It's OK For Repugs To Bring A Snowball To The Senate Chamber & Read Green Eggs & Ham....

[global1]

but I can't believe the criticism that the Dems are getting for bringing KFC & a glass chicken to the hearing room.

Double standard maybe?

[loyalsister]

1. Both are juvenile

One doesn't make the other any less foolish. It's an embarrassing example of how infotainment has infected serious processes and what was once credible news coverage. The worst part is that the people who pull childish stunts know they have cheerleaders and defenders.

[Raine]

2. Totally agree

we don't need to sink to their low level.

[WiffenPoof]

4. Couldn't agree more...

I don't understand such antics. If I don't tolerate it from those on the Right, I certainly wouldn't accept it from members of my own Party.

[Owl]

6. Exactly.

[peacefreak2.0]

3. Political theater.

Got everyone's attention. Personally, it gave me a lift.

[LenaBaby61]

5. Double standard maybe?

NOPE.

You know Dems have to be perfect at ALL times.

thuglicans can do pretty much whatever they want to when they want to and pay LITTLE to NO price for it

[Rhiannon12866]

7. Stephen Colbert took it a step further:

Rep. Steve Cohen Gives Bill Barr Props

Which came first: the chicken or the congressional prop comedy routine?

[Mc Mike]

8. Their little blubbery whiny whinges are their way of saying they're still in charge, still

the authorities. They still are the final judge of how things should be, propriety.

They also were big on the dress code, when they ran the House. Now they flout it.
They also demanded tax returns when they ran the House, now demands for tax returns make them furious.
They also just had a staff lawyer question Ms. Ford, now Barr won't testify because staff lawyers shouldn't get to question him.

It's a psy op. Remember when candidate Obama was attacked for not wearing a flag pin? Then after a vet who backed Obama got him to wear the pin, Karl Rove appeared on Sunday MTP or FTN to explain how the Dems rushed us into the Iraq war, and he wasn't wearing his flag pin.

The repugs were saying they'd 'established' that they were the authorities who get to judge the patriotism of Dems, and after they did that, there was no reason for them to prove their own patriotism anymore. After all, they were the established authorities.

Dr. Seuss described that phenomenom in his Star Bellied Sneetches story.

[OnDoutside]

9. I thought it was (and is) a cheap headline grabbing stunt. Dems should be better than that.

[UTUSN]

10. K&R

[gratuitous]

11. Way back in the before times

There was a fellow named William Magear Tweed, who liked to be known as "Boss" Tweed. He was a corrupt politician in a corrupt machine popularly known as Tammany Hall. It ran and ruined New York City and New York State politics for decades in the 19th century. In some ways, that corruption still poisons politics in the Empire State.

Tweed cultivated any number of enemies, but the one that stuck in his craw worst was a cartoonist, an ink-stained wretch, named Thomas Nast. Nast caricatured Tweed in any number of cartoons, most famously depicting him as a orotund menace in a pin-striped three-piece suit, holding a cigar, and having a money bag for a head. Tweed had enemies in the press, but he wasn't too concerned about editorials, because he knew that a lot of his constituency comprised newly-arrived Europeans who didn't speak, read or write English. But cartoons are accessible to anyone. Tweed ordered his gang to "Stop them damn pictures." He knew the power of an image long before Leo Burnett (google him) came along to sell poison to America.

Yeah, posing with a plastic chicken is theater. But it's a lot more accessible to the casual observer of the political scene than any 10 speeches on the House floor. One measure of Cohen's effectiveness is just how loud the Republicans are squawking about it. They know better than anyone the value of a cheap visual, and Cohen just clocked them with their own cudgel.

[Vinnie From Indy]

12. It was inappropriate and self-defeating

It was mentioned in 98% of the news reports on the hearing. It injected foolishness into what should have been approached in serious and sober manner. The hearing and Barr's refusal are simply to important to this nation to engage in this BS.