Login HereI don't think I've ever seen anything quite like this before. Catch the look on Card's face at :50 as he gets a load of those who showed up to "wish him well."
Does someone want to volunteer to translate this for Rahm? The implications are a bit subtle and I'm afraid they might elude him.
(Thanks to Scarce for the clip)
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Well done, TB. Congrats.
2nd?
Betsy!
Oh, so close!!
It is interesting a bunch of college kids told Card what for. There is still hope for this country yet.
I saw the clip, and it warmed my tiny little liberal heart.
I’m guessing Card wouldn’t be able to pull the aw-shucks routine on Jon stewart if he went back to the Daily Show now…
This is one video I’m gonna play, even on dialup. I’ve been wanting to see the look on his face. Thanks, Jane (and Scarce for the video)
Excellent! Young, articulate protesters who “get it”. See how many faculty protested as well?
Howdy Mutant Poodle!
Wow, this video is AWESOME!!
I caught Democracy Now as I came through Atlanta a couple of hours ago on the highway. Good stuff today.
“Voices from A People’s History of the U.S.”
TRex @ 5
Hey, TRex - Any comment on the Creationist Museum in Kentucky that shows your type cavorting with children?
TexBetsy @ 10
Top o’ the evening to ya, TB!
Just makes me bust with pride for all those young people who are so much smarter and wiser than their elders who bought the promotion of the war, hook, line and sinker.
The mantra “9/11″ holds no sway over these youth; they are not afraid of the threat of terrorists as much as they are this administration.
Bravo, graduates. Well done, in more ways than one.
Oh wow. That was great. It wasn’t just the college students either. It looked like a few of the faculty were as adamant in this as they were.
There’s still hope! Even in the darkest hour there is still hope with people like that in that university. We can still get them!
This is what happens when bubbles burst.
Nominated by an anonymous faculty member. This anonymity is so last thread!
It wasn’t just a bunch of college kids who protested. About half of the faculty protested too.
Watched that one yesterday. Three times. Now today. I keep on hoping Card will be more disturbed by the truth each time I play it, but - nah!
EPU’d:
I guess in the end the kabuki just got too tough to sustain…
I’ve never used the term kabuki for the weirdness of DC political machinations, but see it used a lot on the web. Neither wikipedia nor urban dictionary even defines political kabuki, let alone attempts an etymology. Anyone here know where the term comes from?
Great video! Does my heart good. Thanks, Jane!
Well, of all the children I have eaten, Christian children are not, in fact, the sweetest. In fact, they taste altogether too strongly of gall and wormwood.
Ed*ard Teller @ 19
I thought he kept wanting to say something like “but, but, I’m a GOOD guy. I’m on DADDY Bush’s team…”
An honorary doctorate from
Amherst won’t help Andrew Card much at the International Tribunal for War Crimes.
Amherst demeans itself by this act.
Massachusetts - The Cradle of Liberty !
It wasn’t just the students who protested, many faculty did too. I can only hope that Andy Card has many more “wonderful experiences” ahead of him. C & L has a longer version too of course, saw it last night.
noen @ 16
I think seismic is the word here - literally. Earthquakes happen because years of pressure on tectonic plates are relieved by the plates succumbing to the pressure and moving. Here, years of a disconnect between reality and the Bush fairy tale created huge pressure on people who wanted to believe, and what we’re seeing is an epic, seismic shift in how people perceive what is happening in our country.
It hasn’t hit everything - I think folks are slow catching up to the more esoteric issues, like wiretapping and the US Attorneys - but Iraq has gone through a 7.6 temblor and awakened people to the thought that things may not be as the powers that be say they are.
Or at least that’s my hope.
Nice ta see ol Andy “I was just here ta see how he was doin” Card. Lookin really good fer a criminal.
That vid warms this old SDS type’s political soul.
cbl - left some casting suggestions for ya EPU’d downstairs.
That’s my alma mater. UMass/Amherst.
On the down side, why’d they invite this warcriminal, anyway?
He might be a MA native, but he graduated U/SC - as in South Carolina.
Daddy Bush did well there primary-wise, iirc. Then, the offspring.
Ed*ard Teller @ 19
Kabuki is traditional Japanese theatre. Here’s something on political kabuki.
Last summer I wrote this lament in the FDL comment.
Looking back, a lot has been done within the year to pull the Overton Window back from the deluded, right-wing extreme and back towards admirable American values of liberty and justice for all.
FDL, and its sister and brother blogs, (and Ned Lamont too) deserve a lot of credit for helping to change the acceptable limits of honest public discourse…and for helping to discredit the dangerous and specious notion that free speech and rational dialogue are anything other than patriotic.
dakine01 @ 22
Crooks and Liars has in it’s archives an interview that John Stewart did with Andrew some time ago. It’s very interesting to watch because Andrew comes off as a total Kool-Aide drinker. From what I can tell in that video, he completely and totally believes in what he is (or has been) doing.
This is one of the most hopeful things I’ve seen for quite a while now. University campuses are bellwethers.
Ed*ard Teller @ 19
I think the meaning of kabuki speaks for itself. Actors in makeup and costume depict great drama, often tragic, in a highly stylized fashion that is more like puppetry performed with humans. character roles are well established, so that outcome is highly predictable. Innovation and freedom of character parts is not possible.
BTW, I just gave that link for purposes of definition. I haven’t finished reading the whole site. I am excited about doing my first link here though!
Lea-no uh @ 36
Congrats!
Take to the streets, brothers and sisters!
Political Kabuki: A Definition
Political Kabuki: An extremely stylized political show where the roles of the actors(for example, Senators) are as predefined as the outcome, the result being, even under the most extreme circumstances, only barely (if at all) recognizable as what can be considered reasonable discourse amongst educated men and women interested in the public good.
Fits right with what Rayne was saying.
aliasofwestgate @ 15
All the people on the stage (behind Card) with the yellow Honor Grads/Dis Card signs are faculty members. Longer clip here showing many be-sashed faculty with anti-Card signs as well. This was an outraged community, although news reports will make it sound like young people acting out.
I guess about all I can say to Card’s abuse at Amherst: may every public event for every shrubco member henceforward be exactly like this one… boo’d off every stage, with a historical legacy more comparable to felons than to statesmen.
Blank Kludge @ 30
I certainly don’t know but I would hazzard a guess that the Amhurst admin is simply operating by the old rules. Those rules say that if you can bestow an honorific on someone as influential as Card, that is quite a feather in your cap. And that it can only help when seeking donors. It shouldn’t matter what party they belong to either.
The old rules don’t cover the most corrupt and despised administration in US history though.
Politics is like the Rocky Horror picture show.
The audience knows what the actors are gonna say before they say it- and can shout it out along with em. In the end- nothing happens.
How are you feeling Alias?
Mutant Poodle @ 12
Cavorting??? Snort, Yeah, and T’s sorry a** was left of the Ark!!! *g*
Blub @ 41
Well, if Cheney faced a protest in Utah (albeit more restrained), you know something’s up…
Speaking of political theater, here’s a quick vignette of the recent drama in the Texas legislature. The author even quotes Molly Ivins…
Texas house meltdown
This must be the reason (ya think?) Bush and Cheney only hold audience on military bases where the uniformed audience is ordered to applaud at the appropriate moments. Bush and Cheney are probably getting as much of a kick out of this video as the lefties: “Hey, Andy, we told you so!” Especially after Card has been splashed all over the front page papers with Gonzales lately. Are these people so delusional they think nothing bad sticks to them?
Micheal Scheuer ( Former CIA head of OBL unit) on the Taliban, Al Queda and the really good “hider” OBL.
http://www.amconmag.com/2007/2…..icle1.html
I have met a young man who is from Afghanistan and studying communication’s in the states on a Fulbright. He communicates with his family once a week in Afghanistan. Many reports from his family of the Taliban regaining control in the surrounding areas around cities.
TexBetsy @ 44
Still tiring pretty easily and i can feel the ache where the chronic pain had been centered pre-op. Otherwise? i’m fairly good. Mentally i’m back, it’s the physical bit that’s frustrating me.
Because i like to sit down and relax, but i want to go out to the movies. i’d love to see Pirates of the Carribbean: At World’s End, but doubt be able to sit in the theater seats for nearly three hours quite yet. I’m still on restricted duty for a few more days.
CD @ 47
And if the clusterf*cks at the DCCC can’t turn this gift horse into solid wins at both the national and local levels….. well… I’m kind of at a loss for words about that…
Mutant Poodle @ 46
Wait’ll Shrub and Turd Blossom see their ‘welcoming’ parties!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTCQSk2l8bc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....mp;search=
noen @ 33
IIRC from back when I lived in MA, Card has always been somewhat of a borderline conservative. If memory does serve me, he ran for governor against Dukakis AND senate against Kennedy. I know he was Treasury Sec under Daddy. I guess I assumed he was Daddy’s guy first before signing on with Little Boots.
CTuttle @ 51
Yeah… That’ll be happening here in the Twin Cities when the GOP comes here for their convention in 08. We are VERY liberal here, in case you’ve noticed.
He ain’t a Kool Aid drinker- he’s the Kool Aid manufacturer. Ya don’t wanna know where it comes from though.
When I reread this part of Comey’s testimony I really have to wonder why in the hell Gonzales and Card are not in jail instead of speaking at commencement ceremonies
Justice is in trouble! The Supreme Court knew that back in the 2000 Presidential selection!
Thanks Jane.
I’ll sleep better tonight and, hopefully, be less obnoxious tomorrow. *g*
Hope you are doing well. We think of you often.
Give Kobe a pat for us ;->
aliasofwestgate @ 49
After gallbladder surgery 25 years ago I found out that sitting at a drive-in to watch ET and a bad Kirk Douglas western comedy for four hours was an unnatural act. It was eight days after the surgery and the next morning I woke up with pain that turned out to be the incision becoming infected. Not good times.
So, based on my experience, you’re probably correct to avoid Pirates just now.
Lea-no uh @ 31
Thanks, Leah-no uh and Rayne. I really like Rayne’s definition, as it explains how the term might have come about. and I enjoy Leah-no uh’s link to a long quote by Stuart Chase, the FDR wordsmith who came up with the term New Deal. I know what Japanese Kabuki, Noh and other theatro-musical terms mean, having studied them and even written a Kabuki-esque ballet for robots, called Robot Gagaku.
I’m mainly interested in the origin and history of the term in the context of DC politics.
There’s a longer video here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=dp4MYii7MqA
It shows the hall, the graduates with their signs, all the banners on stage and over a minute of the boo-ing. It’s great!
Jane I think someone needs to translate what Rahm said! What?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Card
http://www.sourcewatch.org/ind....._Card,_Jr.
dakine01 @ 58
It isn’t that great anyway. Unless all you are looking for is your fix of Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp. That was reason enough for me but the movie kind of slows down in parts.
Well, well, well! That scene brings back memories of days of yore.
Speaking of a turning tide, this memorial day post written by a soldier in Iraq is worth reading.
CD @ 47
And it should be remembered that Bush, Rove, Abu, etc. are all a product of Texas politics. (Molly’s book Shrub is a good introduction.)
noen @ 54
On a par with us here, we voted in a ‘Green’ Mayor, who was a Musician, Y’all elected a Pro Wrestler Gov…!!!
spurious @ 65
I am hoping the Texas voters wake up to the corruption and shenanigans and VOTE DEM in 08.
Thank you Jane for sharing this video with us! ;)
noen @ 64
Well, for me, it would be a fix of Keira Knightley but that’s just the vestigial remnants of sexism manifesting again…
noen. I’ve heard about the spoilers. (never bothered me to hear them before i saw the movie)
I’m also a bit of a myth nut and i like what they did with the 2nd film. Not every movie needs a happy ending to be good, and seeing Disney go with an unhappy ending? Unusual considering the way the Rat usually is about those things. Then again, that entire cast and crew are a different breed than the usual ones in the disney stables.
I want to see HOW they did it and how well i’ll like that. *grins* The journey’s the thing, after all. And all three movies are a journey.
California should have elected the porn star- we might be further along.
Blank Kludge @ 63
Heh.
spurious @ 65
I don’t know about that. I tend to think that Bush, Rove and Gonzo are hellspawn straight from the great beast himself if you ask me.
Then Rove begat Clusterfuck and on the seventh day he rested.
Goddammit Democrats. This is not a difficult concept, we want these wars we started stopped!
Doodle Bean @ 61
It is! The whole affair comes across as a far larger, vastly more indignant event than in the cover clip at the top of this article!
Doodle Bean @ 61
Dirty, Freaking, Mocking Hippies…
Sorry Jane! We seem to have gone severely Off topic. *grins sheepishly*
Frank33 @ 78
And DAMNED proud of it.
So what’s Andy doin now that someone else is changing shrub’s Depends?
noen @ 74
That may well be. But Texas has a long tradition of crooked politics, dating back at least to Lyndon Johnson. (Begging pardon of current Texas residents, some of whom are my relatives.)
rwcole @ 74
Bwhahaha!!! 707!!!
aliasofwestgate @ 70
It isn’t a bad movie, just not an A. It actually has some “big things” to say which also surprised me since it’s coming from Disney. The opening scene is very political and reference today’s situation. I won’t give it away though.
If it’s mythic you like then I am sure you’d love Pan’s Labyrinth. But I’m sure you’ve seen it by now.
rwcole @ 74
There was no begating. more like “shatting”.
spurious @ 72
W solved that problem with his new CoS, Josh Bolten, who’s married to no one and has a creepy collection of photos of GWB’s hands.
Notice how that motherfucker/fatherfucker, back-door Bush advisor, Henry Kissinger, is laying low these days? Make no mistake, this little boy is busying himself though.
I’m so proud of all those who chose to protest
Ed*ard Teller @ 77
This is a GREAT video–really shows the scope of the protest. U-Mass is a huge school. This is no small thing that so many participated.
Creepy collection of GWB’s hands?
marshen @ 48
Considering they don’t give a sh*t with the majority of the American public thinks, this needn’t be delusion. On the other hand, his response to the question seemed rather disconnected from reality. I’m sure he fit right in with the Bush Misadministration crowd.
- Tom
I too wondered how Card got this invite.
Not a likely explanation, but, nonetheless:
Perhaps some thought that it was time to put the Cards on the Table.
Kissinger is busy planning the guest list to his own funeral. He’s so old that his social security ran out.
Unfortunately, lots of unsavory characters are given honorary degrees.
Joe Lieberman from Trinity College.
John McCain from UPenn.
Mitch McConnell from Eastern Kentucky.
For a humorous take on this, check out this in Foreign Policy.
rwcole @ 92
From your mouth to God’s ear.
TSF showed us the YouTube way back at #40.
Yeah.. what on earth are these colleges hoping for? Some golden crumbs/earmarks from the next rethug appropriation bill that they’re not going to be able to get through Congress??? I mean, this administration, and especially people like Abu and Card, are literally toxic waste. Even Commissar Goodling served up Abu’s extremities to Congress. What are these people thinking? They’d be better off giving their honorary degrees to Rove.. at least he might still have enough evil mojo left in him to get them something in return.
My dreamy vision is that shrub is so ruined by ‘09 that he has to retire to a cabin at the corner of the shrub family compound in Kennebunkport, not daring to reemerge except for rare trips to the general store there, for, say, 10 years.
Valley Girl @ 92
It was an anonymous faculty member.
Kissinger too old. In a pigs eye.
noen @ 83
I’ve seen Pan’s Labyrinth and love it! The thing about pirates is the writers. They’re the secret weapon in the fact that they got away with what they have, so far. I’m there to have fun, the movie doesn’t have to be perfect. Pirates has a love for me just because of the way Jack Sparrow is, he’s more of an anti hero than a true hero. Damned rare in the Disney lexicon, and no small thanks to the writers AND Depp for bringing him to life.
Myth nut is putting it mildly. I’ve been delving into asian myth the last few years. Studying Journey to the West in some detail in my free time. So seeing all the western maritime myths played out in various ways, has been fun with the Pirates movies. Because that’s an area i’d explored a bit and then put down so i could explore the journey of Tripitaka and his rowdy cohorts to India.
TeddySanFran @ 86
Ick!
Loo Hoo. @ 97
One in that top 1% who are actually benefitting from Bush’s economy.
New Thread
Loo Hoo. @ 89
yup
TexBetsy @ 102
…or the 27% who have been successfully gulled into thinking they are benefiting :P
Loo Hoo. @ 97
One anonymous faculty member may have nominated him. But it takes more than that to make a village ;) haha. I loved the longer YouTube, btw.
And Negroponte has been laying low too.
Blub @ 96
Given that one well placed donor can fund a Dept. chair, or an entire building, or a stadium… then, yeah, that’s exactly what they were hoping for.
Not very likely. GW’s estate in Texas is the model of energy efficency from what I’ve heard. And if things were to get really bad Papa Bush has 700,000 acres in Paraguay socked away for when they lay waste to the northern hemisphere.
Kissinger is only 84. I saw him the other night on tv being interviewed.
TeddySanFran @ 104
I’m going to be sick.
aliasofwestgate @ 100
Have you seen a lot of the earlier H’wood pirate type movies? I’ve had an enjoyment for the them for years.
Captain Blood
The Sea Hawk
Against All Flags
Crimson Pirate
And on and on…
I was actually at this event on Friday - my husband received his (real) doctorate.
UMass made the blunder of blunders on this one, but it was so great to see everyone protesting. You literally could not hear a word the speaker said from the time they said Card’s name until he sat down.
So awesome!
Then, on Saturday, I went across town to Amherst College to see Patrick Fitzgerald give a talk, as a recipient of an honorary degree from that great school. The contrast was stark. Fitz - the epitome of honesty. Card - the face of all that is wrong with our current leadership.
Quite a weekend here!
And, fwiw, the UMass Amherst Board of Trustees members, as of 2006 are listed here
New thread upstairs.
willie stargell is from a little, ol’ rural, black town about 50 mi east of OKC, earlsboro…i did some mentoring there with 1st year teachers…
i nominated him for an honorary degree from OU, but it was never approved…
earlsboro was/is a pit, sump of rural poverty of the worst kind…