SOMEONE TELL ME!

[Alana]

I admit being fooled for a second too and felt a terror run up my spine: If Bush says all these, it is definetely staged to hide something even more horrible that's going on, an alien invasion perhaps?!!!

But not yet... phew.........

 

[innxit]

No harm done; just avenues highlighted for further study. Will be ordering Political Ponerology forthwith. Ciao. :)

 

[Rich]

a general familiarization with Ignacious O Reilly might help as well. wink

interestingly when it was suggested to me to read "a confederacy of Dunces" my nasty-slave-driving boss at the time really encouraged me not to read it, insulted the and gave me 'future shock' by Alvin Toffler instead. After reading SOTT suggestions the reasons for this are now clear...keep slaving away.

 

[Ryan]

i knew it was a spoof at 'Bush admits guilt'

Yep.

 

[Laura]

There was a disclaimer at the end in the comment field. It said:

Comment: A little 'April Fools' joke, of sorts, because if the truth, rather than lies were the most valued commodity in this world, something very similar to the above report would have already made the headlines in all of the world's mainstream media outlets. As it is, the truth only lives on News sites like Signs of the Times.

 

[Joe]

the disclaimer was on the second posting of this "exclusive", not on the first posting back in September. This thread was the reason there was a disclaimer this time!

Joe

 

[Joe]

Here's an old "deep black" Ignacius report for your elucidation.

US Capitol, White House, Briefly Evacuated

Ignacius O Reilly
11/05/2005

"Run! This is no joke!" screamed the U.S. Secret Service agent as the blip on the radar screen moved ominously closer into the restricted airspace over the White House. "This better not be another damn cloud!" growled Cheney as Standing Order "Presidential Pooper Scoop" seamlessly swung into action. One burly SS agent was soon sprinting down the hallway that leads to the White House bunker, apparently unfazed by the womanly screams of an obviously terrified President Bush dangling over his right shoulder. Two other agents were moving somewhat slower with a red-faced, yet surprisingly calm, Vice President Cheney in a "fireman's lift" configuration.

Not long thereafter however, the all-clear was given and both men cautiously re-emerged to continue protecting the country.

The cause of the alert has since been revealed as a wayward single-engined aircraft which was "flying in a manner that threatened the freedom of the American people" according to a White House official who was understandably speaking on condition of anonymity.

Some members of the ever vigilant freedom-hating, camel jockey-loving "left-wing" blogging community, have once more used the opportunity to cast doubt on the integrity of the American administration, claiming that, since today is the 11th day of the month, this "alert" was nothing more than yet another piece of government propaganda designed to ever so subtly remind the American people that "they" still hate us because of our:

A: Freedoms

B: Democracy

C: Flab

D: Regulation checkered shorts that all American tourists wear

E: Tendency to believe anything we are told, regardless of how ridiculous

In a further development, White House spokesman Scott McClellan, who asked not to be named, said that the President had been inspired by his administration's success in the war on terrorism and was confident that he could expand the war on tactics such as terrorism to include a war on even more nebulous concepts and ideologies, such as:

War on not waging war

War on not believing that a war on terrorism makes any sense

War on waging war and then running away

War on people thinking of new ways to wage war (apart from the Bush administration)

War on exposing the lies and manipulations of the US government or its allies

War on other people thinking bad things about the US or Israel

War on critical unemotional thinking