No, no… I’m not making fun of drag queens, but I’m starting to think that American politics has become no more than one huge drag show of lip-synching performances by politicians impersonating people. Cast your mind back to Preznit Crystal Chandelier for a second, he’s as elite as they come, the blood in his veins runs a shade of blue so deep it’s almost black and yet he managed to somehow get up on stage and pretend that he was singing Woodie Guthrie and Joan Baez, while wearing an oil-can tiara and burlap gown made by Mme Jean du Appalachia. He sang of religion and empathy and damn-it all if he didn’t manage to steal an election with it and go on to give away the government to all his goober friends and relatives. And after 911, why he just went back-stage and changed into his High Camp Dominatrix outfit and started his set by lip-synching Green Day’s "Blood, Sex and Booze" to the delight of the hard-core republican authoritarians in the audience and the dismay of the rest of America… and his show hasn’t stopped yet, he’s managed to have the most influential show in quite a while if you figure that his management, Darth Cheney productions is doing all it can to wreck havoc on the Republic while cranking out a few more cover tunes including hits like "When the Levee Breaks", "Smoke on the Water" and "The Wall"…
So fast forward to 2008 and the new show in town… Crystal can’t have her contract renewed by law, so she’s seeking out someone to replace her and the best she could find was a tired old queen, Capricious Dementia whose act has been around so long that learning new songs is like escaping from a GITMO, it’s just not going to happen in this lifetime… but like anyone in show biz the lip-synching continues even when there’s no one in the audience to appreciate the effort of the performer…minimal though it be.
Across the street though is a new a new club that opened up last year and it’s featuring a new performer… one whose talent for illusion has fooled everyone. Getting up on stage, this queen looked sensational and was ready in designer couture and with songs that were not just trendy but when she sang Woodie Guthrie, damned if you weren’t ready to join the Peace Corps leaving the club… taking her ques from RuPaul and Johnny Ramone, she was a over-the-top and conservative to the core, but damn if you knew it while swaying to the beat and lost in the show. Every lyric, every movement designed a carefully choreographed to conceal her secret… like every drag performer she wasn’t what she appeared to be.
And that’s where we are in American Politics… we are sold on imitators, imitation and illusion. The patrons of the show come for Saturday night and spend the rest of the week denying that they either went or enjoyed what they saw there (eeew… drag queens?) and we’re left with the impersonators now running the country and we’re not really sure which persona we’re stuck with, and odds are we’re never going to know, it would spoil the illusion.
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Hi Jo Fish
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What a fine charlatan George Bush has been. How did we ever survive his get-ups?
Just a question: I seldom listen/hear Lou Dobbs. Can someone tell me if his only subject is immigration? He sounds, what? Mean, irrational, one-note. Just curious if that is his only topic.
Awwww how cute. Even Joe LIEberman has his own charlatan outfit he likes to wear to fool the masses…
http://www.bartcop.com/lieberman-tutu.jpg
707!
akshually I think it’d be a drag to be the queen.
Oh, it’s not, it’s not! ;)
I’m the Princess type.
LOL Thanks Eureka Springs! (Actually, we can thank Bart Cop for that little cutie) ;-)
Dobbs has declared himself the Defender of the Middle Class, which apparently means keeping the Scary Brown Horde outside of our Sacred Borders.
So, yes, he’s a broken record that spews the same well-worn falsehoods about the “immigration threat”.
Yep. Immigration is pretty much all Lou Dobbs talks about on his show. He does this to appear “tough” to his viewers, but I know he does these segments to divert attention away from the fact he’s married to a Mexican. But hey! Besides me, who cares about those minor little details? ;-)
Has anyone told him it is all so boring and mean? I wonder if his wife finds that stuff charming.
Hi guys…enjoy the snark, stuck on a plane at O’Hare waiting to get to NY.
Re: Dobbs’ scaremongering. The latest smear Obama email going around says that he wants to “force everyone to learn Spanish because of all the 14 million illegals who REFUSE to learn English” and so he swaggers across the stage and informs all us ‘red-blooded English-only-speaking Murkins’ that we HAVE to learn Spanish. Whew!
Obama is getting all Commander in Chiefy, isn’t he? And it’s amazing how al Queda now is leaving Iraq…and heading for Afghanistan/Pakistan!!!
Somebody reading the writing on the wall?
Now that’s a drag.
Hi Jo Fish…. Had a great trip…. Glad to see ya front paged…
Well, that’s fun. Yesterday some folks were talking about Mama Mia. I think it has gotten sort of mixed reviews. For silly fun, it is really great. Princess and queen types sort of brought that to mind.
BTW…. we were in the Lufthansa red carpet lounge in Athens…. at 5am on Saturday and there was CNN International blathering on and everyone was sitting far away from it….. sleepy and waiting for the flight…… all different nationalities…
AND then the special election coverage came on and the profile of Obama started and the whole room woke up and was intently watching…. over and over again people overseas are VERY interested in this election…
We need to get on the ball here. We need to start sending out emails that say Johnny McTeleprompter will make all women wear 1880’s garb (complete with bonnets) and how he will use the American military to gun down any woman who doesn’t!
See? ;-)
Crystal can’t have her contract renewed by law, so she’s seeking out someone to replace her and the best she could find was a tired old queen, Capricious Dementia
I have to witness, here. This is some seriously funny writing. Well, to my mind anyway.
Happy Sunday Snark everyone!
Capricious Dementia not really all there, but I hear she does a mean barbeque.
Did he find out where those places are yet?
I guess The New Yorker’s got him on the run. There wasn’t room on ‘the bus’ for the New Yorker correspondent assigned to Barkey’s trail.
I wonder why that was?
And what’s up wit that Malaki dude? I thought he was down with The Magic Man….
And still months and months to go before Dean and Brazile drag a hog-tied Hillary onto the stage in CO and beat her until she gives up her delegates.
Fortunately, the Germans have found another gate for Obama to give a ‘famous’ speech from.
What’s that?
The Nazi’s erected that gate in celebration of their victories over other EU nations. Noooeeeeeeeees! Oh, Oh my fictitious ‘God’! ‘Bama foot in his big flappin’ yapper again!
Ah…Obama won’t know the difference.
Remember….
It’s all good! ‘Cause he’s ‘The Magic Man’…’Bringin” us together….’…’Yes we can!’
Back later gotta get some more popcorn.
I prefer the kinder, gentler barbeque.
psst…are we still on Hard Refresh time?
It’s just so….well, you know.
‘ppreciate an answer in advance.
I’m not exactly sure how to say this, but….
…is your Hillary-shaped dildo in sideways today? Seems so. I mean really, if you hate Barack Obama so much and love Hillary Clinton so much, don’t you think your time would be better served hanging out on the wwww.rushlimbaugh.com or somewhere where people drool down their necks?
(I expect to banned for the day at FDL after making this comment. I can take it.) LOL
I still find it sad that al-Maliki didn’t jump on Hillary & McTeleprompter’s “gas tax holiday” meme. Why is that? Anyone know?
Yep…. thought it was the internet in Greece but no the new comment line does not work….. bummer
Well said.
Really not up his alley. That’s US domestic politics. People would think him a fool, probably.
Disabled while they work on the site, getting ready for diaries at noon I think it is tomorrow.
predeldent doofus…wipes his dirty eyeglasses on a perfect stranger( a woman) coattails….elite cretinism at its finest,as for him being a blue blood,remember behind every great fortune is a huge CRIME
that was PRETZELDENT doofus
Okay. I was just trying to make ACitizen tell me why al-Maliki wasn’t attaching himself to the “wonderful”, “well though out ideas”, and “experienced policies” of Hillary & McTeleprompter. That’s all.
Now here’s a policy which ACitizen and other Hillary supporters can wrap their lips around:
http://i172.photobucket.com/al…..McCain.jpg
If you vote for Johnny, this is the kind of humor you can expect. If Johnny wins in November, we know who to blame.
Here’s a QuickTime video of the “incident”:
http://www.bushflash.com/quicktime/george1.mov
I fully expect Johnny McTeleprompter to do a similar thing before election day.
Hey, I’m on your side. *g*
i missed ya and was quite envious,i loves me the greek men,and greek cuisine!
Katymine, do you ever get the feeling the FDL Pups think you and I are one in the same? LOL!
Okay people…I’m “KayInMaine” and Ms. Katy is “Katymine”. Honestly, I can see why our names are consistently confused. ;-)
SouthernDragon, I’m on your side too. :-)
oopsie it was my mistake,im tired.soooooooo sorry
It’s fine. Being mixed up with Katymine is an honor actually. ;-)
One of these days the katy’s need to meet…. Oh well now you have been to Greece and I wish I did what you did on your comment @28… ;)
Greece was fun. Thanks Katy! LOL And comment #28? I’m surprised I’m still here. *looking around for a moderator* Maybe it’s break time and they haven’t punched back in? ;-)
Hope you are enjoying your time in Greece.
Well, I’m going to bed. Hope you all have a great night! Nite nite.
Elmore and I had a great time….. Paris, drive around France (3600kms), into Italy, Switzerland and then Greece in 23 days…. just got home yesterday afternoon…
Oh, Katy! I want you to know that I’ve been following your adventure… I always add the words, Our Foreign Correspondent in …
whichever city you are commenting/reporting from.
(sounds like a blast. :))
We stayed in a hotel north of Milan where we could see the Italian Alps from our room. We were 20km from Lake Como and the other lakes, we drove around Lake Magginano(sp) and the north end is in Switzerland, we just popped over and had lunch on the lake in Switzerland (which was not on the itinerary) …… fresh baked pizza and salad… sounds so Cary Grant doesn’t it?
1,710 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…
Citizen KayinMaine:
ROFLMAO…ah Citizen Kay, I wish I had yer adroit sense a humor and unerring sense of the location of the jugular…but really now, how the hell didja get past the hall monitors with that one??!!
KEEP THE FAITH AND DON’T LET THE BASTARDS OFF THE GROUND!!
rofl * SNORT * EXhale!!111, lol!
I do believe so.
Oh, it does. Makes me want to put on a stripped two piecer and jump into a little power boat..
Old Europe is quite lovely to see and taste
Oh, I’m wayyyy behind. I was outside with the teenboys and talking about life and stuff….
It’s all good. :)
I would like to buy you a 55 gallon drum of the beverage of your choice.