Spoof video imagines Pawlenty as a sweet and calming tea leaf

Tim Pawlenty gets a mention in a wonderfully strange video making the rounds. Readymade for political insiders, it imagines a Politico editorial meeting, during which the site’s chief political correspondent, Mike Allen, appears as superheroic News Cycle Man to discuss story ideas in the “Politicave.” One idea involves comparing GOP candidates, including the governor, to varieties of tea.

ALLEN: Yes. I want to do a feature on the tea party where I could compare each 2012 Republican candidate to a different variety of tea leaf. Pawlenty is chamomile because he is sweet and calming. Romney is Earl Grey because he is traditional and dignified. And so on.

The unbylined video appears to be a remix of a video available for further remixing at Xtranormal.

Via The Awl.