Down the memory hole
October 23rd 2009 05:02
“We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in a time where we have fictitious election results, that elect a fictitious president.”
-- Michael Moore
"He said we must be fair today,
Equal work means equal pay.
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama!"
-- As sung by students at B. Bernice Young Elementary School, Burlington, NJ
I wonder how all those members of Congress who voted for the Lilly Ledbetter Act feel about President Obama getting credit for it now, even in a supposedly silly song taught to schoolkids? Actually, I wonder how Ledbetter herself feels about it? Are some of those kids going to pick up the message that she didn’t need to waste her time and money on lawsuits or defending her rights, since President Obama was on the job?
And what would the people who lobbied for and drafted and voted for the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which Ledbetter is an expansion of, say now? What would Lyndon Johnson, whose signature is on that original bill, say? Did they contribute nothing?
Or maybe none of that effort – the money spent, the lobbying done, the violence endured at Occoquan Workhouse – mattered until now, because none of the people involved had the, um, individual transformative potential of Barack Obama, as identified by the mainstream media? (A gestalt group which of late has, ironically, given us fewer portrayals of well-adjusted female professionals than porn directors have.) And what is wrong with America right now that you’re not likely to hear these questions asked off the internet?
-- Michael Moore
"He said we must be fair today,
Equal work means equal pay.
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama!"
-- As sung by students at B. Bernice Young Elementary School, Burlington, NJ
I wonder how all those members of Congress who voted for the Lilly Ledbetter Act feel about President Obama getting credit for it now, even in a supposedly silly song taught to schoolkids? Actually, I wonder how Ledbetter herself feels about it? Are some of those kids going to pick up the message that she didn’t need to waste her time and money on lawsuits or defending her rights, since President Obama was on the job?
And what would the people who lobbied for and drafted and voted for the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which Ledbetter is an expansion of, say now? What would Lyndon Johnson, whose signature is on that original bill, say? Did they contribute nothing?
Or maybe none of that effort – the money spent, the lobbying done, the violence endured at Occoquan Workhouse – mattered until now, because none of the people involved had the, um, individual transformative potential of Barack Obama, as identified by the mainstream media? (A gestalt group which of late has, ironically, given us fewer portrayals of well-adjusted female professionals than porn directors have.) And what is wrong with America right now that you’re not likely to hear these questions asked off the internet?
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