Evil Doug (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} evildoug) wrote,@ 2008-05-12 08:08:00 |
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″BUSH SUCKS!″ is now cliche.
Much like phrases about the ocean being salty or bears pooping in the woods, I think it is safe to say that the various permutations of ″BUSH SUCKS!″ have ceased to be edgey and hip and are now cliche.
I have chronicled how this has permeated all aspects of our culture. From Left Behind parodies to TV behind the scenes featurettes to behind the scenes commentaries on almost EVERY movie made (I still don't get how Seraphim Falls-which is a western- or Beowulf and Grendel are ″commentaries on the current administration in a post 9/11 world.″
So, as stated earlier, you got me. Bush sucks. There. Happy? After years of this, I think we as a civilization have been flooded with this so much that we will concede the point regardless of our politics just to make the world shut up and get back to the story/movie. We get it. He's Hitler, the Anti-Darwin, the second coming of Vlad the Impaler, the love child of Ghenghis Khan and Rasputin. I get it.
So, how do I arrive at it's cliche status? I was perusing ebert.com (because I LOVE his scathing reviews of bad movies...you should read the books YOUR MOVIE SUCKS! or I HATE HATE HATE THIS MOVIE!) and saw a review by Jim Emerson for Iron Man. He stated ″We need another superhero movie like we need another Bush administration.″
This variation of the cliche ″like another hole in the head″ opens the door for other great cliche modifications...
Do I like ice cream? Does the Bush administration shred the constitution in he woods?!
A leopard can't change his spots...especially with that &#*%+ in office.
Early to bed and early to rise makes Bush a lying sack of crap.
I'm not arguing for either side of the BUSH SUCKS phenomenon here. I no longer even have the energy to carry on my BUSH RULES campaign to push people's buttons. I just don't want to hear about it in every facet of my existence. To paraphrase the great scholar/humanitarian Ann Coulter, the great thing about a democracy is the freedom to not give a crap about some things.
Much like phrases about the ocean being salty or bears pooping in the woods, I think it is safe to say that the various permutations of ″BUSH SUCKS!″ have ceased to be edgey and hip and are now cliche.
I have chronicled how this has permeated all aspects of our culture. From Left Behind parodies to TV behind the scenes featurettes to behind the scenes commentaries on almost EVERY movie made (I still don't get how Seraphim Falls-which is a western- or Beowulf and Grendel are ″commentaries on the current administration in a post 9/11 world.″
So, as stated earlier, you got me. Bush sucks. There. Happy? After years of this, I think we as a civilization have been flooded with this so much that we will concede the point regardless of our politics just to make the world shut up and get back to the story/movie. We get it. He's Hitler, the Anti-Darwin, the second coming of Vlad the Impaler, the love child of Ghenghis Khan and Rasputin. I get it.
So, how do I arrive at it's cliche status? I was perusing ebert.com (because I LOVE his scathing reviews of bad movies...you should read the books YOUR MOVIE SUCKS! or I HATE HATE HATE THIS MOVIE!) and saw a review by Jim Emerson for Iron Man. He stated ″We need another superhero movie like we need another Bush administration.″
This variation of the cliche ″like another hole in the head″ opens the door for other great cliche modifications...
Do I like ice cream? Does the Bush administration shred the constitution in he woods?!
A leopard can't change his spots...especially with that &#*%+ in office.
Early to bed and early to rise makes Bush a lying sack of crap.
I'm not arguing for either side of the BUSH SUCKS phenomenon here. I no longer even have the energy to carry on my BUSH RULES campaign to push people's buttons. I just don't want to hear about it in every facet of my existence. To paraphrase the great scholar/humanitarian Ann Coulter, the great thing about a democracy is the freedom to not give a crap about some things.
