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I doubt anyone looked to Jimmy for economic advice but my point was that his statements reflected common economic fallacies during the period. Roosevelt's theoretical basis for the NRA was just about as sophisticated.
Does the Obama children's choir threaten western civilization? Of course not. It does reveal an uncritical hero worship, however, that is all too common among his backers. Nobody should put that trust in anyone, especially since I doubt that most of the parents of those children could even describe what Obama stands for. It is the image not the substance for all too many of them. Now....that could be dangerous.
This seems silly to me, David. Nobody looked to Jimmy Durante for economic sophistication and "the notorious pro-Obama children's choir" is about as threatening to the health of the Republic as a bunch of cub scouts sitting around a camp fire singing "Kum Bah Yah".
Thanks I missed it. I was searching for good videos for my class on youtube and came across it.
This has been available on archive.org for a while (one commenter says that the exterminator is actually the Three Stooges's Moe Howard, how appropriate), and was on the LewRockwell.com blog and Hit & Run back in March 2007:
http://www.archive.org/details/National1933
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/012506.html
http://www.reason.com/blog/show/119155.html