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March 19, 2010

I just saw Billy Mays, live on TV

Infomercial pitchman Billy Mays died at his home in Tampa, Florida on June 28, 2009, but after watching Obama's speech in Fairfax, Va. on Fox just now, I am certain that Mays lives on in the mind and rhetoric of Barack Obama, although Barack goes beyond Mays' pitch man ability and makes Mays and the ShamWow man look like rank amateurs; Barack is far more willing to say anything, stretch the truth, and sell pure fiction, than any politician I've ever seen. The man is totally without even an ounce of character - his ideology and agenda is the only truth he knows, and he shines most when before a pre-selected, adoring, and especially gullible, audience.

Addison Gardner noted the same thing back in July 2009 in a piece in The Aspen Times:

Billy Mays wasn't the world's greatest pitchman.

That title belongs to Barack Obama, the president whose sales spiel bounces Billy like a coconut on a Waikiki wave.

Like Mays, Obama operates from a script - neither of these hucksters ever mined his own material - but Billy taped his infomercials in a studio: If the "Mighty Putty" didn't hold up the garden hose, the stage crew added a rivet.

Obama does "hard sell," live, and maintains his head-swiveling metronome, unless the teleprompter stops scrolling, or - as it did last week - explodes into a million fragments at the foot of his jet-powered podium.

No president has spent more time in production of set piece messaging. No president has spent more time on the road, in network studios (or importing network studios into the White House), or less time behind his desk during his first six months in office. No president has been so "in-your-face," from dawn 'till dusk - on the radio, on the boob-tube, on the newsstand, or on your laptop.

In other words, enough already with the pitch man routine. I've had enough of this Chicago huckster and his staged events with the preselected audiences that serve as no more than props for his non-stop campaigning and wildly distorted spin. I've never known someone who can lie with a straight face as though he actually believes it, like Barack Obama does.

How in the hell were the American people so gullible as to elect this guy in the first place!

Posted by Richard at March 19, 2010 11:48 AM

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