Say No To Gopher Moat Politics. Call First Thing Thursday.

Is gopher moat politics an original phrase? (0.00 / 0)

I googled it and got nothing.  If it's yours, then I move to award Mike the congressional medal of analogy coining.

Where do we go from here?

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by: Gavin @ Wed Nov 14, 2007 at 18:53:40 PM CST

Gopher Moat Politics, the phrase (0.00 / 0)

Was born in my head today about 5pm -- so feel free to use with abandon.

It is an uncanny video, isn't it?

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by: Mike Caulfield @ Wed Nov 14, 2007 at 19:00:59 PM CST

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I don't know if anyone has used that video in a political analogy before (0.00 / 0)

It came out in 2002, back when we were thinking that once we got the power things would be different.

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by: Mike Caulfield @ Wed Nov 14, 2007 at 19:05:48 PM CST

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I had to watch it six or seven times to believe (0.00 / 0)

it was a parody.  Too well done!

birch, finch, beech

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by: Dean Barker @ Wed Nov 14, 2007 at 19:46:06 PM CST

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Best Meme Evar (0.00 / 0)

I don't think I've come across too many more memes that accurately capture what's going on politically than this.

How did you find this clip? And are they serious?

.::Hold Fast::.

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by: Matt Browner Hamlin @ Wed Nov 14, 2007 at 22:22:46 PM CST

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I found it through some people in edu-blogging (0.00 / 0)

Where it's making the rounds. I guess it was originally done as a joke for the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. There were a couple other ones in the series, like where the Twins try to hide from someone in a video store, etc.

But recently a friend posted it --- when I saw it, all I could  think of was Wonder Twins Schumer and Fienstein saving the world with their gopher moats (and us, the public, in that last funeral scene).

Yeah, it's almost too perfect, isn't it? We gave them powers to protect the Constitution.

And they built us a gopher moat.

I hope to get gopher moat politics into the lexicon.

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by: Mike Caulfield @ Thu Nov 15, 2007 at 00:45:43 AM CST

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Clearly you need to throw this up on (0.00 / 0)

some of the national blogs.

Where do we go from here?

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by: Gavin @ Thu Nov 15, 2007 at 10:29:13 AM CST

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