This isn’t a post on whether or not the parallels between the Visitors of the show and the current administration are deliberate or accidental; it’s not even a post on whether the parallels are fair, for given values of ‘fair*.’ It’s a post on whether we’re seriously expected to believe that the White House isn’t monitoring the program.
Please. 14 million people watched it last Tuesday. That’s a number that’s in the same general vicinity of Rush Limbaugh’s weekly numbers (at a guess), and there’s been a buzz for months that this miniseries wasn’t going to be about the hopeandchange. Expecting us to believe that any administration as obsessed with how it’s perceived as this one is hasn’t kept an eye on V is as about as realistic as expecting us to believe that either the Tea Party movement, or last week’s elections in New Jersey & Virginia, passed without the administration monitoring developments.
Which is to say, it’s not realistic to expect that.
Moe Lane
*In the broadest sense, it’s fairly obvious that the President is not a Reptoid wearing a flesh mask and sporting a desire for anthropophagy**.
**Firefox’s spelling dictionary leaves something to be desired.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
About a month ago...
MacAoidh Tuesday, November 10th at 8:04PM EST (link)…Jonah Goldberg did a piece in Commentary about how Battlestar Galactica went from a terrific Sci-Fi channel remake that had a lot of significance in the post-9/11 era to a puddle of left-wing drivel over the course of a few seasons.
The question is how long it takes before the same thing happens with V.
and nobody at the White House was watching the elections either. Yeah right. nt
Common_Cents Tuesday, November 10th at 8:06PM EST (link)“Never interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake.” Napoleon - Well, unless he is ruining your country! Common Cents
A cult of personality arises when a country’s leader uses mass media to create a heroic public image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise.[1] Cults of personality are often found in dictatorships.
I sure wish he was. It would be a vast improvement.
Tbone Tuesday, November 10th at 9:53PM EST (link)“In the broadest sense, it’s fairly obvious that the President is not a Reptoid wearing a flesh mask and sporting a desire for anthropophagy**”.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.