"Bush Bedroom" Video
Bush Bedroom
This is the "Bush Bedroom" scene from Tales of the New Depression/Brooklyn vs. Bush.
This is the "Bush Bedroom" scene from Tales of the New Depression/Brooklyn vs. Bush.
posted by Tchaikovsky Sounds Funny at 2:39 PM
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Thank you for this link, Theatre. The films were thoughtful. Some of the metaphors may have escaped me as I don't know the background behind the filming of your films. Yet, it is very true that there are critical cultural differences where our cultures do not understand important aspects of each other. The Iraq War reminds me so much as the same mistakes we made in Viet Nam: we entered as an occupation force and did not understand the people who were fighting nor the people we were defending nor how to fight them. In both cases, our lack of understanding about others has led to much tragedy. There are estimates that about 600,000 Iraqis have died during the current war and that about 200,000 Iraqis died during Desert Storm. The American public has little concept of how much damage has resulted.
As a humor column, there is little humor here. When the reality of "knock knock" jokes are "knock knock" shooting, then the joke is lost.
At least our government in America is consistent. They treat us badly as well as treating people in foreign countries badly.
Yes, this comedy sketch is based upon a book by a psychologist who has studied George Bush. Some criticized the book because the psychologist has never had Bush as a patient. Yet, he points out that Freud and many other prominent psychologists have produced studies of people with far less information, and with Bush we have many interviews and film footage where we may study him. This film took the conclusions of the book and placed them into Bush's own words (via an actor). How truthful this is depends on your belief in the ability of psychology to isolate reasons why people behave as they do. I suspect, as much as this film was written for the humor, that there is a lot more involved than individual psychology. Yet, it may explain a bit, especially since Bush has acted very much as an individual in these decisions, even going against the advice of his Chief of Staff, Generals, State Department Secretary, CIA staff, and War College academicians. There was something motivating him to go to war in Iraq that led him to follow his instincts against overwhelming advice not to destablize a part of the country that was relatively stable, where Saddam Hussein was contained and the ethnic purges had stopped, and Iran felt constrained by Iraq. Now, the whole region is a mess, hundreds of thousands of people have died, and terrorist organizations are finding many more recruits to their side in response to the presence of a foreign power. What led Bush to do this?
War does strengthen women because more men come back literally dead. One is not too strong if one is dead. Although some women soldiers are dying, but it still is mostly young boys being sent to die.
The problem with this war is we in for a stated reason of fighting terrorism, but we didn't go after the terrorists who attacked us. We blamed, in fact, an enemy of al Qaeda, Saddam Hussein. We took a country where we had neutralized Saddam Hussein so he could no longer commit genocide and instead destablized Iraq to the tune of approximately 180,000 or maybe 200,000 dead, increased recruitment for terrorism who wish to drive out a foreign power, and destablized the entire region.
The men (and at least one woman, Condeleeza Rice) may feel important because they can send people off to die, but what are they dying for?
I admire William Shatner as an actor and I like his current series Boston Legal, although I would have little respect for his character as an actual person. I was joking when I listed that I like his singing, although I give him credit for trying. His singing is often his talking, sometimes in hilarious over acting verse. It is truly one of the examples where it is so bad it is good, which you have to kind of admire because I thinks he really does know what he is doing when he sings so badly.
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