Betsybounds: Exactly. Actually it is worse than that: It is a sociopathic confusion of fantasy with reality.

He is a movie director. No, he does not know a single thing about this. No, taking a camera crew underwater does not qualify him for anything remotely like this challenge (those are specialty production crew that do that sort of shooting, BTW; a director rents them and they have their own production and logistics managers). The only thing more preposterous than calling on him for this is defending the call in the first place. What complete buffoonery.

(One wonders if someone had to tell someone “No, Mr. Secretary, those deep sea “aliens” were just CGI graphics used in a movie. No sir, They really are not down there. No Sir, We cannot contact them” Mr. Secretary: “Right. Of course not. (BTW, what’s CGI?)” )

We are truly at a point of deep rot; I wonder if we can recover.

I cannot understand why there is not a horde of about 7 million citizens descending on DC demanding that the whole lot of them quit.

I would say it was like living in the USSR, but even they were not this stupid, idiotic and arrogant.

To think of all the slander and abuse heaped on Bush after Katrina, none of it even remotely deserved, and then to see this nincompoopery and have them actually get away with it is beyond belief. Truly it will take more than a couple of elections to fix this country.