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05/29/2008

A kinder and gentler snatch of the body

Look! You fools! You’re in danger! Can’t you see? They’re after you! They’re after all of us! Our wives…our children…they’re here already! You’re next! -- Dr. Miles Bennell -- The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

That was 1956, the good old days, when the enemy was a pod hidden in the basement and changing into you. I had nightmares. I was 6 and that movie scared me into my 20's. I thought I defeated those demons a long time ago, but, to quote another famous movie line, "They're Baaaack," this time as the alien replacement for the slightly dumpy, ineffective ex-presidential White House Spokesman, Scott McClellan.

The current White House press secretary Dana Perino encapsulated the Bush administration's quandry when she told reporters, "We are puzzled. It is sad. This is not the Scott we knew." And, when the following coterie of White House muckity mucks: Rice, Rove, Fleischer, Bartlett and even the Grand Poobah himself, G.W.B., repeated the unknowable Scott mantra, as Marcellus, and not Hamlet once said, "Something's rotten in the state of Denmark."

I submit what's rotten is the real Scott McCellan, his corpse anyway. Yes, the pods are back only this time it seems that they are replacing the bad people with the good. Wait until G.W. goes from cad to pod to God, shaking loose the fibers and pod detritus, announcing and denouncing his failures, lies and unconstitutional behavior. How will the defenders of all-things-Bush react?

Imagine John Bolten without his smug, macho swagger. Condi back at the piano more in tune with Tori Amos than Vlad the Impaler.

The aliens are invading, replacing the evil doers one by one. Pretty soon we'll all be able to say, "This is not the George W. Bush we knew."

Pod casting from a secret basement location, Gene

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Not the first time this classic film has been invoked in the political world. Can't find the transcript for this but I remember it well:

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE from April 19, 1980

Sketch: "Invasion of the Mind Snatchers"

Premise: Ronald Reagan's surging popularity is explained as the result of alien pods replacing otherwise sensible people with copies that irrationally support Reagan's election.

Posted by: Bill | 05/29/2008

I haven't ever seen this movie - though i have heard of it. You should write stories. You might enjoy it. I think you'd be good.

Be warm... roses

Posted by: roses | 05/30/2008

Thank you Rose, that's a high compliment.

Posted by: Gene | 05/30/2008

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