{"id":7489,"date":"2009-10-29T14:16:42","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T21:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7489"},"modified":"2009-10-29T14:15:48","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T21:15:48","slug":"tea-party-the-documentary-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7489","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tea Party: The Documentary Film&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some things simply defy satire.<\/p>\n<p>The following teaser is for what appears to be an <i>actual<\/i>, &#8220;serious&#8221; feature-length film called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teapartymovie.com\"><i>Tea Party: The Documentary Film<\/i><\/a>.  We were pointed to it yesterday by several folks after we released our own short documentary, <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7487\"><i>Tea Party Express II: Rise of the Tea Bags<\/i><\/a>, which we filmed on Sunday and <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7487\">posted here<\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;ll see below, even <i>The Daily Show<\/i> would be hard-pressed to satirize this self-satirizing teaser. And yes, this things seems to be for real and set for a DVD release on Thanksgiving. No, it&#8217;s not a joke. It just looks and sounds a whole lot like one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"340\" height=\"270\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/k2qil4Swcew&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/k2qil4Swcew&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"340\" height=\"270\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>(On second thought&#8230;For the truly adventurous out there, maybe it <i>can<\/i> be satirized. It might be fun to take <i>their<\/i> voice-over track, and mash it up with <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7487\"><i>our video<\/i><\/a> somehow. But I should probably leave that to someone else, and otherwise get back to real work, right?! \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some things simply defy satire. The following teaser is for what appears to be an actual, &#8220;serious&#8221; feature-length film called Tea Party: The Documentary Film. We were pointed to it yesterday by several folks after we released our own short documentary, Tea Party Express II: Rise of the Tea Bags, which we filmed on Sunday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[300],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-republicans","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7489"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}