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Holy Cameos, Patman!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w96uPYrkAE

Okay, Pat Leahy is officially one of my favorite senators now:

The senator steps forward. “We’re not intimidated by you thugs,” he says. The man, saying, “You remind me of my father — I hated my father,” grabs the senator’s head, and thrusts a knife to his face. The senator freezes, eyes wide.

Not your typical Capitol Hill brouhaha. No, this scene is pure Hollywood, straight out of the new Batman movie, “The Dark Knight.” But that really is the senior senator from Vermont: Patrick J. Leahy — Democrat, Judiciary Committee chairman and lifelong Batman fan — has a cameo in the film and gets to be held at knifepoint by Heath Ledger’s Joker.

(…)

Batman became his favorite superhero because “he has no superpowers,” Mr. Leahy said. “He had to use his own brains and his own knowledge. He could have had an entirely different life. As a billionaire, he could have done anything.”

Mr. Leahy had a nonspeaking cameo in the 1997 film “Batman and Robin,” did a voice-over for the part of a governor in a Batman cartoon, and wrote the prefaces for a “Batman” anthology and a Batman comic book about the danger of land mines. Once he was spotted doing wheelies on his grandson’s toy Batmobile down the long marble hall outside his Senate office.

(…)

The filming of Mr. Leahy’s scene in a Chicago restaurant last summer took “all night long,” he said. Mr. Ledger would “punch or throw me halfway across the room,” and Mr. Leahy was propped up by another actor “with an arm like an oak tree” who was “brandishing a gun in my face.”

It took the senator a couple dozen tries before he got his line right.

“We tried it two different ways — one was authoritative, the other one was with a lot of fear in my voice,” Mr. Leahy said. Ultimately, he was directed to act like the prosecutor he once was, with a take-charge attitude.

So how did Mr. Leahy manage to find his character’s motivation? Was he thinking of Vice President Dick Cheney, who in 2004 used profanity to curse Mr. Leahy on the Senate floor?

“No, I wasn’t visualizing Dick Cheney,” Mr. Leahy said. “They can’t use that dialogue in a PG-13 movie.”

I think we need more Batman fans in Congress. Maybe even the White House.

2 comments July 13th, 2008 at 11:36am Posted by Eli

Entry Filed under: Comics, Coolness, Democrats, Movies

Life As A Republican

Sucks, don’t it.

(From Married To The Sea)

Add comment June 3rd, 2008 at 11:33am Posted by Eli

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This Sounds Familiar…

Can’t fault the Republicans for lack of chutzpah…

You’d think with a presidential candidate who sought the endorsement of someone who praised Hitler (yes, you Mr. Hagee), they’d be careful not to get into Holocaust talk.

But then again, this is the RNC we’re talking about.

Barack Obama made a statement referencing his great uncle’s helping liberate Auschwitz. It turns out it was Ohrduf he helped liberate, which was a subcamp of the infamous Buchenwald. Obama made a mistake, yet the important part of the story was correct.

But leave it to the RNC to even politicize the Holocaust. Even Alex Castellanos, he of the infamous “black hands” Jesse Helms ad, thinks this criticism is beyond the pale:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alfPknAoivI

It’s the Al Gore Fibber McFibbypants playbook all over again. Looks like the GOP is going to try to make Obama out to be the bastard child of Algore and Johnkerry. And if McCain manages to lure Obama out to Iraq with him, they may manage a Dukakis moment as well. (I personally would like to see Obama walking around, pointing and saying, “Dog. Pony. Dog dog dog, pony pony pony,” but that would probably be out of character…

Add comment May 27th, 2008 at 10:52pm Posted by Eli

Entry Filed under: Comics, Elections, Obama, Politics, Republicans, Wankers

Goat Or No Goat

I’m actually afraid to ask.

Add comment May 22nd, 2008 at 11:22am Posted by Eli

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Tracking Number

I’m waiting on some packages today…

(From Married To The Sea)

Add comment May 15th, 2008 at 11:31am Posted by Eli

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The Defining Moment

If only every defining moment were so well… defined.

3 comments May 3rd, 2008 at 04:21pm Posted by Eli

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British Perspective On American Elections

It’s always good to step outside ourselves every once in a while, and contemplate what other countries see when they look at our electoral process.

Blimey!

Add comment May 2nd, 2008 at 06:10pm Posted by Eli

Entry Filed under: Comics, Elections, Uncategorized

Cartoon Characters I Am Just Like

Yeah, baby.

I am the microwave master. If it’s microwaveable, and it has clear, simple, easy-to-follow directions, I am all over it.

Add comment April 24th, 2008 at 11:16am Posted by Eli

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Perspective

And unusually mordant cartoon from Married To The Sea.

Add comment April 22nd, 2008 at 11:12am Posted by Eli

Entry Filed under: Comics, Iraq, War

Another Endorsement

Flying Apocalypse Fish weighs in. Not exactly a surprising choice.

(Picture from Married To The Sea)

Add comment March 28th, 2008 at 11:29am Posted by Eli

Entry Filed under: Bush, Cheney, Comics, Elections

If McCain Wins….

Can you prove it didn’t happen?

(picture from Married To The Sea)

1 comment March 27th, 2008 at 11:11am Posted by Eli

Entry Filed under: Comics, Constitution, Terrorism

Why I Don’t Have A Dog

Stupid favoritism.

Add comment March 26th, 2008 at 11:20am Posted by Eli

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We’ll Be Fine, I’m Sure.

This is pretty much exactly where I’m at these days…

Add comment March 16th, 2008 at 01:13pm Posted by Eli

Entry Filed under: Comics, Politics

The Secret Is Out

In my case, it’s a pretty short book.

(From Married To The Sea)

Add comment March 15th, 2008 at 02:39pm Posted by Eli

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The Prosecution Asserts That This Shit Is Off The Hook.

Hilarious:

A computer that Rockwall County District Attorney Ray Sumrow says he built as a backup server for his office contained documents related to eBay sales, personal e-mails and a cheat sheet for a computer game, an FBI computer expert testified Monday morning.

Rod Gregg, an FBI senior forensic examiner, said 80 percent of the content he found on the computer appeared to be personal rather than work-related.

Mr. Sumrow is being tried in Dallas on charges of forgery, theft and records tampering. As part of the case, prosecutors allege that he used office funds to buy the computer for personal use.

“I would not configure a backup computer in that way,” Mr. Gregg said.

(…)

The computer - equipped with two hard drives, seven fans, high-end video and audio cards, a wireless Internet connection and cables that glow under ultraviolet light - is designed for playing video games, prosecutors say.

As Engadget says:

Testimony will take place through the week, and prosecutors expect to hear how it was imperative to Mr. Sumrow’s legal work that he, “Frag the crap out of dudes.”

Hey, at least he didn’t blow the money on hookers.

Add comment March 14th, 2008 at 07:22am Posted by Eli

Entry Filed under: Comics, Coolness, Corruption/Cronyism, Technology