Secret Plot between Disney Animatronics shop and WH Revealed

[Armstead]

Now it can be revealed.

The White House realized that it is difficult to do the actual job of governing the country while the president is always off making speeches.

So they entered into a secret deal with the folks who developed Disneyland's exhibits. Just like Disneyland once built a talking statue of Lincoln making a speech, they have made several statues of President Bush. This animated high-tech statue is regularly taken to different locations to make the same pre-recorded speech to different audiences.

So while it may seem that Bush is spending all his time elsewhere saying the same thing, it is just a carefully crafted illusion. He is actually in the White House doing his job diligently, and taking his management functions seriously.

That other guy who is never in the White House and who never says anything new in his speeches is really a high-tech model.

[havocmom]

1. you got that reversed

I hope ;)

[goforit]

2. You talk about being a REAL Phoney!!!

[lovuian]

3. They an episode on Star trek where a robot was doing the

talking meanwhile the head of state was sedated!!! So are we having a robot run this country!!! like the Wizard of Oz the Great and Wonderful Oz but this little shrimp pulling the strings!!!

[donsu]

4. the one and only time I went to a Disney park Lincoln robot crumbled

out in the Calif. Disney. we were watching the Lincoln robot talking and moving when the speech started to slow down and his body slowly started to crumble and finally fold backwards to the floor.

everybody tittered and the show was over.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. The Stepford President

[DavidDvorkin]

6. I used that gimmick in my novel

(Self-advertising alert.)

Or almost. I had Laura as a robot whose works were provided by Disney and whose exterior was provided by Madame Tussaud's.

It should be in the link in my sig below, but in case it isn't, here it is:

http://www.dvorkin.com/bizstars

[Lisa]

7. that would explain these facial expressions!

"It is not a similar pose; it is an identical pose. It is not a similar expression; it is the identical expression.

Both photos were sent to me via e-mail by Post reader Adam Shannon, and at first I suspected chicanery: that as a joke, Shannon had altered one or both of them in a Photoshop process. But no, Post archives confirmed that both had been published."


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