O Mitt, Where Art Thou?
In Ben Domenech's great morning newsletter, he reveals the following important information:
Rick Perry’s favorite movie is Immortal Beloved. http://goo.gl/Hm9Nz Herman Cain’s is The Ten Commandments. http://goo.gl/216KT Mitt Romney’s is O Brother, Where Art Thou?http://goo.gl/gdMKf “When the campaign is debating going in a certain direction or a new piece of strategy, Mr. Romney will sometimes joke, “We’re in a tight spot.” This may be the most endearing thing I’ve heard about him, but I think if it was “I’m a Dapper Dan man!”, that’d be better.
One time a friend whose wife worked for George W. Bush was invited to watch a movie with the president and his family. The movie was A Mighty Wind and the friend reported that President Bush laughed throughout. I can't deny this made me think more favorably of the President.
Likewise, I love both Perry's and Romney's choices here and find them somewhat surprising. I wish that both candidates would reveal more of the side of them that enjoys great movies such as Immortal Beloved and O Brother, Where Art Thou and less of the clumsy birtherism and shiny shallowness on display.
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Dec '10
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When is America going to be ready for a SciFi/Fantasy/Horror movie lover to become President?
Mar '11
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Well. At least this information won't provide additional grist for the mills of the anti-Big Lebowski faction here at Ricochet.
Mar '11
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Perry might have been wiser to stay away from it, but I don't think he was straying into birtherism. I think he was expressing annoyance at the notion that we are all supposed to be testifying for Obama on the location of his birth, in order to separate ourselves from the rubes and yahoos. Obama was playing games and mocking said rubes and yahoos by withholding the document for three years. I don't fault Perry for not playing along.
Mar '11
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And he owns a dachshund? Are wiener dogs presidential?
Feb '11
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Perry just won back my primary vote.
Sep '10
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Maybe Mitt just thinks he is George Clooney. My overall gestalt concerning Gov. Romney is that he is a bit of a narcissist. Don't we already have one of those?
Mar '11
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I have no problem with Perry's answer. Claiming to know where Obama was born is sort of like non-believers telling muslims what Islam is and is not.
It is a distracting irrelevance. Perry said so.
Jun '10
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Mitt wakes up and immediately says, "my hair."
Jun '10
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It's a movie about guys on a mission, with prophesy, baptism, politics, and hair care. It's the Mitt Romney story applied to a different time and different social class.
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iWc: I have no problem with Perry's answer. Claiming to know where Obama was born is sort of like non-believers telling muslims what Islam is and is not.
It is a distracting irrelevance. Perry said so. · Oct 25 at 7:43am
Well, he did say that. After he responded to the question "Why did you choose to keep the birther issue alive?" with the line "It’s a good issue to keep alive."
He was clumsy.
Aug '11
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Mollie Hemingway, Ed.
After he responded to the question "Why did you choose to keep the birther issue alive?" with the line "It’s a good issue to keep alive."
This provides a perfect opportunity to apply the facepalm.
Apr '11
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At the very least none of these movies seem like calculated choices to try and appeal to some group or another. And now my greatest hope is to someday hear Rick Perry offer Mitt Romney some gopher.
Edited on Oct 25, 2011 at 8:34amMay '10
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I don't often disagree with Mollie, but I'm not sure I would take seriously any criticism or advice- foreign policy or otherwise- from Michael Tomasky.
Apparently he expected a foreign policy speech during a political campaign to be an IR-Realist Dissertation As Presented To The CFR Executive Board.
Trutherism is simply indulging the nuts. Our side does not need that albatross- stick with substantive policy. Obama's birth certificate is irrelevant- he is in office, get over it and vote him out.
Oct '10
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Y'know what bugs me to no end? Politicians making up "favorite books" or "favorite movies" or favorite whatevers that clearly are phony and are intended only to convey an image.
Herman's favorite movie is The Ten Commandments? Puh-leeze.
Mitt went up a notch in my eyes (admittedly, it's pretty easy considering his starting point) with his answer.
By the way, my favorite book is The Bible, my favorite historical character is Jesus Christ, my favorite song is The Star Spangled Banner, my favorite movie is The Life and Times of Ronald Reagan, and my favorite color is red-white-and-blue.
No, really.
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Duane Oyen: I don't often disagree with Mollie, but I'm not sure I would take seriously any criticism or advice- foreign policy or otherwise- from Michael Tomasky.
· Oct 25 at 8:56am
I'm sorry for my confusion but to what are you referring here?
Mar '11
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Reading that Mitt likes O Brother, Where Art Thou made me think of this scene with Romney as Delmar.
Pete: Wait a minute. Who elected you leader of this outfit?
Everett: Well Pete, I figured it should be the one with the capacity for abstract thought. But if that ain't the consensus view, then hell, let's put it to a vote.
Pete: Suits me. I'm voting for yours truly.
Everett: Well I'm voting for yours truly too.
[Everett and Pete look at Delmar for the deciding vote]
Delmar: Okay... I'm with you fellas.
May '10
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Mollie Hemingway, Ed.
Duane Oyen: I don't often disagree with Mollie, but I'm not sure I would take seriously any criticism or advice- foreign policy or otherwise- from Michael Tomasky.
· Oct 25 at 8:56am
I'm sorry for my confusion but to what are you referring here? · Oct 25 at 9:05am
Hi, Mollie! If you go to the link you provided of the Google search page about "shiny shallowness", the same article is referred to by 7 of the 9 links- (including the first 3) a column written two weeks ago by Tomasky at the Daily Beast, called "Romney's Shallow Speech". So if you hit the link and call up the first one there, Tomasky is what you get.
Dec '10
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Trivia: "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" is the title of the movie that the famed comedy director Sullivan wants to make in Preston Sturges's "Sullivan's Travels." Sullivan, sick of being pigeonholed into making lightweight comedies, wants to make an epic drama about the human condition, a modern retelling of Homer's Odyssey.
In his serio-comic adventures after being mugged, robbed and given a mild case of amnesia, Sullivan ends up on a chain gang in a town in the Deep South. On the one night a week that the prisoners are allowed to sit in a Black church and watch a silent comedy movie, Sullivan realizes that in tough times, comedies are serious medicine for what ails the spirit, and when he returns to Hollywood, he puts off "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" for the hoped-for better times of the future, and returns to making people laugh and forget their cares for a while.
The Coen Brothers were able to answer the question, "What if Sullivan had made his movie?"
Dec '10
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dittoheadadt:
Herman's favorite movie is The Ten Commandments? Puh-leeze.
Cain wasn't asked what his favorite movie was:
Question: If there were a television channel that only showed one movie over and over, what movie should it be?
CAIN: "The Ten Commandments" because I think this country is losing its moral compass.
Aug '11
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Stuart Creque: Trivia: "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" is the title of the movie that the famed comedy director Sullivan wants to make in Preston Sturges's "Sullivan's Travels." Sullivan, sick of being pigeonholed into making lightweight comedies, wants to make an epic drama about the human condition, a modern retelling of Homer's Odyssey.
In his serio-comic adventures after being mugged, robbed and given a mild case of amnesia, Sullivan ends up on a chain gang in a town in the Deep South. On the one night a week that the prisoners are allowed to sit in a Black church and watch a silent comedy movie, Sullivan realizes that in tough times, comedies are serious medicine for what ails the spirit, and when he returns to Hollywood, he puts off "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" for the hoped-for better times of the future, and returns to making people laugh and forget their cares for a while.
It's a brilliant movie, and the fact that it has the luscious Veronica Lake certainly helps! I kept waiting for someone to mention it in last week's "Comedy!" thread.