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I was doing some reading last night and came across a number of Groucho Marx quotes which I thought could easily be mistaken as coming from Mitt Romney himself. Certainly, the three in the above illustration fit the Mittster perfectly…as do these.
“There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he’s crooked.”
“I cannot say that I do not disagree with you”
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.”
From the man who once said he enjoys firing people who work for him, this next one is 100 percent Romney.
“There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of your fellow man”
And this one might not be Romneyesque but I love it anyway.
“I’m not a vegetarian, but I eat animals who are”
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(The Romney source photograph is a Creative Commons licensed image from photographer Gage Skidmore.)
The problem is, when Romney says things like that, he isn’t trying to be funny. My favorite is, “I don’t remember what I said, but I stand by it, whatever it was.”
Meanwhile, the Republican-controlled House is really pushing its jobs agenda with important bills like repealing the ACA for the 30-somethingth time, banning abortion in the District of Columbia (as a rider to a cyber-security bill), naming post offices in Hicksville and East Bumfuck after obscure local heroes, yadda, yadda, yadda…
Maybe the President should publicly oppose the policies he actually wants to pass and publicly support the ones he opposes so the Republicans will vote against his expressed wishes.
Right now -just of late, anyhow -the Romnian Shape-shifter looks all human an’ such, like an empty head in an empty suit. Kinda, goofy, silly-looking, if you know what I mean. Do you follow me? Sure, laughter is good, my children. Laugh at the goop soup that come from the gawk stalk, like Nana used to say. Laugh. Funny.
Funny it is until the Lands of Plenty say, “NO MORE! And it’s almost the time of the food troubles.
Johnny…stop it! That could not have been your brother back by the side of the road. No, no no! Our side wouldn’t do that to survive. Keep going. Do not look back. They may be gaining on us.
Just a reminder, Mario, Groucho’s TV program was titled. “You bet your Life” and that’s exactly what we are doing when we go to polls in November.
Another of Groucho’s best was, “I’d never want to belong to a club that would allow me as a member”. Sort of Mittens attitude toward paying taxes.
Maybe you’re on to something here, He is almost exactly like the one, and only, ‘Groucho’.
They are both true comics, with the caveat that only one intended to be.
Just love Groucho…..and Harpo and Chico and Zeppo, too! They are the best. Groucho, like Mark Twain, will always be relevant. There are so few humorists that compare (as a matter of fact, I’m not coming up with any others at this time). Maybe we only get 1 per century.
Margaret, you’re missing mention of one of the greatest comedy teams ever – a one-two punch of hysteria, a largely unsung duo: Michael Maltese and Charles M. Jones.
Had you referenced “Leon Schlesinger/Warner Bros./Looney Tunes”, I would have caught on a little more quickly. Bugs Bunny is my Personal Savior. Whenever things get too crazy, I ask myself, “What would Bugs do?”.
Actually, in thinking about this, there are many great humorists and I have no wish to start a competition( although a comprehensive listing from everyone here, with remarks as to why this person or that is so humorous, significant and deserving of historical preservation would be very interesting). I Was thinking in terms of humorists that will be considered fresh, relevant and timely over centuries. Hopefully that will be the case with Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Coyote, Road Runner, Tom and Jerry and all the rest of my favorite ‘Toon Gang. But I don’t know. George Carlin kind of strikes a chord with me, but will he hold up over time or is he too late 20th/early 21st century, is the question. Plus, George was almost too close to bitter to be truly funny. Sometimes I felt like crying when listening to his routines.
Margaret, you are right about competition, as humor is such a subjective thing, and I agree with you about Carlin. I was in high school when he reached his second peak of popularity (this was after he did away with the suit and tie, grew his hair and beard and got hip), and he was downright iconic for breaking all kinds of rules. I even met him once, when he was not “on”, and he was a very soft-spoken and gracious man, a far cry from his onstage persona.
But when it comes to cartoon characters, I think a lot of people look to the characters and miss noting the people who created and shaped them. Bugs, for example, was not always the same rabbit. The Bugs of Jones and Maltese was not the same as Bugs directed by Robert McKimson, Bob Clampett or Friz Freling. Of all the Warner directors, Jones was the most consistently funny and downright brilliant; Clampett was notable for his touches of the surreal, McKimson never seemed comfortable with Bugs and Freling was, at best, rather pedestrian and at worst downright boring (although he did use Yosemite Sam to good effect on occasion). Actually, one of my favorite Bugs quotes is from a Freling cartoon, Rabbit Every Monday: “I don’t ask questions. I just have fun!”
The Reagan administration’s generous foreign aid to the Salvadoran military resulted in approximately 35,000 Salvadorans killed, most were political murders, during the early 1980s. The military regime controled by extreme right-wing ARENA party, protected a small oligarchy of families whose wealth came from plantations dependent on cheap labor from peasants who were forcibly dispossessed of their land.
The LA Times’ July 19 article cited Bain’s corporate filings in Massachusetts as well as a 1994 expose by the Boston Globe, which calculated the Salvadorans’ investment in Bain at $6.5 million.
Romney named and publicly thanked several Salvadoran investors for their help in a 2007 speech in Miami. U.S. officials and human rights inquiries had linked close relatives of the investors – belonging to the Poma, Duenas, de Sola and Salaverria families – to paramilitary violence by 1984 when they met with Romney. Some of their relatives were charged with directing violence personally, others with supporting it behind the scenes through the extreme right-wing ARENA party, which orchestrated the death squads in those years.
The one on principles is sweet! Pure Romney.
Good stuff, Mario. Clever. It’s a shame that the 8.3% unemployment rate isn’t as funny.
The problem is, when Romney says things like that, he isn’t trying to be funny. My favorite is, “I don’t remember what I said, but I stand by it, whatever it was.”
Yes – when Romney is President, the unemployment rate WILL go down….in other countries.
Meanwhile, the Republican-controlled House is really pushing its jobs agenda with important bills like repealing the ACA for the 30-somethingth time, banning abortion in the District of Columbia (as a rider to a cyber-security bill), naming post offices in Hicksville and East Bumfuck after obscure local heroes, yadda, yadda, yadda…
Maybe the President should publicly oppose the policies he actually wants to pass and publicly support the ones he opposes so the Republicans will vote against his expressed wishes.
Right now -just of late, anyhow -the Romnian Shape-shifter looks all human an’ such, like an empty head in an empty suit. Kinda, goofy, silly-looking, if you know what I mean. Do you follow me? Sure, laughter is good, my children. Laugh at the goop soup that come from the gawk stalk, like Nana used to say. Laugh. Funny.
Funny it is until the Lands of Plenty say, “NO MORE! And it’s almost the time of the food troubles.
Johnny…stop it! That could not have been your brother back by the side of the road. No, no no! Our side wouldn’t do that to survive. Keep going. Do not look back. They may be gaining on us.
Just a reminder, Mario, Groucho’s TV program was titled. “You bet your Life” and that’s exactly what we are doing when we go to polls in November.
Another of Groucho’s best was, “I’d never want to belong to a club that would allow me as a member”. Sort of Mittens attitude toward paying taxes.
Maybe you’re on to something here, He is almost exactly like the one, and only, ‘Groucho’.
They are both true comics, with the caveat that only one intended to be.
Just love Groucho…..and Harpo and Chico and Zeppo, too! They are the best. Groucho, like Mark Twain, will always be relevant. There are so few humorists that compare (as a matter of fact, I’m not coming up with any others at this time). Maybe we only get 1 per century.
Margaret, you’re missing mention of one of the greatest comedy teams ever – a one-two punch of hysteria, a largely unsung duo: Michael Maltese and Charles M. Jones.
Had you referenced “Leon Schlesinger/Warner Bros./Looney Tunes”, I would have caught on a little more quickly. Bugs Bunny is my Personal Savior. Whenever things get too crazy, I ask myself, “What would Bugs do?”.
Actually, in thinking about this, there are many great humorists and I have no wish to start a competition( although a comprehensive listing from everyone here, with remarks as to why this person or that is so humorous, significant and deserving of historical preservation would be very interesting). I Was thinking in terms of humorists that will be considered fresh, relevant and timely over centuries. Hopefully that will be the case with Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Coyote, Road Runner, Tom and Jerry and all the rest of my favorite ‘Toon Gang. But I don’t know. George Carlin kind of strikes a chord with me, but will he hold up over time or is he too late 20th/early 21st century, is the question. Plus, George was almost too close to bitter to be truly funny. Sometimes I felt like crying when listening to his routines.
Margaret, you are right about competition, as humor is such a subjective thing, and I agree with you about Carlin. I was in high school when he reached his second peak of popularity (this was after he did away with the suit and tie, grew his hair and beard and got hip), and he was downright iconic for breaking all kinds of rules. I even met him once, when he was not “on”, and he was a very soft-spoken and gracious man, a far cry from his onstage persona.
But when it comes to cartoon characters, I think a lot of people look to the characters and miss noting the people who created and shaped them. Bugs, for example, was not always the same rabbit. The Bugs of Jones and Maltese was not the same as Bugs directed by Robert McKimson, Bob Clampett or Friz Freling. Of all the Warner directors, Jones was the most consistently funny and downright brilliant; Clampett was notable for his touches of the surreal, McKimson never seemed comfortable with Bugs and Freling was, at best, rather pedestrian and at worst downright boring (although he did use Yosemite Sam to good effect on occasion). Actually, one of my favorite Bugs quotes is from a Freling cartoon, Rabbit Every Monday: “I don’t ask questions. I just have fun!”
The Reagan administration’s generous foreign aid to the Salvadoran military resulted in approximately 35,000 Salvadorans killed, most were political murders, during the early 1980s. The military regime controled by extreme right-wing ARENA party, protected a small oligarchy of families whose wealth came from plantations dependent on cheap labor from peasants who were forcibly dispossessed of their land.
The LA Times’ July 19 article cited Bain’s corporate filings in Massachusetts as well as a 1994 expose by the Boston Globe, which calculated the Salvadorans’ investment in Bain at $6.5 million.
Romney named and publicly thanked several Salvadoran investors for their help in a 2007 speech in Miami. U.S. officials and human rights inquiries had linked close relatives of the investors – belonging to the Poma, Duenas, de Sola and Salaverria families – to paramilitary violence by 1984 when they met with Romney. Some of their relatives were charged with directing violence personally, others with supporting it behind the scenes through the extreme right-wing ARENA party, which orchestrated the death squads in those years.