Or at least someone with the same penchant for politicizing the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Towers as justification for voting for Republicans. Or to be more precise in this case, for voting against Democrats. Here’s the proof: a billboard currently on view in all its hypocritical glory in Orange County, Florida.
The billboard is the creation of Mike Meehan, a Florida businessman and supposed musician, and it advertises his website where you can hear, and watch a video of, his song Please Don’t Vote For a Democrat if you wish. Personally I haven’t bothered to check it out.
Which goes to show that you just cannot satirize the right wing. Because whatever over the top hyperbole you employ to make fun of them, they will just do something even worse and more far fetched. If Jonathan Swift were alive today, he could only find work as a Republican campaign consultant.
By the way, speaking of satire off the wall scare tactics legitimate news stories, here’s the latest terrorist threat you should be hiding under your bed from according to Fox Noise: Iran is coming to destroy all of your computers, cell phones, ipods, game systems, blackberrys and any other toy you have with a computer chip in it. Oh, and all our electrical power systems, too. No really, they are! And you better damn well be scared (if you know what’s good for you).
Fox News seized on [testimony to the Armed Service Committee by chair of the EMP Commission, William Graham] to present [an electromagnetic pulse weapon or EMP] as a fresh terrorism threat to be panicked about, with anchor Bill Hemmer suggesting direly on Monday, “There is a new terror study out … warning the US of a clear and present danger on a massive scale.”
Hemmer turned for insight on the EMP threat to former White House terrorism director R.P. Eddy, who currently heads the Center for Policing Terrorism. Eddy explained that “a nuclear explosion or another weapon that releases a wave of electrons … will fry every electronic gizmo or tool that civilization needs to survive. … Not only would the power grid be out … but every piece of electronics that we use, from pacemakers to phones to cars.” […]
“Countries like Iran or North Korea could use some of their nuclear weapons to create an electromagnetic pulse,” Eddy proposed. “It’s very hard to defend against a missile.” He added that the US military has been attentive to hardening its own electronics against electromagnetic pulses for decades, but “it doesn’t mean that civilization in this country is paying attention to it.”
“You can use a nuclear weapon, and you don’t have to have as accurate or as long-range a missile to deliver it,” Eddy concluded, suggesting, like Graham, that Iran could shoot a nuclear-tipped Scud missile at the United States from a barge anchored off the coast.
Of course, none of this will ever happen if Americans vote to restore the Republicans to power, or at least elect John McCain as our next President. Only Democrats would be so incompetent, so naive, so gullible and so traitorous as to allow terrorists and Islamofascists states like Iran to attack America’s homeland, right? Right?
