Et tu, Cliff Clavin?
November 6th, 2009 by 
Matt Straw, IDS Columnist
Salon had a great piece on Michelle Bachmann and the wingnut teabag teaparty group protest over the health bill on Thursday. I’ll leave the obvious jokes here to others, and point out the main thing that caught me off guard -
“C-list Hollywood celebrities (Jon Voigt, John “Cliff Clavin” Ratzenberger) made their way to the microphone to gleefully bash President Obama, Pelosi and everything about the healthcare legislation”.
I knew Jon Voight has made a habit of going on right wing shows and making a fool of himself, just as much as Ben Stein, Dennis Miller (that’s nothing new at all) and even Coach!? have done. But now Cliff Clavin is out as a wingnut! Geez. Way to let me down Cliff. You do realize that the Postal Service is the definition of Socialism, right? But I guess it doesn’t matter. After all, you’re not a mail man, you just played one on tv. Next to Sideshow Bob. Stalwart leader of Springfield Republicans and previously elected Mayor.
November 6th, 2009 at 10:47 am
Way to go wingnuts. At least they didn’t make an advertisement about why we need the government to decide what healthcare plans we can use. That would be 90% of the nuts in Hollywood who support the wrong agenda.
November 7th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
wrong by whose standard. The plans currently in our government don’t remotely tell us who we can pick, and the half attempt at a “public option” is about exactly that. Having your choice. And It’s not even remotely what it should be. If there truly were a public option, it would give people a bare minimum coverage, with the option of choosing additional coverage, as they have in europe. Whoops. ignore that word.