Jonah Goldberg finds this video a little creepy.
Why couldn’t they have made these pledges a year ago? Or eight? Why did they have to wait until the Messiah showed up?
I have to agree with Jay Nordlinger, too:
I don’t know about you, but I am particularly unkeen on arm gestures associated with party enthusiasm and loyalty…
Can you imagine the uproar in the press if this were happening with a Republican president?
Late afternoon update]
Iowahawk attempts a transcript.
All hail (or should it be heil?) the Obamafuhrer!
Yea, I..really couldn’t watch that. I clicked through it at a few spots and spotted a bunch of has been actors trying to hang onto some semblance of importance and notoriety.
I guess I shoulda emphasized that I couldn’t watch that do to technical glitch but that imagining screws driven under the fingernail was less painful to endure. However, I imagine that fate is in store for me once comrade finds out that I’m not enlisted into the USA tree planting service.
I think it’s a brutal endurance test. I had to cut out around 1:30 in. The “I pledge allegiance to folk” guy did me in. One thing that was kind of disappointing was the general uselessness of the pledges. A lot of pledges for “public service” and the like. One guy (the very last one I heard in fact) was claiming he’d stop flipping people off in traffic. That at least sounded worthy.
I think Nordlinger was misinterpreting the hand gesture of von Stade. It sounds more like a generic gesture of victory (for example, I imagine a variety of fist pumping gestures are rather common at sports events) rather than a more specific Obama approved gesture of loyalty.
The person who posted the video seems now to have taken it down.
McGehee: Follow through the link to Gormogons, which has the video via MySpace, rather than YouTube. That one doesn’t seem to have been taken down yet.
And if you can’t bear to watch the whole thing, make sure to catch the ending.