Jamming with Geppetto

[Daveparts]

Jamming with Geppetto
By David Glenn Cox




Recently a Bush supporter asked me “So which is it? Is the President an idiot or a genius.” The idea being to paint the Presidents critic’s into a corner either he’s a genius and we were all wrong before or he’s an idiot and we are all wrong now.But the short answer is the President is neither he’s a psychopath.

A psychopath is mentally ill but believes he is smarter than everyone else, they live in their own alternate reality. Like Geppetto they live alone in the woods and dream of having a friend but instead of going out and making friends they go into the workshop and build one. Then they hope and hope with all their might that it might be so and then presto changeo the boy’s alive!

But no, he’s not, he’s still just a piece of wood carved and painted to look like a boy. To Geppetto’s mind however he is quite alive and Geppetto thinks, “I must be the greatest wood carver in the whole world I can carve wood into a real little boy.” The clues are obvious if you look for them, why would a lonely man living alone in the woods want to carve a little boy? Why is it that when that little boy, that carved block of wood tells a lie it is the boy’s appendages that grow? You see Geppetto was neither fool nor genius Geppetto was a sick puppy.

Our own Geppetto is knee deep in wood chips happily carving away all the livelong day. He sends his puppets to testify on Capital hill, “General Pinnocio you say the situation in Iraq is improving and that the surge is working?” But as the puppet lays limp on the table a voice that sounds strangely just like George W. Bush in falsetto answers. “That’s right Senator it’s going sooo good that the surge that was supposed to be only temporary is going to be extended till at least next year.”

“General your testimony hasn’t been influenced by the White House has it?”

“Oh no! Senator,” the falsetto voice replies, “these strings are the latest style.”

Serious people, sane people mainly ask themselves, “They can’t be serious.”Yet they are and in case you don’t believe one puppet they send two. To corroborate the testimony of a pentagon puppet they send a White House puppet but they all speak with the same falsetto Texas twang. Geppeto watches from his wood shop and slaps his knee’s saying that’s working great!

To this great deliberative body Geppetto sends hand carved puppets to give their honest assessment and they pass Senate muster. However in reality they are two wooden puppets laying limp on the desk and didn’t make a sound that didn’t come from Gepetto’s lips.

The wood carver had promised us explanations and sends instead two chunks of carved wood and the Senators thanked them for their candor. Were it not so serious I’d think they were just humoring the old wood carver but this august body includes Larry Craig of who it can be said, “of all the Charlie Brown’s on Capital hill you’re the Charlie Browniest.” As if his decision-making abilities hadn’t already been called into question Craig has now decided to fight his guilty conviction.

Craig mistakes sympathy for support, Charlie Brown gives up 10 runs and drops a fly ball but when Linus says, “That’s alright Charlie Brown” Craig thinks maybe I am a good ball player after all? Craig can’t tell the difference between a wooden puppet and a sap. Maybe because the puppet show has been going on for so long now we accept the foolish as sensible and knotty pine as oak and woodenheaded puppets as leaders.

But Geppetto has help he can’t pull all the strings by himself, not one media outlet had the courage to say, “Those are nothing more than wooden puppets and that’s George Bush’s voice!” Maybe the media just doesn’t recognize one of their own? Most all major media outlets as well are run by the same wooden headed puppets and as their ratings slide and their readership declines they ponder how can we fix this? Real investigative reporting? Tell more of the truth? No, more cleavage and change her hair.

I know, we’ll let six million people submit their own questions then we will select the questions we were going to ask anyway and we’ll call it the You Boob Debates and then we’ll let someone fair and non partisan moderate it like Wolf Blitzer!

But they know, they know the difference between brainpower and balsa as illustrated by Michael Moore’s solid drubbing of Wolfie and Sanjay Gupta.
Moore exposed the strings and Sanjay’s been staying at Robert Novak’s house ever since. Because once the strings are exposed or flaws in the puppet appear the puppet is trashed and Geppetto starts again. Six months ago when Donald Rumsfeld resigned all America wanted to know why and now we know, he was a bad puppet. Rumsfeld had given a list to Geppetto of everything that could go wrong in Iraq.

Did the President respond to the list? “No” Do you miss working with the President? “No” When was the last time you spoke with the President? “I don’t remember.” A psychopath will invent the most fantastic story about train wrecks and space aliens to keep from admitting even a minor mistake. Geppetto may love his puppets but not more than he loves Geppetto. After all wood is inexpensive and it’s easier for Geppetto to just make a new one than listen to them.

That’s the scary part of this, a psychopath sees real flesh and blood humans as just things. Things to do his bidding and when he’s finished with them or they don’t perform as ordered he throws them away like scrap wood. Tens hundreds and thousands if need be Geppetto is indeed a sick puppy and needs to be removed to the old wood carver’s home. This is far from a fairy tale this is a nightmare where instead of a harmless old man dreaming of making wooden boys becoming real a monster makes real boys dead and doesn’t care any more about it than a block of wood.

[hedda_foil]

1. Bravo! Fantastic job! K&R

[emanymton]

2. The People Have A Long Way To Go.

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Your piece is a fine work. I admire your writing skills.
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