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Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!
Posted by: The Green Knight | Thursday, November 17, 2005 at 05:06 PM
And it's even got a tricolor! Bloody brilliant.
Posted by: Linkmeister | Thursday, November 17, 2005 at 07:32 PM
WOW. That's amazing.
Posted by: Matt | Thursday, November 17, 2005 at 10:25 PM
In 1,ooo years they will be honoring Barney Fife as the one who forsaw and foretold it all through the artiface of film. This is just how Nostradamus got started.
Posted by: Uncle Merlin | Friday, November 18, 2005 at 08:09 AM
I'd seen it before, but it was just as astonishing on repeat viewing.
Talk about "it's funny because it's true"!
Posted by: Chris Quinones | Friday, November 18, 2005 at 04:19 PM
Ha! I saw that during the election last year. Great to see it again.
Posted by: Red Tory | Saturday, November 19, 2005 at 11:46 AM