Victoria Jackson plays “There’s a Communist Living in the White House!” on her ukulele

[Video Link] Here's Victoria Jackson playing “There’s a Communist Living in the White House!” on her gorgeous Martin baritone ukulele.

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Communists that share homebrew recipes.
- http://twitter.com/JayEfEm james marshall
  
  only a 1%er can own a classic Martin Uke… probably bought it in an antiques shop while summering in the vineyard, or the islands – heck maybe steve martin gave her a hand me down. the main complaint from the SNL old timers seems to be the tax bracket they find themselves in as compared to the Other Rich People(old money) who don’t pay taxes – mad at the gov for being taxed more for having worked for their wealth instead of thoes being born into it(and thus a lower tax bracket). not seeing that the 13% tax rate is something no (b)millionaire should have (ironically already seen as too high by big money)
  - ian giraffing
    
    Uh… how the hell would Victoria Jackson be in the 1%? Being an SNL cast member doesn’t pay badly, but it’s still under the $100,000 a year mark. Being a cast member from the 80′s who turned to evangelical christianity and right wing politics probably doesn’t pay all that well either.
    
    This may come as a surprise to you, but they don’t hand you a billion dollars and a mansion just for appearing on TV.
    - Antinous / Moderator
      
      But public speaking can rake in the cash. If she charges for the crazy, she may be doing quite well.
      - regeya
        
        http://bios.athletepromotions.com/celebrity/Victoria-Jackson-appearance-booking-agent.php
      - Halloween_Jack
        
        In her case, I doubt it. She had to rent a booth at CPAC to hawk her DVDs, not the sign of a successful wingnut entrepreneur.
      - Antinous / Moderator
        
        Oh, come on! That would almost suggest that she’s not a shining beacon of successful capitalist philosophy whose shining example will show us the shining path to economic recovery.
        
        Oooh, shiny.
      - Wreckrob8
        
        The shining path, sendero luminoso, leads somewhere else entirely.
      - Antinous / Moderator
        
        I know. I’ve met a few of them.
      - Halloween_Jack
        
        That’s not really her particular brand, actually–she’s a Jesus freak who don’t know much ’bout the economy but is concerned about the “godless” part of Godless Communism. (Seriously, she’s still pissed at Al Franken for telling her to fuck off when she tried to testify to him while they were both at SNL.)
    - BarBarSeven
      
      Also, you tend to forget the crux of the issue: Most loon-balls like this might not be millionaires but they are delusional and believe that they one day might grow & become a millionaire.
      
      So folks like this are fighting against a future where they fear they will be denied Goldschläger & shit like that.
      - ian giraffing
        
        Well, sure, I’m not disagreeing with that at all, obviously she’s a wingnut, she’s just not a wingnut with lots of money, and the ability to hobnob with Hollywood’s elite (anymore, at least).
    - Bob Dole’s Commie Doppelganger
      
      Well, they did that for me, but I was a contestant on the popular reality show “What would you do if we handed you a billion dollars and a mansion just for appearing on TV?”.
      
      I bought a solid gold ukelele.
    - http://twitter.com/the_turtle The Turtle 
      
      She was supposed to be funny at one time? I’m 50, and cannot recall such a time, so I must have missed something.
  - http://twitter.com/UgglyBabee blackbelt_jones
    
    In the not-too-distant future, scientists believe that we’ll all have computers and other communication devices interconnected by a network… an “internet”, if you will… and we’ll all be able to use our devices to access a “search engine”, a program to find places on the network with relevant information. When that happy day arrives, it’ll be pretty easy to learn that a vintage Martin Baritone Ukelele can be purchased for 900 dollars– pricey, but not exclusive to the super-rich. For now, i guess we’ll have to take your statement at face value.
  - http://twitter.com/UgglyBabee blackbelt_jones
    
    Don’t think of Victoria Jackson as a billionaire seeking to protect her tax shelters. Think of her as a washed-up performer desperate for the limelight.
- http://twitter.com/TheGrayAdder The Gray Adder
  
  Soshalism! That recipe should have been sold off to Molson-Coors so they could fark it all up at $9/six-pack.
unclemike

Communist who helped the Dow get to 13K.
- Jeff Adler
  
  That was just a Red Herring.
- SomeGuyNamedMark
  
  Typical commie trick
Mitchell Glaser

Yeah, a communist that transferred more wealth to the big banks and wall street bastards than we can ever replace. She’s as dumb as a bag of hammers.
- voiceinthedistance
  
  I demand an immediate apology on behalf of both bags and hammers. That was a cheap shot to both.
10xor01

Don’t forget that he wants to kill your grandmother, eats dogs everyday for lunch, is muslim, only got into Harvard because of affirmative action, isn’t really an American, hates success, loves handing out checks to lazy people, wants to turn our country over the U.N., and most importantly…is black.
- Wreckrob8
  
  Communists are red. Anarchists are black.
  - http://www.facebook.com/JeffreyKarter Jeffrey Karter
    
    There’s a poem in there somewhere.
    
    There’s also the cognitive dissonance of the embrace of the “red” by the wingnuts, many of whom probably proclaimed “Better Dead than Red!” back in the day.
    - http://twitter.com/cocktail_shaker The Mixologist
      
      Well, the Koch brothers are funding most of the far-right of the Republican party these days. Their daddy was the fellow who bank-rolled the John Birch Society. The TEA Party is nothing more than an attempt to make the JBS’ nut-ball extremism marketable in the 21st century.
    - SumAnon
      
      Communists are red,
      Anarchist black.
      Obama’s no Commie,
      Victoria’s a quack.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2OL2ASFGRIIXW4PQJS3VEJECXQ M
  
  Yup, this President has been through the ringer, unlike any other President in history.       Though he hasn’t been dragged through the streets behind a pick-up truck, so I guess we should be thankful.
  
  Remember when President Obama was planning to speak to school children and the right feared he was going to “indoctrinate our children”?
  
  Though who can forget VP candidate Palin referring to “real Americans” as opposed to the rest of us as well as claiming Presidential candidate Obama “palled around with terrorists”?
  
  Not to be outdone, we had the “Obama waffles” at the Texas Republican state convention in 2008, the picture of the White House with a watermelon patch photo-shopped in the foreground, First Lady Michelle Obama with a monkey’s face super-imposed, racist faxes, emails from elected officials throughout the country, etc.
  
  And they call HIM the “divider”!     They are lucky he hasn’t locked them up in Guantanamo for treason.
  
  Can you imagine the crap he put up with while growing up?    Children believe when they get older and become adults the taunts will end because people ‘mature’.   Obviously the lesson here: mankind is anything but kind, nor do they grow up.
  - HDN
    
    I dunno who said it first, but it’s been noted “adults are just tall children.”
    - Wreckrob8
      
      Unfortunately no. (The taunting is learnt from adults.)
      - http://profile.yahoo.com/IVCSJHMBKDTUTL5ZRQONUO6XII Torn
        
        Yep. Children are just honest adults. It’s the honesty they grow out of.
  - http://profiles.google.com/maurice.reeves Maurice Reeves
    
    I’d like to agree with you that Obama has had it worst of presidents, and certainly he has in recent history, but a quick glance through some of the campaign materials of previous years, and political comics from the past show that this is kind of the norm. Sadly. Unfortunately. I honor and defend our right to free speech, all the while abhor how poorly people employ it.
    - nachoproblem
      
      This is my overly simplistic theory to explain everything so take it FWIW, but: Ronald Reagan was so popular and successful at his game that he made American conservatives truly believe that the “permanent majority” doctrine of the Republican party IS manifest destiny. So every Democratic president from now on is not the loyal opposition, but the usurpers of their divine birthright. How else do you explain that Clinton’s two-term presidency was nearly all taken up with a relentless multilevel investigation into possible corrupt real estate dealings during his governorship which uncovered, ultimately… a beej that he got from a White House intern? Obama is nowhere to the left of Clinton, yet his troubles are the continuation and legacy of that and he has on top of it the stigma of being (half) black and having a “foreign-ish” background, despite what we know from the 14th Amendment as the definition of being a citizen of the United States of America. And because of that, he is also heir to two decades of Rush Limbaugh and others’ reactionary whining about those damn overprivileged poor people and minorities, which I’m pretty sure was spawned by that same aforementioned sense of threatened political entitlement. I assume that every Democrat or ostensibly “liberal” president will have the same onus on them for the foreseeable future, plus or minus their cultural distance from those who either publicly or secretly think that “Real American” officially means rural white Protestant.
      
      I don’t know that Obama has had it worst of presidents, but basically I agree that this shit is the new medium of exchange and I see no end to it.
      
      Here endeth the rant.
- chaopoiesis
  
  Lexicographers will remember the Obama presidency for the sheer number of euphemisms it introduced for “Negro”.
- SomeGuyNamedMark
  
  And he still wouldn’t be allowed to join their country clubs
- SHeadius
  
  Awesome. I wonder how many people of your current 57 +1′s (I refuse to say the L word) actually +1′ed it because they lost their sarcasm-o-meter?
Mike Norman

Maybe Victoria Jackson was rehearsing for an SNL skit about Tea-Tards when she had an aneurism or something, and just stayed in that persona. It makes more sense than her being sincere, at this point.
- Navin_Johnson
  
  I was going to say that it’d be amazing if this was all just one elaborate long fantastic troll, but I think she’s genuinely mentally damaged.
  - http://twitter.com/_bgw17 bgw17
    
    How do we know this isn’t performance art. The “long con”.
    - Halloween_Jack
      
      Because she was never that good. People who try to suggest that she’s pulling off an Andy Kaufmanesque Tony Clifton/”I’m from Hollywood!”-type stunt forget that Kaufman was brilliant at more conventional comedy before he went into more reality-warping directions; I can only think of one time when Jackson tried something similar–during one of her Weekend Update appearances on SNL when she pretended to drop the blonde bimbo shtick and “reveal” herself as a serious, intellectual brunette–but she didn’t have the chops to pull it off.
  - oasisob1
    
    Yep, I was waiting for the punchline, too, but when it came, it wasn’t the one I was expecting – she’s actually serious!
- teapot
  
  I really don’t get it hey… It’s a serious pro-tea party promo video that looks and feels like something which is actually completely ridiculing their batshit crazy talking points. Do these jokers understand that viral does not always equal good?
Glotto

Victoria and Clint should go out on tour…”Dingbats 2012!”
- abstract_reg
  
  More like deep cover Democrats amiright? When the line between sincerity and satire gets this blurry it really makes you wonder.
http://openid.aliz.es/ssss ssss

What an excellent parody! When she went off and listed those media demogouges I thought ha funny rip em a new one. In the end I was unsure if it was a parody, it was funny.. but something was up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Jackson turns out that Ms Jackson is actually serious. Which is somewhat sad because anyone who is not a tea partier will view her rhetroic as some kind of parody of the kind of crap that these people use to argue.
- Sagodjur
  
  Yeah, sadly she’s completely serious…or else one of the greatest deadpan parodists/comics to rival Stephen Colbert and Andy Kaufman. Poe’s Law in effect.
  - Boundegar
    
    There is no way this isn’t satire. Just look at that bow on her head.
    - Sagodjur
      
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Jackson#Political_activities_and_positions
    - http://thebrainpolice.blogspot.com microdot
      
      how do you know it is just a “bow”?
  - Jonathan Roberts
    
    I was deep into Poe man’s land until almost half way through the song. It’s just too crazy to be serious.
    - copperwatt
      
      I don’t know if “Poe man’s land” is your phrase, but it is brilliant and I plan on stealing it for future use. This video feels like one of those optical illusions that flips from a candle stick to two faces and back again.
  - http://twitter.com/cocktail_shaker The Mixologist
    
    The thing is, all parodies contain a carefully hidden wink to those who get it. Some little in-joke or turn of phrase that let’s you know it is satire. Ms. Jackson’s far-right views are well documented, and have been for some time.
    - Sagodjur
      
      Yeah, that’s why I later made reference to these when I posted the Wikipedia article link. I don’t actually think she’s a great parodist. Who could rival Andy Kaufman after all?
- http://profiles.google.com/substancemcgravitas Substance McGravitas
  
  That’s the thing: it works fine if you buy her message, it’s entertaining if you don’t. I have made a lot of fun of Victoria Jackson for how batty she is, but it’s hard to dislike her when she’s both entertaining and damaging to her own side.
  - Halloween_Jack
    
    I don’t think that she’s really that “damaging to her own side”, though; birthers have built-in plausible deniability.
- social_maladroit
  
  As her Wikipedia bio says, she’s completely serious, and this is nothing new. I remember seeing her on Politically Incorrect, before it got yanked off ABC, spouting her conservative born-again Christian political views in that goofy voice of hers.
  
  I don’t care how nice her uke is, I’m not listening to anything she says (or sings).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

The computer I’m watching this on has a configuration wierdness that causes it to display video (never still images) with altered colors. So Victoria appears blue, like a Thern.

This makes the video especially surreal.
* * *
No amount of facts would be sufficient to dislodge the metal-filled-epoxy plug of irrational, contradictory wingnuttery that infests the noodles of the conservative base.
- Ushao
  
  Therns are white, not blue. If I remember my Martians correctly that is.
- Ipo
  
  Proprietary nvidia drivers.
  Smurfs.
- Larry Anderson
  
  To get the colors right – right click on the youtube window, select settings – and uncheck “enable hardware acceleration”. Some of the nvidia drivers have issues and the bug reoccurs now and again.
  - edkedz
    
    Maybe he likes it…
http://2012diaries.blogspot.com/ tristan eldritch

THIS UKE KILLS BRAIN CELLS!
- Warren_Terra
  
  “This Machine Kills Fascicules“?
  - boffer
    
    Wow, Woody Guthrie + neuroscience = you win the internets today.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Flugfrei-Jones/1403604860 Flugfrei Jones

танец, товарищи, танец!

why they bother is beyond me, no amount of anything is going to get romney legitimately elected at this point.
- http://twitter.com/TheGrayAdder The Gray Adder
  
  Not even a tsunami of TV ads? That’s how he got nominated, but then again, the pool of voters was restricted to mainly people who responded to that sort of thing. Normal people reach for the clicker because they’re watching the DVR, not live TV.
- invictus
  
  Flugfrei Jones uses Google Translate!
  It is not very effective…
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/Flugfrei-Jones/1403604860 Flugfrei Jones
    
    actually, it was
    http://translation2.paralink.com/ … what’s wrong with it? plz, enlighten me.
    - http://profile.yahoo.com/IVCSJHMBKDTUTL5ZRQONUO6XII Torn
      
      Think it has something to do with the imperative form? I don’t know Russian but it looks like танцу́йте would be the word maybe that commands people to dance? I think maybe you translated Dance but it wouldn’t be said that way for the same reason in English one wouldn’t say “Go Art, my friends.”
      - http://www.facebook.com/people/Flugfrei-Jones/1403604860 Flugfrei Jones
        
        ahh, lol!
    - invictus
      
      Torn pretty much nails it.
      
      There is no distinction in English between the noun and verb forms of “dance,” whereas they are quite distinct in Russian. The translator chose the noun form, whereas you wanted the verb one.
      Танец — noun, singular
      Танцуй — verb, imperative, singular
      Танцуйте — verb, imperative, plural
      
      (the apostrophe in Torn’s comment is meant to mark the syllable that has the emphasis; it’s not part of the word itself)
      - http://www.facebook.com/people/Flugfrei-Jones/1403604860 Flugfrei Jones
        
        interesting. thanks )
      - Wreckrob8
        
        Am I remembering my Russian wrong? It is still a Russian sentence. (It is) A dance, comrades, (it is) a dance. Yes?
      - Antinous / Moderator
        
        So, you just need someone to ask, “Yuri Andreyevich, where are you taking Antipova tonight?” for it to make sense.
      - Wreckrob8
        
        Or in reply to the question ‘tshto zhizn’, tovarishch?’ (What is life, comrade?), as Uncle Joe clad in a Russian great coat dances a Cossack dance across a map of Europe, spearing countries with daggers like a circus knife thrower, turning each one red as the knife strikes.
jayson

When I voted for Obama in 2008, one of the things I hoped was that the right wing would lose their minds and have a solid four-year freakout. It’s satisfying to watch it actually happen.

I’m hoping the next four years of Obama will see Glenn Beck running naked through the streets with a duck on his head, or something.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Flugfrei-Jones/1403604860 Flugfrei Jones
  
  you know, that’s what’s going to have to happen if they really want to go beyond the insane conspiracy monsters the right wing has already created.. instead of working with the president to better the country, or at least waiting it out, they’ve blown their wad on the fringe and lost any chance of a reasonable argument in 2016.
  
  it is satisfying.
- Vance Whitaker
  
  What duck?
  - BillStewart2012
    
    Vy a duck? Duck Soup? Besides, you should know better than to pick up a duck in a dungeon…
    - Preston Sturges
      
      “You try to cross over there a chicken and you’ll find out why a duck. ‘
      (The Cocoanuts)
    - Jellodyne
      
      What if it was a Duck of Many Things? Those aren’t too bad.
  - jayson
    
    I’m glad to see there was a Terry Pratchett fan in this thread to get the reference.
- http://www.doggo.net doggo
  
  “I’m hoping the next four years of Obama will see Glenn Beck running naked through the streets with a duck on his head, or something.” If there is a god…
wazmo

Gaah. I’d rather have a myelogram go bad than listen to her whining. And yes, I had a myelogram go bad.
- http://www.jimdraws.com Thorzdad
  
  I’ve had a successful myelogram and can’t imagine how much more horrible a myelogram gone bad might be. But, agreed about Ms. Jackson.
  - wazmo
    
    A myelogram where the injection site doesn’t close causes an incredible headache as the cerebrospinal fluid leaks out of the lumbar puncture when one raises their head. The treatment for that is a epidural blood patch.
    - Antinous / Moderator
      
      I worked with someone who had a headache for at least a decade due to a CSF leak. Nothing worked to fix it. Her self-control was amazing, but we were all expecting to see blood splatter some day when she just couldn’t hold it in anymore.
  - Snig
    
    My anatomy professor told a story that his anatomy prof told him. He says that his prof used to teach that his was a largely pain free procedure, as the structures where the puncture occured were not well ennervated. Then one year he had one done. From that point on, he would describe it as a potentially exquisitely painful procedure, that should be ordered only if absolutely indicated.
    - Ipo
      
      Headaches from hell, but only when I sat or lay.
      I paced for two days.
      I’d rather be tortured by the vapid former comedian.
      Barely.
      - Jake0748
        
        Wow, funny. (not funny- ha ha). My headaches happened when I stood or sat, only laying supine made them go away. Weird.
- Jake0748
  
  I had a myelogram once, thanks a lot for reminding me. It was normal AFIK. But I did have the worst headache ever for about 3 days. I don’t usually have headaches, but the possibility that the repubs might win gives me one.
Jenn Brissett

I wanna laugh, yet … It’s kind of a horrible thing to watch someone go batsh*t crazy before your very eyes.
Lexicat

Man, I wish there was a (new school, non-totalitarian) communist living in the White House. You know, one who actually delivered socialized medicine, wasn’t in favor of corporate welfare, one who wasn’t a neoliberal enforcing US economic dictates at the end of a gun around the globe. That kind of thing.
- BillStewart2012
  
  Really. (And I say this as a Libertarian…) My usual response to the Right Wingers ranting about Obama being a Socialist Commie is that I’ve lived in Berkeley, where we had real Socialists, and Obama ain’t one of them.
- http://twitter.com/TheGrayAdder The Gray Adder
  
  Bernie Sanders for President!
morcheeba

I thought she was being sarcastic, but she really believes this :-(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Jackson#Political_activities_and_positions

Also, she thinks Todd “legitimate rape” Akin was right – the chance of a woman getting pregnant from rape is 1:100,000, not 1:20.
http://www.examiner.com/article/victoria-jackson-on-rape-baby-would-be-a-blessing
- Jeff Adler
  
  And *THAT* is what blows my mind the most about Conservatives. They’re not compassionate enough to decriminalize medical marijuana for legitimate illnesses, but they’re sensitive enough to the needs of sexual predators to want to decriminalize rape.
  - http://profile.yahoo.com/IVCSJHMBKDTUTL5ZRQONUO6XII Torn
    
    You’re thinking about it wrong. It’s not the rapists they feel compassion for, it’s the suffering that gets them off. Dying of disease, raped, hopeless, miserable people are a) easier to take advantage of and b) easier to convert to your religion so you can live like a parasite for longer.
    - http://devojane.blogspot.com devophill
      
      Lessons learned from Mother Teresa.
- Ipo
  
  Lol!
  “If there’s a boy baby inside of me, he has a penis. That’s not my body.
  She is still very funny.
  
  Or should I feel bad for laughing at her affliction?
- http://www.facebook.com/jwin74 Jon Winchester
  
  Yeah i watched the video when this post first came up. I thought it was a spoof that just went on too long to be funny. . . came back to see 200 comments and wow.
plyx

This is the second time in two days I’ve seen her psychotic face. Please don’t give her any publicity so she can go back under her rock.
http://profiles.google.com/joshuabardwell Joshua Bardwell

“Why aren’t people up in arms?” Seriously? Are you even paying attention? People are more up in arms than they have ever been in recent history!
Pedantic Douchebag

This is as close to reciting Vogon poetry as an Earthling can manage.
http://www.facebook.com/emory.hobbs Emory Hobbs

The more as I watch her, the more I think that she not joking and is mentally ill. When I work as a nurse aid, we had to deal with people who would talk and reason just like her.
knoxblox

Boy, are we going to look foolish when we find out she’s been pulling an Andy Kaufman all this time.
HDN

Some one needs to follow this up with a uke song video called “There’s a crazy person living in Victoria Jackson’s head.”
http://twitter.com/malixe malixe

A brief rebuttal (sort of) by Roy Zimmerman: http://youtu.be/FdP6LDmBep8
- Jeff Adler
  
  That was awesome, thank you.
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- http://thisisonlya.blogspot.com robcat2075
  
  It’s not about presenting something she believes to be true. It’s about presenting any lie, no matter how preposterous in the hope that the “some of the people” who “can be fooled all the time” will be fooled to her side long enough to vote that way.
  
  It is pure, un-redeemable dishonesty on her part. Nothing more nuanced than that.
- http://rizzn.com Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins
  
  If you’re trying to make yourself feel good about America by comparing it to North Korea…
rasputinaxp

Seriously? She’s 1000% serious. This isn’t parody. She raged against Glee for showing a gay kiss, among other things…this is no joke. She’s this insane.
http://www.newser.com/story/114687/victoria-jackson-defends-rant-against-sickening-gay-glee-kiss-and-continues-slamming-gays-muslims.html

Don’t give her any more airtime.
- http://twitter.com/orphanstephen Stephen
  
  I think we should burn all ukuleles to protest her. I couldn’t actually make it though more than 2 bars of that, mainly I just can’t stand all the Tiny Tim wannabees. a true communist would be proudly wearing these babys: http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280950891613&ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:US:1123#ht_500wt_1414
- nachoproblem
  
  Every time somebody clicks on this video, the ghost of Ayn Rand strangles a kitten.
  
  Don’t do it, for the kittens.
  - stuck411
    
    Ayn Rand *SHUDDER*
  - failquail
    
    I’m starting to think there should be a variant of godwin’s law for Ayn Rand ;)
    - nachoproblem
      
      Not unless there already is for communism.
    - Antinous / Moderator
      
      Ayn Rand is exactly like Hitler.
      - failquail
        
        Well, as vile an ideology at least.
        
        It’s what made me make the connection to start with.
  - http://www.facebook.com/lolliedotcom Lollie Dot Com
    
    I can’t help it. I’ve got to watch a little bit… ..
EeyoreX

This totally ruins Geneviève Robert’s “Casual Sex?” for me, forever.
Preston Sturges

“Communist” = “N****r”
http://goodsharer.com/ Aloisius

Another wacko debating an empty chair.
- senorglory
  
  Except that Clint was making a joke, and victoria is serious as a heart attack.
Preston Sturges

I think this just the Wingnut Welfare Gravy Train. When your B-list celebrity career has dwindled, just start babbling right wing talking points, and you’ll pull a steady income.
- Green Ghost
  
  Yes, Fox News is always desperate to find anyone in the entertainment industry that is a right winger. She can probably pay the rent with appearances on Fox and at right-wing gatherings. Maybe she’ll spend the money on some book learnin’.
  - Bad Juju
    
    Sure, it works for Dennis Miller.
    These two must be on each others Christmas card list..
    - BillStewart2012
      
      I forget who I’m stealing this line from, but I also remember when Dennis Miller was liberal, and funny.
      - http://www.facebook.com/lolliedotcom Lollie Dot Com
        
        Of all the things we lost 9-11, the loss of Dennis Miller’s sanity and humanity still sadden me. He was funny. He was really good with words and he was funny. Most young people have never seen THAT Dennis. Seriously. Sad.
      - sdmikev
        
        I don’t think he was ever “liberal” but there was a time when he was funny.
        Then he went insane or something. Not sure what happened. Not as insane as this nut job, but close..
- SomeGuyNamedMark
  
  I have another song for her to sing, “There is an untalented washed-up moron on a ukelele”
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/TGZ75URQ6DKTCNXV3RV36ZKALQ Matthew

It matters not what the intentions of this piece might have been. It can only be classified in one way: Parody.
nachoproblem

Oh good. Thanks to this post I never need to search for “ukelele” on YouTube again.

Oddly enough I also never needed to before.
snagglepuss

…Is Victoria Jackson the longest-running piece of “performance art” in Western arts history ?
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  That laurel probably goes to Professor Irwin Corey.
Trefunk

Big girls like tiny guitars. Personal observation. Discuss.
/lovely song btw/
- CH
  
  Why yes, now that you mention it…!!! There has been lots of women playing ukulele here on BoingBoing that are big on the Internet! Like Sophie Madeleine… or Zooey Deschanel or Kate Micucci, they are pretty big even outside the Internet.
- Doug Black
  
  Rebuttal.
Jeff Adler

Knowing that she’s sincere I find that, while I don’t agree, I can sympathize with her – uncertain times and all… And then I notice, to my endless joy, that I don’t HAVE to listen to her inane blathering! Just an inch below, you’ll notice a link to Lisa Hannigan’s “Knots”!
anharmyenone

Victoria Jackson? I’d much rather see an Epic Rap Battles of History of President Obama vs. Governor Romney. Here’s Elvis Presley vs Michael Jackson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M0RbaPxq2k
Josef Stalin

I award you, Victoria Jackson, the Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver for outstanding merit.
Vaughn Marlowe

Bless her heart, the poor thing.
http://twitter.com/trempls tré

i don’t even wat do go even look more like
Tetsubo Kanamono

I can’t take any person seriously if the claim that Obama is liberal let alone a socialist or a communist.
- Robert Cook
  
  What’s shocking is that declared right-wingers actually do believe Obama is a communist, when the reality, as another commenter here states down below, is that he is just another war-mongering industrial/corporate-fascist. If he were a Republican and doing the same things, Jackson and her ilk would be his ardent admirers.
  - http://scavenger-ethic.blogspot.com/ scav
    
    If he were a **white** Republican and doing the same things, Jackson and her ilk would be his ardent admirers.
    - http://twitter.com/trempls tré
      
      If he were a white Democrat doing the same things, some of them might even be active participants of bipartisanship.
http://twitter.com/DJ_Solar_Bear Jason Carl

She is no Stevie Nicks.
- Halloween_Jack
  
  For which Stevie Nicks thanks whatever she’s worshipping these days, every single night.
http://twitter.com/joeybladb joe k.

Too vacuously stupid; didn’t watch.
- copperwatt
  
  I see what you did there - tvs;dw
txb23

She is not worthy of that instrument.
E Olson

Found this eye-opener after a google search for “Victoria Jackson is crazy” (seriously):
http://perezhilton.com/2011-04-13-victoria-jackson-sent-gloria-estefan-crazy-letter-about-barack-obama#.UEPjo9ZlTz8
- http://twitter.com/beep54orama B E Pratt
  
  Interesting link, but the comments are largely just surreal, probably from people who thought Eastwood’s speech was coherent…..
- nachoproblem
  
  ”Filed under: Icky Icky Poo”
humanresource

I… I honestly thought that this was a well-executed parody. I mean, she spends all that time at the start listing those symptoms of paranoid psychosis… then I hit the comments page.

It is the tea party style, though: begin by saying you have a nameless, overwhelming fear and dread (which couldn’t possibly be due to having a black president), and then you make up whatever story you like as an excuse to feel that dread (as long as it doesn’t involve the president being black. Because that couldn’t possibly be relevant.)
http://www.facebook.com/roytruax Roy Edward Truax

Odd how the terminally unimaginative are still beating that drum. SNL hasn’t been funny since… ever. And certainly wasn’t funny during Jackson’s tenure.

Obama has proved quite effectively to be just another war mongering industrial/corporate-fascist.

The instrument does seem nice but like all instruments, some can make it talk while most just play the same boring chord combinations over and over again.

Did I miss anything?
- Lexicat
  
  Oh no you didn’t just dis on Gilda Radner!
  
  I am totally calling your ass out behind the back stop after school tomorrow.
  - http://www.facebook.com/roytruax Roy Edward Truax
    
    Sorry mate but Radner too…
    
    Whatever skill the original cast had was ruined by American network TV, it’s Canadian producer and that prevailing “if it works – beat it into the ground” philosophy.
    
    Just like the same chords…
Ipo

I almost wish there was.
Senor Schaffer

I would like to see Norm Macdonald on the uke.
Lawrence London

I owned a Martin baritone uke in 1956; previous instrument was a tenor uke.
I graduated to a Gibson jumbo guitar, put nylon strings on it so I could play Classical and Flamenco – moved up to an L. Parodi, an S. Ibanez (Segovia posed in a photograph with this guitar for a music ad) then eventually to a Barbero then an Esteso.
What an insult to the world of music for that uke to be used in such an odious piece of political propaganda.
quantize

The GOP has become a corporate christian death cult…the rest of the planet is really hoping you guys are going to actually support the infinitely better of the two options : Obama
- jimkirk
  
  “Corporate Christian Death Cult”, what a great name for a band.
http://www.facebook.com/timdlittle Timothy D Little

She lost her ever loving mind years ago. And I’m not saying it like it’s funny. Mental illness is terrible. I pity her.
rocketpjs

I really try not to allow myself to get caught up in the all-too-easy smugness of looking into the US political system from the outside. Things like this make it very, very hard not to slip a little. What the fuck?

We have our wingnuts, to be sure, but what the fuck?
- http://twitter.com/matthjones Matt Jones
  
  Our Tories are aresholes that have no place in a civilised society, but they don’t appear to be driven by anything other than greed. These batshits believe in the crazy stuff they spout.
  - http://twitter.com/chriscoreline chris coreline
    
    Y’all should move to Ireland, our statesmen are just feckless and corrupt, rather then feckless, corrupt and fundamentally evil.
    
    which i suppose is still margenally better then feckless, corrupt, fundamentally and batshit nonsencebrain.
  - Scurra
    
    The UK Conservative Party: Putting the N in “cuts”.
    
    Some of them clearly do believe some of the things they spout (cough, Michael Gove, cough) but there are still some sane ones left. I think.
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/TGZ75URQ6DKTCNXV3RV36ZKALQ Matthew

I went to the website listed at the end of the video and I thought it was a parody too. Am I doing something wrong?
Matthew Carrick

One day the USA will understand that socialism IS NOT communism.
- teapot
  
  But they both end in -ism.. its so confusing!
  - Preston Sturges
    
    Or that Catholicism and Mormonism ARE socialism
- nachoproblem
  
  No it won’t. But I admire your spirit.
- Daniel Karlsson
  
  If the few rich americans wants to live in luxury amongst millions of homeless, then let them. Spend the taxes on killing people abroad instead of wasting it on useless things as health care. It all sounds so wonderful. Egoism also ends in -ism …
Garrett Eaton

I can’t decided which is harder to watch: this or Clint.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jake-Stevens/1223791656 Jake Stevens

Even having looked up Victoria Jackson I find it hard to believe that this isn’t a spoof. Is it possible that everything she’s done since the late 80′s has been an elaborate performance art piece?
- SomeGuyNamedMark
  
  She was never that good on SNL so I doubt she is that clever.
- Boundegar
  
  Hence the comparisons to Andy Kauffman, who was so in-character, all the time, we’re still wondering what fraction of his act was satire.
- rattypilgrim
  
  If it was an elaborate piece of performance art what would it’s purpose be after the last election? If she was spoofing the Tea Baggers she made her point 4 years ago. Now, she only re-enforces their uninformed, ignorant, racism. She’s not funny and never was. A ditzy grown woman talking with a baby’s voice. She only denigrates her own gender. She’s a Republican Missouri senator’s wet dream. The bow on top of her head is oddly the way Communist Russian schoolgirls wore their hair—-when they were 7! Don’t get me started on grown women who put their hair in a pony tail on top of their head. It’s a personal bias with no basis of substance.
  - http://twitter.com/DJ_Solar_Bear Jason Carl
    
    Oh, man do I ever LOVE me some grown women who wear ponytails… Pigtails, too.
Mike The Bard

Best line: “Only Glenn Beck understands me”

Tells you everything you need to know right there.
Jeff Hirsch

May I remind you of her most recent idiocy…

http://gawker.com/5939774/crazy-person-victoria-jackson-has-some-opinions-about-todd-akin-and-legitimate-rape

Christ, what an asshole she is.
http://imcravingpresidency.tumblr.com/ SedanChair

I am around the bend on this, holy canoli. I know we all like to joke about “Oh maybe Ann Coulter or Dana Loesch are these elaborate character constructions, and they’re just staying in character.”

But Victoria Jackson is the first I’ve seen that makes me actually for-real think that she has been trolling us for years

I am legit waiting for a massive reveal on Victoria Jackson at a press conference, where she just drops it like “Oh yeah no that was a joke, what? Are you kidding me? Like I would be all, ‘where’s the birth certificate, you communist‘, for real?

“People, I’ve done handstands on the Johnny Carson show. I know what I’m doing; you just got trolled. Obama/Biden 2012″ (throws mic to ground, tebows, comedy crown descends from heaven)

And the thing is, we’ll never know either way
- http://gruffguano.wordpress.com/ Gruff Guano
  
  You wish. Maybe the ghost of Andy Kaufman lives on, but I bet it isn’t
  in this Jackson creature.
  
  She thinks she’s doing political satire, to get her retarded message across.
- Petzl
  
  Why stop at Ann Coulter? You can pick any of the hundred top rabid conservatives and make this claim. (For me, it’s Andy Schlafy of conservapedia.com– guy remakes wikipedia from the POV of a young-earth creationist conservative.) Point is, they’re not joking, any of them.
  
  Jackson has for her entire career been stupid and child-like. It’s not surprising she comes out as a hyper-birther, it’s just surprising that she was even more stupid and child-like than she portrayed herself. She’s not an act.
stuck411

I regret that I had the hots for Ms. Jackson in my formative years. Those few seconds were she was topless (or appeared to be) in ‘Baby Boom’, has now been supplanted by this junk.
Navin_Johnson

“Does anyone read history?”
- retepslluerb
  
  Why would we? Its nothing but re-runs.
- http://twitter.com/Polackio Matt Popke
  
  Yeah. I do, and frankly it scares the shit out of me sometimes. I don’t understand this insanity. I used to think I had a handle on how things like this could happen. I used to think that I understood, at least in the abstract, how fascism rose to prominence in the 30s or how people get sucked into cults.
  
  But I watch this lunacy happening in my own backyard, this completely insane rejection of reality, and I don’t get it. I don’t see how this is happening. I know people who I remember being sane and normal members of society 10 or 20 years ago. They were conservative, sure, but they were not lunatics. They weren’t particularly religious. They weren’t screaming about socialism every five minutes. They were just conservative in the sense that they weren’t all fired up about trying something new all the time. You could have a normal conversation with them even if you didn’t agree with them. They were capable of reasoned debate and even concession if the argument was sound enough.
  
  And today, those same people are complete frothing-at-the-mouth lunatics, constantly spouting off about Islam, socialism and class warfare. They are suddenly, very suddenly, devout church-going intelligent-design-believing nutjobs who sincerely believe the Catholic church has responded appropriately to the pedophile scandals. They have changed, really changed, into different people in the span of the last decade or so. It’s like 9-11 flipped a switch and now the lizard brain has totally taken over every fiber of their being.
  
  Maybe they finally realized they weren’t invulnerable after all or something, I don’t know. I know fear has something to do with it, but I can’t imagine what they are so afraid of that it would drive them literally batshit fucking loco like this. I don’t get it. I want to understand it though, because this is a human problem, and if we want to have any chance of preventing these whack jobs from getting any more power than they already have we have to find a human solution.
http://www.facebook.com/john.paolozzi John Paolozzi

You have to admit it’s kinda catchy.
http://profile.yahoo.com/OMHO6ER5QJE3SIZ35VAXIRCLYM Stephan

She must be singing about Bizarro Obama.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=786701056 Simon Mullen

Its worse than that . . . what she hasn’t noticed is he’s black as well! <— Irony
Petzl

The reason people are shocked is, her entire career was acting clown-like and simple, and the audience “caught on” that this was an act and she was playing a role. The reason why she played it to perfection, and in every role she ever had, was that it wasn’t an act. She is clown-like and simple.
- chgoliz
  
  In other words: it turns out we’ve been laughing AT her, not with her, all this time.
- nachoproblem
  
  Basically, yeah. Well, there might be some layers to it. As in, the “schtick” she manifested in the 80′s is a comic distillation of what was probably an early life lesson for her, i.e. getting what you want (usually attention) by whining like a dumb baby. To some extent she has survival instincts, and her political expression must be founded on an instinctive implementation of that principle (getting what you want by whining like a dumb baby), so in that sense it may be an act. But it means that her entire personality, not just her recent polemicizing or even her comedy career, is the act. So even if you classify her as a long con like Andy Kaufman or Stephen Colbert, the difference is that they knew they were doing it.
  
  I realize there are way too many words written about this, but what’re ya gonna do? It’s like staring into a fire, or watching a car wreck.
kmuzu

She is a horrible uke player .. that poor instrument; she grinds it like she is making mashed potatoes … somebody rescue that 4-string.
fergus1948

Isn’t that Pam from “Archer?”
- KBert
  
  Have you read Pam’s back – tat?
  - Halloween_Jack
    
    Pam’s back-tat is awesome; it’s the third stanza from Byron’s
    
    “The Destruction of Sennacherib“.
  - fergus1948
    
    Haha! Just looked it up. How appropriate…
    “For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,
    And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed:
    And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill,
    And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!”
http://twitter.com/Arduenn Arduenn

I thought this was funny and satire until that Tea Party Logo showed up at the end. Then I turned sad.
timquinn

I bet they have had a rule at SNL since she left; Never hire people who are funny by accident.
Preston Sturges

Many conservatives and especially libertarians go completely bonkers as they get older. FA Hayek won a Nobel Prize for economics, but conservative remember him for his later dabbling in sociology when he became a total crackpot and adoring fan of Pinochet.
SomeGuyNamedMark

Someday the right will find an actual communist. They can always dream in the meantime.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Jones/100001815383084 Jim Jones
  
  What kills me is that the countries they always cite as Communistic either no longer exist, have changed their economy to some form of Capitalistic market driven model, or are really just your plain old Dictatorship.
  The world has moved on and these maroons are still fighting the cold war.
sommelier

A Communist in the White House? Never mind that: there’s an idiot with a ukulele in my computer!
jimbuck

This has got to be part of a larger decade+ long performance piece.
Pfruit

When she reveals in 2018 that this was all part of her comedic long con, I will politely clap.
- http://twitter.com/cocktail_shaker The Mixologist
  
  Not going to happen. She’s really that stupid.
cstatman

i used to want to do naughty things with Victoria Jackson. I don’t anymore. Hate is not sexy.
urizon

Now if she would just reveal who it is. The suspense is killing me.
http://www.facebook.com/ava.finch.1 Ava Finch

Wow! The roster of fantastically talented entertainers supporting The Tea Party’s fire-engine red far right just gets shorter all the time! I’d give anything to see a debate between Victoria Jackson and Matt Damon. Anything.
- invictus
  
  A private viewing of the event can be arranged, but we’ll require your left kidney, right lung, and reproductive organs as payment. In advance, of course.
  - UFIA
    
    Her what?
    Okay, deal.
  - nachoproblem
    
    Throw in a viewing of that secret 80-minute Star Wars prequel edit that supposedly doesn’t suck, and you got yourself a deal.
- http://twitter.com/csismeiro Carlos Sismeiro
  
  Sorry but no.
  
  I am against any form of cruelty towards defenceless creatures (unless they can be turned into steak) and that would be torture (she would have to think and that obviously is very hard for her).
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=706402809 Chuck Spidell

This video wouldn’t exist if Obama were white.
http://twitter.com/alanpdx alanpdx

If Obama was a Socialist there would be a pile of burning bankers on the White House lawn.
- voiceinthedistance
  
  Smoldering bankers. It’s hard to keep them lit once the fat flares up and burns off. They burn like Christmas trees. Showy at first, but not good for keeping warm. On the other hand, if we could get enough of them in one pile . . .
http://profile.yahoo.com/TPLYLLI5CPLIVCMZ45BI6NNLEQ DavidT

By her standards of non-logic, if a doctor trained to be an oncologist by studying cancer, he’d actually wind up as a tumor. Sad.
- http://twitter.com/csismeiro Carlos Sismeiro
  
  Also everyone that went to Sunday school became Christ (or God).
  
  But that would not be a bad thing: at least Christ was actually a real socialist (divide the bread, ealing the sick, etc) and knew how to party (why else would he ever need to turn water into wine?).
keithfulkerson

-edit nm
http://claimid.com/dino- dino

ah;dw (asshat; didn’t watch)
Rachael Hoffman-Dachelet

Wait, she’s being serious? I thought this was ironic, or something. Really? With the crazy bow and the lispy baby-talk? Wow. Um, I don’t know, I don’t think he is a communist by any normal definition of the term, really.
pjcamp

Why am I suddenly thinking of the Michelin Man?
http://www.facebook.com/Muneraven Karen Sylte

To be honest, at this point, I just feel sad for her. I don’t watch the stuff she does anymore. It isn’t that I think all conservative people are crazy because I really, truly don’t, but when someone does what she does? Well, my Mom worked in the mental health field, and I was taught that making fun of someone who has a mental illness is wrong. And I think she’s not okay. She reminds me of a lady who stopped to talk to me in a downtown coffee house and sounded normal until the conspiracy theories started coming and then it was really clear why she was homeless, and it was heartbreaking.
Lobster

She’s a woman who has built her name and career by being funny. Mayhaps we are taking this too seriously.
- voiceinthedistance
  
  “She didn’t build that.”
- trentondouglas
  
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/31/victoria-jackson-todd-akin-rape-abortion_n_1847852.html
http://twitter.com/cocktail_shaker The Mixologist

Sadly, Victoria Jackson is one of the best justifications for post-birth abortion that I have found. Someone as mentally deficient as she is need to be put out of society’s suffering a humanly as possible.
http://xolus.net/openid/max Max

Is there a transcription of the lyrics somewhere, for us non-native speakers ? (I found the main song, but not the spoken ramblings in the middle where she complains about obama giving a presentation on Marx when he was in school or something)
http://www.facebook.com/people/Nell-Anvoid/100002383626402 Nell Anvoid

Leave Victoria Jackson alone! LEAVE HER ALONE!!!!!

(really)
Bruce Heerssen

Okay, where’s my unicorn chaser? I mean… really, that was disturbing.
http://profile.yahoo.com/O6VRZ6GG47OZ75PVHWCYMXLBQ4 bobo obobo

Let’s drown her noise with an onslaught of twee ukes.
http://vimeo.com/12001366
OneDunya

Poor thing she has really lost it.
trentondouglas

I just can’t believe this wasn’t a joke. It seemed like a joke.
- RobDobbs
  
  Wait, this is serious?
Tim Mooney

I hope she doesn’t turn her attention to Australia any time soon she might discover one of our two major party’s the labour party is in fact a democratic socialist party and that our conservative party is in favour of social health care.
http://twitter.com/karlwilliams Karl Williams

Living in the UK; I’m always amazed by what’s called “left wing” or “socialist” in the States. The Democrats’ policies are generally more right-wing (for want of a better scale) than anything that our Conservatives can come up with.

Although the current cabinet might change that with their target to dismantle and privatise the NHS so that we can join the US in a 3rd-world level of healthcare.
http://twitter.com/csismeiro Carlos Sismeiro

I have to ask: was she ever funny before starting with all this performance art and making fun of right wing nut-jobs?