Do we ever.

It's nowhere near as powerful as in the US, and doesn't have the same fundie dimension. But the ideology is about the same. Likewise the number of nutters.

And just like in the US, it's largely an exercise in astroturfing (here it's led by the mining companies). In the absence of a partisan cable news network, radio shock jocks do the job of Fox News.

http://www.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change/pinocchio-gillard-strong-antigillard-emissions-at-canberra-carbon-tax-protest-20110323-1c5w7.html

Gingrich is calling for the video to be corrected --

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/14/us/politics/gingrich-calls-for-withdrawal-of-ad-against-romney-and-bain.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha23

Mr. Gingrich’s comments on Friday came after a host of news reports disputed the film’s accuracy, including The Washington Post’s Fact Checker column, which gave it the worst possible rating of “Four Pinocchios.”

The video, “King of Bain: When Mitt Romney Came to Town,” is riddled with inaccuracies, half-truths and omissions, according to a review of corporate documents and interviews with industry analysts.

She turned the nightlight on a blew him a kiss.
He stared back through is green crayola eyes.
She traced his likeness from off the back of a disc.
Next to the boxtop promise of the biggest prize.
Joining a fan club with my friends.
Filling our bathtubs with tee shirts and 8 x 10's.
He looks so dreamy,
I'm in love from afar.
When I'm picking up a fallen star.
Downstairs the late show's blasting 'age of the rock'.
The greedy monks playin' last Sunday at the milky way.
Mom's writing checks to the minister in the corner singing 'dig
down deep'.
'Cause if you wanna go to heaven all you gotta so is pay to pray.

Joining a fan club with my pen.
Filling my bathtub with Holy water and amens.
He looks so dreamy,
I'm in love from afar.
When I'm picking up a fallen star.
Shake that woody.
Shake it for me St. Pinocchio.
You've paid your money, now watch that money grow.

Joining a fan club, best be warned.
He turns me on when he wears that lampshade corwn of thorns.
We'd be so dreamy,
Sharing his black caviar.
While I'm picking up a fallen star.
Joining a fan club is a big mistake.
I still get heartburn when I think about all of the stamps I ate.
I wished I'd loved him,
Before fate crashed his car.
Say a prayer for the fallen star.

>> ^bareboards2:

Midsummer night's dream, anyone?


Or Pinocchio?

>> ^Lawdeedaw:

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So true it's not even funny...but the song is funny...so would that make it untrue? Logical fallacy damn you!


Say's Pinocchio, "My nose will grow now"

For a little while there, Sir Dave was reminding me of Pinocchio trying to rescue Geppetto...

I bet this was created by Sony, so stupid people would wreck their old VHS machine and then have to replace all the movies they currently own with Blue Ray - Money, Money, Money....
Consume, Consume, Consume...!


And Ya, After going to Disneyland last week (yes I was in Cali), my son wanted to pull out the old Pinocchio VHS tape that we haven't watched in years and what-do-you-know, the machine ate the tape!

Blake Boyd is an artist who uses Disney characters to represent girlfriends that broke his heart. In some of his earlier work he represented himself as Pinocchio. Somehow a Clockwork Orange also ties into his work. Oh, and he uses his own blood in some of his art.

http://www.arthurrogergallery.com/artist_pages/Boyd/boyd.html

'Cliff Edwards (14 June 1895 – 17 July 1971), also known as "Ukelele Ike", was an American singer and musician who enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, and also did voices for animated cartoons later in his career.

In 1939 Edwards played the character "Edicott" in the screwball comedy film His Girl Friday. Edwards voice was also featured in two other films that year; he voiced the dying Confederate soldier in Gone with the Wind, and, most famously, the character Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's Pinocchio. In 1941, he voiced the head crow in Disney's Dumbo.'

I love this performance.

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