October 20, 2004
Bush The Serpent
You know that snake in The Jungle Book? The one with the pinwheel eyes that tries to hypnotize Mowgli? That's Bush! It's not just that Bush is a bully, it's that he tries to hypnotize the voters. He and especially Karen Hughes. Their MO is to repeat an allegation over and over again until people think it's true - to the point of completely ignoring directly relevant counterpoints. It was weird how often Bush did that in the debates. Didn't even modify the attack to Kerry's response, just plain old repeated it. His response over and over again is simply, "Trust me." More aptly, "Repeat after me:" followed by the attack of the day. They're not even so much attacks, as coaching the rest of us to mindlessly adopt his talking points.So here's the web ad that needs to be produced. Or even a political cartoon. Take the Jungle Book snake, singing "Trust in mee....... trust in mee....." and put Bush's face on it. Mowgli is America.