Watch our latest satirical video about how the proposed coal power plant near Holcomb undermines Gov. Kathleen Sebelius’ talk about “makin’ Kansas greener.” It was produced by The Eagle’s Opinion staff and stars Bucky Walters doing a scary impersonation of country singer Loretta Lynn.
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I don’t agree with message, but love the delivery!
It’s one thing to make a satire of brownback, but this RW appeasement,by attacking our gov. must stop? LOL
The Eagle’s Opinion page staff is now trying to produce political comedies but can’t be bothered with analysis/research about what is going on in Kansas government? This is what “journalism” is now? So are you guys thespians or journalists? This will improve your circulation as a “newspaper”?
This common from Meadowlark who thinks Sebelius is part of a global conspiracy run by Jews to create a one world government.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3773019.stm
Personally I’m glad to see more coal used. It is a cheap viable fuel – but the best part is that it may keep Al Gore sick. No one deserves to have additional heartache quite as much as that putz does.
Phil’s momma must be darned proud that those pianer and dance lessons finally paid off. Course, we may now lose him to Hollywood.
rofl!
Bucky was in fine form!
Also, glad to see that you utilized Cowtown as backdrop. :)
“Phillip – really Square Dancer” haha!
Richard Crowson – I think Crowson really is a cartoon, that somehow escaped the film strip, he’s a natural!
“Pocowatchit: filming, editing”
That has to be one of the all time great names for a cinematographer. :)
…and a very snappy pun as well!
Great video guys!
I heard that KFG was passed over for the lead part because they need someone with a singing voice. :)
Puts on critic hat.
Well, it was definitely a step or three down from “Brownback Girl”. That was a tough act to follow.
And Bucky needs to lose the drag. It’s a distraction here. He’d been better singing as a curmudgeonly old cowpoke.
Meadowlark is right. This newspaper desparately needs to focus on investigations and reporting. There are many things happening in city hall, the county building, and the statehouse that we never read of in the Eagle.
Do you know that the current press relations person for the city of Wichita is the Eagle’s former city reporter? If the newspaper had been doing its job, digging up and reporting the hard stories, city leaders would have been so mad at that reporter that they would have never considered hiring him.
Or, maybe it’s possible they hired him to get him off their case. But after reading his reporting, I don’t think that’s the case.
These are opinion columnists and Bucky is a satirist. So their just doing their job, their job doesn’t have anything to do with investigative news if they don’t feel like it. They just reflect on their public opinions. Which is what their getting paid for.
The Eagle IS focusing on investigations and reporting, by producing this video! It’s about time they took on the powers that be, and fought for the common person! That coal plant is a horrible idea: only 10% of its electricity, but 100% of its pollution, will stay in Kansas! If that utility invested in Wind energy, with a gas-fired backup generator, there would be NO need for the coal plants at all! The Gov doesn’t really support coal, though: she’s being blackmailed legislatively by Carl Holmes and the other western Kansas legislative idiots who support big coal instead of the people of Kansas. Hooray for the Eagle staff! You pegged this one right!
I remember a political cartoon the Eagle did comparing Giuliani to a Dwarf.
You Libs loved that one.
Can’t take the heat when the Eagle makes fun of a Lib?
Cry Babies!
“Can’t take the heat when the Eagle makes fun of a Lib?
Cry Babies!”
What a MAROON!!!!
Please repost the lib crybaby comments. So far, I see NO libs whining about this.
But nice use of the meme without actually READING the other posts.
…and where is little miss fossil fuesl to tell us how WONDERFUL coal is?
In fact, the only complainers are nathan and meadowlark, two KNOWN libs I guess…
Farmgirl – just wait.
Pre-emptive strike!
Farmgirl – just wait.
Pre-emptive strike!
A salute to the Eagle for both the message AND the delivery.
Ditto Ben, ditto.
My only complaint? The WE crew mentioned NOTHING about the water that would be wasted in an area that can ill afford to lose more water.
It isnt ALL about the greenhouse gases. Just shows how little people in eastern kansas even THINK about water…
Sebelius accomplishments:
Sell out KU Hospital to her Missouri benefactors.
Sell out the environment to the coal industry.
Turn the Democratic Party in Kansas over to the most opportunistic and corrupt members of the Republican Party.
I thought no one could be as corrupt as Bill Graves but Kathleen and her Republican allies are hot on his heels.
PS, The Pitch in Kansas City did an excellent article on this topic (something most of the daily papers took a powder on).
Oh, and I forgot, at one point I compared Kathleen’s policies on race to Graves and she was to the right of him. it is not an accident that our minority candidates running for statewide office were ignored by the party.
http://www.pitch.com/2007-08-09/news/her-dirty-secret/
Bonita Gooch did a front page story on the abandonment of Larry Wilson and David Haley by the Democratic Party.
While the party spent money supporting Sebelius/Parkinson and Paul Morrison, the candidates who ran against Parkinson and Morrison’s former(?) Republican allies (Thornburgh, Jenkins and Praeger) were thrown to the wolves.
Now Parkinson will be in line to succeed Sebelius, Morrison will run again as AG and Rick Guinn who tried to become the *Republican* DA of Johnson County, bragging about his Republican credentials, is also pretending to be a Democrat.
In the meantime, real Democratic candidates are being shoved aside so a group of Republican political wh**es take control of the Kansas Democratic Party.
If they want to change parties, fine, but let them demonstrate their loyalty by supporting real Democratic candidates first before asking for our support.
My, my, the silence is deafening. I don’t know who’s being quieter, the Republicans who won’t admit how corrupt their party is, or the Democrats who won’t admit that the Republicans now control both parties.
Perhaps the Eagle could investigate into the land deal between Sue Schlapp and members of Tiahrt’s staff that cost the Wichita taxpayers over $2 million?
Doug since Schlapp is my councilperson give me a place to start and I’ll do the research.
The newspapers in this state should do a lot of investigating about a lot of shady dealing, but they’re too busy regurgitating press releases and promoting the very deal you want investigated.
Sebelius sellout of KU Hospital will have an enormous impact on health care for the poor of Wyandotte County, but try finding any investigative reports on the subject anywhere in the state.
There you go ksgrm, great idea, great attitude, but then try and get The Eagle to print your research.
Maybe The Eagle could print its return on investment on the front page. That would explain a lot about why they don’t have investigative units covering all the political scams.
So many humorless slugs around.
Everyone is missing the point. The gov. put money in the budget for transmission lines. Ha, 1 million dollars, won’t build much more than a mile of transmission line. The coal is shipped in from out of state and the power is shipped to Colorado. Wonder why, Kansas is the only state that doesn’t care about emissions and will give up all the water for power in Denver. Other states Gov. are promoting and developing wind while Sebelius is only interested in moving to bigger political positions.
KFG… Did you see in the Video, the two guys in hard hats, drinking that well dry?? I thought that was a poke at stealing the water… Maybe not, but thats how I saw it… In fact I thought about your water concerns when I watched it!!
Kansas, if that’s a slap at me, no I don’t find corruption very humorous. Which kind do you find humorous, the Republican, or the pretend Democrat?
Just in case you think I’m being overly critical of Kathleen’s friends, here’s a right up about the Bilderberg conference she attended describing the participants:
“DELEGATES AT BILDERBERG 2007Istanbul, Turkey, 31 May – 3 June 2007This year’s delegation included many of the most important politicians, businessmen, central bankers, European commissioners and executives of the Western corporate press. They were joined at the table by leading representatives of European royalty.”
Maybe the part about the “Western corporate press” explains why we had to read about Kathleen’s coal scandal in The Pitch.
Dump,
I find Political Satire humorous.
You know Dump, like taking time to stop and smell the roses.
Or taking time to view the humor illustrated by the astute observationists.
It is good for the soul and gives the mind relief from the contempt of the swinish multitude that keeps our mind from clear thought.
Oops, sorry about that, should be “write up” not “right up”. I was thinking about Kathleen’s position in the political hierarchy when I wrote that.
Pretty soon you won’t be able to smell the roses for the coal soot that’ll be all over the ones who can still live in our tainted environment. So enjoy it while you can while us swinish multitudes try to protect them from Kathleen and her puppet masters.
Well Dump,
You can be part of the solution or part of the problem.
Comment without solution is not very useful.
The thing that bothers me about Environmental Activists is they have a lot of complaints but never offer any solutions.
When one mention Nuclear Plants, they go bonkers. When one mention Wind Turbines, they exclaim impractical and it kills birds. When one mentions any solution as an alternative they have nothing to say or add.
It’s Ted Kaczynski revisited. That is, technophobia – tossing word bombs causing destruction of lucid discussion.
Sorry, the only thing that’s killing lucid discussion on here is your asinine reference to Ted Kaczynski.
If you want lucid discussion why don’t you tell us why Kathleen’s coal plants are such a good deal for Kansas, why don’t you tell us how the land deal Tiahrt’s staff is involved in benefits Kansans. Why don’t you tell us your solution for the health care needs of the poor of Wyandotte County now that Kathleen has forced KU Hospital to give that money to shore up her cronies’ incompetence at the Med School.
Those are all factual issues, not your silly comments about sniffing roses and getting a giggle out of corruption.
“When one mention Wind Turbines, they exclaim impractical and it kills birds.”
You obviously have NOT read the local Sierra Club literature advocating wind. Or the lobbyist testimony doing same.
Now WHY did you go and change names?
I’m not happy at all about the coal plant and Sebelius’s support of them. Not one iota. I also don’t expect every democrat to agree on every issue.
No, I don’t want moderate republicans merely changing parties because it’s the popular thing to do. But dems won’t ever be elected by the lefter wings of the party either. They’re moderate enough to be democrats, and I’m fine with them representing my party. I don’t have to agree on every issue, but hope they will take a more democratic stance.
“The thing that bothers me about Environmental Activists is they have a lot of complaints but never offer any solutions.
When one mention Nuclear Plants, they go bonkers. When one mention Wind Turbines, they exclaim impractical and it kills birds. When one mentions any solution as an alternative they have nothing to say or add.”
Posted by: the *** LIAR *** Kansas.
‘Fact Sheet on Wind Power in Kansas ‘http://kansas.sierraclub.org/Wind/WindPower-FactSheet.htm
‘Sierra Club Calls on Rumsfeld, DOD to Stop Blocking Wind FarmsSuit filed against Defense Department for delaying study of windmill threats to security’http://www.sierraclub.org/pressroom/releases/pr2006-06-28.aspThe LIAR Kansas: “but never offer any solutions.”
‘Innovative Technology Can Help Free Us From Our Dangerous Oil Dependence’http://www.sierraclub.org/globalwarming/biggest_single_step/technology.asp
Lots of solutions,http://www.nrdc.org/energy/depth.asp
http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/http://www.oilendgame.com/ReadTheBook.html
Nuclear power is more expensive than higher energy efficiency and renewables. I don’t want higher utility bills.
“Personally I’m glad to see more coal used. It is a cheap viable fuel…”
Posted by: AuntyGovment | August 30, 2007 at 06:32 AM
It’s not “cheap”, or “viable”, when you factor in,
* High (and rising) costs of building new plants.* Rising coal costs.* Hidden external costs of CO2, sulfur, mercury, etc emissions.* And future carbon taxes.
‘Carbon Risk, Coal, and Higher Electricity PricesWhy coal-generated electricity will cost more than utilities claim’http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/fossil_fuels/carbon_risk.html
http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/coalvswind/c01.html
The wiser utilities are deciding against coal.
ksfarmgrrl hit it on the head: water. It’s all about water. But Eastern Kansas knows exactly what it’s doing. The Eastern controlled government is buying up water rights in Western Kansas whenever it can.
Why is that? Who controls water controls the land and what grows on it. That translates into big bucks, or big favors for Kansas government. You figure that out. It ain’t difficult.
Thanks cosmos, I thought I was alone there for awhile.
And political mom, I think you’re giving away more than you think when you embrace these carpetbaggers. Let them come in and support Democrats who have been in the trenches for a few years and then run for office. As it is now there are still just two Republican Parties, the far right, and the corrupt right. Real Democrats have no one at the state level, and the party didn’t support the ones who did run.
They’re the ones bringing the coal plants and ripping off medical care for the poor to the Democratic Party and if that’s what it’s going to stand for, they can do it without my support.
Dump,Sorry, but I am not buying this there is no real difference in KS GOP folks – there are two camps – 1) the insane – the faction represented by Phill Kline and 2) moderate Republicans who in contrast to the insane contingent look like Democrats (Paul Morrison as an example – who is of course now a Democrat).
Morrison has done things like re-install the consumer protection function of the KS AG office. Kline had destroyed it because he thought consumer protection was a code-word for the wanton shaking down of the legitimate interests of corporations. So, you may contend that Morrison is not a Democrat, he is none-the-less acting like one and in comparison to Phill Kline looks like a liberal Democrat.
Sebelius I am more sketical on, but overall I don’t think your hypotheses hold up well.
Hey, I made my case and you’re entitled to your own read on the data.
You may be right in Morrison’s case, but Sebelius/Parkinson is just bad news all the way around.