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See this fetching young lady? Apparently, she is the newest Disney Princess, to be appearing in the upcoming film "The Frog Princess". Which will be set -- ready for it? -- in New Orleans.

Gee, this wouldn't have anything to do with Disney aiding and abetting the Bush administration in pretending that everything's hunky-dory down in post-Katrina Bourbon Street, would it? I mean, it's not like Disney has a history of protecting the Bushes' interests or anything. And it certainly isn't that the Disney Corporation gives right-wing zealots a stage to divert attention back to THE TERRORISTS so everybody forgets the domestic ineptitude that helped exacerbate the Katrina disaster.

Disney chief Robert Iger claims personal reasons for holding the company's annual shareholder meeting there. Maybe I'm just cynical about these things and the eventual movie will prove me wrong, but somehow I doubt that a company that makes its living fascistically creating the illusion of Utopia where none exists will in any way address the realities of New Orleans. Somehow I think they'll use the movie to essentially say, "see, Princess FEMA thinks that everything in New Orleans is magical and good, and she's coloured, so it *must* be true!!"

Sigh. A black princess, though, in the year 2007 or thereabouts. Go Disney.