How to Explain Away Minor Impulse Control Issues
“The gun just went off!” My wife and I often joke about the story she heard at a cocktail party from an attorney defending a client for murdering her husband, who blurted out that excuse as a motive. “I didn’t kill him — the gun [which for some unexplainable reason I happened to be pointing at his heart] — just went off!”
The Islamic world somehow professes to believe that The Film Just Went Off. Followed previously by The Book Just Went Off, and The Magazine Article Just Went Off, and the Cartoon Just Went Off. As if these inanimate objects possess special talismanic powers that can magically inflame the True Believer’s heart. (Funny though, how those who follow other faiths simply stand there, grit their teeth, and take it, when they’re offended, as highlighted by the spectacularly not safe for work Onion cartoon that’s currently making the rounds.)
And the media isn’t immune to such magical thinking either: “Mitt Romney Kept Us From Reporting on Security Failures!”
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Talk about the conservative critique–and I think it’s a fair critique, the conservative critique: that all you guys in the media were talking about Mitt Romney, you should have talked about the warnings with the embassy, etc., etc. And yes perhaps we should have. But you know who didn’t allow us to do that?
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Mitt Romney.
SCARBOROUGH: Mitt Romney. If Mitt Romney had kept his mouth shut, if he had not acted like a rank amateur, if he had not embarrassed himself–and by the way internally the campaign understands they screwed up, he’s moved on, they know that. So no conservative can say “oh, the mainstream media, blah, blah.” They know how badly they screwed up, and they were having the fight internally before he even went out and did it. But Romney got in the way of the media looking at the president, going, wha-, wha-, what happened here? How did this happen? Now, those questions are going to be asked in the coming weeks. But they weren’t asked in the first 24 hours because Romney was holding this horrific, irresponsible, press conference.
Or as Joe and Mika’s fellow MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews tweeted on September 12th:
The tragedy in Benghazi that cost Ambassador Stevens his life has been overshadowed by the desperate reach by Mitt Romney
Related: Ed Morrissey flashes back to growing up in the small southern California town of Cerritos, now the home of this week’s Emmanuel Goldstein (or wannabe Bill Maher, depending upon your point of view) to explain how “Media endangers entire neighborhood to pursue thoughtcrime suspect.” As to why they would want to do such a thing, Ace has you covered: “How To Not Solve A Problem But Get The Public To Think You Did.”
Or, in other words:
Obama Administration Refuses To Answer Questions That Obama Media Refuses To Ask.
The Gang of 500 (aka, the Propaganda and Lies Ministry) admits that it is incapable and unwilling to cover anything, including worldwide upheaval, if they have their teeth and claws sunk into anything that threatens the hive.
This includes the “poser foils” who slime the landscape by pretending to be the “conservative” voice in the shill machine.
The co-conspirators in destroying our information stream, the Obama Campaign Media circled the “waggin’s” and hid the Obama policy failures behind their ample skirts and created every misdirection they possibly could.
To suggest that this is unfair is ridiculously understated. It is despicable and ought to give rise to rage. Scarborough is nothing more than a pimp without a limp.
– wouldn’t be on the program, but for Daddy, Scarborough thinks he was a Founder of the Republican Revolution when in fact he was helped by it and — was Matthews drunk?
Matthews and Beckel are Union shill faux lawyers who worked for Tip O’Neill, who didn’t get that nose from a cracker-jack box.
All union scum are drunks, and these scum are no exception.
Sometime I’ll tell you how all 100 union iron-workers I hired (by force) were never sober by noon. And all had DWI s. In fact, many of them.
You give the town drunk too much power and money, and what the hell do you expect?
Oh, yes. oh yes, oh yes, oh yes, oh, yes; they both, reached for the gun, the gun, the gun, the gun; they both reached for the gun, for the gun! Give ‘em the ol’ razzle-dazzle…
Obviously, Ahab duh Ayrab, otherwise known as Capt Ostupidhead, never even saw “Chicago”. Nor did any of his faux sophisticated (as in ruined, corrupted, beyond hope of redemption; not cultured, refined, as it is often mistakenly used) pals at the various government sinecures they inhabit.
I seriously doubt Nero was one millionth as smart as Augustus or Julius. Likewise, Carter vs. Reagan.
But, Boy! The pantheon of con-men has all of them near the top of their list!
Impossible to think that Brzenski and Scarborough believe what they said; sad to think that they expect their audience to believe it; frightening to think that they may be right about their audience.
Mika and I just went shopping for hipster glasses and the like, then went to a photo shoot for Vanity Fair or some such. I am sooper cool.
Well, of course it’s Mitt’s fault! He is the Republican candidate for the Seat that is His Holiness Bam-Bam’s rightful property!
Whatever Mitt did or did not say or do was to be criticized, since the Left Stream Media had to give covering fire for Bam-Bam’s lack of attention to the minor details occurring on the other side of the world while he had an important fund raiser to deal with.
Joe & Mika are about as much conservatives as David Brooks of the NYTimes is…if we ignore them, they will eventually fade away onto the dustheap of history…where they belong.
Who knew the press was so easily distracted that they would make the sub story, the main story?