John McCain and Daniel Mouse

I grew up in Canada, so I encountered The Devil And Daniel Mouse years before I'd ever heard of Daniel Webster. The Devil And Daniel Mouse was a Canadian short film that I can still remember seeing in the blue-and-green 70's-styled music room of Denlow Public School. Here's the gist:

The story is about two struggling mouse musicians, Daniel and Jan. When they are fired from their latest gig (their music is deemed too old-fashioned and not with the times), Daniel goes to pawn his guitar in order to buy groceries. Jan wanders off on her own and encounters a shifty reptilian character in a white suit who introduces himself as "B.L. Zebubb," a record producer.

He and his assistant, Wheez Weasel, offer her fame and fortune in exchange for signing a contract in blood. Jan doesn't read the fine print and trusts B.L., signing herself over to his record production company. Little does she suspect that B.L. is none other than the Devil himself, and at the height of her fame he will return to collect her soul...

As "Funky Jan," Jan is soon the most popular rock star on the planet while the oblivious Daniel is left out in the cold. But when B.L. comes for her soul and she realizes what she has done, a distraught Jan goes to Daniel for help.

I think you know what happens next. Man, did my six-year-old self love that movie — and I never forgot its lesson (a good lawyer can save your ass). I'm just kidding, the lesson is, sometimes you can want something so bad that you give up your principles, but then when you see what kind of demons are unleashed, maybe — just maybe — you can roll it back, and still get a shot at redemption. Perhaps today at a rally in Lakeville, Minnesota, when John McCain pushed back at the anger of his supporters and urged them to be "respectful" of Barack Obama, he was thinking something along those lines.

Here's the final scene from The Devil & Daniel Mouse.

McCain Denounces Pitchfork Wavers [Swampland]
McCain Asks His Supporters To Be Respectful [Washington Post]

Comments

[pfitzner]

"You sold your soul for some Rock 'n Roll."

If that isn't guilt by association and a backhanded smear, I don't know what is!

[gop4obama]

Take a quick look:

http://www.palinbycomparison.net

http://www.gop4obama.org

Thanks

[GreenGold74]

I enjoyed the video clip. So appropriate to what's happening now. Sad that it has come to this.

[highflag]

It's encouraging to see that John McCain has discovered a glimmer of his soul before this thing is over.Wheth­er he will abandon these Rovian tactics and call off the dogs ("play dead, Sarah") remains to be seen. One would hope that his desire for a legacy of honor will ultimately outweigh his ambition.
Regardless, one can rest assured that all the rightwing nutjobs that infest talk-radio will continue unabated to stoke the flames of ignorance, fear and bigotry.
Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin etal will have bloodstained hands should, God forbid, one of these mentally-deficient lemmings who comprise their listening audience, attempt to commit an act that they deem patriotic. It is undeniably the road on which they are embarking. They are the lowest of the low, for, unlike their delusional followers, they know precisely what they are doing.

[Bexstarr]

That was great. I have been saying for a while now that John McCain sold his soul to the right wing devil just to win. A desperate man does desperate things.