Reversals.
You know who David John Oates is, don’t you, and what his stock in trade is, don’t you?
You take a recording, play it backwords, look for jibber-jabbers, slow down the jibber-jabebrs, and you get mechanical speaking of what the speaker is “really saying”.
It’s the old backward masking trick. You see… Judas Priest really was calling that listener to commit suicide, meaning that is inherent in what he was thinking when he was singing that… god… awful… song.
“DO IT!” was the message. The court decided it was retarded, and yet… there was that teenage boy who… did it. What are we to do?
Okay. Perhaps you go to Britney Spears, who apparently has no duplicity when she sings. See?: See me, I’m not too young. Which is what she was was pretty much singing forward, right? (Please note: this is the first and last time I will ever post Britney Spears singing anything.)
I dare you have heard those words sang without me (or anyone else) haven given it away to you, though?
But what? Am I to believe that Bush was thinking when he was “selling” his Energy Plan It sells the scam they know? That Bush was thinking when mentioning how the Senate has helped him, he’s thinking Seante — they’re all first year losers?
Well, that last one. Um. I’ve always been bemused how Bush refers to the legislator’s job as one of rubber-stamping what he wants to do. Today, we have a class of pundits who are pining for the Imperial Presidency of Richard Nixon, and the powers that were lost after he was pushed out of office (those powers being the ones that Nixon grabbed for hisownself.)
Or that Colin Powell went before the UN Assembly to make the Case, and we have (how convenient for the basic storyline): “But its a scam” and (ahem, ahem, ahem) “Forgive me.”
That George W Bush and Al Gore both kept thinking about how big failures they were throughout the 2000 election? (See here.: Bush: “I know you’re blowing it / You’re losing.”. Gore: “Yeah, when its finished, console me / I don’t know. I was wimp.”)
Oh. Wait. Clinton. Er. Yes? : Here is Bill Clinton being asked a question in the Clinton/Dole debate about how he avoids being unduly influenced, Forwards he replies, “I try to articulate my position as clearly as possible.” Backwards he says, “She’s a fun girl to kiss.”
Yes, dear skeptics, David John Oates was running the late-night kook circuit with that before the shit hit the fan. (Oh. Here’s the shit, by the way.)
Actually, the big log that stops me from being a true believer is that, according to David John Oates’s reverse masking, I am to believe that Bob Dole and John Kerry are both — more or less– decent, honorable, and respectable men.
Okay. NOW we have gone over the deep end into the realm of complete kookiness!