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Abbie Hoffman — Part 29
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ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN
"guy in an Uncle Sam suit simonizing General Motors car. And
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then he comes on and says, ‘Well one our next gues
coming on with a flag shirt and even he says that it's a bit
illegai,so not to participate in a crime and yet to allow his
say'--you gotta have free speech--'you're going to see him
behind a blue shield.’ On it came and I debated with Virginia
Grahameracker what's-her-name--one of America's last dinosaurs."
(Laughter) "But actually, I guess it proved its point because
it was sort of awkward, it was so hysterical their saying ‘You
can say anything you want,’ you know, and here blue talks back."
(Here itates electronic blipping sound). "CBS is a
bunch of blue meanies. Somebody ought to punch them right in their
one fuckin eye." (Laughter and clapping)
"But...well...you gotta learn how to relate to TV.
TV's like part of our real world, an electronic jungle, and if
you haven't got two - three hundred thousand dollars to do those
stupid, idiotic commercials you gotta devise new ways--ways like
the Vietcong. The Vietcong don't sit and bitch ‘cause they don't
have any B52 bombers. They get a fuckin hunk of bamboo, they
carve the end, they make the end of it into a point, they put some
shit on it, they put it in a fuckin hole, and some U. S. military
oye machine comes by and just goes ‘Ah!! They're fightin' dirty! Dirty
fighters!' That's what they said about us in the court--fightin'
dirty!
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