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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums8-minute standing ovation....
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Eight minutes can be a really long time. Its about the amount of time it takes light from the sun to travel to the earth. Or in more earthly terms, its twice as long as Garys never-gonna-happen fantasy about Piper Perabo. But if you are an addled, half-brained drooling Tea-jadist, then it is just the right amount of time to give a standing ovation to Texi-Canadian ass-monkey Ted Cruz:
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz received an eight-minute standing ovation upon his return to Texas this past weekend, despite an extended, hostile campaign from Democrats and the mainstream media to portray him as a dangerous extremist.
Thanks, Daily Caller, for noting that the hostile campaign to portray Ted Cruz as a dangerous extremist is a ludicrous notion from the MSM and crazy libruls. Because causing billions of dollars to the economy FOR NOTHING is totally cool and not dangerous or extreme at all, no siree.
Anyway, WTF, Texas?!?! An eight-minute standing ovation for this buffoon? If you like him this much, please keep him. Seriously, appoint him head of your Canadian relations or something, but whatever you do, please dont send him back to D.C. because he sucks harder than Rick Santorum at the annual Pennsylvania Goat Blowing Championship.
http://wonkette.com/532102/texans-spend-eight-minutes-in-heaven-with-ted-cruz-rest-of-nation-barely-resists-urge-to-vomit
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8-minute standing ovation.... (Original Post)
kentuck
Oct 2013
OP
That reminds me of the transcripts of addresses to party congresses and suchlike back from the
Brickbat
Oct 2013
#2
who do you think was giving him a standing ovation? I suspect it was not representative of the
lostincalifornia
Oct 2013
#3
Schema Thing
(10,283 posts)1. I assure you, he didn't receive a standing 8 from the State o' Texas.
I would have noticed that. He may have gone into some republican den and gotten said ovation, but it's not as if the entire state of Texas turned towards Houston or wherever the fuck he's from and applauded.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)2. That reminds me of the transcripts of addresses to party congresses and suchlike back from the
Soviet days.
<Sustained applause>
<Thunderous applause>
<Stormy applause>
<Prolonged and thunderous applause>
<Stormy and prolonged applause from the whole hall. The congress gives an ovation. The "Internationale" is sung, after which the ovation is resumed with renewed vigor>
Etc, etc.
lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)3. who do you think was giving him a standing ovation? I suspect it was not representative of the
whole state
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)8. exactly
RainDog
(28,784 posts)4. 750 people
applauding the loss of 20 million for the nation because of this wanker.
oh yeah.
that's rational.
yodermon
(6,143 posts)5. Reminds me of someone else who received standing ovations
where the folks applauding were scared of being the first to stop clapping. hmmmm.
Mopar151
(10,003 posts)6. Priceless! Works on so many levels...
he (Cruz) sucks harder than Rick Santorum at the annual Pennsylvania Goat Blowing Championship.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)7. A good measure of political insanity is crowd behavior. Mania is not sanity.
summerschild
(725 posts)9. Kim Jong gets long standing ovations all the time.
With huge fake smiles.