September 28, 2006

Deviled Eggs, Deviled Politics and the Devil as Pop Icon

Lately, mouthpieces from all around the globe, including anyone from talk show host to world leader, have become increasingly dependent on the Devil for garnering ratings and support.

Deviled Eggs: We’ve all heard about the controversy over women and their frozen eggs, and how lawyers are bedeviled about just what society should do with these man-made wonders from God’s hand. The Religious Right, who once declared in vitro fertilization the work of the Devil, is now running amok like a Keystone-Cop-Swat-Team trying to “save the lives” of every egg in the deep freeze.

Girls of the World – please, keep your ovaries in line and don’t let any eggs get out unless you mean for them to become fertilized, preferably in your own womb. You may be committing a crime otherwise. And God knows we do not want any legislation regulating menstruation. Or do we?

Deviled Politics: Oh, those simpler times when politicians could sling mud instead of a cat-o-nine tails. Pat Buchanan can claim that Hillary Clinton is worse than the Devil (how hubristic is that?), Chavez can claim that Bush is the Devil, Bush can call sovereign states “the Axis of Evil” and question their very right to exist, Ann Coulter can call Liberals “Godless” and “evil”, and so on and on and on.

Salem, get ready for another round of Witch Hunts and Trials – we have stepped so far backward that we have left the Age of Reason and have returned to the Middle Ages and the belief in Ghosts, Goblins, Visions, Evil Spirits and the Devil walking among us, his cloven hooves sheathed in Bruno Magli special orders.

The Devil is so Hot…: The Devil has now become a pop icon that we can conjure up to cast aspersions on those with whom we disagree. With a big Scarlet Letter D, we can ruin careers, effect excommunication and ostracism, take to court, and rip to shreds any decency that we might have had left in our hardened hearts.

While we toss around the words “Devil” and “Evil’ with childlike abandon, we have a much stronger reaction to “Hitler” and “Fascism”, which Bush has recently tried to inject into the notion of “What is Islam?” Reactions to invoking the horrors of WWII are mixed, while the continual resurrection of Witch Hunting as a sport seems to have the desired effect.

Why is the Devil the hottest thing on the Political Tour? Simple. The Republicans can easily energize their base and in fact grow it with injections of pure fear and loathing. Goering knew this. Hitler knew this. Himmeler knew this. Who is the Devil now?

Tags:   Bush, Devil, in vitro, what God wants, Witch Hunts

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September 01, 2006

Bush's Recipe for Tripe Soup - Good Eatin' on Sept 11

The Bush Spin Machine is at it again, trying to convince Americans that the invasion of Iraq was the answer to out terrorism woes.  He even invoked the "F" word (Fascists), as ifhe knows what it means, and then added that in his steaming pot of 9/11 stew.

How appropriate that he and his cadre of hegemonarchs would co-opt the upcoming September 11^th anniversary as part of their own, private political party-building super-collider.  Rather than deal with the realities of what his adminstration has wrought, Bush and Co have decided to play the American heart strings like a cheap pop song.

Just when we thought it was all over and that the swagger had been drained out of Bush, we find out NO, it  has been replenished by a no-doubt very expensive PR firm, probably right here in NYC, overlooking Ground Zero. If spin were measurable in cubic tons, this current media blitz would weigh as much as Mars.  Our White House has sunk so low it has begun labeling dissenting Americans as "fascist friendly", when we all know that the Bush Administration is the closest we have come to Fasicm since McCarthy.  He learned a histroy lesson alright - turning the rhetoric of the dissenting against them, turning them into the enemy. Well, every Fascist movement needs an enenmy, and since the 9/11 Highjackers are dead and Bin Laden immortal, why not turn on the oppsoing party? Cheney likes it.  He's waiting for the day when he can put Ted Kennedy under arrest for disagreement with the All Knowing.

No doubt all this 9/11 melodrama that Bush & Co are preapring for us, and all the droppings of  "fascist" and "islamo-fascist" and "Hitler" are part of a much larger and very expensive PR campaign, designed by people who don't care one red cent for the American people or the Constitution, but who care deeply for the coffers of their firm.

What a terrible way for our once light-bearing nation to be defined – by a PR Firm, rather than by Public Policy and Democratic Process. What a dreadful thing it is that such matters of importance are decided by Bush cronies who stand to gain so much money and power from the un-ending war on terror.

The only people benefiting from the war are those who supply it with weapons and food, and the PR firms that spin everything round and round and round.

Tags:   Bush, Cheney, Fascim, Greatest Generation, Hitler, Islamist Fascists, Pat Buchanon, Rumsfeld, Tripe Soup, War on Terror

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