Bobby's Blue State

Sentenced to Eight in RepubliWorld

Is it me or does RepubliWorld get scarier and more surreal by the day? I really don't want to scan the news anymore because I can't imagine what the RepubliWorld Halls of Power are going to pull next. This is a world where nothing but double-speak and approved company language emanates from the White House. Never a straight answer out of the Stepford White House Press Secretary. They take their Social Security policy "debate" road show out to an audience of pre-screened Stepford supporters, and it's all on the taxpayers dime. They produce their own fake "news" programs spewing their propaganda as if they were objective news stories. I am an avid reader of the Washington Post's online chats; this is where the public asks legitimate questions about the hypocrisy of RepubliWorld. Here is an excerpt from Paul Farhi's "Station Break" online chat transcript ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27868-2005Mar11.html). The chatter's statement, though, tongue and cheek, is eerily chilling:

"Mokba, USSR: Comrades! I see you finally have come around to our OLD way of government-generated TV News. Your president's "video news releases" (with that foxy American woman "reporter" Karen Ryan!) are a brilliant way of keeping the proletariat in line. I especially admire your leader's firm "resolution" to have his agencies keep putting out the propaganda despite the GAO finding that they are illegal. The fact that you have all accepted it so quietly and passively bodes well for harmony in your new totalitarian society.
Thank you for validating our old model, which worked so well for so long! Das Vedanya from Moscow, circa 1960.

Paul Farhi: Hahahaha! Frankly, I've been surprised by the lack of traction this story has gotten. Yes, it's been in all the papers, but the people who seem most exercised by it (perhaps rightly so, but still...) are journalists. Where is the outrage from John and Jane Q. Public? A little mass moral indignation, please... "

Not that outrageous, ha?

And down the street, we have the RepubliWorld Congress legislating for one. The gall of RepubliWorld Congress interfering in the Florida Schiavo case. Have you ever seen anything more absurd? I mean, forget the medical stuff for a moment, can RepubliWorld's usually gung-ho, marriage-defending House Majority Leader tell me if marriage is fucking sacred or not?

And while I'm making requests, can the Senate Majority Leader take a look at a video of my hemorrhoid and make a diagnosis? It certainly won't be an unfamiliar site for him to see with all of the pandering to the Religious Right going on.

If only the RepubliWorld years can turn out like the old TV show Dallas in the episode when Pam woke up and the previous year's episodes turned out to be a bad dream. I'd like waking up on January 21, 2009, to be like that. And this time, because of all the lies, scandal, and deception thrust upon the American people during the intervening years, there is no way in hell I'd be waking up to a President Frist or Bush III. They'd all be relegated to persona non grata status because of their roles in the "dream" years.

posted by BBS @ 6:06 PM