What do Shrek and Bush have in common?  Actually I had not even pondered this seemingly on the surface vacuous question until I had read through the latest copy of Entertainment Weekly (#935 May 25, 2007) that got delivered to my doorstep.

Now granted you are to expect a certain amount of bashfoonery from a magazine directed at the entertainment focused crowd…but then again conservatives like to be entertained too.  Case in point, the “Hit List” in that magazine is always good for at a minimum one gut buster delivered with at most three lines…priceless genius gold in a single column, I tell you what. J

Anyway, I digress.

So with my usual guarded filters on I read through the magazine and eagerly pounce on the Shrek 3 review “In Ogre His Head” by Lisa Schwarzbaum to get an idea of if I should wait for video or not…which is a fine review until I get part way down the left column on page 62 and am totally blindsided by this:

“Shrek isn’t keen on the running-a-kingdom gig.  Like our own stubbornly folksy head of state, he’s not a grown-up comfortable with the niceties of formality.  All he’d like to do is get back to his swampy equivilent of a ranch in Crawford, Tex., and surround himself with vermin.”

As they say in my country of Kalifornia, “¿qué?”

You know, forget the front cover of the issue that made me feel like a dirty old pervert looking at  Kelly Clarkson airbrushed to resemble a twelve-year old with the little bubble caption next to hear that said “Her Most Revealing Interview Ever!”  That only gave me a moments pause, forget the obvious liberal slant of the magazine…just think for a moment on how pathologically hateful someone has to be to have the first association in their minds be the President of the United States to a cartoon character.  After all I am almost 100% certain that the writers of Shrek 3 were going for the “hey lets slip some Bush bashing in, everyone knows that the only movies conservatives watch are the “Left Behind” series.”  (as an aside:  it’s really nice that Kirk Cameron can still get work.)

Where does this blind hatred come from? The topic is covered by Michael Medved, however I know it all started with that 2000 election…that is when the caterwauling, frothing at the mouth, and gnashing of teeth became a staple of the rabid left.  By the way, someone remind me what the time table for Alec Baldwin withdrawing from the United States is again, and how many children is he going to scream at along the way?  Maybe those poor kids did not watch Inconvenient Truth that day...because all good children should watch it once a day.

These neo-Copperheads are so focused on destroying first Bush, then the Republican Party, that they no longer see anything else.  For them the war is not overseas, there is no event in the world that cannot be tied back to George Bush, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, or Kevin Bacon.  Except for the fact that Bacon is given a free pass, we have this erosion of common sense on the left which has trickled into the mainstream through their almost Stalinistic hold over the media.  The irony here is that the actual war occurring in the wider world is almost directly fueled by the liberal western culture, the lofty ideas and the atavistic porn, all of which are the hottest items to be consumed world wide for the past half century.

While I would not want to live in a world with a rigid conservative or right-religious media driven content 100% of the time…I’m willing to bet that such a media beamed worldwide would only make the jihadists half as willing to kill us all.

As far as George Bush and Shrek.  What’s next for the Neo-Coppers? Comparing him to an ape?

Abe as Ape

Abe as Ape (with Abes version of Wesley Clark, et al.)

Abe as Ape

Abe as Ape

George as Ape

George as Ape

George as Ape

These modern Copperheads or Neo-Coppers, are just as selfishly oblivious to what occurs outside their own quest for power and view of the world as the old Copperheads were…and to top it off, they are not even capable of making original rhetoric.