The Zeif Family model of the White House is chock full of propaganda and craziness

Today, we took a much-needed break from the Internets and went down to the Museum of Science & Industry here in Chicago to see the White House model they have on display through February:  it’s a to-scale miniature, with cutaways into most of the rooms.  Apparently, the Zeif Family, who made and maintains this model, travels to the White House in each administration, measures any changes that were made, and recreates the interior of the White House to exacting detail.  They’ve been doing this since the Kennedy Administration.

What disturbs us is that, if the model is really exact in all details, the actual White House is chock full of crazy currently.

In the Zeif model, the East and West wings of the White House are plastered with propaganda. Inside all the offices, there are GIANT photos of the current First Family, the likes of which we’d expect to see in Pyongyang or the old presidential palaces in Baghdad, before the Husseins were ousted.  They aren’t even particularly good pictures — like things cut out of People magazine or some other propaganda piece run on the Utopias.

It’s just strange that the Zeifs took the time to recreate everything else in such painstaking detail, but then plaster the interior of the East and West wings (but not the original White House itself), with giant images of Dr. Utopia and his “fashion icon” wife.  Unless the REAL East and West wings really are covered in this garbage.

The miniature computer screens in the offices are all functional, and play tiny propaganda reels praising the Utopias.  The White House cinema, located in the collonade between the White House and the East Wing, also plays a DVD promoting the glory of all things Utopia.

It’s really very strange.

The model is amazing.  Being able to see the exact layout of all the rooms in the White House, and how the two additional wings are connected to everything made all that we read about the White House make a lot more sense.

But, the Utopian propaganda is just laid on SO THICK.

People continue to work overtime selling the current occupants as “the greatest First Family we have ever had”, as if the people selling this snake oil have something to prove.  “See, we’re not RAAACIST!  We love the Utopias!  We put their pictures everywhere!  See!”

If ever either Dr. Utopia or his wife do anything to warrant such praise and affection, we guarantee you that we will sing their praises from the mountain tops.

We are WAITING for the two of them to do something to earn all of the fawning and propaganda.

It’s been a year now, and despite winning a Nobel Prize and doing their level best to tank the US economy and drive us all into socialism, the Utopias haven’t done much more than squander millions on lavish parties and expensive travel to wherever their hearts desire.

That’s not praise-worthy in our books.

Looking at the model of the White House here in Chicago, seeing Bo, the dog Dr. Utopia named after his own initials, given to him by the Kennedys, playing in one of the gardens, we couldn’t help thinking about how great it will be to see a tiny snow machine racing around in miniature in 2013, with maybe a tiny husky pup from Alaska as the new First Dog.

We doubt the Zeifs will plaster the interiors of their model with giant photos of the Palins…but, in truth, the Palins would never want them to.

The model might be tiny, but we know full well whose egos are so large as to demand this constant fawning.

Mercifully, we only have three more years of this nonsense to go.