show the voting public that their image can be captured on film, thus proving they are not vampires (war czar)

"The 2008 presidential campaign is underway, and the most important part, as always, will be the photo-ops, a chance for the candidates to show the voting public that their image can be captured on film, thus proving they are not vampires." --Jon Stewart

"Turning now to our current president. Tuesday, Bush took his case for funding the Iraq troop surge to American Legion Post 177 ... and began with the airing of the platitudes [on screen: Bush saying, 'It matters what happens in distant lands.'] Of course, that seems obvious to many people ... but he just found that out." --Jon Stewart

"This is a critical time in the conflict, one that calls for a strong leader. And what better title for that leader than one evoking an ineffectual, tyrannical dynasty ultimately slaughtered by Communists in a filthy basement deep in the Ural Mountains?" --Daily Show correspondent John Oliver, on why the position of "war czar" is being created

http://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2016/06/john-hulse-collected-poems-1985-2015.html “A magisterial collection. An emotional roller coaster. Soon to be a cult classic. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night On Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”