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iandhr

(6,852 posts) Tue Mar 3, 2015, 06:48 PM Mar 2015

Blazing Saddles... You know, morons.

Mel Brooks must have foreseen the Tea Party

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Blazing Saddles... You know, morons. (Original Post) iandhr Mar 2015 OP

One of the classic lines from cinema... Wounded Bear Mar 2015 #1

Mel Brooks nails this, as does Gene Wilder! longship Mar 2015 #2

Blazing Saddle djokas Mar 2015 #3

Mel Brooks has been a genius for many years BumRushDaShow Mar 2015 #4

also written by Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, and Al Uger. progressoid Mar 2015 #5

Wounded Bear

(64,631 posts)

1. One of the classic lines from cinema...

Reply to iandhr (Original post)

Tue Mar 3, 2015, 07:11 PM

Mar 2015

But Tea Partiers are far from something new. As Mel Brooks shows in that film, they been around for many, many years. Somehow, our society has managed to give them power not commensurate with their intellectual abilities.

longship

(40,416 posts)

2. Mel Brooks nails this, as does Gene Wilder!

Reply to iandhr (Original post)

Tue Mar 3, 2015, 07:19 PM

Mar 2015

Love them, and Cleavon Little! (And Alex Karras, and the whole Blazing Saddles cast)

A brilliant film.

R&K

djokas

(1 post)

3. Blazing Saddle

Reply to iandhr (Original post)

Tue Mar 3, 2015, 07:45 PM

Mar 2015

yes it is

BumRushDaShow

(172,223 posts)

4. Mel Brooks has been a genius for many years

Reply to iandhr (Original post)

Tue Mar 3, 2015, 08:45 PM

Mar 2015

and hopefully for many more (he'll be 90 next year... unbelievable).

progressoid

(53,370 posts)

5. also written by Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, and Al Uger.

Reply to iandhr (Original post)

Tue Mar 3, 2015, 09:05 PM

Mar 2015

Wonder if that was one of Pryor's jokes.

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