Mumia Lost his House, too?

The merry men of reason.tv were on hand in D.C. last week taking in a protest by something called the Ad Hoc National Network to Prevent Evictions and Foreclosures outside a meeting of the Mortgage Bankers Association. Does adding Ad Hoc to your title give you wiggle room for being really disorganized? After watching the video it would appear so.

There’s no way of knowing for sure if it went down like this but we imagine these people are fairly sane, rational folks who are a little miffed that the government is bailing out the greedy, corporate banks…. instead of just handing over all that jack to them directly. No biggie. Pretty standard thinking this day in age, unfortunately, but nothing too radical.

So there they are having their little rally, minding their own business when….. these people start showing up. The kooks, the Commies, the no-blood-for-oil types, the free Mumia types, the whole miserable lot of them that never met a protest they didn’t wind up crashing.

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We love the minimal number of questions they are asked. Reason.tv has been doing enough of these too know that if you just let these knuckle-heads ramble on for anything more than 15-20 seconds, the wackyness will start foaming over the top.

But the ones they do ask often have devastating results. Our fave: Little Miss Riding Red: “…. And life expectancy (in communist Russia)….. was longer than before the Revolution”. Reason.tv: “Except if you opposed Stalin” Little Miss Riding Red: (morphs into Miss South Carolina)



Anyway, looks like everyone had a good time, no one got hurt and you all will still be bailing out the banks AND these people. We’ve half a mind to go to one of these things to distribute our name and email address so we can be contacted when they’re all ready to pay us back, thank you very much.

Update #1: If you're scoring at home the song in the video is the Byrds doing "Pretty Boy Floyd" off of their seminal country-rock album "Sweetheart of the Rodeo"