Ummm...
Jack Nicholson has made a video endorsing Hillary Clinton, featuring clips from some of Nicholson's most famous characters saying things that sound vaguely pro-Clinton when taken out of context.
So apparently, the Clinton campaign--which the Huffington Post says released the video--thinks it's a good idea to have their candidate endorsed by a ghoulishly disfigured mass murderer, a deranged writer who talks to ghosts, a corrupt Gitmo commander who covers up the murder of his own troops, and a spoiled rich kid who likes to sexually harass hapless waitresses. The best guy in the bunch is the woman-beating private eye who fails to punish political corruption and incest.
Maybe they just want us to forget the "3 a.m." commercial.
Clinton/Torrance '08: You keep asking us all the questions first but WE DON'T MIND WE REALLY DON'T MIND WE'RE HAPPY TO ANSWER THEM HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY.
Come on, Nicholson played a good guy in...uh...Five Easy Pieces and...The Last Detail. Well, kind of a good guy. And those are the roles everyone knows him for, right? Well, there's Easy Rider--no, the pot thing, okay.
Maybe Obama can counter with an endorsement from Roman Polanski. Because of the nose-slicing scene. Not because of their er other famous connection. Hmmm, maybe not.
Posted by: Jones, one of the Jones boys | March 01, 2008 at 05:51 PM
Yeah, I wonder why the Clinton campaign didn't run a clip of Nicholson as the pot-smoking southern lawyer.
What other famous connection? Is Polanski's middle name Hussein?
Posted by: Marc | March 01, 2008 at 08:15 PM
Oops--fumbled the joke with an ambiguous pronoun. I meant Polanski's other connection (than Chinatown) to Nicholson.
You know, the whole statutory rape, fleeing the country thing that started with a party at Jack's place.
Posted by: Jones, one of the Jones boys | March 02, 2008 at 08:11 PM
He's saving that for the ad he's cutting for Mark Foley.
Thank you! You've been great! Try the Wire threads!
Posted by: Marc | March 02, 2008 at 11:26 PM