Total whacked-out genius.

TOM PAULIN:
Let me then put it like this. I remember a political theorist I know in New York, Floyd Weintraub, saying to me, when Bush won in the way he did, that the Republic is strong.

You take the Jedi. They represent the American constitution, the laws of America. This is what Americans have. It is an affirmation of the Republic, and it’s saying, despite the idiocies of our culture and our imperialism, it’s an extraordinary kind of imperial epic.

MARK LAWSON:
And Jar-Jar Binks is Abraham Lincoln. I get it all now.

[* Tom Paulin is portrayed as “Tom Tortoise” on the ‘Adam & Joe’ show If you’re not in the UK, try and snaffle some copies of The A&J Show… it’s fantastic]

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