The news entertainment industry (Fox, CNN, MSNBC and so forth) must really be hurting now. You can tell from just watching the news. Obama gave the Queen of England an iPod! You know how many times I, as a person that avoids consumer news like a mutant strain of Ebola, have been exposed to some variation thereof?
They must miss Georgie like the Bastard Squad (my collective name for the previous administration) like the Bastard Squad themselves miss those taxpayer-compensated trips to Thailand. What will they do now? Report real news?
They’ve found a brief reprieve in the recent spike in mass/spree killings, but that isn’t sustainable. They can really only expect to get a week of mileage out of the average wingnut with a firearm and a psychotic need for attention. What do they do in the months of lull between the spates of violence?
They used to have Georgie and the Bastard Squad. Together, they filled two roles. Georgie had the “LOL I CAN HAS OPEN DOOR” comedy requirement locked down, in spades. The man couldn’t even urinate without catching himself in his zipper and hitting his head on the bathroom mirror like a beta fish. Or invading one of those tantalizingly brown countries. The Bastard Squad was so balls-out corrupt and insane that, really, they wrote their own material. Who needs a random mentally unstable guy with a gun when you have an entire executive wing full of grotesquely corrupt and, occasionally, perverse shitheels? They didn’t even have the good sense to keep the really bad stuff under wraps like all the other administrations. The whole group was the political equivalent to one of those interchangeable starlets that appear to draw their dietary requirements from cocaine and public misbehavior.
So what do they do now? Obama stubbornly refuses to participate in drug addiction, war crimes or sexual escapades. His administration seems to be full of much the same, and the Bastard Squad has been exiled for a while while they regroup. We are in a state of comfortable calm, as calm as the US gets anyway, and they are clearly suffering.
At least they still have Rush Limbaugh.
