The Constitution. Haven’t you read it?
on 10/31/2010 at 10:12 AM
Yes, and it’s misleading, aside from being cut off too early. The full line is
I don’t have time to read it,I’m too busy defending it!
uttered by the black hearted Senator Billboard Rawkins, played by Keenan Wynn, in the 1968 Fred Astaire / Petula Clark movie Finian’s Rainbow.
No, I’m not a film expert. But I recognized Fred, so I went to IMDB. I had no idea who the woman was, so I listened to her voice, and she had an English or Irish accent. So ... Irish? And, sure ‘n begorrah, there it was. Leprechauns and all. For Fred Astaire films, this one is kind of dark ...
Finian’s come to the town because he’s stolen a leprechaun’s crock of gold and plans to plant it in the ground so it’ll grow faster (or else why would the Americans have rushed to dig the gold out of California only to plant it back in the ground at Fort Knox?). But trouble arrives in the form of Og the leprechaun, who has followed Finian to America and is bent on retrieving his gold. Meanwhile, the bigoted Senator Billboard Rawkins, in an effort to stop progress in his state in the form of a new dam and hydroelectric system, plans to take the remaining parcel of land needed to stop the project - Woody’s, which Finian has purchased to save from the auctioneer’s gavel. But then the government’s geologists reveal to the Senator that gold has been detected on the property! Rawkins and his men confront the sharecroppers to seize their land using as an excuse an obscure law making it a felony for blacks and whites to live together, but when Sharon, outraged at this bigotry, cries out while standing right over the pot of gold, “I wish to God you were black ...” all hell breaks loose as wishes come true.
Note the black folks in the background of the video clip. So Finian’s sounded likely, at which point I Googled up the script, and searched for “I don’t have time”. Bingo.
And that’s how you research stuff on the ‘net. Ta da!
I thought that was Fred Astaire. Though I went to Wikipedia and found the same movie.
The Senator’s reply is misleading. If he hasn’t read the Constitution how can he defend it? He’s taken an oath to do so.
So have all the current Congress critters. Most of whom are in violation of their oath. As is Imam Obama.
Let us hold the new crop of Congress critters to their oath of office. Else we target the critters as vermin.
