THE CASE OF ‘RANDY PAGE HEARTS RANDY PAGE’

I’m not sure if the above two-and-a-half minute “news package” from the ALGNewsNetwork (who?) is supposed to be serious or yet another dreadful attempt at mimicking the wildly successful deadpan humor of NBC’s The Office — only with a Law & Order twist. But one thing that is clear from this video is that South Carolinians for Responsible Government’s Randy Page sure does love hearing himself speak fighting for the issues.

What leads me to believe this is supposed to be satirical is the over-the-top “reporter” lady with the weird eyebrows and amateurish mannerisms. Like her interviewees, everything she said appears overly-rehearsed. Also, she felt the need to make excessively dramatic statements like “David v. Goliath” and “one man against a machine” to hype up a case that nobody outside of Page and SCRG care one bit about.

I think it would have been more dramatic though if they had added the “doink doink” and a scene where Sam Waterston grills some fool in the courtroom.

But perhaps the best part was Page’s delivery of “I just think that’s wrong” and “the future of our children is at stake.” Either that’s the best damn Dwight K. Schrute impression I’ve ever seen, or this guy’s the real deal.

Now, I’m not sure what they actually said in the package because I was too busy laughing hysterically, but I’m somewhat familiar with the Page v. Lexington 1 case. From what little I know about it, I would say SCRG actually has a pretty good case. But videos like this don’t do much to help their cause.

And I think that really sums up SCRG. They may have the best factual and logical position a lot of the time, but the way they choose to make their argument is either laughable or insulting (yes, I realize I do the same thing sometimes).