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Blazing Saddles... You know, morons. (Original Post) iandhr Mar 2015 OP
One of the classic lines from cinema... Wounded Bear Mar 2015 #1
Mel Brooks nails this, as does Gene Wilder! longship Mar 2015 #2
Blazing Saddle djokas Mar 2015 #3
Mel Brooks has been a genius for many years BumRushDaShow Mar 2015 #4
also written by Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, and Al Uger. progressoid Mar 2015 #5

Wounded Bear

(58,440 posts)
1. One of the classic lines from cinema...
Tue Mar 3, 2015, 07:11 PM
Mar 2015

But Tea Partiers are far from something new. As Mel Brooks shows in that film, they been around for many, many years. Somehow, our society has managed to give them power not commensurate with their intellectual abilities.

longship

(40,416 posts)
2. Mel Brooks nails this, as does Gene Wilder!
Tue Mar 3, 2015, 07:19 PM
Mar 2015

Love them, and Cleavon Little! (And Alex Karras, and the whole Blazing Saddles cast)

A brilliant film.

R&K

BumRushDaShow

(127,312 posts)
4. Mel Brooks has been a genius for many years
Tue Mar 3, 2015, 08:45 PM
Mar 2015

and hopefully for many more (he'll be 90 next year... unbelievable).

progressoid

(49,825 posts)
5. also written by Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, and Al Uger.
Tue Mar 3, 2015, 09:05 PM
Mar 2015

Wonder if that was one of Pryor's jokes.

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