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hifiguy

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22. Under The Dome was in part a very dark sendup

Tue May 1, 2012, 05:26 PM

May 2012

of the Cheney Regency:

". . . when I started I said, "I want to use the Bush-Cheney dynamic for the people who are the leaders of this town." As a result, you have Big Jim Rennie, the villain of the piece. I got to like the other guy, Andy Sanders. He wasn't actively evil, he was just incompetent—which is how I always felt about George W. Bush. I enjoyed taking the Bush-Cheney dynamic and shrinking it to the small-town level. The last administration interested me because of the aura of fundamentalist religion that surrounded it and the rather amazing incompetency of those two top guys. I thought there is something blackly humorous in it."

King quote from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Dome#Political_undertones

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