As promised, here is more News You Can Use. To be specific, here is a column from “American Thinker” that demonstrates how to make health care choices by comparing stuff to Star Wars.
So, take notes and get out your light saber.
By Stuart Schwartz
To quote Mel Brooks, “May the Schwartz be with you.”
Darth Vader is out of the closet…
Well, it’s not like we all didn’t already suspect.
… and we have Sarah Palin to thank.
Actually, I think he just said he was gay to spare her feelings after she invited him to a “nude helicopter hunt.”
The intrepid crusader from the north cut to the heart of Obamacare a year ago, slashing through the professor-speak and government gobbledygook with a searing summary on Facebook of its bottom line: “death panels.”
If writing untrue, snippy comments on Facebook makes you an “intrepid crusader,” then there are a lot of tween girls who also deserve the title.
With those words, the grounds for debate had shifted,
From facts and reason to made-up scary stuff.
. . . the mainstream media ideological blackout was circumvented,
The mainstream having previously refused to give Sarah any attention.
. . . and now, although it may have been Obama’s new head of Medicare, Harvard’s Dr. Donald Berwick, who stepped on the shuttle at Boston’s Logan International Airport, it is Darth Vader who has exited at Reagan National.
Darth Vader — really?
Hey, this stuff just riffs itself!
The man responsible for the death of a gazillion inhabited worlds, through whom the evil Emperor Palpatine — described as ” a middle-aged politician … who gains power through deception and treachery”…sound familiar? — sought to enslave the universe in the fictional Star Wars saga?
Stuart, honey, mixing Star Wars comics, “American Thinker,” YooHoo, and Tequila is not a good idea.
Palin’s column on death panels ignited a firestorm of elite media and beltway criticism. Once, that would have been enough to shut down debate, for the broadcast networks and newspapers controlled information — we knew only what they wanted us to know. Suddenly, the new media (including the site you’re now reading) provided reality, and the Tea Parties and Republican Party followed.
So this site provided the reality that resulted in the birth of Tea Parties and the Republican Party? Wow, trippy!
And now Darth Vader has become a metaphor, a figure of speech signifying that the coming of Harvard’s Berwick represents the same thing to the average American that the arrival of the Death Star, the spaceship used to destroy planets, meant for entire populations.
The mighty Darth Vadar, the former Jedi Knight and killer of “a gazillion” planets has now become a really strained and inept metaphor. How the mighty have fallen.
All of a sudden, life-and-death decisions are out of our hands, resting with a government determined to control every waking moment of our lives.
You know, I used to work for the government and I can promise you in all sincerity that they really don’t have a department dedicated to controlling every waking moment of Stuart’s life. Sorry, Stuart, but nobody cares, not even Darth Medicare.
The Harvard health specialist’s job is to transform Medicare, to make the primary medical insurance system for seniors into an instrument of social policy, to take wealth and years from seniors and redistribute them to favored segments of the population.
Yes, the new Medicare mission statement is “Taking Years of Life From the Old and Giving Them to Hot Chicks.”
Sarah Palin was right, stubbornly hanging in when the mainstream media — sensing “a great disturbance in the [leftist] force” — trained its batteries on her. She was ridiculed on network newscasts, in the White House briefing room, by the media “stormtroopers [who] represented the most visible extension of Imperial [Obama] might.” Darth Vader and Star Wars serve as metaphor, Palin as Princess Leia, while network anchors, commentator after commentator, all the president’s men showered ridicule on her. “Downright evil,” screamed Keith Olbermann; “stupid as s**t,” proclaimed a popular Democratic blog.
Okay, let me see if I get all the metaphors:
Sarah Palin = Princess Leia
President Obama = Emperor Palpatine
A heath care administrator from Harvard = Darth Vadar
Mainstream Media = Imperial Stormtroopers
Medicare = Death Star
Keith Olbermann = Yoda
Rush Limbaugh = Jabba the Hutt
Popular Democratic Blog = midichlorians
John McCain = Jar Jar Binks
Barbara Bush = Count Dooku
Etc.
Hey, this is fun. You should play too!
In the end, it is about power. Donald Berwick and Barack Obama, Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine want to dictate the care you can and can’t have. Berwick, for example, calls ultrasounds and cesarean sections a “form of assault and battery.”
And Stuart says they aren’t. So, if some storm troopers grabbed Stuart off the street, gave him an unneeded ultrasound followed by a convenient cesarean, he’d be totally okay with it.
Under Obamacare, he (through his rationing bureaucracy), not you or your doctor, decides whether you have a procedure. This is nothing new –
HMOs have been around for decades.
. . . the political systems and policy bureaucracies Berwick and Obama seek to emulate have been doing it with disastrous results for individuals for years (e.g., England, Cuba, the old Soviet Union, Hitler’s Germany).
Hitler’s Germany = the Planet Endor
As one senior staff member at Berwick’s base in the Harvard School of Public Health has put it so eloquently in his blogs and books, we will do away with a Constitution and government that are the “enemy of the working class.”
And who is this unnamed guy who worked at Harvard at the same time as Berwick? Grand Moff Tarkin.
Darth Vader is out of the closet,
And he looks FABulous!
, , , and the Death Star has entered orbit.
So, unless Luke Skywalker (Glenn Beck) can shoot it in the exhaust vent with a precise blast of craziness, then we are all doomed, DOOMED!
Stuart Schwartz, a former retail and media executive, is on the faculty at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Because Liberty University, unlike Harvard University, offers faculty positions to guys with life experience in watching Star Wars movies in lieu of, you know, academic degrees or wisdom or such.
a middle-aged politician … who gains power through deception and treachery
This is, like, ninety percent of congress, isn’t it? Talk about missing the forest for the trees.
Left by GeoX on July 13th, 2010