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Deflating the Balloon/Obamacare Sagas                    click here to subscribe to the eddobloggo RSS feed Subscribe via RSS


There are many similarities between the Heene's hot air balloon and President Obama's.Can you see any similarities between the balloon saga and the Obamacare saga?

 

First, study the picture of the balloon.  In flight it is easy to imagine, even in the absence of a handle-shaped aft section and a lid, that it could be Aladdin's magical lamp and that if you rub it a genie will appear to make all of your wildest dreams come true1.

 

Once the balloon touches down, however, it merely crumples for lack of the helium, or perhaps the hot air, that has kept it aloft.  Not only was there no genie inside of it, but even that little boy, whose unthinkable plight tugged at our heartstrings for an interminable two hours, was nowhere to be found.  That is, until he popped out of a cardboard box in the garage right back at square one.

 

A large stack of scarce taxpayer dollars were wasted, meanwhile, pursuing what most Americans now believe was just a cruel, expensive hoax at worst; an ill-conceived publicity stunt gone wrong at best.  Sadly, some of that wasted money could actually have been saved if those who took an oath "to protect and serve" the taxpayers would have made a more exhaustive search at square one while their expensive aircraft chased an alleged runaway balloon.

 

Next we have the Heenes.  They are the couple who so love being in front of TV cameras that they will go to any length to create a scenario that will preserve their narcissistic reflection in the public image pond.  The balloon, was their idea.

 

Apparently, Richard Heene (the balloon maker) and his wife Mayumi will go so far as to inflict their selfish agenda on helpless family members and even on the people who, under normal circumstances, would have zero interest in paying them any mind; people who would prefer, instead, to merely allow the 15 minutes of fame these lens lice2 have enjoyed to quietly elapse. 

 

In the previous sentence, if you replace family members with "fellow Democrats" and the people with "most Americans" it might remind you of another far more famous person who has been ballooning a lot of things lately. 

 

Unfortunately, that camera hog's 15 minutes could stretch into eight years if those who crave the "unscripted" jackass world of reality TV haven't had their fill now that the phoniest trial balloon in history has burst.  Then again, there are few who still believe that anything he has ever said was unscripted.

 

Balloon Boy Falcon HeeneAs much as they would rather have remained in the public eye, the Heenes have suspended their news and talk show tour as the result of an inconvenient truth.  Their son, balloon boy Falcon Heene, reminded his dad that "You had said that we did this for a show" in answer to the interviewers question about why he remained in hiding during the flight of his father's balloon. 

 

That was followed by the call for a mop during a CNN interview.  Apparently, realizing his father's deception makes the poor kid puke.  Yet another similarity to the way many of us feel about the Obamacare saga.


Pedro Sanchez says: "Vote for me and all of your wildest dreams will com true."

 

1 - "If you vote for me, all of your wildest dreams will come true."

       Pedro Sanchez' campaign speech in Napoleon Dynamite.

 

 

Curtis Sliwa, Guardian Angels founder and syndicated radio host.

 

2 - From the Curtis Sliwa lexicon.  Sliwa has applied the term "lens lice"

    to many notoriety seekers -- including himself.

 

 


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Great blog. Let truth be said.

 

NappyHeadedAfro

Great Falls, MT Tribune


This was well written-well punciated-spelling ok-easly read-But sadly not too relivant to anything today, or yesterday!! Come on try again!!!

 

Jimsay

Tallahassee, FL Democrat

[I'll take it that your own speling and punciation errors mean that you oppositely believe there was relivance hear as well? ED]


A little boy causing a media ruckus has nothing at all to do with reforming our broken health care system. That might be the worst example of political framing I've ever seen.

 

ClydeGreen

Jackson, MS Clarion-Ledger


You got that right, eddo. Common sense. Don't leave home without it. They're still talking about it on the cable news shows. Give me a break!

 

WWWIII

Lansing, MI State Journal


The Heenes don't have anything to do with the healthcare debate and your attempt to connect the two shows your desperation. It also illustrates what happens when a man searches for an opportunity, ANY OPPORTUNITY, to illustrate his partisanship.  I hope that it was entertaining to write because I can't say the same about reading it.

 

nerdgirl1968

St. Cloud, MN Times

[I can understand how someone with more liberal views than my own could fail to see the parallels and/or the humor. Admittedly, tying the two current events together was a bit of creative commentary that I found entertaining to write. So thanks for reading. That said, you certainly don't have to go out of your way to find opportunities for criticism of this administration. Furthermore, I do not have allegiance to either major party. Can you say the same thing? -ED]


Well, at least balloon-boy's family didn't start a war with Iraq.

 

canary

Des Moines, IA Register

[No, and they didn't end it -- or the one in Afghanistan -- either. -ED]


So, so we have a (possible) hoax based on a lie designed to tap into people's emotions that ultimately causes a massive expense to the taxpayer, because authorities made the problem bigger than it needed to be. And they actually found the little boy when they looked in the right place.

Sure sounds like the war in Iraq, except Richard Heene doesn't have the same sneer as Dick Cheney. Maybe when we look in the right place, we'll actually find Bin Laden...

 

KRidge

Des Moines, IA Register

[Excellent envelope pusher, KR. Aren't you glad I started this trend? Wasn't it getting terribly tiresome merely saying "It was all Bush/Cheney's fault" without having any creativity or personal thought behind it? -ED]


Sadly, some of that wasted money could actually have been saved if the moron family had a brain-cell between them. Perhaps charging the folks for the manpower expended would be a worthy cause.

 

JD5847

Phoenix, AZ Arizona Republic

[Perhaps charging the president and legislators for their moronic wastefulness would be a "worthy cause" as well? -ED]


When I first glanced and saw this on TV I was, for a second, excited that for once we had solid video evidence of UFOs.

 

dontcareatall

Des Moines, IA Register

[Don't give illegal aliens any ideas. -ED]


Great blog. Right on!

 

BoatFriendBenAc

St. Cloud, MN Times


There are a trillion reasons to puke!

 

SeaMover

Palm Springs, CA Desert Sun


The balloon and Eddo:  Both were/are considered to be full of hot air.

 

Anonymous

[That's pretty clever coming from an on-the-clock politico.  Now make a helium joke. -ED]


Funny Eddo. Thanks for the smiles, we don't seem to get many of those anymore.

 

spebak

Palm Springs, CA Desert Sun


People have gotten really stupid ,prosecuting ,bet that will cost a lot.  Poor family ,I am sure no one would want that kind of reality show ,etc, guess everyone is trying to cover stupidity with more stupidity. lol, human nature.

 

judyapuckett

Monroe, LA NewsStar

[I gar-on-tee there ain't no shortage of stupidity, Judy. I do disagree that "no one would want that kind of reality show". IMO, had the Heenes not been caught out, this episode would have made it to the air and would have garnered a lot of eyeballs.  Look how much airplay this fiasco has gotten thus far! -ED]


 

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