You Have GOT To Be Kidding Me

[filkertom]

Nicked from Atrios.

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[caraig.livejournal.com]

... In the words of one of my favorite animated scenes, 'I am stupified as to what has just occurred.'

[fmh.livejournal.com]

So how much does dignity go for these days??

This has got to be

[sffilk.livejournal.com]

some sort of joke, yes?

Re: This has got to be

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Nope. This is running on WWE Raw tonight.

Re: This has got to be

[sffilk.livejournal.com]

And people wonder why I no longer watch the testosterone soap opera.

[shannachie.livejournal.com]

I am grateful that German politicians seem to be too lazy to indulge in that kind of marathon for months and months. We only have to listen to them blowing their own trumpet(s) for a couple of weeks.

Thank goodness.

[wormquartet.livejournal.com]

Waa...wudda...guh?

-=ShoEboX=-

[palenoue.livejournal.com]

Personally, I like this kind of thing. It's the people who refuse to partake of such silliness every now and then that are the real crazy ones, or the "How dare you smile when things are so bad" types that always seem to make things so much worse for everyone.

[porpentine.livejournal.com]

Oh, of course they had to do it. The minute one of them had turned it down, you just know someone in another campaign would have leaked some BS about how X candidate was too elitist to "speak to the wrestling fans".

[eleri.livejournal.com]

I LOVE IT!

[pandoradeloeste.livejournal.com]

"Can you smell what Barack is cooking" should be their new campaign slogan.

[velcroswench.livejournal.com]

I lol'd and lol'd. :D

[tommytoony.livejournal.com]

...ow...

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

Okay, I am now trying to imagine Gordon Brown and David Cameron doing something comparable, and, well, apart from the fact that we just don't have anything like that over here, I still can't decide whether it would be a good or a bad thing.

They're not actually going to do it, right? I mean, you'll still have the voting and all that, yes?

[gavroche42.livejournal.com]

Since the "video is no longer available"

Here's a newspaper article (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/entertainment/2004363770_aptvwwecandidates.html) with the text of the 'speeches' each candidate will be giving the wrestling audience.

I think Barack's is best, but I'm a sucker for a good pun.

[kengr]

Reload the page and try again. For some reason that "video is no longer available" BS tends to come up if there are multiple videos on your friends page and you've looked at a couple already.

[celtickittenmew.livejournal.com]

What the MEW was that!? Are they seriously trying to be funny and hang with the popular kids? Or is this some weird tactic to discredit each other through humilitation? Does anyone else feel a "Wag the Dog" comin' on? lol ^ ^

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

For the sake of my sanity--or at least my equilibrium--I am strongly tempted to pretend like that was a really impressive hoax, or simply didn't happen.

Perhaps--I say, perhaps--fortunately, my brain doesn't really let me do that. :P

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

You do realise that the idea of them in a 3-way tag wrestling match makes about as much sense as your usual election process... which frankly is looking more and more like American Idol every day.

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha! They ought to take some *acting* lessons if they wanna talk smackdown. Tee-hee-hee! Seriously, did their campaign managers actually think this would bring in votes?

[pyrephox.livejournal.com]

I think it's pretty amusing, myself. Not least of which that they're trying to be wrestling-friendly, while /still/ trying to look and sound Presidential, with no unseemly emotions that might be taken out of context later on the campaign.

And, it's to promote a voter registration drive, which is quite cool. And I don't even /like/ wrestling.

[adamselzer.livejournal.com]

I'm amused, but I would have liked to see one of it play up the "wrestling interview" vibe. Growl, point, and make vague threats. If you're gonna go for camp, go for camp already.

[dlobok.livejournal.com]

I died inside.

[scruffycritter.livejournal.com]

Please tell me the election won't be determined by the target audience.

Please?

[palenoue.livejournal.com]

You would prefer a filk contest with fandom deciding the presidency?

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Hell, yeah. Gore would be supporting Edwards and Lieberman would've been demoted to ceremonial status in 2001.

[jannyblue.livejournal.com]

Yes!

Oh, wait, that was rhetorical, wasn't it...

[scruffycritter.livejournal.com]

Obama would win, right?

[palenoue.livejournal.com]

I think Obama would come up with the best lyrics, but Clinton would have the best back-up (I've heard Bill improvise on the sax, he could pull it off), McCain would be a mystery.

I can see the filk debate, questions randomly chosen from the audience. First up: "I'd like to know what you're going to do about health care during your first 100 days in office, and I'd like it sung to Meatloaf's 'Paradise by the Dashboard Lights.'" The Clintons go into a huddle, but it looks like they're already in disagreement about the rhymes. McCain is making kissy faces to the insurance lobbyists while they struggle to find a copy of the song on torrent sites. Obama nods to his newly appointed Secretary of Filkdom, Tom Smith, as they pick up their guitars and prepare to sing.

[guruwench.livejournal.com]

OH. EM. EFF. GEE.

...

Uh, yeah... on the one hand I think it's funny as hell, and on the other, I think it's incredibly sad and pathetic. (And I found it somewhat odd that McCain chose Flair and Hulk slogans... the men were comPLETEly different wrestlers.)

[fredhuggins.livejournal.com]

MY...BRAIN HURTS, DOCTOR GUMBY!

TTTO - Modern Major General obviously...

[nimitzbrood.livejournal.com]

This is the very model of a farcical electoral
A situation that should of all things be quite historical
The candidates rhetorical, the issues are ignored in full
I can't believe I'm part of this modern day electorical

I've watched TV commercials one another on the tube
The matters recited thereupon sometimes are in tones so rude
From battle failures empirical, and economics practical
The candidates historical appear to all hysterical

The candidates historical appear to all hysterical
The candidates historical appear to all hysterical
The candidates historical appear to all hysterical

So day and day the war goes on
With soldiers dying an anon
The candidates they ramble through
Muck as if in cages in the zoo

The candidates they ramble through
Muck as if in cages in the zoo

I hope that history will be most kind
To those of us all left behind
Time machines we can none afford
So our hope and dreams we hoard

I can't tell the wrong from right
With each inflaming commercial sight
With politics like this we'll never win
I wish that politics had never been

With politics like this we'll never win I wish that politics had never been
With politics like this we'll never win I wish that politics had never been
With politics like this we'll never win I wish that politics had never been

[lorddragon65.livejournal.com]

Well, votes, even from Rasslin' fans are still votes.

Though maybe one of these decades the story lines will get better and just maybe the average IQ of Rasslin' fans will go up...and maybe monkeys will fly out of my butt.

[tony-goldmark.livejournal.com]

All three of them were afraid of being the candidate that lost the youth vote because they didn't do the stupid wrestling thing.

This is supposed to be a RACE, right? A competition. These candidates are clearly trying to reach out to the Youth vote, but if they're ALL doing essentially the same thing, doesn't that nullify the idea in the first place? I can't see how anyone's opinion would be altered. Is anyone out there SERIOUSLY gonna vote based on whose name made the better pun? There can't be THAT many members of the Capitol Steps.

[shaharazad.livejournal.com]

That was actually kinda funny.

But which one is supposed to be the babyface? :)

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

And all I can think is...three-way cage match. To the death. (Yeah, I'd probably paint a triskelion on the floor, because it'd just be cooler that way.)

And I wouldn't be above arming Barack and not the others :-)

[nimitzbrood.livejournal.com]

Of course with the music from the Vulcan arena in "Amok Time" playing in the background. ;-)

[nightmarewriter.livejournal.com]

Ever notice that part of this music is from Ravel's Bolero? I did.

[avt-tor.livejournal.com]

The episode referenced is "The Gamesters of Triskelion". Music is probably similar.

[nimitzbrood.livejournal.com]

I knew that and yes the music is similar but the Amok Time episode is the classic reference for that musical set.

Side note: Anybody besides me want a domed table with three glowing+talking brains in it? ;-)

I'd love to have said table dispense candy for Halloween...

[trumanburbank.livejournal.com]

I like it. I like seeing them sort of 'poke fun' of themselves. The race NEEDS humor desperately.

[jss]

And not just this go-round. I remember when Clinton gave Dole the Presidential Medal of Freedom (January 1997, on or near Inauguration Day) and Dole started his acceptance/thank-you speech by reading the Presidential oath-of-office then saying something like "That's how I planned to start today's speech" in a very tongue-in-cheek way. If he'd shown that he had a sense of humor during the campaign he might've gotten more of the anti-Clinton centrist voters that didn't go with Mr. Crazyperson Perot.

[trumanburbank.livejournal.com]

Exactly! When he went on Letterman right after, I was like, "Where the heck was this guy the whole campaign?! I would have voted for him!"

[jss]

We are in violent, vehement agreement.

You can trace it back in modern television to Clinton's Arsenio appearance for picking up the younger demographic, and even earlier to Nixon's Laugh-In ("Sock it to me?"). In short: Humor helps get votes.

[palenoue.livejournal.com]

Same with Gore. All of the "official" Democrat advisors were telling him to be deadly serious, stiff as a board, show no emotion. Then after he lost and appeared on Saturday Night Live all of America was thinking "He's not a robot! I should have voted for him." Same "advisors" helped Kerry and most of them are working on Clinton. How much longer are the dems going to listen to those idiots?

[jss]

> How much longer are the dems going to listen to those idiots?

The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.
The answer is blowing in the wind.