The Manchurian Candidate

Submitted by Macallan on Thu, 08/21/2008 - 12:56pm. Tags:

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Hi! How's it going?

When you saw this diary title, who did you assume it was going to be about, and why did you assume that? Or any other insights.

Just curious.

Cheers

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I didn't assume so much as wonder (#111782)

by stillnotking on Fri, 08/22/2008 - 5:25am

whether you were going to be defending McCain from charges that he's a Manchurian Candidate, or attacking Obama for being one.

The other day I heard that ignorance and apathy are sweeping the country. I didn't know that, but I don't really care.

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Crap. I thought you were telling us (#111600)

by aireachail on Thu, 08/21/2008 - 5:26pm

which take-out joint you'd picked.

Though I should have known better than to think this joint would spring for lunch.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. - W. Somerset Maugham

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That would be the... (#112142)

by Bird Dog on Sat, 08/23/2008 - 10:04am

...Mongolian candidate, no?

"I want America to know that I'm, like, totally ready to lead." -- Paris Hilton

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Look at it on the bright side. (#111662)

by Jordan on Thu, 08/21/2008 - 7:50pm

At least we don't have to hand-set our own type.

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. -JH

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A new player on the Chinese basketball team? (#111576)

by tomsyl on Thu, 08/21/2008 - 4:42pm

They grow them tall up there.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

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Obama, as in his middle name (#111555)

by Brooks and B Ra... on Thu, 08/21/2008 - 3:46pm

Obama, as in his middle name and the silly, weasely implications by those who use it.

But then, after seeing the Google stats in Brendan's comment, it occurred to me that some could see a connection to (former POW) McCain.

By the way, the remake wasn't nearly as good as the original.

Oh, and I think the guy who played the McCarthy figure was later on the cast of Barney Miller, which brings me back to...I met Abe Vigoda last Sunday!

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I have to disagree with this comment. (#111558)

by Jordan on Thu, 08/21/2008 - 4:00pm

The remake wasn't "not nearly as good." It was a total piecer, an abomination. It was dreadful. :)

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. -JH

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fair enough ;) (#111570)

by Brooks and B Ra... on Thu, 08/21/2008 - 4:32pm

fair enough ;)

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Yup (#111566)

by HankP on Thu, 08/21/2008 - 4:20pm

one of the biggest pieces of cinematic ordure in the past several years. Next up - the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still starring Keanu Reeves. No, I am not making this up.

I blame it all on the Internet

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Hey. He'd be good with the robot part.... (#112103)

by Zelig on Sat, 08/23/2008 - 12:37am

...which matches his acting abilities. However we've got Joe Hamm, from "Mad Men" as the lead human, so it might be worth a look. I'm interested in the re-write.

Me: We! -- Ali

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That's why I clicked (#111545)

by Bird Dog on Thu, 08/21/2008 - 3:15pm

To see who you were writing about. I've read enough of your material to conclude that I shouldn't make assumptions.

"I want America to know that I'm, like, totally ready to lead." -- Paris Hilton

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Angela Lansbury! (#111536)

by Jordan on Thu, 08/21/2008 - 2:51pm

What do I win?

Just kidding. Coming from you, I assumed it would be a clever ploy designed to tease out our prejudices so that you could jump out from the shadows all Socrates and go Ah ha! Your thinking's all warped by partisan nonsense!

Just kidding again. I assumed it was something about how people think Obama is secretly a Muslim radical in cahoots with William Ayers and this will (and should) cost him the election. My bad...that diary is one up from yours.

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. -JH

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McCain Of Course (#111514)

by Model 62 on Thu, 08/21/2008 - 1:56pm

He's the one who was a POW.

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John McCain (#111520)

by HankP on Thu, 08/21/2008 - 2:13pm

is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life

I blame it all on the Internet

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Obama of course.. (#111511)

by athenas owl on Thu, 08/21/2008 - 1:41pm

because I have heard that epitaph used against him in many arguments with right wing commentors on other sites.

Of course when I ask them to tell me WHO made him one...the answers vary (the Muslims, the Commies( they are so pleased to fall back to that old comfy cold war stalwart, it's so much easier than the nebulous Muslim threat), the "hard left", did I mention the Muslims?"..but they are dead cert that he IS the Manchurian Candidate.

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2 Wo points. (#111508)

by BlaiseP on Thu, 08/21/2008 - 1:31pm

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Nevermind what I thought, (#111500)

by brendanm98 on Thu, 08/21/2008 - 1:14pm

what do most people think?

Results 1 - 10 of about 175,000 for "manchurian candidate" obama

Results 1 - 10 of about 136,000 for "manchurian candidate" mccain

The google has spoken! (Yes yes, I know some of those hits are from sites debunking extremist claims)

Come, my friends. 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world -- Tennyson

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Ralph Nader (#111493)

by Kierkegaard on Thu, 08/21/2008 - 1:03pm

I once worked very briefly for Nader (I was an early 'Common Cause' staffer and he used our offices), and I can personally testify that he is the puppet of Fu Manchu.

BTW, I got to know several of the Brides pretty well. They were bored and restless and new in town, and I was fresh out of high school and waiting to be drafted. You know how it goes. Ah, how youth is wasted on the young...

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Fu Manchu... (#111811)

by mmghosh on Fri, 08/22/2008 - 9:46am

I didn't know anyone read them still. A reminder from my youth, thanks!

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Mr Ghosh-- (2) (#111832)

by Kierkegaard on Fri, 08/22/2008 - 10:33am

I have a dozen or so of them as e-books. If you like I can email them to you. I also seem to have rather a lot of Ernest Bramahs, Oppenheimers, Wheatleys, Charterises, etc in that form. Let me know if you're interested.

Reading e-books on a PC screen can be annoying. I use a utility called 'Ybook' that emulates the pages of a paperback. For some reason this really works.

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K, I would never pass up this one! (#112083)

by mmghosh on Fri, 08/22/2008 - 9:34pm

Where I am, I only get to view comments sporadically via a dialup (except when I occasionally get the luxury of broadband).

It is extremely kind of you to offer me these books, which I also want to introduce to my kids (not that they seem particularly interested).

Is this Charteris the Leslie Charteris of the Saint that you mention? Yes please, if so! My wife will be completely bemused by such juvenilia of course.

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