Jojo starts to do his I-gotta-pee dance everytime the political discussion here goes beyond ‘Was Belle & Sebastian better before or after Isobell left?’ But the alarming fact is politics has morphed beyond usual eye-glazing wonkery, regularly-scheduled scandal and resultant public apathy into something so dark and pernicious that a Supreme Court Justice openly talks of a slide into fascist dictatorship. Not in Iraq, right fuckin’ here! With this in mind, we are fortunate to have the likes of Attytood, Eschaton (even if we do wonder what the fuck is up with a grown man having some kind of gay superhero name like “Atrios”) and the newly re-activated Whiskey Bar separating the blatant lies from the more subtle propaganda we’ve all come to accept as the cost of citizenship. In this clever post, Whiskeybar tears out a few pages from the Pentagon Iraq Playbook — continue to hoodwink the American people into thinking there is a terrorist insurgency to cover the fact the Civil War everyone said would result from toppling Saddam is TOTALLY going on — and puts them side by side with pages from George Orwell’s 1984 and, well, we’ll leave it to you, dear reader, to spot the difference.
Whiskey Bar: ‘We’re All In This Together, Right Kid?’
Terry Gilliam’s Brazil: Can’t Happen Here?

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 26th, 2006 at 1:32 pm.