These are challenging times for the aspiring humorist. This is from a blog post I did last month, purely in an attempt to be funny:
Gasoline prices have dropped dramatically, even drastically, in the last couple of weeks . . .there's some collusion going on here, folks. When prices go down like this, it does not just mean that the oil companies make obscene profits, though they surely do. We are also being sucked into driving even more, which means we will become even more dependent on all that oil. I tell you, this is one of the most evil, ingenious plots I have ever come across, and if it's not a reason for the immediate impeachment of George Bush, I don't know what is.
And this is from an actual, straightforward story yesterday.
WASHINGTON — There is no mystery or manipulation behind the recent fall in gasoline prices, analysts say. Try telling that to many U.S. motorists.
Almost half of all Americans believe the November elections have more influence than market forces. For them, the plunge at the pump is about politics, not economics.
Television got to the point that it was beyond being able to be parodied when there was an actual made-for-TV movie called "The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island." What outrageous invention could you come up with that could top that? I think we may be at that point in our American political life right now. People will do anything, say anything, believe anything. It is impossible to parody a culture like that.
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Another popular myth with lots of traction is that Saddam Hussein orchestrated the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and that our troops are in Iraq avenging those attacks. The crucial difference between this myth and the gasoline price myth is that the White House actually tries to propagate this one. What's beyond parody is the ineffectuality of the news media in debunking it.
While I agree that Hussein was never the "mastermind" behind 9/11...his "fingers were in the pie", as it were.
And I'm sorry, but when something tastes like that...something needs to be done.
The war on terrorism began long before 9/11, but it took THAT day to wake people up...
It's just sad to think THAT kind of "wake up call" was what America (and the world for that matter) needed to become motivated to confront this enemy.
Gas prices are dictated by Wall Street...futures market, plain and simple.
Were it that the war of Terror was that simple an equation to understand.
Like I said, this myth still has incredible traction. The media have been remiss in their duty to debunk the falsehood that Saddam or Iraq had anything whatsoever to do with 9/11.
Alex.. I guess perhaps the media has done a poor job clarifying which murderous, head chopping, children killing, women raping asswipe muslim leaders are responsible for which specific acts of terrorism.
Tim, ... well put.
Succinct...and to the point...
that's Tim for 'ya!
;)
B.G.
Ah, such clarity. One might conclude from the above that three to one the press has succeeded in failing the American public.
Bad press, ... bad, bad press, ...
Since Germany didn't have anything to do with Pearl Harbor, I guess we should have left them alone.
Nice analogy Leo. There's that common sense thing rearin' it's ugly head again!