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Wounded Bear

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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.

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Blazing Saddles... You know, morons. [View all] 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