The line between parody and reality has already been blurred; haven't you seen people return to prescient Onion headlines? Now read this shit and weep:
The Pentagon would hold a massive march and country music concert to mark the fourth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in an announcement tucked into an Iraq war briefing today.I mean, seriously. Are you FUCKING KIDDING ME?!
"This year the Department of Defence will initiate an America Supports Your Freedom Walk," Rumsfeld said, adding that the march would remind people of "the sacrifices of this generation and of each previous generation".
The march will start at the Pentagon, where nearly 200 people died on September 11, 2001, and end at the National Mall with a show by country star Clint Black.
Word of the event startled some observers.
"I've never heard of such a thing," said John Pike, who has been a defence analyst in Washington for 25 years and runs GlobalSecurity.org.
Incidentally, here's a "Clint Black" album cover that cannot fail to annoy:
Go read Steve's coverage of the whole thing. It's just sick. I want to break windows.
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It's a well-worn gimmick to bamboozle the rubes: boasting about things one ought to be ashamed of.
But even by flim-flam standards, this is an egregious, bloated obscenity.
