Celebrities big and small implore Americans to embrace their president — nay! pledge allegiance to him.
These propaganda videos have become so ubiquitous since Obama’s emergence that one is tempted to just yawn, or laugh. But there is just something creepy — and, yes, un-American— about leader worship.
Free men and women, naturally, are free to subject the ordering of their lives to the instructions of a leader. But that’s not my definition of freedom. And I’m free to object.
I find it funny, though, that the left has found patriotism cool again. And imagine, for a moment, what the reaction would be among our elite if such a video were produced about a Republican president.
Big Hollywood poo-bah Andrew Breitbart is more than a little annoyed and troubled. He’s outraged, and really pours it on:
President Bush was not holding back Moore from “free[ing] one million people from slavery in the next five years.†Nor was he holding back the Obama-biquitous Will.I.Am from “chang[ing] how [he] live[s].†Ditto: Aaron Ekhart (â€To be a better person,â€) Marisa Tomei (â€To integrate into my heart what I already know in my head which is that we are all in this together,â€) Kutcher (â€To the abolition to 21st century slavery,â€) Anthony Kiedis (â€To be of service to Barack Obama,â€) P. Diddy (†pledge to turn the lights off, cause I used to leave the lights on but we want to conserve energy so I’ma turn the lights off, you turn the lights off,) and all-in-unison (â€Because together we can, together we are, and together we will be the change that we seek.â€)
Missing are pledges not to kiss the ring of Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and other pledged enemies of America. Nor are there pledges not to make movies that glorify these tyrants. Nor are there pledges to take seriously that we are at war, will continue to be at war under President Obama and that our precious and under-appreciated military is fighting an avowed and evil enemy — so that, among other things, Hollywood can continue to make decadent crap that actually motivates our enemy to fight us harder!
There’s more. Much more. As they say, read the whole thing. And also don’t miss the great Iowa Hawk’s parody of the video’s script. Just don’t be drinking coffee while reading.
(HT: Jonah and Gormogons. And cross-posted at Infinite Monkeys.)
“I pledge allegiance to the celebrities (my true heroes, with whom I share nothing in common and who would not give me the time of day if I met them on the street) and to the idols that they worship (like doing things that make them feel like good people but whose zeal for those things will fade when the newest liberal political agenda hits the mainstream media), one nation, under the soporific effects of nihilistic materialism and entertainment addiction, indivisible in our commitment to being led by fear and sensationalism propogated by CNN, FOX, NBC, and the rest, with bail-outs and more social programs for all, forever and ever, amen.”
Holy. Guacamole.
I pledge to clean up the bathroom when I finish vomiting.