Performance Paraphrase (starting at 1:45): As fireworks go off, Prince Poppycock, dressed in glittering top hat and cape, emblazoned with glittering white stars, is lowered onto the stage, singing the end of the American National Anthem. Then, as patriotic music swells and images of Abraham Lincoln and Susan B. Anthony appear behind him, he shouts: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: All men are created equal!" The pictures of Abe and Sue morph into images of Harvey Milk and Rosa Parks. "Of course, some of us a little more EQUAL than others!" He throws open his cape, which is red-and-white striped inside, revealing glittering shorts and knee-high patriotic boots, as he breaks into "Yankee Doodle Dandy," and is joined by dancers onstage. The medley then segues into "Three Cheers for the Red, White, and Blue" for the big finale, and a dancing White House joins him onstage just in time for a kick-line, dropping red, white, and blue balloons, and more fireworks. It is a spectacle of patriotic awesomeness.
Via Andy, who says: "Will somebody please tell all the pathetic teabaggers that THIS is real patriotism???" Totes.
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