Alvin Greene!

I was seeing this video...



... when I realized that it was the most informative political video ever made. It teaches us so many things! Alvin Greene teaches us so many things! Alvin Greene does, I mean, I mean, yes... a little... just a few things. Bronze booties!



One: Unemployed people accused of felony obscenity who are given $10,000 to file to campaign for Senate seats and then do absolutely no campaigning and yet magically go on to win the primary against an actual politician who isn't mired in scandal or actually very controversial at all and go on live TV to talk about how everyone knows they're a plant Politicians are allowed to do national press in their 1993 FAMILY REUNION T-SHIRTS!!!

Two: People selected to be Republican plants are given lawyers to stand just off camera and loudly whisper answers to interviewers' questions, but are not coached beforehand? About even the most innocuous questions?

Olbermann: What was your campaign like? Did you have a lot of meetings?

Greene: I had quite... I had just a few meetings. Not many.

I really like the fun that many journalists are having with transcribing Greene's interviews!

From the Washington Post:

"I'm the Democratic Party nominee," Greene says in the interview at his father's home on a lonely stretch of rural highway in central South Carolina. "The people have spoken. The people of South Carolina have spoken. The people of South Carolina have spoken. We have to be pro-South Carolina. The people of South Carolina have spoken. We have to be pro-South Carolina."

From Fox News:

"Last weekend was the first, I mean, I had friends and their friends help," Greene said, pausing several seconds. "I mean, I don't want to talk about the campaign. We get caught up in the campaign -- 'How he won?' -- whatever. I worked hard."

From Mother Jones:

[W]hen asked whether there was a specific person or circumstance that precipitated his decision to jump into politics, Greene simply replied: "nothing in particular...it's just, uh, nothing in particular."

Three: Just because you're a powerful political entity capable of winning primary elections by paying the campaign fees for a stooge with an upper-alphabet last name DOES NOT MEAN you are very picky about choosing your stooge!

UPDATE! Uh-oh! Here's Talking Points Memo, to rain on the fun parade:

"I don't believe he's a plant," [South Carolina State Rep. Bakari] Sellers told TPMmuckraker in an interview after his meeting with Greene. "I think he just kind of doesn't know what he's getting into... I don't think there's anything nefarious going on. I think he actually did save his money" ...

Todd Rutherford, another Democratic state representative who met with Greene today alongside Sellers, told TPMmuckraker, "Before I got to my third question, I could tell that something was awry," adding, "I don't know whether everything is OK."

Rutherford, an attorney, said that if Greene were his client, he would move for a mental evaluation. "If there's a joke he doesn't get the joke. If someone paid him to do this, they certainly exploited someone who is vulnerable. It's not even funny, it's just sad."

WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? More importantly, WHEN WILL THERE BE MORE VIDEOS?