I’ve been watching SH on TV giving his rah-rah-Iraq-death-to-little-Bush speech immediately following the first barrage of US missles.
He’s sitting in front of what looks like blue kitchen curtains with a mushroom or cupcake or jellyfish design. And his eyeglasses look like an old-lady’s, vintage 1986: big and square and clunky. Plus he needs a bigger-sized barret. You’d think with this guy’s bucks he could afford a better wardrobe consultant.
~ stuyguy, who is doing his bit for the war effort by mocking the enemy’s fashion sense (Hey, it’s something.)
A newscaster who covered this speech on FoxNews (“The Chad Lad”—Bret Baier or however you spell it) made a cryptic comment about how he saw a “video line” or something like that (I forget the exact term he used) during Saddam’s speech. The implication was not specific, but we all got the gist: what if this speech was taped previously? The video line was the kind you get when there’s a glitch on your videotape, like the tracking’s off or it’s cheap or whatever.
The “Chad Lad” said that military experts are studying the broadcast. Who knows, maybe it’s nothing.
And yes, Saddam’s glasses are hideous. I guess he has his own unique fashion sense. Reminds me of a Frasier episode where the dad got a pair of glasses that were hideous and very definitely ladies’ glasses. He thought they were from the Ralph Lauren line, but they were actually from the Sophia Loren line! And no one had the heart to tell the dad that he looked especially dorky.
I doubt anyone has the nerve to tell Saddam that his glasses are not flattering.
Those are Harry Caray glasses. Not old lady glasses.
Anyways, I didn’t think it looked like him. They reported that initial opinions are that it’s legit, but his face looked puffier and shaped different than I recall from the Dan Rather interview. I’m probably being paranoid.
I want to know – why are eyeglasses so small these days? My frames, which I bought in the 1980s, are about the same size as Hussein’s. To me, they look normal. Bigger lenses give better peripheral vision.
Walloon- If you’ve ever worn the smaller glasses, you would know. I wore big glasses when I was younger, and now am into the smaller lenses. Smaller lenses enable the manufacturer to make them thinner. And it doesn’t affect the peripheral vision, as near as I’ve been able to tell. I much prefer my small glasses.
Actually, some months back on the discovery channel they had an expose on ‘SADDAM’. Some of you may remember they had his supposed mistress etc…etc…
Well anyway, they mentioned that Saddam is Blind as bat. And, he always wears contacts in front of the camera, soas not to look weaker.
The presence of him on camera with huge glasses, is completley uncharacteristic of Saddam, and may indicate the tape is a fraud. Or pretaped with a look-a-like. If the latter, he may be a mile down in some bunker, in which case we may never find him…
Long-time Doonesbury fans will remember (from memory, so feel free to correct me):
Tailor: “You can’t walk around the UN looking like a slob!”
Phred: “Arafat does.”
Tailor: “Well, Arafat’s a fool! If he’d wear a nice suit, he’d have a country by now!”
I remember hearing Saddam was blind as a bat, but why would he go to glasses instead of contacts. Did we cut off his contact supply line? Maybe he’s been in hiding for so long his contact supply ran out.
Maybe the glasses instead of contacts were to give that “I’ve been woken up in the middle of the night by this absurd turn of events and wasted no time getting here to address my people” look?
No doubt the UN will soon be voting on establishing Pearle Vision Centers throughout Iraq, where locals can purchase great looking glasses, in about an hour…
BAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I was just thinking abou that strip yesterday when listening to a bit on NPR about Arafat selecting a new PM. You got it right on the money AFAIKT. Phred didn’t think he’s look enough like a freedom fighter in a suit. Yes, a long time Doonesbury fan, ever since it went into syndication with recycled strips from the Yale days. I remember when BD met Phred after going to Vietnam to get out of a term paper.
“Actually, relatively few Viet Cong know the work of Cole Porter.”
I prefer our leaders stay civilized but there are days when I wish the prez would don camoflage and beat a machete on his chest and fire a rifle into the air.
