There’s a Communist in the White House
Once upon a time, I was a fan of Victoria Jackson. I thought she was cute. The combination of bad, but seemingly sweet and sincere, poetry with apallingly bad, Tiny Tim level bad, ukelele playing and an occasional handstand worked for me. I found her breathless voice, her big, incredulous eyes and the innocent misuse of big words to be quite endearing.
I felt that it was actually intelligent humor disguised as foolishness. Intelligent humor is sometimes hard to find. I felt we were laughing with her, not at her. We were laughing at her character but even then, it was a character we liked.
Now to the present. If you want a good laugh, you should go to YouTube and check out Victoria Jackson’s latest song “There’s a Communist in the White House.” It’s the same old Victoria Jackson routine. Awkard rhymes, bad guitar, rolling eyes, and extremely bizarre logic.
Of course Obama’s a communist. His grandparents were socialist s(i.e. liberals), his mother was a communist (she was an anthropologist) Black Theology is exactly the same as Marxism (here we go with the Reverend Wright again), Obama studied communism (Victoria, Victoria, I studied the Industrial Revolution but does that make me an industrialist?), something something Saul Alinsky (nobody’d ever heard of Saul Alinsky until the right wingers decided he was the most leftiest of left wingers to ever exist) and on and on with the guilt by association and scare mongering tactics (pictures of Chairman Mao, Che Guevara, Karl Marx and that other guy he wrote the book with (on the screen there’s a picture of Dennis Kucinich).
It would be a comical old Victoria Jackson routine, except that this time she’s dead serious. Either that or she has outboratted Borat.
She will be performing at the Showdown in Searchlight on Saturday, March 27th in Searchlight, Nevada along with Sarah Palin, Joe the Plumber and a whole bunch of people nobody has ever heard of although they include a convicted felon, a woman who poses with snakes and the guy who used to play Garibaldi on Babylon 5, which makes him just about as big a star as Victoria Jackson.
Things have changed since she starred on Saturday Night Live. We are still laughing but now, tragically, we are laughing at her – and not in a very nice way at all.
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