The commercial cliche is familiar to everyone, "I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV..." Usually it is a disclaimer of sorts when the pitch is for some health product and the pitchman is obligated to insure that no viewer mistakenly thinks they are getting real medical advice. Now, we've got a new application, "I'm really a doctor, but I play one that supports the Messiah on the White House lawn."
It is reminiscent of the staged backdrop for political meetings with an array of (pick an appropriate one), military personnnel, ethnic minority representatives, identifiable occupation workers, first-responders, elderly, disabled, athletic team members, etc. You get a bunch of Village People costumes and set them up as stage dressing. "More indian chiefs and leather-clad bikers support X, Y or Z..."
This time it is doctors. Read the news item:
These Hand-Picked Doctors in Real Lab Coats Support Me
Have we gotten so stupid as to believe that if you fly a doctor from the West Coast to a White House promotional event that he would come wearing a lab coat? Do we believe that this symbolizes a nation-wide medical professional opinion on healthcare reform which is going to take all those nasty technical decisions out of their hands and place them before panels of bureaucrats? Does your doctor ever see you wearing a lab coat? Do you ever encounter your doctor going down the street in a lab coat? Maybe the next time they should all be in those attractive Mickey Mouse and Goofy scrubs?
This whole administration has descended into the world of fantasy. Nothing seems real any more and so much is stagecraft and lighting.
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