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Clintonista2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-10 12:51 AM
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Teabaggers new anthem? "Cult of Personality" by the band Living Colour
Edited on Fri May-21-10 12:52 AM by Clintonista2
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2518018/posts

The link leads to a politicalbyline.com page featuring a hard hitting video by Rachel Higgs. Good production values, 'cool' angry/rock sound track, well composed video repudiation of the current administration and a forceful support of the Tea Party and individual efforts to resist the apathy and complacency of what is being done to our country. This is not documentary style point by point support but is really more of an angry 'say-it-like-it-is' declaration of Tea Party style resistance to the Obama administration which Rachel initially voted for. I particularly appreciated the blunt, direct statements of reality that are so often absent in the public sphere these days. The blogger who posted Rachel's vid includes links below it for viewers to vote Rachel's video UP on Digg.


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From Wikipedia:

The song begins with an edited quote from the beginning of "Message to the Grass Roots", a speech by Malcolm X. As it appears in the song, the quote is:

". . . And during the few moments that we have left, . . . We want to talk right down to earth in a language that everybody here can easily understand."

The unabridged beginning of the speech is:

"...And during the few moments that we have left, we want to have just an off-the-cuff chat between you and me -- us. We want to talk right down to earth in a language that everybody here can easily understand."<2>

At 4:35, John F. Kennedy is quoted, saying "Ask not what your country can do for you," and the song ends with Franklin D. Roosevelt saying "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

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:rofl::rofl::rofl: -- "Cult" perfectly sums them up. Or are they trying to imply that Obama fans are cultists, in which case why would they call the song the teabaggers anthem?

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