Harry Reid Distressed Over Ruin of Cowboy Poetry Festival
Diane Ellis, Ed. ·
Mar 8, 2011 at 2:51pm
Harry Reid is pretty darned upset about the proposed Republican spending cuts. For one thing, the spending cuts would mean the downfall of Nevada's Cowboy Poetry Festival. Not a big deal, you say? Well consider this:
Had [the Cowboy Poetry Festival] not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist.
Lives are at stake, people. This is serious business.
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May '10
Re: Harry Reid Distressed Over Ruin of Cowboy Poetry Festival
I was wondering why cowboy poetry is almost invariably insipid, maudlin and annoying. Now I know. It's a government program.
May '10
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I hope we get to see that over and over again in political advertising in 2012. What an idiot.
Re: Harry Reid Distressed Over Ruin of Cowboy Poetry Festival
I actually never knew that cowboy poetry existed. But Harry Reid looks pretty bummed out that it might not continue to exist.
Sep '10
Re: Harry Reid Distressed Over Ruin of Cowboy Poetry Festival
Harry Reid is like a bad version of Yogi Berra.
Re: Harry Reid Distressed Over Ruin of Cowboy Poetry Festival
I went from watching the Alan Simpson video over and over again to Harry Reid's video over and over again. Politicians are really a barrel of laughs some days.
Edited on Mar 8, 2011 at 3:07pmJul '10
Re: Harry Reid Distressed Over Ruin of Cowboy Poetry Festival
Who is there on the Republican side that begins to approach the idiocy of Harry Reid?
I'd nominate John McCain and Lindsay Graham, but even they look like towering intellects by comparison.
Feb '11
Re: Harry Reid Distressed Over Ruin of Cowboy Poetry Festival
Does the Whistling Monkey Cowboy Band play at this festival?
Re: Harry Reid Distressed Over Ruin of Cowboy Poetry Festival
Git along, li'l doggerel.
Sep '10
Re: Harry Reid Distressed Over Ruin of Cowboy Poetry Festival
There was this kid I grew up with; he was younger than me. Sorta looked up to me, you know. We did our first work together, worked our way out of the street. Things were good, we made the most of it. During Prohibition, we ran verses into Canada... made a fortune, your father, too. As much as anyone, I loved him and trusted him. Later on he had an idea to hold a poetry festival for cowboys on the way to the West Coast. That kid's name was Harry Reid, and the city he invented was Searchlight. This was a great man, a man of vision and guts. And there isn't even a plaque, or a signpost or a statue of him in that town! Someone sent him to Congress. No one knows who gave the order. When I heard it, I wasn't angry; I knew Harry, I knew he was head-strong, talking loud, saying stupid things. So when he turned majority leader, I let it go. And I said to myself, this is the business we've chosen; I didn't ask who gave the order, because it had nothing to do with business!
May '10
Re: Harry Reid Distressed Over Ruin of Cowboy Poetry Festival
Diane Ellis, Ed.
I actually never knew that cowboy poetry existed.
"Reincarnation" by Wallace McRae was my introduction.
May '10
Re: Harry Reid Distressed Over Ruin of Cowboy Poetry Festival
Thanks, Nevada.
May '10
Re: Harry Reid Distressed Over Ruin of Cowboy Poetry Festival
Government and the arts: A primer here
Mar '11
Re: Harry Reid Distressed Over Ruin of Cowboy Poetry Festival
First of all, hats off to James Lileks for the above hilarious post.
What strikes me about Reid's comments is that they are typical of a form of argument for government spending that I hear over and over again from lefties. That is to say,"The ____ program does something (or is meant to do something) good and therefore should not be cut" They rarely are convinced by my argument that government programs are never designed to deliberately do bad things and, therefore, by their criteria no government program should ever be cut.
Reid also exhibits the common lefty assumption that if government does not fund a particular activity of value, it will promptly cease to exist. How these people can live in a sophisticated (mostly) thriving society and believe that, is a stunning indictment of our educational system.
May '10
Re: Harry Reid Distressed Over Ruin of Cowboy Poetry Festival
Diane Ellis, Ed.
I went from watching the Alan Simpson video over and over again to Harry Reid's video over and over again. Politicians are really a barrel of laughs some days. · Mar 8 at 3:03pm
There could be an entire Autotune the News episode on these clips.
Aug '10
Re: Harry Reid Distressed Over Ruin of Cowboy Poetry Festival
Have you heard of the great cowboy Reid
Edited on Mar 8, 2011 at 3:59pmFor the Democrat Party he'd bleed,
He knew how to wrangle
And beat Sharon Angle
But the truth is that he's just a weed.
Dec '10
Re: Harry Reid Distressed Over Ruin of Cowboy Poetry Festival
Diane, are you sure that Harry Reid isn't literally correct? Do we know, for example, how much of the National Endowment for the Humanities grant money was used by the cowboy poetry festival on a breeding program to assure a steady supply of fans and attendees?
Somewhere in Nevada, there may well be the Harry Reid Creche for Cowboy Poetry Appreciation.
Oct '10
Re: Harry Reid Distressed Over Ruin of Cowboy Poetry Festival
Diane Ellis, Ed.
I actually never knew that cowboy poetry existed. But Harry Reid looks pretty bummed out that it might not continue to exist. · Mar 8 at 2:59pm
Bummed out that what might not exist? Cowboy poetry or the people?
Aug '10
Re: Harry Reid Distressed Over Ruin of Cowboy Poetry Festival
I truly grit my teeth whenever he speaks.
Dec '10
Re: Harry Reid Distressed Over Ruin of Cowboy Poetry Festival
Leave it to Steyn:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/261629/re-mammas-don-t-let-your-babies-grow-be-cowboy-poets-mark-steyn
Re: Harry Reid Distressed Over Ruin of Cowboy Poetry Festival
Great Adventure: I was working on a "Ghost Riders in the Sky" parody as well, with "Bill Riders Never Die" as the title.