…distracts from Big Bird. A must-read from Mark Steyn:
“There’s only one candidate in this race who is going to continue to fight for Big Bird and Elmo, and he is riding on this plane.”
She’s right! The United States is the first nation in history whose democracy has evolved to the point where its leader is provided with a wide-body transatlantic jet in order to campaign on the vital issue of public funding for sock puppets. Sure, Caligula put his horse in the Senate, but it was a real horse. At Ohio State University, the rapper will.i.am introduced the President by playing the Sesame Street theme tune, which, oddly enough, seems more apt presidential walk-on music for the Obama era than “Hail To The Chief.”
I can’t figure out who’s the bigger embarrassment to the Dems, Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz, or Stephanie Cutter.
Big Bird notwithstanding isn’t it insulting to JIM LEHRER to consider the death of PBS as synonymous with the end of beloved celebrities’ careers?
Is PBS some sort of sheltering hothouse or incubator in which Lehrer’s fragile news career has been protected from the wild weather of commercial television?
Couldn’t Lehrer get a job with any of the commercial networks? Or, if he did, do his supporters expect he would suffer a pay cut?
If Lehrer did take a commercial job would he then also be forced to bow to monetary pressure and read the news with the bias his employers expected and demanded?
It is true Lehrer’s product, news, is NOT as vital as defense, food, shelter, electricity, etc — other stuff a reasonable person WOULD borrow money to keep around?
This says it well.
“I can’t figure out who’s the bigger embarrassment to the Dems, Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz, or Stephanie Cutter.”
Problem is, they are embarrassments only to people with common sense. Which leaves out almost half the voting population..that half thinks these two are quite peachy.
Which half of the voting population — the 47 percent?
Come on, don’t be trolling Paul. You know that people fall into different sets and it’s not quite so clean cut as ‘47%.’ Mitt was talking at a fundraiser and admits he didn’t say things as well as he would have liked. People do that. His point was valid regardless of how he said it. A certain amount of people are not going to vote for him and he isn’t going to persuade them. I’d have to say that’s a valid point. We know some of those people.
Others have taken what he said and changed it to sound even worse. They can do that, but it’s not really right to put words in other peoples mouths. The fact is, they’ve portrayed him in such a way that to many seeing him for the first time at the debate it changed their opinion so that the polls suggest he’s gotten a permanent bounce.
Mitt wasn’t my choice, but somebody has to stop Obama and company.