Remember Max Headroom? That cyborg-in-a-TV character from the 1980s? Well, there’s a Max Headroom-like quality to Hope ‘n Change’s upcoming live TV speech to our kids in school on September 9th. After all, we want to break down the barriers separating the Leader from the People – and we start with the kids, don’t you know?
Increasingly, however, Hope ‘n Change has a plastic quality. He repeats the lines written for him – generally pabulum with few specifics – and moves, herky-jerky, from one camera angle to the next. And if we squint real hard we see – Max Headroom. Who’s as plastic as it gets but far more entertaining.
Here’s old Max doing a Coke ad, circa 1985:
But where old Max was merely mugging for the camera, Hope ‘n Change really takes himself seriously. So seriously, in fact, that we should all pledge ourselves to someone as serious as him. But like all authoritarian pedants, Hope ‘n Change is deadly dull. So, he leaves it to his minions to produce propaganda in which they mindlessly pledge themselves to a vapid agenda, all viewed from on high by the Omniscient One.
Like this piece of mind-control (“To be a servant to my President and to all of mankind” – good grief):
As Michelle Malkin records in a recent post, this was shown to kids in a school assembly in Utah – much to the disgust and displeasure of their parents.
But back to Max Headroom. Seeing Obama on the tube makes me long for the old days when I could watch a piece of genuine plastic on my TV.
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Update: Here’s old Max singing the 1980s song “Paranoimia” by the techno-band “Art of Noise”. From what I can determine, “paranoimia” is an alternative spelling for “paranoia”. Seems to fit, don’t you think, the way old Hope ‘n Change is headed?
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I pledge not to send my kids to government schools. And I pledge not to partronize any of these celebutards’ films.