Ad Man = Bad Man II

If you haven't already heard, every time the White House has a televised session with the President speaking to "regular" people, those people are carefully chosen, as is the crowd and the background, as are the questions and answers. They are more along the lines of rehearsed plays than real glimpses into the White House - which sort of makes it a real glimpse into the White House.

This President has said that he approaches government like a CEO approaches business and that he will run it as such, and boy, he was not lying. In my post about advertising, I wrote that companies should spend less money on ads and more on product. If Bush's handlers spent the same amount of time planning post-invasion Iraq as they do planning these publicity stunts, they would probably not even need to hold these fallacies.

What strikes me as even more problematic is that the press eats it up, but we are the ones who end up with extreme stomach cramps, shitting out the blood of our fellow Americans being fed to us in tasty little pre-packaged morsels.

Finally, however, the press has taken a look at the ingredients on the side of the box. Much like when Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle, we are becoming aware of what is beneath the lid of the can, how it is processed, and the amount of rat feces this government has allowed into the vats.