“Which View is Witch (DS)” was originally posted on October 29, 2010, 8 years ago.
The inspiration behind this Dream Sequence was the 2010 Delaware mid-term
Senate election for the seat vacated by Joe Biden. After her win against party opponent,
Michael N. Castle, Republican tea party candidate, Christine O’Donnell, was in the final running against Democratic
candidate, Chris Coons.
It appeared that O’Donnell’s unexpected victory in the Republican primaries, combined
with her grass roots appeal throughout the constituency, created great concern
among the power players expecting “one of theirs” to fill Biden’s empty seat. They countered their fears of an O’Donnell win in the usual ways, namely,
character assassination and gaslighting. The secret weapon of choice seemed to
be Democratic mouthpiece, Bill Maher.
While Maher was known for saying he thought
Christine O’Donnell was a nice person,
it didn’t keep him from making her look crazy as he executed his assignment of swaying
public opinion and ultimately the vote. He had all the ammo he needed since O’Donnell had been a regular guest on the
panel of his 1994-2002 show, Politically
Incorrect. Maher had access to aired footage and un-aired transcripts, a national
platform to blare it on, and the benefit of strategic timing and unlimited funding.
Once word hit the headlines that O’Donnell had openly admitted on Maher’s
show many years earlier to dabbling in witchcraft when she was younger, she
became the butt of every pundit joke. It also didn’t help that her father had been
an actor known for playing Bozo the Clown more than half a century earlier.
In our humble opinion, it was like the pundit
pot calling every kettle black because there is not one adult alive who didn’t start
out as a naive fledgling, ready to learn and experience. And yes, make mistakes,
lots of mistakes along the road to maturity.
Although we had no dog in this Delaware
fight, we felt O’Donnell could use
some help in pushing back against her detractors using the very weapons that they
themselves were using against her. We, therefore, created a Sequence opportunity for O’Donnell to change realities in a way her
assailants could understand, by pitting one talk show panel against another.
So how close to reality were we?
We were a lot closer than we initially
thought as evidenced by the most recent witch hunt directed against newly
selected Supreme Court Justice, Brett Kavanaugh, during his confirmation hearing.
When the accusations failed to hold up under scrutiny and Mr. Kavanaugh was confirmed,
a sponsored public hexing by witches in Brooklyn was organized for October 20, 2018. $10 tickets to the
gathering were sold to those who wished to add their hex to the mix, with all proceeds
going to Planned Parenthood.
What we really want to know now, though, is
can the pundits and politicos who fiercely pounce on any newcomer seeking change
with the intent to damage then discredit hold up under the same scrutiny when
the tables are turned?
Which brings us to the deeper question going
forward: How many witches have now gathered looking to influence the current mid-term
elections by spirit-cooking up their chosen winners?
© Copyright by Artist, KAd Collins. Integration.
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We
had a dream……and in that dream we found ourselves stepping over a troll bridge into the enchanted woods of
Winterthur with nothing but the moon to light our way. The
forbidden faerie ring to our right was veiled in a
thick midnight mist, and slipped by unnoticed as the spirits of the woods
urged us forward along a serpentine pathway.
It
was the eerie sound of chanting, emanating from deep in the mist, that
stopped us dead in our tracks.
Our dream then took a sharp right, off the beaten path, in the direction of the
faerie ring where a yellow light was faintly glowing through the heavy
haze. We sucked in our breath when we eventually caught sight of the
chantress, and then we quietly crouched, hiding in the shadows of a
mushroom to witness with morbid fascination her clandestine
mid-term ritual.
While it
should’ve come as no surprise for us to witness the magick making of
Christine O’Donnell since she'd undoubtedly managed to cast a spell
over the people of Delaware, it's just that we never really expected to
catch her in the act in the woods.
Well, God works in mysterious ways and Christine
truly believed she could secretly help Him help her win that seat in the
Senate. And it sure helped that no one had ever officially mandated there be
any separation between church and state. It also helped that she was a member
of the FOXy Palin coven. This gave her the benefit of a direct line to the
spirit of Ronald Reagan, and if an astrological roadmap could help him
successfully navigate a presidency, then the Book of Shadows could certainly
help her sideline all of the challengers and critics she'd encountered on
the way to Washington.
In a rare
"Ah-Ha!" moment, Christine realized the best way to render her
detractors impotent would be to simply change their point of view.
On an
altar dripping in blue hen’s blood, laid O’Donnell’s opened spell book,
brilliantly lit by an arc of five blazing black candles. Next to the
altar stood Christine, glistening with sweat in a red business
suit, busily working her magick while stirring the bubbling
cauldron before her with focused intent. Her spellbinding witches' brew
appeared to be a simmering mixture of rich milk, sweet goldenrod, peach
blossoms and holly berries, potently finished off with a
transformational pinch of DuPont chemicals. The heat from
the fire beneath the pot was so intense that it even reached out
to sear us in the shadows.
Like the
five points on a pentagram, we watched as Christine O’Donnell commanded the
spirits of her naysayers to spend one episode inside the bodies
of the five women of “The View.”
Dick Cheney got to feel with heavy dreads the caring heartbeat of Whoopi
Goldberg.
Bill O’Reilly got to watch his pinhead explode through the patriotic eyes of Joy
Behar.
Karl Rove got to learn how to skillfully navigate America’s crossroads
with dignity through the filtered lens of Barbara Walters.
Mike Castle got to taste the bitterness of defeat on the gracious tongue
of Sherri Shepard.
Eric Cantor got to shoot off his young gun while trying not to repeat the
mistakes of the past as he admired a body that reminded him of his
feminine side, and obviously, Elizabeth Hasselbeck.
Their
special guest that day was Alec Baldwin who happened to know the five
ladies of “The View” well
enough to recognize when they weren’t themselves. And when Mike Castle in
Sherri’s voice asked Alec to define what it meant to be unmanly, Alec quipped
with annoyance that this was not a bake off and suggested that Mike go get
his man-pants on. As Alec stormed off the set, stage left, he snidely
told the others in passing to man-up.
And then
we woke up and realized that anyone raised by Bozo the Clown has some pretty
big shoes to fill; and just because one acts like a clown,
doesn’t necessarily mean they don't have the instincts of a fox.
Have we
too just been given a new view of extremism?