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I’ve made reference to the public teat or government teat a handful of times, including posts about moochers in France and Ireland, as well as posts about Senator Conrad and the Small Business Administration.
But now we’re going to move from metaphors to…well, you’ll see.
It’s probably been at least 20 years since I read Time, but I couldn’t help but notice the controversy over the recent cover story about breastfeeding. I don’t have a strong opinion about the right age to wean a kid, though there’s something about this photo that triggered my “ick” reaction.
But that’s not the point of this post. Instead, I want to share this Obama-Clooney parody sent to me by a softball buddy.
This also earned an “ick” when I saw it, but I also found it quite amusing. Like most normal people, I like when pretentious elitists are the targets of scorn and derision. And can you think of two people more out of touch with the real world than Barack Obama and George Clooney?
They truly are limousine socialists, as the parody states.
That being said, I wonder whether the positions should have been reversed. Whoever created this presumably is mocking Obama for sucking up (no pun intended) Hollywood money.
But perhaps Clooney should have been the child in this image. He and his Tinsel-Town colleagues are definitely part of the “1 percent,” but they figure they can stay in the good graces of the left by providing protection money and a bit of glamor-by-association for the political elite (rather appropriate since Washington is sometimes called Hollywood for ugly people).
One hopes that Hollywood leftists eventually will wake up and realize that they’ll be victimized by class-warfare tax rates. Indeed, that’s already happened with Jon Lovitz. And let’s remember that Ronald Reagan supposedly became a supply-sider because he learned there was no point in making more than a couple of movies each year when top tax rates were confiscatory.
But I’m not holding my breath in expectation of a big shift.
P.S. Don’t forget that Obama may become a film star after he leaves the White House, at least according to the person who put together these amusing movie images.
P.P.S. There doesn’t seem to be any risk of me becoming a limousine liberal. My one movie role was apparently so forgettable that I won’t be leaving Washington for Hollywood any time soon.
maybe it’s because i’m in the autum of my life,,,,,,but assuming the woman and child on the time cover are paid actors/”artists subjects”,,,,it seems that the woman, photographer and publisher somehow should be prosecuted for some kind of child pornography……………however,,,in this double-standard life we’re living,,,,the publics thirst and hunger for transparent, shallow crap seems like a black hole with no bottom or end……………..just a thought………….
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In your P.P.S., I think you mean “forgettable”, not “forgetful”. They aren’t synonyms.
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I love the pic! Going to post it on my blog
I suspect Clooney’s money is safe somewhere and not even Obama knows where it is. Some of these people are stupid but not all.
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In light of Presbo’s newly evolved enlightenment and embrace of alternative lifestyles, this looks less like a nanny satire and more like just gay porn. Don’t show Michelle. I understand she gets very jealous.
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