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The Spectacle Blog
It ain’t easy being a cowboy poet in John Boehner’s America.
Earlier today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid blasted the House Republicans’ “mean-spirited” spending cuts for, among other things, endangering Nevada’s cowboy poetry festival. Yep, you’ve got that right:
“The mean-spirited bill, H.R. 1, eliminates National Public Broadcasting,” said Reid in a floor speech. “It eliminates the National Endowment of the Humanities, National Endowment of the Arts. These programs create jobs. The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival. Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist.”
Something tells me that this isn’t going to be the greatest argument for Democrats in the budget fight.
Guy Benson at Townhall has the video. Below, there’s a video of some cowboys telling stories at this year’s festival:
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PhilTheCapitalistPig| 3.8.11 @ 2:18PM
LOL.. Man, they sound desperate!
I Survived Arlen Specter| 3.8.11 @ 2:30PM
Fund it yourself Dingy Harry! You can afford it. The Senate majority leader is a couple of fries short of a Happy Meal, not to mention a ridiculous sock puppet. What a waste of taxpayer money Dingy Harry Reid is & he has a lot of company in that regard.
MacDaddy| 3.8.11 @ 2:57PM
So those people 'wouldn't exist' anymore? Oh, no! Dirty Republican ba$tards want to defund, out of existance, thousands of cowboy poetry mavens!
Harry, time to pin a note to the sweater and lead you to the retirement home.....
Dixie Pixie| 3.8.11 @ 3:16PM
Does the article imply that "Eric Cartman" of South Park was right when he said "Federal handouts will lead to Gay Cowboys eating pudding".
And this is a reason to overspend income by 43% ?
Are the Democrats really that insane?
PhilTheCapitalistPig| 3.8.11 @ 3:23PM
LMAO!
Occam's Tool| 3.8.11 @ 6:45PM
Eric! Where are you! The Cartman Signal is Glowing!
CalMark| 3.8.11 @ 3:25PM
What's really funny about all this:
In the days of real cowboys of the old west, how many could have gotten away with writing poetry? I mean, without getting a blanket party or worse from their he-man compadres? Most of whom couldn't read.
Even COWBOYS are chickified! (The chickification government-subsidized, at that!) Maybe America really IS doomed...
PattyMor| 3.8.11 @ 3:51PM
The protests are so pathetic. Harry, if the poetry is so important and wanted, then get your lefty pals to fund it. Maybe you could chip if a few dollars from your sleezy land deals?
Pete| 3.8.11 @ 3:59PM
"These programs create jobs." Ah, no they don't. Businesses create jobs. Stealing taxpayer money, giving that money to someone else while telling them they are getting paid for a job is not job creation.
The Stormin' Mormon| 3.8.11 @ 4:07PM
Git along lil doggies
Cookie fed us beans over at the chuckwagon
We're all gassed up
So, git along lil doggies
Or East Coast Chuckie's gonna pull my finger
And I Dingy Harry will uncork a Lethal Zinger.
Whoopie Ti Yi Yo !
Ride Em Barney !
Andrew Keirns| 3.8.11 @ 4:15PM
" ... the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist ..."
What?!?!
And they call Sarah Palin 'stupid'. Mr. Reid may be kind enough, but he is really dim-witted.
gearjammer| 3.8.11 @ 5:16PM
John Wayne would shoot these guys dead.
Richard Baker| 3.8.11 @ 5:36PM
Get out of our lives. Broke is broke! Get these leeches off of the government teat and make them get their own funding for the Arts the way daVinci and Galileo did. Find your own benefactor and get out of my pocket.
I Survived Arlen Specter| 3.8.11 @ 5:53PM
It's long past time Horse Chip Harry Reid was put out to pasture. He's drawing flies.
Occam's Tool| 3.8.11 @ 6:51PM
He says, ¡°i ain't a racist but aristitle onassis is one greek we don't need
And them n*&^%$, jews and sigma nus, all they ever do is breed.
And wops 'n micks 'n s*^% ¡ 'n spics 'n spooks are on my list
And there's one little hebe from the heart of texas ¡º is there anyone I missed ? ¡±
Well, I hits him with everything I had right square between the eyes.
I says, Im gonna gitcha, you son of a bitch ya, for spoutin' that pack of lies.
If there's one thing I can't abide, it's an ethnocentric racist;
Now you take back that thing you said bout aristitle onassis.¡±
No, they ain't makin' jews like jesus anymore,
We don't turn the other cheek the way we done before.
You could hear that honky holler as he hit that hardwood floor
¡°lord, they sho' ain't makin' jews like jesus anymore!¡±
All right!
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Occam's Tool| 3.8.11 @ 8:45PM
This was, of course, from the immortal "Kinkster" himself.