President Obama took a bold step this week. In order to shore up America’s flagging confidence in the state of the economy, protect our borders from foreign attack, and regain our standing among the world powers, the president hired actor Kal Penn as a PR liaison.
Penn, widely heralded as an expert on world affairs because he’s been on TV, took a huge pay cut from his gig on TV’s House in order to accept a position at the White House. He joins ambassadors Angelina Jolie and Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemont High as three of the most qualified political advisors that the Obama staff could find by watching reruns on TBS. Apparently, the kid who played Frodo in Lord of the Rings was unavailable.
Penn’s political resume includes: playing a secondary character on House, starring in two Harold and Kumar movies, and raising money for the Obama campaign. For those of you who haven’t seen Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle or Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, the two movies are filled with more drug references than a Cheech and Chong retrospective. They glorify drug use like Teddy Kennedy glorifies scotch.
Meanwhile, President Obama compensated for his gift-giving gaffe with the Prime Minister of England, in which he gave the PM a box full of DVDs, by giving the Queen an iPod filled with Obama’s campaign speeches. No worries, Kumar will take care of that. Secretary of State Clinton is making headlines throughout Europe for giving a gift to a high-ranking Russian official without taking the time to properly translate the single word message. Nothing that Mr. Penn cannot fix.
The federal government is forcing TARP money on banks and refusing to let them pay it back ahead of schedule, violating the fundamental principles of a free market economy. But that doesn’t matter, because the White House has a shiny new celebrity to flaunt.
When we look back on the Obama years (all four of them, I hope), the appointment of Kal Penn will be the defining moment that changed the course of political history. Or maybe it’s just one more distraction from the push to Socialism.
I’m a huge House fan. When Kal Penn came on the show – I wasn’t too thrilled given his previous two movies. Not real thrilled about any movies that glorify drug use to our kids. But – over time, I grew to like the character and was able to overlook the movies. I was shocked with the way the killed him off House suddenly – then I saw the news report. I think suicide was too easy an out for this asswipe now.
I guess Kal’s roles kind of dried up and this is what he’s reduced to? Well, not that his movies were really that good anyway.