Matt Langer

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Jan 4 2011

TWW s02e07

“The Portland Trip”:

Sam: Oratory should raise your heart rate. Oratory should blow the doors off the place. We should be talking about not being satisfied with past solutions, we should be talking about a permanent revolution.
Toby: Where have I heard that?
Sam: I got it from a book… The Little Red Book.
Toby: You think we should quote Mao Tse-tung?
Sam: We do need a permanent revolution.
Toby: Still, I think we’ll stay away from quoting Communists.
Sam: You think a Communist never wrote an elegant phrase? How do you think they got everyone to be Communist?

I was like this close to firing off some RAGEBLACKOUT™ about how maybe we shouldn’t all go fapping all over the internet whenever Scalia says something witty because we’re supposed to be smarter than that and we shouldn’t let this evil little man deceive us with clever thoughts about deep dish pizzas because COME ON PEOPLE this is the same guy who would tell you that nowhere in the constitution does it deny the government the right to kill newborn kittens and that if a law got passed to kill all the cats HE WOULD BE OK WITH THIS—

—but then Sam Seaborn came to mind and reminded me that sometimes terrible people say pleasing things and then I took a few deep breaths and just meditated on Rob Lowe for a second there and anyway yeah we’re all clear now.

Posted at 11:34 AM 13 notes Tagged: close callRAGEBLACKOUTS

  1. thegongshow said: It’s like the George W Bush quote about “…the soft bigotry of low expectations.” His name alone evokes rage in me, but his speech writer did manage to turn a nice phrase with that line.
  2. barthel said: Barely avoided a RBO last week when people were all like “how great that Pat Robertson wants to legalize pot?!?!” If we are going to get mad when people on the left aren’t lefty enough, we certainly shouldn’t be cutting Pat any slack.
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