This is hysterical — today the Onion has been perpetrating a running gag about members of Congress holding some visiting schoolchildren hostage. They started with tweets about gunfire heard in the capitol building, then ran this article —
Shaken witnesses reported that the ordeal broke out around 10 a.m. this morning, when in the midst of a Capitol building tour, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) suddenly burst into the National Statuary Hall with a pair of black panty hose over his head and began firing a Beretta 9 mm handgun into the air, shouting, “Everybody down! Everybody get the fuck down!”
Apparently the tweets caused some panic.
Somewhere in satirists heaven, Orson Welles is laughing his ass off.
And how long will it take for Bachmann to spin this tweet into a reality? Which brings me to the question of ‘reality’ itself – 60% of mortgage-deduction recipients say they have not used a government social program: 53% of federal student loan recipients say they have not used a government social program: 25% of food stamp recipients say they have not used a government social program, either.
Without any grip on reality at all among her audience, how can a Bachmann go wrong.
The HIll comments are precious, too.
And Alan West took hold of someone he could use as as a hostage, put a gun to their head, screamed, “If this MFer’s a Liberal, he/she’s toast!”, and it took aide’s two hour to calm the crazy MFing SOB down.
As long as I’m being moderated, take a listen to this. in the end
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t59QTEWtTJo&feature=related
Harry Reid wearing panty hose (from an intern I’d presume)= pure comedy.
Alan West taking a liberal hostage= Yeah, I could see that happening.