January 02, 2007
The Funerial Distraction Tactic
I guess we got our royal funeral, after all. We know it must be important because the stock market is closed. Big distraction from the first day the democrats control Congress.
The Ford family, bless their hearts, nixed the jewel encrusted funeral carriage pulled through the streets by twelve white horses in favor of something a bit plainer. Nonetheless, we have a national day of pseudomourning for a man who died in peace at 93, distracting us from the real deaths of the day. Let's see how much TV time is sopped up on this one.
NPR ran a story about Ford this morning. When he was traveling as President, he was once assigned to a room at a hotel named "The Emperor's Suite". He didn't like that and had the secret service tape over the plaque on the door and write "Gerry Ford's Room" over the tape. If he knew how he was being used, he'd be tuning over in his flag draped coffin atop the pedestal in the Rotunda right now.
Will we never learn from history ?
Photo note: Just a simple American flag, nailed to a stockade fence, in front of a big red pickup.
Posted by Dakota at January 2, 2007 06:24 AM