Maddow on Cain

[cilla4progress]

Glad folks are catching up...I suspected this for quite awhile: we are being PUNK'D by the Cain campaign!

What else could it be..

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Yes - she thinks his campaign is really some kind of weird performance art.

[flamingdem]

2. She's being generous, he's an opportunist

but happens to be entertaining.

The repukes and what they've done to the US are not entertaining.

The fact that Cain and pranks might give cover to Romney is not entertaining

[TheDebbieDee]

3. Rachel is right! Herman Cain is "Punkin'" America................

This is some sort of social experiment or performance art! And it's brilliant!

Stephen Colbert couldn't carry this off nearly as well............

It just goes to show you how stoopid right-wingers are, because they are still sending him money.

[cilla4progress]

8. That's the funniest part!

:crazy:

[Botany]

4. Cain has electric shock power ... Raichu Rules

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. You have to love the fact that the "great poet" he quoted

was actually the Pokemon song.

:rofl:

[Botany]

7. You teach me and I'll teach you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lat8GQEJlCY&feature=related

Say good night Herman.

[lonestarnot]

18. Was he reculat'n again?

[sakabatou]

16. That great poet is... Donna Summer!

[polichick]

6. Did she say what his point is supposed to be?

[uponit7771]

17. speaking fees

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[cilla4progress]

10. I do hear you on that...

we failed to take seriously the ridiculous candidacies of Reagan and Bush and they were disastrous for our country.

There's a difference though. They took themselves seriously. It remains to be seen if Cain does.

And I agree: the freak show is in full swing!

But ya gotta have a little fun with it...at least in my book.

[femrap]

11. Raygun was not

funny. I just don't trust the willfully ignorant of this nation. And sexual harassment isn't funny to me. I've had my share and it's not funny.

Cain is a father fucker that needs to be stopped. He is dead-on serious about being prez.

I am not laughing.....you must be young and didn't have to live through Nixon, Raygun, and Bush 1. Clinton wasn't even decent...best repugnant prez ever. I'm amazed I have survived this hell on Earth.

OWS is the best thing that has happened since the '60's. I have waited my entire life for a movement like this. Maybe I'll move south for the winter and OWS in a southern city.

Maybe Colbert can make me laugh...

[Rosa Luxemburg]

12. I don't know which one is better Michael Steele or Cain the Pain

[FrenchieCat]

15. You are writing in "NONE OF THE ABOVE", and you're worried

about how much your are to endure in this fucking country? Looks like whatever you end up having to endure, you will have helped that along.

[Tuvok Obama]

13. LINK TO THE VIDEO...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#45171907

I didn't expect this to be a serious proposition -- that the Cain campaign is a planned joke, or "performance art" as Maddow puts it

But she makes an excellent point, and backs it up with a long list of examples

[Phx_Dem]

14. Toure -- a black commentator on MSNBC called it a "minstral show."

:rofl: