Monday, February 16, 2009

Triter Than Fiction

If I wrote a story...

...about a callow, charismatic President...

...with no record of achievement...

...worshiped by millions...

...whose graven image appeared on items across the land...

...and it turned out that the coins bearing his image...

...were merely stickers on existing coins...

...a facade, if you will, a shallow appearance with nothing behind it...

...I'd be considered a hack!

3 comments:

  1. LMAO! I hadn't heard about this. Great set-up, btw.

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  2. I know! I think they did something similar with the Barack Obama action figures, like recycle old MiB dolls or something.

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  3. There actually was a novel just like this written by Alan Dury as one of the follow ups to Advise and Consent.
    It featured a shallow president from a famous family called "Ted Jason" who was elected just as you describe.

    I forget the name but it wasn't very good even though Dury was a pretty good writer who really knew the Washington scene pretty well.

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