009 at 9:15 PM
I’m behind on seeing Red Dwarf and Dr. Who.
Time for a trip across the pond to visit my clan.
Mangy Scot on August 19, 2009 at 9:17 PM
Basil Fawlty was an absolute maniac. What about Rising Damp, that was one of my favorites, very funny. Leonard Rossiter was very good, carried the show.
Jeff on August 19, 2009 at 9:19 PM
Soiled his armor .
borntoraisehogs on August 19, 2009 at 9:19 PM
Help! Help! I’m being repressed!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o76WQzVJ434
mrt721 on August 19, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Its hardwired into the genetics of us Alpha-males. Some beta-males pick up the recessive Python gene.
Wolftech on August 19, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Gibbsy voice: What he meant to say was…
bookman on August 19, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Much thanks to batterup for taking the time to post that running transcript!
:)
manofaiki on August 19, 2009 at 9:25 PM
That is my favorite Flying Circus/And Now For Something Completely Different sketch. Of course, that’s saying a lot since not only the Dead Parrot skit is there, but the Lumberjack Song, Nudge Nudge and the Dirty Hungarian Phrase Book.
Of course, my favorite is Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Learning its lines is a requirement for true geekdom.
Wolftech on August 19, 2009 at 9:29 PM
More cunning than the cunningest fox on the last day of cunning school? I’m afraid we can’t wait…
DrAllecon on August 19, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Wait. What? Liberel343 finally got banned? And I missed the thread? Damn… I am depressed now. I think I will eat this salmon mousse.
Wolftech on August 19, 2009 at 9:31 PM
Here it is sir.
FontanaConservative on August 19, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Yep, he’s sharper than a page of Oscar Wilde witticisms that have been rolled up into a point, sprinkled with lemon juice and jabbed into someone’s eye. (Sorry, reverted to Red Dwarf there for a second).
29Victor on August 19, 2009 at 9:47 PM
That’s some lovely snarking by Krauthammer!
Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you… you and all your silly Alpha Male Knnnnnnigits!
Some of us ladies are quite fond of all things Python.
:::wanders off singing the Philosophers’ Song:::
Kirin on August 19, 2009 at 9:51 PM
Whatever you do, don’t mention the War.
29Victor on August 19, 2009 at 9:51 PM
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