Tea Party Convention: Altman's Nashville Come To Life?
The populist platform embraced by the presidential candidate in Robert Altman's 1975 movie "included forbidding lawyers from serving in Congress ('Did you ever ask a lawyer the time of day? He told you how to make a watch, didn't he?'), taking on oil companies, abolishing the Electoral College and eliminating farm subsidies." Los Angeles Times 02/07/10

Posted February 9, 2010 06:49 AM