Here is a cool new movie about Obama’s socialist federal spending! One-third of the documentary is animated with claymation and computers to “make it entertaining for a younger audience,” according to the filmmaker, Ray Griggs. But what will make it REALLY entertaining for children is that it features interviews with their friends Ken Blackwell and Newt Gingrich. Hooray!
I Want Your Money, which will land in theaters this October, aims to contrast the “two paths” the United States could take — Obama’s approach or Reagan’s. The promotional site tells visitors that $182 million is spent during the span of one viewing of the 90-minute film.
That seems like a lot of money for a single person to spend! Except it’s the world’s most powerful government. So maybe it makes a BIT of sense.
But it definitely will be cool to see this different “path” that we could take in 2010. Today we would probably sext arms to the contras! And how would we reanimate Saddam Hussein’s body so we could give him resources to wage chemical warfare? Probably with some Nancy Reagan black magic. We would also need to reestablish the Soviet Union so that we would have a supposedly evil but weak country to rail against. This “path” sounds like fun! [TPM]
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I don’t think they mention that it was Bush who created the deficit after Clinton balanced it?
Reagan doesn’t seem like someone that should lecture us about the deficit, unless he’s telling us how to run a humongous one.
“The promotional site tells visitors that $182 million is spent during the span of one viewing of the 90-minute film.”
Kids love stuff like that. I hope they really get the tots fired up about Reaganomics, ’cause right now the only trickle-down theory they are familiar with is pretty gross.
Government is not the solution to our problems. So when the Japanese sank half our Navy at Pearl Harbor, private enterprise stepped forward and launched its aircraft carriers and battleships and deployed its Armies to defeat the Axis.
Oh and private industry built the all airports.
Now where’s that damn mailman with my SSA check?
[re=633935]V572625694[/re]: Your mailman is waiting in line to vote in the local republican primary. Because, you know, he’s concerned about the deficit.
Aaaahhh, the good old days. Remember trickle down? Morning in America? Ketchup as vegetable? 10,000 homeless sleeping in Grand Central Station on cold nights? Adolfo? Alexander Haig? A hairdo called the “Le Cirque”? When a 70 year old man calling his wife “mommy” was considered cute? AIDS? Jerome Zipkin? Betsy Bloomingdale? Arms to Iran to finance overthrows of democratic governments? “Bedtime for Bonzo”? Had enough or do you want more? Hnnnnnggggh?
[re=633935]V572625694[/re]:
The government has never created a single job!
Thank God for the budget surpluses that the Blessed St. Ronnie created.
[re=633935]V572625694[/re]: The Eisenhower Interstate Highway System so our bombers would have a place to land during a nukular war with the Soviets.
Keep the GOVERNMENT out of my Social Security, Medicare, Pell Grants, Center for Disease Control, Federal Drug Administration, Veterans Administration, etc.
What makes this film so “controversial” is that it is chock full o’ lies. Probably it will end up as part of the school curriculum in Texas.
I expect they won’t be showing this chart in the movie
Worth pointing out, yet again, that Orwell was a warning, not an instruction manual?
Those lips on the prez – they’re kind of, umm, stereotypical, aren’t they?
You get a free 3-D tinfoil hat to match the glasses!
♪♫ Let’s all go to the lobby!
Let’s all go to the lobby!
Let’s all go to the lobby,
To get ourselves some MUSTARD! ♪♫
Using Reagan as a mouthpiece against deficit spending is like using a catholic priest to protest pedophilia.
“I went to bed a Grandpa and woke up …
In April – A national security threat
In August – An astroturf mobster
and in March – An angry racist
GET IT YET?”
You sleep for many months at a stretch?
Yeah, like someone is going to pay $8 to sit in a movie theater for 90 minutes watching the giant head of Newt Gingrich blowing Steve Forbes.
[re=633935]V572625694[/re]: They do love that damn socialist army, navy, air force.
[re=633977]Sharkey[/re]: If so, I suppose that could explain his rumpled foreskin face.
I think they need to drop the “s” from theaters. And what kids don’t like economic policy debate in their cartoons?
I love the part where they say conservatives are tired of being pushed too hard for too long. Take the long view you big babies. Obama’s been President for 18 months. Ya’ll had Bush for 8 years, House of Representatives for 12 years, Senate for most of that time. And of course the Supreme Court found “Bush wins” in the “plain language of the Constitution”.
Who is the guy at :24? He kind of looks like Doug Feith. He certainly spouts bullshit like Feith.
Wow! That movie has EVERYTHING!
HUGE deficit spender and tax-raiser Reagan lecturing about government spending? Check!
Philanderer Newt Gingrich lecturing about moral responsibility? Check!
Surplus creator Clinton portrayed as a big spender? Check!
If this is just the trailer, the whole movie must be pure GOLD.
A question for St. Ronnie:
So that drunken sailor is spending his money? Actually, you dead fuck, he’s spending OUR money, because sailors get paid with taxes.
My God. Will someone on the right just dig up Reagan and fellate his corpse already?
[re=633992]FlipOffResearch[/re]: He’s some rightwing douchehat that Maher has on his show from time to time. Can’t remember his name. I think it’s Closetedgay Georgewill Wannabe, Jr.
Spoiler alert: He’s a fucking idiot.
Think they’re going to “solicit” “donations” for the “RNC” before and after the “movie?”
Obama’s or Reagan’s? So our choices are to piss away money we don’t have on wellfare to the health insurance industries, or piss away money we don’t have on wellfare to the defense industries?
It’s going on 70 years. Isn’t it about time to pull the troops out of Germany and Japan, at least? The great thing about isolationism is it’s cheap!
Come for the visual racial stereotyping, stay for the tin-foil logic and fact-free political “science”!
You’d think with all the friends Republicans have in Hollywood these little films might score higher production values. I mean, they’ve got Kelsey Grammer, Patricia Heaton, Charlton Heston’s corpse, and the list just goes… it goes… ?
Who needs Toy Story 3 when you can have this?
so scatman crothers is the president now? zombie reagan sitting on the desk in the oval? what a disrespectful asshole.
[re=633992]FlipOffResearch[/re]: [re=633995]smitallica[/re]: That unctuously affable asshole is “economist” Stephen Moore, founder and former president of the Club for Growth, editorial board member of the Wall Street Journal, and contributing editor for National Review.
Moore’s Real Time with Bill Maher appearances are most notable for his admittedly-impressive ability to giggle and bounce like a special needs schoolgirl while taking one blow after another to the abandoned ant farm he calls his “balls”.
By the way, just to remind everyone, Ken Blackwell is a tool.
Ohioans know this all too well.
They’re actually planning theatrical release of this dreck in October? Like, to influence the election? And they’re using claymation with grossly over-the-top stereotypes?
No doubt, it will be a big hit with Teabaggers, and they may force their kiddies to sit through it, which will generate some cash flow. But the kiddies can’t vote, and the baggers are already in the, so to speak, bag. And 90 minutes far exceeds the average American’s attention span for political topics.
So, what could possibly go wrong?
Also, too, I’d love to see this as a double bill with a selection of Max Headroom shorts.
Love the pointy ears. Kind of like pointy horns, which makes him a friend of Jews, if not Jewish himself. Yes, Barack Hussain Olmert Obama bin Laden, your Jewish-Muslin Kenyan overlord.
This will surely drive films like “Toy Story 3″ and “Inception” out of the theatres. and when it becomes available as a DVD at places like “Target,” well, then we can watch it again and again, without having to pay outrageous prices for the movie butter popcorn that goes so well with cinematic experiences, like this one. I cannot wait for its release!
3D or GTFO.
[re=634004]Guppy06[/re]:
Let the Chicoms pay for that kinda crap for a while. It’ll do us a world of good.
I admire the way we sell huge $$$ packages of weapons to both sides in a conflict and then act stunned (I say, stunned!) when they use them against each other. And then sell them both more.
American Exceptionalism!
Time to go build the lasagne and get another drink…
[re=634042]Army of None[/re]:
Free, On Demand, Comcast.
[re=634004]Guppy06[/re]: If education was cheap, I’m sure you’d have a lot.
[re=634042]Army of None[/re]: New title “coaster”, ’cause thats how it’ll be used.
Holy fuck, I hate these people.
I’m okay with honest disagreements. It’s obvious that Sweden is a better place to live than Somalia, but whatever, we can have those discussions.
These motherfuckers that bitch about the Stimulus are just assholes. These are the same assholes that want to continue the Bush Tax Cuts, that dug us farther into the hole than our misadventure into Iraq, but bitch about something called the Stimulus even though a large percentage of it was dedicated towards tax cuts for the working class.
They will then bitch about leftists inciting “class warfare” when we start talking about having an economy that encourages and rewards a day’s work over profiting off the labor of someone else.
[re=633930]maven[/re]:
Without the Internet bubble, he might not have.
Ponder that for a moment, then consider how large the Bush deficits would have been without the housing bubble.
[re=634065]OldOneEye[/re]:
The working class will just waste it on hookers and blow.
fuck TAO SPAMMER! BURN IT!
I can’t wait ’til this comes out in Beta.
I’m waiting for the hentai version.
[re=634075]american mutt[/re]:
Don’t knock it. I love my new Oakey and Armaini sunglasses.
[re=634007]Chernobyl Soup[/re]:
Chuck Norris, also.
..and don’t fergit to take yer gunz to church, kids.
I love the part where Obama is boxing Saint Ronald and Ronnie is taking hits, including to the back. Are they suggesting Obama is unceremoniously beating the crap out of Saint Ronald, or Saint Ronald was so out of it, he had no idea what was going on around him?
Paid content providers come and go, but the China-wholesale spammer sticks around like a silent fart, or that chick in the granny glasses in the masthead. Banhammering is easy and simple; Ken has historically been quick on the trigger. Am I the only one who smells a rat?
– I happen to know I’m not, but I’m the guy who drew the short straw. (Friends don’t let friends drink and dare.) But cheer up, management, nobody will notice who hasn’t already, and they’s nobody here but us chickens, ya?
NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: 8/7/2010 Wow you are very smart, to figure out the grand plan to have a bunch of fucking Chinese & Hungarian spammers hit a website on the weekend. Gold star for your detective work. (You’re an asshole, and an idiot.)
Today I learned that Bill Clinton squandered Reagan’s budget surplus, and now Obama is doing the same with the budget surplus that W left us. Also, today is “opposite day.”
Will someone please explain to me what “fiscal child abuse” is?
[re=634124]Scruffy, The Janitor[/re]: You’ll just have to wait until this movie is pirated on the internet soon.
[re=634040]DangerousLiberal[/re]: Barack Hussain Olmert Obama bin Laden, your Jewish-Muslin Kenyan overlord.
Yeah, he’s a communist Comminist liberal, just like Hitler. Hitler didn’t have a long form birf certifucate either.
[re=634132]Sparky McGruff[/re]: nice use of non-functioning strikethrough text, dipshit.
SQUEAL BOY, SQUEAL LIKE A PIG!!! Sorry, that just leaps out of me every time I see Nancy Pelosi…
[re=634034]metalhed[/re]: The traditionally Republican Columbus Dispatch noted the day after the 2006 election that Blackwell garnered the smallest share of the gubernatorial vote for any Republican candidate in Ohio since 1911.
It’s Tuvok as Preznit?
Wherein Republicans pretend Iraq doesn’t exist, Reagan was a good steward of people’s money who never ran a deficit, and Newt Gingrich is a beloved national figure who stirs the loins of his loyal audience. And note to Director/Writer/Narrator/Host: you think you’re helping your “film” by whining about Obama like some douche. You’re not.
Final thought: note how tightly coached the ladies denigrating Obama are, sticking in their daggers with little shit-eating grins worthy of Lady MacBeth. I am really at a loss to figure out what exactly they find so fucking funny.
I’m not saying the Gawker Empire has an internal JournoList, but if they DID, they might have a running gag about the exactly linguistically same spammer popping up over and over, crapping all over promising threads, allowed to run rampant for a set period of time. They might even contrast this against the Banhammer of Butthurt +5.
They might — conceivably — be laughing it up over this most recent outbreak. But only a bunch of (theoretical) cads would have a giant chronological list of links, spammers and hammers side by side. Which is funny as hell, BTW. I’d forgotten some of them.
You’re a gentleman of a sort; you edited my post but didn’t ban me. Gentlemen don’t do that sort of thing. Nor do they post the Mystery of the Wonkette Who Couldn’t Control One Particular Spammer next to Lindsay Lohan’s jailhouse letters on a competing website. See how we can all get along when we’re civilized?
P.S. I’m a dick. Neilist is an asshole. Facts are important.
And then the movie will flop and all the usual rejects will burrow deep into their assholes to find a conspiracy theory that best explains why no one went to see the greatest movie evar. (Mind control drugs in the water? No. Subliminal messages in beer commercials? Mmm … No…)
[re=633978]DC Hates Me[/re]: Not $8 plus and free-enterprise mandated tub ‘o popcorn with butterygloopyglop and Valdez-sized HFCS-laden soda/pop/coke. Think more along the lines of $1 Redbox or $8/month Netflix-streamed. With Cott/Sam’s Choice Soda and Rollback-priced yeller popcorn.
We have to shrink Fox Cinemas to drown it in a warshtub.
Amirite?
October is a good time to release this movie. Most people in their target audience will be spending their weekends hunting or watching NFL, College football, NASCAR, Baseball, etc… If I were planning to release a film I would pick midsummer when people in Tea Party country like to sit inside dark cool places.
[re=634360]Mr Blifil[/re]:
Final thought: note how tightly coached the ladies denigrating Obama are, sticking in their daggers with little shit-eating grins worthy of Lady MacBeth. I am really at a loss to figure out what exactly they find so fucking funny
Remember the movie “Heathers”?
I think when conservatives say the government is spending money, they must think spending means the money is disappearing into a black hole never to be seen again, instead of going back into the economy.
It should be perfectly obvious to any viewer that the appropriate amount of money the government should spend is only $147 million per any given viewing of the movie.
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