Billy Graham returns to introduce "God" (Charlton Heston) — who appears on the gigantic digital Diamond-Vision screen via a live video feed from his hospital bed; surrounded by a fake cloud produced by a fog machine, "He" announces that George W. Bush has been specially chosen to lead the free world toward Armageddon, and then Heston reads from "The Book of Revelations". (Note: while he holds the Bible, hang his matchlock rifle from his IV tube stand; Chas has never been a multi-tasker!)
-Short Break for-
RECORDED MUSIC INTERLUDE (Note: Tell all six Log Cabin Republicans in the far upper deck that there's NO DANCING allowed! Many Southern Baptists are present (approx. 88% of conventioneers)
* "God Bless the USA" - by Lee Greenwood
* "Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue" - by Toby Keith; accompanied by Diamond Screen display of lyrics "You'll be sorry you messed with the U.S. of A — cuz we'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American way!" — while showing collage of dead Iraqi and Afghanistan civilians that morphs into a 3-D spinning technicolor globe showing Toby aiming pointy cowboy boot at western Europe.
* "Fry a Dixie Chick In Hell" - by Donny & Marie Osmond
(Followed by SHORT BREAK to allow everyone to catch their breaths — and VP Dick Cheney to check his pacemaker.)
MEL GIBSON will be wheeled out spread-eagle and attached (via fake nails) to a gigantic golden Oscar statue. He'll "break" the nails, toss off the bloody crown of thorns, and descend to the podium — where he'll speak on "Hollywood's Lack of Support for Faith-Based Films"
-- Gibson will close with a prayer (in Latin)
(Note: Diamond-Vision disclaimer will read:
"This isn't Latin, folks, and he's not Catholic; he's Pentacostal and is speaking in tongues!"
-- after which MEL GIBSON will introduce...
REV. JERRY FALWELL - who will deliver speech on the evils of the Taliban, Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia — and the danger posed when governments support fundamentalist religious fanatics. He'll then introduce...
RALPH REED - who will speak on the importance of Bush's ties to American fundamentalist religious fanatics; he'll close with a summary of the billions of dollars that have flowed into private partisan religious coffers thanks to Bush's "Faith-Based Initiatives."






Article comments
1 - Dirtgrain
We're not worthy.
Question: Four Horses of the Apocalypse = Rumsfeld, Rove, Ashcroft and Cheney?
2 - HW Saxton Jr.
Shark, If this wasn't so fuck**g close to the truth I'd be laughing my ass off.
3 - boomcrashbaby
This is brilliant satire. Did I overlook any mention of Farenheit 9/11 or health care, or are they not scheduled for convention discussion? (Shelved like Condolezza??)
4 - Eric Olsen
very funny, clever and elaborate - this is what you do best. Thanks Shark!
5 - Shark
Thanks for the kind words, kids. You know I do it all for you!
Saxton, re. your comment:
I wrote this about 2 weeks ago but I figured I'd better post it, since much of what I wrote was already starting to go from fictional satire to reality nightmare, ie that emergency, hastily thrown-together "Sunday Surprise" terrorist "warning" that gave us vital information that was 2 to 4 years old.
A satirist almost can't keep up with the Bushies. Along with freedom and democracy, they're making satire obsolete.
6 - Shark
UPDATE: As usual, I was correct; the "compassion" night at the Nuremberg spectacle included a greater percentage of minority speakers than are in attendance at the 'rally'.
Watching the idiot box, you'd think the GOP was the NAACP and the LULAC combined.
Feh.
And Zell Miller? Man, that was almost as self-destructive for the GOP as Pat Buchanan's culture war tirade a few years ago.
More Zell! We love slobbering southern inbreeds!