Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Shame Old Song and Dance

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Given the increasingly angry political rhetoric in our country, it was only a matter of time before things got dangerously out of control and took an ugly turn. Sadly, it happened a few days ago when alleged entertainer Rosie O’Donnell (whose actual cause for celebrity is a complete mystery to us) stormed the White House gates with a coterie of Broadway performers who unleashed a “shock and awe” barrage of assault showtunes. Even worse, some reports also suggest that “jazz hands” were deployed.

O’Donnell, who is probably best known for being too annoying for even the other co-hosts of The View to endure, perhaps hatched the idea in hopes of replicating the famous siege which brought down Adolf Hitler in the waning days of WWII, when he committed suicide after his bunker was surrounded by a repertory company performing “Fiddler on the Roof.”

A tiny flaw in O’Donnell’s otherwise brilliant plan was that President Trump wasn’t actually in the White House during the minstrel show, meaning that the performance (complete with a large “Treason” sign in simulated theatrical lights) was observed only by peons on the sidewalk who couldn’t afford to attend an actual Broadway show without selling their children’s vital organs.

Not wanting to be upstaged, so to speak, by their East Coast counterparts, the West Coast also launched an entertainment-related attack on Trump when the West Hollywood City Council voted unanimously to have Donald Trump’s star permanently removed from the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The impact of this brutal broadside was lessened only slightly by the fact that the Walk of Fame isn’t actually in West Hollywood, and the city council has no jurisdiction or authority whatsoever in the matter. They might just have effectively been voting to end the California wildfires by mandating overtime hours for Smokey the Bear.

All of this reminds us once again that there is “no business like show business.” A point hammered home by the fact that “show business” still loves Barack Obama, under whom America experienced “no business” for 8 years.