Barneycam for National Parks

[Delkaetre]

I just got a link to this script for what appears to be some kind of advertisement for American National Parks. Reading it, I cringed horribly. I'd just like to check with you Americans whether this is genuine or not.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Hey Barney. I love the outdoors, and there is nothing greater than our national parks.

Did you know that the White House grounds are a national park?

(Views of the grounds of the White House and other national parks.)

Sure are... one of almost 400 parks all over the country.

(Barney pictures himself and Miss Beazley at Mount Rushmore.)

Sure, Barney. You and Miss Beazley could be Junior Park Rangers if you want to, but you're sure going to have to learn about the national parks if you want to be a Junior Park Ranger. And Barney, if I'm not mistaken, you've already got a pretty big job to do right here at the White House with the Christmas decorations.

(Barney hurries off to see about the Christmas decorations. Barney plays with ornaments with The President's Own United States Marine Band. Barney and Miss Beazley run round around the White House and watch the decorations go up. Barney runs into Secretary of the Interior, Dirk Kempthorne in the Red Room.)

SEC. KEMPTHORNE: Hey Barney, it really is beginning to feel like Christmas around here. Keep up the great work.

(Barney pictures the White House as a national park.)

Well, Barney, of course I know they're a national park — I mean, I'm the Secretary of the Interior.

But did you know about the President's Initiative that during the next decade we're going to invest over a billion dollars in to parks. It's going to allow us to spruce up the parks and we're going to bring on new park rangers.

(Barney pictures himself and Miss Beazley as Junior Park Rangers.)

Barney? You want to be a Park Ranger?

You know what, I know just the person you need to talk to.

(Barney hurries out of the Red Room in search of this person. He finds the Director of the National Park Service, Mary Bomar, in her office. She opens the door and greets Barney.)

You can read the full thing here- http://www.whitehouse.gov/holiday/2007/barneycam.html

Maybe it's somehow better when you actually see it on film, but all I can picture are those terrible American accents being falsey-cute (The voices in the White House grate on my nerves- general American accents do not bother me much). Addtionally, the idea that a major world leader is engaged in advertising, even for a national service, is vaguely uncomfortable for me.


Oh, and as well as recruiting Bush's two pet terriers, they've got his poodle in it as well- former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.

[Drake Dun]

Sounds like a good idea to me. Maybe if we can get Pepsi to offer him a deal he'll jump ship and we can go back to just having a president who is corrupt and deceitful, instead of a president who is corrupt, deceitful, delusional, and homicidal.

Drake

[Linen]

I saw that on the news last night, and I was very frightened.

How embarrassed must his daughters be at having to say cheesey lines like that to the dogs?? Ugh.

[CptSternn]

Heh - this is how they try and make the world think he is not some self-delusional arrogant war-mongering eejit?

This makes him look like an even bigger tool, and even makes him appear *more* dangerous - the fact he would try such a stunt.

What also is laughable is the fact he cut funding to national parks AND opened them up to mining and oil drilling.

I guess this is his way of trying to candy-coat the fact he r.aped the national park system in the name of big business.

[Methadrine]

This is great. It proves that Bush strives to be a purple dinosaur. Not far from reality in other words.

[Green.Lady]

LOLOLOLOLOL





I hate America.

[drewsilla]

The real victims here are the poor dogs. I bet they just sit there and look at their owners and wish they had thumbs so they could shoot guns.

[Duane]

Let's just hope the next president isn't as bad, or worse than Bush.

[CptSternn]

Is that even possible?