Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) caused a stir recently when he accused dozens of House Democrats of being secret members of the Communist Party. In his latest Facebook message, however, the right-wing congressman has a new label in mind.
Apparently complaining about Democratic efforts to keep student loan interest rates low, West complains that "President Barack Hussein Obama" is "bribing" voters. The Republican lawmaker added, "This is so reminiscent of the Twilight Zone episode 'To Serve Man'. Obama and his liberal progressive disciples are the modern day Kanamits."
And what, pray tell, are Kanamits? Tim Murphy had this helpful report:
What is a Kanamit? The Broward–Palm Beach New Times helpfully informs us that the Kanamit were "a race of nine-foot-tall aliens that come to Earth and cure famine, blight, and nuclear warfare." But that was all just a ruse for their real goal: "their kindness is really just a not-very-elaborate ruse to fatten up the human race so they can be carted back to the Kanamit home planet to be eaten. A Kanamit book called To Serve Man that was discovered by the humans turns out not to be about helping man at all -- it's a cookbook." It's people!
It was also the basis for a fun Halloween episode of "The Simpsons" a while back.
In any case, Allen West sees giant aliens intent on eating humans and draws a parallel to the president and congressional Democrats.
No word on whether West believes the Kanamits were also secret communists.
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What? No reference to "Soylent Green"??
And next week we will learn from Congressman West that Barack Obama is a member of David Icke's Babylonian Brotherhood. I think I'm joking ... but knowing West, that's probably exactly what he'll say.
Oh, please, Steve. Please do not tell me you were unfamiliar this episode! If so you need to enroll in pop-culture remediation class, toot sweet
And you need to enroll in French expressions remediation class, tout suite.
@Really?-5387114
And you really need to familiarize yourself with Muphry's Law (sic)
It's "tout de suite". The second "t" is silent, the "d" is often confused for the voiceless alveolar plosive "t" in English
Fatten up and serve with soy sauce we'd all taste like Pitbulls.....Yuuuummmmmm.....!
What's unsettling is the thought that the people in West's district must be as crazy as he is. After all, they elected him.
He has a new district now so we will soon see if they are as touched. But you must remember it IS Florida. Odd and inexplicable is our daily fare.
I honest feel sorry for West. He's so profoundly lost and miserable. He's seeking attention (in the worst way of course), but it's so pathetic that it's sad.
The irony of demonizing people different than him...
I'm trying SO hard to be a big girl like Rachel, but this man is in Crazytown!
I would not eat a republican if you paid me in golden interstellar energy dust. They taste like rat bile and cause a very painful constipation.
On a less serious note, that republicans see us as nine foot extraterrestrials bent on eating them goes a long way in explaining why any kind of rational political conversation with them is basically imposable. We would accomplish more by sitting in the middle of a busy intersection and urinating all over ourselves.
Forward... To the cooking pot!
At what point is an evaluation by a pychiatrist reached?
We're the knights who say "Ni!"
"Ni! Ni! Ni!"
If Alan west is also requesting shrubbery, I think we'll be onto him.
Cut down a tree with a herring?
RM..Another, more updated KANAMIT interpretation: The 2012 KANAMIT challenge. In the MA GOV quest to the mountaintop...same old plot, new twist. Alien group of 9-foot tall superpac-ers...land on earth..North America, temporarily. Their theory ..fatten up, excuse me, prime the lower 99% with foodstuffs: Corndogs to the midwest population...cheesey grits to southerners...7-11 cookies to the eastern seaboard...and organic, health, edible right-sized tree jerkie to the west. All campaign staples...receipies for victory. Also, man-made looking devices...disguised as car garage elevators or lifts...to be used as severe conservative construction shoe lifts...to gain more solid footing....to raise their candidate's poll numbers. Fallback position: use actual polls to push up the numbers. Team Superpac dog-eared game plan's code name:A BISCUIT EVERY BOWL!". Goal: to get just enough stuff and lift to drive thru November 6.
END. All above fictional. Not responsible for errors. Any similarity to real person(s), event(s), and/or place(s) coincidental. Will it happen?
KAN -A -MIT do it? Go west, young man.
An ode to Allen West:
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
I wish, I wish he’d go away
Please, please, PLEASE Mitt; Allen West WILL be your keynote speaker at the Republican convention - right???
Is "Kanamit" a "catamite", misspelled?
How to Cook Humans
*gasp
How to Cook for Humans
whew!
How to Cook forty Humans
*gasp
How to cook for forty Humans
whew!
I love that Steve immediately recalled this classic simpsons just like I did when reading this post.
What to do with one that is already half-baked and his brain is fried? West with BBQ sauce?
All this while playing the Bohemian rhapsody and kneeling before the almighty dollar. Go west young man, uh no-just go, West, go get lost.
Check out the comments on Allen West's FACEBOOK page...the crazies defend him TOTALLY while denigrating 'liberals' as liars and cheats. Quite an education.
red scare tactics, so old, so incredibly stupid.
Maybe we should list the Nazi's and Fascists in Alan Wests crew!!? - or maybe just the blood sucking parasites, who are on political welfare (politicians) on my dime.
I want to eat yer baybeee ........
As a promoter of intellectual hysteria first and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives as an afterthought, Allen West makes a prime example of someone who should be kicked to the curb and denied entry into the house of civil discourse!
Hey you election-challenged voters in West's district - get a clue and Vote the Rascal Out! -Kevo
So are the Dems actually going to run someone against Alien West? I can't find reference to a challenger on wiki.
reminded me of when Obama was running for election. This tea party guy (before tea party) who was a vendor of mine at work was telling me that Obama was a socialist and wasn't I scared of him. I just rolled my eyes and said Obama was not socialist enough to suit me (just to bait him.) He came completely unglued in my office, but, at least he stopped talking to me about politics. And typical later got fired from his job for making unprofessional remarks to other customers. Found that out when he accused me of being the one to complain. I told him I didn't care enough about him to complain.
I expect Allen West to go the same direction. His party won't want him and the rest of the world will just put him on the fruitcake shelf.
No argument, just proper crediting. "To Serve Man" -- the Twilight Zone episode -- was based on a short story of the same name by Damon Knight, which was published in one of the first issues of GALAXY SF in 1950. (We forget how many Twilight Zones were adaptations of previously published stories and credit the scriptwriter or Serling for ideas another author had.)
Now hold it. This is a guy who got his chops beating up Iraqi war prisoners. Now the best he can come up with is aliens from a '50s TV drama. Tells you a lot about the reality he lives in. Maybe that's why he got invited to leave the armed forces of the United States of America.
"To Serve Man" as a notebook, for purchase (full disclosure: I recently bought one for a friend of mine who loves the Kanamit TZ episode):
http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=BBP05803
This fine company also sells Kanamit action figures.