Patterico's Pontifications

6/8/2008

Bob Barr Eats Cheese Made from Borat’s Wife’s Breast Milk

Filed under: 2008 Election,Buffoons,Humor — Patterico @ 10:35 pm



Ever since I read at Hot Air that Bob Barr could be jeopardizing John McCain’s chances in Georgia and North Carolina, I have wanted to share this Borat video with you:

And here is a link to Barr grousing about it.

I know libertarians are often humorless, but isn’t this a bit much?

7 Responses to “Bob Barr Eats Cheese Made from Borat’s Wife’s Breast Milk”

  1. Did you see Barr on the Colbert Report? It’s been a while since any significant political figure has let Colbert interview him, and this showed why — he dismantled Barr’s libertarian credentials quite effectively (after “mistakenly” calling him “Babar”).

    Not sure Barr even realized what was happening.

    LYT (b67340) — 6/8/2008 @ 11:27 pm

  2. The video referred to LYT #1 is truly enjoyable. Well worth the time watching. Bob Barr does ok although, as usual, Colbert steals the show. Barr plays along but at the same time it’s clear that he has no specifics. “Hope and Change”, only. Have we heard that somewhere before?

    nk (0e7da1) — 6/9/2008 @ 7:26 am

  3. LYT,

    Not sure YOU even realized what was happening.

    “Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.” –The Boxer, Paul Simon

    -0-

    Allen (2896cd) — 6/9/2008 @ 7:38 am

  4. nk,

    You don’t understand what this type of appearance is for.

    Barr successfully made several clear policy statements. There is little to no room in less than seven minutes of a bantering comedy show for specifics, and that’s not even the purpose of the appearance.

    If a candidate wants to make involved tactical talk, he goes before the Commonwealth Club; for face time and personality development, Colbert: all people need to see there is that you can survive in good humor.

    -0-

    Allen (2896cd) — 6/9/2008 @ 7:44 am

  5. Well … even Ralph Nader has said that we need a strong intelligence (spying) capability. He could have given a better answer to the Patriot Act question, in my opinion. The answer he gave was more suited to the DOMA question which he totally ignored and where, likely honestly, he could have said: “I’m sorry for that. I was a Republican at the time and I voted the party line.”

    nk (0e7da1) — 6/9/2008 @ 8:05 am

  6. I dislike the Borat type of humor enough that I totally agree with Barr. There was no real humor in that scene, and it shouldn’t be treated as a real attempt at humor.

    kishnevi (4fe729) — 6/9/2008 @ 2:31 pm

  7. Bob Barr will be my guest on News Talk Online on Paltalk.com Friday at 5 PM ET.

    You can join in the conversation by following the link from my blog:

    http://garybaumgarten.blogspot.com/2008/06/libertarian-presidential-candidate-bob.html

    Gary Baumgarten (924abc) — 6/10/2008 @ 9:30 am


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