The Land of the Whopper


It is hard to know where to begin, other than to say the President told a Whopper on national television about health care — again.

The most disturbing thing about his health care Whoppers is that he does it with such ease and grace. He practices telling Whoopers. He enjoys telling Whoppers. He makes Whoppers up. Right in his own house. Makes them right on the spot. Super fast too. In fact, some Whoppers can appear right in front of you in seconds.

Maybe he should be the Spokesman in Chief for the Big Whopper. Or maybe there should be a big sign around the 1500 block of Pennsylvania Ave. — Home of the Whopper. Or Home of the King of the Whopper. (King Whopper among the commoners.)

On the one of five Sunday morning talk shows attended by the Whopper-in-Chief, CBS quoted Senator Hatch (R-UT) who said:

“If anyone believes that Washington can do a plan that will cost close to a trillion dollars, cover all Americans, not raise taxes on anyone, not increase the deficit, not reduce benefits or choices for our families or our seniors, then I have a bridge to sell you.”

In fact, in response to this obvious ridicule about his Whoppers, King Whopper told more Whoppers, which Politico reported thusly:

President Barack Obama blitzed the Sunday morning airwaves to pitch health reform but found himself on the defensive — denying the plan breaks his campaign promise not to raise taxes on the middle class and insisting the public insurance option isn’t dead.

Last week, Senator Rockefeller (D-WV) who is a member of the Senate Finance Committee told ABC News that the Senate plan had a “big, big tax” on the middle class. The Wall Street Journal reported that unions were up in arms about the tax and quoted one union member, Mr. Corner, who said: “It’s really going to impact the middle class.” The same health plan has the words tax or fee 243 times.

All of this may be explained by way of background: the name of the Land of the Whopper is called Whopper-bama, which is a special administrative district where the people who live there are call themselves Whopper-bamians, and are fed a constant diet of Whoppers. This food is so special and important that Whopper-bamians even feed Jr. Whoppers to their kids and elderly.

In fact, they have a big Whopper factory that is painted White. Before it was a factory it was called a House. (Although sometimes people slip back to their old ways and call it the House of Whopper, or more often, the Whopper House.)

Indeed, Whopper-bamians show great reverence towards Whoppers — they love Whoppers. It makes them feel better.

And what is really interesting is that some say — eating Whoppers leads to better health. Really, that is what Whopper-bamians say. For example, if you are dealing with an emotional subject, like abortion or immigration, then, that is when you really must have a Whopper. Calms you right down. I have seen it happen. True story.

Some experts even go on television and the radio and are quoted in newspapers saying that there is a special class of people who must have a special, constant diet of Whoppers. These experts say that this class of people knows who they are — they are called the political class. Yes, and these experts also say that large segments of another class of people need daily Whoppers too, the media class.

It is whispered in some places in Whopper-bama that if you are used to having Whoppers, and you don’t get them, you start to feel sick and nauseated and get a headache.

But some other people have an allergic reaction to Whoppers. They get angry and walk around with signs and come to these places called halls in towns and yell and argue a lot — usually they yell at someone from the land of Whopper-bama. It is starting to give the Whopper-bamians a complex.

For example, just the other day the leader of one part of Whopper-bama was so scared by these people with the angry reaction, that she said that the angry people were so many that they were a mob and lived in something called astro-turf. She said anger in the mob could lead to violence, and then she cried.

So now there are other experts who are very concerned and who have been studying the effects of Whoppers on different parts of the population. One expert, Frank Luntz, says Whoppers are making people furious. Yep. He says that “72% of the people I interviewed say that they’re ‘mad as hell and they’re not going to take it anymore.’”

Pollsters are always talking about two other groups of people who are having a bad reaction to Whoppers — independents and seniors. One expert, Charlie Cook, has named some of them “angry white seniors.”

Apparently, Cook says one group in particular, Democrats, will be most impacted by these folks who are experiencing Whopper side-effects. Cook also said something called a Wave Election — which is somehow caused by Whoppers reacting badly with another group of people called voters — “should terrify Democrats.”

Historians are saying that back at the beginning of Whopper-bamia, people did not know they were eating a Whopper until many weeks or months later — then they found out. Apparently, there was some mystical spell or Jedi-mind-trick that made people not see the Whopper until they had swallowed it whole. According to some, this mystical power is weakening from over-use. Now, the more people look, the more they see the Whopper before they eat it.

Historians also point to a picture of King Whopper called the JOKER, as about the same time that Whoppers began being identified more frequently.

And that is pretty much how things are going in this strange Land of the Whopper.


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Lets see if he get health care his way

dsmurf (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 6:54AM EST (link)

lets see here we have the
Whopper Jr
Regular Whopper
double decker whopper
triple decker Whopper
and the ANGRY Whopper

On a scale of WHopper Jr to Angry Whopper I’d say that the President doesn’t know how to make the whopper your way, with competition across state lines, and is more interested in insuring that his Union buddies can buy more of any the above whoppers by putting their health insurance on the government books, and the tax payer can Eat Whoppers as opposed to “cake”.

 

Mr. President: YOU LIE!!!!

RedBeard Monday, September 21st at 7:00AM EST (link)

Oh, wait… that’s already been done, and quite justifiably.

Not only was Joe Wilson right, but he was dead-nuts / right-on-target / slam-dunk / that’s-gonna-leave-a-mark right.

Very disturbing that it has taken so long for so many slumbering Americans to perk up, but at least it’s happening.

Standard-bearer for grouchy curmudgeonry since, oh, 1975 or so.

 

5 Shows and No News?

Spartan4Life (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 7:51AM EST (link)

Of course I didn’t watch any of the shows because I have better things to do with my time. I am amazed, however, at how little buzz there is today about anything the president said. Don’t you think they would have something newsworthy to say before agreeing to this all out media blitz? It makes the incredible shrinking president seem even smaller, don’t you think?

I didnt watch either.

yoyo (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 9:20AM EST (link)

I was too busy playing “Restaurant City” and “War Zone: Tower Defense” on Facebook.

Like you said, too many better things to do.

The only “news” that I have seen today is that the President did 5 shows and is doing Letterman tonight. Of course, it isn’t news anymore. I think I will watch “The Factor” replay instead.

Watching him is like watching “A Christmas Story” marathon. It is the same show, all over again. Nothing new is said. It is the same speech as it was last year and the year before that. Only with him, it isn’t once a year, it is at least twice a month.

I need duct tape… lots of duct tape. Just like the “Drill baby, Drill” campaign when all the drill bits were sent to Congress, we should send rolls of duct tape to the WH with a note; “SHUT THE DUCT UP!”

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Don Obama

biodyzl Monday, September 21st at 7:57AM EST (link)

He’s Don Obama tilting at windmills. He may be from another era, but he makes for amusing art. See it at www.thenothingstore.com

 

A Whopper with tax and a side of Stephanopoulos

techsan (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 7:59AM EST (link)

Didn’t see this report, but I caught a story from Kimberly Schwandt on FoxNews.com. Guess even dictionaries don’t provide any defense against the power of the Whopper.

It’s short, so I’ll post it here. [LINK].

President Obama and ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos got in a testy sparring match Sunday over whether the president’s health care plan includes a tax increase, leading the host to look up the Merriam-Webster dictionary definition of taxes.

In the interview airing Sunday, Stephanopoulos pressed the president on his plan to require people to purchase health insurance.

“Under this mandate, the government is forcing people to spend money, fining you if you don’t. How is that not a tax?” the host asked.

Obama responded: ” No, but — but, George, you — you can’t just make up that language and decide that that’s called a tax increase.”

Stephanopoulos then offered the dictionary definition.

“I don’t think I’m making it up. Merriam-Webster’s dictionary: ‘Tax, a charge, usually of money, imposed by authority on persons or property for public purposes,’” he said.

Visibly taken aback, Obama rejected the notion it was a tax increase and said pulling the dictionary out was a sign the host was “stretching” a little.

“No. That — that’s not true, George. The — for us to say that you’ve got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase,” Obama said.

It’s not a tax…just because The One says it’s not. Whopper!

In the end, all we have on our side of the debate are facts and history.

Orwellian Language = NObaman Language = Humpty Dumpty

Ausonius (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 8:25AM EST (link)

Humpty Dumpty: “When I use a word,” he said in a rather scornful tone, “It means only what I choose it to mean: neither more nor less!”

So when Big BRObama says a tax increase is NOT increase, so be it!

America was not paying attention last year when it elected this disaster of a relativist. We are truly in a Wonderland of Political Doublespeak: Orwell meets Lewis Carroll!

Except that we are now living in the middle of a nightmarish satire!

Ausonius: 310-395 A.D. Teacher, Poet, Consul, General, Farmer.

Personal Tutor to the future St. Paulinus of Nola and to young Gratian, heir to the throne during the turbulent final years of the Western Roman Empire. When his former student Gratian was assassinated, Ausonius threw up his hands and retired to his farm in Gaul. Rome was captured by barbarians 14 years after his death.

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Barack Dumpty

Crowe (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 8:26AM EST (link)

(Not sure how html tags work in this system, but I’m going to attempt some)

“Tax,” apparently isn’t in Obama’s lexicon-for-the-moment. Or, if it is, he’s giving it the Humpty Dumpty treatment:

`When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

`The question is,’ said Alice, `whether you can make words mean so many different things.’

`The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, `which is to be master – - that’s all.’

Alice was too much puzzled to say anything, so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again. `They’ve a temper, some of them — particularly verbs, they’re the proudest — adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs — however, I can manage the whole of them! Impenetrability! That’s what I say!’

`Would you tell me, please,’ said Alice `what that means?`

`Now you talk like a reasonable child,’ said Humpty Dumpty, looking very much pleased. `I meant by “impenetrability” that we’ve had enough of that subject, and it would be just as well if you’d mention what you mean to do next, as I suppose you don’t mean to stop here all the rest of your life.’

`That’s a great deal to make one word mean,’ Alice said in a thoughtful tone.

`When I make a word do a lot of work like that,’ said Humpty Dumpty, `I always pay it extra.’

`Oh!’ said Alice. She was too much puzzled to make any other remark.

Steph clearly made a mistake pulling out something so limiting as a dictionary, he should have first asked Obama what he meant by all those fees and fines before pursuing any line of questioning…

“We sleep soundly in our beds only because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harm Dear Leader Obama gives us leave to do so.”

Oh good, they worked.

Crowe (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 8:27AM EST (link)

That’s always convenient.

“We sleep soundly in our beds only because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harm Dear Leader Obama gives us leave to do so.”

 

When I make a word do a lot of work like that,’ said Humpty Dumpty, `I always pay it extra.’

6eorge Jetson (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 8:40AM EST (link)

Only Zero™ will be paying with taxpayer funds.

 
 

Thanks for posting this article techsan

Dan Perrin (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 8:41AM EST (link)

I am glad RedStaters will see it, because I missed it and it is really important to read.

DP...you're welcome

techsan (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 9:00AM EST (link)

I feel like there’s a torrent of articles like these right now. With so much tripe flowing from the mouths of our “leaders”, I very much agree we need to find them and share. It all so shocking…but what’s even more shocking, by way of Ausonius and Crowe above, is that no less than a children’s tale can explain away the lunacy of where we’ve landed as a country.

In the end, all we have on our side of the debate are facts and history.

Pls do not be shy about posting them here

Dan Perrin (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 9:53AM EST (link)

I have already made use of Kimberly’s on another web site.

 
 
 
 

Good diary Dan.

NeoKong (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 9:07AM EST (link)

I love your humor.

55555

When we all eat Obama’s Whoppers do we get a paper crown or an unemployment check…?

Follow me on Twitter.

Thanks, appreciate it

Dan Perrin (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 9:57AM EST (link)

I think I get what 55555 is — laughter?

I hope someone, some where is printing up the Obama Whopper t-shirts, crowns and table napkins..

Dan

Brian Simpson (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 10:21AM EST (link)

The 5 is a leftover from an earlier version of RedState where you could rate (comments?) on a scale of one through five. The system went away but the practice did not. It’s morphed into almost a contest to see who can come up with the most creative versions of the 5.


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Ah, thank you

Dan Perrin (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 10:36AM EST (link)

before my time here…

 
 

Seriously....

NeoKong (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 11:13PM EST (link)

Good diary.

I mean that that.

You fleshed it out in a meaningful way beyond a simple catch phrase.
It was worth reading.
Nice job.

Follow me on Twitter.

I was really fun to write it

Dan Perrin (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 7:58AM EST (link)

Thanks, I’m glad you liked it.

 
 
 
 

Watching Obama's version of the definition of what "is" is.

archer52 Monday, September 21st at 9:18AM EST (link)

Outside all of the other reasons we discuss about why Obama does what he does and says what he says, I believe we are witnessing what lawyer do when there is no one around to stop them.

They lie.

They lie to promote their argument. They lie to avoid being forced into the truth. They lie because in their world, as in democrat politics, the ends always justify the means. (The sooner we get that, the quicker we quit getting hammered with a stunned look on our faces.)

My buddy, also a former detective boiled this down for me. He said lawyers will say and do anything to promote their client’s case. In Obama’s situation, Obama is Obama’s client. Judges are in the court not to interpret the law, but to keep the lawyers in line. If the judge wasn’t there, they lawyers would spin off into space, telling bigger and bigger whoppers. It is what they do.

The “Judge” in politics is supposed to be the unbiased media which scream “objection” when it hears a whopper- something it did all the time with GW. But Obama said what he said because he knew there would be no objection, just genuflection to his will and word.

If you let it get to you, you’ll find yourself screaming at the television, doing a Joe Wilson. You have to understand, it is like lions eating baby gazelles, or snakes eating rats when you see lawyers lie. It is simply their nature. This is one reason, if I were god for a day I would change one law and make a huge difference. I would deny lawyers the right to run for public office or hold the position of a judge. I’d make common sense and some sort of decency grab a foothold in the courts and in politics.

Only unethical lawyers who do not really

4life (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 10:13AM EST (link)

care about the law or truth. That would be a small number of lawyers. And even though Clinton and Obama have law degrees, did they actually practice law? Clinton may have briefly, but I don’t think Obama ever did. Actually I think lawyers have a very high regard for the law in general, and truth in particular. At least the ones I know do. And lawyers who lie end up disbarred at best or in jail at worst. Or, they run for President.

Don't forget about the lawyers who lie who end up in politics. nt

nessa (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 11:05AM EST (link)

“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams

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You obviously don't know many lawyers or you're just

mbecker908 (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 8:51AM EST (link)

clueless.

The legal profession is the profession where the actions of the 99% denigrate the good 1%

My husband is a lawyer. A good one.

4life (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 12:02PM EST (link)

And I know lots of lawyers who respect the law and truth. In fact, my husband can spot a liar a mile away and his very favorite thing to do is to catch someone lying in a deposition or in court. Our kids have NO chance of ever getting away with anything when he is around. I think you are the one who doesn’t know very many lawyers. You see lawyers see people going to jail and losing lawsuits all the time because of lying. Of course there are some bad apples. Just like there are some businessmen who are unethical. But in my experience the vast majority are honest.

There's a difference between being "honest" and

mbecker908 (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 1:09PM EST (link)

being an “honest lawyer”. It’s the same difference between “the law” and “justice”. They are mutually exclusive.

I’m not going to get into a pissing contest with you, but the biggest problem – or one of them – is the promenence of lawyers in our society.

 

You must know the 1% that the other 99%

Achance (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 1:21PM EST (link)

are giving a bad name. And I DO know a lot of lawyers. Had lots of them working for me, worked with lots of them, and worked against lots of them.

Frankly, no lawyer should ever hold any executive office or be in a true decision making position. Their whole training is to find an argument and they can make an argument for or against anything. Whether or not that argument should be made on moral or ethical, even legal, grounds is rarely if ever a part of their analysis. They just shrug their learned shoulders and say something like, “that’s up to the jury/people/trier-of-fact to decide.”

To be a successful advocate, you must believe in yourself and your ability to win with your argument. Consequently, lawyers turned decision makers will ride a bad argument and a bad decision right over a cliff that was visible to any real person.

In Vino Veritas

 
 
 
 

Excellent!! Watching Obama's version of what "is" is.......well done...nt

USNJIMRET (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 11:51AM EST (link)
 

my sister is really non-political...

larryp Monday, September 21st at 4:42PM EST (link)

but she got the 4 or so Obama appearances on Sunday as thus:
‘He doesn’t say anything” and
He talks in circles”

 

"1500 block of Pennsylvania Ave. — Home of the Whopper"

rec0n Monday, September 21st at 9:48PM EST (link)

And thar’s you sign, lol. I wonder if we’ll see it at the next rally? Great post.

Glad you liked it

Dan Perrin (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 7:57AM EST (link)