Private Joker Produces Bizarre OWS Propaganda Film
Private Joker! What is your major malfunction?
That is what I felt like yelling at Matthew Modine aka Private Joker after watching a bizarre video he produced in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Rather than shed any light on the subject of OWS, all Modine seemed to accomplish was to make the viewer as confused as Lou Costello trying to make sense of what Bud Abbott was attempting to explain about Who's on first, What's on second, and I Don't Know on third. Watch Private Joker's OWS propaganda video below the fold and see if you can make any sense of four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.
Got that? If not, then let Private Joker Modine explain:
This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done. The best way to create hope is to create opportunity.
You know what? I can make more sense out of Who's on first. But since Private Joker is so interested in the subject of OWS, your humble correspondent suggests he look at this real-life Occupy Tucson video.
As you can see, Matthew, Everybody is grabbing Somebody who is cursing at Anybody who is shoving Nobody. Got that? Call it a "people-powered movement" in action as you put it in your laughably clichéd "People" treatise:
OWS is a people-powered movement that began in the financial district of New York City and has grown into a global occupation. It's people from all over the world asking for better management. People asking this from their leaders and nations. People recognizing that governments commitment to the future is short-sighted. People exercising their right to demonstrate -- which is the most basic emblem of democracy. Everybody is each of us.
And here is your first general order, Private Joker. Take the very real Occupy Tucson video and mix in Star Trek fight scene music. It would be vastly more entertaining, informative, and, above all, less annoying than your bizarre OWS propaganda film with the irritating Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody shtick.
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"Everybody is each of us"?
Submitted by UpNorth on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 10:43pm.
Private Joker has been puffing on the crack pipe for way too long.
This is the basic difference...
Submitted by zenman1661 on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 10:48pm.
between OWS and the Tea Party. OWS wants "better management" That is a vague and meaningless goal. The Tea Party wants fiscal responsibility and limited government which is much more clear and understandable.
SOSDD
Submitted by Chicagoray40 on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 11:32pm.
Nothing but another lefty spouting mostly illogical lefty utopian platitudes and fallacies of a world that will never exist.
Not one with Islam and liberals in it, that's for damnnn sure. I don't infer their 'elimination' as they dream of ours, but just their attention to mental health care, since they're the ones who wanted it for free so bad. So then, go get some.... because in all seriousness, it is a mental disorder that can be quickly described as a yearning for a fantasy world that others have tried to create over and over from communes to communism and back again for 1000's of years, usually very low self esteem, which causes them to attack others who don't agree with them with personal attacks and to worship false idols who promise them things they don't wish to sweat for and so on.
That's usually the M O in most cases because, they usually have no cogent argument, as there really is none for the two main things required for membership. That being an absolute approval of abortion on demand and the acceptance of any contingent of the human freak parade who wishes to be majorette for the day. Anyone. no rules, no jacket required.
I mean that's just a couple examples, I could go on and on as could you, as I happen to be somewhat familiar with the disorder, as I and my buddies all had it.....right up until about, well, I don't know, college graduation perhaps, 30 years ago... as we couldn't wait to get the hell away from most of the people there frankly after 4 years, but that was enough for a lifetime, and off to work it was, and no look back.
That was, right up until this guy came along and destroyed our American way of life essentially overnight, as if hired to actually do the job. I mean I'm lucky to be self employed, but the man has cut my business in half...That's the one thing I must say he's accomplished quite well in his remarkable term. Frankly, about as well as anyone would expect an outright stealth enemy of America given the keys to the safe for 4 years would do & act I guess, huh?
Kinda just like we predicted, no? : (4 years gone forever):
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe. –Albert Einstein My Twitter
That thing nobody wants to do
Submitted by Radical1979 on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 11:34pm.
is work. The thing everybody wants is free stuff. Anybody could work, but they want somebody else to do it.
That is what the occupy movement is all about.
Sounds much like the spiel that ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 11:45pm.
Sandra Fluke laid on Congress; as far as having someone else provide what you desire in the way of material things.
MD
Yes, Rad...
Submitted by retrocon on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 11:51pm.
Everybody knows that anybody can earn a living, but somebody wants to take anybody's money instead of working. The result is that nobody ends up working, but everybody ends up with anybody's money who is working, until somebody realizes that without anybody working, everybody ends up worse off and nobody ends up with any desire to work. At that point, hopefully, everybody figures out that we can either be free to pursue our dreams, and make the best of our lives, or we can all just live in a poverty not suitable for anybody and nobody.
Like x2
Submitted by stratman on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 4:13pm.
Brilliant, Rad!
Did you read the comments on the video? Wow
Submitted by David Kramer on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 1:13am.
Now, if someone was on some psychotropic drugs, it might have made sense, sober not so much.
I don't know about anybody
Submitted by JPTSO3 on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 1:55am.
I don't know about anybody else, but this somebody doesn't know anybody who has a flipping clue what that nobody was getting at... everybody agree?
Looks like youre fresh out of friend, Joker!
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 2:48am.
Love that movie, mostly for Adam and R Lee, of course, but now I can hate Joker w/o guilt! Seriously, I thought he was one of the "good ones"!
There are no
Submitted by misterbee241 on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 8:26am.
good ones. Not in Hollywood, at least.
Apparently not, Misterbee241-ur right!
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 9:47am.
When the chips are down, they come out of the woodwork!
Who is this Matthew Modine
Submitted by poseA on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 2:50am.
Who is this Matthew Modine fellow?
Where
Submitted by Ozconservative on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 5:13am.
Where is R Lee Ermey when you need him???
OWS
Submitted by Kleenex on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 6:28am.
As if OWS wasn't confused enough. They really have no idea why they're even out there, it just feels good to them. The 60's hippies were incoherent too but OWS takes it to a whole new level.
OWS
Submitted by Truestar on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 6:53am.
Exactly right. Confused and directionless---unless you consider that they essentially want everything for free, paid for by government (you and me). Hey, at least true hippies were anti-government. They wanted to go back to the farm, have self sustaining communes and such. That's while these OWS ninnies are nothing but major league whining babies who want to be taken care of, cradle to grave. I was never a hippie, but I would think an honest old hippie would be embarrassed and insulted at these modern day dregs.
The hippies
Submitted by misterbee241 on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 8:28am.
were all about free stuff too. Now their children are standing on the street with their hands out.
Not really
Submitted by Truestar on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 8:57am.
In fact, I remember hippie types making some good bank selling drugs of all sorts. Capitalism! However, some hard core hippies were dedicated to their communes, they wanted nothing to do with government. But they had to be capitalists to maintain the integrity of a commune---the substances of life costs money no matter what their utopian ideal might be. I never understood how they could be so anti-capitalist, while having to worry over money all the time. In this day and age the answer for them, and their children I guess, is the government.
That's not original...
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 9:25am.
it's actually a story (poem?) that has been making the rounds of email and the internet for years.
And no offense, but if you speed up the action, I like Weasel Zippers' suggestion better....
Benny Hill Music
This video is spot on!
Submitted by xcor057 on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 10:24am.
It perfectly describes socialism and why it fails.
Maybe this might help...
Submitted by retrocon on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 11:11am.
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/scitech/science/030212-japan-invent...
Nobody gets a raise
Submitted by Conservative in... on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 11:33am.
I think it's quite clear. Nobody is the one who "Did it" and who "figured it out" so Nobody should get a raise for doing the work that Everybody should have done. Unless it's a union house then it goes to Somebody even though Somebody did nothing but that's union rules. (My father-in-law used to work in the UAW union: that's a real union rule - if someone else does the work that you were supposed to do, you still get the credit and pay because it was your job to do it)
So that boils down the whole point of the video: Nobody gets a raise and Everybody is pissed because they didn't do the work they should have but still wants the credit and paycheck that went to Somebody according to stupid union rules.
"There was an important job
Submitted by Ashrak on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 11:52am.
"There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it."
So who decided that a job was important?
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
The Law of Supply and demand means if it really needed to be done, someone would have done it. Maybe nobody did it because government denied the permission slip.
"Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job."
Who decided it was everybody's job to do it?
"Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it."
If everyone though Anybody could do it, then everyone thought nobody would. Why would they think they would if they new they could?
It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.
What should be done is for everybody to leave everybody else alone - to pursue their own happiness freely and without interference so long as that pursuit of happiness does not bring direct actual harm to a flesh and blood human being and/or their property.
"The best way to create hope is to create opportunity."
The best way to create prosperity is to observe, respect protect and defend self evident truths.
Somebody wants to create hope. Somebody wants to create prosperity.
Which somebody are you?
In our family,
Submitted by texasborngranny on Sun, 03/04/2012 - 12:16pm.
In our family, when one of our grand-daughters (who are both very intelligent) slip up and say something silly, we respond with, "but, she's pretty."
soooooooooooooo, all I can say about Matthew Modine is, "but, he' pretty."