Does Colbert King read AoSHQ?

I direct your attention to the following passage in my incredibly funny, sublimely intelligent, universally beloved and now eerily precognitive entry: "A Night of Terror In DC". In this entry, you may remember, Democratic house members whined about the Tea-Parties.

Here is "Clyburn" on their origins:

Clyburn: I haven't seen professional spitting like that since I marched on Selma in 1965! The Alabama River was so swollen with spittle that it threatened to overrun it's banks and drown the city of Montgomery.

Which would have been OK, actually. Would've taught that racist, segregationist Alabama Governor George Wallace a lesson.

Jack: But Wallace was a Democrat, wasn't he?

Clyburn: And a damn fine Democrat! Even ran for President he was so popular.

Jack: But you just wished that he would have been drowned in a flood of spit...

Pelosi: Don't mind him...he's really only here so we can compare everything to Selma, '65. And because I told him we would mandate that you buy all of us coffee.

See....in my critically acclaimed and pulitzer-prize winning entry, I had Democratic House Members comparing the protesters in Selma to the Teapartiers. In fact, in my compelling and excessively Swiftian (but better!) satirical piece, I even had James Clyburn say:

Jack: Then why do the vast majority of Americans want the bill repealed?

Clyburn: Because the vast majority of Americans were at Selma in 1965!

Enter today's trenchant analysis, (which, unlike my piece, I believe is meant to be taken seriously) provided by one Colbert King (safe link to NRO):

The angry faces at Tea Party rallies are eerily familiar. They resemble faces of protesters lining the street at the University of Alabama in 1956 as Autherine Lucy, the school's first black student, bravely tried to walk to class.

Those same jeering faces could be seen gathered around the Arkansas National Guard troopers who blocked nine black children from entering Little Rock's Central High School in 1957.

"They moved closer and closer," recalled Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine. "Somebody started yelling, 'Lynch her! Lynch her!' I tried to see a friendly face somewhere in the crowd — someone who maybe could help. I looked into the face of an old woman and it seemed a kind face, but when I looked at her again, she spat on me."

He throws in a gratuitous mention of David Duke too. Also, teapartiers are directly responsible for Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity and Pat Buchanan. Just for good measure.

His thesis concludes:

Hence, an explanation for the familiarity of faces: today's Tea Party adherents are George Wallace legacies.

And some of you thought I was exaggerating when my "Clyburn" character compared everything to Selma, 65. Or said that "the majority of Americans were at Selma, '65."

If I ever write another one, I'll do better. I'll change the references to Tuscaloosa, 1956 in the name of accuracy.

I blame the current discrepancy in my creative tour-de-force on a misinterpretation of the oftentimes cloudy visions of liberal future-thought. Other than that, though, I think my insanely brilliant and ground-breaking piece is pretty spot-on with current realities.

So I ask you...should I send Colbert King a bill?

posted by Jack M. at 11:17 AM

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