A group calling itself the Danville, VA Tea Party Patriots spent $1350 on a plane hired to fly over Washington, DC this morning carrying a banner that read "SURRENDER DOROTHY." Kidding. It was actually something about how Obama sucks. But I think they really missed an opportunity there.
Totally had "on-the-ground reports" of this all over my, erm, Facebook this morning. Thank you for the follow-up!
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Gee, I was pretty ambivalent before they did this, but now I really think Obama is destroying the country and have subsequently written him out of my will. Thanks, 100-foot banner!
Nothing will ever beat the "FOOD AND NUDE, AFTER THE GAME---GALAXIES ON PATERSON PLANK ROAD" banner that used to fly over Giants Stadium.
Not necessarily in that order. Or do they serve naked shrimp?
I parked next to a Chevy Malibu the other night which had handwritten-on-torn-in-half-copy-paper signs on both its dashboard and behind-the-backseat-headrests novelty shelf reading, "Days Left for NObama in our White House: [and then however-many hundreds of days, surely updated morningly]." I was sure the driver was a 55-year-old dude, but turns out, it was really some old bitch.
Was she accounting for the second term?
HELL NO
So she doesn't know the first rule of politics is to lower expectations? Too bad for her.
The car in front of me on the way to the grocery store this morning had a "1.22.2013" sticker on it. Never too early, I guess.
Just revenge for all the anti-Bush sticker of the same vein. Fair is fair, I suppose.
I hope The Smithsonian is collecting all of the ephemera created by "the people" that will come to mark our current times. Maybe they will build a new building sponsored by a Lipton on the Mall in DC to house this banner. Of course, the groups with the original references to "tea bagging" would want a totally different exhibit.
They will be remembered fondly much like the "Rebel Yell"
No bailouts for banner-planes
They could've at least sprung for the Ron Paul Freedom Blimp.
EXT. CRYSTAL CITY, VA. MORNING.
From a high floor overlooking the Potomac River, Danville, VA Tea Party Project Coordinator Susan Lee is with a small group of fellow Danville Tea Party Members crowded around a window. She has a cell phone pressed to her ear. The group seems giddy with nervous anticipation.
TEABAGGER 1: Shhhh!!! There it is!
SUSAN: Where?
The group presses closer to the window, necks craning.
TEABAGGER 2: I see it too, there on the right!
A small plane appears high in the morning sky, a banner “OBAMA STOP DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY†in tow.
A loud cheer engulfs the room, high-fives and whoops of joy!
SUSAN (speaking into the phone): Oh God, Robert, it's beautiful! Do you see it yet?
Susan raises her hand and waves it to quieten the teabaggers.
SUSAN (to group): He says he doesn't see it but he's looking. (Into the phone) Robert? Anything?
Silence.
SUSAN: Whooooop! He sees it! He sees it!
Another cheer erupts in the hotel room, more high-fives, laughter.
SUSAN: (Into phone) What? (She waves her hand again) Shhhhhhh! (Into phone) What do you mean? Uh huh. Right. (She sags visibly and frowns.) Uh huh.
TEABAGGER 1: Susan, what's the matter?
SUSAN: (Still speaking into phone) Well, can't they just fly back over?
TEABAGGER 1: Fly back over?
TEABAGGER 2: Susan.
TEABAGGER 3: What's going on?
SUSAN: (Into phone) Well, I guess we didn't think of that, did we? No. No. I understand. Thank you, Robert. Goodbye. (She shuts cell phone and tosses it onto the hotel room's king size bed)
TEABAGGER 1: Susan?
SUSAN: Well, he wasn't watching.
TEABAGGER 2: What do you mean?
SUSAN: I mean, Carl, the President - who do you think I mean? -- He wasn't watching.
TEABAGGER 1: Goddamnit!
TEABAGGER 3: Let me get this straight, now.
TEABAGGER 1: Goddamnit!
TEABAGGER 3: You don't think he saw the banner?
SUSAN: Robert was standing right across the street from the White House. No one came to the window. No one!
TEABAGGER 2: Not even Biden? Christ almighty.
TEABAGGER 1: Goddamnit!
TEABAGGER 3: What're we gonna do?
SUSAN: (Looking in purse, she pulls out a wad of bills and starts counting) I have $43, no, $48 dollars and 25, 75, 81, 2, 3, 4 cents.
Are you trying to make me spew coffee?
O.M.G.
I guess shooting it down would've been bad politics?
Danville served as the capital of the Confederacy for like two weeks in 1865 and that will forever be the most notable thing about the town. That may also explain their self-importance in denouncing the actual capital of the United States.
First the musicals and now Wizard of Oz jokes. Balk, are you sure you're straight today?