Let's go all Howard Beale on Cheney's ass!

[Joanie Baloney]

"We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore!!!"

(Take deep breath and repeat as necessary)

High noon (your local time) on the 4th of July sounds perfect. What could be more patriotic than to take back our country on her birthday?? Everyone lean out your window, go stand in your front yard, stop in the middle of the mall, movie theater, park, beach - wherever you are and shout it out.

"I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!!" It might make you feel better and if you hear anyone else shouting - heck...you've got the start of a revolution. Keep shouting and see what happens.

Anybody with me???

As Woody Guthrie wrote:

This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me.



:applause:



JB

[seemslikeadream]

1. 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!'

Howard Beale: I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad.
Howard Beale: You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, Goddamnit! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell,

Howard Beale: 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it:
Howard Beale: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"

[terrya]

2. One of the best rants ever

And as timely today as in 1976.

Amazing how prescient that movie was.

[seemslikeadream]

3. This is the story of Howard Beale

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIN8r27aOBo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn2DC9rDNI0&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwNJeEuA4W0&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJAOYTS5wYQ&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZhI6yFp3Cg&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG8nMGpi0nY&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UMeggHuUCA&mode=related&search=

[Joanie Baloney]

5. Thank you

Great, disturbing movie...then and now. :)

JB

[whistle]

12. Network - 1976... thirty one years ago it was a warning and yet here we are

...today our worst nightmares are now here. Well I am mad as hell and I am not going to take it any more.

[seemslikeadream]

16. 72 years ago

It Can't Happen Here (1935)

[MindPilot]

4. HIGH NOON...JULY FOURTH...YELL IT OUT!!!

That's a really good idea!! Can it get some good traction in the next couple days?

[Joanie Baloney]

6. It can if we tell friends

I'll be shouting....will you??

JB

[lonestarnot]

7. SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT

[Joanie Baloney]

13. Way to go!!

Shout it to the rooftops!!

[Decruiter]

8. Impeach Cheney Now!

[Joanie Baloney]

14. Beautiful!

We can do it!! :D

[southerncrone]

9. A teriffic idea...I can do this!

[Joanie Baloney]

15. Yes you can!

Yes WE can!!


:D

[MindPilot]

10. This should go to Randi, KO, & Malloy!!!

Big Eddie too.

Wouldn't Keith be perfect doing Howard Beale's classic rant?

[seemslikeadream]

11. here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wXII7yso9I

[Joanie Baloney]

17. I agree - pass it on!

Keith IS (a more sane) Howard Beale!!


LOL


JB

[Berry Cool]

18. What I love is how Olbermann Watch, which is actually an anti-Keith blog,

actually gives him positive publicity by posting things like this on YouTube.

What maroons! :rofl:

[Joanie Baloney]

19. One more rec...come on DU'ers!

Let's get some more action going. :)

JB

And, thank you!!

[slackmaster]

20. K&R!

:kick: