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Friday, June 08, 2007
HamNation: Washington's Just One Big Happy Family
Posted by: Mary Katharine Ham at 1:33 PM

I would just like to say to all my Italian-American readers that I worked on this video with Katie Favazza and my boss' name is Chuck DeFeo. Some of my best friends are Italian-Americans! I'm totally in the clear.

Enjoy!

Update: YouTube settled down. Here's the video, and I think the resolution is better in this version:

Update: And, Katie wanted me to disclaim that neither of us wishes to shoot any member of Congress with the "gun that we woke up and got ourselves this morning" in the video. We just meant to draw a good-humored comparison between the secrecy and shadiness of both bodies. So, there's your disclaimer, yo.





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dweed42 writes: Friday, June, 08, 2007 1:55 PM
nice
love the cigar
soothsayer writes: Friday, June, 08, 2007 2:22 PM
Totally? Craptastic? Yo?
Don't mean to interrupt your serious grown-up journalism, but does anyone at townhall know (or care) that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was pushed out today?
rivlax writes: Friday, June, 08, 2007 3:18 PM
Like, really
Why are you messing around with this kind of humorous video that takes our minds off of, well, comments like soothsayer's, when Paris Hilton has been led off to jail again crying hysterically. Where's your news judgment? How dare you have a sense of humor! Shame.
Stormhawk writes: Friday, June, 08, 2007 3:24 PM
A Freud would say
And sometimes a cigar is just a cigar... and sometimes it isn't.

gwr writes: Friday, June, 08, 2007 3:36 PM
Well done, MKH ...
even down to the funky "R" character in the font of the closing credits -- you didn't miss much ... 8^)
Joe writes: Friday, June, 08, 2007 3:56 PM
Most excellent
Very funny. Good job.
joyceee writes: Friday, June, 08, 2007 4:24 PM
help---I don't get it.
Help---I don't get it. I choose not to have a TV, so is it a parody of a TV program or something??

I am so sad about General Pete Pace being taken out just because Gates is AFRAID of a contentious re-confirmation hearing. Barf. General Pete Pace was CLASS ! He never needed notes. He was so compassionate to soldiers' families. I know Gates probably has to pick his battles, but does he really think the confirmation committee members is going to love anyone under President Bush? Give me a break.
Member_VRWC writes: Friday, June, 08, 2007 4:40 PM
LOL
Best one yet MKH. Brilliant!!
Jimmy Carter writes: Friday, June, 08, 2007 4:52 PM
"That's Hot."
.
steveegg writes: Friday, June, 08, 2007 5:37 PM
Woke up this morning...
Got myself some HamNation. Best.HamNation.Evah. (probably only until next week/month).

As for iFilm v YouTube, the YouTube video codec is indeed better, but the sound doesn't work on the embed version.
IfAFrogHadWings writes: Friday, June, 08, 2007 6:21 PM
When did Meadow drive through D.C.....
...smoking a cigar? I guess I missed that episode.
Stephen Macklin writes: Friday, June, 08, 2007 7:38 PM
The DC Mob
Bravo.

Hands down one of the best video blogs ever.
BevC writes: Friday, June, 08, 2007 7:47 PM
Some of your best friends....
Well Mary Katharine this Italo-American will never be one of those "best friends". I had my fill of Mary Katharines, Mary Eileens, Mary Thereses, Mary Colleens, etc. 30 years ago surviving the south side of Chi town during the reign of our current Emperor Richie's father; DICK THE FIRST. And to my eye, your list of dirty dealings reads more like the Irish-run city of Chicago (though now more diverse than 35 years ago with a healthy dose of Black and Hispanic skullduggery). So I would score the video with Gaelic lilting tune and perhaps some sheepsbladders whining away "Danny Boy". When Irish eyes are smiling, watch your back.
thomasmore writes: Friday, June, 08, 2007 8:31 PM
wow bev...
way to go, responding to satire with a rant that is reminiscent of Mussolini on the balcony :)

Maybe you want to rethink it?
tdau1997 writes: Friday, June, 08, 2007 9:05 PM
BevC...
WTH? "...list of dirty dealings"? What exactly does that 'C' stand for? I have my suspicions.
austinnelly writes: Friday, June, 08, 2007 9:43 PM
only one problem
MKH, I had only one problem with your vid; you're rolling a Honda. Gangsters don't roll foreign econo cars...it's gotta be detroit made, black, and 300 hp plus...seriously, thanks for the laugh. Cheers.
Geoff writes: Friday, June, 08, 2007 9:51 PM
Not bad.
Not bad, Mary Katherine. Just curious, did you pay a royalty for the music?

Only because we musicians are trying to feed our kids out here. Some of us are Italian-American musicians, if that makes a difference.
LW writes: Friday, June, 08, 2007 9:53 PM
Wonderful!
An apt and well done comparison. Bravo.
dweed42 writes: Friday, June, 08, 2007 10:56 PM
Geoff
The music royalty issue has been directed toward her several times by commenters at Hot Air and she said she pays royalties. I can't speak for this episode, but I'd guess she did it legal.
eeyore writes: Saturday, June, 09, 2007 12:41 AM
So this is how The Sopranos ends!
A spinoff with Ham and Favazza takin' on DC. Watch out with that Reid & Pelosi Gang and their, ya know, ethicalisticness.
Bill Quantrill writes: Saturday, June, 09, 2007 2:19 AM
Comparison to the Pelosi Nostra???
Very clever metaphor, but are you kidding? Tony Soprano could never even dream of running the multi-billion $ shake-down racket that the Pelosi Nostra commands. As Lee Strasbourg put it in the Godfather II, he's "small potatoes" compared to the DC syndicate.
Jack Deth writes: Saturday, June, 09, 2007 11:07 AM
Superb Satire
Flawlessy executed!

Found a link at Big Dick's Place yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed the ride! Always worth another look.

Funnier than the Stuffed Animal Green Piece. Much more biting that Peeps!


Jack.
Elle writes: Saturday, June, 09, 2007 12:58 PM
Congress and the Sopranos
Loved it!!!!!!!!
TBinSTL writes: Saturday, June, 09, 2007 2:29 PM
Never thought about it before
There are an awful lot of Congress Critters with last names that end in a vowel....Murtha, Snowe, Inouye....the list goes on...
HNAV writes: Saturday, June, 09, 2007 3:22 PM
is it okay?
to have a crush on cool Ham?

she rocks...
steveegg writes: Saturday, June, 09, 2007 4:55 PM
It's okay if...
...you are a guy. Oh, and the line starts north of the Beltway.
andrews writes: Saturday, June, 09, 2007 8:16 PM
JessicaLange
Your list is pretty laughable (Plame "scandal"? Please. If there ever were a media-driven, partisan non-scandal, that would be it.) But one really stands out: Hurricane Katrina.

Are you truly suggesting the Republicans somehow caused this hurricane? Or that they are responsible for inaction on the part of city and state politicians? Or that they made local politicians divert levee funds to pork projects?

Maybe you are one of those who think Cheney and Rove put on frog man suits and blew the levees?

Or do you subscribe to the RFK Jr. theory that Katrina came about because Bush never signed Kyoto? My how omnipotent Bush is! He can not only cause a hurricane, but make Clinton say there were WMDs in Iraq 2 years before Bush is even elected! And he can fool senators who get their own independent intel briefings into believing his clever lies and voting against their own beliefs! The man is a wizard, I tells ya!

I would go on to the rest of your list, but I lack the many hours it would take to debunk "Plame scandal" or "macaca" or any of the other amusing non-scandals you manage to toss out. (There are a few hits among your many misses, but the misses being so numerous, it would take a very long time to correct your mistakes.)

However, I would like to point out one thing those criticizing Republicans fail to understand: Republicans involved in scandals, or even those involved in non-scandals, such a Ronnie Earle's persecution of Delay, end up resigning or being removed from office. On the other hand, Democrats involved in very real scandals, end up serving in positions of power (Hastings, Jefferson, Murtha, Reid, and on and on and on...) That is a huge difference that many seem to miss.
manic mechanic writes: Saturday, June, 09, 2007 10:54 PM
born under a bad sign...
with a blue moon in your eye..
man I love that song.
Bravisimo, bella !!! Spot on, loved the cigar. Keep up the great work ladies!
jetpilot writes: Sunday, June, 10, 2007 4:17 AM
Finally you GET humor
The bi-partisan effort was noted and appreciated Ham.
roho writes: Sunday, June, 10, 2007 2:04 PM
Somehow "K" Street and Congress has to
stop being a "revolving door"!........We need some kind of legislation that prohibits indefinatly the bridge between being a lobbyist and a congressman........."K" Street should not be a pension farm for ousted congressmen!
Rick writes: Sunday, June, 10, 2007 2:16 PM
*applause*
Well done, MKH, et al!
MCNULTYLAW writes: Sunday, June, 10, 2007 6:20 PM
"The Soprans" Parody
Congradulations on a fitting "homage" to the end of "The Sopranos," truly the best-ever television series. I still think the "Pine Barrens" episode, which was rebroadcast on the A and E network last week, is the best single hour of television in history (with the possible exception of the moon landing in 1969), with Paulie and Christopher annoyingly trying to survive in the wilderness on leftover packs of ketchup and mustard, and Paulie stating that the Russian was some kind of interior decorator who killed Czechoslovakians. I wonder, did you enjoy the cigar? Groucho Marx famously said that "a woman is always just a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke." What was it? Do you smoke regularly or just for this video? You are a lovely and smart woman, and the cigar just adds to your appeal in my opinion. Thanks again for a great send-off marking a great series.
Good Ol Boy writes: Monday, June, 11, 2007 9:05 AM
*Golf clap*
LOL. Well done, ma'am, spot on! Please forgive the humor-deficient moonbats; droll satire, like logic, escapes them.
ddf writes: Monday, June, 11, 2007 9:20 AM
Congress "the family"
So totally appropriate to our hysterical times. Loved it. It does this old conservative heart good to see young people who believe in our country.
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