This take on Speaker Pelosi’s Swastika-spotting is lifted from James Taranto’s Best of the Web Today . Enjoy:
Limousine Liberal?
On a lighter note, is it possible that Pelosi’s outrageous comment was inspired by “Seinfeld”? A reader reminds us of the 1992 episode “The Limo,” in which Jerry and George scam a limousine ride from the airport via George’s pretending to be “O’Brien,” the intended passenger. Hilarity ensues when O’Brien turns out to be the leader of a group called the Aryan Union, in town for a rally at Madison Square Garden. In order to get home to Manhattan, George has to pretend to be a neo-Nazi for the benefit of the two other passengers, Tim and Eva. Making matters even funnier, Eva is good-looking, and George is flattered by her professions of devotion to him–or rather, to O’Brien.
As we join the program in progress, Tim and Eva have stepped out of the car, leaving Jerry and George alone:
Jerry: What’s taking him so long out there?
George: Didja see the way she was looking at me?
Jerry: She’s a Nazi, George. A Nazi!
George: I know, I know. Kind of a cute Nazi though.
Jerry: Well we gotta make a plan before they come back, what are we gonna do?
George: I don’t know.
Jerry: Let’s just make a run for it.
George: I can’t run, I have a bad hamstring.
Jerry: How’d that happen?
George: I hurt it in a hotel room. You know where they tuck the covers in real tight in those hotel rooms? I can’t sleep like that so I tried to kick it out and I pulled it.
Jerry: I know, why do they make that bed so tight? You gotta sleep with your feet like that.
George: For a mental patient. Wait a minute, the phone, we’ll call the police [grabs the car phone]. Nine-one-one. She said she’d do anything. Hello, police? Uh, yeah, listen, we’re in the back of a limo in Queens–
[Tim re-enters the limo.]
George: –Astroturf? You know who’s responsible for that, don’t you?! The Jews! Ah, the Jews hate grass. They always have, they always will.
We entertained the possibility that Pelosi was riffing on this dialogue to make a joke, but thought better of it. After all, it would play right into the stereotype of the “limousine liberal.” Even Pelosi isn’t foolish enough to do that, is she?
It seems to me we’ve been in a lot of this “Ya can’t make this stuff up!” territory of late. GO SOX.