Watching that Obama acceptance speech tonight, I kept thinking back to the end of "8 Mile", with Eminem in the final MC battle against his nemesis, Papa Doc, the head of the so-called "Leaders of the Free World" clique.
Now, for those of you who've never seen an MC Battle before, it's basically a competitive performance where two rappers are given a fixed period of time in a hip-hop club to mock each other with rhyming lyrics they make up on the spot, i.e. freestyle. The crowd decides which one dissed the other the hardest, and awards him the victory.
By this point in the film, Eminem, who lived in a trailer park with his broke down mom (Kim Basinger) had just gotten his ass kicked by the entire Free World crew in a team beatdown, after one of them had had sex with his new girlfriend. And his own crew were so lame that one of them had even shot himself in the foot trying to be tough.
But watch how it all plays out. It's profane, but, man, is it worth it.
After that total tongue lashing, where Eminem basically threw every attack he knew was coming right back in Papa Doc's face, he as completely speechless and was booed off stage. Eminem wins.
I'm saying all of that to say, what could John McCain and the Republicans possibly say next week in response to Obama tonight that could have any weight or value?
Obama just asked McCain and the Rovians "Is THAT the best you've got?"
The balls in your court, boys.
2 comments:
Not that you're wrong or anything, but I'm just mad that you compared my boy to Eminem. :)
In all seriousness...I am very curious to see what happens at the RNC. McCain has more than a few minutes to figure out his freestyle, so to speak, and he's got a bunch of people to help him out with it. Moreover, I worry that a lot of the "crowd" may be pretty ready to hear about what's wrong with Obama...
nice post Damon! and yea, I had a good chuckle when he asked that question- I'm bloody excited for the next couple of months!
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