When it comes to war in Iraq, George W. Bush. You ARE the Father!
One of my favorite morality plays was just on the Maury show. Today's show title was, "13 men tested already... Will I find the Dad today?"
It is so great! The format is always the same. Show the woman saying she doesn't know who the father is so they test some schulb, the more bizarre the relationship the better. "Your sister's husband! Your step father! Your best friend's husband!" Then when they reveal he isn't the father, the mother screams and runs off the stage.
Often she falls and howls in emotional pain. Of course Maury and the cameramen are there to "comfort" her.
I have to wonder how many of these displays are scripted? Do they tell them, "Okay, when you find out the results you are going to run off this way, don't trip on those cords, by the way, then the camera will follow you as you cry. If you collapse in tears be sure to do it where the camera can see you. Maury will follow you and then ask you how you feel. Oh and be sure to keep your mike uncovered so we can hear you, okay? Good girl, now lets go have a great show!"
In the most recent one the woman "Talina" picks up her kleenex
(she's ready to go!) hears the news and... "she's off!"
She runs off stage right, collapses with her head in the couch. The the guy who WANTS to be the father comes and gives her a hug. Ahhhh. How sweet!
I gotta wonder how often the people involved (Like Georgette- 13 men tested!) are simply pulling the leg of the shows producers. I'm sure by now everyone knows their part. Georgette to man #12:
"Okay, Wam (the name of a recent guy, I kid you not) all you have to do is pretend to be my baby's father. You have to pretend you had a one night stand with me and then act all excited when you find out you are not the father. I'll collapse on stage or run off the stage so I can cry on cue. I get a free trip to the show, you get to stay in a nice hotel and we both get to be on TV. Sound good? Cool. What day can you do this? I'd like to do the Thursday show so we can go shopping on Friday."
Georgette even says, "I don't want to make a career of finding out who the father of my child is!" Yes you do.
Georgette probably knows the producers by their first name,
Hi Mary!
Oh hi Georgette. What number is it this time?
13.
Really? It seems like only yesterday we were looking at #6. My how time flys. Here's your hotel voucher. Oh, and be sure to pick up your Maury mug from the break room before you go.
Georgette will never know the father of her baby! If she does, she won't get to come back. Of course she will keep finding new guys to come on the show with her. Even when she found the father of one of her kids she ran off stage crying (force of habit?)
She said on today's show "I will continue looking for the father no matter what anyone thinks (a.k.a. I will continue looking for the father until Maury stops letting me on the show.)
Maury asks, "Are you real positive he is the father?" (How can Maury say that with a straight face? I guess he is acting too.)
Guess what? He wasn't the father! The funny part was that even Georgette couldn't get it up for the crying. It reminded me of that classic Cheers episode where Norm was a hatchet man for his company because he cried for all the people he fired, but finally he couldn't tear up anymore. Very funny show.
What does this have to do with George W. Bush and the war? Nothing. Unless you want to see it as a metaphor for how the Bush Admin are constantly changing their story about the reasons we are in Iraq. They know the real reason we are there, but they also know that if they told the people, even the most ardent supporter would have to condemn them, it's just too cruel to admit it to the parents of dead children. The fake story is "kinder" because what kind of MONSTER would send people to die for power and natural resources?
Can you imagine this reason given by the President?
"Sorry folks, we really just wanted to get control of the middle-east and all that juicy, juicy oil. We need it! We figured Saddam would be an easy mark, we figured we could pin terrorism or at the least some WMDs on him. Imagine our surprise when we didn't find WMDs! We totally thought he would have some lying around, even the old stuff we gave him would have been fine. We can't believe he really destroyed it! Anyway, since we couldn't tell you all that, we kept bringing in other reasons, "We were doing it to get rid of Saddam (hey we actually did that one! Give us some credit!) We did it to bring freedom to the brown Iraqi people. We are creating a democracy!" And of course all the time Cheney keeps hinting a link between 9/11 terrorists and Iraq.
And the media is there to pay their part in the show. Now we even have a grieving mother asking "What noble reason is the one that my son died for?" Because the "we wanted to get control of the middle-east and all that juicy, juicy oil" one just ain't noble enough. The "protecting America from Nukes" was a sweet one, but that one didn't work out, did it? The "they are linked with Al Qaeda" one would have been swell if it was true, but the few remaining practitioners of journalism forced the White House to admit that wasn't real. Of course the democracy one has a nice sound to it and it would have been more credible if they had STARTED with that one, but they didn't did they? So now the White House is clinging to this "We are there for the democracy" reason like "Georgette" is clinging to her Kleenex hoping that the producers will buy her fake tears. Because if they don't they won't let her on the show next month when she wants another trip to the big city and a chance to be on TV again.
Is this George W. providing fake comfort to the mother of a real dead soldier who died for a less than noble reason? Or is it Maury Povich providing fake comfort to a woman who provides a fake father for her real baby because knowing the real father won't get her a chance to show off her crying chops and get on TV?
It is so great! The format is always the same. Show the woman saying she doesn't know who the father is so they test some schulb, the more bizarre the relationship the better. "Your sister's husband! Your step father! Your best friend's husband!" Then when they reveal he isn't the father, the mother screams and runs off the stage.
Often she falls and howls in emotional pain. Of course Maury and the cameramen are there to "comfort" her.
I have to wonder how many of these displays are scripted? Do they tell them, "Okay, when you find out the results you are going to run off this way, don't trip on those cords, by the way, then the camera will follow you as you cry. If you collapse in tears be sure to do it where the camera can see you. Maury will follow you and then ask you how you feel. Oh and be sure to keep your mike uncovered so we can hear you, okay? Good girl, now lets go have a great show!"
In the most recent one the woman "Talina" picks up her kleenex
(she's ready to go!) hears the news and... "she's off!"
She runs off stage right, collapses with her head in the couch. The the guy who WANTS to be the father comes and gives her a hug. Ahhhh. How sweet!
I gotta wonder how often the people involved (Like Georgette- 13 men tested!) are simply pulling the leg of the shows producers. I'm sure by now everyone knows their part. Georgette to man #12:
"Okay, Wam (the name of a recent guy, I kid you not) all you have to do is pretend to be my baby's father. You have to pretend you had a one night stand with me and then act all excited when you find out you are not the father. I'll collapse on stage or run off the stage so I can cry on cue. I get a free trip to the show, you get to stay in a nice hotel and we both get to be on TV. Sound good? Cool. What day can you do this? I'd like to do the Thursday show so we can go shopping on Friday."
Georgette even says, "I don't want to make a career of finding out who the father of my child is!" Yes you do.
Georgette probably knows the producers by their first name,
Hi Mary!
Oh hi Georgette. What number is it this time?
13.
Really? It seems like only yesterday we were looking at #6. My how time flys. Here's your hotel voucher. Oh, and be sure to pick up your Maury mug from the break room before you go.
Georgette will never know the father of her baby! If she does, she won't get to come back. Of course she will keep finding new guys to come on the show with her. Even when she found the father of one of her kids she ran off stage crying (force of habit?)
She said on today's show "I will continue looking for the father no matter what anyone thinks (a.k.a. I will continue looking for the father until Maury stops letting me on the show.)
Maury asks, "Are you real positive he is the father?" (How can Maury say that with a straight face? I guess he is acting too.)
Guess what? He wasn't the father! The funny part was that even Georgette couldn't get it up for the crying. It reminded me of that classic Cheers episode where Norm was a hatchet man for his company because he cried for all the people he fired, but finally he couldn't tear up anymore. Very funny show.
What does this have to do with George W. Bush and the war? Nothing. Unless you want to see it as a metaphor for how the Bush Admin are constantly changing their story about the reasons we are in Iraq. They know the real reason we are there, but they also know that if they told the people, even the most ardent supporter would have to condemn them, it's just too cruel to admit it to the parents of dead children. The fake story is "kinder" because what kind of MONSTER would send people to die for power and natural resources?
Can you imagine this reason given by the President?
"Sorry folks, we really just wanted to get control of the middle-east and all that juicy, juicy oil. We need it! We figured Saddam would be an easy mark, we figured we could pin terrorism or at the least some WMDs on him. Imagine our surprise when we didn't find WMDs! We totally thought he would have some lying around, even the old stuff we gave him would have been fine. We can't believe he really destroyed it! Anyway, since we couldn't tell you all that, we kept bringing in other reasons, "We were doing it to get rid of Saddam (hey we actually did that one! Give us some credit!) We did it to bring freedom to the brown Iraqi people. We are creating a democracy!" And of course all the time Cheney keeps hinting a link between 9/11 terrorists and Iraq.
And the media is there to pay their part in the show. Now we even have a grieving mother asking "What noble reason is the one that my son died for?" Because the "we wanted to get control of the middle-east and all that juicy, juicy oil" one just ain't noble enough. The "protecting America from Nukes" was a sweet one, but that one didn't work out, did it? The "they are linked with Al Qaeda" one would have been swell if it was true, but the few remaining practitioners of journalism forced the White House to admit that wasn't real. Of course the democracy one has a nice sound to it and it would have been more credible if they had STARTED with that one, but they didn't did they? So now the White House is clinging to this "We are there for the democracy" reason like "Georgette" is clinging to her Kleenex hoping that the producers will buy her fake tears. Because if they don't they won't let her on the show next month when she wants another trip to the big city and a chance to be on TV again.
Is this George W. providing fake comfort to the mother of a real dead soldier who died for a less than noble reason? Or is it Maury Povich providing fake comfort to a woman who provides a fake father for her real baby because knowing the real father won't get her a chance to show off her crying chops and get on TV?
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Whoa, Spocko. Glad you watched that horror show and not me. I would have broken something trying to get to the remote too fast.
These shows induce brain rot, so be very sparing in your intake. These shows have dreadfully stupid people who think being on TV makes them into something more than just really obvious idiots. Any resemblance to real life or to actual sentient homo sapiens is coincidental.
As to the fakeness of George Bush, I think we saw through the creep's pseudo-sincerity right off. We will find out all the pathology we guessed at was real and he is totally unable to feel sympathy for anyone but himself. For him, it's all about him 24/7.
All the evildoers of the Reagan and Bush era have risen to the top in this administration. Bush keeps on rewarding misbehavior or mistakes. People keep getting promoted that in a sane world would have been fired long ago.
They have been so smitten by their own hubris that they have ceased to listen or react to reality. It took Cindy to smack them in the face with the fact that people are angry and are demanding answers and WILL HOLD PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE for what has occurred during the Bush debacle.
No wonder Bush is running away and trying to hide.
Hi Ellroon: Yes, I do try and watch those shows sparingly. They are usually a simple variation of the same theme so I only need to see them every once in awhile.
I sometimes wonder if the adminstration's hubris will get SO outragous that they will do something that even their apologists will have a hard time noticing.
I think the Cindy Sheehan experience is just such an event. Also, I think that without Karen Huges there to moderate Bush he will continue to make foot in mouth comments that get picked up. So Karen getting promoted is a GOOD thing. Now if only we can get Karl Rove in jail...
Hope they had the decorum to gloss over the obvious question: how many guys did you sleep with that month?
At face value, that would have to be at least 14, since apparently it was somebody other than the first 13 tested. That's a different guy every 2 days. Not to be judgemental about other people's sex lives, but she's been busy...
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