"V" - It's Worse Than You Thought

By BJ Bjornson

It isn’t very often that my TV viewing works into any political posts, but thanks to the Chicago Tribune, there is a fair bit of sounding off in the right side of the blogosphere today regarding the TV series reboot of “V” being a none-too-subtle jab at Obamania.

Imagine this. At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere. He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a better future that will include universal health care.

The news media swoons in admiration -- one simpering anchorman even shouts at a reporter who asks a tough question: "Why don't you show some respect?!" The public is likewise smitten, except for a few nut cases who circulate batty rumors on the Internet about the leader's origins and intentions. The leader, undismayed, offers assurances that are soothing, if also just a tiny bit condescending: "Embracing change is never easy."

So, does that sound like anyone you know? Oh, wait -- did I mention the leader is secretly a totalitarian space lizard who's come here to eat us?

I’m kind of surprised he didn’t work in a quip about not knowing the individual's birthplace in there someplace.

There is of course the small problem that the “He” is actually a “She”; a rather attractive female who also happens to refuse to be interviewed by anyone who might ask tough questions (ironically enough the reporter apparently chastised for asking a tough question by the “fawning” types is who she ultimately chooses as a go to), who might also sound a little familiar to more than a few of us. But Sarah Starbursts references aside, it is actually further into the episode that we learn just how awful things really are.

In a meeting of the not-quite-fledgling resistance movement, it is discovered that these space lizards have actually been around for some time, helping to start unnecessary wars, create economic meltdowns, and twist faith into extremism, all to destabilize things to the point where their other half could come in looking like an enlightened alternative to the status quo.

Do you see? As part of the evil and dastardly plan to make himself our unquestioned overlord basking in the adulation of a grateful planet, Obama first sent forth his loyal minions in the form of the neocons, Banksters, and the Bush administration to screw things up so horribly that he would be seen as great figure riding to the rescue. I mean, how else could a Kenyan-born Islamofascist commie and Black Power racist get elected?

Indeed! It makes perfect sense now too why he keeps bailing out the big banks without adding much in the way of pesky regulations that might actually prevent a repeat of the financial disaster, or why he doesn’t seem to actually want to get those troops out of Iraq or end the war in Afghanistan, or stop the cross-border drone strikes into Pakistan that keep driving the locals into support of the Taliban, or close down Gitmo and the other prisons for the “enemy combatants”, or why he keeps using the Bush administrations “state secrets” interpretations in the courts, or, most importantly, why he doesn’t seem to want to actually hold any of those responsible for the torture state of the last eight years accountable for their actions. They’re allies! They were acting with his full support the entire time.

As I said, far worse than you thought. Because it turns out the opposition really isn’t the opposition at all. Figures Ron would be right.