REPEAT AFTER ME I will not drink the Kool Aid. I will not drink the Kool Aid. [SEE: SHAKESPEARE'S SISTER]
UPDATE: To watch a White House Press Briefing now goes beyond a surreal event. McClellan is asking us to continue to participate in a national hallucination. By the time this is done, someone will come up for a new metaphor that describes what we have here. Kool Aid has been done to the point we now face a national hangover or a wicked root canal to get out the rot in the mouths of national discussion, the Emperor's New Clothes is getting frayed from so much use. Bush likes to fashion himself a cowboy on a horse. What these guys throw at us is naked lies. Lady Godiva rode on a horse naked. Bush's lies are naked lies from a guy who fashions himself a cowboy. The Heretik suggests all the spin and lies now be called Going Godiva on us. Leave your suggestions in the comments.
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GREAT ADDITIONAL READING [DRINKING THE KOOL AID] What does drinking the Kool-Aid mean today? It signifies that the person in question has given up personal integrity and has succumbed to the prevailing group-think that typifies policymaking today. This person has become "part of the problem, not part of the solution."
What was the "problem"? The sincerely held beliefs of a small group of people who think they are the "bearers" of a uniquely correct view of the world, sought to dominate the foreign policy of the United States in the Bush 43 administration, and succeeded in doing so through a practice of excluding all who disagreed with them. Those they could not drive from government they bullied and undermined until they, too, had drunk from the vat. [HAT TIP: TALK LEFT]
No Kool-aid for me aka suckerpunch!
Posted by: Night Bird | July 30, 2005 at 09:18 PM
OH NO!!!
Oy.
Posted by: Mimus Pauly | July 30, 2005 at 10:27 PM
LOLOLOL! Brilliant!
Posted by: Shakespeare's Sister | July 30, 2005 at 10:53 PM
hey Kool-Aid!
Posted by: jen | July 31, 2005 at 12:40 AM
I cannot comment on an ongoing investigation due to fact that it is an ongoing investigation...
Posted by: Agitprop | July 31, 2005 at 07:18 AM
To give you some idea of the level of nonsense the Bush regime tried to peddle, consider this (from Wikipedia):
Yellowcake is unenriched uranium and cannot by itself be used for a nuclear weapon. In a reactor, however, it may be used to breed plutonium, which can be used in weapons. It may also be enriched, by being converted to uranium hexafluoride gas (UF6), for isotope separation by diffusion or centrifugal force to produce enriched uranium suitable for use in weapons and reactors.
In other words, even if the French had sold yellowcake to Hussein, he would have needed high-speed gas centrifuges or a breeder-reactor to make weapons grade materials from it. You don’t buy these at your local supermarket, and you certainly don’t sneak them into the country while UN weapons inspectors are peeking under every rock. Could you build and run this equipment in secret? Perhaps—and maybe you could build the Hoover Dam across Times Square without anyone noticing.
But there’s a part of this puzzle that still needs an answer. Why wasn’t the world falling about laughing when Bush tried to sell his lies to us?
Posted by: Night Bird | July 31, 2005 at 10:59 AM