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March 31, 2010
How Come I Don't Remember the Jumbotrons?
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at March 31, 2010 2:42 PM
Certain events — Arafat's Nobel Peace Prize, the election of Barack Obama, the appointment of an overt pedophile as Safe Schools Czar — have made me wonder if at some point in the last twenty years I was somehow shifted into the Evil Mirror Universe where Spock has a goatee.
Actor-Moonbat John Cusack's recent comments about the eighties make me wonder about that even more. His recollections are quite a bit different than mine.
"I remember it being a kind of forced Prozac happy time without the Prozac," Cusack says. "We were sort of like optimism by martial law. There were jumbotrons of Ronald Reagan everywhere. There were Dr. Pepper people dancing. There was this militant patriotism, nationalism, faux spirituality to it. I look back on it as an intense, dark decade."
Jumbotrons of Ronald Reagan? Martial Law? I grew up in the eighties, and I don't remember any of that.
I mean, I get where seeing the president's face on every television and on the cover of every magazine and even in sidebar ads on the internet would give me the impression I was living in some kind of creepy personality cult --- especially if news-parody comedy shows were afraid to make fun of the president --- but I certainly don't remember any of that happening in the eighties.
