I suppose now I understand what Thomas was experiencing when he reacted to that sarah-palin-president site.

“Terry Tate” was a “linebacker” in a series of commercials and videos from back in 2002-2003. He enforced correct office protocol. Well, he’s apparently back, and he’s in full anti-Sarah-Palin mode.

I recommend watching at least thirty seconds of each (at a minimum) and then forwarding to the indicated time second mark.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07kO9TtHYzQ
(The hit occurs just after 0:43)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caGjG_9nFwY
(The hit occurs just after 1:19)

this might be *the* original Terry Tate video as “office enforcer”. Now that you’ve seen the anti-Palin hits above, watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzToNo7A-94

I never saw this series of commercials or videos before. They’re not funny to me right now, perhaps mostly because my first exposure to this meme in the anti-Palin hits above.

Were they ever really funny? What I dislike most about the last link above is that the office-enforcing targets are all white men. ALL of them. After all the screeches of racism against McCain supporters for such things as using words like “socialism” to describe Obama, or bringing up Ayers or Wright… to see such an obvious example of concrete bias on display borders on ridiculous.

Should I be as disturbed by this as I am?

Back in the last ‘69, I was an infantry squad leader in Viet Nam. One day, while we were being resupplied by helicopter out in the bush, a camera crew arrived along with the things we needed.

A while later, our Captain came over to me with the crew in tow and asked me if I wanted to take them out on a patrol I was about to leave on. In one of my proudest moments in the war, I replied, in my New York fashion, with a question, “Do I have to bring them back?”

We went out; they didn’t. Nice things happen to deserving people.