Rove needs to start getting advice from Martha on cell decorating for Allentown, and Scooter needs to change that name before he gets ridden like a Mike Brown Arabian.
Popcorn...pass the popcorn...
posted by Jo Fish on 10.11.05 at 11:58 PM
Comments:
I read an article this morning on Bilmon (see URL in #3) that did something to my brain, and inspiration occurred. Does it not seem like Bush the Lesser has whole lot in common with Elvis the Larger (i.e., Fat Elvis)? Think about it:
1. He is surrounded with sycophants who help maintain the "bubble" that make him happy.
2. He lives in a kind of tacky white house with Greek revival columns.
3. He wants a damn cheeseburger for christsake. See, for explanation: http://billmon.org/archives/002249.html
4. Bush has his own plane, though it doesn't have TCB on the tail (though he does take care of business in the sense of enriching corporate cronies). However, he has been seen emerging from a plane to a flight deck with "Mission Accomplished" on a banner hung above it.
5. Elvis had the Colonel (Jim Parker) and Bush has the Brain (Karl Rove), both of whom try to do some of the heavy lifting for him.
6. Elvis died on the shitter; Bush choked on a pretzel. Yes, of course, he didn't die (sadly), but such a death would have been similarly unspectacular, unheroic, and silly-seeming.
7. Like Elvis, Bush has a well-hidden dependency on pharmaceutical "helpers" to keep him on an even keel (anti-depressants, rumor has it).
8. Both the Presleys and the Bushes have family compounds (Graceland and Kennebunkport).
9. Both Elvis and Bush left their boyhood homes to find greener pastures.
10. Both Elvis and Bush have a signature facial expression (the sneer and the smirk)
11. Elvis had the Memphis Mafia and Bush has the Mayberry Machiavelli.
12. Elvis defined "cool" for a generation and Bush defined "fool" for an entire nation.
Feel free to pile on. This is a lot more fruitful and fun than I ever hoped.
Oh, and by the way, I really do feel this casts a pall on the legacy of Elvis, who at least had something positive to contribute to his country (the fusion of hillbilly music with black music), did not avoid military service, and ultimately was a somewhat crazy, but sincere guy.
posted by: Doc Johnson on 10.12.05 at 09:55 AM [permalink]
