So now the president is thinking of taxing soda to pay for health care. I thought that limey bastard was only going to raise taxes on the rich? Someone brought that up when he raised taxes on cigarettes, and he was like, “People choose to smoke cigarettes.” And we’ll be choosing to drink soda. And choosing to drive. And choosing to eat food. And choosing to use the internet or whatever else he thinks of taxing. But no taxes on the rich!
No word on whether they’ll be taxing pop as well, but I hope they tax that a ton since people who drink it are idiots.
And who’s the vaguely Carrie-Fisher-looking broad hosting it? Why that’s Annie Leonard!:
Leonard is coordinator of Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives and serves on the boards of International Forum for Globalization and the Environmental Health Fund. She previously held positions with Health Care Without Harm, Essential Information and Greenpeace International, and is currently coordinator of the Funders Workgroup for Sustainable Production and Consumption.
Fair! And Balanced!
Well, at least *I’ll* balance it out in the next few days…
[By the way, you can spend hours picking out all the lies in this thing, but this one (at 15:05) I can’t let go without comment: that we’re targeted by 3000 ads per day. A little math says this is 125 an hour. So apparently we’re watching TV 24 hours a day, and seeing nothing but 28.8 second commercials]
Oh, and a shiny new donkey if you can actually sit through the whole thing without turning away in disgust at least once.
Hint: I don’t get a donkey.
UPDATE: Surely SOMEONE is strong enough to claim this glistening beast of burden!
UPDATE 2 (5-13-09 10:30AM): For those without YouTube viewing capability, the full referenced and annotated script:
William F. Buckley would stab his son to death with a ballpoint pen before voting for Obama.
Never got music. “Let’s mechanically produce patterns of differing frequencies while someone recites poetry.” Stupid idea.
Campaign finance reform will eventually make it illegal for anyone other than a beauty pageant contestant to express a political opinion.
Blogging is a lot harder since Bush left the White House and I no longer get faxed my morning talking points.
Have Republicans lost their way and now spend too much time hating black people and not enough hating the poor?
I love debugging, but the better I get at debugging, the better code I write and the less I get to debug. I need someone incompetent to write the code and then I get to debug it and make it work. That would be awesome.
Next big Hollywood project: A darker, grittier Popeye.
