Newsweek Compares Bush Era as Star Wars to Obama's as Star Trek

Newsweek Compares Bush Era as Star Wars to Obama's as Star Trek

By Warner Todd Huston (Bio | Archive)
May 7, 2009 - 03:00 ET

Naturally all Bush's folks are the Evil Characters

In a transparently unhinged and partisan hit job against several Bush administration officials, Newsweek thought it would be amusing to compare the Bush era and the Obama era by analogizing them with Star Wars and Star Trek respectively. Naturally Newsweek's Bush Derangement Syndrome was given full throated expression -- phasers set to kill not to stun -- as the Bush administration officials were noted as representing one or the other of the evil Star Wars characters while all the Obama officials were compared to the good guys in Star Trek. What we get is the typical Old Media talking point: Bush evil/ Obama good.

Out of the nine Star Wars characters used on the SW side to explain the Bush era, only five are conceivably a good guy. The rest are all the SW bad guys. But even that isn't as it would seem on its face. It's so bad that even when Newsweek uses any of the ostensible good guy characters from Star Wars, their caption tends to undercut the good nature of the character when coupled with a Bush official. For instance, we all know that the happy and fun character of C-3PO is a beloved Star Wars character, but in Newsweek's hands the venerable, loyal robot becomes former Bush Spokesman Ari Fleischer. Why is C-3PO like Fleisher? Why because he's "obsequious" and "glabrous," of course. Hardly flattering.

It gets worse. On the Star Trek side only one of the nine Star Trek characters used for Obama era figures is a Star Trek bad guy. Evil Klingon Commander Kor becomes... wait for it... Rush Limbaugh! That's right, the only bad guy on Newsweek's Obama side is Limbaugh. Every other Obama era official is compared to a Star Trek good guy and lionized in the caption.

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So what is the outcome? Let's take the Bush/Star Wars side first. Bush himself is the evil, tragic Darth Vader, Rumsfeld is the evil general Grand Moff Tarkin, Cheney is the corrupt and venal Star Wars Emperor, Rove the sneaky, uncaring bounty hunter Boba Fett, and Alberto Gonzales is a "disposable flunky" Stormtrooper.

Now, W's dad, former president H.W. Bush, is coupled with Obi-Wan Kenobi. You might then say, well SEE, Obi-Wan is a good guy. Oh, but wait for the caption. You see, H.W. Bush is Obi-Wan because he was the "confirmed sage disappointed by the cherished disciple Vader." In other words, he is the wise father disappointed by the failure son. According to Newsweek, then, H.W. Bush was the "good" president because Newsweek agreed with H.W.'s wrongheaded foreign policy.

Worse is the silly portrayal of Colin Powell as the Han Solo frozen in carbonite. You see, in Newsweek's eyes Powell was a good guy that was "thwarted by Vader." So, even as they compare Powell to one of the Star Wars heroes they pick the time in the movie series when that hero was frozen and powerless, unable to be a hero.

But what of the wonderful, bright and shining Obama era? Who are they in the Star Trek universe? Prepare to be sickened.

Naturally, Obama is the logical Spock, the smartest guy in the room, with "cool, collected" brilliance. Robert Gibbs is teamed with Lt. Uhura simply as "communications chief." No dig at the failure that is Gibbs is given by Newsweek, of course. Ben Bernanke is Scotty because he's warning of the troubles ahead. Tax cheat Timothy Geithner is Nurse Chapel because he's a "dependable helping hand." Axelrod is Checkov merely because he "sets the course." I already mentioned Limbaugh as the eeeevil Klingon.

Now we get to the two that might be considered a jab, but only just.

VP Biden is compared to D. McCoy with this odd caption: "Salty motormouth who thinks he knows best." This I find to be an insult to McCoy because Dr. McCoy was never in the Star Trek series the clown that Biden is in real life.

Finally, we get Bill Clinton compared to the scarred and withered version of Star Trek's Captain Pike, the man that commanded the Enterprise before Captain Kirk did in the TV series. Bill Clinton is like Pike because he was "so talented, so promising... so damaged." And this too is a bad analogy. Pike is nothing like the disloyal, womanizing Clinton. All Captain Pike fans should be telling Newsweek to shove it.

... of course, any Bush fans should be too.

(And this is doubly galling for me because I think Star Wars is kiddie, junk. Star Trek was the one with the intellectual heft between the two. Sigh.)

(H/T NewsBuster reader John)

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hmmmm....

May 7, 2009 - 04:12 ET by klchadwick

i think i would have compared rahm to william shattner rather than captain kirk.....

also, as i said in a recent blog posting, i think it would be a compliment to be nicknamed darth vader. of course that was when i was commenting on that name being attributed to cheney. ;0) one other thing just for posterity sake...wouldn't bush have to be anakin skywalker and NOT darth vader? i mean for the analogy to be correct according to their own definitions....

btw, i swear im not a trekie (my husband is but won't admit it!) however being a kid in the 80's you almost couldn't help but be a star wars fan!

http://politicaldessert.wordpress.com

Characters

May 7, 2009 - 14:40 ET by grumpyoldb

And Newsweek (of course) is run by all the fine characters from South Park.....

Naw

May 7, 2009 - 21:43 ET by DoktorFranken

The characters from Family Guy. And you gotta know that Biden is Peter.

South Park is not only "fair" (by satirizing both Left and Right), they actually hit on the Left more.

Thanks for this

May 7, 2009 - 04:08 ET by Vivaldi5

Mr. Huston, thanks for providing the public service reading all the way through and documenting this inanity so most of us (except perhaps the masochistic?) won't have to do it ourselves.

And this is the magazine that Jonny Meacham wants to make a "thought leader" and have emulate The Economist! It might help if Newsweek assigned their lead stories to someone besides hacks willing to misrepresent and distort basic facts (e.g., Lisa Miller in "The Religious Case for Gay Marriage") and never-grew-up college kids fitting politics into their fantasy worlds ("Dude, Cheney is so like Darth Vader!").

Besides, everyone knows that the Star Trek character set most appropriate to the mindset of the Obama administration is The Borg--"Resistance Is Futile"!

vivaldi5, as i said i'm no trekie.....but

May 7, 2009 - 04:15 ET by klchadwick

it would seem to be the then entire lot of the obama admin is nothing but klingons! and that's more than just in the trekie sense. ;0)

http://politicaldessert.wordpress.com

Klingons???

May 7, 2009 - 06:16 ET by jazzact13

No, no, no...

They way they're trying to assimilate everyone, they can only be Borg.

"Thoroughly worldly people never understand even the world; they rely altogether on a few cynical maxims which are not true."

Chesterton, Orthodoxy

Visitors from "V"

May 7, 2009 - 09:22 ET by JeffC...

I realize that I'm shifting to a different sci-fi realm, but the 0bama people remind me more of the alien "Visitors" from the miniseries "V."

Promises save humanity, from itself even.
Marginalizing opponents (scientists--the ones who figure out what the visitors are really up to).
Operating in secrecy.
Out to control all media.
Uniformed youth organization.

Check out the wikipedia entry for the miniseries. Lots of points I had forgotten about since it's been a while since I've seen the original miniseries.

A better analogy would be

May 8, 2009 - 07:01 ET by BD

A better analogy would be the Bush Administration is the old Star Trek, the Obama administration is the next generation.

When something attacked the earth or an outpost, Kirk flamed its ass. Bush.

When something attacks the earth or an outpost - Picard seeks to "Negotiate" or feel its pain. Obama.

Sure

May 7, 2009 - 04:23 ET by Warner Todd Huston

It's simultaneously my pleasure and my cures.

Be sure and visit my home blog PubliusForum.com.

As Usual,

May 7, 2009 - 04:50 ET by Massage_Master07

Newsweek has it totally bass ackwards. If you know ANYTHING about Star Wars, you would know that it was Darth Vader and the Emporer that would do anything and everything they can do to take and have power and control over the lives of hundreds of planets. Obama would be Darth Vader and George (Nazi sympathizer) Soros would be the Emporer. Of course congressional liberals would be the generals and officers of Vader. ACORN and other community organizers and organizations would be the stormtroopers scaring and threatening private citizens.

I see THAT comparison being more appropriate than Newsweek's account. But what do I know. I'm just a bitter clinger that my government has deigned as dangerous. LOL

massage_master

May 7, 2009 - 08:16 ET by klchadwick

you asked "But what do I know".....personally I'd say more than George Lucas as I agree with your assessment more than the one from Newsweek which was supposedly his (at least he part abt cheney). but then again, i guess i have to admit that i really don't like lucas so maybe i'm the biased one. lol

http://politicaldessert.wordpress.com

Agreed

May 7, 2009 - 08:21 ET by Warner Todd Huston

Star Wars is far less the "great epic" than the empty, shallow, childish, popcorn that it truly is.

Be sure and visit my home blog PubliusForum.com.

I have to defend

May 7, 2009 - 09:53 ET by klchadwick

myself here and say that as a child of the 80's, it would have been blaphemous NOT to like star wars....i had a leia costume and everything, one of those plastic jobbies that are probably illegal today. ;0) also, i STILL like star wars, but not to the huge degree that some do. I usd to think it was only trekies that went overboard (i quizzed husband once who still denies being one, asking him what the call numbers of the enterprise were and he rattled it off like it was his ss#!) however, a couple of years ago i changed my mind.

while i agree that the actually MOVIES themselves may be empty and shallow, there are some jedi-wannabes that have gone over to the crazy side of the force. for some reason like a year or two ago i looked up han solo....let's just say that i was introduced to brand new and very very scary world...check out some of the "featured articles". you don't even have to read them....just seeing the list is enough! ROTFLMAO:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

(btw, i know that i for one have to thank you for giving me a huge laugh for the day with this newsweek mess! also, i'm sure my husband will be chiming in soon, but he is already looking forward to using this in other discussions today. ;0) )

http://politicaldessert.wordpress.com

Reaction from Lucas?

May 7, 2009 - 13:40 ET by Anneke9

Knowing what a big, anti-Bush lib that Lucas is, I wonder how he feels seeing his beloved characters compared to Bushies. Do I smell a lawsuit?

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Oh I liked 'em too

May 7, 2009 - 20:22 ET by Warner Todd Huston

Don't get me wrong, I had fun with the movies, too. When I saw the premiere in the late 70s I was jazzed as heck coming out of the theater.

They were fun.

But there is nothing to reflect upon. They are an inch deep and a mile wide. Empty. Bubblegum. Lite as air. There isn't the first bit of intellectual depth to them.

On the other hand, by comparison, Star Trek is quite deep in its philosophical ideas and ideals. Whether you agree with the utopian conclusions or not, you cannot say the show is shallow. They made quite an effort to spin some in depth thoughts... well, as in depth as a TV show can get, that is.

So, for pure fun you have Star Wars. But for something a bit more fulfilling, go for Star Trek.

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The original movie, before

May 7, 2009 - 21:17 ET by lotr

The original movie, before it was "renamed," was clever, creative, exciting, fun and deserving of its box office success, IMHO. There aren't too many movies out there that instilled the same sense of box office excitement of something unique and "out of this world." Ironically, Lucas, like his Anakin "saga" character, was seduced by the Dark $ide.

"Let's wrap him up, alright?" -- Keith Olbermann

I really thought that what

May 7, 2009 - 21:34 ET by balboa

I really thought that what the latter three movies suffered from more than anything was Lucas' gigantic ego. He tried to make the prequels "deep" instead of giving us the fun of the first three movies.

I'm not well-versed in Star Trek so I can't really comment on WTH's popcorn v. depth comment, although I remember Kirk's "musings" about the way alien societies lived their lives.

egotism

May 8, 2009 - 11:09 ET by lotr

Good point.

"Let's wrap him up, alright?" -- Keith Olbermann

I’ll admit, I loved Star

May 8, 2009 - 09:09 ET by Spoon

I’ll admit, I loved Star Wars when I first saw it as a kid. Still do, actually, for the fun and epic-ness. But then I read Lord of the Rings…

Luke – country bumpkin with the key to defeating the evil in the universe, plans to the Death Star.

Frodo – country Bumpkin with the key to defeating the evil in Middle-Earth, the One Ring.

Obi-Wan – old sage who dies early on but still guides our hero.

Gandalf - old sage who dies early on but still guides our hero.

Han – experienced scofflaw with the heart of a noble hero.

Aragon – experienced exile with the heart of a noble king.

C-3PO & R2D2 = Merry & Pippin – comic relief.

Sauron = Emperor – ultimate evil, sending out minions to control all of the universe/Middle Earth

Witch King = Vader – corrupted by above, used as an evil enforcer.

Saruman = Grand Moff Tarkin – another evil, but one that thinks he has real power.

Leia = Samwise – this is the trickiest one. I first thought Samwise was left out by Lucas, and Leia thrown in since there was a lack of horny teen factor in Lord of the Rings, but then in subsequent movies, we see Leia as Luke’s rock to lean on, and finally his sister. Hey, if Frodo and Sam was the ultimate Bromance, macking on your sister makes sense, even if it is creepy. ;-)

I know, off topic. So I’ll add, Newsweek is a partisan rag. There, now I feel better.

spoon,

May 8, 2009 - 09:22 ET by Agnostic

also, the famed Lucas' idea of having planets of different ecological designs was already done by Herbert.

A person may be won over with logic and reason but the masses must be bought with spectacle and platitudes. - 2008 Elections

Considering that Lucas

May 8, 2009 - 10:39 ET by Lord Elicani

Considering that Lucas consciously based many of his characters off of Lord of the Rings, that's no surprise.

As a writer - and specifically a writer of science fiction, I can say thatmost everything coming out of the genre today is going to bear some resemblance to something else, with Trek and SW and LotR foremost among them. The trick is to spin them just a little differently, so that the same archetypes and steps on what's called 'The Hero's Journey' make a new tale.

I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?

- Queensrÿche, "Revolution Calling"

Newsweek is simply lost in space

May 7, 2009 - 05:56 ET by DustBunny01

Rahm Emanuel is cast as Captain Kirk.

Is Newsweek suggesting that President Obama is subordinate to Rahm Emanuel? That President Obama follows the orders of Rahm Emanuel and is relegated to providing "advice"?

If Newsweek can't get a simple analogy correct, no wonder it functions only as a defective court jester to the Obama Administration.

CLUELESS in space!!!

May 7, 2009 - 14:01 ET by Pilgrim1949

Thinking along the same wavelength...

I think Obama fancies himself Prof. John Robinson, sage patriarch of the space clan.

Michelle is, of course, the wise (yet motherly) Maureen, smiling in her fashionable (yet not too gaudy) uniform (and EVERYONE, of course, must wear uniforms!! [und choo vill like it, ya?]).

Rahm the Bomb would be Dr. Smith, always conniving to take advantage of the latest crisis for gain.

I think Joe Biden would be good as the Robot, always quipping the bon mot (in his own mind) and frequently flailing his arms about shouting, "Danger! Danger!" ......stay away from enclosed spaces...(like his head?)

The rest of the cast? Frankly, who cares, other than they're FAMILY members (Chigaco "family"??? Hmm.....)

Of course one has to have the guest evil being (can't use "alien" here....) du jour against which to rally the troops to do battle.

Unfortunately, Lost in Space (like Gilligan's Island, castaways always fetching about for the latest thing that might bring their salvation) spent most of their time lurching from one lost planet to another (when the TV production budget permitted).

I fear this Cluless Club in charge is also quite lost (except for doggedly [and cattedly -- must be inclusive here!] pursuing their own pet interests). Alas, their own interests run dangerously against those of actually doing long-term good for the nation.

Time will tell of they'll be renewed for another season. Once can only hope for early cancelation and descent into an obscure future Trivial Pursuit category.

Well they need something to do...

May 7, 2009 - 05:57 ET by jdripper

when they are sitting around their empty newsrooms wondering why not even family members subscribe to their silly rag.

Jack

"If at age 20 you are a conservative then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are a liberal then you have no brains." Sir Winston Churchill

Yes, many media types are in their financial death throes

May 7, 2009 - 07:44 ET by jondelwiche

so they are going to be as obnoxious as possible.....
might help them land an admin job, you know.

Don't forget Michelle 'Lursa' Obama

May 7, 2009 - 06:25 ET by Lord Erond

Who perpetually looks as if someone is holding a pain stick to her crotch.

"I'm against fascism, but I wouldn't mind eliminating all the liberals" -Unknown

Glock + Pb = Freedom from Fascists

Are you sure this wasn't

May 7, 2009 - 06:36 ET by motherbelt

Are you sure this wasn't written by Maureen Dowd?

Sounds like her style...

Gosh, how I miss her renditions of "The Dick and Rummy Show".....

And hey, wait a minute! Wasn't Cheney supposed to be Darth Vader???

Update: I just read the whole thing....I knew MoDo had something to do with it!!! LOL

They might say "Wow, that sucks!" But at least they'll say "Wow!" -Duff Goldman, the Ace of Cakes

what a laugh, rush a

May 7, 2009 - 06:47 ET by kangaroo

what a laugh, rush a clingon, he is no way related to BOzos old lady, hey lets put all the libs on rocket and send them to deep space nine

Good morning kangaroo

May 7, 2009 - 07:14 ET by cocodrie

How about a manned expedition to the sun? It;a a little cooler there now and they could get away from the global warming that's going to freeze us here.

Jesus Loves You so much He died for you

morning cocodrie, suns to

May 7, 2009 - 07:21 ET by kangaroo

morning cocodrie, suns to good for them, how about sending them to the planet of the apes, they would fit right in, love to see the apes deal with these apes LOL

Great kangaroo

May 7, 2009 - 07:32 ET by cocodrie

Now we can tell them where to go without being racist. Since they all believe in evolution, they would be going to be with family.

Jesus Loves You so much He died for you

I was thinking about the R

May 7, 2009 - 07:37 ET by kangaroo

I was thinking about the R word when I was typing that, but this admin is like spaceballs a big joke, but they still ended up on the planet of the apes LOL

Very objective of Newsweek.

May 7, 2009 - 07:15 ET by c5then

Regardless of the vehicle chosen for their ode to Obama, comparing 8 years worth of administration to one only 3 months old seems kind of irrelevant to me. But then again, I wasn't trained in the elite journalism schools of the Empire.

Hey, I got the wrong "CHANGE"!

www.loyaltoliberty.com

Who would Chris Matthews be...?

May 7, 2009 - 07:20 ET by supercon

He could be Harry Mudd.Always trying to pull some scam.

If I were to make a Star Trek analogy about the Obama administration it would be the episode when they went to the planet with the happy spores.All the journalists were affected first and they were all deliriously happy and content and stopped doing their jobs.Then they try to infect everyone else with the spores.Only Fox News was not affected as they try to break the affect that the spores have on everybody.

Hey Janet Napolitano...I'm proud to be a Right-winger.

You have to laugh...

May 7, 2009 - 07:30 ET by Paul Atreides

any criticism of Da Wun will get you a "he's only been in for three months, give him a chance!"; yet, to hear his worshippers tell it, he's set the standard for everything in those three months.

Star Trek Was Always Socialistic

May 7, 2009 - 08:25 ET by JustAl

It never took a "rocket scientest" to figure out that Star Trek was filled with socialistic eutopian dellusions. Don't get me wrong, I love the francise for the entertainment, but I know it's just make believe. Unfortunately, a number of young voters seem to think it's real.

No war (at least not on earth), no hunger, few diseases, etc., all solved by nifty though impractical or even impossible technology. Yes, that sounds like the green revolution alright, the only thing missing is unicorns (was there ever a unicorn in any of the shows?).

Of course there are still the privalages of rank, apparently only the senior officers ever got laid.

As for me, I think Ralm is a ringer for Quark, " never waste a crisis."

Re SF

May 7, 2009 - 08:34 ET by slickwillie2001

Unfortunately most science fiction is socialist, -no money, no corporations left, world-government garbage, government seems to be responsible for children because they're never around, etc. When corporations exist, inevitably they are the source of all evil.

I've only come across a few exceptions here and there. It may be however because writers are lazy and letting government do everything is an easy out. It's sort of that way with people too.

Almost all of the sci-fi

May 7, 2009 - 12:58 ET by mvfreeman

Almost all of the sci-fi I've read has an economy based on trade of tech or goods, and people having jobs.

If the human race has spread to the stars and met other space faring civilizations it would make sense to have a govt on a global level, since the idea of country would be an anachronism.

A lot of the books I've read mention huge corporations that would have enough capital and workers and equipment to do things on a stellar scale.

And the idea of personal responsibility prevades a lot of sci -fi.

A good recent read is John Scalzi...

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=scalzi\

Good stuff.

Star Trek is really the only sci-fi I can think of right now that is utopian in its look towards the future. Most other books and movies have a much more grim and even dystopian view of humanity's future.

Where's Michelle?

May 7, 2009 - 08:27 ET by slickwillie2001

So what's Michelle, a Wookie or a Klingon? Do we have a choice?

LOL

May 7, 2009 - 08:28 ET by DontFeedTheTrolls

Obama, Biden - Tarzan, Cheeta?

You decide which is which.

Keep the ILLEGALS out, join NumbersUSA to send free faxes to your reps.

dumbing down the left-wing propaganda

May 7, 2009 - 08:39 ET by lotr

Is this for real? This is absolutely juvenile -- something I would expect from adolescents. Perhaps it was meant as sci-fi satire, but I thought that Newsweek was supposed to about news, not partisan sarcasm. It would be funny if it were balanced and presented on, say, SNL -- instead it's just dumbed-down pop-liberal propaganda.

Once again, I invite the NB Devil's Advocates for their lame stab at defending this as "non-biased."

"Let's wrap him up, alright?" -- Keith Olbermann

Yep...

May 7, 2009 - 08:45 ET by Warner Todd Huston

... and there you have it.

Be sure and visit my home blog PubliusForum.com.

Newsweek? Star Wars?? Trek???

May 7, 2009 - 09:02 ET by locomotivebreath1901

DOOOD.

Yor basement's so RAD!

(When's yor Mom coming home, again...?)

http://locomotivebreath1901.blogspot.com

How childish of Newspeak.

May 7, 2009 - 09:14 ET by Mike Bratton

But if you have to work with the metaphor, then the Bush Administration was Star Trek, and the Obama regime is Star Wars.

The former is a group of talented, educated adults working together as a team, while the latter is a group of immature narcissists who are dealt more setbacks than a Vegas blackjack player, united only by their relationship with the Lightworker... er, with Skywalker.

--Mike

www.thebrattonreport...

just for fun

May 7, 2009 - 09:22 ET by Franksam

Some have asked over the years if Spiderman could defeat the Hulk in a fair fight, and have wondered about other hypothetical match-ups between fictional charactors.

Star Wars was mostly a cowboy-western staged in space, but I think that with vastly superior technology (and special effects), as well as a gargantuan budget, Star Wars would kick ass against the primitive and unprepared cast of Star Trek. The Treksters were always surprised at trouble, and Star Wars folk knew that the battle was between good and evil. Maybe Newsweek isn't so far off this time.

It's 'Can't we all get along?' vs. 'We have to defeat the enemy.'

And just for fun, please take a look at the following link: http://black20.com/finds/hes-dead-jim

Life is hard, and it's even harder if you're stupid.

They missed a couple...

May 7, 2009 - 09:44 ET by Sasquatch

Jabba the Hut = Janet Napolitano

Sulu = Barney Frank

The got Obama = Spock right

May 7, 2009 - 10:09 ET by jeffinsac

The nailed it with Obama = Spock, because he is 2nd in command and following the orders of Captain Kirk, er Captain Emanual.

At least they were honest enough to admit it. :-)

Okay, now the Star Wars

May 7, 2009 - 10:55 ET by Lord Elicani

Okay, now the Star Wars nerd/sci-fi writer is getting into all of this...

Dig a little deeper than just the movies, to the expanded universe for a while. I can see more of a comparison between Bush and Grand Admiral Thrawn than Bush and Vader (even though Vader is amazing, IMO).

Sure, Thrawn is still Imperial, but hes set up to be at odds with the Empire you see in the movies. Thrawn is intelligent, calculating, and ultimately, his main goal was to stop what was seen as a terrorist group (i.e., the New Republic/Rebellion). Thrawn had that group on the edge of defeat before he was defeated from within - betrayed by one of his own bodyguards. Sound familiar?

I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?

- Queensrÿche, "Revolution Calling"

And before anyone asks, no,

May 7, 2009 - 10:56 ET by Lord Elicani

And before anyone asks, no, I have no life. Thank you.

I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?

- Queensrÿche, "Revolution Calling"

Where's Olby?

May 7, 2009 - 12:46 ET by slickwillie2001

Olbermann can be the muse-in-a-bathtub on Battlestar Galactica.

JUMP!!! That's a sad

May 7, 2009 - 13:05 ET by Jack Bauer

JUMP!!!

That's a sad Battlestar ref. Had its many many moments of awesomness.

How can't you love a 4 season series that ends with a caption...

150,000 YEARS LATER,

segues to an outdoor scene of Angels walking though New York today -- and Hendrix playing over as we FADE TO BLACK

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” George Orwell
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I admit it

May 7, 2009 - 13:50 ET by katainkent

mostly enjoyed the series. Kinda hated the ending.

hmm

May 7, 2009 - 13:49 ET by katainkent

utopian Star Trek vs. down and dirty Star Wars

Lucas has to be irked though. Big Obama supporter that he is.

Hold on ‘cause the world will turn if you're ready or not ~ KT Tunstall

journalistic teabagging - part 3

May 7, 2009 - 17:28 ET by ZuccoZoid

Pretty sad stuff when once-respected mags like Newsweek lower themselves down to this; they must love getting teabagged by Obama and crew; they already want to poison young minds equating O to Spock, etc, before the film is even released; what next, mandatory pictures of Dear One in every Ipod and living room?

Why? Are the MSM immune to taxation, as O's cohorts like Tim Geithner etc are?? Are they immune from all of these new socialistic restrictions and punishments? Apparently so; they see corruption rewarded, providing you're part of the ant colony; dissenters are attacked and devoured; so why not go along?

The MSM are the EWOKS - cuddly dancing midgets;

But where or who is JAR JAR BINKS in this equation?