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[DeSwiss]

Maddow Kicks Herself For Not Realizing Herman Cain Is A Performance Art Project

Mediaite.com | by Frances Martel | 12:22 pm, November 5th, 2011



Rachel Maddow was very disappointed in herself last night. It finally dawned on her, she explained, that she had been had. “I should have known at Pokémon– we all should have known at Pokémon.” Maddow was talking about the Herman Cain candidacy, which she had concluded was not a real campaign. “The gaffes are too perfect,” she told her audience, concluding that the campaign was “not about politics– this is art about politics.”

http://www.mediaite.com/online/did-herman-cain-end-the-debate-with-an-inspirational-quote-from-a-pokemon-movie/">RELATED: Wait…Did Herman Cain End The Debate With A Line From A Pokemon Movie?

“I feel like an idiot about this,” Maddow confessed, beginning with the Pokémon reference that raised more than one eyebrow, as it appeared in a presidential debate, and Cain prefaced the Pokémon theme song quote with, “a great poet once said.” “I believe that the Artist Formerly Known as Herman Cain was trying to end it right there,” Maddow argued, “ we weren’t willing to see the whole thing at that point.”

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/charles-krauthammer-on-herman-cains-entirely-incoherent-abortion-stance-hes-winging-it/">RELATED: Charles Krauthammer On Herman Cain’s Incoherent Abortion Stance: ‘He’s Winging It’

So then Herman Cain released 999, which ended up being, as Maddow explains, “the operating tax structure in Sim City,” a video game where you get to play the mayor of a town and try to not bankrupt your own government. Granted, “Herman Cain angrily denied this,” but Maddow contends “we were supposed to get the joke at this point.” Instead, he’s at the top of the polls. While Maddow understood that unpolished politicians made gaffes, for her, “the gaffes are too perfect… this guy is pulling our leg.”

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/rachel-maddow-kicks-herself-for-not-realizing-herman-cain-is-a-performance-art-project/">MORE & MUST SEE VIDEO!!!

- I see it all now too, Rachel. He honed his craft when he first took over Godfather's Pizza as a means to try to distract people from the horrible taste!

DeSwiss



"Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it." ~John Steinbeck

[Matariki]

1. That was brilliant. But the question is "why"?

Cain worked for Koch Brothers' group Americans for Prosperity for six years from 2005 to 2011 (and I would suspect he is still working for them).

So, as funny as Rachael Maddow's segment was, and as astute as to the fact that his campaign is not genuine, I don't think that the purpose is just to be clever or 'performance art'. The question then is, why? What is he, what are they, really up to? A friend suggested that it's a campaign of cognizant dissonance to distract and slip a message in under intellectual awareness. :shrug:

[DeSwiss]

3. The way I see it, after ''W'' proved....

...that anyone -- literally any imbecile can be elected president, and thus control of the Office of President could continue to be inured to TPTB -- it was a fait accompli.

Cain provides The Oligarchs with their version of the hopeful (and much, much better according to http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-pitts-race-20111106,0,2652565.story">Ann ''Our Blacks'' Coulter) ''brown presidential candidate.'' Realizing that their constituency is composed largely of racist rabble, they still make certain to cover their bets across the entire table. Besides, even their racist constituency (who ain't too bright which is why they're racist to begin with), can be easily hoodwinked into voting against their interests as they have always done. Or at least not voting at all. Cain's type of stupidity is at least recognizable by them, as is his prejudice toward Beki-Beki-Beki-Stan-Stan-Stan-like places -- which plays right into their wheelhouse and gives enough of them a reason to support him.

While useful idiots like Bachmann and Perry are much more difficult to sell and to control -- Herm knows his place......

[willing dwarf]

4. Like the Paliode Siena

I quote from wikipedia on the subject:

The Palio differs from "normal" horse races in that part of the game is for the wards to prevent rival contrade from winning. When a contrada fails to win, its historical enemy will celebrate the fact nearly as merrily as a victory of its own, regardless of whether adversarial interference was a deciding factor. Few things are forbidden to the jockeys during the race; for instance, they can pull or shove their fellows, hit the horses and each other, or try to hamper other horses at the start.

[krispos42]

10. To make Romeny and/or Perry look GOOD

Remember, people vote for the least-evil person now, especially in primaries!

[Matariki]

11. That's part of it I think

the other part is having a candidate who will say things about race that they can't get away with saying.

[BR_Parkway]

12. To prove to the GOP Governors that Kochs could make anyone a viable

candidate to ensure that they pushed for Kochs' agenda without worrying about their political futures

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=2258364&mesg_id=2258364

[abelenkpe]

2. Love Rachel, Love this segment

but Republicans don't know performance art.

And they don't know art.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

5. I was trying to decide if Rachel was just goofing on Cain

or if she was serious in thinking that Cain's campaign was following some kind of master plan in making fun of the Republican electorate. Her segment was very interesting but I think the notion that Cain is some kind of mad genious artist is funny and Rachel was being a bit playful. But she did make good points. Cain borrowed lines from the Pokemon film and from a Jackie Chan comedy. His last commercial with the cowboy doing nothing and not even presenting a political message was beyond bizarre. I tend to think that Cain is just trying to sell books and land a commentator's job. I think things got out of hand and he didn't expect or want to become a front-runner, so he's sabotaging his own campaign, making commercials that have as much clear meaning as a Robbegrillet art film. All the while, the funny thing is that he could now do almost any ridiculous thing and the Tea Partiers would still support him They hate Mitt that much.

[DeSwiss]

8. Good performance art is always hard to tell from ''reality.''

- Whatever that is......

[JPZenger]

6. Should we hold our fire on Cain, and hope he beats Romney?

I have mixed feelings. I really believe Obama would have a tough time defeating Romney in November. I think Obama could beat all of the other Republican candidates, including Cain. Does it make sense to hold our fire on criticizing Cain and hope he gets the nomination?

Also, Cain is telling the press that Perry or another Republican is behind the sexual harrassment issue. However, he is telling his supporters on TV and web commercials that it is the liberal media that is after him on the issue. Which is it, guy???

[DeSwiss]

9. At this point.....

...I don't think there's a Republican candidate that can beat Obama.

- It's more of a question of whether or not he beats himself.......

[lumberjack_jeff]

7. Doh! There goes team rocket blasting off again. n/t

[Overseas]

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