I’ve heard of the liberal media bias, but birthday cards?
I was at a FedExKinkos in Norman, OK today just browsing around and came across the greeting card section of the store. One card caught my eye that had George Bush’s face on it. The card said something about Bush’s last day in office (which is in 2009) and that on your birthday you should party like it’s 2009. OK, not a really big deal, people have been taking shots at Bush for years. As I continued browsing, I noticed an anti-Cheney card. Again, not a real surprise. Further browsing did turn up some slightly more surprising cards.
The next one I came across was a Hillary Clinton card. With the words “President Hillary Clinton” across the top. The inside said something along the lines of: see there are things scarier than getting old. This one did stray a bit off the usual anti-Bush fodder, but she was once a first lady, so I guess it still makes sense. Believe it or not John McCain was next. This one did strike me as a bit more odd than the others; however, this is an election year so I guess you’re bound to see cards poking fun at all of the candidates… Not quite.
The final group of cards were the Barack Obama cards. I figured that they would again take some shots at the prospective presidential candidate. That’s where I was wrong, way wrong. These cards portrayed Obama as some sort of superstar, sex symbol. Not a single negative or even neutral point was made about him. You could have replaced his pictures on the cards with pictures of Marilyn Monroe and left all of the prose in place! Needless to say, I was flabbergasted! It’s basically like the greeting card company is campaigning for Obama through their cards (and FedExKinkos is indirectly doing the same by carrying the whole collection). I guess it’s their company and they can do what they want, I’m just taken aback by how blatantly biased they are. Oh well, I guess you can just chalk it up to more free publicity for Obama.
