Tweety gets it right: "You are wrong, wrong, wrong, over & over again & you never get ashamed of it"

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66. I was watching it live, and I DID want to throw a brick at the TV.

I wanted to throw a fews expletives at his face - if only I were close enough. But he was completely swept away by - and into - the staging and perception management of the bush/cheney White House. Everybody was swept up. What a man! What a strut! Look at that stuffed crotch - he must be seven-feet-long and as big around as a Giant Sequoia! Pant! Pant! Sigh! Sigh! I think America wants a GUYYYYYYYYYY for President! They like a GUYYYYYYYYYYYYY for President. He's the kind, when he gets excited, he spews spit drops when he talks. Those droplets could have spewed straight through the TV screen. He was like a frickin' Rain Bird sprinkler that day.

INFURIATING. It was so damn easy to see through. EVEN BEFORE we heard that they turned the carrier around so you wouldn't see it was moored just off the San Diego coast. The staging was so complete with the big banner arranged just so - just above where he stood to speak at the podium they set up on the deck so all the cameras would be sure to see it in frame. The positioning of the special troop escort members in their multicolor jumpsuits. We later snickered that they'd brought the Teletubbies out to meet him. Just ridiculous. Embarrassing. Fraudulent. A big fat FRAUD that day. "Mission Accomplished." Yeah - MY ASS. Just humiliating for America, for all the world to see, the fawning worship of this fucking fraud and warmonger and THIEF of the Presidential Election. It was infuriating!!!

What made it so horrible was how NO ONE was questioning it. NO ONE was mentioning how contrived and artificial it was. The reagan era trained 'em well, I'll concede that. All the Old Hollywood Busby Berkeley staging and Gigantor-size American flags and crap. As though if you just STAGED it well enough, that would be THE outward sign of just how Super-American you were! How if they cut you you would bleed red, white, and blue. CRINGEworthy. Eight years of that shit back in the '80s. And then, this again in the first decade of the 21st Century, too. AWFUL. Fucking phonies!!! It made the whole country look like such clowns on the world stage. The rest of the world didn't have fawning media lapdogs so they all knew the truth. It was the American media consumer who didn't, who was kept in the dark and fed bullshit like the proverbial mushrooms. That was the veritable Mushroom Generation.

SOOOOOOO glad we got to turn the page with the Obama years. RELIEVED! It was so galling how many people were taken in by bush/cheney, fell for it hook line and sinker, swallowed it whole without even chewing it a little. There was PLENTY of information to the contrary. There was PLENTY of truth out there. NONE of it was listened to, or given even a split-second of air time or face time. And ol' Tweety was right out there in front, like some drunken majorette. Leading the parade of lemmings with his loud voice and his showers of excited spittle.

HORRIBLE days. HORRIBLE HORRIBLE days. And Tweety swallowed it all. And shat it all back out to force-feed to the rest of us.