Parody
Parody Saudi Arabia hires GOP admen to polish its image. —News item Dear Prince Abdullah, Thank you for your wonderfully edgy suggestions. While it’s true that the United States is largely a...
...Americans are great risk-takers (images of Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, and Bill Gates), and we subsidize risk-taking around our region, too (scenes of 14-year-olds strapping on suicide bomber belts...
...It will be a day of good times (scenes of Saudi princes having their toenails clipped) and great entertainment (images of thieves having hands chopped off...
...All over the country, families are waking up and greeting the new day...
...We, too, are a patriotic people, and we would sacrifice our lives to keep democracy in America...
...Scenes of Saudi men unchaining their wives from the radiators...
...We offer a compassionate extremism, a Wahhabi-ism of the Heart...
...We two nations are much alike...
...But do not believe them...
...But this is not the time to dwell on the past (pictures from OPEC oil embargo...
...You value and support education (scene of American school), and so do we (scene of Pakistani madrassa...
...When Saddam Hussein threatens to lob a nuclear weapon onto your shores, we like to think we will be there, too (scenes of Crown Prince Abdullah kissing Iraqi minister on the lips...
...Scenes of golden hued sun rising over a desert of oil derricks...
...For example, here’s a script based on some old 1984 GOP advertisements, which ran under the slogan, “Morning in America...
...God bless Saudi Arabia...
...Like every day in Saudi Arabia, it will be a day of hard work (scenes of Palestinians and Filipinos sweeping streets) and conservative family values (images of homosexuals being stoned to death...
...Certainly we have had our differences in the past (images of airplanes crashing into the World Trade Center...
...While it’s true that the United States is largely a Christian nation, in this particular market, the “Jews Drink Christian Blood” campaign may not work, even the witty “Got Blood...
...Some people spread false information about Saudi Arabia (picture of Star of David...
...magazine ads...
...When Saddam Hussein threatened to overrun our borders, you were there for us (images of Desert Storm...
...And God bless the American infidels...
...You are a patriotic people, who would sacrifice your lives to keep democracy in America...
...We the people of Saudi Arabia want you to know how much we love America (scenes of massive piles of dollar bills...
...Sometimes you have chosen one set of foreign allies (picture of Winston Churchill), while we have chosen others (picture of Adolf Hitler...
...This is the time to focus on the bonds that bring our two peoples together (more images of dollar bills...
...We thought we’d lay down some positive messages first...
...I’ve put the images that would go with the narrative in parentheses: “It’s morning in Saudi Arabia...
Vol. 7 • May 2002 • No. 34
