11.01.10

Tea Party lunatic as Jack Ripper

Posted in Extremism at 8:53 am by George Smith

From Crooks & Liars, a good ad hoc video juxtaposing Sterling Hayden’s “fluoride, precious bodily fluids and commies” moments with Jerry Boykin on infiltration.

Many have previously noticed the similarities between the extremist paranoid GOP/Tea Party and the Strangelove psychosis with contamination of the American body.

Most recently, Ted Nugent — acting as a mouthpiece for the Team B report on Muslim subversion through Shariah law, was written of here:

In the fact-based world, Nugent’s essay — as does the Team B report — takes on the air of something heard from General Jack Ripper, telling Lionel Mandrake at Burpelson AFB, why he launched the bomb wing at the Soviet Union.

Nugent uses the word “poisoning??? twice in his essay. It’s a less elegant construction than Ripper’s dialog, concocted by Terry Southern and Peter George for the script of Dr. Strangelove:

“A foreign substance is introduced into the precious bodily fluids, without the knowledge of the individual and certainly without any free choice. That’s the way the commies work…” — Jack Ripper

In Team B’s case (and for Nugent’s essay), the nefarious foreign substance is Shariah law, not fluoride put into ice cream by the commies.

It is not a coincidence that Jerry Boykin was one of the authors of the Team B report.

The United States has always had Jerry Boykins and Ted Nugents. But they used to always be swept to the fringes, their vein of American neurosis emerging as good satire in movies like Dr. Strangelove.

Everyone laughs. Great movie.

It’s no longer a joke. These people — and their way of thinking — are a genuine threat tomorrow. They are totally fucked up.

With regards to the Crooks & Liars video, Jerry Boykin — as the real thing — is almost impossible to watch next to Hayden and Peter Sellers.

It doesn’t help, of course, that Boykin’s videotaping operation doesn’t know how to use a compressor in the studio, which only accentuates the irritating teeth-whistling noises that sometimes result when old people are recorded.

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