Crap No-one Needs, #14
The Presidential Dog
You'd never know that we were in the midst of the worst recession since the Great Depression, that General Motors was contemplating bankruptcy, or that pirates were terrorizing the high seas. No, today's big story was that the US President, Commander in Chief of the armed forces, the most powerful person in the free world, bought a fucking dog. Don't give me all that crap about "people being interested", in an attempt to justify why the US media was all fawning over the presidential kids and their new puppy - it's symptomatic of the craven deference they show to this most unqualified of presidents.
But don't imagine for a moment that El Presidente didn't finely calculate the spin value of this touching "family moment". It wasn't a spontaneous event which happened to be captured but a carefully stage-managed and manipulative attempt to show how "normal" Obastard is, so we can all forget how he's plunging us into debt, committing $86 billion to Iraq and Afghanistan that he vehemently opposed when Bush wanted to do it, and reneging on just about every campaign promise he made. So long as he can keep spoon-feeding the liberal media there's no chance they'll dig into his dirty secrets. We can stay in the dark about his illegal immigrant aunt, his lying alleged sex criminal half brother and his tax-avoiding cronies.
He got some minor criticism for not getting a rescue dog like he "promised", but there's a more fundamental question: with the media as his devoted lap-dog, why did he need a puppy at all?
You'd never know that we were in the midst of the worst recession since the Great Depression, that General Motors was contemplating bankruptcy, or that pirates were terrorizing the high seas. No, today's big story was that the US President, Commander in Chief of the armed forces, the most powerful person in the free world, bought a fucking dog. Don't give me all that crap about "people being interested", in an attempt to justify why the US media was all fawning over the presidential kids and their new puppy - it's symptomatic of the craven deference they show to this most unqualified of presidents.
But don't imagine for a moment that El Presidente didn't finely calculate the spin value of this touching "family moment". It wasn't a spontaneous event which happened to be captured but a carefully stage-managed and manipulative attempt to show how "normal" Obastard is, so we can all forget how he's plunging us into debt, committing $86 billion to Iraq and Afghanistan that he vehemently opposed when Bush wanted to do it, and reneging on just about every campaign promise he made. So long as he can keep spoon-feeding the liberal media there's no chance they'll dig into his dirty secrets. We can stay in the dark about his illegal immigrant aunt, his lying alleged sex criminal half brother and his tax-avoiding cronies.
He got some minor criticism for not getting a rescue dog like he "promised", but there's a more fundamental question: with the media as his devoted lap-dog, why did he need a puppy at all?
posted by Mr Bison at
6:04 PM
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