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Glenn Greenwald wrote yesterday about elements on the right wing who decry the “cult worship” afforded Barack Obama by his supporters while conveniently forgetting their own puerile idolatry:
Listening to this objection from the right-wing movement is the ultimate irony. There has not been a political figure in a long, long time who was revered, worshiped and transformed into a grotesque Icon of Transcendent Greatness the way the Commander-in-Chief, George W. Bush, has been. For years and years, the Right sustained itself as little more than a glorified Cult of Personality around the Great, Conquering War Hero.
Indeed, the elevation of Bush to Superhero-in Chief has been all but officially sanctioned, as made evident by an entertaining bit of agitprop created by the Republican National Committee during the Great Social Security Wars. While you won’t find it now on the RNC site - the GOP has removed it for the sake of currency, or perhaps out of sheer embarrassment - the memory of the Interwebs is long indeed.
What’s that up in the sky? It’s a bird! It’s plane! No…
…it’s Super Bush!
That is literally made of awe-some.
More documentation of excess reverence for The Decider at Greenwald’s site.
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I give up. I was running through the archives, trying to find another post. I know there was this other picture of Bush as superhero or Ah-nold-type muscle man or something, and I remember it because I sent you the picture.
Oh well. I discovered something better: I started reading this blog on September 10, 2004, and I’m likely to remember that date because I have friends born on that day. I definitely remember the year because it was a series of election-related links that brought me here.
Ah, memories.
And the emperor has no clothes, much less a cape.
That is so cool that you recalled when you first came here. Damn, 2004. That’s like real time, you know?
A previous “Super Bush” post? Absolutely! There were two of them with that same pic; they are both listed in the “related, somewhat” list of posts at the bottom of this entry. The previous entry that you’re thinking of is “It’s a bird…” The other post that used that image is “Plus, he’s really strong…”
Because the RNC deleted this video from its site, I had to go digging in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to bring it back from the beyond. Then I used a video capture program to copy it to the hard drive. Then I edited it a bit in iMovie, trimming a bit off the top. Then (and then, and then) I uploaded it to my account at Blip.tv to that I could embed it here at the homestead.
I detailed all those steps because I thought you’d be amused. :-D
I always knew what post landed me here (the Mad Magazine “Who Would Jesus Hate?” post), and I knew it was pre-election ‘04, because I was doing some election reading, then I clicked, clicked, clicked, and landed — well, not precisely here, but in a previous incarnation of your house. It was my first known reading of a blog. Here’s how naive I was: when I came back a few days later, I was stunned to find the post had moved down and there was new stuff to read!
(And it’s a different picture that I’m talking about. I thought I’d kept a copy myself. I’ll continue to look.)
And I am amused. Do you have a link to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine?
So not that pic? Hmm. That’s the only super-y image of Bush that I recall posting, but I’ll think on it.
If the following link works, it should take you to the Wayback Machine, but there likely won’t be an archive there for Waveflux. I blocked it back during my hate-all-robots days. I should probably unblock it sometime.