White House talking head Jay Carney explained that, when the First Lady said on April 17, 2012,
“This President has brought us out of the dark and into the light”
she was not making a sacrilegious reference to Jesus Christ.
She was actually thinking of the song from the Wizard of Oz when Dorothy, the Brainless Scarecrow, Heartless Tinman and Cowardly Lion have just been resurrected from the poppies and are heading into the Emerald City with music in their hearts:
You’re out of the woods
You’re out of the dark
You’re out of the night
Step into the sun
Step into the light
I suggested that this made of Obama’s entire term in office “nothing more than the head-trauma-induced fantasy of a corny Kansas schoolgirl who carries her dog in a lunch basket. Yup … that works too.”
Mindful Webworker was inspired by my snark to create this fantastic image, which I feel I simply Must Share with all y’all!
Sources:
http://mindfulwebworks.com/radical/obama-the-kansas-farm-girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=9nq34mISKUo
https://polination.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/more-left-wingnut-sacrilege/
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I’ve been having more thoughts about the First Lady’s (alleged) reference to this scene from the Wizard of Oz.
Personally, I think MEchelle fully intended to equate Obama with Christ and this Oz thing was some PR flack’s attempt at a spin save.
But never mind … further pondering has revealed some aspects of the Oz metaphor that are creepily appropriate and/or snarking wonderful.
First, there’s Dorothy, a long-time favorite for dress up on Gay Pride days, and her multi-cultie band of misfits who are just LOST without a strong masculinized female … or is it feminized masculine … leader.
Then there is the brain-numbing effects of poppy pollen, which is a rather potent metaphor for what Lefties think of all who admire our military and thus do whacked out, brain dead things like wear poppies on Veteran’s Day and get misty over a recitation of “In Flanders Field.”
And how apropos that, having overcome the dire effects of the dreaded poppy, Dorothy et al. are So Thrilled to be finally in sight of the Great Big Centralized Government Seat of Oz, which just happens to be GREEN, and where the Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz paternalistically grants everyone’s wishes, including free health and beauty care.
And consider how the dim-witted Barry, I mean Dorothy, speaks only in the hoariest of clichés and surrounds himself, I mean, herself with timid, stupid, and heartless hangers-on.
He, I mean she, also really, really believes that everything must be really, really swell over the rainbow and down the yellow brick road … somewhere that is not a fly-over state full of bitter clinging country bumpkins.
But she found out she was really, really wrong. Kind of like Obama voters in the fourth year of the Obama Cure for All That Ails Us where everything is worse than ever.
But just like Dorothy’s useless friends, Obama and his Kool-aid drinkers really, really believe that everything will be really swell if they just accept the government’s goodies and keep pushing those same failed policies.
And how New Agey “create your own reality” is it to believe that you can FIX EVERYTHING with the power of your MIND … especially if you have expensive designer shoes to click together three times?
Then there is the way in which the Wizard’s paternalistic Big Green Government will provide eyes to match your gown for FREE, but has not bothered to fund any kind of protective force for the hapless Ozlings or those Little People back in Munchkin land.
How lame is it that the Great and Powerful Wizard sends a schoolgirl to take down the Evil Dictator and her uniformed mercenaries? Sheesh. I wonder if he played a round of golf while Dorothy and her team were invading the wicked terrorist’s compound.
Still … it is an absolute hoot that the Wicked Witch is taken down by water(boarding). ::snicker::
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Good analysis and exegesis, Chrissy. You must have been a real spitfire in English class! 🙂
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Whoa. I think that covers it, o hyphenated one. Except, you forgot the flying monkeys. Of the SEIU. Or something. And the hot air balloon. But we have enough to start work on the movie script.
Here’s another Oz-themed graphic incorporating a current dog-gone meme!(Apostroph’d lang’age warn’ng.) From IOwnTheWorld c/o SR at Moonbattery. 😀
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Ah, interesting thought, flying monkeys as SEIU. I was only looking at Dorothy as the Left’s heroine going after the Wicked Witch of the Right Wingnuts who are all fascistic and militaristic. I do have to give her chops for having bred up a totally loyal corps that could fly itself to the battle, then land and fight or simply kidnap and escape. Pretty slick.
My dd wrote some interesting stuff, “We read and discussed the wizard of oz in my patterns in literature class. FYI… My children won’t be reading it until they are old enough to understand how much garbage it is. We started with “Pilgrim’s Progress” and have been discussing how it has influenced authors and how their work has influenced other authors, etc. From what we discussed, Baum is basically saying that religion is deceiving, and there is no point in seeking salvation because its all fake. The Wizard of Oz is a lying phony. So what is she saying? That the president is a lying phony, who is forcing us to see things in his way and then is going to abandon us? I hate the book for what it is trying to say to children. The truth is that Jesus brought us to the light.”
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Oops, forgot to thank you for the graphic, Mindful! ROFLLLL
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