Meidas Touch has been featuring Beto on their podcasts lately. This is an excerpt
Now This News – Biden, Seamus Heaney, and “Phloctetes”
VoteVets makes me very proud with this ad. (I fear they will get a lot of pushback, and they know it, but it’s the right thing to do.)
Budweiser
Over the past year, we’ve seen America’s collective resilience. We’ve seen everyday people turn isolation into connection, and strength into hope. We made our new Super Bowl ad – “Bigger Picture” narrated by Rashida Jones – to champion those stories and honor the ordinary people of America doing extraordinary things.
Has anyone else ever looked at “Bad Lip Reading” videos? IMO they’re not uniformly good … but this one is hilarious.
Beau on what intelligence people and agencies need – and don’t need.
Possibly the least obvious, most misunderstood civil rights song ever.
Lyrics: “Blackbird singing in the dead of night/Take these broken wings and learn to fly./All your life you were only waiting for this moment to arise./Blackbird singing in the dead of night/Take these sunken eyes and learn to see/All your life you were only waiting for this moment to be free.||:Blackbird, fly:||”
13 Responses to “Video Thread 1/25/2021”
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The filibuster is a sad relic of the Jim Crow era of our nation. Who’s for it and who’s agin’ it speaks volumes!
Anyone – ANYONE – who meets the requirements and is willing and able to serve their country should be allowed to serve their country.
Given Budweiser’s proud and long history supporting the Super Bowl, I’d love to see the NFL play this (and maybe other) video pro bono.
I’ve no doubt the “Bad Lip Reading” video was very well done. But having Ted Cruz up on the monitor that long is simply more than I can handle.
Oh, sorry. I should have advised you to jump to the end when Heidi is talking about her “first love” and tells Ted the guy is in their kitchen right now.
MT: Beto doesn’t beat around the bush and explains very clearly why (all) Democrats need to get rid of philibustering. Go for it, Beto.
NTN: I had heard of Seamus Heaney but have never read any of his work.
VV: If the military is a true representation of all Americans then anyone capable and willing should be allowed to serve.
Budweiser: I’m confused. Budweiser made this ad to tell everyone they haven’t made a Superbowl ad? How is that not a replacement ad?
BLR: Even with the funny lip reading Ted is still too disgusting to watch for too long. Barf bags are imminent, I hope.
Beau: Asking for more tools is another authoritarian power grab to conduct more surveillance of more Americans. Amen to that, Beau. But not really unexpected from a right-wing government, which at this point it still is. And I would add; another power grab of a government that has lost the election to stay in power.
So nice to see and listen to Beto.
Can’t listen to Ted, however, this video got me through in it’s entirety. LOL !
All great!
Thank you, Joanne for post.
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Thanks JD!
MT – See today’s Open Thread. Flush the Republican Filibastards!
Vote Vets! – No discrimination against good service people… period!
Budweiser – the used a dawg?!!? CAT is where it’s AT!
BLR – That voice sounds more intelligent than a flea, so it couldn’t be Cruz.
Beau – I fully agree. The last thing we need is another UNPATRIOT Act.
Blackbird – YUM! [BURP!!]
I don’t believe you would actually eat people of color.
MT: Deliver now, blow the filibuster away!
NT: “Philoctetes,” one of the plays that “Theater of War” uses in its productions. I’ve started to read about Rilke, and his poetry, may have to put Heaney on my list.
VV: TJIS president does not have to cow-tow to a deluded, religious, other universe, one the prior president seems to have felt so at home in.
Bud: This is an example of a corporation being a good citizen!
BLR: I do not want to see that face for one more second. What I would like to do with/to his lips is unprintable in polite society. Nameless, i am so with you on this, but…oh, okay, the baby is HIS! Nice touch!
Beau: OSIT could have prevented the 6th. On the other hand, without the 6th, we might still be sitting in more complacency than is healthy, thinking that with Dumpshit gone, all will simply be well. Who says “they” din’t know “what was wrong, what was coming. It seems apparent that they knew exactly what was in the offing, but were hamstrung, from within, thanks to Dumpshit, and his crew.
Blackbird: Never thought of it that way. PS: That is NOT a blackbird singing in the background.
Blackbird – I didn’t on my own, but, looking for videos, i was distracted by one that promised the actual meanings of ten most-misunderstood songs. When they came to “Blackbird”, the light went on for me “civil rights” = and then the video maker confirmed that the Beatles themselves had stated exactly that. It was always a civil rights song. But don’t feel ignorant – almost no one knows that.
I thought the Beatles were giving me a 🐦 for lunch!
Actually, no. Everyone thinks that. That was why I posted it – to clear it up.