Watching Hillary's inspirational victory speech last night I immediately thought of Monty Python. And not because her campaign resembles a dead parrot. The happy talk performance reminded me of the Black Knight scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail:
If you remember, King Arthur (Graham Chapman) is passing through a forest when he is confronted by the Black Knight (John Cleese). After observing The Black Knight destroy one of his own knights, Arthur tells him, "You fight with the strength of many men, Sir Knight... You have proved yourself worthy. Will you join me?" The Black Knight refuses to join him, and refuses to let the King pass. "I move for no man," he intones. The two then go at it mano a mano, as our current president would say. King Arthur first cuts one of the Black Knight's arms off with his sword, then another. He then cuts off his leg. Bleeding from three stumps, hopping around on one foot, the Black Knight magnanimously announces, "All right, we'll call it a draw."
I can't think of a more resonant metaphor for the Democratic primary today.
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gives new meaning to the term "stump speech" ....
Yep, Hillary is John Cleese, except that she's not remotely funny. Its true, she may have a leg up on him but he's got a much better stump speech.
Groaning out loud.
Don"t forget "Nobody knows when the expect the "SPANISH INQUISITTION"
Perfect reference Seth.
Hillarious
wha? I always thought "All right, we'll call it a draw." is Arthur's line.... Watching the clip again, now i'm not sure.
Nah, it's not Arthur's line. He's leaving by then and he's being yelled at for "running away." My favorite Arthur line: "Or what? You'll bleed on me?"
Yeah, uh, Chip Collis wrote this right here on HuffPost two weeks ago (do a search).
So while it's true (I thought of it, too, weeks ago), it's weirdly redundant.
It reminds me a little of a scene from "Holy Grail," where the person isn't supposed to say "it" but keeps saying "it."
"Oh, I said it! Oh, I just said it again! I keep saying it!"
I thought that she was using the Energizer Bunny as her role model. Incessantly bang her own drum she "just keeps going...and going...and going." It seems as if "girls' rules" apply to her. Any male candidate in her situation would have realized the "logic" of the situation and dropped out.
You don't even describe the scene correctly. It isn't until after all 4 limbs have been hacked off that the Black Knight utters the "draw" line.
It is all 4.
"Bring out your dead!" :^)
This campaign wouldn't voom if you put 4 million volts... uhhh, dollars into it!
This is simply brilliant. Bloody brilliant!!!
While thinking back to "Holy Grail" while pondering the state of the Clinton campaign, somehow
"Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!"
seems like a good analogy.
On further thinking though, the same line could apply literally to the McCain campaign.
Except you would have to be pondering "Life of Brian" not Holy Grail for that line.
No, that line is from Holy Grail.
I feel happy! I FEEL HAPPY!
You're not foolin' anyone, ya know.
Ironically, you are aware, Seth, that John Cleese publicly announced he will join the Obama campaign in the fall as a speech writer should Barack win the Democratic nomination.
No, you've got it all wrong. Hillary is The Bride of Chuckie.
Priceless !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"What are you going to do, bleed on me?"
All these undecided superdelegates who are allegedly concerned about the Democrats in november are merely using Hillary as a cover as some White racists are using Reverend Wright as a cover. If the superdelegates are so concerned about the damage Hillary's continued campaign is doing to the party, why don't they all coalesce (sp?) around Obama, NOW, and save the party? They will have you believe that they all want those people in those states, where primaries are yet to be held, to have their say. The Republicans did not wait for all the states to have their say before they made McCain their presumptive nominee. Old habits never die. These undecided superdelegates should stop blaming Hillary for your own failures to act!
The last thing America needs for another four years is a leader who can't face reality and deal with it. Analogy is spot on.
roflmao...
IMy favorite was when he resorts to saying, "Come back here and take what's coming to you! I'll bite your legs off! ..." A classic.
Wow, Wish I'd thought of it..
I did! two weeks ago:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chip-collis/dame-hillary-clinton-the_b_98195.html
Another analogy is a scene from the old Monte Python's Flying Circus about a dead bird. The man in the pet shop wouldn't believe that the parrot was dead even though he was reminded over and over that the parrot was dead. I would remind Hillary and her bitter advisers that the parrot really is dead.
Nicely worded.. lol :)
Best.
Analogy.
Ever.
Hillary will play till the clock runs out. It'sa trait once admired but now seems to terrify the liberal squeamish.
Once, standing in the American West where the ruts left by pioneering wagon trains are still visible, I marveled at the courage and tenacity of the men and women who opened up this country. Tell me, if you were riding one of those wagons whom would you prefer next to you, the charming Barack or Hillary, sans arms and one leg, spurting blood but kicking the horses' backsides with her remaining leg while spitting tobacco juice and curses all the way.
If Al Gore and John Kerry had a fraction of her reproductive necessities, we would have been spared the past eight years.
I'd prefer Obama. I don't need a cursing, tobacco-spitting, bleeding lump next to me; I want a man who can think deeply and coherently about the problems facing us. I want someone who can galvanize the wagon train to move forward productively.
Thank you, Koromuso. I was looking for the words to reply, when I realized you had already written them.
If fighting senseless battles were not such an "admirable" trait, we wouldn't still be in Iraq.
The next time I travel west in a wagon, Hillary's my gal.
Unfortunately, I live in the 21st century and her skills no longer apply. I need a diplomat, not Ms. Bubba.
The point is, she's fighting a battle that does not need to be fought.
The battle that we face is against McCain and the Republicans.
That's the one we will need her help with.
Can she see beyond her own nose to acknowledge that? Can she commit to a Democratic victory in November, instead of a Hillary Clinton victory in Denver?
An excellent analogy.
My prediction: Hillary will switch back to the Republican party if she is not nominated. Watch.
And yet, ya gotta ask if they'll want her, no?
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Posted May 7, 2008 | 03:59 PM (EST)