Thank you America!

Have you seen this TV ad? It seems so nice on the surface. Finally some Iraqis seem happy about our presence in their country. Children are smiling; people are waving; everyone’s happy and healthy and loving us big time.

Only it’s sponsored by the Kurdistan Development Corporation and the ad agency doing the “happy Kurds ad” is a public relations firm with close ties to the right-wing faction of the Republican Party.

Do “they” think we are all stupid as a rock? Isn’t it convenient that right before a coming election we are spoon fed a video of contented Kurds for cud chewing?

(See folks, we’re winning in Iraq. Look how happy these people are and how much they love America! Aren’t we Americans the cat’s ass for helping these poor folk out? Throw them another Hershey bar, will you?)

I’m tired of fake news, aren’t you?

Speaking of political ads, there’s a new one with Joe Lieberman standing in front of a chalk board where the words Democrat and Republican are printed out with a line between the two words like this:

Democrat | Republican

Joe takes an eraser and rubs out the line, positioning himself between the two words as a visual indication of his middle of the road stance and of his desire to solicit votes from anyone at all –heck a vote’s a vote.

But I wonder if he is attempting to deceive us? He’s in front of a chalk board with an eraser in his hand – is he pretending to be a certified teacher? After all, you don’t see too many chalk boards or erasers being used by non-certified teachers, do you?

Perhaps the Lamont people should wage a counter attack on Lieberman for posing as a teacher.

Silly season is definitely here.