The Furious Spinner

So I haven't written about Gannongate: a mouth-piece for the right getting into the White House and posing as a reporter. For one thing, in the two minutes I've turned on the MSM, they were actually covering the story, so I figured most people knew about it. Congress is even calling for an investigation. It seems to me this faux-reporter is a right-wing plant, despite denials. It appears he had unfettered access. (What happened to security by the way? I don't like the Emperor or his people, but I don't want any of them harmed. What if this guy had been an assassin?) For another thing, why is everyone acting so surprised the White House let this guy in? They're capable of anything. I mean, THERE WERE NO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.

This is just a short list of the outrageous things this administration has done: The Emperor With No Clothes and his administration lied (or were really ignorant) about WMD! The United States has invaded two countries since the Emperor took power. They are trying to destroy Social Security. They pay journalists to spin their programs. They are trying to dismantle nearly every environmental law on the books. The Attorney General apparently believes torture is acceptable. So why are people surprised they allowed a right wing faux-reporter into their midst? It's laughable they allowed it. It's outrageous. It's stupid. But it's not a surprise.

Nothing they do any more surprises me. I was trying to figure out how to write a satire about this time in our history. I don't think it's possible: because the truth is already so bizarre and unbelievable. I wouldn't have believed that Americans would have tolerated the assault on their freedoms (and economy and environment and sons and daughters) for so long. Yet here we are. In fact, more than a third of college students surveyed thought the government should have to approve newspaper stories before they were printed! No wonder our country is in deep trouble.

Still, I believe the screw has turned. (But I thought Bush would lose the election, so what do I know?) I can hear the cracks in the dam forming. (Yes, I’m mixing metaphors. Sue me.) It won't be too long before it'll burst. It won't be a big thing. (Because we've already done HUGE bad things: the war in Iraq, the torture of prisoners, Gonzales, Ashcroft, the Patriot Act.) It'll be something we laugh at at first. Then it'll become that added pressure to bring down the dam dam that is the Emperor With No Clothes and all his rapturous buddies.

And I'll be there with my dancing slippers on.

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