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February 04, 2005
Georgy Porgy snogs The Senator.
OK, I backslid into watching political coverage again.
Whomever challenges Joe Lieberman for his Senate seat in the next primary should secure as much outdoor advertising as possible and blow up this image to billboard size:
Sure, it'll be grainy, but that will enhance the tawdriness. In fact, the distortion might trick the eye momentarily, giving the image the feel of one captured through a telephoto lens angled through someone else's window. Something we weren't meant to see.
I'd put this image all over the place, principally on coffee sleeves and in commuter stations, so those good liberals who put Joe in the Senate could see how well they're being represented while they keep their hands warm on the Metro-North platform sipping their double half-caps.
Paid pundits evoke Michael kissing Fredo, and the video backs up that claim. Bush strides over confidently and grabs Joe with two clammy hands, drawing him close. I guess Lieby never had time to react, but I wonder how I might have reacted.
Would you be polite and gracious if Shrub tried to plant a big, wet one on you? Or would you instictively pull back, revulsed?
I'd like to imagine Joe slouching in a club chair with a Yoo-Hoo, hours after Hadassah has tucked herself in. He gazes balefully at the C-SPAN replay of the SOTU:
*"It ain't the way I wanted it! I can handle things... I'm smart -- not like everyone says -- not dumb, smart and I want respect!"
Posted by Your Protagonist at February 4, 2005 01:15 AM