Mike Huckabee's Ryan McBride moment

Let 'er rip!

(Members of the Newington High School Class of '99 with long memories will understand the reference in the title of this post. Everyone else, move along, nothing to see here...)

Comments

[Joe Loy]

:) Yes yes / the Precedental great Populist uprising, wasn't it? Rocking the effete elite Establishment to its very Core?

Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?
Then join in the fight
That will give you the right to be free!

;}

[fortunately the magnanimous victors didn't go so far as to Behead the rightful monarch, affording him the chance to become The Comeback Tim the following year ;]

[Joe Loy]

PS: did it Work? Is the song now stuck in your Head? :)

[Jay Johnson]

I did that with a copy of the First Amendment in some upper level undergrad communications class as the initial attention grabber to the class on my speech on the Communications Decency Act of 1996. I passed out a copy of the First Amendment to all the members in the class, printed on nice, parchmenty paper.

As I had everyone read along with me, I got to the end and asked everyone to hold it in front of them and then rip it up as I did. A pretty good portion did.

I think tearing up/burning/destroying an item is more effective as a rhetorical device when it's something that is revered. Tearing up a 1040 isn't exactly in that class.

[Sean]

A Ryan McBride moment, huh? Oh, you mean he did the exact same thing that somebody else did five minutes before him and then stammered incoherently?

[David K.]

I don't know if its stuck in Brendan's head, but its stuck in mine, thanks a lot Joe :P

[jlr]

Now, Sean... As any good politico will be able to tell you, you can do exactly the same thing as someone else, but do it better, and you'll be the one who's remembered for it. Ryan proved that.

Tim made a great speech and had a great idea. But Ryan improved on the "ripping up the speech" idea, and it took me less time to conjure up memories of Ryan than of Tim--even though I voted for Tim and maintained my support for El Presidente Timoteo.

Stevens/Kornafel '97!

[Sean]

Hey, Josh, man... Newington! Love it or leave it!* Oh, wait, right, you already did...

(* "loving Newington" shall be understood to mean "agreeing with Sean's high school politics.")