Thursday, December 1, 2011

Rated R:
for Things Blown Way Out of Proportion

Sword-and-SandalThis has been a week of disappointment. Promised graphic scenes of raping and pillaging and beating people up and murdering, your LakeCountyEye hastened to the nearest Plaza hoping to enjoy some action & adventure in 3D. Upon taking a seat, however, all your LakeCountyEye saw were some hippies milling around, either texting their iPhones or engaged in meaningful chitchat.

Was your LakeCountyEye at the movie theater to see the gladiator epic Immortals -- but somehow got ushered instead into the chickflick The Twilight Saga? Nope. Your LakeCountyEye was at the UIC Student Center for an Occupy Chicago event.

Your LakeCountyEye wasted an afternoon at some lame protest rally -- and not viewing Immortals -- all on the recommendation of Lake County State Representative Ed Sullivan Jr.

Sullivan, quoted by the AP and picked up by the Chicago Tribune, accused the Occupy Wall Street ...
protesters of "raping and pillaging." Rep. Ed Sullivan Jr. called the protesters "un-American." The Mundelein Republican says he has seen reports of them "raping and pillaging and beating people up and murdering."
Ill. House rejects 'Occupy' resolution
Who among you, operatives and journalists alike, could resist a hot tip like that? For the record, your LakeCounty Eye was not able to witness a single incident of rape or pillage or murder while at UIC. Not even a beating-up.

Were Ed Sullivan Jr ever tempted to become a full-time movie-reviewer, your LakeCountyEye would have to strongly advise him not to quit his day jobs.

4 comments:

District116 said...

Maybe the rape and pillaging was going on in the men's showers, aka Penn State.

Barney Baxter said...

hi District116,

I'm taking a pass on that one -- I don't work blue.

-BB-

Bystander said...

It seems to me that a person who believes that rape, pillage and plunder characterize the Occupy rallies is one who feels threatened by Americans exercising their right to assembly and free speech.

Barney Baxter said...

hi Bystander,

Yeppers.

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."

-BB-