House GOP Plays Movie Clip To Rally Caucus: "I Need Your Help… We’re Going To Hurt Some People"

[jefferson_dem]

Ok, now this is fucked up...

House GOP Plays Ben Affleck Movie Clip To Rally Caucus: ‘I Need Your Help… We’re Going To Hurt Some People’
By Judd Legum on Jul 26, 2011 at 9:10 pm

According to the Washington Post, the House GOP leadership played a short clip from the Ben Affleck movie “The Town” to rally their caucus around Boehner’s debt plan:

Ben Affleck: I need your help. I can’t tell you what it is. You can never ask me about it later. And we’re going to hurt some people.

Jeremy Renner: What car are we going to take?

Watch it:

According to the Washington Post, Rep. Allen West replied “I’m ready to drive the car.”

In the movie, the characters then put on hockey masks and bludgeon two men with sticks, then shoot one man in the leg.

In real life, Boehner has since decided to rewrite his plan and delayed a vote until “Thursday or Friday,” after failing to secure enough support for the current version.

VIDEO at LINK: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/07/26/280239/house-gop-plays-ben-affleck-movie-clip-to-rally-caucus-i-need-your-help-were-going-to-hurt-some-people/

Here's a more extended clip of "The Town", which shows what happens after... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHPqhoOKUws

[FreakinDJ]

1. They are on the ropes and running scared

I don't think those calls and emails were anywhere near 50/50 like the GOP has been trying to play off all day

[Zookeeper]

2. Wait....this is after what just happened in Norway???

Wow, that's just hilarious (sarcasm).

Hopefully, Ben Affleck sues them for using his clip.

[Bluenorthwest]

3. This will not please Affleck at all. He's on Real Time this

coming Friday, and I'm sure he will have some words for the Republifucks.

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. Never mind that the characters in The Town are despicable people

I like Jon Hamm's character: "You're going to spend the rest of your life in federal prison. Yeah."

[tridim]

5. Unacceptable in America.

Something has to be done.

[MadMaddie]

9. They have crossed the line

it started with that loud mouth Joe whats his name, "You Lie"!

I still don't think we have seen the worst of it....The Republican Candidates are going to be worse than Failen Palin...

[DrToast]

6. A movie about bank robbers? Sounds about right.*

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[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. It's quite disturbing IMHO what they seem to find...........inspirational

:eyes: :scared:

I guess President Obama really wasn't kidding when he warned the American people last year NOT to give the Republicans the "keys to the car" back to them. A lot of people should've listened to him then. :banghead:

http://youtu.be/t4Lf8BTyjL8

[MadMaddie]

8. Umm is this like them using someone's music without

permission?

These guys are like kids in highshcool...

[sadbear]

10. Seems to me the "Stuck in the Middle with You" scene from Resevoir Dogs would be apropos

Symbolic of what they want to do to America, or Obama, or whoever. I won't post the video though.

[jefferson_dem]

11. DNC's Wasserman Schultz holding 12:30 presser on use of "The Town" at GOP conf.

:popcorn:

http://twitter.com/#!/MPOTheHill/statuses/96228370869788673

[Enrique]

15. that fucking "The Hill" reporter

with his lame-ass commentary: "Guessing indignation is on the lunch menu."

:mad:

[NatBurner]

12. west is a fucking section 8 lunatic

how that asshole got elected is beyond me

i would LOVE to hear what his army peers and subordinates have to say about his shithouse rat crazy ass

i mean, this dickhead is still wearing a FLAT TOP for God's sake

wtf?

[Raine1967]

13. This is borderline psychotic.

Especially after I watched the fight scene.

It's is just not appropriate.

[okieinpain]

14. yeah, they're all billy bad ass talk until someone does it to one

of them, then it "why me, I'm a gentle loving christian".

[Enrique]

16. Affleck says they should be watching "The Company Men"

:thumbsup:

"I don't know if this is a compliment or the ultimate repudiation," said the actor, who is currently in Turkey directing and starring in "Argo," an adaptation of the Tehran hostage crisis. "But if they're going to be watching movies, I think "The Company Men" is more appropriate."