This is somewhat amusing.
Describing himself (without apparent intended irony) as “we, real people,” former exceedingly powerful Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey stammers and stumbles through a quick video pitch (seen at right) to members of his FreedomWorks mailing list for the awkwardly named “Pick Dick Armey’s YouTube Flick Contest.”
The premise, if we’re understanding the seemingly drunk Armey correctly, is for “normal” people to decide what question they will allow Armey to ask for them, on video, for the upcoming Republican CNN/YouTube debate. Or something.
It would seem the point of such a debate is for actual “we, real people” to submit questions without the help of bloated former Texas power brokers like Armey. So we’ll hope that his question, whatever it ends up being, gets no preferential treatment from CNN, who selected a few dozen from among thousands submitted for the Dem version of their YouTube debate a couple of months ago.
That is, if he can even get through such a question. What really leaves us chortling aloud here, is that old Dick apparently couldn’t get through his 48 second pitch without flubbing it up, several times, making this video funnier with each viewing. Hope you real people will enjoy it as much as we did.
Clever! Real people stumble and stammer—and get drunk. I’d say he is spinning “authentic” and “down home”. Great strategy for humanizing Republicans. I think we will be seeing a lot more of this for the Buttoned-down Party.
I think regular YouTubers will be offended though.
You can also view a video that FreedomWorks members submitted here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uG1GRj-FCk
Sad part is, THAT’S the video they posted! Think of what they left on the “cutting room floor”…
Drunk is the best approach to this sort of thing.
Pick Dick’s Flick? Is that the same as Flick my Bic?