A least one lovable subversive at MSNBC

[PublicWrath]

Did anyone else see "Crisis and Recovery" this afternoon (Sat)? They did a brief spot about Brown returning to his usual position as distant and supreme leader of FEMA, leaving the Katrina relief effort in the capable hands of others,--Gen Thad Allen, Gen. Honore, et al., (cutting in with footage of each, even a flash of Cheney) and then suddenly, a clip of Laura leading some evacuated children in a sing-a-long, a cheery round of ----Zippity Doo Dah!

It was the funniest, most savagely sarcastic moment I've ever seen on the news. It really captured the Fiddle Dee Dee approach to natural disaster. I'm sure it was deliberate on somebody's part and I'm so grateful for it.

[craigolemiss]

1. Actually ---

I almost think you have to really work at NOT finding anyone with the last name Bush doing something incredibly dumb these days.

[Radio_Lady]

2. There's a whole barrel of Bushfuls who have filled books full of

their unbelievably dumb stuff. Amazing and true...

Wait until they are finally out of office. You ain't seen nothin' yet!

[joanne]

3. Welcome to DU Publicwrath!

:hi:

[PublicWrath]

8. Thanks for being here!

I found this site during my frenzy of rage and desperation about New Orleans. It certainly isn't as if it's the only godawful thing they've done, just the latest horror in a series, but it's the first time they've done it in broad daylight, so to speak. They've really frightened the horses and I think they'll pay dearly.

[KitchenWitch]

4. Please tell me the child was of caucasian descent

"Zippity Doo Dah"?

YIKES, how fucking out of touch can these assholes be?

[romwriter]

5. gotta love the cluelessness of her choice of songs, too

it's from the disney movie, song of the south, which is now considered pretty racist. Hmmm, the first lady leading a lot of displaced poor black kids from new orleans in song -- maybe they can sing "old black joe" next.

romwriter in baton rouge

[melody]

6. ohmyfreakinggod, it's Auntie Remus!

She led them in a song from "Song of the South"??? You know, we don't need to take these people down, they're tripping over their own bootlaces.

Maybe Auntie Remus meant it as a way to help the little "colored children" deal with their new lives on the plantation. Yassuh, it's mighty satisfactual.

Somebody please anesthetize me for the rest of this administration...I grow more humiliated by the hour.

[Hardrada]

12. The Bushbots all seem to have

The Happy Darkies Syndrome!

[PublicWrath]

14. I haven't seen Song of the South, but the scene was so

grotesquely paternalistic in itself, and so charged with an insanely uplifting tone that I nearly rolled off the sofa. It just flashed on the screen for a few seconds, but last night after I read the posts about "Song of the South" and Uncle Remus, I wrote The Daily Show about it. I hope they can find it.

[faithnotgreed]

17. welcome to du romwriter - glad youre here

like your choice of songs for the bushes to sing

[bobbieinok]

20. loved the movie as a kid.....haven't seen it as an adult.....Brer Rabbit

stories, from what I remember from anthro + folklore classes, were told by the slaves using their African cultural heritage to get the best of their masters, at least psychologically

I don't know if the man who wrote the "Uncle Remus' stories (retelling slave stories he'd heard as a white boy) knew that

PLEASE CORRECT ME if what I remember about the 'trickster' character Brer Rabbit is wrong

....I think I got this idea from the writings + anthologies of Alan Dundes, a noted black folklorist

[NYC]

7. What a wonderful day?

Are those words part of the Zippity Doo Dah lyrics?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

9. My oh my what a wonderful day

To be exact.

[PublicWrath]

10. That's the one.

My,oh my! What a Wonderful Day!

An absolutely psychotic choice, considering the situation, isn't it?

[faithnotgreed]

18. hi publicwrath - you hit that one just about right

welcome to the fun that is du

[Writer]

11. Oh. My. God.

I am crying this is so sad.

:cry: :rofl: :cry:

[yorkiemommie1]

13. i was hoping this was a joke.

just unbelievable.

[belle]

15. You cannot make this shit up.

[PublicWrath]

16. That's because they are beyond parody.

[lateo]

19. Zippity Doo Dah was a song from the rascist Disney movie...

"The Song of the South". Remember that movie?

[mitchum]

22. Bootleg copies of the movie fetch incredibly high prices

Apparently, Disney has no plans to ever release the movie for home consumption. I wonder why? :)

Incredibly, I remember Disney re-releasing the movie in theatres when I was a very young child in the 60s!

[mitchum]

21. "There are only two kinds of music...the blues and Zippity Doo Dah"....

Townes Van Zant

Leave it to Pickles to go for the schlock