Thread: `Lil' Bush': a cartoon take on the prez

Sounds like it would be a hoot. Too bad I don't have cable or sat. tv.

Oh geez thank you! I would have missed this. I will be recording it for DH so he can watch it when he gets home. (He's in Thailand, been in Kuwait since Jan '06 and comes home for good in about 5 weeks!)

This is an example of the present "Do As I Say, Not As I Do" mentality. If something like this was presented depicting the current Administration it would be derided as hateful, racist, and disrespectful of the dignity of the POTUS.

A series blatantly lampooning Bush Administration is okay ... but a thread posted about another series drawing allusions to the Obama administration is not ? Anyone remember the 1980’s mini-series “V”

Is Battlestar Galactica Relevant in the Obama Era? Major plot points from Battlestar Galactica were also front page headlines over the past few years: terrorism, secret tribunals, prisoner abuse, war. Will the show continue to feel relevant with Obama running America? With only a few episodes left in the series, BSG is about to disappear from the airwaves. The question is whether it...

How Politics Destroyed a Great TV Show Jonah Goldberg October 2009 Either you are with me, or you are my enemy!” shouted a young Darth Vader in 2005’s Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, one of the execrable prequels to the original films by George Lucas. In response to this all-or-nothing provocation, a disgusted Obi-Wan Kenobi replies, “Only a Sith deals in absolutes!” ...

Originally, the series was very difficult to pigeonhole ideologically. An avid student of martial culture, Ron Moore, its guiding creative hand, treated the military with deep respect. William Adama, Galactica’s commander, is not a coffeehouse philosophe indulging his cosmopolitan sensibilities (the way Patrick Stewart’s Jean-Luc Picard often did in the second iteration of the Star Trek ...

JMHO - I never watch the show past the pilot, so I never picked up on all the suble political cues ... I just didn't like the roles of Starbuck and Boomer being made female, seemingly just so they could write in sex scenes Not to mention the blonde "hottie" Cylon ... I missed the silver robot guys with the sliding red "eye" that went 'bink... bink... bink

Anyone remember the 1980’s mini-series “V” 'Is V Anti-Obama Propaganda?' Nov 4, 2009 "V" exceeded many people's expectations last night, getting 13.9 million viewers and coming first among adults aged 18-49. But is the show just one big anti-Obama screed, as some have claimed? We'll answer that question... with spoilers. http://io9.com/5397077/is-v-anti+oba......