Annus horribilis deplorable
Maybe it's just the Christmas spirit, but I was tempted to think that SBS News might finally be growing a brain: their coverage of the Iraq elections was a surprisingly fair, mature and positive report, with only a trace element of Bush-bashing. 24 hours later, however, they're jumping the shark again. Lee Lin Chin introduces the bulletin, and even before the lead item, she announces that they'll be playing a funny video about George Bush's "annus horribilis" later in the bulletin, so hey, stay tuned.
Annus horribilis? 24 hours after the Iraq elections? Please, if a Democrat President had achieved what the Bush administration has achieved this year, SBS would be campaigning to have his face carved on Mount Rushmore. There wouldn't be enough town squares in America to hold the statues Democrats and moonbats would be erecting to him. We'd be seeing commemorative silver dollars and special postage stamps. Barbara Streisand and Bruce Springsteen would be recording a love ballad duet to him. The Nobel Peace Prize Committee would be sending out early notices that nobody else need bother applying this year. George Clooney would be optioning the film rights.
Instead, because you're George Bush, fashion-victim public servants (I mean you, Lee Lin) snigger over 'funny' videos about you.
Still, the video, by the JibJab team, is funny, clever, and well-done. Importantly, the 'Bush' voice is spot-on: have you noticed how many self-styled satirists, when they come to 'do' Bush, give him some kind of Ozark hillbilly mannerisms, which have about as much to do with his Texas accent as if they did him in the voice of Fat Tony, the Swedish Chef, or the 'City Wok' guy from South Park?
Maybe it's just the Christmas spirit, but I was tempted to think that SBS News might finally be growing a brain: their coverage of the Iraq elections was a surprisingly fair, mature and positive report, with only a trace element of Bush-bashing. 24 hours later, however, they're jumping the shark again. Lee Lin Chin introduces the bulletin, and even before the lead item, she announces that they'll be playing a funny video about George Bush's "annus horribilis" later in the bulletin, so hey, stay tuned.
Annus horribilis? 24 hours after the Iraq elections? Please, if a Democrat President had achieved what the Bush administration has achieved this year, SBS would be campaigning to have his face carved on Mount Rushmore. There wouldn't be enough town squares in America to hold the statues Democrats and moonbats would be erecting to him. We'd be seeing commemorative silver dollars and special postage stamps. Barbara Streisand and Bruce Springsteen would be recording a love ballad duet to him. The Nobel Peace Prize Committee would be sending out early notices that nobody else need bother applying this year. George Clooney would be optioning the film rights.
Instead, because you're George Bush, fashion-victim public servants (I mean you, Lee Lin) snigger over 'funny' videos about you.
Still, the video, by the JibJab team, is funny, clever, and well-done. Importantly, the 'Bush' voice is spot-on: have you noticed how many self-styled satirists, when they come to 'do' Bush, give him some kind of Ozark hillbilly mannerisms, which have about as much to do with his Texas accent as if they did him in the voice of Fat Tony, the Swedish Chef, or the 'City Wok' guy from South Park?
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