“I Mean…What?!?” – Abe Gurko

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but the whole swine flu hysteria seems pretty iffy to me. What happened to the days when going to Mexico and coming back with Montezuma’s revenge (travel bug) was folly for the Late Night monologues? No, I am not a doctor, so take what I say with a grain of salt. But allow me to throw a couple of thoughts out there for you to mull over and then tell me you are still hiding under your couch with a face mask on.

1. Could this be a ruse to get people off Barak Obama’s nine-trillion dollar back?
2. Wouldn’t a good, old-fashioned, George Bushian, nationwide, scare tactic keep the public’s attention off the fact that Timothy Geitner and Larry Summers (a.k.a. Sleeping Beauty) are making backroom deals with every bank and car company…contrary to public opinion?
3. If 36,000 deaths a year are attributed to influenza in the United States, do the 20 cases now under scrutiny seem a bit disproportionate to the average winter? A Pandemic not Less? Don’t tell me we have to sit through a new summer strain of Dayquil and Nyquil commercials.
4. Was this swine flu started by a farmer who fucked his pig, then his wife and so on? Kind of like the chimpanzee AIDS thing?               Select your favorite mask.

What’s so genius about this Obamanian ploy is that the Republicans can’t say a word for fear of losing even more of its shrinking constituents in the Latin community. Is it beginning to make sense to you now? But hey, what do I know? I’m just a Johnny-Come-Lately blogger who has spent his life knowing that whatever information is fed to the U.S. public, tends to be sugar-coated, or strategically and coincidentally manipulative and beyond Dickensian.