{"id":12366,"date":"2013-07-10T08:59:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T15:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=12366"},"modified":"2013-07-10T08:59:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T15:59:11","slug":"damned-pop-culture-reference-cliches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2013\/07\/10\/damned-pop-culture-reference-cliches\/","title":{"rendered":"damned pop culture reference cliches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay. \u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wweek.com\/portland\/article-20885-water_bedfellows.html\">Where have I heard this reference before<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The supporters of this measure are going to be similar to the lounge scene in\u00c2\u00a0Star Wars,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says John DiLorenzo, who is representing utility ratepayers in a lawsuit against the city.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Answer: \u00c2\u00a0Most recently with the big Fluoridation fight to describe the unlikely mis-mash of activists leading the opposition to fluoridation.<\/p>\n<p>Except usually it&#8217;s a reference to the &#8220;barroom scene&#8221;, or &#8220;bar scene&#8221; in Star Wars.<\/p>\n<p>Actually I&#8217;m sick of this reference.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what a quick google search uncovers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mysanantonio.com\/texas-on-the-potomac\/2013\/07\/rick-perry-will-face-much-tougher-field-in-2016-gop-presidential-race-if-he-runs\/\">The 2012 Republican presidential field was compared to the motley crowd in the famous bar scene from\u00c2\u00a0Star Wars<\/a>.<br \/>\nAnd from the other partisan slashing side.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/09\/09\/caution-wretched-hive-of-villainy-ahead\/\">Scanning McClusky\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re So Lame\u00e2\u20ac\u009d list of 24 liberal goals, Jordan Lorence, a senior counsel at the Alliance Defense Fund cracked: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the legislative equivalent of the barroom scene in\u00c2\u00a0<em>Star Wars<\/em><\/a>.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe Heritage Foundation does us a favor of illustration, by including a youtube clip of the scene.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/republican-msnbc-contributor-cpac-is-the-star-wars-bar-scene-of-the-conservative-movement\/\">CPAC is the Star Wars Bar Scene of<\/a>&#8230;<br \/>\nIf <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kir.com\/archives\/2004\/02\/great_quotes.asp\">Dean&#8217;s events sometimes look like the bar scene from Star War<\/a>s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mos_Eisley_Cantina\">And wikipedia brings out<\/a>&#8230;<br \/>\n<em>The scene is also frequently referenced in political discussions, such as in referring to the United Nations General Assembly as &#8220;the Star Wars bar scene.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve become tired of the reference point. \u00c2\u00a0I want a new one. \u00c2\u00a0Someone needs to make a new to-go pop cultural reference point to displace &#8220;Star Wars bar\/ bar-room \/ lounge scene&#8221;, so that the next municipal grass-roots coalition against an entrenched\u00c2\u00a0bureaucratic process can be described by something else&#8230; or, failing that, something else in the lexicons of popular culture needs to be uncovered and popularized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay. \u00c2\u00a0Where have I heard this reference before? \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The supporters of this measure are going to be similar to the lounge scene in\u00c2\u00a0Star Wars,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says John DiLorenzo, who is representing utility ratepayers in a lawsuit against the city. Answer: \u00c2\u00a0Most recently with the big Fluoridation fight to describe the unlikely mis-mash of activists leading the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12367,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12366\/revisions\/12367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}