Posted on 09/17/2019 11:25:11 AM PDT by simpson96
RUSH: Now, normally I would not make a big deal out of this, either. But this, I’m gonna call your attention to. I’m gonna go back to May 22, 2018. So it’s, what, 15 months ago (a year and a half ago, let’s call it that), and I was describing for people… You know, I love analogies. I love to persuade. There are many different techniques that one can use to persuade. I love the analogy or comparison. I was trying to explain to a caller the way the Washington establishment has reacted to Trump, and this is what I said (audio sound bite number 1) to the caller.
RUSH ARCHIVE: You know another way to look at Trump? How about the movie Caddyshack? Here you have these phony club members led by Ted Baxter, and he’s running around. They’ve got this little country club and everybody in it thinks they’re the best of the best in town. Rodney Dangerfield decides to join and gets in and blows the club up. He’s got this gigantic golf cart, drives it on the greens, blows a big horn, has a gigantic golf bag. The leaders of the country club are beside themselves. They try to kick the guy out, and they can’t. They lose every effort against him. That’s Trump: Rodney Dangerfield in the Caddyshack.
RUSH: Yeah, Ted Baxter was great in that movie. He’s christening a new yacht for his family, and it’s like a 12-foot dinghy. And Rodney Dangerfield has this giant 80-footer and capsizes it while driving by waving. This is Trump, okay? So let’s now go to Thursday on a podcast called Recode Media. There’s a guy — the host is Peter Kafka — and he’s talking to the New York Times chief television critic, James Poniewozik, about his new book, Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America. The question: “There’s a great comparison you have in the book. For our younger audience who hasn’t seen Caddyshack, explain Rodney?”
PONIEWOZIK: Al Czervik, who Rodney Dangerfield plays, is this obnoxious, boorish rich guy who all the stuck-up people — the other stuck up rich people in the country club — hate. His character is opposed, in the movie, to Ted Knight’s character, Ted Smails, who is the, you know, stick-up-his-ass, uptight rich guy who sort of runs the country club and cannot stand him. This all came to mind during the 2016 debates to me, when I’m watching Donald Trump in action in the debates and seeing him go up against Jeb Bush. He’s like the Clampetts against Mr. Drysdale. He’s Rodney Dangerfield against Ted Knight. It’s the rich guy that you want to be against the (bleep) snotty rich guy that everybody hates.
RUSH: Now, what should I do with this? Here’s this guy has written a book. The New York Times TV critic has written a book trying to explain to New York Times readers the effect Trump has on Washington. He uses my analogy, my comparison from a year and a half ago. You see, my friends, this is yet another example — it’s yet another definition — of being on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Proper analogy and a classic film.
“You buy a hat like this, I bet you get a free bowl of soup.” — Al Czervik
Spot on Analogy...
Kurt Schlicter also made that analogy.
Mrs. Drysdale was beside herself when her daddy Farquhar took a shine to Granny Clampett. Granny almost became her stepmother!
The only problem with the comparison between Trump and Al Czervik is that Trump develops golf clubs. Al hated them and thought they were a waste of land that could be better used to build condos.
“Country clubs and cemeteries are the biggest wasters of prime real estate! Dead people? They don’t need to be buried nowadays. Ecology, right? Ask Wang. He’ll tell you. We just bought property behind the Great Wall. On the good side!”
I said that when Trump started running for President...
My favorite line was to the Judge at the country club...
“I don’t like the people who hang around here. I’m just here to see if I want to buy this place.”
Not the first time life has imitated Caddyshack.
I think the reason Caddyshack has such long “legs” is because Harold Ramis really put his finger on some actual realities of life, and did a good of depicting them with humor.
As Rush Limbaugh has said, humor has to have some truth underneath to be really funny.
Not possible now... Even in kids comedy shows...
There’s definitely some truth to this whole analogy. But, I think the President takes it to a completely different level. I’ve never been near the guy, just seen him on tv, like most of us. Back in the day, before he moved to the White House and was still building things, he was known to show up on sites and talk to the workers. The guys mixing cement and welding. When you watch him go places and he goes to talk to the cops, he seem genuine.
Watch the videos of him crashing weddings at his place in New Jersey. He comes across as a regular guy.
How many of us, when we watch him interact with folks, don’t even think about the fact that he’s a billionaire. Or, the Most Powerful Man on the Planet, for that matter. He just comes across as a regular guy. Which is definitely one of the things the Elite’s hate about him. He doesn’t look down his nose at anyone. And his sense of humor is so far beyond what any of them can comprehend, it’s comical.
If you watch one of the interviews he did with Hannity. Done in a hangar after one of his rallies. He starts talking about the money the last guy gave to the Iranians. He makes an off-the cuff remark....something to the effect...some guy is walking around with $150 million. I’d hate to be that guy.....or something to that effect and he does it with a chuckle. He’s the guy you want to hang out with at the bbq because he’s fun to be around.
Dangerfield plays a similar character in Back to School where he feuds with the uptight college professor. Not as good an analogy as Caddyshack but there are similarities.
RIP Rodney. I risk ruining your schtick, but “much respect”.
Absolutely hilarious movie, one of the best. “How you doin’ folks, howaya, how ya doin’, good to see ya, howaya?”
I still use Judge Smails lines on my kids to this day. “Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too”.
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