I believe mr. bush has just crossed over into...The Twilight Zone

[mopaul]

yes, that's rod serling's voice you hear in the background: 'submitted for your approval, witness a little man thrust onto the stage of history, he dreamed of conquering the globe, but all his dreams turned to nightmares spiraling out of control'.

i was raised on the twilight zone and the bible. but the morality lessons in the bible were lost on me, it took the gospel of rod serling to form my vision of right and wrong, sin and punishment, crime and justice, and what i see happing to bush right now is right out of serling's pen.

the twilight zone is where cheap little punk dictators get their eternal come uppance, where deeds and karma intersect, where racists are doomed to be repeatedly born again as black slaves, and mr. bush has just crossed over into, the twilight zone.

[formercia]

1. The escape route

one of my favorite episodes. It's about a nazi who seeks escape from his past by going to a museum. He is viewing a painting of a man fishing from a boat and suddenly finds himself in the scene. In the final episode, he tries to escape his past by escaping back into the peaceful painting but it had been changed to someone crucified and burning in flames. The episode ends with a scream from within the painting.

[KarenS]

2. I hope you're right, mopaul,,,,,,

because I feel like we've been living in the Twilight Zone since 2000 AND it's time for a new episode!!!

[mopaul]

4. there were several with dictator themes & hitler themes

all quite heavy handed of course, but the lessons weren't lost on 9 year old mo.

[w13rd0]

3. Yes...

...I DVRd the SciFi channel Twilight Zone marathon and watched several with my kids. We talked about the use of fiction as an agent for social change, and how influential shows like Twilight Zone were on me while I was growing up. I can only hope that Bush will live out his days locked out of our reality, suffering in some twilight zone of horrors of his and Cheney's making, with only one another to keep them company, and nothing to kill or sneer down their noses at...

[Dunvegan]

5. As usual, dead on, mopaul...

...The Gospel of Serling...Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child.

We were just watching the New Year's Twilight Zone telethon, and remarking at my house about how revolutionary and inspiring the Twilight Zone was to an entire generation of children.

I believe it was this little pychological drama that changed the 50's thinking of America and raised a generation of people that questioned everything.

Thanks for your Photoshop...much appreciated and (as always) utterly apt.

[Arkansas Granny]

6. Let's just send him to the cornfield. That episode just scared

the pants off of me when I was a kid. There was nothing on TV to compare with it and it was required watching in our house for the whole family. I credit Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone for my lifelong love of Science Fiction.

[peekaloo]

9. Bu$h is the grown up version of that kid.

:scared:

What he doesn't like gets "wished" away by the "faithful".

[Arkansas Granny]

13. That's a great corollary.

[lectrobyte]

7. Nice work. Just saw the Dennis Hopper wannabe-Hitler episode

on SciFi too, still a remarkable show.

[The Sleeper]

8. Shows like TZ ?? Not any more.....

Shows that challenge people to think for themselves and question authority ? No NO NO...we can't have that, sez big media. The advertisers don't want an intelligent, informed buying public. It makes it tougher to sell their stuff. And it is the corporate advertising money that runs TV, after all.


One of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes I beleive was called "He's Alive" , and starred a young Dennis Hopper playing a whiny punk Hitler wanna be who kept having conversations with the dictator. There is one great line in the episode where Hopper is refered to as a:

"Bush League Fuehrer"

prophetic in more ways than one, eh ?

[DELUSIONAL]

10. TZ encouraged critical thinking

today's TV isn't worth watching. I don't have a TV and don't miss it at all.

[SpiralHawk]

11. k & r fer sure

cue the creepy music

[lapislzi]

12. TZ = little morality plays

without the deity. I have no problem with that; they satisfy a need for poetic justice. But, mopaul, I'm not surprised you mentioned both bible and TZ in the same sentence. They are flip sides of the same coin.

[Cats Against Frist]

14. I was going to post on the Twilight Zone, too

I watched the marathon, on New Year's Day, at my Mom and Dad's house, and, until then, I had no idea how overt the progressive message was, on that show. It is blatantly obvious. Eight out of the ten episodes that I caught were heavy with political message -- some of the shows almost made me cry, because they were so touching and relevant. Fascinating, really.

[kentuck]

15. Listening to his present press conference, I would have to agree...

He's on schedule. He's back on his worn-out Iraq war and war on terrorism speech...Couldn't he have let it rest one day just out of respect?

[theHandpuppet]

17. Good Lord, he gets more incoherent every damn day

Has anyone else noticed that he's really laying on the good ol' boy accent thicker and thicker these days? That is, when he's not stuttering and stumbling over every other word.

[Obamarama]

16. That is priceless, MoPaul!

I can hear the Twilight Zone riff in my head now...

[SpiralHawk]

18. And now, on the 11th Night of Christmas

the thread was kicked. It's too damn good to let it disappear.

I'd bet a sack of doughnuts this MoPaul Classique will be e-mailed from Tierra del Fuego to Hoboken and points BEYOND....Too True. Too freakin true.

[Cleita]

19. He, he, he, excellent.

Now for the final frame.